Steven Bartlett

Steven Bartlett is a 33-year-old British entrepreneur, investor in more than 70 companies, speaker, author, and media owner. He is the founder of Steven.com - the creator media company. Through it's podcast creator "label" called FlightStory, they create and scales new media podcast IP and commercialise that IP through brand partnerships, programmatic revenue, events, book publishing, newsletters, e-commerce, and new product development.

He is also the co-founder of thirdweb, a developer platform powering over 100,000 teams to build and launch web3 applications, and FlightCast, a video-first podcast hosting platform used by some of the world’s largest shows.

Steven first gained recognition as the co-founder and CEO of Social Chain AG, a social media marketing and e-commerce company he launched at 21 and took public on a European stock exchange by the age of 27 via reverse merger. Social Chain AG became a globally recognised business with hundreds of employees across London, Manchester, Berlin, New York, and Los Angeles, working with major brands including Amazon, Apple, and Coca-Cola.

Through his Fund and personal investments, he has backed companies including SpaceX, Huel, ZOE, Whoop, MrBeast, Groq, KetoneIQ, Cadence, PerfectTed, and over 60 others - focusing on businesses that improve human health, happiness, and performance.

Steven is also the creator and host of The Diary of a CEO, the world's second most downloaded podcast and the fastest-growing podcast in the world. He is the youngest-ever investor on BBC’s Dragons’ Den.

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Anthropic just dropped a research report that really really made me PAUSE….

Anthropic is the company behind Claude, one of the most advanced AI assistants. Founded by former OpenAI researchers, they’re part of the big three in generative AI alongside OpenAI (ChatGPT) and Google (Gemini).

What makes this study different is that they used real data from millions of Claude conversations to measure what AI is actually being used for in professional settings, not theoretical assessments.

The chart shows something pretty staggering - we’re nowhere near AI’s potential to automate work.

Blue area = what AI could theoretically handle

Red area = what’s actually happening

We’re at maybe 5~ of where this technology could be deployed already. 

The report says computer programmers are only 75% “covered” by current usage. 

Customer service hits 70%. 

Most jobs are barely touched.

The report suggests the highest “AI-exposed” workers aren’t minimum wage jobs - they’re disproportionately older, more educated, higher-paid, and female. 

They’re knowledge workers whose tasks involve writing and analysis.

Hiring of 22-25 year olds into AI-exposed jobs has dropped 14% since ChatGPT launched. 

Meanwhile, 30% of workers have zero AI exposure. 

Cooks, bartenders, mechanics, construction workers might be the most automation-resistant.

I believe that the humans who thrive won’t compete with AI at routine tasks - they’ll focus on what becomes more valuable as intelligence gets commoditised… things like emotional intelligence, working alongside AI / managing AI agents and real  world skills….

MY THOUGHTS 💭 

There are several ways to interpret this data, but the interpretation that excites me most is that AI might be the first technology in human history that actually makes us more human…

They’ve all promised to and they’ve all delivered the exact opposite. 

What’s remarkable about truly intelligent AI is that it’s so capable that it no longer needs us to be anything other than what we are…

We don’t need to learn to code in its language - it’s learned ours! We don’t need to structure our thoughts like databases - it can understand our tangents, our contradictions, our entirely human messy way of thinking in stories and emotions and half-formed ideas! 

For the first time, we’ve built technology sophisticated enough that we can remain completely, messily, irrationally human while working with it… and we can focus on the things that only we can do like building relationships, creating in the real world and paying attention to each other.

It’s kinda like we’ve created artificial minds so advanced that they’ve finally given us permission to stop being artificial ourselves.. ❤️

So maybe this is what the future looks like… not us merging with the machines, but machines becoming so capable that humans can finally, fully, be human again.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​… 🤷🏽‍♂️

The most consequential thing in life isn't dying... it’s probably staying alive without living

I'M HIRING 🚨 I have hired the majority of my team (100s of people) from LinkedIn posts.. so here goes 👇🏾

My best hires didn't necessarily have the most experience - but they're all people who knew they could be something much more than what they were doing right now.

✅ I'm deeply, utterly obsessed with people's attitude, character and how they align with our culture! To me culture-fit is the most important thing in hiring.

I really believe there are people reading this right now who know deep inside them they could do their best work if they were in an environment that gave them the conditions to...

❌ Our team are not typical and we don't search for typical people - we do not care about university degrees or how many fancy logos you have on your CV.

