Strength Shows Emotion w/ Tony Rodriguez

Strength Shows Emotion w/ Tony Rodriguez

July 13, 2026 · 40 min · Episode 121

About this episode

Dr. John O’Connor interviews Tony Rodriguez about his journey through anxiety and the development of his coaching philosophy.

In this episode, Dr. John O’Connor welcomes back a familiar face and a man who brings nothing but high energy and real talk every single time he steps in front of a microphone. Tony Rodriguez. Business coach, award winning podcast host, family man, and diehard athlete. Tony is one of the co-hosts of Advice Unfiltered and has built a reputation for showing up authentically in everything he does. But in this episode we get a side of Tony that goes deeper than the hustle and the grind. Before Tony became the coach he is today, he spent years quietly battling non-epileptic blackout anxiety attacks that started when he was just a teenager. Instead of relying solely on medication, Tony was encouraged to find healthier outlets. Fitness became the foundation. Keeping his mind moving at a high frequency became the strategy. And over years of developing his own ways to cope and manage, something powerful was born. A coaching philosophy that is not rooted in just fitness or just business but in the real life experience of someone who has had to fight for his own mental and physical wellbeing and come out the other side with something worth sharing. What Tony built through Advice Unfiltered…

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