 Hello everybody welcome to today's Speakeasy podcast episode. I've got foosie coming on if you've been on social media long enough you've probably seen foosie He's a big influencer He's got over 20 million followers across his social. We're gonna be talking about you know How do you grow on social media? That's a question people ask me How do you go viral? And so we're gonna talk about to one of the OG's original people that went viral on social media What he's doing now, you know, he's got a Boxing promoting company doing stuff with Jake Paul Logan Paul He's gone through a lot. So we're gonna talk about his journey sober talk about happy punch talk about how Things have changed on social media. So when he got 20 million followers the rules he followed How he's adapting to the modern world where everybody and their brothers a social media influencer. So now there's more Competition, which means you have to be an adaptable machine. Remember as Darwin Taught it's not the smartest or the strongest who survive It's the most adaptable to the environment in which they find themselves that survived. So Your ability to navigate the social media influencer world the viral world Whether you even want to be on camera or not is irrelevant if you want to make something in this world You're gonna need social media pretty much. Nobody's making money anymore without social media even Warren Buffett companies are doing social media Let me let me shoot a quick little peek little from my insta story All right, we have foosie here coming on the next episode of Speak easy if you're live. I've launched a big social media podcasting platform. So Foozie man, I want to hear about how you got 20 million social media followers How you're promoting doing stuff with Jake Paul Logan Paul your own boxing your journey through being sober being You know, you've been up and you've been down. Let's talk about both those people need to hear both Let's talk. We got a lot to talk about. I got my paper here So, why don't we just jump in here with the first thing which is a lot of my followers are entrepreneurs and They want to they realize it's hard to be an entrepreneur now if you're not a master of social media You're one of the original masters of growing on social media. So let's start with this question What used to work and doesn't work anymore To grow your social media and how you adapted to new strategies Then we're going to talk about addiction sobriety what you're doing with you know aspiration Let's start with this question right at the beginning like what used to work to grow to 20 million followers like you have That doesn't work at all anymore. Yeah You know and you know just right off the top if I were to think of the first answer that comes into my mind It's actually an interesting answer because what used to work Just simply creating going with your intuition having a vision and creating and putting it out there that was before algorithms and The system came into play because now you can no longer have a good picture or a good video ready to go and be like I'm just going to upload this because now you have to strategize am I posting at the right time How when was the last time I posted are my followers active so you have to You have to strategize so much more now within what you're doing So when I started because I'm an artist that lives with his heart on his sleeve So my favorite thing to do was if I wanted to post three YouTube videos a day I could do that before if I wanted to post four Instagram pictures a day I could do that before but now it's as if like the algorithm and the system has a rope on my back And it's pulling me back because I can't even post I can't even be as active as I want to be on my socials because of You know the powers that be and the system you're playing again So it's like you're now battling against the algorithms whereas before you could just do you so you have to think now Like is the algorithm favoring this eight second videos or 45 second videos on my On a topic and I'm not funny enough I mean I feel like it's a race to being crazier and crazier like you know what I mean It's like used to about just shoot a YouTube video where you're sharing but now if you look at what's winning It's like some crazy Prank or something like that. So that's interesting. What's your favorite social platform right now? What do you think? Let's say somebody's hat doesn't have 20 million followers. I have 9 million followers across platform They're not somebody who's already built early and so you're let's say you're starting all over again What platform are you building on now? So it's interesting because that question is contingent to 2022 because in the past I would say YouTube because the reason why after I started in 2011 the reason why I'm still I can't walk out of my house without no matter where I go no matter where in the world I'm going to get stopped and foosie is because of the The impact I had made on YouTube because YouTube was the epicenter of everything back then so the The 10 million subscribers on foosie to the 4 million on dose of foosie the fitness channels the podcast I've done My face is out there and And that kept everything alive so YouTube used to be the epicenter and then I use YouTube to funnel into Instagram funnel into my other social media apps now. It's different my favorite bar none Was Instagram and it still is Instagram for what I like to the brand that I like like if I were to say Where's my audience right now? I'd say Instagram because they have got a day-to-day update of my journey Whereas YouTube I might not have posted in six months. They don't know that I'm now sober. I'm now healthy I have a boxing match coming this year. They remember what they last saw of me on YouTube Instagram They see me day-to-day, but that's still not the answer to your question The best social media to start on that I give everybody now. Yeah hands down as tiktok And I used to hate it because I used to be like people would walk around like oh, you know, I'm viral on tiktok I got 1 million views and I would be like a million views on tiktok. Like that's nothing to like But that's just like my my grandma can get a million views on tiktok So I hated it until I realized the benefit of it and I was like wait Why be mad at it if I could use it to my advantage because a lot of the you know That's where people are right now and that's where people are consuming so much. It's easy to get a million views So let's run those numbers up. So now any reel that I post on Instagram I also post on tiktok and nine out of ten times tiktok numbers blow it out the water Goes viral instantly on tiktok. So people who haven't seen me in years now like I'm just on