✅ We care first and foremost about attitude, how hungry someone is to learn, how hard working they are, how dedicated they are to doing truly great work, how big their ambitions are, how broadly curious they are and their people skills.

🌍 We're hiring across the UK and the USA, across hundreds of roles at all levels at Steven.com. We're building the infrastructure for the creator economy - which we believe will be the most consequential industry in the world.

I could list all the roles here, but that doesn't really matter, because if you're ONE OF US, we will find a role for you...

If you're interested all you have to do is answer a few questions, and if you're aligned to our company culture, you will get an email from me within the hour!

Here are the questions: https://lnkd.in/eJWZjUVP

Tag someone you believe in. Send this to the person you think deserves a bigger opportunity ♻️ Repost so it reaches them!

I saw this visualisation last week and it genuinely changed how I think about where we are with AI...

Each dot represents 3.2 million people. 

2,500 dots for 8.1 billion humans. 

The colour shows the most advanced AI interaction that person has ever had.

Look at all that grey. That's 6.8 billion people who have never used AI. Ever. In any form.

The green strip at the bottom? 1.3 billion free chatbot users.

The tiny yellow sliver? The 15-25 million who actually pay for it.

And that single red dot you can barely see? That's the 2-5 million people using AI for coding and development.

I spend too much time on Twitter convincing myself the whole world has lapped me with their AI knowledge....a new model drops every day. Someone automated their entire company overnight. A 19 year old shipped a startup from their bedroom...

Then I show some simple AI tool to a mate from my small hometown and they react like I've just shown them fire for the first time.

They had no idea any of this existed.

And that's most people. 

Most people on earth have absolutely no idea what AI can do right now. They haven't tried it. They haven't seen it. They don't know that you can talk to a computer and have it reason, write, build, and think alongside you. 

The average person's understanding of AI is still "that thing that makes weird pictures" or "the robot that writes essays for students." 

They have no concept of agents, automations, coding assistants, or anything close to what's actually happening.

82% of American businesses still aren't using AI for anything.

Only 4% have mature AI capabilities.

78% of executives say it's moving too fast for their teams to keep up.

So when people ask me "how do I get into AI" or "how do I catch up" - the answer is almost laughably simple. 

Pay for one AI tool. Use it every day for a month. 

Read one book about it. 

Watch one long explainer video. 

That's enough to put you in the top 1% of AI knowledge on planet earth. 

You don't need a computer science degree. You don't need to understand transformer architecture. You just need to lean in and get your teams to lean in!

We are so so so early!

(THIS IS A REAL HUMAN BRAIN) 9 things I learned about the human brain that blew my mind 🤯 (from 100s of conversations on Diary Of A CEO)...

1. your emotions only last 90 seconds Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor said the chemical rush of an emotion leaves your system in 90 secs. if you’re still angry after that it's cause you're choosing to stay in the loop by rethinking the same thoughts.

2. heartbreak is processed just like an addiction Dr. Daniel G. Amen, M.D. showed rejection activates the same brain parts as cocaine withdrawal. the physical pain is real cause your brain is literally detoxing from the person.

3. non-sleep deep rest is a cheat code for motivation Andrew Huberman says NSDR (hovering between awake and asleep) can boost dopamine by 65%. it's one of the only ways to restore motivation without caffeine or sugar.

4. you actually have 34 senses not 5 Dr Tara Swart Bieber explains we miss most of the picture. beyond sight we have senses like interoception (feeling internal organs) and proprioception (sensing body in space). we ignore 90% of the data coming in.

5. alcohol physically shrinks your brain a huge study showed even one drink a day links to smaller brain volume. Dr Daniel Amen says the more you drink the worse it gets - there isn't really "safe" drinking for brain structure.

6. you need sleep before you learn not just after Dr Matthew Walker, PhD warns sleep isn't just the save button, its the clear button before. think of your hippocampus like an inbox - if you don't sleep it stays full and you cant absorb new info.

7. 80% of us have an optimism bias we are wired to overestimate good outcomes. Dr Tali Sharot explains this delusion is actually good cause it lowers stress and makes us try difficult things.

8. your brain is always rewiring itself "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" is wrong. Dr Tara Swart says neuroplasticity happens til you die. the connections you focus on grow stronger - you physically sculpt your brain with attention.

9. pleasure and pain live on a seesaw Dr Anna Lembke says the brain processes pleasure and pain in the same spot. if you chase cheap pleasure your brain tips the balance toward pain to even it out. the comedown is your brain protecting you.

