The BrainStoke Podcast
The BrainStoke Podcast is a show about the stories of struggle and stoke and the people that inspire us. Hosted by Tom Telford and Preston Niederhauser, The BrainStoke Podcast has a simple mission. Deliver a daily D.O.S.E. of mattering to all who listen. Welcome to BrainStoke! We also want to thank our Stoke sponsor: LEVO a mind care company
Episodes
53 episodes
EP.53 - You Need the Pressure to Create the Focus - Jason Bond
Tom and Preston talk with Jason Bond, friend and fellow ADHD learner. Jason tell his story of learning and school difficulties and his misunderstanding of his ADHD advantages. He touches on the role of his amazing parents in his journey of self...
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Episode 53
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1:41:54
EP. 52 - Bikes Really Do Change Lives - CJ and Jaxon Wiggins
The guys from Bikes Change Lives sit down with Preston and Tom to talk about their story. They talk about growing up as best friends and partners in crime. CJ touches on his collegiate soccer career and how it shaped his leadership mentality. J...
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Episode 52
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1:43:16
EP.51 - From Birdsong to Bear 100 - Tara Warren
Tara Warren knows how to suffer. After completing the Rocky Mountain Slam this year in honor of her late mother's battle with ALS. She sits down with Tom and Preston to talk about her love for running and her connection and love for nature. She...
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1:20:41
EP.50 - The Snake River Runs Through It - LOTOJA 2
Tom, Preston, Matthew Lefthand, and Mitt and Major Niederhauser are together talking about their individual struggles and stoke of this year's LOTOJA. It's a tale of anguish, triumph, brotherly love, and questionable tactics when it comes to ba...
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Episode 50
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1:18:33
EP.49 - Warrior In The Garden - Rob Eastman
#1 International best-selling author of “Warrior In The Garden”, Rob Eastman hosted BrainStoke in his “Chapel” to record this episode. Rob, aka; The Tattooed Life Coach has carried the weight of bullying and ADHD at a young age, suicid...
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Episode 49
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1:23:28
EP.48 - The Power of Connection and Paying it Forward - Tyler Servoss
Tyler Servoss became a father at 17 years old. While other junior cyclists were at the Olympic Training Center focused solely on their future, Tyler was supporting his wife and children doing landscape work on the side, all while still getting ...
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EP.47 - The ADHD Advantage in Entrepreneurship - Leadership & Mindset Podcast reupload
Tom Telford joins Andrew Eubanks from the Leadership & Mindset podcast. Listen to their conversation about financial sector success and becoming a passionate advocate for mental health. They discuss the subtle yet powerful links between mil...
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EP.46 - 7th time's the charm - Melisa Rollins
Melisa Rollins joins BrainStoke just off her Leadville 100 win! Melisa talks about her roots with swimming, soccer and how biking wasn’t her “thing” as a teen but part of her family’s DNA as they revered the famed, Leadville 100 mountain bike r...
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Episode 46
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1:13:54
EP.45 - "Letting Discipline Live Rent Free in Your Life" - Keegan Swenson and Sofia Gómez Villafañe
We are so grateful to Keegan Swenson and Sofia Gomez Villafane talking with Kevin and Tom about their discipline centered lives and what it takes mentally to perform on their level. They talk about the environment they have curated to be the be...
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Episode 45
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1:39:57
EP.44 - With Grace and Gratitude - Meg Campbell
Relationships and marriage fall into the category of BrainStoke’s mantra, “struggle and stoke”. Doing hard things that result in elevated satisfaction from working through challenges. Tom and Preston recently hosted guest author, M...
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Episode 44
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1:09:40
EP. 43 - BrainStoke Ambassadors July 2024
BrainStokers (ambassadors) July roundtable:What do you do when you feel a “limiter” to peak performance? You’ve trained and put in the time, but the mind and body don’t respond? Tom, Preston, Blair Perkes and Matthew Lefthand t...
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Episode 43
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1:34:22
EP. 42 Saxton on the Pod
Tom joins Saxton on the Pod to talk entrepreneurship and paying the toll of succes. He preaches happy chemicals and the importance of getting a daily D.O.S.E. for mind and physical health but also as the magic elixir for inspiration and problem...