their for you page I'm there. I'm there. So it reignites. I'm a reminds them of who I am what I am and it gets them if they're interested enough Let me click his Instagram. Let me see what he's doing there. Let me click his YouTube Let me see what he's doing there. So whenever a person comes up to me Oh, who see I want to be a social media star which everybody does nowadays And everybody is nowadays I just say tiktok start on tiktok and you know use that to leverage into the other platforms you want to be on Yeah, I'm finding like for me. I do the same thing. I I Build a piece of content Incident and I bought bodybuilding.com the last week. So now I control bodybuilding which got five million youtube You know, it's a big big company Bodybuilding, that's huge. I've been working on a deal. Thank you man I've been working on the deal for two years and two months. You want to buy companies do the stuff I do you got to be patient I'm sure you've learned that you know in your journey But one of the things that I see it's funny like The main thing I see happening on instagram versus tiktok Sometimes my insta for myself personally and bodybuilding which has a huge insta Is that sometimes I still get more views on reels But if you look at your activity page Nobody follows anymore all my follow growth is happening on tiktok. I'm talking I did the post The other day it got about a million on tiktok about whatever a million on insta Okay in the first 24 hours the interesting thing though I was getting 20 Follows like a minute on tiktok from that video And like one every hour on it like a note. So instagram is the static place if you already have followers You need to post an insta because there's people already there But if you want to grow they I mean I'm worried about instagram like if there's no growth It's death is that I know why mark zuckerberg switched the name meta metaverse. So that's what I see it's a yeah, so I want to read these numbers to you. So I run a promotional company in the boxing scene called happy punch promotions One of our biggest places right now was instagram The numbers for last month our reels got 20.2 million views. We had 35 million total impressions We had 14.3 million accounts reached was which was a growth of 502,000 But at the end of the day, we only had 25,000 new followers granted 25,000 is a huge Huge feat and milestone, but you have my co-founder talk with me like Why aren't we like why is why aren't people following? They it doesn't they're not it's not converting people are stalking the page people are watching the page It's reaching the pages, but people aren't following. They're not they're not clicking that follow button Whereas tiktok Like you said, it's it's a much we get those numbers, but we also get the the the followership behind it That's awesome. So let's switch. We'll come back. I want to come back because there's questions people are going to ask um as we do this live On the side of this is awesome. By the way, this is my first time on this app and this is I'm liking this I'm about to blow this up. We just came out of beta. We got about 30 000 people on speak easy I'm gonna push it to like 3 million here by that. So this will be a good place. We'll talk and do it some more podcast and building you here um But appreciate that Let's talk about like your journey like being sober A lot of people in this world deal with addictions. My dad was a alcoholic and Drugs, you know, my mom wasn't it was interesting like some of it's genetic they found and and so my mom was like, you know ty When When my mom and dad were married they used to do drugs, right? Because my dad was a drug dealer But my mom's like I would do it but the second she got pregnant with me She's like I knew it was bad for the baby. I stopped over night. My dad can never stop So I've been around people who are Like sober like my mom and not and I've been you know, my real dad um, and I ended up really killing my dad in the end was all the repercussions of Drinking a lot more drinking more than drug. My dad always said I only do the the healthy drug. So he'd do weed, mushroom. He's like, I don't do anything that's man-made, you know But still alcohol Pretty man-made and so what's kind of like through your journey through soberness or two soberness If somebody's listening and they're struggling with any kind of addiction like if you had to start by saying the simplest piece of advice That's practical for somebody struggling with any kind of addiction. What would be your advice to them? This is this is an interesting question because like and it's funny because you're asking me on the spot So it's just the first thing that pings in my brain. Um I don't know if this would be a controversial take But these are these are things that I literally told myself on my journey So I say I don't say them to like condemn. I like controversy. I'm controversial. So stay the controversy my simple take is like I have for example um I used to vape 24 seven Whether it be on an airplane Whether it be in a doctor's office whether it be at my grandma's house whether it be on this podcast You would you would you would have me vaping? so whenever anybody is wondering like You know, what is wrong? What am I doing wrong? You know what it is? You know what it is. You know what your issues are because you're using those vices every day um and See, I'm trying to think of Take your time. No rush. Yeah, um, so okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna rephrase actually We're gonna go a different way. I was gonna say you know what the problem is So like if I when I used to be overweight But I would eat every single night. I knew what my problem was so it's not like You know, why why am I overweight? What's going wrong? Oh, if I look down at what I'm doing and I say that to say when I before I went to rehab I You know when I got into rehab, they take away your phone. They take away your laptop. They take away your Your vape they take away everything So what I started doing while I was in rehab was Going to sleep at a normal hour waking up at a normal hour Eating at a normal hour. I'm not vaping and what I started noticing was I started feeling better. I started getting energy. I started being happier So when I looked back at the way I was living in LA before I went there. I was like, okay Let me break this down to myself I wake up at about 4 p.m The first thing I do before my eyes even open is hit my vapes to get that initial like Ah, you know, I stay in bed for an additional two hours. I start ordering junk food I probably watch porn and masturbate I might end up going to a massage parlor and getting some, you know, extra services I go home by the time it's like