10. your brain runs your body like a financial budget Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett explains your brain constantly predicts resources like glucose. sleep/food are deposits, stress is a withdrawal. run a deficit too long and you go bankrupt—aka burnout.

Holding a real human brain (which I've done twice now) was the most inspiring thing I've ever done. it's so soft, delicate, kinda like tofu and it gave me the stark realisation that it's so easy it is to damage our brains through how we treat our body.. what we consume and thinking sleep is negotiable...

A toolkit for not f*cking up your relationship when you're absolutely obsessed with your work...

I was diagnosed with ADHD. One of the things that comes with the specific type that the doctor said i have is "hyperfocus" - which sounds like a superpower but is actually just your brain picking one thing and deleting everything else from existence. 

When I'm locked into work, my fiancée Melanie, the gym, my mum, food - all of it just vanishes. I don't even notice until someone is upset or I haven't eaten in 18 hours.

I proposed to Melanie recently (she said yes, thank god) and then I immediately disappeared onto planes for a month. 

So I've spent the last few weeks trying to figure out how to be obsessed with my work without destroying everything else in my life. Here's what I've got so far. All of it backed by actual research, most of it embarrassingly simple...

I still think the Japanese approach of "Kaizen" is the biggest secret in business that most people ignore... 

After WWII, Japan was destroyed. Their factories were bombed, economy shattered, workers demoralised. American companies like General Motors and Ford were decades ahead in technology, processes, and scale.

Japanese manufacturers couldn't compete on resources. So they tried something that most western companies have never considered...

Instead of chasing a revolutionary breakthrough or innovation that they probably couldn't afford to invest into, they asked workers one question:

"What tiny thing could we improve today?"

One factory worker suggested moving a safety sticker four inches lower so that it was easier to read.

Another noticed screws getting lost and suggested a small magnet tray. 

They implemented all of the tiny suggestions, and built 

Someone found a way to reduce paint waste by 3%. Rolled out within the week.
None of these changes would impress a consultant. But thousands of tiny improvements, compounded over decades, turned Toyota into the world's largest automaker by 2008.

They called it Kaizen and it's why I stopped chasing transformation and started chasing improvement.

Big changes are easy to copy. Launch a revolutionary product? Competitors reverse-engineer it. Hire a new exec? They can hire them too. But a deep culture of out-caring about the smallest things? Almost impossible to copy. 

At my company Steven dot com, we don't have quarterly meetings about innovation. We have a culture of optimisation. "1%" might be the most popular phrase in our team. 

Give frontline employees authority to implement small changes immediately
Measure progress in 1% increments, not step changes. Celebrate tiny improvements as much as big wins. 

I'll never forget the team celebrating the fact that Jemima had found a better air fresher for the studio!

1% better daily = 37x improvement annually.

KAIZEN

woahhhhhh....The Diary Of A CEO just hit 15 million strong on YouTube 😵‍💫 one word explains how this happened... 

This month the team broke every previous viewership record we had. They hit 4 million subscribers on Spotify, 15 million subscribers on YouTube, almost 22 million subscribers overall across all platforms, and if you ask me, so much of it comes down to one simple thing - they really, really CARE.

Extreme care is an easy thing to aspire to but an impossibly hard thing to do, 24/7 for years and years and years. 

The levels of care across the now almost 120+ people that work in our team is like nothing I've ever seen before. They care about the scent in the room when a guest walks in. The CO2 levels. The temperature. Every single pixel of the trailer. The social strategy. They'll call a guest for several hours to coach them before they come on the show. They care about things most people would call petty, pointless and pathetic.

And when you zoom out, that care compounds. It compounds into moments that make someone stop scrolling at 1am. It compounds into an episode that changes how someone sees their business, marriage, health, life and more...

I started this show in my bedroom several years ago with a $100 microphone, Garageband and no clue what I was doing... (still today, If you call me an "interviewer" i get a deeper imposter shudder deep in my core...) had I not been able to surround myself with a group of people that CARE this much, I'd probably still be in my bedroom with Garageband and that $100 mic 😅

The fact that I now get to work alongside people who care this much - about every detail, about every viewer, about every single second of what we make - is the greatest privilege of my professional life and it's so so f*cking rare

Thank you to every single one of you on the team. And thank you to every single person who watches, listens, and shares - we don't take a moment of it for granted ❤️ some amazing / crazy conversations on the way (including the CEO of Uber today).. buckle up!!!

