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
48 episodes
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 ...
September 13, 2024
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47:21
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...
September 06, 2024
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1:19:23
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...
August 30, 2024
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Season 2
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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...
August 16, 2024
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Season 2
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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...
August 09, 2024
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Season 2
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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...
August 02, 2024
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Season 2
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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...
July 23, 2024
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Season 2
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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 ...
July 05, 2024
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Season 2
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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...
June 14, 2024
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Season 2
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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...
May 24, 2024
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Season 2
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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...
May 16, 2024
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Season 2
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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...
May 04, 2024
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Season 2
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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...
April 25, 2024
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Season 2
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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...
April 10, 2024
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Season 2
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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...
March 20, 2024
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2:07:52
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...
March 15, 2024
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Season 2
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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...
February 28, 2024
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Season 2
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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 ...
January 26, 2024
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Season 2
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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!
January 08, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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1:15:20
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...
November 24, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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1:30:01
EP. 28 - Conquer Hardships with Faith - Trevor Farnes
Trevor Farnes is on a mission. From the moment we arrived at Mtn Ops headquarters we could feel the conviction in who and what his purpose is. To humbly, conquer!As one of 7 children, Trevor raves about his parents and siblings. It’s th...
November 13, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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1:17:29
EP. 27 - Run Through The Brick Wall - Alex Lawrence
Dr. Alex Lawrence has endless “range”. From the classroom to CNN, and Wall Street Journal to EV Auto. Alex is charging ahead!As a tenured professor with a thirst for the latest in tech, Alex’s stance on the use of AI and the likes of Ch...
November 03, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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1:08:41
EP.26 - "Coaching Our Children To Belong" - Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife
Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife is an LDS relationship and sexuality coach with a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology.Her clinical expertise and verbal-brilliance is universally relevant and timely as she explains the “struggle and stoke” of rel...
October 31, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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1:13:41
EP.25 - Choose To Be Happy - Truman Glasgow
Truman Glasgow is the 2023 Park City Point2Point Pro Category Champion. Not only is he an elite mountain biker and gravel racer, he is also known for his amazing ski, sledding and motor-cross videos as seen on Instagram, @trumanglasgow12&...
October 13, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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1:32:04
EP.24 - A True LOTOJA Classic - Bike mirrors and Rib-eyes
How do you eat an elephant? Just start…a bite at a time and it helps when a friend joins the feast. Tom and Preston recount their tumultuous LOTOJA race report. From the man they call “Steak”, to the battle for the "fat dad" podiu...
October 05, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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1:48:34