Everyone you meet, every single day, is fighting a battle you know nothing about. We are all in the process of overcoming something big, something small, but we are faced with the challenge to overcome all the time. You, me, we have overcome 100% of our darkest days.
I’m Justin Wren, and I believe we are all Overcomers if we choose to overcome. We all have the option. I have overcome childhood trauma, sexual abuse, immense bullying, depression, suicidal ideation, self-imposed substance abuse, and addiction to numb my pain, and I survived two real-deal suicide attempts.
Make sure to follow me on Instagram at @TheBigPygmy and my producer of this show and love of my life @RealAmyEdwards.
Please consider joining our monthly giving club of donors, our Fight For The Forgotten Fight Team at www.fightfortheforgotten.org who we are so grateful for helping us provide clean water and community development for my Pygmy family and also bullying prevention here stateside.
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Everyone you meet, every single day, is fighting a battle you know nothing about. We are all in the process of overcoming something big, something small, but we are faced with the challenge to overcome all the time. You, me, we have overcome 100% of our darkest days.
I’m Justin Wren, and I believe we are all Overcomers if we choose to overcome. We all have the option. I have overcome childhood trauma, sexual abuse, immense bullying, depression, suicidal ideation, self-imposed substance abuse, and addiction to numb my pain, and I survived two real-deal suicide attempts.
Make sure to follow me on Instagram at @TheBigPygmy and my producer of this show and love of my life @RealAmyEdwards.
Please consider joining our monthly giving club of donors, our Fight For The Forgotten Fight Team at www.fightfortheforgotten.org who we are so grateful for helping us provide clean water and community development for my Pygmy family and also bullying prevention here stateside.
Save 10% off the best supplements in the world at www.Onnit.com/overcome and use the code OVERCOME on your next Alpha Brain, New Mood, or Total Human order.
Please rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast to help our mission of becoming the most meaningful, impactful, worthwhile podcast in the world.
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Mark and Juliana Spicoluk have created Boho Beautiful, a popular yoga & conscious lifestyle brand. With millions of followers and continued inspiring content, today they shares stories they don’t usually share, about their own overcoming – for Mark, choosing to step away from a life as a musician touring with Avril Lavigne and then as head of a music label, and for Juliana, finding herself and her purpose after an injury forced her to retire from rhythmic gymnastics and Olympic dreams. Parenthood, yoga, bullying and more are covered today in this incredibly inspirational episode with these two powerhouses.
Listen to the Boho Beautiful podcast, Star and Destruct, episode featuring their conversation with Justin here: https://youtu.be/zmb9ACZp19g
Donate to their project with Fight for the Forgotten here: http://thekarmaproject.life/
Follow and learn more about Mark, Juliana, and Boho Beautiful on their YouTube and on their website or their .tv site! Find them on Instagram @bohobeautifullife or @starsanddestruct as well.
Please consider joining our monthly giving club of donors, our Fight For The Forgotten Fight Team at www.fightfortheforgotten.org who we are so grateful for helping us provide clean water and community development for my Pygmy family and also bullying prevention here stateside.
Please rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast to help our mission of becoming the most meaningful, impactful, worthwhile podcast in the world.
I’m really grateful you are here and enjoying the show.
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To follow me on social: @TheBigPygmy or @overcomewithjustinwren.
Special thanks today to Ibble for the recording space for this episode.
Josh Cliffords is the CEO and Founder of Freewater. FreeWater is the world's first free beverage company, but it is also so much more than that. Cliffords is revolutionizing how we think about products, advertising, and, essentially, revolutionizing how we live. He tells us today about his own Overcome moments in both having a startup business that was incredibly difficult and others found unachievable, and in his own personal story. This is a full vision of a different future for all of us, and a vision that everything is possible.
Referenced in today’s show: Josh Cliffords on The Amy Edwards Show; Jasco; Onx Gloves, The Toyota Dolphin.
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To follow me on social: @TheBigPygmy or @overcomewithjustinwren. Find Amy @realamyedwards.
Amy Edwards is an expert in using voice to create your best life. She is a 30year+ radio veteran, a rock and roll artist, an author, and the host of The Amy Edwards Show, a podcast helping others transform life to become their best version through more efficient habits, mindset shifts, and radical honesty. Amy has recorded and released 5 albums as a solo rock and roll artist, penned two books, is a radio personality and voice artist, and a mom to two girls. She’s also Justin’s life partner, and the producer of Overcome with Justin Wren. Amy has overcome her own negative inner voice and ruminations to move toward living her most epic life every day.
