169: Processed Food Is Quietly Wrecking Entrepreneurs with Abel James – 7FL

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Abel James
Abel James is a best-selling author, musician, and entrepreneur best known for his book The Wild Diet and his chart-topping podcast The Fat-Burning Man Show. After following conventional health advice left him overweight and burned out in his 20s, Abel took matters into his own hands—using self-experimentation to reclaim his health and energy. Since then, he’s helped millions rethink nutrition and performance, while building a life and business aligned with creativity, impact, and personal freedom. Today, he focuses on advising, investing, and scaling meaningful ventures—on his terms.

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Could your food choices be the reason you’re tired, foggy, and underperforming?

In this episode of Beyond A Million, Brad sits down with Abel James, a multifaceted entrepreneur best known as the author of The Wild Diet and host of The Fat-Burning Man podcast. Abel started making money from music online as a teenager, before most people even realized the potential of the internet. But his path took a wild turn in his early 20s when, despite following his doctor’s advice, he found himself overweight, exhausted, and wrecked.

After a house fire destroyed everything he owned, he shifted his life and went deep into self-experimentation, flipping conventional nutrition on its head. What he found transformed his health and became the foundation of his entrepreneurial endeavors. Today, Abel is focused on investing, advising, and creative exploration—leveraging his experience to help others scale meaningfully, not just endlessly.

If you want to take back control of your health and business, this episode is for you.

Tune in.

Inspiring Quotes
  • “Buying your food locally supports your local economy, and it’s better for you.” – Abel James 
  • “It was curiosity that has always been the driver for me, more than the rewards or the achievements.” – Abel James 
  • “Music is a primitive version of language.” – Abel James 
  • “I live through the lens of alignment instead of balance. I feel like balance is a mechanism to escape something you don’t like.” – Brad Weimert 
  • “Having any framework to follow is better than having the best framework to follow.” – Brad Weimert 
  • “The standards we have for our food are so low that we can’t even export the same version of our drinks and foods—because even second and third world countries have higher standards than we do.” – Abel James 
  • “Try carnivore, try going plant based, but what you don’t need to do is eat all this fake meat crap that they’re trying to sell you.” – Abel James 
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