One Day with Jon Bier

Jon Bier
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Don't overthink it. There is no brief, no agenda, just good conversations with interesting humans. We'll probably talk about relationships, food, spirituality, love, brand, fitness, dogs, entrepreneurship, living your best life, and other stuff we like, but we might not.

  1. 12H AGO

    Why High Performers Are Never Satisfied in Business and Life l Ken Rideout

    Sponsored By: → Neuro | Go to https://getneuro.com and use code ONEDAY at checkout for 15% OFF your entire order. Description Prison guard at 18. Wall Street trader. A decade-long opioid addiction nobody knew about. Then running — and winning — some of the hardest races on earth after 50. Jon Bier sits down with his friend Ken Rideout — national bestselling author, fastest marathoner in the world over 50, and one of the most brutally honest people Jon knows — for a conversation about what it actually takes to outrun your own worst version of yourself. Jon knows Ken well. He still didn't know 90% of the stories in this book. That's how deep it goes. Ken doesn't motivate people with highlight reels. He motivates people by refusing to stop — at 103 fever in Kona, in the Gobi Desert with no camping experience, in a decade of addiction that nobody saw coming because the discipline never stopped. The opinion of yourself is the only one that matters. Ken has been proving that to himself his entire life. Nothing in this conversation is comfortable. That's kind of the point. In this episode:  • How Ken hid a decade-long opioid addiction while building a Wall Street career and finishing marathons — and what finally made him stop  • Why quitting at the Hawaii Ironman became the defining moment of his athletic life, and the fuel that's been burning ever since  • The mindset behind being the fastest man in the world over 50 — and why it has nothing to do with genetics and everything to do with never negotiating with yourself Find Ken:  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ken_rideout/  • Website: https://www.thekenrideout.com/  • The Book: https://www.theothersideofhard.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:02 - Why Nothing Is Ever Enough (And Why That's the Point) 3:52 - A Decade as a Functioning Drug Addict — While Building a Career 7:11 - How He Used Drugs as a Reward System (And Exercise as the Gate) 9:38 - The Parts of the Book That Got Cut 11:25 - The Mentor Who Changed Everything: Getting Hired With No Experience 14:19 - The Pedigree He Never Had & the Emotional Intelligence That Replaced It 16:22 - Mind Over Matter: Why Average Biometrics Beat Elite Genetics 18:02 - Stop Negotiating With Yourself — The Only Mindset That Works 19:16 - When His Wife Got Breast Cancer: The Moment Health Became Everything 20:35 - You Can Teach Yourself to Be Tough 22:01 - Raising Kids Who Do Hard Things (Wrestling, Boxing & Losing in Front of Dad) 24:58 - Crying After Berlin: Why His Opinion of Himself Is the Only One That Matters 32:13 - Quitting the Hawaii Ironman — The Sting That Never Leaves 34:24 - Racing Kona With Pneumonia & Ending Up in the Medical Tent 36:48 - The Gobi Desert Race in Mongolia: Winning With No Experience 41:30 - What's Next: The Book, a Possible Film & the Agency

