The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
243. Kyle Forgeard: On Mental Resilience, 100-Mile Endurance and Health Transformation
10 Feb 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
After I do this 100 miles and I push my mind so far past its breaking point, what can I not do?
Chapter 2: How does prioritizing health impact personal and professional life?
I don't know that a lot of people ever really find that place in themselves. And it's so liberating to realize what you can actually do.
And it's all mental.
Chapter 3: What was Kyle's health transformation journey like?
You know, if you train right, you're going to finish, but you're just going to be tested mentally in a way that you've never been tested before.
I think 100 miles is such a big, bold, audacious goal. I mean, if you've never run a marathon and felt that post-marathon pain, you might not know what it's like to be in the pain cave.
Chapter 4: What lessons were learned from the 100-mile race experience?
Once you do push past that pain, and I knew I made it, and I saw all you guys, I heard the cheers, I never cried too, but I teared up and made everything worth it.
How does your mind just not override your body and make you quit?
I'll be honest, I never actually ever had a doubt I was going to finish. But what I did realize very quickly was...
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekker, where we go down the road of everything, anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And today's guest is somebody that has been a friend for a very long time. His family are close to my family. He's a great friend of my son's.
And I think he is an inspiration to an entire generation of youth that they can actually do hard things, do epic hard things and create a community around doing that. So I really want to welcome to the podcast, Kyle Forgard. Thank you, Gary.
Brother, this is so good to be back.
Dude, the last time we shot the podcast, Stiney was talking about how healthy cocaine was. I had a whole shelf full of seltzers in the back. He's probably still wondering that. He's probably still wondering. I think he's still in denial.
Yeah.
But life's a little different now, man.
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Chapter 5: How does public accountability influence goal achievement?
Yeah.
Yeah. the people, you know, the John Joneses, the Tom Brady's, whoever else. And just the fact that you took your time out to help me originally when you didn't have to too, it means a lot. And I've really come far in my fitness journey, which I feel has changed my life, made me happier, you know, more successful businessman, I think too. So I can't thank you enough for helping me back then.
I think that's so true too.
Chapter 6: What strategies help in overcoming mental barriers during endurance challenges?
You know, I think back to when I was in my twenties, early thirties and The last thing I was thinking about was prioritizing my health. You know, it was just all about like the grind and that whole added to like sleep is for losers.
Chapter 7: How does surrounding yourself with the right team contribute to success?
I'll sleep when I die, you know, take the hill, work, work, work, just outwork your competition. But you don't realize what a superpower like sleep and health and just waking up and feeling clear and actually having the energy for the day does for every facet of your life.
Yeah. I think for me too, I got really successful, uh,
Chapter 8: What biohacking modalities does Kyle consider non-negotiable?
Obviously doing a lot of party content and stuff. That was our whole brand, right? Full send. It means, it means getting, well, you own one of the largest alcohol brands in the world. Exactly. We own, we own the number four happy dad, hard seltzers, officially like the number three to four, um, hard seltzer and convenience stores and grocery, depending on the state.
Yeah.
We're fully independent, which is huge too. So I think probably a lot of people deal with that too. It's like, your business tugging on your personal life a little bit. Right. And that's something that I've struggled with for like the last maybe five years is how do I find that balance between my business and, you know, being mentally happy, being mentally clear. Yeah.
And I think for me, I kind of just hit a wall where I'm just like, yeah, listen, I'm going to still be successful in business. I'm going to be successful at my work, but I'm not going to do that at the sacrifice of my mental health. Because I could be rich or successful. And if I don't have my mental health, if you don't have your mental health and you don't have your happiness, what do you have?
So I started putting my mental health and my fitness and my health first. And I think that's only transcended my business success.
Yeah. You know, talk about that wall. When you say I hit a wall, was it like... Was it that moment that you realized, you know, I can't do this for the rest of my life because there's a theme that runs through people that sit in that chair on my podcast. And the most impactful, passionate, driven people that sit in that chair, like yourself, have solved some kind of problem in their life.
And they're not necessarily the most qualified, like PhD, MD, qualified researcher, but they're making a massive impact on humanity because they solved the big problem in their life. I've had soccer moms that had an autistic child and just became this citizen scientist and really solved the problem for their kid. I've had people that had chronic Lyme disease and they
They just couldn't get help in the medical community and they became a citizen scientist. They turned that around and they're like, and so for you, I feel like you're inspiring an entire generation because of that transition that you were able to make. And I wonder if you would talk about that. Like when you say you hit a wall, what was kind of the tipping point?
I think for us, like I said, our brand was partying. So think of it being productive to party. That's a slippery slope. Getting paid to party. Like for most people, it's like they go out and drink and it's like, shit, like I couldn't be doing that.
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