Quality Values

Jacob Conlan Shields
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🎙️What are your VALUES in the context of your story? 🌟Conversations with QUALITY artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, scientists, leaders, engineers

  1. Jun 18

    QV #70 - Glahens Paul: Loneliness As Deadly As Smoking — Building a Social Operating System, Dipity

    Loneliness is as deadly as 15 cigarettes a day. Paul Glahens is building software to push people back into the same room. Paul got a computer science degree, became a software engineer, did the career thing. Graduated in Boston. Grad school in Kentucky, where he met his co-founder. Networked the alumni circle until someone wrote a check. Nine months ago he went all in. The idea started as an AI dating app and kept expanding until it became something else: a social operating system. Patent pending. Now he runs Dipty — short for serendipity. A startup aimed at Gen Z and millennials, the loneliest demographic on record. Not a screen-time blocker. A social utility that gets plans out of the group chat and bodies into the same place. The metric he cares about is speed: how fast the system moves a person from "I want to see someone" to actually sitting across from them. Recorded in the Nashville living room, first episode shot here. The conversation runs through the loneliness epidemic, Vivek Murthy's advisory on social infrastructure, sports as a vanishing social glue, hikikomori in Japan, and why presence — showing up, choosing to participate — is the thing both training and tech keep circling back to. In-person time has dropped 70% over twenty years. Twelve percent of Americans now report having no best friend, up from three percent in 1990. Paul's sharpest point: the platforms that call themselves "social" are anti-social. The Instagram superuser spends their finite daily social energy liking, commenting, sharing — free labor for the company — and ends the day lonelier than they started. If a product doesn't produce a real-world interaction, it isn't social. It's the opposite. Paul's 24. Says there's more coming in the next few months. — YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcDYjJATsN-Nn0Fs5HLuIq5EIzDcA9tggPodcast page: https://jacobconlanshields.com/pages/podcast/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xzOcAP2agwcVVAdu7vztc Chapters 0:00 Cold open 1:52 Nashville living room 3:24 The what 3:44 Dipity, in-person by design 4:53 Tech first or the problem first 7:40 From idea to first check 10:11 Nine months all in 10:39 Patent pending, social operating system 11:05 What a social operating system is 13:27 The platforms are anti-social 15:41 What real-world interaction is worth 18:40 Functional movement and presence 21:07 Serendipity, the name 22:34 The elephant in the room 24:09 Sports as social infrastructure 27:18 How abnormal this is 30:35 Deadly as smoking 31:40 Hikikomori 34:27 Why we can't agree on anything 35:18 Monetizing people interacting 40:32 Intent to interaction 42:09 The best nights are last minute 43:11 The Roaring 20s, again 44:30 Sign-off #QualityValues #Loneliness #SocialOperatingSystem #Startup #Serendipity

    45 min

  2. Mar 20

    QV #69 Scott Jones - HuskyFat Promotions | Kickboxing Potential In the US

    Scott Jones started a fight promotion as a joke name between friends — "husky fat" meaning a dad bod with an attitude — and turned it into a memorial show for his training partner Nick Phillips, a world champion kickboxer who died of pancreatic cancer three months after diagnosis. That show raised money for the Pancreatic Cancer Foundation's Oklahoma chapter and felt good enough to keep going. Four years later, Husky Phat Promotions runs kickboxing events out of Oklahoma with small gloves divisions, Glory-style clinch rules, and a 45-year-old bald male ring girl. Jones hosted the U.S. leg of the K-1 Grand Prix last year and sent a fighter to the world tournament. He also runs a roofing company that pays the bills while every dollar from the promotion goes back into it. Jones talks about why kickboxing is the most underrated combat sport in America, the community organizations he partners with to get underprivileged kids into martial arts, and what it's like to build something when you started with a trailer park childhood and deal with depression daily. His best idea: worst case scenario is bankruptcy — kids are healthy, wife still loves you, life moves on. Take a risk. Thanks for listening. Husky Phat Promotions: huskyfat.comHusky Phat YouTube: youtube.com/@huskyfatpromotions1882Husky Phat Instagram: instagram.com/huskyfatpromotionsCleats for Kids: cleatsforkids.orgThe Come Up Foundation: comeupfoundation.comBig Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma: bigoklahoma.org Quality Values Podcast: jacobconlanshields.com/pages/podcastYouTube Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcDYjJATsN-Nn0Fs5HLuIq5EIzDcA9tgg