    44 min

  2. APR 30

    How Juicero’s Founder Rebuilt His Life After Public Failure l Doug Evans

    Sponsored By: → Neuro | Go to https://getneuro.com and use code ONEDAY at checkout for 15% OFF your entire order. Description He raised $135 million, built one of Silicon Valley's most hyped companies, watched it collapse in public, and then disappeared into the Mojave Desert with a yurt and a hot spring and no one to talk to. Jon Bier sits down with Doug Evans, founder of Organic Avenue, founder of Juicero, and now founder of The Sprouting Company, for one of the most raw conversations about failure, identity, and what it actually takes to rise from the wreckage. Doug didn't pivot. He didn't rebrand. He went to the desert, lived alone for over a year, started growing sprouts out of necessity, and slowly rebuilt himself from the inside out. What came next was an eight-figure business, a wife, a daughter at 56, and a clarity about what life is actually for that most people never find. This is a story about the second mountain. And how you only find it after everything else burns down. In this episode:  • The real story behind Juicero's collapse — what the Bloomberg hit piece got wrong, what Doug got wrong, and why he takes 100% of the responsibility  • How living alone in the Mojave Desert on nothing but sprouts became the unlikely foundation for a new company, a new life, and a completely different relationship with success  • Why delusional confidence isn't a flaw — it's the only ingredient that actually works for founders who are building something nobody else believes in yet Find Doug:  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dougevans/  • The Sprouting Company: https://www.thesproutingcompany.com  • The Sprout Book: https://www.thesproutbook.com Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:40 - Meet Doug Evans: Organic Avenue, Juicero & the Sprouting Company  2:42 - Taking 100% Responsibility for the Failure  4:00 - What Really Killed Juicero (It Wasn't the Product)  8:26 - Going to the Desert: Isolation, a Yurt & Hot Springs  9:57 - What Brought Him Back: Nature, Stillness & Sprouts  11:09 - 30 Days on Sprouts Only & What Happened to His Body  15:21 - Hitting Rock Bottom at TED: Shame, No Name Tag & Meeting Mike Posner  18:33 - Why Investors Still Backed Him After the Biggest Silicon Valley Failure 20:10 - Why Sprouting Is a Better Business Than Juicing  24:47 - How the Fire Gave Him Everything: Wife, Daughter & His Second Mountain  31:42 - Growing Up in Chaos: From Paratrooper to Degenerate Friends to the Army  35:05 - Seven Years Working for Paul Rand for Free (And Talking to Steve Jobs)  45:45 - You Have to Be Delusional to Be a Great Entrepreneur  50:01 - How Much of the Glow Is the Sprouts?  54:44 - Broccoli Sprout Water & Breaking Through to 100 Push-Ups at 60  57:18 - Founder Energy vs. CEO Energy & Pure Presence

    1h 3m
  3. The Couple That Bet Their Marriage on Building a Cereal Brand l Margaret and Ian Wishingrad

    APR 23

    The Couple That Bet Their Marriage on Building a Cereal Brand l Margaret and Ian Wishingrad

    Sponsored By: → Neuro | Go to https://getneuro.com and use code ONEDAY at checkout for 15% OFF your entire order. Description Two alpha founders. Married. Business partners. Two kids. One eight-figure cereal brand built from the kitchen table. Jon Bier sits down with Ian and Margaret Wishingrad, co-founders of Three Wishes Cereal and, somehow, still married. This is one of the most honest conversations about building a brand, a marriage, and a life at the same time. These two are a rare thing: individually magnetic, together unstoppable. Ian paints with words, Margaret paints with pictures, and together they walked into a category everyone said was dying and turned it into something real. This isn't a founder success story. It's messier and better than that. It's two people who had to figure out who was in charge, who needed to shut up, and when to pass the mic (at work and at home) without losing the thing they were building together. They figured it out. Mostly. In this episode:  • Why two ad industry veterans with zero food experience decided to disrupt a $10 billion category, and how they almost didn't survive the process  • The real cost of building a business with your spouse: the fights, the dynamics, the moment everything shifted  • What it actually takes to go from kitchen table idea to multi-eight-figure brand in national retail, and why delusion might be the most underrated founder trait Find Ian & Margaret:  • Ian on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/icwish/  • Margaret on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mbwish/  • Three Wishes: https://www.instagram.com/threewishes/  • Three Wishes website: https://www.threewishes.com Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:35 - Complementary Brains & Why Passing the Mic Is Their Secret Sauce 3:33 - The Salsa Lesson That Exposed Them Both 4:42 - How Ian's Girlfriend Became His Boss 9:39 - You Can't Kill an Idea Without Bringing a Solve 10:27 - Why They Picked Cereal: A Dying $10 Billion Category 14:57 - How COVID Accidentally Helped Three Wishes Take Off 21:15 - The Innovation Game vs. the Price Game 23:43 - Watching the Product Hit Store Shelves for the First Time 29:06 - Does Business Success Fix a Hard Marriage? (Short Answer: No) 36:57 - The 31-Year-Old Professional Tipping Point 41:18 - Work, Life & the Rule About Talking Business at Home 48:33 - These Are the Good Old Days: Being Present While Building 55:26 - The Hire That Changed Everything (And the Marriage) 58:07 - Raising the Seed Round: The First Yes & the String of Nos 1:03:15 - Why Delusion Is a Non-Negotiable Ingredient for Founders 1:08:22 - A Morning in Their Life & the ESQ Reveal

