Forged with Brady Edwards

Financial literacy isn’t just about saving money. It’s understanding how life insurance, credit, and compound interest can completely change your financial future. I sat down with Hayden Hill, who built and sold his company Limitless Insurance Services by 27, to ask the questions most of us were never taught to ask about money.How can someone making $500K a month still end up broke? Why can a cheaper car payment actually cost you more? And how are wealthy families using strategies like borrow-buy-die to pass down millions? We got into the financial decisions that separate earning money from actually building wealth, and why understanding them early matters more than most people realize. If you’ve ever felt behind when it comes to money, this conversation is for you.Chapters:(00:00) Introduction(02:02) What Happens After You Sell Your Company(07:21) Financial Advice for Non-Entrepreneurs(16:39) The Most Expensive Thing He Bought(27:25) When Can You Actually Buy the Car(33:11) What Most Entrepreneurs Get Wrong(45:27) The Money Mistake Nobody Catches(53:34) Making $100K with $2K in the Bank(01:13:06) How Car Loans Actually Work(01:20:59) The Credit Card Game(01:38:24) Life Insurance Explained Simply(01:55:45) Borrow Buy Die: How Wealth TransfersThe best conversations start with the best guests. Drop a comment below and tell me who you want to see on Forged!Subscribe now and get ready to be the most interesting person in the room.If you want to work with the team behind my show, book a call: https://calendly.com/brady-edwards/discoveryConnect on Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgedpodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@forgedpodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/forgedpodConnect with Hayden: Website: https://integrity.com/limitless/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayden-hillInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/haydenxhillYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Haydenxhill

US birth rates are declining, infertility is rising, and more women are struggling to get pregnant. Fertility doctor Dr. Samantha Ess joins me to explain what’s affecting women’s fertility, why seemingly healthy women can struggle to conceive, and what you should know before trying to have a baby. From hormone imbalances and chronic stress to gut health, environmental toxins, and the effects of birth control, Dr. Ess breaks down the overlooked factors that could be affecting your chances of pregnancy and why infertility may be a symptom of something deeper.We also get into why more Americans are delaying or choosing not to have children, how your parents’ and grandparents’ health may influence your own through epigenetics, and why preparing your body for pregnancy involves more than eating healthy and taking supplements. Dr. Ess shares her concerns about relying on IVF without investigating underlying health issues, explains how nicotine can affect sperm quality, and reveals why managing stress and finding more joy may be just as important as eliminating toxins. Chapters: (00:00) Introduction(01:21) Why Women Were Put on Testosterone(07:56) Quitting Nicotine to Start a Family(18:35) Why Society Is Struggling With Fertility(24:40) Epigenetics: Your Grandparents’ DNA(37:28) Why Fewer People Are Having Kids(43:45) What Makes Her Approach Different(57:00) The Missing Variable: Joy(01:05:17) Alcohol, Wine, and the Gray Area(01:17:28) What Conventional Medicine Misses(01:26:50) The Birth Control Conversation(01:40:25) AMH and the Fear of Running Out of Time(01:51:42) Small Tweaks, Big ResultsThe best conversations start with the best guests. Drop a comment below and tell me who you want to see on Forged!Subscribe now and get ready to be the most interesting person in the room.If you want to work with the team behind my show, book a call: https://calendly.com/brady-edwards/discoveryConnect on Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgedpodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@forgedpodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/forgedpodGet 15% off Nice Brand hats: https://nicebrand.co/discount/BRADYNICE15Connect with Dr. Samantha Ess: Website: https://www.walkthenaturalpath.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-ess-58824397/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/walkthenaturalpathYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@walkthenaturalpathSubstack: https://walkthenaturalpath.substack.com

