My friends Sal, Adam, Justin, and Doug at Mind Pump not only have some of the best training plans (called MAPS plans) out there for everything from muscle gain to fat loss to at-home training to athletic performance and beyond, but they’re also chock-full of interesting and intriguing questions and topics that we always have a great time unpacking in our podcast episodes. Previous Ben Greenfield Fitness episodes with the Mind Pump guys include:
- Unschooling, Plant Medicine, Anti-Aging, Veganism vs. Carnivore & More With The Mind Pump Guys!
- The Official Edgy, Explicit & Epic Podcast With Me & The Mind Pump Crew: Longevity, Religion, Parenting, Biohacking, The Joe Rogan Debates, Snake Oil, Pseudoscience & Beyond.
- Six-Egg Breakfasts, Ketosis For Bodybuilders, Resetting Weed Tolerance, Kratom Experimentation & Much More With The Mind Pump Guys!
- The Mysterious Kuwait Muscle-Building Phenomenon, The Too-Much-Protein Myth, Anabolic Triggering Sessions & More With The Mind Pump Podcast Crew.
- The Mysterious Micro-Workouts, Turning On Your Butt, Overdosing With Melatonin & More With The Mind Pump Guys.
I’ve also been a guest on the Mind Pump podcast a handful of times as well, including on the episodes:
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- Fatherhood, Parenting, Home Schooling & Religion With Ben & Jessa Greenfield
- Ben Greenfield On Putting On Several Pounds Of Muscle, Living A Long & High Quality Life, Ways To Slow Aging, Unschooling His Sons & MORE
- Ben Greenfield On Anti-Aging, Minimizing Jet Lag, Starting A Supplement Company & MUCH MORE!
- Ben Greenfield Bares All- His Rules For Life, Hacking His Penis, His Family Life, Religion & MORE
- Ben Greenfield On His Testicle Mishap, Bodybuilding Career, Personal Motivation, Greatest Challenge & MORE
- Ben Greenfield On Elevating Testosterone Levels, Achieving Epic Erections, Benefits Of Swimming Naked, Worthless Fitness Products, Raising Health Conscious Kids & MORE
But this episode with Mind Pump is different.
See, this time I traveled to the Mind Pump studios in San Jose with my wife Jessa Greenfield to discuss fatherhood, parenting, religion, homeschooling, unschooling, cooking, and much, much more. We had such a great time that I figured I’d bring you in on the conversation. Enjoy!
During this discussion, you’ll discover:
-Ben’s secret to adding several pounds of muscle in the last few months…05:48
-How the dynamic between a father and mother affects their parenting style…14:50
- Ben and Jessa are highly involved in their children’s lives, but are by no means “helicopter parents”
- Attachment theory (anxiety and avoidance): your attachment to parents as a child influences your parenting style as an adult
- The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman
- Giving gifts to children can turn into “lazy parenting”
- Time and traditions trump gifts every time
- Consistency and routine builds families and legacies
- You’re not raising your children, you’re raising your grandchildren
-How Jessa’s childhood brought stability into her and Ben’s family dynamic…28:15
- Ben was “pleasantly agnostic” about traditions, stability, consistency in childhood
- Predictable environments provide stability in the lives of children
- Ben’s father switched jobs, businesses often
- Ben’s spiritual disciplines journal (coming soon)
-Why you should allow your children to embrace the world on their own terms…37:15
- “Love and Logic” parenting (mentioned in a previous Mind Pump podcast)
- Love and Logic Institute free course
- Allow children to suffer consequences, but not to excess or in a harmful way
- A good example from the parent is essential
- “Don’t do things that would make your kids dislike you.” -Jordan Peterson
- Also don’t do things that will develop an improper “friendship” between parent and children
- Mathnasium
- Forcing certain activities today will breed resentment tomorrow
-How traditions and values are instilled in childhood…50:15
- A child will want to do the opposite of their parents to assert their independence
- However, they often go back to what’s familiar when they have their own family
- Take parents into the home when they are old and infirm (honor your father and mother)
- Fatherhood is devalued in modern society (Modern Family)
- “Peter Pan” syndrome in the Health and Fitness and biohacking community
- Children raised without fathers are highly vulnerable to drug abuse, criminality, etc.
- National Fatherhood Initiative Father Absence Statistics
- Sundays are full-on family days in the Greenfield house
- Bishop Barron Presents Arthur Brooks: Love Your Enemies
-Religion, the foundation that holds communities together…58:15
- God the Father and the Son are the perfect father/son example
- Showing children humility and reverence to God is a powerful example
- Absolute truth and morality is what the foundation is made of
-The scientific value of having a strong spiritual practice and life…1:02:15
-Why science doesn’t work if you have morality attached to it…1:09:15
- Rather than asking “should we,” asking “can we?”
- Once science becomes absolute truth, slippery slope toward the absence of morality
- Head knowing (science) vs. heart knowing (morality, personal convictions)
- The real value is the journey, not the destination
-Why more parents are choosing homeschooling/unschooling…1:14:00
- Parents taking a more active role in the development of children
- Technology makes it more affordable and accessible
- Children discover their passion, are surrounded by tools and resources to pursue
- Light guidance from parents
- 5 key tools a child needs:
- Reading
- Writing
- Arithmetic
- Logic (computer programming)
- Rhetoric/persuasion
-How Ben and Jessa are teaching their kids saving and investing…1:23:45
- Tuttle Twins book series
- Be involved with finances related to their podcast
- Buy anything that will fuel something they want to learn about
- They can buy whatever they want (with their own money)
-The beginning of the end of education as we know it?…1:27:50
-And much more!
Click here for the full written transcript of this podcast episode.
Resources from this episode:
– Mind Pump:
– BGF podcasts with Mind Pump:
- Unschooling, Plant Medicine, Anti-Aging, Veganism vs. Carnivore & More With The Mind Pump Guys!
- The Official Edgy, Explicit & Epic Podcast With Me & The Mind Pump Crew: Longevity, Religion, Parenting, Biohacking, The Joe Rogan Debates, Snake Oil, Pseudoscience & Beyond.
- Six-Egg Breakfasts, Ketosis For Bodybuilders, Resetting Weed Tolerance, Kratom Experimentation & Much More With The Mind Pump Guys!
- The Mysterious Kuwait Muscle-Building Phenomenon, The Too-Much-Protein Myth, Anabolic Triggering Sessions & More With The Mind Pump Podcast Crew.
- The Mysterious Micro-Workouts, Turning On Your Butt, Overdosing With Melatonin & More With The Mind Pump Guys.
– Mind Pump podcasts with Ben Greenfield:
- 1340: Fatherhood, Parenting, Home Schooling & Religion With Ben & Jessa Greenfield
- 1145: Ben Greenfield On Putting On Several Pounds Of Muscle, Living A Long & High Quality Life, Ways To Slow Aging, Unschooling His Sons & MORE
- 867: Ben Greenfield On Anti-Aging, Minimizing Jet Lag, Starting A Supplement Company & MUCH MORE!
- 767: Ben Greenfield Bares All- His Rules For Life, Hacking His Penis, His Family Life, Religion & MORE
- 529: Ben Greenfield On His Testicle Mishap, Bodybuilding Career, Personal Motivation, Greatest Challenge & MORE
- 461: Ben Greenfield On Elevating Testosterone Levels, Achieving Epic Erections, Benefits Of Swimming Naked, Worthless Fitness Products, Raising Health Conscious Kids & MORE
– Other podcasts:
– Jessa Greenfield:
– Books:
– Supplements:
– Other resources:
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