    1h 20m
  4. Choosing Fatherhood Over Building a Wellness Empire l Tero Isokauppila

    APR 16

    Choosing Fatherhood Over Building a Wellness Empire l Tero Isokauppila

    Sponsored By: → Neuro | Go to https://getneuro.com and use code ONEDAY at checkout for 15% OFF your entire order. Description Eight years is a long time. People change. Priorities shift. Sometimes the guy who built the thing stops needing to be the guy who built the thing. Jon Bier sits down with an old friend — Tero Isokauppila, founder of Four Sigmatic, the brand that put functional mushrooms on the map for millions of Americans who had never heard of a chaga in their life. But this conversation isn't about that origin story. It's about what happens after. After the mission. After the identity. After you stop needing the win to feel like yourself. Tero built something real, stepped back from it, had three kids, and somewhere in the middle of all of it found out that fatherhood was the only hub that made everything else make sense. Jon gets it. He's living the same tension — the builder brain that never turns off, the family he actually wants to be present for, and the gap between those two things that most men never talk about honestly. This is that conversation. In this episode:  • Why Tero walked away from the identity of being "the mushroom guy" — even as the industry he created exploded into the mainstream  • The psychedelic experience that made fatherhood his north star, and how it completely reordered his priorities  • What both of them are still figuring out about presence, ambition, and what it actually means to show up for the people who matter most Find Tero: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamtero/ Website: https://www.teroisokauppila.com/ Four Sigmatic: https://us.foursigmatic.com Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:36 - Health Trends That Were Radical Then Are Mainstream Now 2:57 - Nail Beds, Nap Stacking & the Lo-Fi Wellness Revolution 7:17 - Farming in Hawaii, Fly Fishing & Nature as Meditation 8:49 - The Brick: Blocking Your Phone to Actually Live Your Life 13:50 - How Mushrooms Became a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry 21:53 - Kids as the Hub: Why His Focus Became Singular 36:55 - Finnish Military, Backpacking the World & Finding Himself 39:34 - Why He Built Four Sigmatic: Converting America Into Mushroom Drinkers 46:45 - Why You Should Retire When Your Kids Are Young

