Go All 1N Podcast
Go All 1N Podcast: All 1N. Every Day. No Excuses.
Hosted by a driven blue-collar entrepreneur, Jake Fine and a Notre Dame football alumnus and NFL veteran turned business leader, Braxston Cave, this podcast is for those who know the value of hard work, resilience, and going all in on what matters most. From the RV factory floor to the football field and beyond, we uncover the stories, strategies, and mindsets of those who hustle to turn challenges into opportunities and dreams into reality.
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Longevity Starts Now
EP. 81 Longevity Starts Now
Are you building or destroying your future self with today's choices? Your biology doesn't keep score of your intentions—only your actions.
In this powerful Go All In Moments episode, Braxston and Jake dive deep into longevity as a lifestyle rather than a distant goal. They challenge the wait-until-later mindset that leaves so many people playing health catch-up in middle age. Instead, they present a compelling case for immediate action: creating health momentum decades before you need it.
Sleep emerges as the cornerstone secret weapon, though both hosts acknowledge the reality that many listeners face with limited sleep opportunities. Rather than focusing on impossible standards, they share practical wisdom about maximizing sleep quality when quantity is limited. Blood work becomes another non-negotiable foundation, with Braxton explaining his 100-day testing protocol and how understanding your internal metrics transforms health decisions from guesswork into strategy.
The conversation peaks with Braxston's "Power Five" longevity principles that reframe how we think about aging. From recognizing that biological systems are always either compounding or collapsing to shifting away from genetic excuses toward personal stewardship, these principles offer a roadmap for dominating life at any age. The most compelling insight might be the perspective shift from training for mere aesthetics to building capacity for your future legacy—your family, business, and mission depend on the healthiest version of you showing up consistently for decades.
Ready to transform how you approach longevity? Listen now and discover why excellence isn't inherited—it's built through daily discipline and decisions you can start making today.
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What's up everybody? Welcome back to the Go All In podcast.
Speaker 2:I'm Braxton Cave, I'm Jake Fine and today we are coming at you with an all in moments episode about longevity. Starts now. Basically, this is going to go over, you know, the longevity of your life. If you're waiting until you know you're 50, about your health you're already losing because your biology does not care about your excuses, it responds to what you do today. So you know, basically, I've learned as I I've since I've gone um number one sleep, secret weapon sleep, and I know this is a lot of issues with everybody. Everybody has a a problem with this one. I think it's the hardest one. We've talked about this.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's a secret weapon. I get up at you know 3.15 in the morning for work and it's yeah, I've done it for so long that my internal clock I don't have an alarm. So it's like my internal clock is like okay, it's getting to that time, but I get six hours to seven hours. I try a shoot for seven but, yeah, it's always six, maybe five. Yeah, you know and you don't feel it.
Speaker 2:You know when you're working, but till you do until you do so, and obviously longer down the road too as well, and from me doing rv for so many years, you know being around, you know the chemicals of the glue and it's added up. You know my I had to get blood work done. You know checked my numbers and I could see that's what was the issue with me having. You know being lethargic, being tired, and you know finally taking the step and the action to focus more on my longevity and my health. Because, like I said, if you wait till the last minute, until something actually happens and it's going to it's going to be too late.
Speaker 2:Um but yeah, top one I have is sleep is the top number for secret weapon to focus on and um, yeah, and before you move on from that one, I think it depending on what you do for a living yeah, that too, yeah, and what your situation is with with kids, you know, just life in general, like eight, eight hours isn't isn't possible for some people and I think it's it's an unrealistic expectation for some
Speaker 1:people. Um right, I think it's the number one for some people, right, I think it's the number one thing that all of us could be hypocritical about. Oh, yeah, right, yeah, you need to get more sleep. Like that it sounds great. But I also think it's important to keep in mind that, like, if six hours is all you can get, there are things that you can do to maximize those six hours.
Speaker 1:Right, it's the it's not the quantity, it's the quality of the sleep Agreed. And so you know, from magnesium to different things, like there are your, your nighttime routine, like there's stuff you can do to get yourself into the right sleep cycles to be able to operate well off of six hours of sleep. Yeah, so I don't want. I hope people don't walk away saying like, well, I can only get six hours, so I'm screwed.
Speaker 1:I'll never get to where I want to be. That's not true. There's action that has to go into that to make sure you're maximizing those six hours.
