The IMPROVE Podcast

14. 100 Days without Drinking Part 2 - Brian

Hello friends, welcome back to The Improve Podcast!
Oh man what a 100 days it’s been without drinking. This was a fun little challenge and I hope it inspires you to go out and challenge yourself to do something you never thought you could do!
I hope you achieve your goals this week! If you want to share your goals that you set for while listening to the podcast write us an email at theimprovepodcast@gmail.com and I’ll read it on the podcast!
 
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro/Teaser
2:12 100* Days without Drinking
4:04 Why is Stopping Drinking So Stigmatized
5:24 My Drinking Days are (not) Behind Me
9:28 The Goal of this Experience
12:30 Not Drinking in Social Environments where Alcohol is Available
16:50 Maintaining Control Over Your Actions
19:00 The Dangers of Drinking and Driving
22:45 The Cycle of Binge Drinking
24:35 Our Plans for the Future
29:30 Your Turn!
30:35 Outro
 
Thank you to Green Bean (@GreenBeanMusic) for all our musical themes!
 
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13. This Weight Loss Trick Actually Works (Intermittent Fasting) - Mike

Hello friends, welcome back to The Improve Podcast!
This week we dive in to Mike’s health and fitness journey.
Mike has started making active steps toward maintaining a healthy weight. What I love about Mike’s journey is that he did this primarily through reducing his caloric intake by means of intermittent and long term fasting.
This really opened my eyes to the practical and real world effect fasting can have on the body. It’s really impressive that he was able to do this and I hope his story inspires you!
Here is the video link to learn more about fasting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DghrZNUP5vo&feature=youtu.be
 
I hope you achieve your goals this week! If you want to share your goals that you set for while listening to the podcast write us an email at theimprovepodcast@gmail.com and I’ll read it on the podcast!
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro/Teaser
01:38 Recognizing you need to make a change
5:00 How Mike got into Intermittent Fasting
17:26 How Fasting Affects You
19:00 The Addictive Side of Fasting
20:40 The Less Discussed Benefits of Fasting
25:00 Fasting is Hard because people are Addicted to Food
28:30 Be Careful when it Comes to your Relationship with Food
31:32 Establishing Long Term Habits
33:34 David Goggins and Running
39:35 Mike’s goals for the new year?
40:26 Wrapping it Up! Fitness for the Long-haul
43:10 Outro!
 
 
Thank you to Green Bean (@GreenBeanMusic) for all our musical themes!
 
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12. Turning Health into a Habit - Brian

Hello friends, welcome back to The Improve Podcast!
This week we dive into Brian’s health journey when it comes to fitness and health. We discuss how Brian’s goals for fitness and health, how he got to into fitness and lifting, and all the different ‘tools’ in his ‘toolbox’ that he leverages for maintaining his health.
Brian has certainly inspired me to keep after my fitness goals and I hope he inspires you too!
I hope you achieve your goals this week! If you want to share your goals that you set for while listening to the podcast write us an email at theimprovepodcast@gmail.com and I’ll read it on the podcast!
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro/Teaser
02:12 Welcome Brian to the Podcast
04:54 Building Fitness Habits into Your Life
07:16 Everyone has a Different Opinion on Fitness
10:51 Levels to Fitness
15:10 Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima
17:17 Lifting as a Young Man  and Doing Your Own Research
21:02 Intermittent Fasting is a Cheat Code
25:41 Is Keto Worth the Hype?
28:50 The Dietary Elements of Health
31:00 The Long Haul
33:00 Why get into Fitness and Brian’s Drive to Learn
34:50 Are Fitness Studies Worth It?
39:30 Surround Yourself with Healthy People (Home Gym vs. Public Gym)
43:40 Brian’s Tool Box
45:55 Long Term Fasting (DYOR We Are Not Doctors!!)
53:50 The Barrier to Entry Grows Smaller as it Becomes Habit
60:00 Setting Fitness Goals Between Now and Forever
61:50 Challenge to Those Listening
63:00 Outro!
 
Thank you to Green Bean (@GreenBeanMusic) for all our musical themes!
 