You know what you need to do, and you still can't make yourself start. Jheri South says that isn't a focus problem, and that most of what people hear about ADHD is missing the real cause. Jheri is a Certified ADHD Coach and a mother of seven neurodivergent kids, and she was diagnosed with ADHD herself as an adult. Her clients range from 18 to 82, and her WIRED framework builds on the work of ADHD psychiatrist Dr. William Dodson, whom she interviewed. She's also the person who finally made ADHD click for me.We got into why she says 90% of ADHD is emotional dysregulation hiding underneath the focus problems everyone talks about. She broke down her WIRED acronym for how ADHD brains actually engage, why you side quest instead of doing the one thing, and what employers actually need to understand about neurodivergent talent. We talked about autism on the spectrum, phones as hyper fixation, the dopamine crash cycle, and why understanding your diagnosis is not the same as using it as a crutch. If you have ever stared at a task you know you need to do and physically could not start, this one is for you.Chapters: (00:00) Introduction(04:15) Why Everyone Self-Diagnoses Now(06:05) The DSM Is Built for Boys(11:01) Focus Follows Feelings(22:02) Why Hacks Stop Working(32:07) Using the WIRED Acronym(43:19) Autism and the Spectrum(59:10) Hiring and Managing ADHD Talent(01:17:43) What Your Phone Is Doing to You(01:21:07) Rebuilding Your Attention Span(01:24:39) ADHD and AddictionThe best conversations start with the best guests. Drop a comment below and tell me who you want to see on Forged!Subscribe now and get ready to be the most interesting person in the room.If you want to work with the team behind my show, book a call: https://calendly.com/brady-edwards/discoveryConnect on Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgedpodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@forgedpodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/forgedpodConnect with Jheri: Website: https://jherisouth.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jheri-south-teenparentcoach/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msjherisouth/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JheriSouthFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jherisouth/

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 Ready to help people break the cycle.Brady and Aaron dig into the link between Big Tobacco and the food industry after Philip Morris bought Kraft in 1988, why everyone has a trigger food, and the one first step Aaron gives anyone trying to get free: eat single ingredient foods. They also cover how inflammation wrecks your sleep and your thinking, what boot camp at Parris Island taught him about handling chaos, and why discipline comes down to doing hard things. Then Aaron opens up about being homeless, never having a successful relationship, and the ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT experiences where he felt himself die and came back with complete forgiveness for everything.Chapters:(00:00) Introduction(06:18) What It Feels Like to Bear the Dead(09:24) Why a Young Man Should Enlist(17:43) Day One on the Yellow Footprints(24:07) Why This Generation Will Not Serve(37:43) Discipline Is Just Doing Hard Things(48:35) Your Craving Is the Business Model(55:26) Philip Morris Bought Kraft in 1988(01:00:14) Building Mission Ready(01:11:22) Sleep Is How You Actually Grow(01:27:43) What Does It Mean to Be a Man(01:34:10) Finding Faith After HollywoodThe best conversations start with the best guests. Drop a comment below and tell me who you want to see on Forged!Subscribe now and get ready to be the most interesting person in the room.If you want to work with the team behind my show, book a call: https://calendly.com/brady-edwards/discoveryConnect on Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgedpodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@forgedpodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/forgedpodConnect with Aaron: Website: https://aaronwilliamson.netLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronwilliamson/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aaronvwilliamson/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AaronWilliamson/

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 source strips your retained knowledge down to roughly 1 percent of what actually matters, why AI-dependent writers in one study could not name a single sentence they had written, and why having kids when you are broke might be the best business decision you will ever make. This one is for anyone who senses something is off about how they consume information but has not been able to name it yet.Chapters: (00:00) Introduction(04:04) The Train Is Coming Whether You Like It(07:02) Why Gen Z Has Nothing to Fight For(15:04) Using Claude to Not Get Screwed on Deals (27:42) The Study That Proved AI Makes You Dumber(39:15) The Law of Dilution(44:30) School Killed Your Creative Genius(54:20) Follow Your Passion Is a Trap(01:04:30) The Fork in the Road Nobody Wants to Talk About(01:11:37) What Having Kids Actually Does to You(01:15:17) Parkinson's Law and the Multi Million Dollar CompanyThe best conversations start with the best guests. Drop a comment below and tell me who you want to see on Forged!Subscribe now and get ready to be the most interesting person in the room.If you want to work with the team behind my show, book a call: https://calendly.com/brady-edwards/discoveryConnect on Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgedpodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@forgedpodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/forgedpodConnect with Remy: Website: https://kingsmedia.coLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/remydavenport/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/remydavenport/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theremydavenport