Speaker 2:Prioritizing basically, and with me getting my blood work done, that was just the foundation that made a big difference, just figuring out what needed to be fixed, because you know we can go into the science part of everything and you know I'm not a doctor, he's not a doctor. So this is just our disclaimer that this is what you know we were given. I'm on a protocol that you know, with my age, what my goals are and, like yesterday, I got blood work done.
Speaker 2:So I try to get blood work done every hundred days. It's my schedule, Just to keep tabs on, you know, with the protocol I'm on and to keep my numbers. You know where they're at and how I feel. You know that's what you need to do. And a lot of people don't do that and a lot of people are like, oh, it's just so much money people don't want to invest. And you know you're investing in your longevity, you're investing in how long you're going to be around for your kids and your family and your grandkids and so on.
Speaker 2:Um, I think that's a very important investment, yeah, and a lot. You know, a lot of people don't don't look at that right, you know they think of price right away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, if you're not getting blood work done, to me that's no different than like being on a road trip without GPS.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:MapQuest.
Speaker 1:Right. I mean your blood work is truly showing you like what's going on in the journey of your life and gives you the opportunity to you know, supplement, different um, vitamins, nutrients, different things, to make sure that you're on the right path, the right roads.
Speaker 2:Without it, I just think you're, you're driving blind yeah, because also, I mean, a lot of people just go out and buy vitamins like, oh, you need to take this, this and this. How do you, how do you know that your body needs that? You know you could be just pissing all this money away on supplements that your body yeah, that your body doesn't need so, and that's another factor.
Speaker 2:you know, looking at my blood work, I'm like Holy cow. I've be 44 this year and sure don't feel like it. I feel phenomenal and I've even been told that I don't look my age, which I hope that keeps going. You know, I want to be 80 and still to be able to do this. Just keep wearing hats, you'll keep getting away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's different.
Speaker 2:That I can say was genetic, you know. But yeah, that's.
Speaker 1:We could send you to Turkey.
Speaker 2:Dude, you know how everybody's doing that. I wouldn't want to do that. I think I look good bald.
Speaker 1:Bald works because you got the beard. Yes, well, I didn't. I don't know how that works, dude.
Speaker 2:I know and that's another thing that drives me nuts it's like how come this girl's back thick, but this up here doesn't do anything?
Speaker 1:Hey, it works for you, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, and you know I live with it. But other than that, I mean, that was my main ones.
Speaker 1:To top it off, are you ready for the power five?
Speaker 2:yeah, go ahead. He's got his power five. I'll add more into as you go, okay here's.
Speaker 1:Here's today's power five from my point of view. And number one is longevity is a mindset, not an age bracket. You know, if you wait until later to prioritize your health, you you've already lost time, you're behind the eight ball. You know, leaders and high achieving individuals plan for long-term right and then, when you want to look at it from the business standpoint, right High level leaders in business. They plan and strategize for the future, but so many people don't do that for their own health.
Speaker 1:So, number two, energy is the true advantage in leadership. You can dominate in your forties, fifties and sixties if your body is up to par. And I think that any of us can name, like the first person that comes to mind, that's an older individual who just they capture a room because they walk in with high energy. Um, you know, I think of bill coughlin I don't know bill's in his early 60s and like bill brightens up every room, he walks in, like he comes in. You're like I want to talk to that guy, like that's who I believe we all should be striving to be when we get into our 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s. Right, it's ages, a number, it's truly just how you feel is what really accounts for your energy and who you become as you, as you get older. I believe the most effective leaders outwork others because they outlast them, and you. There's only one way to do that, and that's by taking care of yourself. Effective leaders outwork others because they outlast them, and there's only one way to do that, and that's by taking care of yourself.
Speaker 1:Number three your biology is either compounding or collapsing. So every rep, every clean meal, every night of quality sleep see quality, not quantity, is stacking the odds in your favor or against you, and so it's just something to continually think about when you're looking at your daily habits and routines, that you're either stacking chips in the good pile or you're giving them back to the casino. Number four stop calling it genetics, unless it's your hair. Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:Start calling it stewardship. You know most people will hide behind. You know family history my parents were overweight, so-and-so had diabetes, so-and-so had heart attacks. Like you, have the opportunity to change the game. You know, and for some people I would say it's a lot harder for some people than others, but it's possible. So people who kind of throw their hands up in the air and just kind of give up and give the excuse of well, I have bad genetics.
Speaker 2:I will never believe that yeah.
Speaker 1:I will never believe that, because I believe we all have the ability to own our health.
Speaker 2:I think we can beat genetics, except for the baldness? I think so. Yeah, well, we can go to Turkey and get your hair. I'm not doing that, I'm good.