The IMPROVE Podcast is building a community of creatives who can depend on each other for inspiration, feedback, and accountability.
 
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11. 100 Days without Drinking Alcohol Part 1 - Brian

Hello friends, welcome back to The Improve Podcast!
Does alcohol deserve to be in your life? Brian and I explore that idea in part 1 of our 100 days without drinking podcast. At the time of recording this podcast we were about 1 month, 30 days into our challenge.
This is the first episode of our month of fitness themed programming! Stick around for fitness themed podcasts!
I hope you achieve your goals this week! If you want to share your goals that you set for while listening to the podcast write us an email at theimprovepodcast@gmail.com and I’ll read it on the podcast!
 
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro/Teaser
01:30 Have You Ever Gone 30 Days without Drinking Since Being a Teenager?
06:00 What was Brian’s Motivation to Not Drink for 100 Days
15:52 Our Drinking Habits
20:33 Alcohol being Part of Our Identity and Culture
26:10 Shifting Perspectives
32:00 The Skill of Introspection
35:00 Managing Your Stress without Alcohol
39:10 The Only Way Out is Through
42:00 Question Time
45:26 Chase’s Awkward Story
48:21 Alcohol is the Only Drug you Can’t Stop Doing Without People Assuming you have a Problem with it
49:40 Moderating Your Alcohol Consumption to Zero
56:58 Outro/Goal Update
 
Thank you to Green Bean (@GreenBeanMusic) for all our musical themes!
 
The IMPROVE Podcast is building a community of creatives who can depend on each other for inspiration, feedback, and accountability.
 
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10. Setting Priorities and Goals

Hello friends, welcome back to The Improve Podcast!
2022 is a wrap! How about that? I feel like this year absolutely flew by. It was a year full of new adventures and new challenges.
I hope 2022 was a good year for you! This episode I dive deep into my goals for this year and talk about what I accomplished, what I didn’t accomplish, and what my plans are for next year.
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and happy holidays!
I will see you next year for a month full of fitness themed podcasts! Have a great week everyone!
 
If you want to share your goals that you set for while listening to the podcast write us an email at theimprovepodcast@gmail.com and I’ll read it on the podcast (if you want)!
 
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro/Teaser
02:02 The State of Chase in January 2022
04:20 What are my priorities 2022?
05:25 Writing Screenplays
08:33 CLSC Studios
10:48 The IMPROVE Podcast
15:28 Project Season Alpha
18:38 Getting a New Job (Story Time)
31:17 Running!
32:48 What are my priorities for 2023?
39:54 Outro
 
Thank you to Green Bean (@GreenBeanMusic) for all our musical themes!
 
The IMPROVE Podcast is building a community of creatives who can depend on each other for inspiration, feedback, and accountability.
 
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9. What to do When You’re Struggling with Your Screenplay - Amber

Hello friends, welcome back to The Improve Podcast!
This week we get into a raw, unfiltered look at the state of my screen writing journey so far in 2022. I really liked recording this podcast because I was able to have my sister on the podcast! She is a delight and provided some really keen insight into some of my struggles with my current screenplay.
I was also really happy to share some of the details about this story and the motivation behind telling it.
I hope you achieve your goals this week! If you want to share your goals that you set for while listening to the podcast write us an email at theimprovepodcast@gmail.com and I’ll read it on the podcast!
 
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro/Teaser/Setting Goals
01:35 Screenwriting Woes & Welcome Amber to the Podcast!
04:40 Plot Summary
07:42 Where did this story come from?
13:45 Writing an Unreliable Narrator and Conveying that on Paper and in Cinema
19:15 Struggling with the Story & How He’s All That Helped Me (lol)
28:00 What Not To Do
32:11 Boomers Need to Stop Preaching to the Youth About How Bad Technology Is (RANT)
40:00 Is Chase a Boomer?
43:00 Social Media Habits
45:30 Script Writing Goals for the End of the Year
47:46 Managing Life and Passion Projects
53:00 Outro
 
Thank you to Green Bean (@GreenBeanMusic) for all our musical themes!
 
