About this episode

Jared Maynard shares his powerful journey from life support to recovery, emphasizing the importance of strength and resilience.

What would it take for you to finally start taking care of yourself? Jared Maynard is a physiotherapist, strength coach, and one of the longest-standing members of the HoneyBadger Project community. In 2023, he was put on life support with a 50 to 75 percent mortality rate. His doctors told his family to say goodbye. And then, inexplicably, he began to recover. The 40 pounds of muscle his body catabolized for fuel during five weeks on a ventilator was the reserve he had unknowingly been building for decades. Every hour in the gym was unknowingly preparing him for this moment. This episode is one of the most powerful conversations we've had on this show. In this raw and deeply personal conversation, Jared and Frank cover: Clinical nihilism: what it is, why nearly every clinician goes through it, and what comes out the other side How a remote PT assessment over Skype in 2016 changed the entire trajectory of Jared's career Coping with going blind: a genetic condition will eventually rob Jared of his sight, and how that shaped his decision to go all in on a digital practice The near death experience: organ failure, life support, dialysis, and the moment his doctors told his family…

People in this episode

Host: Frank Benedetto

Guest: Jared Maynard

Topics covered

• personal recovery
• health and fitness
• clinical nihilism
• digital practice
• near death experience
• strength training
• grief and faith

Keywords

• physiotherapist
• strength coach
• life support
• muscle mass
• recovery
• clinical nihilism
• digital practice
• grief
• faith

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HoneyBadger Project

Books & works: the book of Job

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