    50 min

  3. Mar 20

    QV #68: Sav Hill - Functional Movement | The Root Cause, Not the BandAid Fix

    Sav Hill is a mobility and kettlebell specialist in Nashville running Fight Flight Conditioning. She played music for half her life before fitness, climbed Kilimanjaro on her brother's behalf, and has been called the world's best or worst influencer — a title she's proud of. Sav came up through injury and an eating disorder she didn't understand at the time, got educated instead of staying stuck, and rebuilt everything around joint health and functional movement. NASM corrective exercise. FRC mobility cert. Hardstyle kettlebell training under Zach Henderson. Then she found Bellfest and discovered entire other worlds of kettlebell work she didn't know existed. Now she coaches with a joint-first philosophy and treats the boring prehab work as the actual work. We talk about what functional training actually means and whether transference or intentionality is the better definition, why kettlebells open more doors than barbells, what it looks like to train for your life instead of a number, how sitting in discomfort is the thing that actually builds you, and why the strategy is having no strategy when it comes to social media. Sav's best idea: if you go to the root cause, you don't have to keep going back for the bandaid fix. Thanks for watching. If this one hit, subscribe and leave a comment. — CONNECT WITH SAV HILL Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/savfit__/ QUALITY VALUES PODCAST YouTube Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcDYjJATsN-Nn0Fs5HLuIq5EIzDcA9tgg Podcast Page: https://jacobconlanshields.com/pages/podcast/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xzOcAP2agwcVVAdu7vztc — CHAPTERS 0:00 Preview 0:57 Sav Hill in Nashville 1:55 How injury led to education 4:35 Sharing what the fitness world gets wrong 6:15 Fitness is a personal journey 7:34 Injuries happen for you not to you 8:17 Nutrition myths and assumptions 10:04 Kettlebells changed everything 10:50 Zach Henderson and kettlebell mentors 12:26 Bellfest and discovering other styles 13:35 Defining functional training 14:45 Intentionality vs. transference 16:54 What do you visualize when you grind 18:14 Stay in the suck 18:56 Training for real life and Kilimanjaro 20:43 Silence on the mountain 21:06 His bucket list 22:33 Training through grief 23:13 You don't do anything alone 25:23 Prehab as a philosophy 29:41 The world normalized pain and injury 31:04 Root cause vs. bandaid fix 31:49 Walter Cannon and homeostasis 34:59 Hustle culture and the Apple Watch trap 35:44 Sit with your own thoughts 37:34 You can't be a victim or toxic positive 38:14 Social media and the coach's dilemma 42:08 I'm more than a fitness person 42:48 World's best worst influencer 46:24 Trainers vs. influencers 48:03 Making content as art 48:48 Tattoos and sisters 50:37 Meditation and building habits 53:52 Prioritize yourself to serve others 56:40 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 57:34 What is art to you 59:43 Art in the snatch 1:02:49 David Weck and intellectual confidence 1:06:26 Flow arts and expression 1:07:19 Stop asking for opinions #QualityValues #KettlebellTraining #FunctionalFitness #MobilityTraining #NashvilleFitness

    1h 12m

  4. Mar 16

    QV #67: Shawn Sherman - Square One System, Nervous System Training, and Why Rehab Falls Short