The IMPROVE Podcast is building a community of creatives who can depend on each other for inspiration, feedback, and accountability.
 
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8. Trying Stand-up Comedy?! – JD

Hello friends, welcome back to The Improve Podcast!
Oh man, if you listened to this podcast all the way you are awesome and you deserve a gold star!
I am seriously so proud of JD. He has gone through a lot in the last several years, and the fact that he is making it work in the professional world, working a 40 hour a week job, and still finding time to purse new dreams is just really inspiring.
I have some 5 star reviews to read, but I decided to save it for next week. Look forward to that!
I hope you achieve your goals this week, and if you have anything major that you want to share, leave a review! 5 Stars and I’ll read it on the pod!
 
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro/Teaser/Setting Goals
02:21 Welcome JD to the Podcast
03:50 JD’s life Post-undergrad
06:50 Planting Roots in a New Location
09:44 JD’s New Passion (Comedy)
12:15 The Surgical Nature of Content
14:31 Figuring out the “Adult Thing”//Surrounding Yourself with the Right People
16:16 Taking Advice and Being Coachable
18:18 Feedback on the Podcast
19:58 Turning Negative Feedback into a Positive
21:50 Comedy!
27:00 Elon Musk
29:00 Moving to Texas?
32:44 Plans for the Future/Joe Rogan in Texas
34:29 Chase Dreams about Comedy Bits
37:17 What Does JD like about Comedy/Learning to be Funny
39:00 Chase Doesn’t Finish Videos
40:00 JD Makes a Plan
41:00 Chase’s Story about Stand Up Comedy
42:00 JD’s Potential Bit
47:28 Outro!
 
Thank you to Green Bean (@GreenBeanMusic) for all our musical themes!
The IMPROVE Podcast is building a community of creatives who can depend on each other for inspiration, feedback, and accountability.
 
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7. Creating a Short Film Part 2: The Creative Process - Elijah

Hello friends, welcome back to The Improve Podcast!
This is part 2 of a series where I am documenting the process of creating a short film. In this episode we get to learn a little more about Elijah and his creative journey. I am incredibly excited for this film and hopefully someday you’ll be able to see it!
Of course there is a lot of work to be done between now and then, but you’ll get to go along for the ride!
I am still working on my screenplay. It’s funny hearing me talk about my concerns for completing it before the end of the year as far back as October!
What are your goals for this week? What are your goals for this year? What are you working toward?!
Tell me! :)
 
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro/Teaser/Setting Goals
03:10 Honing Your Skills at a New Medium
05:46 Life Updates from Chase and Reaching out for Help
08:52 Philosophy and Strategy of Social Media Posting
10:56 Short Film Update Script Update! – First Draft of the Screenplay Complete
15:28 Chase’s Feature Length Screenplay Update
17:33 Company Updates
18:53 Elijah Updates
21:47 Finding Jobs as a Freelancer
23:33 Elijah’s Tips for Filming Short Films
25:39 Chase’s Secret Motivation for Starting this Film Studio
28:27 Chase’s Process for Creating Content
29:27 Elijah’s Process/Struggles with Deadlines
34:07 The Pre-production Process
36:20 Documenting the Film Process
36:59 Indie Film Promo Tour/Film Festival
38:48 What’s Next for This Story
40:58 Thinking About the Nuances of Filming
42:46 Acting if Difficult, Actually
43:40 Directing is Hard, Actually
46:00 So Grateful to Write this Film
46:38 So Excited to Document this Process
47:57 Chase is Having Second Thoughts
48:00 Outro!
 
Thank you to Green Bean (@GreenBeanMusic) for all our musical themes!
 
The IMPROVE Podcast is building a community of creatives who can depend on each other for inspiration, feedback, and accountability.
 
