Episodes

Fatherhood forces you to confront things about yourself you have spent years avoiding, and this conversation with Braven Grant gets into all of it. Braven is the founder of Gains In Bulk and the Committed Men brotherhood, and he's one of the most transparent entrepreneurs I've ever sat across from. We get into what fatherhood forces you to confront about your own beliefs, what it actually felt like to walk away from the LDS Church after being descended from one of its prophets, and why God told...

Language is the operating system your brain runs on, and most people have never once questioned who wrote the code. Michael Bernoff has spent 23 years reprogramming human behavior at the highest level. He is the man UFC fighters call before they step into the Octagon, the coach behind Jake Paul and thousands of elite performers, and the founder of the Human Communications Institute. When he speaks, things change, and in this episode of Forged, Brady Edwards sits across from him and lets him rewi...

Women swipe right on 4.5% of men. Men swipe right on 43% of women. That gap is reshaping modern dating, and high performers are getting hit the hardest. Relationship expert Melissa Nanavati sits down with Brady Edwards to explain why the male loneliness epidemic is real, why successful men are often the worst at relationships, and what it actually takes to fix it.Melissa works exclusively with high performers, and she doesn't sugarcoat it: the same emotional detachment that built your business i...

Comedy writing, public speaking, and the psychology of why things are actually funny are not skills most people ever stop to study. Forbes Shannon did, spending 13 years on stage, ghostwriting for A-list comedians, and opening for Rob Schneider before breaking down the exact mechanics of what makes something land and what makes it die. In this episode of Forged, Brady Edwards goes deep into joke construction, setup, punchline, and the art of the tag with one of the sharpest minds in comedy. Bra...

The healthcare system is not broken. It is working exactly as designed, and that is the problem. Dr. Sierra Bains is a functional medicine practitioner and Doctor of Physical Therapy who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis after her second Pfizer dose in 2021, told off the record by a provider at the University of Washington MS Clinic that she had been vaccine injured, handed a black box drug as her only option, and threw it away. She reversed her symptoms, and walked away from the entire sys...

Everything in your head is a story, you might as well make up whatever you want. Akshay Nanavati is a Marine Corps combat veteran who cleared bombs on foot in Iraq, spent 60 days completely alone dragging the heaviest sled ever pulled across Antarctica, and sat down with a Tendai Buddhist marathon monk who runs up to two marathons a day for a thousand days and when asked if he suffered said simply, why would I, I chose to be there. In this episode of Forged, Akshay breaks down why all mental su...

UFO disclosure is no longer just a conspiracy theory discussed on the fringes. Justin Cross spent a decade as an aerospace engineer working on classified F-22 and F-35 flight test programs at Edwards Air Force Base, giving him a rare perspective on military technology, recovered craft, and what the public may still not know. In this episode, we explore why reported UAPs appear to defy known physics and whether the United States has technology far beyond what has been publicly disclosed. The con...