    Shawn Sherman thinks exercise is making you worse. Not always. But more than you'd like.Shawn played high school basketball in Pennsylvania until a kid jumped on his back during a loose ball scramble — sophomore year, done. He went to Penn State for exercise science, found a system called Muscle Activation Techniques, got 90% of his own back pain resolved, and became the first MAT practitioner in Major League Baseball, working with the Chicago Cubs. Then one client kept getting worse under the protocol. So Shawn did the opposite of everything he'd been taught. The guy called him the next day — pain gone, 2–3 inches taller, 11 strokes off his best round of golf. That accident became Square One System.Now Shawn runs workshops and online courses teaching movement professionals — rehab, fitness, performance — a neurological problem-solving framework. Over 200 joint actions, six head positions, four eye positions. Binary input: threat or safe. Find the threat, show the brain it's safe, let it reorganize. He's taken a few thousand people out of pain himself. His students have scaled that into the tens of thousands.We get into why he deliberately stopped reading industry material for three and a half years to keep his thinking uncontaminated. How he compares to systems like Go-To, Counter-Strain, and MAT. Why he thinks the rehab/performance split is an insurance artifact, not a real boundary. And his best idea — your brain is running old software from injuries that healed decades ago. Square One doesn't add new apps. It restores factory settings.Thanks for watching. New episodes when they're ready.—Square One System: https://www.square1system.com/Square One on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/square1system/Quality Values Podcast: https://www.jacobconlanshields.com/pages/podcast—0:00 Preview0:58 Intro1:47 What is Square One System3:09 Injury stories and how Shawn found this niche7:12 Muscle Activation Techniques and the split from MAT11:32 Neuroplasticity as a physical thing14:01 Long-standing compensations and how to treat them20:07 Comparing systems — Go-To, Counter-Strain31:14 Shawn's why35:17 Is Square One finished38:28 Where new ideas come from42:24 Rehab vs performance — the insurance gap49:05 Same philosophy for everyone, different points on the curve51:12 Fascia and the software/hardware line55:08 Perception vs reality1:02:39 Talk therapy, delusions, and closing the gap1:05:10 Where to find Shawn#squareonesystem #nervoussystemtraining #movementrehab #qualityvaluespodcast

    1h 7m

  5. Mar 16

    QV #66 - Josh Dorfman: Turning a Perennial Grass Into a Building Material

    Josh Dorfman wanted to be a spy. Ended up building the future instead. Two years in 1990s China. A parking lot full of Mercedeses in a communist country. An epiphany that sat in his back pocket for seven years before he knew what to do with it. Now he grows perennial grass, presses it into building panels stronger than the OSB in most American homes, and locks carbon into walls and roofs instead of the atmosphere. Josh Dorfman is the founder of Planted and runs Super Cool, a media platform covering the companies scaling the low-carbon economy. He recently returned to Planted as CMO. We talk about how the business works, why they built their own machines from scratch, why farmers aren't risk-averse — they're risk-saturated — and why China is the Standard Oil of the 21st century while most people aren't looking. Good conversation. Worth your time. Planted: plantdmaterials.com | Super Cool: getsuper.cool | Josh on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dorfmanjosh #sustainability #carbonremoval #buildingmaterials #climatetech #podcast

    59 min

  6. Feb 28

    QV #65 - Richard Amerling MD: 40 Years in Medicine. Here's What's Actually Wrong

    Dr. Richard Amerling is a nephrologist with over 40 years of experience who watched American medicine go from high-quality care to a metrics-driven system that's lost the plot entirely. In this conversation, we trace the root causes — from the moment doctors accepted third-party payment, to the Marxist formula that dictated their billing, to the vaccine mandates that got Richard himself fired from his teaching position in Grenada. We go deep on what quality actually means in medicine (hint: it has nothing to do with hitting benchmarks), why the doctor-patient relationship is fundamentally an act of love, the cholesterol and statin scam, homeostasis and the kidney as the body's silent regulator, and why Richard now proudly calls himself an anti-vaxxer. This one challenges a lot of assumptions. Worth the full listen. 🔗 Dr. Amerling's Substack: https://substack.com/@richardamerlingmd437332 🔗 Gold Care Health & Wellness: https://www.goldcare.com/ CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Intro clips: "They've completely lost the plot" 00:50 – Welcome & the Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance connection 01:38 – Richard's background: 40 years in nephrology 04:20 – What quality actually means (and why you can't measure it) 05:10 – What a quality doctor-patient relationship looks like 07:40 – The root of the dysfunction: where American medicine went wrong 08:04 – Third-party payment and the beginning of the end 14:24 – Skin in the game: time, money, and the patient-doctor equation 16:12 – Confidentiality, insurance, and what's really being broken 17:44 – Are there better systems? Looking at the UK and beyond 24:51 – How Richard built his practice after leaving the system 27:50 – Gold Care Health & Wellness: what it is and how it works 28:35 – What he actually coaches: diet, medication, and getting back to basics 30:28 – The cholesterol scam and why statins are "slow motion poisons" 33:40 – Homeostasis, the kidney, and the sodium-potassium pump 37:32 – Salt restriction, balance, and what the kidney is really doing 39:26 – Vaccines: where did Richard's skepticism come from? 43:32 – "I am thoroughly anti-vax. Throw the insults — I don't care." 45:01 – RFK Jr., DOGE, and the shifting political landscape around vaccines 49:16 – Financial incentives, the childhood schedule, and the vaccine gravy train 50:23 – Is the cultural tide on vaccines actually changing? 55:36 – Is there a depopulation agenda, or is it just greed? 56:43 – The spike protein, the trials, and what pharma knew 1:01:46 – Wrapping up: care + homeostasis = healing 1:05:40 – Final synthesis and where to find Richard

