The Breaking Normal Podcast

Would you be willing to harvest the animal you eat… or would you rather pay someone else to do it?Ryan Dumville joins the Breaking Normal Podcast after a life-changing black bear hunt in Colorado that completely reshaped the way he sees life, death, food, gratitude, and purpose.What began as a hunting story became a conversation about sacred responsibility.From there, we connect Ryan’s experience to a plant medicine ceremony in Costa Rica with previous Breaking Normal guest Cheyenne Carter, the Lakota bison harvest behind Tribe Vitamins, the home birth of my daughter Divina, and why the portals of birth and death may be some of the most sacred experiences humans can witness.We also explore: 🦬 Why hunting may actually be more ethical than buying anonymous grocery store meat 🐻 The spiritual lessons hidden inside a bear hunt 🌿 Plant medicine, visions, and the birth of Ryan’s upcoming Arrow & Altar hunting retreats 🙏 Gratitude from harvest to plate 🪶 The sacredness of harvesting animals with intention 🏹 Why modern hunting can reconnect us to nature instead of separating us from itThis isn’t simply an episode about hunting.It’s an episode about remembering we comes from—and what responsibility really looks like.➡️ Follow Ryan Dumville and learn more about his upcoming Arrow & Altar retreats: @rdumville➡️ Get your modern-day hunt on at TribeVitamins.com — 100% grass-fed, grass-finished American bison organs

Scott Hall Jr. may be the most radical guest we’ve ever hosted on Breaking Normal. What started with what Scott describes as a mandatory two-dose HPV vaccine in high school sent him on a decades-long search for answers. That search took him from veganism for spiritual reasons to what he believes is the most natural way for humans to live.In this conversation, we discuss:* Why Scott says he reversed his Tourette’s and ADHD through a primal lifestyle.* Why he believes fresh, raw foods are fundamentally different from anything frozen or processed.* Why he eats raw meat—including beef, pork, chicken, and even bear.* Why he fears no parasites, bacteria, ticks, worms, staph, or trichomonas.* Why he’s intentionally trying to gain healthy body fat with parasites.* Why he believes pig poop and cow poop can have health benefits.* His views on vaccines, antibiotics, and modern medicine.* The divisions within the primal community over polyamory, psychedelics, and his interpretation of Aajonus Vonderplanitz’s teachings.L.Whether this conversation expands your mind or completely challenges your worldview, it’s one you won’t forget. Follow Scott Hall Jr.:@scotthalljrIf you’re looking for premium ancestral foods that Scott won’t have, learn why in this episode.Visit www.TribeVitamins.com

This episode begins with Eddie Modestini casually dropping into a yoga pose that makes him look 13 years old.The surprising part?He is 73 years old.From there, we dive into a lifetime of learning from a man who has spent more than five decades studying movement, breath, healing, and what it means to remain a student of life.We explore Eddie’s journey from working on an elk ranch in Paonia and suffering a debilitating slipped disc to being told surgery was his best option. Instead of going under the knife, he chose a different path—Tai Chi, massage therapy, and eventually yoga—a decision that would completely change the course of his life.Along the way, we discuss:Teaching yoga to Bob Marley’s mother and the Marley family, including Ziggy MarleyWorking with musicians like Michael FrantiHis connection to my friend Alec and their time studying yoga together in IndiaWhy he’s in Boulder this week for Alec’s weddingHow staying a student of life may be one of the most powerful longevity practices availableThe role of curiosity in keeping both the body and mind youthfulBee breathing, box breathing, breath retention, and a Norwegian exercise techniqueHow breath can influence energy, focus, recovery, and wellbeingMovement as medicineHis thoughts on nutrition, organ meats, and aging wellMore than a conversation about yoga, this is a conversation about choosing a different path when life presents obstacles—and continuing to learn long after most people stop asking questions.At 73 years young, Eddie is living proof that age and aging are not the same thing.Enjoy this conversation with a man who has spent a lifetime practicing Yoga on the Inside.Get your hunt on with Eddie at www.TribeVitamins.com and follow his journey on Instagram @yogaontheinside

Sam Tarantino helped build Grooveshark into one of the largest music streaming platforms in the world.By his twenties, he was running a company with millions of users, battling some of the most powerful corporations on Earth, and living what many would call the entrepreneurial dream.Then he lost it.In this conversation, Sam shares parts of the story he rarely talks about publicly—from the founding of Grooveshark, to the lawsuits that changed everything, to the loss of his co-founder and close friend, Josh Greenberg.What emerged was not a conversation about business.It became a conversation about luck, loss, brotherhood, success, failure, family, fate, and the strange way life can lead us exactly where we’re meant to go.We begin with a series of synchronicities: two oldest brothers, two Florida boys, two entrepreneurs shaped by family dynamics, each navigating different versions of the same questions.From there we dive deep into:* The untold story behind Grooveshark’s rise and fall* What losing a company teaches that success never can* The loss of a co-founder, close friend, and brother-in-arms* how “luck” can cut both ways* The hidden costs of ambition* Whether success and failure are largely stories we tell ourselves* The parallel lives we never get to live* Family, fatherhood, and what truly matters in the endNear the end, we explore the film Family Man and the question it poses:What if the life you thought you wanted wasn’t actually the life that would make you happiest?This is one of the most honest founder conversations we’ve ever had.Daniel and Sam explore the rise and fall of a company, the loss of people and dreams, and the realization that sometimes life’s greatest gifts arrive disguised as setbacks.For anyone who has ever wondered whether they are behind, ahead, winning, losing, or exactly where they are meant to be, this conversation is for you.