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Episode 42
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1:26:04
Ep.41"Bikes Change Communities" - Zach Chatelain
Zach Chatelain is a bike-whisperer. He founded and owns Bikers Edge in Kaysville, Utah. This year Bikers Edge celebrates its 20th year anniversary in business and BrainStoke wanted to share how this shop has become one of Utah’s coolest places ...
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Episode 41
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1:06:26
EP.40 - The Flow State and the Power of "AND" - Dr. Julie Hanks
Dr. Julie de Azevedo Hanks has a track record of leaning into the “hard” to find the “flow”. She’s had a successful singer-songwriter career and continues to raise the bar in the mental health space with her clinical work through Wasat...
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Episode 40
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1:07:30
EP.39 - Teaching Play Therapy Around the World - Clair Mellenthin
Clair Mellenthin LCSW & RPT - S is a world renowned therapist and social worker that knows a thing or two about parenting and child therapy. She has traveled the world teaching individuals and different populations about play therapy and it...
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Episode 39
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1:32:51
EP.38 - Remember Their Name and Figure It Out - Adam Barker
World renowned photographer and high school cheerleader Adam Barker joins BrainStoke and talks about entrepreneurship, his love/hate relationship with perfectionism, and what it takes to be a man or woman on a mission to success. He talks about...
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Episode 38
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1:18:16
EP.37 - Hot Husband, Humble Mercy - Tyler and Sara Judkins
Preston and Tom talk with Sara and Tyler Judkins about their Lancer roots and Preston's questionable power plays in high school. Tyler talks about his motorcycle accident that left him immobile for many months and his struggle to walk again. Sa...
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Episode 37
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1:55:28
EP. 36 - Reward Failure and Embrace Rejection - Chad Willardson
Chad Willardson is an accomplished entrepreneur and philanthropist. He talks Preston and Tom through his early struggles with rejection and doors closed in his face, to giving talks on his business success and holistic approach to mental health...
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Episode 36
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34:44
EP.35 - No more Mr. Nice Guy - Curtis Morley
Tom and Preston sit down with Curtis Morley, a recovering "Nice Guy" and talk to him about his philosophy and revolutionary courses about Counterfeit Emotions. Curtis touches on his life experience with pain and misery and the joy that can come...
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Episode 35
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1:24:36
EP.34 - Grief, Gratitude, and Grace - Stacey Davies
Stacey Davies sits down with Preston and Tom and talks about her upbringing, love for a good set of rules and her relationship with her late husband. She talks about her traumatic experience of abuse and domestic violence. She touches on the wa...
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EP.33 - ADHD and Anxiety What Could Go Right! - Andrea and Adam Beckstrom
Through the struggles of ADHD and Anxiety to the stoke of success and leading businesses, Adam and Andrea Beckstrom know what it means to be resilient. They are owners in LÉVO a mind care company and are experts in their respective fields... it...
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Episode 33
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1:23:28
EP.32 Veyo Pies and MTN OPS Ignite make riders happy boys - BrainStoke Ambassadors
Tom and Preston sit down with Blair Perkes, Joe Hansen and Hite Stromberg, the first three individuals on the BrainStoke Ambassador team. They talk motivation behind the program, their initial thoughts, and they share a little bit about what ea...
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Episode 32
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48:41
EP. 31 "Surviving with a Promise 2 Live" - Brandy Vega
Brandy Vega gets it done! From a young age Brandy embraced the mindset, “if it’s to be, it’s up to me”. Her entrepreneur roots began at age 6 when she learned the art of selling rocks. It’s been meteoric growth from there including joining the ...
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Episode 31
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48:43
EP.30 2023 Year Review!
It's the 2023 review! With the whole BrainStoke team on the mics! We go through our favorite moments of 2023 and what we are amped on for 2024!
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Episode 30
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EP.29 - "YOU Can Change Your Stars" - Davy Ratchford
Davy Ratchford is the epitome of doggedness. As a young boy from Ireland whose family migrated to the U.S., Davy grew up in Logan, Utah. It was there that he begin to ask “why not me?”From an executive team role at Salt Lake Real, a few...
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Episode 29
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