From Life Support to Life Purpose: Jared Maynard’s Unbreakable Story

What would it take for you to finally start taking care of yourself?Jared Maynard is a physiotherapist, strength coach, and one of the longest-standing members of the HoneyBadger Project community. In 2023, he was put on life support with a 50 to 75 percent mortality rate. His doctors told his family to say goodbye. And then, inexplicably, he began to recover.The 40 pounds of muscle his body catabolized for fuel during five weeks on a ventilator was the reserve he had unknowingly been building for decades. Every hour in the gym was unknowingly preparing him for this moment.This episode is one of the most powerful conversations we've had on this show.In this raw and deeply personal conversation, Jared and Frank cover:Clinical nihilism: what it is, why nearly every clinician goes through it, and what comes out the other sideHow a remote PT assessment over Skype in 2016 changed the entire trajectory of Jared's careerCoping with going blind: a genetic condition will eventually rob Jared of his sight, and how that shaped his decision to go all in on a digital practiceThe near death experience: organ failure, life support, dialysis, and the moment his doctors told his family there was nothing more they could doWhy muscle mass quite literally saved his life and what that means for every clinician who has been neglecting their own strengthHow grief, faith, and the book of Job carried him through the darkest weeks of his recoveryWhat it means to come back stronger and why stronger isn't always physicalHis mission now: helping coaches and clinicians become the strong, healthy humans they are asking their patients to becomeThis one will stay with you. Share it with someone who needs it.CONNECT WITH FRANKFollow Frank on IG: @frank_benedettoBook a call to explore what reimagining your practice could look like: https://calendly.com/honeybadger-/the-honeybadger-project-consultCONNECT WITH JAREDInstagram: @jared.unbreakableEmail: [email protected]: unbreakablestrength.net