Speaker 1:You know, I believe if, if you don't control your genes but you control your habits, you don't control your genes, but you do control your habits, your blood work, your mobility and your recovery. Excellence is built, not inherited. And again I'll go back to like for some people that's easier than others. There are some people who are naturally lean, there are some people who are naturally overweight and you know, I've seen you've talked about before like you have to work to continue to put on muscle.
Speaker 1:Otherwise you feel like you lose it very quickly. See, I come from a different ballpark man. Like I, have a history of people in my family that were bigger your dad's jacked, and so yeah, not as much.
Speaker 1:But they're also like five, five. There's, there's pros and cons everywhere, um, but you know you just you have to take steps to own your health. You have to own it. And then number five here is your future. Family, business and mission need the healthiest version of you. You're not training for just aesthetics, you're training for endurance, for legacy. You're not training for just aesthetics, you're training for endurance, for legacy. And to me, like one of the biggest parts of that is like when I'm home and not traveling on the road, I've intentionally put a gym in my house so that when my kids wake up in the morning, first thing they see is dad in the gym, whether I'm actually working out or I just finished and I'm drenched in sweat, like that's what I want my kids to see, like that's how I want my kids to see, like that's how I start my day. And then, on top, of that like I want them to see the way dad operates.
Speaker 1:Because of that, I think that it's important to remember. Like you don't want to just look good at 35. Like you want to aim to dominate it 65, 75, 85, right Until the Lord calls me home and I'm in the ground. Like my goal is to look and feel and operate as best as I possibly can. You know people will take digs on me all the time of. Like you know I walk in a room and because of the way that I train and eat, like I capture attention and people. But oh, but wait till you're. Wait till you're my age, wait till you're in your 60s don't get me started on that one. And I'm like you're fooling yourself because I'm gonna look like this or better, hopefully I weigh less. That would be my goal. Um, like I'm not. You look the way you look because at some point in time you gave up of your choices. That would be my goal. Like I'm not, you look the way you look because at some point in time you gave up.
Speaker 2:Of your choices. Yeah, it's choices, because I've had people in the past. This is a while ago. Wait until you hit 40. I'm there, things change. You know Right, 50 is the next one. I'm still going to be doing what I'm doing, right? You just don't. You don't train today. You train for the man you want to be 20 years from now, 30 years from now, so on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the protocol is going to change with every milestone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know with what food we have in this country. You know with everything processed and most of everything processed, and you know that's. Another thing that people need to be more mindful on is what you're putting into your body. You know people want convenience. That's why McDonald's is through the roof. It's like convenience. I'm leaving I'll just say I left East Lake a couple times and I see people pulling that Taco Bell at 10 am for breakfast. I'm like, quit getting convenience and pull some eggs out of the refrigerator and make some eggs. Man, you know, people don't die from age. They die from neglecting their body. Neglecting their body, neglecting their health, neglecting their movement. You only got one body for the ride, right, you got to prime it. Take care of the motor, everything Well it's funny.
Speaker 1:People are like but eggs are so expensive. I'm like you just paid for half a dozen eggs in that one nasty breakfast that you just ate yeah. So it's all in mindset and how you think about it.
Speaker 2:It is, yeah, it's convenience. That's how society is today. It's convenience. Look at Amazon Convenience. You know I'm not going to lie. I use Amazon because it's convenient.
Speaker 1:Everybody uses Amazon.
Speaker 2:So that's how this society is wired and it's just. You know, there's some things you need to be mindful of and and take some action on, and your body and your health is one of them. Yeah, so, and like you said, you stepping in or step inside of a room or a conference room with people and when they see you looking like that, they're like, okay, this dude know what he's doing, this dude knows what he's talking about. You know it. It's the truth. Even andy's said that. You know, sal has said that you, you know. Uh, this might hurt some feelings, but it's like, if you hire a dietician and they're overweight, are you gonna hire that one? Are you gonna hire the one that's actually in good shape, right?
Speaker 2:so that shouldn't hurt anybody's feelings like that's just real life I know, but there's gonna be some dieticians who possibly are obese and they're actually then they need.
Speaker 1:They need to follow their own guidance.
Speaker 2:So but they're gonna say it's genetics so that's true.
Speaker 1:So I'll leave you guys with this one I believe you. You won't get the opportunity to lead well and at a high level over the next decade, two decades, if you neglect your body. Longevity isn't luck. It's built through discipline and decisions and consistency. And you got to start now, yep.
Speaker 2:So that's it. That's it, man. We'll see you in the next one.