26 LESSONS I'm taking into 2026 👇🏾

lesson 1: the person you marry is the most important career decision you’ll ever make.

lesson 2: failure isn’t the opposite of success - it’s the tuition fee.

lesson 3: the first thought you have is often the truest. Trust it more.

lesson 4: regret is always louder than rejection.

lesson 5: do not let the internet tell you how hard you should or shouldn't work.

lesson 6: everything is figure-out-able if you’re willing to look stupid.

lesson 7: anger is often just fear in disguise.

lesson 8: your health is the foundation under every ambition. Without it, nothing stands.

lesson 9: if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it deeply.

lesson 10: your childhood is an explanation, not a justification. 

lesson 11: you become unstoppable the day embarrassment stops being a price you fear.

lesson 12: if it costs your peace, it’s too expensive.

lesson 13: the people you love will always be your best investment.

lesson 14: growth feels a lot like loss at first.

lesson 15: if you can’t change it, change how you see it.

lesson 16: most timeframes and delays people give you are fake - it's just "how it's always been done". Your job is to push on them to see if they're made of concrete or paper.

lesson 17: your energy introduces you before your words do. Get right with yourself. 

lesson 18: your biggest opportunities will show up dressed as problems

lesson 19: the people who win are the ones who can suffer boredom.

lesson 20: success is rarely about doing more - it’s about deleting what doesn’t matter.

lesson 21: great work is just good work repeated. Be consistent, not perfect.

lesson 22: protecting your time is the highest form of self-care and self-respect.

lesson 23: fear shrinks when you move 
toward it.

lesson 24: discipline is easier than regret

lesson 25: don’t just chase goals. Chase environments that make those goals inevitable.

lesson 26: mind your own business.

I’m curious, which of these lessons did you have to learn the hard way? Drop the number in the comments. Or, if you have a Lesson 27 that I missed, leave it below. I’ll be reading through ❤️

I spoke to 600+ founders in San Fransisco. By the end of the night, I felt annoyed. Not at them. At us in the UK...

A woman told me she'd failed twice times, burned through her savings, and moved back in with her parents at 31. She listed these like credentials because in that room, they absolutely are...

A guy pitched me his company in the toilet. Didn't flinch. Didn't apologise afterwards. Smiled confidentially the whole time.

Several founders told me they were sleeping on Sofa's, working multiple jobs to fund their dream and working around the clock to build something which had very little chance of succeeding... 

👃🏽 One married couple were building a robot that makes you your own personalised perfume...

🍳 One guy was building a robotic arm that cooks your breakfast for you... 

🤖 Another guy was building 3D printers that could make any item you want

Everyone speaks the same language here... belief. 

A city-wide delusion that walls are made of paper, that ignorance is temporary, failure is great, that you should applaud attempts (not just success), and that the only real failure is the one where you didn't swing...

In the UK, we tell founders to be realistic. To stay humble. To not get ahead of themselves. To have a backup plan.

And if they fail, stutter, or make a mistake - we mock them, ridicule them, and write about their downfall like it's entertainment.

I'm not dumb. I realise there is no Linkedin post, that is going to have any impact on our very well established nature. But on an individual level, it helps to realise that other people succeeding in the UK helps everyone - more jobs, a growing economy, more tax receipts, better public services, and so on.. 

So to celebrate their failure is a form of self-sabotage.

We often think the difference between Europe is talent, access, capital. 

But honestly... the real gap is something else entirely. 

And I can summarise it in one word...

Permission.

Permission to be obsessed. To be unbalanced. To have terrible work-life balance without someone on LinkedIn telling you you're toxic. To choose one thing and let everything else suffer for a while. 

Permission.

To look stupid asking a question. To look arrogant giving an answer. To pitch a stranger in a bathroom. To fall flat on your face without having to endure collective ridicule.

That permission costs nothing. But it appears to make all the difference!

With this in mind, I'm starting work on a new project to give high-potential, under-represented entrepreneurs the implicit permission to pursue their own dreams! (more on that soon 🤐) let me know if you're working on this! 

And, let me know what you think we do to better enable all of our great talent in the UK?

I've come to believe that the greatest consequence in life isn't failing at big goals - it's not keeping the small commitments we make to ourselves 👊🏾❤️

Most people don’t think about brain health until something starts to go wrong.

After helping Olympic athletes and NBA stars reach peak performance, we invited Louisa Nicola, MMed, PhD(c) onto the show to educate us on what’s really at stake…

Louisa is the founder of Neuro Athletics, a company that helps athletes and high performers train their brains like a muscle.

Her work bridges the gap between neuroscience and performance - and she believes what she’s seeing is worrying.