Find Amy here: https://www.amyedwards.com/ The Amy Edwards Show // https://www.facebook.com/theamyedwardsshow // https://www.instagram.com/realamyedwards/ https://www.tiktok.com/@themagicbabe
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AND DON’T FORGET! Big thanks to our sponsor ONNIT: Save 10% on the best supplements in the world and the sponsor of this show who makes this possible at www.Onnit.com/overcome! Use code: OVERCOME
Rick Hansen is a Leadership expert with over two decades of experience in executive leadership and 10 years as a teacher and professor. Rick is the author of Leadership and the Art of Surfing and has a TEDx talk on the power of surfing as a metaphor for life. Rick overcame a significant stutter, and bullying, to become a powerful speaker and positively impact leaders around the world.
Learn more about Rick and follow him: https://www.rickhansenleadership.com/ // LinkedIn // His TEDx Talk // Instagram @rickhansenleadership
Referenced in this episode: Overcome episode #3 with Jared Padalecki; “100 Foot Wave” on HBO; HeroesInWaiting.org.
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To follow me on social: @TheBigPygmy or @overcomewithjustinwren.
AND DON’T FORGET! Big thanks to our sponsor ONNIT: Save 10% on the best supplements in the world and the sponsor of this show who makes this possible at www.Onnit.com/overcome! Use code: OVERCOME
Mills Rodgers is a former educator for over a decade, a US Army veteran with a specialty in mental health, a published author, and speaker. “Mr. Rodge,” as he is better known, has created a platform which targets those that that society has either marginalized or overlooked. He is also a champion of children with special needs, with his oldest daughter being disabled, and having been a special education teacher. His most recent book is You Can Win Being You, the 4th edition in his Success Is A Process, Not An Event series.
Find Mills for speaking HERE along with his books and e-book mentioned.
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AND DON’T FORGET! Big thanks to our sponsor ONNIT: Save 10% on the best supplements in the world and the sponsor of this show who makes this possible at www.Onnit.com/overcome! Use code: OVERCOME
Sarah Evans is the founder and CEO of Well Aware, a nonprofit which funds and implements lasting clean water systems to drive development and empower communities in East Africa. After 12 years of building Well Aware, entrepreneur and visionary Sarah has now also started Well Beyond, a social good company providing digital solutions that bridge the gap between NGO's and their beneficiaries to increase infrastructure sustainability and stakeholder accountability. Her vision and ideas are well-aligned with Fight for the Forgotten, and it’s an incredible conversation to hear how she started and why she does what she does to help others.
Learn more and give to the Well Aware monthly giving Village:
Find out more about the app:
https://www.wellbeyondwater.com/
Follow Sarah and the companies:
https://www.instagram.com/wellawareworld/
https://www.instagram.com/sarahaware/
https://www.instagram.com/wellbeyondwater/
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To help us continue to grow this podcast, please leave a rating or review for the show wherever you’re listening. If you share a picture or clip on social media with a thought on the show, and I see it, I’ll share it, too! I can’t thank you enough for your support! I love doing these shows, and I work to use them to bring meaningful content to all our lives. Thank you for being here!
To follow me on social: @TheBigPygmy
AND DON’T FORGET! Big thanks to our sponsor ONNIT: Save 10% on the best supplements in the world and the sponsor of this show who makes this possible at www.Onnit.com/overcome! Use code: OVERCOME
Vasavi Kumar is a Licensed Therapist, Certified Mindset + Business Coach, Entrepreneur and Author with a Master’s Degree from Columbia University. Vasavi is a first-generation Indian immigrant, who grew up in a traditional Hindu household in Long Island, New York. She has worked to overcome addiction, bullying, shame, guilt, and worked to find her voice and help others with her “Say It Out Loud” program and upcoming book.
Follow Vasavi everywhere @mynameisvasavi.
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To follow me on social: @TheBigPygmy
AND DON’T FORGET! Big thanks to our sponsor ONNIT: Save 10% on the best supplements in the world and the sponsor of this show who makes this possible at www.Onnit.com/overcome! Use code: OVERCOME
Tony Jeffries is an English former professional boxer who won a bronze medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Tony gained 7 British national titles and a European gold medal. In 2012, an undefeated Jeffries was forced to retire due to hand injuries. Now, Tony has built an incredibly successful YouTube channel along with two Box N’ Burn Gyms in LA, a Boxing Academy Program at MasterBoxing.com, and Boxing Fitness Resource and Academy, Connect by Tony Jeffries.
Follow Tony on Instagram here.
Be sure to catch the companion podcast to this one, as Tony’s wife, Nurse Sarah Jeffries, talks with Amy on The Amy Edwards Show about concrete practices for better sleep and health (out 8/25).
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To help us continue to grow this podcast, please leave a rating or review for the show wherever you’re listening. If you share a picture or clip on social media with a thought on the show, and I see it, I’ll share it, too! I can’t thank you enough for your support! I love doing these shows, and I work to use them to bring meaningful content to all our lives. Thank you for being here!