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 neuroscience instead of vague manifestation talk.We talk about why Your brain cannot process the word don't, which means the language you use every day is either building your reality or working against it without you knowing. William also walks me through remote viewing, the real, declassified Stargate Project skill the CIA and Stanford Research Institute studied for decades, and I tell the story of using it from an Austrian steakhouse to find my lost cat back in Utah. We end up somewhere completely different talking about what quantum computing and AI mean for the next stage of human potential. If you feel like you are grinding hard but not getting clear results, this conversation is going to rearrange how you think about why.Chapters: (00:00) Introduction(04:09) How I Won a House From One Question(08:59) The Three Types of Data Your Mind Receives(17:38) Why Billionaires Train With William(24:16) Input Must Justify the Output(30:24) How Clarity Replaces Grinding (37:15) The Poster Card That Poisoned a Family(44:24) Why the Word Don't Installs What You Fear(56:48) Remote Viewing Is a Skill Everyone Has(01:05:27) Finding My Cat From an Austrian Steakhouse(01:16:42) Inside the Real Stargate Program(01:25:42) What If There Is No One Outside(01:33:30) Design Your Life Like a SandboxThe best conversations start with the best guests. Drop a comment below and tell me who you want to see on Forged!Subscribe now and get ready to be the most interesting person in the room.If you want to work with the team behind my show, book a call: https://calendly.com/brady-edwards/discoveryConnect on Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgedpodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@forgedpodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/forgedpodGet 15% off Nice Brand hats: https://nicebrand.co/discount/BRADYNICE15Follow William on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/william.upgrdTake Williams Clarity Audit: https://upgrd.com/

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 why these vulnerabilities make mass-scale ai hacking an inevitability rather than a possibility.Chapters:(00:00) Introduction(03:51) Alibaba's AI Delivery Riot(06:17) Why People Actually Hate AI(09:13) The Fortune 50 Company That Wasted $500M(12:04) How AI Actually Thinks(18:07) Will OpenAI Go Bankrupt?(24:13) Nothing on the Internet Is Safe(30:14) Software Rules Everything(34:00) The Cyber Pandemic Prediction(37:47) Building the Burner Phone of AI(49:15) The War Between Open Source and Control(57:49) The Paperclip Maximizer(01:03:22) Are There Any Good Guys in AI?(01:12:16) The Surveillance Mesh in Your Living RoomIf you want to work with the team behind my show, book a call: https://calendly.com/brady-edwards/discoveryConnect with Brady EdwardsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgedpodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@forgedpodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/forgedpodConnect with Alex Smith: Website: https://myinstantai.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@superconfident-ai Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superconfidentaiFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/superconfidentaiTikTok: tiktok.com/superconfidentai

