About Elevated Life: Real Wellness and Transformation
Personal responsibility. Fitness, mindset, and wellness, honestly.
We're Johnna and Clint, and this is a conversation about what actually changes a life. Not a program. Not a personality overhaul. Just the small, unglamorous choices repeated over years.
We share what we've lived, not what we're selling. Fitness that doesn't fix everything. Mindset work that doesn't finish. Wellness that looks different depending on the week.
No inspiration talk. No pretending the hard parts are pretty. Just us telling you the truth about what it actually took, and still takes, and letting you decide what to do with it.
New episodes Monday and Thursday. More at cjelevatedlife.com.
How to value yourself: Clint on self worth and what drinking was really covering for.
Four years ago Clint was stuck in what he calls a comfortable hell. This week he said out loud that the alcohol was never the problem. It was his way of coping with something deeper, and he only fully realized it two days before we recorded.
Where not valuing yourself starts: his brothers, Thanksgiving and Pictionary night
Subconscious programming from ages 0 to 7
Johnna on the Hawaiian healing practices she's using to rewrite it
How one meal he cooked for himself became the start of training
Why valuing yourself changes how the people around you value you
Why you don't have to break down to break through
Chapters:
0:00 Hook: The Alcohol Was Never the Problem
0:36 Intro
0:59 A Season of Growth and Change
3:45 Where Clint's Mind Was Four Years Ago
5:09 Feeling Trapped
7:08 Trapped in a Comfortable Hell
10:56 How Alcohol Came Into the Picture
14:14 Alcohol Was the Remedy, Not the Problem
17:09 What Was the Remedy Masking?
20:27 Growing Up in His Brothers' Shadow
22:48 Thanksgiving Dinner and Not Being an Equal
24:46 The Pictionary Night Story
27:43 Subconscious Programming From Ages 0 to 7
29:11 Why You Don't Value Yourself: The Root
31:35 Hawaiian Healing Practices and Rewriting the Code
33:02 The Moment Clint Decided to Change
35:23 Investing in Yourself: Nutrition and the First Meal
41:07 Fitness: The Gateway Drug to Excellence
43:57 REBUILT Is an Identity Rebuild Disguised as a Fitness Program
44:56 Not Valuing Yourself Resurfaced This Week
46:23 Interviewing Himself to Rewrite REBUILT for Men
49:21 How to Value Yourself: Why It Changes How Others Value You
52:09 The Newsletter and "Does Anyone Care What I Have to Say?"
56:29 REBUILT for Men: More Than an Exercise Program
57:53 You Don't Have to Break Down to Break Through
59:16 Rate the Podcast
REBUILT for Men is a complete identity rebuild disguised as a fitness program. We guide you through the first 12 weeks of a habit you keep for life.
REBUILT for Men: Build Muscle. Own Your Strength. Rediscover Your Power. cjelevatedlife.com/rebuilt-men
REBUILT for Women: Build Strength. Trust Your Body. Reclaim Your Power. cjelevatedlife.com/rebuilt-women
5 Oct 2026
Retatrutide Side Effects: What Our Third Cycle Taught Us
Retatrutide side effects and dosage from our own third cycle. Johnna and Clint on what we felt, what we got wrong, and why habits matter more than the quick fix.
We did a third retatrutide cycle after the move and fell off our nutrition. This is our lived experience, not medical advice.
Why we did it again and what we got wrong
Retatrutide dosage and the side effects we each felt
Lived experience vs. research
Johnna's set point and the moving target
Why you can't be on it forever, and why building habits is the point
Chapters:
0:00 Hook: Retatrutide and the Moving Target
1:09 Intro
1:32 Oops, We Did It Again: Our Third Retatrutide Cycle
3:01 Why We Did It Again After the Move
5:12 A Word From REBUILT
5:49 Using Retatrutide to Restart Nutrition and Training
7:23 Weight Gained Before the Cycle
10:18 How This Cycle Differed From the First
12:16 Results: Weight and Body Fat
16:06 Retatrutide Dosage and Lived Experience Over Research
18:56 Retatrutide Side Effects: Nausea, Energy and Workouts
21:23 Retatrutide and Focus
23:19 Feeling Weak
25:12 Dampened Hunger Signals and Intuition
28:06 Why Johnna Won't Take It Again
29:34 Johnna's New Set Point
32:51 Your Body, Your Choice: Build Habits
34:17 Mood, Irritability and Mental Health
36:14 What Counts as Doing It Naturally
39:09 Dosage and Side Effects
40:08 Hurricane Lowell
41:06 Takeaways: Listen to Your Body
42:59 REBUILT for Men and REBUILT for Women
Build habits you can keep, because you can't be on it forever. REBUILT guides you through the first 12 weeks of a habit you keep for life.
REBUILT for Men: Build Muscle. Own Your Strength. Rediscover Your Power. cjelevatedlife.com/rebuilt-men
REBUILT for Women: Build Strength. Trust Your Body. Reclaim Your Power. cjelevatedlife.com/rebuilt-women
More conversations like this, twice a week: cjelevatedlife.com/#newsletter
1 Oct 2026
She Talks to Nature Spirits in the Trees
Johnna sees and talks to tree spirits. She has since she was three years old, and today she says it out loud.
What we get into:
How Johnna was raised as a fundamentalist Christian and told from a young age that what she sees in nature was demonic
What she actually sees: faces in trees and other vegetation, going back to her first encounter at three
Years of trying to exorcise it out of herself, and the relief of a trusted intuitive reader telling her she's seeing tree spirits
The plumeria, monkeypod, and coconut trees she's connected with at home on Kauai, and why she talks to her tree before she works out
The ancestor who came through with the same gift, silenced generations ago, and what it means to honor that line by speaking up
Johnna's message to anyone who sees or feels things and was taught to be ashamed of it: lean in
Why we changed our intro, and why we don't want to pigeonhole what this show covers
There's more on this coming in future episodes. More at cjelevatedlife.com, including the newsletter.
REBUILT for Men ($67) and REBUILT for Women ($67): the first 12 weeks of a habit you keep for life. Each includes the Guide, the 12-week Program (training and nutrition), and the Journal. https://www.cjelevatedlife.com/rebuilt-men https://www.cjelevatedlife.com/rebuilt-women
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