Life's Essential Ingredients
Life’s Essential Ingredients is spinoff of C4 Leaders, a California based non-profit who uses PIZZA to guide all people in RISING TOGETHER. The show is hosted by two best friends who were college roommates at the University of San Francisco – (Jeff with a Mike). Season 5 started in 2025 and the show is currently listened to in 57 countries and 764 cities.
The educational and entertaining show takes a deep, yet humorous look at life’s essential ingredients. The hosts will engage in interesting conversation with some of the world’s best leaders, authors, athletes, musicians, chefs, architects, moms, dads, brothers, sisters, comedians, CEOs, coaches, professors, teachers, and many, many, more industries and professions.
The goal of the show is to have the guest highlight their life’s essential ingredients, who helped them develop the ingredients, and how the guest can help the listeners develop their essential ingredients.
The hosts create space for the guest to be the star of the show and provide an incredible platform to highlight their life, their business, their passion, and most importantly, their gift they share with the world.
Our listeners are diverse and 9% are 18-24, 18% 25-29, 13% 30-34, 18% 35-44, 18% 45-54, and 55+ 24%.
Life's Essential Ingredients
Season 5 Episode #5 Dr. Derek Alessi - The Health, Fitness, and Nutritional GURU!
C4 Leaders – the ONLY nonprofit to utilize the pizza making process to create space for our companions to be seen, heard, and loved. We also write children’s books and use the most amazing handmade, hand-tossed, sourdough pizza to bring out the best in each other. Please check out PIZZADAYS.ORG to support our important work.
Season 5 Episode #5 Dr. Derek Alessi is coming from East Amherst, NY (inform, inspire, & transform)
You can find Dr. Derek via his website strengthgenesis.com use POD 1 at checkout for any purchases. Also download his ebook for FREE here: Cooking with Gold.
About our guest: As America’s Premier Health Advocate, Dr. Derek’s core belief is that health and fitness are not a result of gimmicks, hype or the latest butt buster. Instead they are achieved by understanding the physiological complexities of the body and the synergistic role that the right kinds of exercise along with supportive nutrition can play in unlocking the healthy body that is inside every one of us.
Dr. Derek is passionate about body fat reduction, medication reduction and helping individuals improve the quality of their lives. Dr. Derek owns and operates Dr. Derek Health & Fitness and has appeared on over 2100-TV and 400-radio programs throughout the country and has been featured in national print media including Maxim, Burn Fitness for Women and Iron-Man Magazines.
Dr. Derek, thanks for sharing your many gifts and talents, for guiding people on their health and fitness journey, for continuing to be passionate about health, fitness, nutrition, and overall well-being, and for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients…welcome to the show.
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In this episode:
What was life like growing up?
What are your life’s essential ingredients?
You have been doing this for 30 plus years, how have you evolved as a trainer, coach, nutritionist…how has time, research, technology…changed how you approach what you do…
What got you into nutrition and physical fitness?
How important is mindset in all aspects of life but in this case, specifically health…
The psychology of life…intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation
The three pillars of success – Right Exercise, Right Diet, Active Management by Right Team…
5 step process – Initial Consultation, Skeletal System Alignment, Nutrition, Workout, Sustainability in fitness and sustainability in energy…
Importance of knowing what is going on “under the hood” glucose, ketone, body fat and deep sleep tracking along with the right kind of diet and intelligent exercise to extend life and improve lifestyle.
Power Sips…congrats on the book, most recent but also have Lose Fat Forever, The Promise, Bermuda Triangle Diet, and Cooking with Gold…
Microplastics…and the damage they do to us and to our environment… why do you care with the products you sell?
Carbohydrates
Coffee, how much caffeine is good for us
Seems like you are big on Macadamia Nut Oil…give me your insight
What’s the difference with coconut oil vs. avocado oil?
Cold Pressed Oil are they worth the extra money?
Amino Acids – we have 9 essential that come from animal products ie the food we eat and our body produces the other 11… repair body tissue, hormones and neurotransmitters, energy source, boost immune system, aid in digestion…how much protein should people take in?
Protein Supplements
Legacy