midnight 1 a.m. I start eating again The last thing I see in my eyes is porn before I close my laptop Last thing I do before sleeping is hit my vape. I wonder why I was so miserable So it's like when I started looking back at how I was living as opposed to what I was doing to like I used to think I needed an Adderall to give me natural human energy Now with sleeping good, you know, not vaping not taking any substances eating well I have so much energy where people now think I'm on something all the time They're like, what's this guy on not understanding that now I unlocked the natural energy that I thought I You know that I thought was taken away from me even though I'm still so young And the last thing I want to say before because this is kind of all over the place, but I was begging my audience to like You know join I tell everybody I know to not vape Because that literally it destroyed me vaping destroyed me We think that vaping is to alleviate our anxiety, but it's actually induces our anxiety and just makes everything worse So one guy hit me up and he was like, you know poosy. I can't stop vaping if I don't vape. I don't go to sleep He was like, what should I do? I said A sleepless night isn't going to kill you You're going to be uncomfortable. You're going to hate it But if you know that you can't sleep without you vape Then you're always going to need that vape to be able to get yourself to sleep But if you actually wanted to quit Go that sleepless night. Go to sleepless nights It's not going to kill you but go through that moment of uncomfortability to get to the other side Just like when people do on harder drugs when you know, they're going through their withdrawals So it's like the success of quitting something requires the sacrifice and requires the pain and everything else that You know that comes along with it So one of the things you're saying is like go back to nature, which is like Nate natural environment Very few people stayed up till four in the morning. You didn't have electricity. Son got dark. Our son went down Got dark. He went to bed. So getting to bed a reasonable hour Yeah, you know stuff like vaping weed all this you know, I have six brothers one of them's a heroin addict sadly nicest guy in the world but Struggle with that since he was really young. It's like Do the little things right? Because everybody's kind of like what's the massive thing that gets my life on track It's like there's a book called, you know, make your bed. It's like getting a little habit where you get it, right? I read that while I was actually at my last day in rehab and that Impacted me great. Yeah It's by navy admiral and it's just like start building micro habits. I have a professor a mentor Professor bowmeister and he's a famous professor and he wrote a book called willpower Like and one of the things he says is willpower is just what you say a lot of people go. Okay. I'm struggling with food Sex drugs rock and roll all that kind of stuff. So the way I'm going to fight it is just like go I'm going to have more willpower, but he's like willpower is weak. So he says for example At night you have less willpower because your brain is tired So go to bed because if you stay up till three in the morning, you're more likely to eat junk food late at night So simple spivots and habits Actually fix the big stuff. There's an old saying little leaks Sink big ships the titanic was a huge boat Basically the biggest passenger boat in human history and it sunk with a little like six or 12 foot hole in it And so your life if you can go back to nature for Sigmund Freud the psychologist wrote a book civilization and its discontents And he basically said modern civilization Causes a domino effect of a lot of problems like you said There used to not be born if you if you have every dude knows on their phone they can access Naked beautiful women. It's tough for people to fight that right that willpower. So a good thing is like you said I tell some people go on one of these wilderness um, like survival camps Where you got to leave your phone for a week all of a sudden you're back to nature and it becomes now It'll be like you said It'll be hard for that first night to sleep because you don't have your vape pen You don't have your phone, but all of a sudden You go tired because you're chopping wood all day like go back to nature. You'd be it's not the end all be all but Yeah, that's that's interesting. All right. Let's come back to that in a second I want to go through and talk about happy punch And being a promoter we know now like boxing has blown up connor McGregor Went from MMA switches over to boxing Logan paul jake paul mayweather fights logan like i i've known that you know jake and logan for a while um and And it's just insane How combat sports now are the thing so How'd you get the idea For to pivot like all right happy punch Let's talk about you got a fight coming up Can't say who you're fighting it's a surprise for everybody, but tell me about Your foray into this MMA combat world Okay, so You know youtube boxing became a thing um in the uk Uh, it was when joe weller Uh had a fight and then after that fight called out ksi ksi joe weller happened Ksi wins calls out any of the pulls logan paul jake paul i'll take you on it. That was the That was the explosion um So now it makes sense that like When when two influencers are fighting it's more than just them fighting. It's two fan bases amongst each other Um, and it's like no my guy's gonna win. No my guy's gonna win It's just it creates the banter for itself and then in the ring. It's like it's peak entertainment So last year. I actually was involved in a boxing match before um When in the early stages of this youtube boxing But I did what a lot of these influencers do before it became serious and went in there with just my ego Because my ego as an influencer was so big at the time before I killed my ego where I was like, you know I could do whatever nobody can stop me. I'm gonna beat this guy up But i'm saying that with no skill to back up what i'm saying I just said that with straight ego and I got annihilated who'd you fight beat to the This gentleman named slim another youtuber. I had one month of training Um knew nothing about what I was doing went in there in london and enemy territory and got annihilated So that's why this fight which i'll talk about means so much to me because this is like my redemption arc, but It's like Mike Tyson said everybody has a plan till I punch him in the face So it's like everybody's cocky till you get in a ring and you realize now it don't matter who you are It's pure skill, you know So last year social gloves was happening, which was um youtube versus tiktok So now you had