    1h 1m
  5. From Sleeping in a Tent to Working With Hollywood | Kimberly Snyder

    APR 9

    From Sleeping in a Tent to Working With Hollywood | Kimberly Snyder

    Sponsored By: → Neuro | Go to https://getneuro.com and use code ONEDAY at checkout for 15% OFF your entire order. Description In this episode of his new podcast, Jon Bier interviews the one person who knows him better than anyone: his wife. Kimberly Snyder had no blueprint.Just a backpack, a blog, and a philosophy she picked up camping across Africa and meditating in India. After three years living out of a tent, she came home broke, launched a free WordPress blog, and accidentally built a New York Times bestselling career and a celebrity clientele she never chased. The secret? She just kept following her gut. Now Jon gets the story he's somehow never heard all at once,  and the result is one of the most honest conversations about purpose, presence, and partnership you'll find anywhere. In this episode:  • How Kimberly went from broke backpacker to New York Times bestselling author and A-list wellness consultant, without a single plan  • Why she walked away from a thriving celebrity career at its peak to build something more aligned with her truth  • The spiritual framework behind real presence, and why serving the moment is the antidote to living in your head Find Kimberly:  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_kimberlysnyder/  • Solluna: https://mysolluna.com/  • Feel Good Podcast: https://mysolluna.com/feel-good-podcast/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:02 - Inside the New Studio & How Jon & Kimberly Actually Live Together  2:08 - Co-Sleeping, the Papa Line & Why the Husband-Wife Bond Matters  5:09 - How Jon & Kimberly Met (And Why It Made No Sense on Paper)  9:29 - Three Years Backpacking the World With No Plan  12:06 - What Poverty in Asia and Africa Taught Her About Joy  14:19 - India, Paramahansa Yogananda & the Spiritual Turning Point  17:05 - Broke in New York: Teaching Yoga, Starting a Free Blog & Three Oranges for a Dollar 21:00 - How the Glowing Green Smoothie Was Born (And Ended Up on Dr. Oz)  24:43 - Harper Collins, Celebrity Clients & the Beauty Detox Era  27:38 - Why She Walked Away From the Celebrity World at Its Peak  32:40 - Her Mom's Sudden Death & the Book That Came From That Grief  35:44 - The First Year of Marriage: Trauma, COVID & Facing the Fear of Being Hurt  38:23 - The Book That Outsold Deepak: You Are More Than You Think You Are  41:21 - Why Kimberly Is the Most Present Person Jon Knows  47:03 - Speaking With No Preparation & the Philosophy of Karma Yoga  49:43 - Building Saloona: Self-Funded, No Investors, Still Going Strong  54:19 - What She's Excited About Now: New Book, New Products & the Hawaii Farm  58:06 - How They Bought Their Farm in Kauai on a Glass and a Half of Wine

    1h 7m
  6. The Surprising Sleep Trick This Former NFL Player Swears By

    07/10/2025

    The Surprising Sleep Trick This Former NFL Player Swears By

    Todd Anderson had no entrepreneurial experience, but bootstrapped a business revolving around sleep. As a former NFL player and lifelong high performer, he was obsessed with optimization. He tried every hack, supplement, and tool he could find. After learning he had mild sleep apnea, he took a close look at sleep, and found a glaring gap in the wellness business. Dream Performance & Recovery was born from Todd Anderson's research and product-based solutions. After getting "in bed" with start-up legends Sara Blakely and Jesse Itzler, his brand is on the fast track.  This look at the most important part of our day–the time we spend asleep–could change your life. Discover Dream Performance & Recovery here.

    45 min
  7. How Anthony Vennare Cheated Death and Began A Wellness Revolution

    06/26/2025

    How Anthony Vennare Cheated Death and Began A Wellness Revolution

    Anthony Vennare is the co-founder of Fitt Insider, a rapidly growing platform that combines B2B media, recruiting, investment, consulting, and community building.  His startup success story is one of challenges and his passion for health comes from a very authentic place. A former Marine and gym owner, Vennare found himself on the brink of death twice and found inspiration from his lowest point of strength.  This wide-ranging discussion with Jon Bier may change how you view the entire wellness industry. Learn more about Fitt Insider and sign up for the newsletter here!

    1h 3m
  8. Andrew Herr of Flykitt on Beating Jet Lag and Maximizing Human Performance

    06/19/2025

    Andrew Herr of Flykitt on Beating Jet Lag and Maximizing Human Performance

    Andrew Herr has revolutionized air travel with his groundbreaking product, Flykitt. An expert in human performance, Herr breaks down what's really going on in your body when you suffer from jet lag. His company leverages research with Navy SEALs and fighter pilots, providing health and recovery solutions for professional sports teams, top executives, and even leisure travelers.  Learn more about Flykitt here!

    47 min
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Don't overthink it. There is no brief, no agenda, just good conversations with interesting humans. We'll probably talk about relationships, food, spirituality, love, brand, fitness, dogs, entrepreneurship, living your best life, and other stuff we like, but we might not.

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  • Creator
    Jon Bier
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    77
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Jon Bier
  • Show Website
    One Day with Jon Bier

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