Summary: Best-selling author, top 10 App Developer, musician, radio show host, entrepreneur, and veritable health crusader - Abel James [jwplayer player="6" mediaid="10343"] Todays guest is a close friend and incredibly accomplished author, artist and podcaster. He catapulted himself to success when he finally tossed out the corporate suits and leaned into a life of crusading against deceptive marketing practices, misleading corporate propaganda, and powerful special interests. We cover how to ditch the status quo and societies expectations to build your best health, wealth and self. Resources Mentioned in the Podcast: WildDietBook.com How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci by Michael J. Gelb Check out FatBurningMan.com for more info! Thanks so much for listening! Transcript: Download Announcer: Welcome to the Eventual Millionaire podcast – with your host, Jaime Tardy. Real talk and real advice from real millionaires, with a sharp focus on you – the Eventual Millionaire. Jaime: Welcome to Eventual Millionaire. I’m Jaime Tardy and I’m really excited to have my very good friend Abel James Bascom on the show. I’ve been waiting forever to have him on. He is coming out with a brand new book tomorrow – April 7th – called ‘The Wild Diet’, you can go to WildDietBook.com. He also has an amazing podcast and website at FatBurningMan.com. Thank you so much for coming on the show today, Abel. Abel: Jaime, it is such a pleasure to see you right now. Jaime: You too. Abel: We’re going to have fun. Jaime: Oh my gosh! Abel: I know. Jaime: I’m going to have you tell the story – tell everybody how we met. Because we met a couple of years ago. Do you remember? Abel: Yeah, going back to the early days with Ryan Lee, I believe it was. He was a good mentor/friend for us, I think, and we just started running into each other, didn’t we, after that? It was like life happened and so many of these social circles collided with each other and it was really fun to be in that. It took you from Maine, where we met at this dank little coffee shop once to work on some website together, and me in New Hampshire, where I’m from, all the way down to Austin. It’s been so awesome to have the opportunity just to hang out with you in so many different rooms. Jaime: That’s what’s so funny – I remember connecting with you and going ‘Oh my gosh, you’re new New Hampshire!’ Thinking that that was the coolest thing in the world, because a lot of people in the space that I had met were cool people from New York or from LA and when I heard that you were from New Hampshire I was like ‘You’re one of my friends automatically!’ because you get growing up in a small town. Abel: You understand what it’s like to grow up in a one stoplight town. Jaime: Mine was a blinking stoplight town. Abel: Good for you! Jaime: That’s all I had. I think that’s the thing that’s really important – it doesn’t matter where you grow up or anything like that, and we were talking about how you got this book deal and how amazing your podcast has been. I know you well but nobody else does – besides the millions of fans that you have – so tell us about what you do online and what your website provides for people. Abel: The one that people know me by the most, I would say, is Fat Burning Man, which is a triple entendre. I’ve been blogging about health and lifestyle for a really long time. Out of college I was a consultant with a lot of big Fortune 500 companies so I had this crazy insight into what the people who run these companies are thinking about and it’s certainly not you – it’s their shareholders and quarterly profits and stuff like that. So while I was maneuvering myself through this crazy world I wanted a way to drip the truth out to people and warn them about what we’re up against in the food world and in what it means to be a healthy person these days because, man, the marketers kind of took that one over – and not the good kind.