like somebody was actually trying to monopolize the idea of like, yo, this is gonna be a thing Let's turn it into something youtube versus tiktok. Let's run it So what I did at the time because I've always found ways to reinvent myself and my career Even when I've been down and out and that's why after all these years I'm still here talked about how this fight going on because I I I always found different ways of To make it so when social gloves was happening. I showed up to the gym where they were having open tryouts on and I Simply started interviewing the fighters the youtubers and recording Pretty soon people started calling me Dana too because I was like the reporter of the social media influencer And it's like anything that was happening in social media boxing you go to my new youtube channel You see it and like I covered everything That ended up getting me a role to be the ring the ring announcer for that event in miami after that ring announcing Opportunity I had I got signed by a new manager and then I had the idea. I was like wait There are no promotional companies in this space There are no companies that are repping these fighters that are There's no media for all these fighters like we need to turn this bigger than just Dana too I needed to make it bigger than myself So I conceptualized the idea of happy punch promotions At the time all it was going to be was me and keemstar We're going to be the media Entity for everything that happens So if you if you have a boxing event and you need it promoted talked about publicized come to me and keem We'll cover it on all our fronts Um If you needed commentators we'll commentate you needed interviews or interview and then as it was going on I was like wait this can be bigger than that just like promotional companies in boxing Let's start signing some of these fighters So never done before we started signing some of the biggest names Spee who's one of the biggest? Live streamers out there right now Gideon who's one of the biggest youtubers and social media stars out there right now salt poppy Who was in an event um earlier this year? He was the first fighter the night but became fight of the night and became an instant overnight star And what we started doing now is now we had a stable of a bunch of happy punch fighters And any event that's happening comes to us of hey, who should we put on our card? How do we promote so now we're all in one package boom Put so put salt poppy on put dean the great on put gideon on this fight put pussy on the fight Keem will handle the commentary We'll do the media publicity on this front And now it's just like a well oiled machine that like it's become the go-to spot for influencer boxing Um, I I think it's going to be capital like we're early in on this like nobody Nobody has done what we are doing and that's why we were establishing ourselves to be The go-to spot and like with those numbers that I read earlier like people are They're receptive to it. It's being it's be it's going according to plan Yeah, I mean that bit that business people are underestimating you look at the fight numbers on some of these influencers fighting in the Pay-per-view numbers. It's like boom. It's like competing with like UFC numbers, you know, because you see a lot of UFC people Don't have big social media followers, especially but but everybody you could put on a card even the undercards You could be getting people that have two million tick talk. You know what I mean? So it's an interesting business strategy Yeah, for example, like august 27th. They just got announced Ksi is making his return to the ring and his last opponent was logan paul at the staples center. He fought him twice So ksi the king of the uk Now business partners with logan paul and prime hydration and all that is returning to the ring and the o2 arena in london on gazon Like the the magnitude of how big that event is going to be Fighters and fighters who do this on a daily basis like this is their blood sweat and tears Couldn't pay for that kind of promotion and publicity that this kind of card is going to have because Alone with the 20,000 venue that's going to be instantly sold out because his pre-sale ticket sold out instantly disowned like especially with it being ksi Millions of people are going to tune in and that's before all the views pour in To the tick talks that it's going to generate the youtube that it's going to generate the instagram that it's going to generate And all for an influencer But the good thing about it now is and you know jake paul has already been the proof to the pudding to show that like It's not the boxers can't look at it anymore and be like all this social media stuff is You know, it's a joke because these influencers are now taking it serious They're not just going out there to you know, do a joke of the sport and do they're doing their training like professionals They're doing all they can as professionals and they're they're pulling the numbers It's all about numbers at the end of the day and I you know, I uh People also always ask me ty. What do you think of logan and jake paul? And i'm like These are big corn fed midwest boys. They got big backs. I've learned i've done You know martial arts or I started with judo now. I do brazilian jujitsu and just just amateur but you know, I i've Sparred with pro guys and These dudes with big backs. You don't want a box. That's why I look people think even if jake paul's form isn't You know like canelo or something somebody who's but you get hit square With a dude who's strong strong back some of them is not just biceps a lot of people are like, oh look at bicep I'm like this is back You got it and being strong thighs where you're planted strong So I was telling you don't want to fight you know Jake jakes put a few people to sleep Uh that are strong dudes. So are you so let's talk about Healthier because like I said, I own bodybuilding.com and I like talking about training. My dad was a pro bodybuilder What's Your walk us through a training day. You're taking this seriously. What's the day? What's the cardio? What's the weights? What's the technique? What's kind of your breakout? What's your you know your routine? So are you asking for Me as in my boxing training camp or me in general just my training healthy. No boxing training. Let's talk about boxing training camp first Okay, um Hopefully my opponent isn't watching this because every okay. Don't say all the confidential stuff. Just give a big big big picture Okay, I don't want to mess up the fight. I don't want that responsibility on my Shoulders, but like what's the general thing like are you doing? Literally, so, you know 20% an hour of cardio an hour of weight. So first of all, you