300th Episode: How to Strengthen Your Immune System with Wim Hof, Barbara O'Neill, Kelly Slater & More!

**Gary Brecka** (0:00)
Today is our 300th episode, and I'm very, very, very proud of that. And a lot of that goes thanks to you guys. Somewhere along the way, I've sat across from a nightclub owner, an 11-time world champion surfer, a woman with 25 grandchildren, a two-time UFC champion, my own wife, a man who's walked into the ice every day for 50 years, two people trying to fix the food supply from inside the federal government, and a guy who wrote a book with a little curse word in the title, 300 episodes, 8 guests today, but really 300 people who trusted me with their story, and millions of you who trusted me with your time. If you had told me when I started all of this years ago, that these completely different people coming from completely different lives would land on the exact same conclusion about the human body, I'm not sure I would have believed you, but they did. And if I'm honest, that's the only reason why I still do this, not the numbers, not the attention. It's watching people who have nothing else in common, agree on the same handful of things that actually keep a person alive and well. Let's get into it.
Hey guys, welcome to the Ultimate Human Podcast. Today is our 300th episode and I'm very, very, very proud of that. And a lot of that goes thanks to you guys. Somewhere along the way, I've sat across from a nightclub owner, an 11-time world champion surfer, a woman with 25 grandchildren who still treats a nail wound with a grated potato, a two-time UFC champion who rebuilt his body from the ground up, my own wife, a man who's walked into the ice every day for 50 years, two people trying to fix the food supply from inside the federal government, and a guy who wrote a book with a little curse word in the title and different religions, different politics, different corners of the world. But most of them have never met each other, and never will. And that's the whole point of today. Because if you had told me when I started all of this years ago that these completely different people coming from completely different lives would land on the exact same conclusion about the human body, I'm not sure I would have believed you. But they did. Every single one of them. And if I'm honest, that's the only reason why I still do this. Not the numbers, not the attention. It's watching people who have nothing else in common agree on the same handful of things to actually keep a person alive and well. Let's get into it. We started this list with the guy who sat in this very chair for my very first episode. David Grutman didn't come to this show to talk about running nightclubs. He came to talk about what actually holds a life together, and that's relationships. Here's David.
Where do you think a lot of entrepreneurs that have their head down, sort of shoulder the grindstone, are going wrong in building the foundation of their business?

**David Grutman** (2:49)
Where do they go wrong? I think one thing I really like to talk about, Gary, with this whole thing is I've had more issues with success than I have with failure.
I think that's one thing in the book that they don't tell you in school and in life. Everyone's like, oh, you know, everyone gets up and they talk about their failures, their failures, their failures, and of course, I've had many failures. I have great success, but I have many failures.
And what people always want to harp on is, you know, oh, I failed, but I got back up and I did it. And yeah, of course, that's how we are as humans. I don't know many people that did it once, failed and didn't try to get back on the horse. Okay, that's fine. But what they don't, people don't talk about enough is, once you're on top of the world, how does that affect you? Because that's where, for me, was the most challenging, right? I opened Liv, I was on fire. That's when your ego comes out. That's when you think you're unstoppable. That's when you don't ask for help, because, oh, you know it all. Look at you, you're on top of the world. Why would you need help? And that's also when you get very cocky and you forget about where you came from.

**Gary Brecka** (4:01)
Did you recognize that?

**David Grutman** (4:03)
Oh, I took a really good friend of ours, Wayne Boyd, from Reserve, to say to me one time, hey, my man in the middle, and Liv was just kicking off, he's like, you're not saving lives, it's not heart surgery you're doing here, it's a nightclub. And I'm like, okay, you're right. And then, as you're so cocky and your ego's so driven, but you know, the ego's a funny thing, Gary, because the ego drives you to do things that normal people wouldn't do, and things that if you wrote it down on a piece of paper, probably didn't make sense, but you did it anyway because that was your ego, and that's what changes the world, right? Those are the things that where the miracles come out.