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6. How to Learn a Second Language in Your Late 20s – Brian and Mike

Have you ever tried to learn a second language?
Hello friends, welcome back to The Improve Podcast!
In this episode we are joined by Brian and Mike where we discuss Brian’s motivation for learning Spanish, the benefits of learning a second language, and some of the methods people use to learn foreign languages!
This might be my favorite episode I’ve released so far. It was a blast to record!
Like I said in the outro, I was a little over ambitious with my goals this week, and progress on my screenplay is not going as planned! I need to figure out how to manage my time better so I can accomplish all of my goals.
Next week you get to hear about a short film I wrote for a student film that will be releasing next year! Whoop, whoop!
Okay! That’s about it from me.
What are your goals for this week? What are your goals for this year? What are you working toward?!
Tell me! :)
 
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro/Teaser/Setting Goals
03:47 Welcome to The Podcast
04:40 Why Learn a Second Language as a Native English Speaker?
11:46 The Motivation for Learning a Second Language
13:31 The State of Multi-Language Speaking People in Other Countries (Part 1)
14:06 America’s Second Language is Spanish
14:30 The State of Multi-Language Speaking People in Other Countries (Part 2)
15:52 Dreaming in Spanish
16:51 The Ideal Process for Learning a Second Language (Comprehensible Learning)
20:04 Is There Any Benefit to Watching a Movie with Subtitles
22:25 Can Foreign Language Songs Help With Language Learning
23:26 How to Learn to Speak a Second Language
26:00 What is “Cross Talk”?
27:36 What’s Next for
Brian’s Second-Language Learning Journey?
28:20 How Much Time Does it Take to Learn a Second Language
28:46 Brian is Challenged
30:55 Mike’s Experience with Learning German(Language Trivia)
32:56 Mike is Challenged
33:07 Mike Discovers Comprehensible Input
34:56 The State of Learning Language in the American School System
35:38 You should Self-study a Second Language because it is Fun (That’s what Brian is saying)
36:29 Is Duolingo a Good Language Learning Tool?
38:07 The Best Learning Service on the Market (@DreamingSpanish)
42:02 Outro/Screenplay Update
 
Thank you to Green Bean (@GreenBeanMusic) for all our musical themes!
 
The IMPROVE Podcast is building a community of creatives who can depend on each other for inspiration, feedback, and accountability.
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5. Creating a Short Film Part 1: Nailing Down the Story – Elijah

Hello friends, welcome back to The Improve Podcast!
In this episode you meet Elijah, a senior in film school who is producing a short film a part of that program. We connected on Reddit’s r/Screenwriting and now I’m writing his film! How cool is that?
This is one of our first meetings where we were still working out the major plot points of the story. Hopefully it’s easy enough to follow a long, and not that confusing. But it is a behind the scenes look at the creative process, which is what I promised!
I hope you found it at least a little bit interesting and maybe it even gives you the motivation to start your own passion project!
As you can probably tell, neither of us know exactly what we are doing. We are trying to write a movie, and trying to make it as coherent and compelling as possible. That takes a lot of work, especially for a couple of novices.  But we are trying. And we are learning! Which is the whole point of this podcast. To improve at our craft, our passion projects, in the hopes that we will become successful one day.
It's these types of conversations that inspires me. Just a couple of dreamers hoping to take over the world. This isn’t clean, it isn’t polished. It’s raw and it’s real. I hope it inspires you too.
Okay! That’s about it from me.
What are your goals for this week? What are your goals for this year? What are you working toward?!
Tell me!
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Okay, good bye friends
Ps. Sorry for the terrible audio on my part, I get that fixed in a couple of episodes!
 
Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro/Teaser
03:26 Welcome Elijah to the Podcast
06:32 Where We Are with the Story
12:11 What were Elijah Thought’s on Chase’s Outline?
17:05 Chase’s Response
20:40 Diving Deep into Character Motivation and Theme
22:35 Summary of the Story
28:01 What Chase Needs to Remember as he Goes to Write the First Draft
30:11 Chase Loves Writing and Elijah is Excited for the Project
31:16 Goodbye Craig
31:28 Outro
32:59 Did Chase Accomplish his Goals This Week?
33:46 Script Update!
35:31 Reading 5 Star Reviews!
36:56 Share the Podcast to Your Friends and Family
 
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