know a lot of it's a it's a it's a full-time investment It's like if you want to do this right and you truly want to do it's a full-time investment There's like there's no more hanging out with friends. There's no more Having time to do your hobbies one Even if you wanted to you couldn't because you're walking around so angry and so stressed and so like, you know Built up that you couldn't do that But a normal day would be wake up early. Now some boxers choose to Run early in the morning. Um, I personally don't um, and it depends on your preference of what you like Because I like all my initial energy to be exerted into my training my boxing training session that day So then I'll do a full full blown boxing training. Um, it starts with jump rope I'm not going to say the amount of time for jump rope But it's an insane amount of time to jump rope just uh just to warm up into the training Then you go into the fundamentals, whatever we're going to do that day, whether it be bag work, whether it be mitt work Um, whether it be, you know, feet work, whatever it's going to be and then it could end in a full blown sparring Sparring session where you know, you're you're like what we're doing to prepare is harder than the actual fight night of the fight Because it is so Grueling and so difficult. So you'll you'll go for sparring which in my case. I'll get my ass beat um And just whooped on and then break into the core So by the time that's done the time is like two o'clock and you know, normally it's like, okay, let's go home. Let's do something all it is is Take the one two hours that you need get a quick meal in because now the biggest thing Is I use food as fuel as opposed to use few food for entertainment and to like Mitigate my whatever feelings I'm feeling frustrated stress whatever I used to eat now food is fuel So if I need I need food for fuel, I'll eat. I'll get ready I'll then go back to the gym Then it's strength and conditioning So then it's working on those thighs that you talked about working on those back that you talked about working on You know, just what what am I lacking on? What do I need to fix? Is it my hips? Is it my legs is it isn't my back like what based on my sparring and my performance that day? what do I need to work on and Me being the crazy person that I am these days even after that That's when my Runs come in so after all that I like to end my night with a run And that could be anywhere from it could be a speed run that day So an hour of a speed run It could be eight miles that day three 12 miles that day, but I'll run by the time I'm done I'll put another meal into my body. It's time to go to sleep with all my aches and bruises wake up the next morning and do it All over again Are you doing massage cold hot cold baths hydrotherapy, you know Cryo all that everything that that I can or else my body wouldn't it like my body wouldn't be able to Um put up with the the the stress that I'm putting on it. Um, so and if I am doing a massage It's the sports therapy massage. It's uh It's uh, I forgot the name of it of what my guy does but like he releases something in my tissues Uh, yeah deep tissue. Yeah, that is so freaking painful. Um the way that he does it Um, the coach makes us sit in the ice bath for 15 minutes where you know, you You you rethink your entire your entire existence and why am I come to jesus bath? You're like and then cryo, um vitamin iv like anything and everything to just you know help You know get yourself to be able to perform at the the heights that you're performing at so Diet for a second you hit on it. What's the food that like I Michael jordan is a famous biography of michael jordan before a game For basketball game. He would eat a steak. He said the only thing that could fuel him was a steak now You got vegan athletes you have you know, i'm friends with some of the los angeles lakers like metal world peace Want to ring with kobe? He told me like here's my routine. I need to nap two minutes two hours You know at one o'clock before the game and here's my food You know, he likes salmon and fish and stuff like that like what's your go-to food that makes you able to train at a high level okay And this I Whenever I speak to this like you said I want everybody to know It's whatever works for your body whether it's being a vegan whether it's being a pescatarian I don't even know all the names of things But whatever works for your body because like when I tell my brother who's also he loves lifting at 40 He transforms his whole body. He was obese with kids, but now he's ripped and shredded You know when I tell him my diet plan He'll tell me it's bullshit and explain why his is better And then if I take his diet plan and go to somebody else somebody else will take their time explaining Why my brother's is bullshit and why theirs is better. So at the end of the day, it's whatever works for you So me personally What I have found is and this has been The number one I've I've been a yo-yo dieter my whole life. I'll be I'll be ripped and shredded. I'll be fat I'll be ripped and shredded. I'll be fat and I can explain that if you'd like because that goes into The addiction and what I was trying to fix by fixing my image without fixing what's on the inside but What I have learned is Carbs are the devil Sugar is the devil. I used to think. Oh, I need energy. I need carbs So let me eat some bread. Let me eat some rice. Let me do this. Let me do that When I tell you that when I eliminated that from my diet completely Any sugar any sugar let alone processed sugar So first I started with keto. I just started with meats and I started with healthy fats And immediately I started realizing holy crap. I don't feel as sluggish as I used to My brain isn't foggy. I have more energy than I used to than when I used to eat a big You know carb loaded meal to give me energy to work out So I started learning how to access the fat storage that you know that we have for energy My body started adapting differently But when I was doing that I always used to tell myself. Ah, but I miss Fruit I miss acai bowls. So I found this gentleman on instagram who changed my life So now my diet consists of straight protein from the source Straight like I'm talking two pounds of protein on a daily basis And I'm the the thing that I don't put on it is I don't put the The the teriyaki sauce with all the sugars and the added sugars and everything I'm talking just salt and pepper And if I'm going to use something I use butter not even oils And um, then I get my fats. I'll have my avocados. I'll have my eggs But the best part about it now is I get all my carb sources and my sugar sources from a natural source Which was given to us from the day, you know, we've