From unraveling Miami synchronicities near the place I was born… to AI replacing careers, the future of universities, crypto, politics, veterinary care, Boulder culture, and whether humans still need struggle to feel alive… This conversation with Kubs Lalchandani went deep fast. We explore:* AI and the collapse of traditional careers  * Whether college is becoming obsolete  * Crypto, law, and the future of society  * Boulder vs Miami culture  * Synchronicities and formative life moments  * Why people travel abroad for healthcare and testing  * Human meaning in an increasingly artificial world   Kubs is a Cornell-trained attorney, entrepreneur, AI educator, political candidate, and co-founder of Treeline Veterinary Cancer Care. Follow Kubs:Instagram: @kubsclub  Website: kubs.vote Harvest your Hunt at www.TribeVitamins.com

What happens when a former evangelical Christian raised on a beef cattle farm becomes one of the leading voices in HRV, recovery, cannabis, longevity, and human performance?In this episode of Breaking Normal, I sit down with Don Moxley for one of the most unexpectedly hilarious, deep, and synchronistic conversations we’ve had in a while.We go from Don’s SEVEN knee surgeries and surviving a MRSA infection… to cutting from 220 pounds down to 177 for wrestling… to growing up around Italian cattle and going to church “for the girls.”This conversation is all about heart sync over groupthink.We talk about:• Native spirituality vs organized religion• Why Jesus probably wasn’t religious at all• Sacred contracts & synchronicities• HRV, stress & nervous system resilience• Cannabis, spermidine & longevity science• Why modern humans are under-recovered• Why Don prefers red light while I prefer sunlight & naked sun time• Bison testicles, tallow balm & ancestral nutrition• The strange feeling of talking to someone who somehow already feels like familyThis one gets weird, heartfelt, philosophical, funny, and very human.Follow Don Moxley:Instagram: @donmoxleyFollow @DanielEisenman & @TribeVitamins www.TribeVitamins.com

What happens when two brothers—cut from the same cloth, yet living their own paths—sit down and stop taking life so darn seriously?This one starts very Breaking Normal… Timothy refuses to do what I ask him within seconds 😂And from there, it turns into one of the deepest, strangest, and most heartfelt conversations I’ve ever had—with my own brother.We go from:* Identity — why Timothy may relate more to “brother” than his name* What Jesus may have (or may not have) identified with* Language, labels, and the illusion of who we think we are* Stories from our travels around the world — including the time he may have saved my life… and the time he gave me stitches but accidentally glued my butt cheeks together 😳* How he met his now wife… while she was with her ex-husband* The blessing/dream… her ex-husband gave him later* Nicaragua, sickness, and a moment that felt like our mom made a deal with God* Prayer… live on the podcast* god, Kenya, Carl Jung, synchronicity, dreams, and moments you can barely explain—but can never forget* Trusted house sitting as a real-life treasure hunt* His raw, honest take on Tribe Vitamins* And a powerful moment where he speaks directly to his son—imagining him at 15, about to get his driver’s license, listening to this episode… and what he’d want him to knowAnd somehow… it all leads to a moment where I ask him for one final question—and instead, he ends in tears… expressing pure gratitude.No script. No filter.Just two brothers exploring life, God, memory, and meaning in real time.If you’ve ever wondered how deep a conversation can go with someone who shares your blood… this is it.—Get real nourishment from the inside out (and the outside in):👉 https://tribevitamins.com—This is back-to-back with the episode I just recorded with my dad…Something powerful is happening in these family conversations.Expect nothing. Experience everything.

This one goes all the way in.From my grandparents surviving the Holocaust…to hunting diamonds in Russia…to my dad’s evolution from drug user to legal drug dealer…We unpack the real story behind where I come from—the chaos, the lessons, and the moments that shaped everything.From flipping my mom’s car at 16…to getting caught going 100+ with a learner’s permit…to underground fight clubs…to a college story that will absolutely make you laugh.We talk family, legacy, Boulder, my siblings, his grandchildren,and the people who’ve inspired us most along the way.This might be the most Breaking Normal episode yet.Honored to sit down with one of the coolest humans I know—my dad.—For the Nourishment shirt:https://www.instagram.com/radiant.ransomFor true nourishment—from the inside out and the outside in:https://tribevitamins.com 🦬