#108 - Ben Brandenburg: ALS Took His Body. It Didn’t Take His Purpose.

#108 - Ben Brandenburg: ALS Took His Body. It Didn’t Take His Purpose.

Ben Brandenburg spent his career behind the scenes in elite college athletics, helping others perform at the highest level. In 2021, he was diagnosed with ALS, a progressive disease that steadily takes away the body’s ability to move. In this conversation, Ben describes what it is like to live through that loss in real time. Not as a series of good days and bad days, but as a constant, irreversible decline. He reflects on losing independence, confronting limits that effort cannot overcome, and redefining purpose as control disappears. The discussion moves beyond illness into deeper questions. What remains when discipline no longer works. How identity changes when the future contracts. What it means to lead a family when you can no longer act physically. And how faith, responsibility, and meaning evolve under pressure. This is not a story about overcoming ALS. It is a conversation about how to live when it cannot be overcome. SPONSORS: ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (⁠https://elevenlabs.io⁠) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice. SOCIAL: Website: ⁠https://nlupod.com/⁠ X: ⁠https://x.com/nlutimgreen⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/NLUpod⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/nlupod⁠ PERSONAL: Tackle ALS: ⁠https://www.tackleals.com⁠ Tim Green Books: ⁠https://authortimgreen.com⁠ Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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#113 - Dr Tommy Wood: The Hidden Cost of Optimizing Your Health

#113 - Dr Tommy Wood: The Hidden Cost of Optimizing Your Health

Dr. Tommy Wood is a neuroscientist and physician focused on brain injury and long term cognitive health. This conversation challenges common assumptions about how the brain works and what actually imp...

29 Huhti 2h 14min

#112 - Sam Peltzman: The FDA Rule That Kills More People Than It Saves

#112 - Sam Peltzman: The FDA Rule That Kills More People Than It Saves

Sam Peltzman, a leading economist known for the Peltzman Effect, explains how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration drug approval process delays life saving treatments long enough to cost millions of ...

22 Huhti 1h 28min

#111 - Kurt Haggstrom: Building Practical Brain–Computer Interfaces for ALS Communication

#111 - Kurt Haggstrom: Building Practical Brain–Computer Interfaces for ALS Communication

A grounded discussion on how brain–computer interfaces are moving from research into real clinical use, with a focus on restoring communication and autonomy for ALS patients. Kurt Hagstrom explains th...

15 Huhti 1h 7min

#110 - Tu Lam: The ACTUAL Reality of War

#110 - Tu Lam: The ACTUAL Reality of War

Former Green Beret Tu Lam joins us for a second time and breaks down the psychological reality of 15 years at war, the loss of identity that followed, and the long path through trauma, discipline, and...

8 Huhti 1h 33min

#109 - Tim Green: We recorded our family therapy session

#109 - Tim Green: We recorded our family therapy session

Tim Green sits down with his children for an unfiltered, deeply personal conversation on family, faith, regret, and legacy, turning the interview into something closer to real family therapy. Through ...

1 Huhti 29min

#107 - Clifford Winston: The Incentive Problem Driving Modern Politics

#107 - Clifford Winston: The Incentive Problem Driving Modern Politics

Brookings senior fellow Clifford Winston joins Tim and Troy Green for a sharp conversation on political incentives, institutional trust, market competition, and why he believes many government solutio...

18 Maalis 1h 38min

#106 - Dr. Shireen Rizvi: Building a Life Worth Living

#106 - Dr. Shireen Rizvi: Building a Life Worth Living

Dr. Shireen Rizvi joins Tim and Troy Green for a deep conversation about dialectical behavior therapy, emotional regulation, trauma, suffering, and hope. She explains what DBT actually is in plain lan...

11 Maalis 1h 5min

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