Screw The Naysayers Podcast

David Tao is the Founder and CEO of BarBend a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient for media and has nearly a decade of experience building and running some of the biggest online brands.  BarBend, a fitness and strength-sports news site that has around one million monthly visitors and is the official media partner of USA Weightlifting, the sport's national governing body. BarBend has raised $825,000 in seed funding. In addition to his work in the health & fitness industry, David has been a writer for Fortune and a contributor to Forbes, Slate, and numerous other outlets across the web and in print.  In this episode David: Points out that most naysayers have a vested interest in you not succeeding. It could be monetary, a personal grudge, or that they have built emotional equity into being better than you. Tells us why he hates the idea of asking youth what they want to do when they “grow up.” Says that humans are multifaceted and that it's now normal for people to live multi dimensional lives and multi-dimen