More people are walking around with underperforming brains, and most don’t even realise it.

We think we’re tired or anxious but what we’re often experiencing is cognitive decline in slow motion.

She explains why your 30s matter more than you think, and how both anxiety and diseases like Alzheimer’s often begin long before the symptoms appear.

I wanted to know:

- How do you measure if your brain is inflamed?
- What are the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s most people miss?
- What does blood glucose have to do with focus?
- Why are elite athletes obsessed with glucose tracking?
- How does alcohol affect cognitive performance?
- What does your resting heart rate say about your brain?

There’s a part in this episode where she walks me through a simple tennis ball test to measure my reaction time. I thought I’d do well, but it showed me how much sharper I could be 😂

It’s the kind of test anyone can try, and it says more about your brain than you’d expect.

I walked away from this conversation really reflecting on how I treat my brain. So much of the energy we bring into life is linked with blood glucose and inflammation.

The more we ignore it, the further we drift from the focus and clarity we need - and the longevity we think we’ll just have by default.

The same pressure that breaks one person builds another. The different is the story they tell themselves...

So many of us can’t stop scrolling and most of us don’t understand why…

To help understand why, I’m joined by two experts who break down exactly what short-form content is doing to our brains.

Aditi Nerurkar, MD, MPH is a Harvard brain expert and stress specialist. She’s been on this show before, and her first episode helped over 3.5M of you!

Jonathan Haidt is one of the world’s most respected social psychologists. He specialises in how tech and social media are affecting young minds, and his research has shaped policy in countries like France and Australia.

We’ve built a world that constantly hijacks our attention, and we’re only just starting to see the cost.

It’s about our minds and our memory and how far we’ve drifted from the conditions that keep us mentally well.

Dr Aditi believes the neurological cost of constant stimulation and why rest is now a skill, whilst Jonathan lays out the evidence linking short-form content with rising anxiety and attention issues - especially in teenagers.

So I wanted to know:

- Why can’t we stop scrolling?
- Is short-form content changing how we think?
- What’s really behind the rise in teen mental health issues?
- Can our brains ever go back to how they worked before?
- What are the most urgent changes we need to make?

Right now, I know I’m struggling with my relationship to my phone.

After this conversation, I walked away with tools I can actually use, and it pushed me to confront my own habits.

I’ve noticed how much harder it’s become to stay present. It’s affecting how I focus, and it’s affecting the way I listen to the people I care about.

It’s made me think seriously about the kind of partner I want to be, and the kind of parent I will be one day.

If I don’t make changes, I won’t be present. And that’s not a risk I’m willing to take.

PEOPLE PLEASERS 👉🏾 “Setting a boundary is about saying, ‘Wait, I don’t have to give you an answer right now. Let me go back and sit in it, in the request, and figure out whether it works for me.’ And so many of us as pleasers, we’re trying to give people an answer right away. And it’s hard to look someone in the face and say no.”

- Michelle Obama, on The Diary Of A CEO

What does it take to climb a 3,000-foot wall with no rope? Today, you’ll find out…

Alex Honnold has built his life around doing what most people would never even attempt, and he’s still asking what’s possible.

For those who don’t know Alex, he is the most famous free solo climber in the world and millions already know him through the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo, where he climbed El Capitan - a 3,000-foot vertical wall, without ropes or safety gear.

I didn’t just want to talk about climbing - I wanted to understand what it really takes to control fear and build the kind of confidence that holds up under pressure.

Alex’s life looks extreme from the outside, but his drive comes from wanting to be fully present and see what’s possible when you stop avoiding discomfort.

So, I wanted to know:

- How does someone master fear without becoming reckless?
- What does it take to prepare for a life-or-death climb?
- Can risk bring more clarity than safety?
- What changed for Alex after having a child?
- What’s the cost of playing it safe?

After hearing Alex speak about free soloing over 100 mountains, it’s clear he sees fear in a way no one else does.

That challenged me, because I realised how often fear, not lack of ability, is what holds most of us back.

Not fear of dying, but fear of failing, looking stupid, or even just trying.

We don’t need to be superhuman, but it’s important to be doing hard things again and again until they’re no longer unfamiliar.

What do you do when everything you’ve built is taken from you as a child?

Dara Khosrowshahi was 9 when his family fled Iran… Today, he’s the CEO of Uber.

For those who don’t know him, Dara is one of the most influential tech leaders.

He led Uber through one of the biggest cultural and financial turnarounds in Silicon Valley, transforming it from a company in crisis to one with stability and growth.

