Episodes

Food addiction hits the same part of your brain as cocaine, and according to Aaron Williamson, that's no accident. The Marine veteran and celebrity trainer to The Rock and Zac Efron believes craving is the business model, and that the food system is built to keep you hooked, inflamed and unable to think clearly. Aaron went from a broke kid with no direction to a Marine Body Bearer at Arlington National Cemetery to training some of the biggest names in Hollywood, and now he's building Mission Rea...

Gen Z was never meant to think. The school system was designed for factory workers, and Remy Davenport has the data to prove creativity gets trained out of nearly all of us by adulthood. Remy is the founder of Kings Media, has generated over 700 million views for founders, and is building one of the most exciting companies in short-form content at 27 years old, with two kids and a third on the way. We get into his law of dilution, the idea that every layer of summary between you and an original...

I won a fully furnished house on a MrBeast video two days after William Lam asked me one question on the phone. Everyone wants to call this manifestation, but it is not. It is applied neuroscience, mind training, and belief reprogramming, and William is the one who taught me the actual mechanics behind why it worked. William Lam is the founder of UPGRD and trains billionaires, NFL athletes, and high performers to rewire how they think using remote viewing, subconscious reprogramming, and applied...

New AI jailbreak methods are stripping safety guardrails, handing nation-state cyberattack tools to anyone with an internet connection. This conversation with Alex Smith exposes the bleak reality of how easily ai jailbreak techniques can bypass modern security. We analyze the catastrophic failure of current protocols, focusing on the dangerous rise of obliterating open source ai models that remove 95 percent of safety constraints. If you care about digital infrastructure, you need to understand ...

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...