5 Takeaways From 5 Years of Life Time Talks

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Season 10, Episode 1  | February 4, 2025

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Welcome to Life Time Talks. I’m Jamie Martin.

And I’m David Freeman.

And in this episode, you get the two of us. We are just here. We are kicking off season 10 of Life Time Talks, which is really hard to believe. Can you believe we’ve been doing this — it’s been five years. We started in early 2020.

Yeah. It was February —

February 2020

— 2020. And hundred and how many episodes?

164 episodes since then. This episode will be 165 once it’s published.

And we’re going off of, what, the top five takeaways from over all these episodes.

Yeah. So five takeaways, five years, 165 episodes.

Alright. Well, let’s get right into it. So I want to talk about how many different people that we’ve had on over the five years. So many.

Yes.

But we always kept it grounded within our pillars.

Yes.

When we talk about nutrition, we talk about sleep, we talk about movement, mindset, community, connection, all those things. And the dope part is, granted it might be a lot of the same things, you’re hearing it from a different voice. So our audience, it might resonate differently for each person who’s listening. So that’s the one thing that I appreciate over the five years of being in this space.

Absolutely. And to your point, those five pillars are that we — they’re not necessarily just five pillars, but I often think of them that way. Because we’ve got movement and exercise, that’s one. Nutrition and supplementation, sleep, stress or sleep, stress management, and then community. And then there’s all these other elements that fit into them. But you do think about how many different people who’ve been on, but we’ve had a lot of consistent people. You hear a lot of voices from within the lifetime system.

Yeah.

You’ve got Paul Kriegler, Anika Christ, Samantha McKinney, Dr. Henry Emmons has been on multiple times. Brie Vortherms, Barbara Powell, who are also within the Life Time world. Who else are we thinking? Who else —

I mean, if you go down the rabbit hole of going, like, back, back, I mean, we had even what I would say member stories.

Oh, yeah.

I don’t know if you remember that. So that was a lot of our core subject matter experts, but then individuals speaking from their own experience. I mean, go back to Becca Rigg, or we had even some even team members like Konnor Fleming. So now being able to champion those stories of what they experienced personally or who they ended up coaching personally and how it went right back into the ecosystem of those pillars that we were just speaking about.

OK. So we’ve had a lot of guests speaking on our pillars, right?

Mhm.

When I was thinking about this, I was thinking, well, what were some of our top episodes? So we went and looked — so another takeaway to take away two is, what were our top five episodes? We want people to go back and listen to these. Because I think when you go back and listen, again, they go back to the pillars, but they’re also just some of the topics that just are major health issues that we continue to hear about. So thyroid health was our number one topic that we’ve ever covered in this. That was with Samantha McKinney. Sleep and stress management, that was with Dr. Henry Emmons. 10 rules for aging well, Dr. Frank Lipman. Straight from the coaches, your health and fitness questions answered with Samantha McKinney and Lindsay Ogden.

Oh, yeah, that was a good one.

Yeah. So when we’re asking them, we get these questions that are sourced from our members or listeners of the podcast. And then the last one was a holistic approach to health and weight loss with Anika Christ. So it really goes back to some of the issues that people think about when it comes to their health and well-being, how do they optimize their health? People want to know what to do and how to do it. And hopefully, what we’re doing here is giving them the information so they feel empowered to go out and do that next thing.

Yeah. Well, let’s take it a step further. So that’s number two. If we were to go into number three, what always are you drawn to? We think, I think at least, we have our biases. And you probably know which one of mine is, the whole mindset. But, like, what are you drawn to out of the current pillars when you know it’s about to be one of the topics that we hit on?

OK. So for me, sleep continues to be a major topic that I just think we can’t talk about enough. I think, yes, I mean, we say we’ll repeat ourselves a little bit within that, but I think what’s become clear to me over the last five years is that sleep is as important as exercise and nutrition in terms of what it does for our overall health and wel-being. And it’s also something we have so much — in many ways, not always, but we have a certain level of control over. I choose when I go to bed. I choose when I wake up. I choose what the circumstances are around that.