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 him the very structure that once kept him safe was also keeping him from ever needing a real relationship with the divine. Braven also opens up about the exact moment he turned down a $15 million offer the same morning we recorded this, and why saying yes would have meant staying a man he was actively trying to leave behind. If you're building something real and still figuring out what you actually believe while you do it, this episode is for you.Chapters:(00:00) Introduction(00:49) Defending Your Time as a Father(06:39) Fatherhood as the Ultimate Mirror(13:07) The Muslim Mission Question(22:15) God Said Walk Away(26:15) Building Morality Without a System(36:20) Earning Your Scars(45:09) Why People Are Not Having Kids(56:37) Quarterly Life Audits(01:09:32) Saying No to $15 Million(01:16:49) Gains Energy and What Comes NextThe best conversations start with the best guests. Drop a comment below and tell me who you want to see on Forged!Subscribe now and get ready to be the most interesting person in the room.If you want to work with the team behind my show, book a call: https://calendly.com/brady-edwards/discoveryConnect on Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgedpodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@forgedpodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/forgedpodGet 15% off Nice Brand hats: https://nicebrand.co/discount/BRADYNICE15Connect with Braven: Website: https://gainsinbulk.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/braven-grant-135858b5/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bravengrant/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bravengrant/videos

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 rewire one of his memories live on camera.We get into why the English language is structurally biased toward negativity, how the word think actually paralyzes decision making, why embedded suggestions change behavior faster than motivation ever will, and how the last thing you think about before bed runs your unconscious mind for hours. If you have ever felt like you are capable of more but something invisible keeps pulling you back, this conversation is going to feel uncomfortably familiar.Chapters: (00:00) Introduction(04:06) Why English Is Structurally Negative(10:32) The Art of Embedded Suggestions(16:26) Your Mind Runs on Suggestions Not Statements(21:13) Everyone Is Already a Hypnotist(29:46) The Reticular Activating System (41:45) Positive Trauma: Using the System in Reverse(49:20) Jim Rohn and Making Life Work for You(58:07) Why Thinking Is the Least Effective Function(01:08:16) "They Let You Down" Is an Unsolvable Loop(01:16:05) Your Phone Is Not a Phone(01:31:09) Remote Viewing (01:45:10) All Beliefs Are Lies(01:53:00) Programming Your Reality(02:06:15) The One Thing That Changes EverythingThe best conversations start with the best guests. Drop a comment below and tell me who you want to see on Forged!Subscribe now and get ready to be the most interesting person in the room.If you want to work with the team behind my show, book a call: https://calendly.com/brady-edwards/discoveryConnect on Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgedpodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@forgedpodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/forgedpodConnect with Michael: Website: https://www.michaelbernoff.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-bernoff-ba5a3a4b/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michael_bernoff/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelBernoffOfficialPodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-average-sucks-show/id1491828634

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 is the reason you're single. This episode breaks down the 80/20 dynamic in dating, why women are the gatekeepers and men have to earn attention, the four attachment styles (and which one high performers default to), and the brutal psychology behind why dating apps are wired like a slot machine. Melissa gives the framework for becoming a high-value man who doesn't need to be picked, the difference between confidence and neediness, and why 86% of millionaires are married while the "cool uncle" lifestyle runs out of gas.If you're tired of hearing that men need to just "communicate more" without anyone explaining how, this is the most tactical breakdown of male loneliness, dating psychology, and self improvement you'll find. Attachment styles, rejection therapy, and the exact framework for hard conversations that doesn't make you look weak.Chapters:0:00 Introduction5:38 Why 86% of millionaires are married13:10 Melissa's rejection therapy experiment15:29 The four attachment styles, explained27:21 The BRAVE framework for conflict resolution32:02 The three root causes of relationship friction39:28 The brutal math of dating apps44:52 The real chemistry of connection53:15 Why you should be the chooser, not the chosen1:05:49 The self-audit before you start dating1:17:43 Trigger is the gift1:33:47 Linguistic discipline and rewiring your patterns The best conversations start with the best guests. Drop a comment below and tell me who you want to see on Forged!The best conversations start with the best guests. Drop a comment below and tell me who you want to see on Forged!Subscribe now and get ready to be the most interesting person in the room.If you want to work with the team behind my show, book a call: https://calendly.com/brady-edwards/discoveryConnect on Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/forgedpodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@forgedpodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61589690551787Connect with Melissa: Website: https://www.melissananavati.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissananavati/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissananavati/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PeakPerformanceLove