I didn’t want to sit down with Dara to talk about quarterly earnings or strategy decks, but rather understand how someone rebuilds their life when their foundation gets ripped away.

Dara brought me through how he reshaped Uber’s culture and why honesty became his greatest asset as a leader.

One of the most practical takeaways was Dara’s “direct channels” framework - a system he uses to get unfiltered feedback from deep inside the company.

He meets regularly with engineers and teams far removed from the boardroom, because they’re the ones who see what’s really happening.

It’s how he avoids echo chambers and keeps his decisions rooted in reality, and it’s something any business owner can apply.

I asked Dara:

- How do you lead through crisis without losing trust?
- What does radical honesty actually look like in a billion-dollar company?
- How do you rebuild culture after public failure?
- What does success mean when you’ve already lost everything once?
- Why does Dara still feel like he has something to prove?

At one point, Dara breaks down when speaking about his father - a man he spent his life trying to make proud, but never really got the chance to show.

I’ve seen this pattern before. Men raised to hold everything in, only learning later how to open up. It’s a pressure so many leaders carry but never show.

Even after researching Dara’s story for days, sitting across from him left me with more respect than I expected.

He’s one of the few leaders I’ve met who’s been tested at every level, as an investor, a CFO, a CEO - and still leads with honesty at his core.

Let me know your thoughts after watching this conversation.

I get asked this question a lot: what's your favourite episode of The Diary Of A CEO ever?

The answer is fairly easy.. episode 101 with Mo Gawdat. It was our most shared episode ever, not because of fame or celebrity, but because what he said was so profound it changed the way I think about life..

Mo was the Chief Business Officer at Google X, the "moonshot factory" behind self-driving cars and some of the most futuristic technology on the planet. He co-founded over 20 businesses. By any external measure, he had achieved everything. But he was desperately unhappy..

So he did what any engineer would do - he tried to solve the problem. He spent years researching, collecting data, and eventually he discovered what he calls the happiness equation.

It's deceptively simple...

"You're happy in your life when your expectations of how life is supposed to be going are met. And you're unhappy when those expectations go unmet." 

Therefore... so much of our happiness is about the gap between what happens and what you expected to happen."

I use this as a framework now to think about why I'm unhappy at certain moments in my life. 

And it's always.. without any exception.. because I had an expectation of how something was going to happen and it's currently falling below that expectation.

This also explains why gratitude has always been seen as one of the great answers to happiness. 

Because gratitude is the realisation that your expectations are being met in various areas of your life right now. 

If you think about everything that's made you unhappy in the last week, I guarantee it's all about an expectation you had about something.

Someone cuts you off in traffic? You expected them not to. Your partner didn't do what you asked? You expected them to. Your dog pooped in the house? You expected it wouldn't.

So can we manage our expectations? of ourselves, of others, of our partners, of life itself?

Mo's son Ali died suddenly during a routine operation. It was the ultimate test of his equation. And somehow, through the worst thing a parent could ever endure, his framework helped him survive.

Have you listened to this one yet? ❤️

What if feeling calm and in control starts with your first bite of the day?

Jessie Inchauspé has built her career around that idea - The idea that your glucose levels shape far more than you think…

Many of you will recognise Jessie from the show, as this is the third time we’ve had her on. But for those of you who don’t know her, Jessie is a biochemist whose work has reshaped how many people view cravings and sugar.

This time, we go much deeper than just “avoid sugar.” She walked me through how your fasting glucose is one of the most important numbers to know, and why muscle is one of your greatest metabolic assets.

Small habits like moving after a meal or changing the order of your food can dramatically change your energy.

When we started talking about pregnancy and stress, the conversation shifted. It stopped being about hacks and started being about responsibility. About the idea that what’s happening in your body today could shape someone else’s life tomorrow.

I wanted to know:

- How can you reduce cravings without relying on willpower?
- What should you actually look for on an ingredients label?
- Can muscle mass protect you against diabetes?
- How does stress impact your glucose levels?
- Do “healthy” foods sometimes act like dessert in disguise?
- What happens in your body when you snack constantly?

We can all understand the science behind sugar, but when that voice kicks in at 10pm and tells you to eat the cookie anyway, knowledge doesn’t always equal control.

I’ve been that person who eats the thing, then ten minutes later regrets it because I know it’s going to mess up my sleep and the next day. And what Jessie helped me see is that a lot of that battle isn’t about willpower, but more so it’s about what’s happening upstream in your body.

If you want to feel steadier and more focused throughout your day, this episode is for you.

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