To follow me on social: @TheBigPygmy
AND DON’T FORGET! Big thanks to our sponsor ONNIT: Save 10% on the best supplements in the world and the sponsor of this show who makes this possible at www.Onnit.com/overcome! Use code: OVERCOME
Special thanks to Ibble for their support of Overcome with Justin Wren. This episode was filmed at Ibble Studios in Austin, Texas. #JoinTheConversation on the Ibble app today! Download at getibble.com.
Hannah Eden is a fitness powerhouse, whose “Find Your Reason” message has helped millions of people get healthier. Hannah is the creator of Hannah Eden Fitness and the Hannah Eden Fitness App, a coach, and an entrepreneur. Hannah helps others experience transformations, and she has experienced her own recently. Hear how she has overcome her own mind, her old ways of thinking, and how she is shifting her workouts to reflect these transformations.
Follow Hannah on Instagram HERE and find all her programs at Hannah Eden Fitness. Find her programs HERE and the one called “Overcome” mentioned on the show HERE.
Also mentioned today:
Indian Motorcycle “Epic Pursuits” ride with Matt Vincent.
Listen to episode 21 with Matt Vincent for more!
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Patrick “Pac-Man” Perez is an award-winning speaker and dancer who has performed across the USA, Canada, Germany and Mexico. He has also authored and co-authored three books focused on choices, identity and bully-prevention. Patrick, as a speaker and through his foundation (the award-winning nonprofit motivational company “Lead, Encourage and Dance," or LEAD), has reached over 400,000 students, leaders and business owners in 47 states.
Patrick today talks getting inspired and seizing your own ‘availability’ as a leader. He also tells the profound journey of his father, a former P.O.W.
Learn more or book Patrick HERE, and find all his links at https://patrickperez.org/wren or https://patrickperez.org/overcome.
Also, find his entrepreneurial programs with his wife, Rachel, HERE.
Mentioned in this episode:
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Jimmy Rex is an entrepreneur, speaker, coach, and real estate agent and investor. He is also the founder of the We Are The They Movement, generating change in the world. He is the host of The Jimmy Rex Show Podcast and the author of the book You End Up Where You’re Heading. He and Justin met last year during an Ayahausca ceremony, and this conversation brings them to Jimmy’s overcome moments, religion and Jimmy’s movement out of the Mormon faith, plant medicines, travel, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, and so much more.
Mentioned in today’s episode:
Jimmy’s Interview with David Vobora of The Adaptive Training Foundation on the Jimmy Rex Show
Get involved with We Are The They
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Jason Stauffer and Adrienne Jezick are the inventors and founders of the world’s best ice bath, the Morozko Forge. Jason is a combat veteran, and Adrienne suffered numerous health issues until discovering the power of Deliberate Cold Exposure (DCE). Hear how it has helped them overcome both physical and mental obstacles in their lives, and how it continues to improve their relationships with themselves and each other!
Find out more about these powerful ice baths! We are fans!
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Andre “Touchy” Fili is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Featherweight division. Fili is of Samoan and Native Hawaiian descent and is currently signed with the UFC. His next fight is vs. Lando Vannata on Sept 17, 2022, in Las Vegas. Today, Justin and Andre talk UFC in Austin, why they’re in the game of fighting, knockouts, and have a powerful discussion about their upbringing, role models, and fathers. BONUS! Justin tells the story of one of his earliest fights when he was pulled out of the crowd!
Follow Andre: @touchyfili
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Joah Spearman is an entrepreneur and the founder of Localeur, an author, and is currently running for office in Austin for City Council. Joah has an incredibly moving and powerful overcome story, and was deeply inspired by his mother. Joah tells his story of becoming a first-generation college graduate, who has now served on numerous boards, becoming a civic and nonprofit leader and champion. Incredible Overcomer! Get ready to be inspired to “lift as you climb” and figure out what problem you are solving.
Follow Joah here and his wife, Anjelica Raje, here. Learn more about his campaign at Joah for Austin.
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Oleg Lougheed’s story will inspire you to overcome the odds because of the incredible way he has in his own life. I am so grateful he shared his story with me and that I get to share it with you now. Growing up in a Russian orphanage, Oleg was mistreated, neglected, and abused. After adoption to the US at age twelve, he has risen up to start the nonprofit Overcoming Odds that focuses on helping children and families bridge the gap and gain insight, education, and resources for successful international adoptions. It’s much more than that, though; he has created a forum for transformational conversations that allow people to be seen, be heard, and to dive down deep into the issues of problems so that solutions can be discovered and implemented. Oleg’s story is jaw dropping, heart breaking, gut wrenching, but at the same time heart warming, perspective shifting, and mind expanding. You will be deeply impacted by this podcast, and that’s why I’m excited to bring it to you.
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Follow Oleg on his podcast and Instagram: @Overcoming Odds
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