And that’s one thing that I feel like — and it’s one thing that I struggle with. So I think for me, and I know I’m not alone, to hear that topic a few times over and over again just continues to resonate, because I think we can do all sorts of things. And I think even we’ve heard it from our guests on this show, like, if you’re not getting sleep, that’s a linchpin for so many other facets of your health. So for me, sleep is always going to be a topic that I will tune in for because it’s a good reminder even when I think I’m doing OK, there’s more that I can still be thinking about with that. How about for you?

I love that.

You said mindset.

I said the mindset. I’m going to go back to the mindset. But I mean, what you just said, it’s the foundation. All the other things are going to end up falling by the wayside if you do not have that as the foundation. So you think of, your nutrition is going to be compromised, the exercise, the hard work that you’re putting in, you’re not recovering properly, so that’s going to be compromised. Your stress is going to be elevated because of lack of sleep. So I love that you said that.

And then cognitive function, the one that I just went back to as far as mindset, I love mindset for so many different reasons because I’m championing that message when I’m in front of so many different individuals. I have the mindset of wanting to serve and being able to see that shift happening in individuals from what they’re hearing. Now they’re starting to see it and now believe it. So anytime we can center anything around mindset, I get excited.

Yeah. And we know that how we think —how did you say that? You said —

The way you think dictates the way you act, which yields the results that you get.

Yes, OK. There we go. Good reminder. Mindset matters. Mindset matters.

Yeah.

OK. Takeaway number four, I’m not even sure what I want this to be. Do you have a fourth takeaway?

I don’t know if it has to be centered around the topics. I want to talk about gratitude in the sense of just having the ability to have these conversations and be an open book and being able to receive that information from these individuals and be a sponge as well. So I’m grateful to be surrounded by individuals like yourself and any and everybody that we have come on the show to continue to evolve in this space. So that’s one thing I would say if we’re saying out of the top five.

I don’t want to put it saying that this is not one of the best things. I think gratitude would be number one if you put it like that. But I just still think gratitude would definitely be one of the top five things that we have here. Number four, I think you said, or number two.

Yeah, that was number four.

That was number four? OK.

I think.

Yeah, some gratitude.

We might not be counting right. Don’t keep track.

Going up or down. We know it’s going to be a total of five.

There’s going to be a total of five. OK. No, I love that as gratitude. Because when I think about all that we’ve been able to learn, the people we’ve been able to connect with and been able to share and get that knowledge from them, to be curious with them and to dig a little deeper into topics sometimes that challenge our way of thinking and help us to get a new perspective in many cases. That’s a pretty amazing thing that we get to do to have those conversations. When I think about having recorded 164 episodes, mostly with people that are not you and I, we’ve done a handful of these episodes.

But to think about what we’ve been able to ask and do in many cases on behalf of our listeners, because we do get listener feedback and wanting people to say, here, can you talk about this or that or whatever? We get to do that on behalf of people, and how lucky are we like to be able to do that and hopefully share information that helps them in the long run, too?

I think I know what number one would be if we’re going from five down to one.

OK. So 5, 4, 3 2. We’re back up to one now.

Yeah. I think number one would be the amount of lives impacted.

Ooh.

I mean, shout out to Molly. She ends up getting probably a lot of the feedback, what people are hearing and seeing and what they want to see more of. So to know that people are listening, applying a lot of these things, how it helped change people’s lives. I want to say almost half a million — I’m sorry. Was it 500,000, almost —

Downloads.

— downloads.

Unique downloads that we’re approaching.

I mean, just think about the amount of people lives that are being changed. Like, that stands out to me.

And that’s our goal is with continuing to do this podcast is to continue to influence more lives and hopefully reach more people in the year ahead. So that was five. I don’t even know the order we have them or what they all were. I don’t know that I could recite them. But I think what we’re most excited about as we go into this season 10 is continuing to have these conversations, continuing to reach more people to be able to spread more of this health and fitness and wellness information out into the world and reach even more people across lifetime and well beyond, hopefully, which I’m excited about. So —

Yeah. There it is.

OK. Season 10, here we go.

Season 10.

Are you ready?

Life Time Talks. D Freezy. Signing off.

Jamie Martin, signing off. I’m not as natural at that as you.

That’s it.

OK. Alright.

That was good.

Tune into this season, everybody. We can’t wait to be having conversations with you.

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