been out here is fruit I a ton of fruit now I eat as much fruit as I want in a day and I have never felt better My body has never looked better. I've never performed better So when I walk into a grocery store now and I see something with additional added sugars To me, it's an immediate toss out let alone if it has sugars. I Should toss that out but some days I'm like, okay, I'll allow myself to you know have this or have that but um To me sugars Anything processed anything with carbs used to be my kryptonite used to be my devil. It was holding me back I like that. So basically you get in your meats and your and your fats from the traditional keto But you're throwing in the fruit which has the fiber the pectin's Natural and then that gives you a little bit of carbs. I like that. I'm gonna try that. I like that It's it's it's basically like when you when you talked about Oh before porn was a thing and the sun went down like people had to go to sleep Right. I eat what what we used to have back in the day like an animal based diet. So yes protein comes from the animals eggs Fruit comes from nature, you know, it comes from there. So everything that I have is stuff that was is actually like Here for us already in the earliest of civilization before we started going into factories and turning You know these crazy things and being like boom eat this. Yeah eat that Like when I go into a grocery store now and I see some of the things on the kids aisles for children And you trap it and tragedy look at it's and you wonder like The system is set up for us to fail Yeah, I tell people it's that one ingredient diet where it's like apple. What's the ingredient an apple? It's a steak one ingredient steak cow And the second that ingredient list starts to grow Now you're going away from god nature and you're going into the man made and Man messes up more stuff than they fix. Um, let me brookie brookie. Just go ahead Brookie just asked an important question. She said what about clean water when a lot of it is sold in plastic bottles Yes, so a friend of mine roman atwood actually put me on because I drink water like it's nobody's business I'm talking in one training session. I'm already done with my gallon And then I'm on to my second gallon of the day and one of my friends actually put me on is no Don't drink out of plastic because you know everything that's coming out of the plastic So what I do now because obviously I have to be realistic for my own self And I can't get like as of right now a giant thing to make my water in my house So even if I do buy it out of a plastic bottle, I pour it immediately into my metal jug And I carry it around uh that way. Um, yeah, but water is water I actually do water fast like right now. I'm on a water fast. You saw me drinking black coffee But when I'm on a water fast, I allow black coffee. No cream. No sugar So from now until Monday morning, I'm not eating a single thing. Ooh That'll lead you right up. Not it. That'll lead you right up Not only that, but it discipline it disciplines me It resets my body from using the carbs that I may have in my system and Whatever for energy and adapts me to using my fats and I actually like I perform better I'm more clear and I don't waste any time of the day thinking What should I eat today? Did I eat today? Do I have energy because I end up having so much more energy this way? It's insane So question on that because people are lovans. I saw a quit. Let's start to do q&a by the way Um as we get to this part of the show So I'm going to go back if anybody has questions on any subject for fuzzi myself One of the questions that caught my eye here. What do you what's your take on things like sweet potatoes for carbs? Do you do any potatoes or sweet potatoes or just fruit? I I don't um and the the gentleman who I follow on instagram like that's why I usually uh Tell people to defer to because I don't know the sweet science of why he doesn't do it and why he doesn't allow it But um, I don't do any kind of are you allowed can you share his uh instagram name? Or is that okay? Yeah, his name is carnivore md. Oh, I know him. He's the he's like a doctor He always is without a shirt like he's in the grocery store. I'm like, bro. You might be getting thrown out of a few Whole foods here, but uh, and he just goes bullshit bullshit bullshit like his number one shirt says kale is bullshit So like he's just I like boy that ain't gonna make you popular in la hollywood is king of kale All you had to do is you said kale's sometimes, you know, my mom's vegan I got her to be vegan even though i'm not vegan. I like to cycle through different diets. I think that's healthy too and um But sometimes you go to vegan restaurants like I was in la And i'm going this is junk food here like the whole point that the vision of vegan was not vegan junk food It wasn't deep fried potatoes. You know what i'm saying? And so you got to be careful whatever diet you're on leave it to mankind They're gonna mess it up. So I was like you you go keto. I know people are keto and okay Well, technically there's junky stuff that still doesn't have carbs. So you got to be Be careful who you listen to. Okay question. Um Well before you ask a question or as you're finding the question I want to say um to a lot of people listening one of the the things that helped me best in my diet And finding what worked for me as well was creating an intermittent fasting window So when I when I didn't have a window I'd wake up in the morning and I'd start eating and then after a couple hours you tell yourself I need to eat again. I need to eat again and then at night time before you go to bed you find yourself snacky If you discipline yourself to a window whether it be an eight hour window a six hour window Let's say you eat from 12 to 8 if it's before 12, you know automatically it's before 12 I can't eat anything if it's after eight you don't have to worry about I need to eat. I need to eat you don't have to eat anything And the best thing about that is when I was doing that some days I would get so busy eight o'clock would hit and I realized crap I haven't eaten so then I started teaching myself But I'm still Good, I'm still functioning. Let's just fast until tomorrow and I started reaping the results of fasting for longer windows and now here I am doing three day fast and Eight day fast and just what's your normal intermittent? Are you doing 12 to 8 when you can eat? What's the window you use mostly? So the thing that worked best for me, um granted it's changing now in boxing because I just I'm eating more out of the The stress component to give myself comfort out of like getting my ass beat every day The best that worked for me Was and this I anything