Fit2Perform

Brad Clifford

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Fitness

This isn’t another wellness show repeating trendy headlines. This show focuses on building real capacity and real capability, across every domain that actually determines your performance and why capacity and capability must grow together. If you’ve ever felt yourself fading and refused to accept it as normal, this is for you.

7 Sept

Wall Street to Pro MMA to Fight League Founder: What It Really Takes to Be the Man in the Arena

Steve Orosco left Wall Street not because he failed — but because after work, the only thing he wanted to do was train. He went 8-1 as a pro MMA fighter on Team Alliance alongside Dominic Cruz, Michael Chandler, and Kelvin Gastelum. He founded SMASH Global, a black-tie MMA events company. He ran for Connecticut State Senate. He tore his Achilles and his ACL seven months apart, and went to the gym on a knee scooter anyway. He is 45 years old and still mixing it up. In this episode of Fit2Perform, Brad and Steve explore what really builds mental toughness, why every man needs to step into the arena, and how the days you least want to train become the days you remember most. If you've ever wondered what separates the people who rise from the people who quit — this is the conversation. What You'll Learn Why losing repetitively as a freshman wrestler built an armor that winning never could — and how that transfers directly to entrepreneurship and lifeThe 'harm's way' principle — why intentionally putting yourself in difficult environments is the single most accelerating thing you can do for growthWhy individual sports like wrestling and jiu-jitsu build something fundamentally different than team sports — and why every man needs to be in the arena at least once Connect with Steve Orosco Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steveorosco SMASH Global: https://www.smashglobal.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveorosco/ Connect with the Show Fit2Perform | Hosted by Brad Clifford Follow, subscribe, and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts.
24 Aug

Pressure Is No Match for Purpose: From Broke & Broken to University Professor & Software Founder

Kenneth Scott wore number two at the University of Utah, but the story behind the number is what nobody ever heard. Growing up as primary caregiver to a mother with lupus, navigating Section 8 and food stamps, surviving two career-threatening injuries in college, and then losing both football and his mother in the same year — Kenneth's path to becoming an author, Rice University professor, and software founder is a blueprint for what happens when purpose outlasts performance. In this episode of Fit2Perform, Brad sits down with his former teammate for one of the most honest conversations the show has produced. If you've ever had to rebuild your identity from the ground up, this one is for you. What You'll Learn How Kenneth's Four Questions framework — passion, impact, skill, and financial reward — helps anyone identify their true purpose beyond performanceThe GPS Map principle: why accepting your current position without editing the coordinates is the only way to get accurate directions forwardWhat the Don't Wait to Be Chosen framework — identity → positioning → opportunity → conversion — teaches student athletes and professionals alike Connect with Kenneth + Resources Don't Wait to Be Chosen — by Kenneth Scott (available on Amazon)Kenneth Scott Official WebsiteREACH — Student Athlete Recruiting SoftwareInstagram — @KScott_2X/Twitter — @KScott_2LinkedIn Connect with the Show Fit2Perform | Hosted by Brad Clifford Follow, subscribe, and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts.
10 Aug

From Spinal Tumor to $1 Billion in Client Net Worth: The Performance Framework Behind It All

What does building a million-dollar net worth have in common with building your best body? More than you think. George Acheampong Jr. — Investopedia Top 100 Advisor, Forbes Contributor, and founder of Melanin Money — joins Brad Clifford for a conversation that bridges the worlds of financial performance and physical performance in a way you've never heard before. From surviving a spinal tumor that nearly left him paralyzed, to leading a client base that just crossed a billion dollars in collective net worth, George shares the mindset frameworks, identity principles, and wealth-building systems that apply equally to the gym and the balance sheet. If you've ever felt the gap between where you are and where you're called to be, this episode is the bridge. What You'll Learn The three-step framework of Massive Awareness, Massive Accountability, and Massive Action — and why skipping step one is why most people stay stuckWhy talking to yourself (instead of listening to yourself) is the key to overriding the brain's default pull toward comfortHow the Wealth Triangle — skill, scalable business, high-return assets — creates financial independence faster than any shortcutWhy income is not synonymous with equity, and how lifestyle creep becomes a trap even for high earnersHow George's near-paralysis health crisis became the origin story for a $100 billion mission to close the racial wealth gap Connect with George Acheampong Jr. Official Website Instagram — @GeorgeAcheampongJunior YouTube — Melanin Money Capitalwize (RIA Firm) Forbes Contributor Profile LinkedIn Connect with the Show Fit2Perform | Hosted by Brad Clifford Follow, subscribe, and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts.
27 Jul