    1h 7m

  7. Jan 21

    QV #64 - Oliver Brossman: Custom Barefoot Cleats & The Future of Footwear (Prevolve Footwear)

    On this episode of the Quality Values Podcast, I’m joined by Oliver Brossman from Prevolve Footwear — a company building custom-fit minimalist “barefoot” cleats designed from your foot scans. We dig into WHY conventional cleats can wreck your feet/knees, what “custom” actually means in performance footwear, and how Prevolve uses scanning + iteration to create wide toe-box, zero-drop, flexible cleats for sport. If you play soccer, football, baseball/softball, or flag football — and you care about foot strength, injury risk, and performance — this one’s for you. 👇 LINKS (Guest + Prevolve) Prevolve Footwear (Website): https://prevolvefootwear.com/ Prevolve Foot Scanning Guide: https://prevolvefootwear.com/pages/foot-scanning Prevolve Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prevolve_/ 👇 QUALITY VALUES PODCAST IG: https://www.instagram.com/quality_values/ (Subscribe here on YouTube + drop a comment with your sport + what your feet/knees have been through.) CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Why cleats hurt: knee surgeries → barefoot “aha” moment 00:01:18 Meet Oliver + what makes Prevolve different 00:02:04 Oliver’s origin story: soccer injuries, 3D printing, and the road to custom cleats 00:16:36 Cleat design rabbit hole: stud patterns, surfaces, and performance tradeoffs 00:32:06 Foot scanning + customization process, transition tips, injury risk, and how to order KEY TOPICS - Minimalist / barefoot cleats for field sports - Wide toe box, zero-drop, and foot strength - 3D printing + iteration in footwear design - Stud patterns, traction, and plate stiffness vs flexibility - Scanning your feet (Volumental) + customizing fit - Transitioning safely + reducing injury risk #barefoot #minimalistshoes #soccercleats #footballcleats #baseballcleats #foothealth #3dprinting #injuryprevention #performance

    59 min

  8. Jan 18

    QV #63 - Andy Bryant: Barefoot Shoes Changed How I Treat Pain — A Podiatrist Explains Why

    Andy Bryant is a podiatrist, movement thinker, and educator with **The Foot Collective**, one of the leading voices in changing how we understand feet, footwear, and human movement.In this episode, Andy walks through his evolution from *traditional podiatry* to a **movement- and nervous-system–informed approach**, shaped by his own athletic background, injury history, and years of working with people in chronic pain. We explore why the foot is not a rigid structure to be “corrected,” but a dynamic sensory organ that adapts to environment, load, and lifestyle.This conversation spans barefoot shoes, injury rehab, posture myths, footwear for athletes and kids, ultra-running, nervous system feedback, and why changing how your feet interact with the ground often leads you to question *everything else* about how you live and move.---🦶 CONNECT WITH ANDY BRYANTInstagram: *@andybryant_podiatry*---🌍 THE FOOT COLLECTIVEWebsite: [https://www.thefootcollective.com](https://www.thefootcollective.com)Instagram: [  / thefootcollective  ](  / thefootcollective  )Podcast: The Foot Collective Podcast (available on all major platforms)---⏱️ CHAPTERS00:00 – Andy’s journey into podiatry & questioning traditional foot care12:00 – The foot as sensory input: movement, variability & nervous system feedback25:00 – Injury rehab, barefoot exploration & chronic pain38:00 – Shoes, kids, athletes & changing cultural assumptions52:00 – The Foot Collective, education & the future of foot health---🎙️ QUALITY VALUES PODCASTHost: Jacob ShieldsInstagram: [  / quality_values  ](  / quality_values  )If this conversation shifted how you think about shoes, posture, or movement — share it with someone who’s dealing with foot pain, transitioning to barefoot footwear, or rethinking how the body actually works.

    1h 2m
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🎙️What are your VALUES in the context of your story? 🌟Conversations with QUALITY artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, scientists, leaders, engineers

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  • Creator
    Jacob Conlan Shields
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    70
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Jacob Conlan Shields
  • Show Website
    Quality Values