that I say I'm not telling people to do. I'm just saying what worked for me I ate everything in one massive meal. So I'd fast the entire day all my training sessions everything and then at night I get to eat a lump sum of food get to eat it all and I eat quick But I get I felt so full that right after that. It's like good. I'm good now Now let me go to sleep everything. I just ate I'll use tomorrow during my training because it's going to be stored energy Until night time comes again, and I have to eat again. Yeah, Becca Swanson. She I train with her sometimes She's the strongest woman in modern history. Guinness Book of World Records. She benched 600 pounds Squatted I over 800 pounds deadlifts over 700 Uh And she would do that she would do a one huge like 5000 calorie meal She's I have it but different things, you know, now, let's if you want to come up josh use on josh was here Uh, if you want to come into the q&a We'll take a few people. We have a q&a line If you want a q&a, I want to say something about your audience Your what i've noticed from this app like you asked early. What's your favorite app? And there's so many apps. I hate because of how toxic people are in the comments This is such um and granted it's the energy you put out and what you've curated and stuff, but to everybody listening right now you guys have I have been great in the comments asking real questions taking, uh Like you like you're real normal people with like you're not there to send out hate or negativity or toxic energy And it's very much appreciated amongst all the apps that literally You know destroy the brain. I appreciate it. I hope to get you I want I want to talk to you offline on being a part of this because i'm just coming out of beta We got all the tech done and it's a bad. It's a scalable app. So if you have a question, um josh is going to add some people to the We have a q&a line you can come in and unmute yourself and ask a question. Um josh will Moderate it but and I'll also read some questions On the actual, uh, if you're too shy to ask a question live Think of grow rich. I what books, you know, I love books man. What books if any You know, some people are motivated with books some aren't but has there been a book that that you look back and go Elon Musk says he was super depressed as a teenager and he read book Uh hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and it made him realize there's more than even earth and now he's built in spacex And he said I was a pivotal book any pivotal books. We should be reading that you like Well, there's two the first one is going to be generic and very simple But at the time of reading which was early on in my career changed my life dramatically And this is before social media took the turn like when I used to be on youtube Unlike my blogging channel when I used to talk about depression It was at the point where depression was still taboo and people used to say they were young and they were You're lying about this. You're lying about this for views. It's not real And whenever I used to talk about manifestation and the law of attraction They used to think I was a lunatic although I was manifesting right in front of their eyes Like I was in my car blogging saying I can't wait to be on stage at the vh1 streamies accepting my award for creator of the year And saying and I would say the word and literally three months later. I'm on stage at vh1 Winning that award with the exact words that I said and the book that got me to do that I think that was the secret Like just early on my first my first dive into manifestation and you know, the secret just opened my eyes to Literally becoming what I'm thinking like and wondering like why so much bad happening into my life But then when I look back into my uh into what's going on up here being like, oh, I thought that into existence You know, I I'm creating this reality for myself You know, how do I expect to be skinny if I'm walking around telling myself? I'm fat. I'm fat. I'm fat. I'm overweight. I'm overweight You tell yourself you're fat and overweight You're going to be fat and overweight because that's what you told yourself up in here What you think is what you become what you what you think is what your reality becomes But the second greatest book that ever impacted my life, especially with my crazy journey of you know finding Finding this version of myself was the monk who sold his Ferrari The problem with that book is I used to think it was a true story So when when I went through like a severe mental breakdown through social media at my younger years and everything I did exactly what the gentleman did in the book. I packed my bags. I gave away all my belongings I went to Bali and I started like my own spiritual I was meeting with monks. I was doing all these things until I realized Crap, it wasn't a real a real book now. It doesn't take away anything But that book was life changing for me in so many more ways than one Good question mental training. Yeah, so so yeah, that's a great question Yeah, and and mental especially in boxing is so important because I could get my physical like as great as I want If my mental isn't right when I step in that ring It's game over and that's why the first thing that I did actually in preparation for this return to the ring that I'm making is I got a breathing coach and I got a meditation coach Who who's been doing sound therapy with me and just you know Working on my breathing and be able to get myself into the state that I need to be in because I remember the last time That I stepped into the ring I blacked out before even walking out to the fight because I had just lost myself The adrenaline took over and I had lost myself. So Now I'm doing I'm doing the breathing work. I'm doing the the the meditation work And for myself every day because my it's so jam-packed. I can't get myself to that's usually just one to two times a week Um, I give myself time to meditate and do a breathing practice that they have trained me to do on a daily basis To just always get myself back to that, you know That that that's center place that I need to be before I go into a day of training Um, because I I I already know what's going to happen when you know, the fight Is when I'm backstage for the fight, there's gonna be you know 20,000 people screaming there their lives out millions of people watching on and if I don't protect what's going on up here I'll get lost. So I already have my breathing strategies and my meditation strategies and everything getting me ready for that answer Yeah, what's give us a give us a short version of like What are you like at one? Where are you at at six? Where are you at at 12? Like what's that story? So I was the