164 NHL Fights, a Dementia Diagnosis at 30 & the Breakthrough That Saved Daniel Carcillo's Life

Before he was a psilocybin advocate, Daniel Carcillo was Car Bomb — one of the NHL's most explosive enforcers, a two-time Stanley Cup champion who fought 164 times on the ice and paid for it with seven concussions and an early onset dementia diagnosis at 30. In this episode of Fit2Perform, Brad Clifford sits down with Daniel for an unflinching conversation about what high performance actually costs, how the system fails elite athletes when they stop performing, and how psilocybin-assisted therapy at his Portland service center Experience Onward is doing what pharmaceuticals, neurologists, and $300,000 in treatments couldn't. Whether you've lived the crash or you're chasing the edge, this conversation will change the way you think about brain health, identity, and what it means to truly rebuild. What You'll Learn How the culture of professional sport — specifically the code of sacrifice and will — shapes identity in ways that persist long after the game endsWhy conventional medicine failed Daniel Carcillo after retirement, and what $300,000 in treatments didn't solve that psilocybin didThe specific protocol Daniel used — diagnostics, high-dose ceremonies, microdosing washout, and retesting — that reversed his dementia-like symptomsWhat the Johns Hopkins and FDA data actually say about psilocybin for depression, PTSD, and TBI — and why a 7% vs. 50–70% success rate is one of the most underreported statistics in medicineHow Experience Onward's legal psilocybin service center in Portland structures preparation, ceremony, and integration — and why the work after is more important than the ceremony itself Connect with Daniel Carcillo: Daniel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-carcillo-202792106/ Experience Onward Website: https://experienceonward.com/ Connect with the Show: Brad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-clifford-a1389431/Elevétion Website: https://elevetion.com/ Fit2Perform | Hosted by Brad Clifford Follow, subscribe, and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts.
23 Jul

You're Not Aging, You're Losing Capacity: The Performance Framework High Achievers Need to Hear

Most people are losing ground — physically, mentally, and relationally — and calling it aging. Brad Clifford isn't buying it. In this premiere episode of Fit2Perform, Brad draws a hard line between performance and decline, introduces his framework of capacity and capability, and lays out the five domains that will anchor every conversation on this show. As founder and CEO of Elevétion, a concierge performance medicine company, Brad has rebuilt his own physiology from the inside out — and he's built a company to do the same for high performers who refuse to fade. If you're a founder, a parent, a leader, or an athlete who takes showing up seriously, this is where your next level starts. What You'll Learn Why capacity and capability are the only two metrics that truly determine your performanceHow the five performance domains — biological, physical, cognitive, relational, and advanced therapeutics — interact and compoundWhy the modern environment is systematically eroding your physiology, and what Fit2Perform is doing about itWhat Elevétion does differently from conventional medicine, and why Brad built itWho this show is for — and who it is explicitly not for Connect with the Show: Brad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-clifford-a1389431/Elevétion Website: https://elevetion.com/ Fit2Perform | Hosted by Brad Clifford Follow, subscribe, and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts.

5 Episodes

Creator

Brad Clifford
Years Active

2026
Episodes

5
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Explicit
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Fit2Perform

Fit2Perform

Episodes

Wall Street to Pro MMA to Fight League Founder: What It Really Takes to Be the Man in the Arena

Pressure Is No Match for Purpose: From Broke & Broken to University Professor & Software Founder

From Spinal Tumor to $1 Billion in Client Net Worth: The Performance Framework Behind It All

164 NHL Fights, a Dementia Diagnosis at 30 & the Breakthrough That Saved Daniel Carcillo's Life

You're Not Aging, You're Losing Capacity: The Performance Framework High Achievers Need to Hear

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