youngest I had three, um other siblings and Um being the youngest my parents were most lenient on me So whereas like they were strict and hard on my brothers and sisters So like my brother went to harvard. My sister went to Berkeley and then bolt, you know, uh bolt an extension of Berkeley for law school My other brother, um went to Berkeley and UCSD when it came to my turn and they said Our prize child, what is he gonna be like? We have surgeons. We have lawyers. We have pediatricians What are you? I said I want to go to a community college and be an actor Um, and I ended up going to San Jose State University and pursuing, you know, my life and uh acting But to answer your question because there's so many things I could delve into what I will say is The thing about my childhood because it affected me greatly and it caused so much of the pain I went through and the struggle that I went through is I had two very very very loving parents My father did everything possible to give me whatever I needed whether it be for school or whether it be for career But the one thing that and this is of no fault to him. This is just how he grew up and what he knew He wasn't a father in the aspect of I've never heard him say. I love you I've never heard him say. How are you if my phone rings till this day? I know a Bill or a check accidentally went to my parents home in San Diego My dad's calling me about that or he's calling me to see what my financial situation is looking like so um And also I I lived a double life growing up I actually released a book on it, but I never promoted the book or never did anything It was called warning. This is not a motivational story which talked about My whole addiction my my childhood and everything is I lived a double life as a muslim american Because my mom was a devout muslim and she expected me to be so But you know growing up and not even knowing myself yet, let alone, you know anything about religion I was living two different lives. So at home my mom would ask me. Are you praying? Are you doing this and yes? Yes, yes And then I'd leave the house go to a party get blacked out drunk smoke weed and everything It's like I didn't know who I was because I literally had two separate identities and then the third identity I had was my addiction and um The biggest addiction I had which was my sex addiction which was like three separate identities walking around None of them fully knowing themselves or how to escape it and that's a very quick answer on such a large question But yeah, that's a bit of my childhood Okay, so this is actually a very very very good question because No matter what it is in life if you put like if you put your You know what you're doing based on somebody else you have the chance of being let down But the one person who you don't want to let down is yourself and the one person who you need is yourself Now you already have years of experience from your trainers, which it sounds like so it doesn't sound like you're on day one Where you don't know what to do in the gym the biggest thing outside of everything What workout should I be doing? What should I be doing is developing the consistency and discipline in your life on a daily Basis so like you so you're doing what you're doing every day now That could be anything that could be disciplining yourself to go on daily walks a daily at home workout routine Going to the gym a daily jog a daily run and just sticking consistently and being disciplined to that plan and also in terms of The diet disciplining yourself to that to we know what's wrong We like that's the thing I started this whole podcast by saying we know what's wrong that we're putting into our bodies Like we're not like people always ask me like yo, what do you eat to get that shredded? But I'm like like Why are you even asking that if you're still eating like A half pint of ice cream a day or a bag of chips or something like we know what's wrong So I think the best thing for you to be To do is create a consistent discipline plan for you that you can carry out on a daily basis That you can achieve and progress on on top of that And like I like to answer everything simply like it's it's simple terms It's it's instead of like if somebody's never been to the gym and they say yo Can you tell me your gym routine and what you work out or what you eat on a daily basis? I'm like how about this wake up tomorrow do 20 jumping jacks do 20 push-ups do 20 sit-ups and you know eat Like three meals and then we can start talking about you know where I'm at where I'm at I actually taught myself in the gym by going to the gym Working out looking around and not being scared to ask people at the gym The best trainers are people usually you see them at the gym. They're in great physiques They're there on a daily basis their discipline don't be scared to walk up to them I even do this now and I have a great physique. I walk up to somebody They might not even have a as good of a physique as I do But I still go up to them and say hey, I see you doing that workout Can you teach me because I'm always adding to my arsenal of what I use in the gym And always changing my diet to what works speaking of what we were talking about earlier with social media Nina is a prime example because before I even knew her she would be on my explore page in my for you page all the time and there was there was there was a There was a a thing about her Her skits and her reels like it was always of quality. It was always different and it was always unique But the thing about nina that always worked is from that day from before I knew her to today She's been consistent disciplined and stayed to the plan and followed through on it every single day So it's like her followers know when she's posting what they're getting what kind of content they're getting There's been like no diversion off of the route that she's on and the success speaks for herself because her numbers have been growing um Her I'm not even going to talk about You know the brand involvement of what she's done and you just see it growing And because she's stuck to the plan and stayed consistent and followed through which is the biggest thing you can do on social media Because just like diets a lot of people do it for two weeks say I'm not getting any results and then jump off the wagon and you know Don't even give it time to come to a fruition But whether it was working or not working she stuck with it and now it's working as clear as day Be so good your haters eventually ask if you're hiring Some of those people are going to try to hire you as their boxy trader. All right my man I'm gonna end the show. Thank you all follow foosie on speak easy and his other channels talk to y'all soon