Episodes
-
Dr. Gail Saltz reveals how fear, shame, denial, and the stories we repeat to ourselves can quietly shape our choices, relationships, health, and sense of identity.
Subscribe for free to our podcast: https://nlupod.com/subscribe
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Mitch Albom joins Tim Green to revisit the guilt that brought him back to Morrie Schwartz, the dying ALS professor whose joy exposed the emptiness of Mitch’s own success. Their conversation moves through ambition, regret, faith, grief, and the lesson that giving can make us feel alive when achievement is not enough.
Subscribe for free to our podcast: https://nlupod.com/subscribe
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Missing episodes?
-
Retired Navy fighter pilot and novelist Jack Stewart joins Tim Green to talk about the moment military aviation stopped feeling normal, why service leaves more behind than most stories show, and what war costs the people who serve and the families who wait at home.
Jack's books: https://jackstewartbooks.com/
Subscribe for free to our podcast: https://nlupod.com/subscribe
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
New York Times best selling author John Kenney joins Tim and Troy for a conversation about marriage, grief, depression, middle age, humor, and the uncomfortable question of whether we are actually living or just getting through life.
Subscribe for free to our podcast: https://nlupod.com/subscribe
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
FightMND CEO Matt Tilley joins Tim Green and his son Troy to discuss the human reality of ALS and motor neuron disease, the power of humor and community, breakthrough assistive technology, and why hope matters when a cure still feels too far away.
Subscribe for free to our podcast: https://nlupod.com/subscribe
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Senator Alan Armstrong, former Williams CEO and newly appointed U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, explains why Washington struggles to build, how politics rewards delay, and why his short, non reelection term gives him unusual freedom to speak plainly about America’s infrastructure, energy, and leadership problems.
Subscribe for free to our podcast: https://nlupod.com/subscribe
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Douglas Brunt reveals how a forgotten oil empire, a missed British decision, and Stalin’s seizure of Baku may have shaped the rise of Soviet communism and the entire 20th century.
Subscribe for free to our podcast: https://nlupod.com/subscribe
Get Doug's new book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Lost-Empire-of-Emanuel-Nobel/Douglas-Brunt/9781668074749
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
In Part 2 of our conversation with Alison Armstrong, we explore why many relationships fail long before people admit it, how resentment and misunderstanding quietly destroy connection, and why Alison believes relationships are “bad investments” when people stop paying attention to each other in the present. The conversation dives into masculinity, competition, happiness, faith, communication, and the hidden dynamics between men and women that shape whether a relationship becomes a partnership or a constant battle.
Subscribe for free to our podcast: https://nlupod.com/subscribe
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Alison Armstrong explains why many relationship problems come from misunderstanding, not bad intent, and how men and women often misread what the other truly needs. She challenges assumptions about love, respect, criticism, appreciation, and the hidden patterns that quietly damage relationships.
Listen to find out why being understood may matter more than being right.
Subscribe for free to our podcast: https://nlupod.com/subscribe
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Harvard neuroscientist Dr. Rudy Tanzi explains why Alzheimer’s may begin 20 to 30 years before symptoms appear, why diagnosis often comes too late, and how a new generation of blood tests and preventive treatments could change the future of the disease. He also breaks down the lifestyle factors that may protect brain health, from sleep and exercise to diet, stress, and social connection.
Subscribe for free to our podcast: https://nlupod.com/subscribe
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Dr. Tommy Wood is a neuroscientist and physician focused on brain injury and long term cognitive health. This conversation challenges common assumptions about how the brain works and what actually improves it.
He explains why many treatments that succeed in lab models fail in humans, and why outcomes are driven more by environment and behavior than single interventions.
A central idea is that the brain needs both stress and recovery. Constant stimulation without rest creates a state similar to overtraining, limiting performance and adaptation.
They also examine the tradeoff between optimizing health metrics and living well, and why most benefits come from simple foundations rather than extreme routines.
Get Dr. Tommy Wood's new book: https://www.drtommywood.com/stimulated-mind
Subscribe for free to our podcast: https://nlupod.com/subscribe
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Sam Peltzman, a leading economist known for the Peltzman Effect, explains how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration drug approval process delays life saving treatments long enough to cost millions of lives. Drawing on decades of research, he shows how regulation often creates unintended consequences, where policies meant to protect the public can reduce overall welfare.
Subscribe for free to our podcast: https://nlupod.com/subscribe
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
A grounded discussion on how brain–computer interfaces are moving from research into real clinical use, with a focus on restoring communication and autonomy for ALS patients. Kurt Hagstrom explains the technical constraints, regulatory realities, and why simplicity, scalability, and long-term reliability matter more than hype.
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
Synchron: Our sponsor Synchron has received permission to start their third clinical trial on the BCI investigational medical device that received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in 2020. You or a loved one may be eligible to participate.
The Synchron BCI is a fully implanted system designed to allow users to control digital devices using their thoughts. No eye trackers, voice commands or hand movements are required. Since 2018, they have completed 2 clinical trials that met their respective safety goals. This new INTENT trial will further evaluate safety while also exploring how it may support communication, connection, independence, and quality of life.âŻ
To find out more about the INTENT clinical trial and learn about the Synchron BCI device visit SynchronBCI.com.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Former Green Beret Tu Lam joins us for a second time and breaks down the psychological reality of 15 years at war, the loss of identity that followed, and the long path through trauma, discipline, and faith that reshaped his life.
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Tim Green sits down with his children for an unfiltered, deeply personal conversation on family, faith, regret, and legacy, turning the interview into something closer to real family therapy. Through candid questions, Tim reflects on fatherhood, ALS, and what ultimately matters most.
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Ben Brandenburg spent his career behind the scenes in elite college athletics, helping others perform at the highest level. In 2021, he was diagnosed with ALS, a progressive disease that steadily takes away the body’s ability to move.
In this conversation, Ben describes what it is like to live through that loss in real time. Not as a series of good days and bad days, but as a constant, irreversible decline. He reflects on losing independence, confronting limits that effort cannot overcome, and redefining purpose as control disappears.
The discussion moves beyond illness into deeper questions. What remains when discipline no longer works. How identity changes when the future contracts. What it means to lead a family when you can no longer act physically. And how faith, responsibility, and meaning evolve under pressure.
This is not a story about overcoming ALS. It is a conversation about how to live when it cannot be overcome.
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Brookings senior fellow Clifford Winston joins Tim and Troy Green for a sharp conversation on political incentives, institutional trust, market competition, and why he believes many government solutions fail the public they claim to help. The discussion ranges from legal deregulation and access to justice to social media, academic honesty, innovation, and what still gives him confidence in America.
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Dr. Shireen Rizvi joins Tim and Troy Green for a deep conversation about dialectical behavior therapy, emotional regulation, trauma, suffering, and hope. She explains what DBT actually is in plain language, why it was created for people who felt life was not worth living, and how its core tension between acceptance and change can help people navigate pain, despair, and everyday emotional struggle.
They discuss radical acceptance, chain analysis, self efficacy, trauma recovery, parenting, faith, and the difference between healthy coping and avoidance. Dr. Rizvi also reflects on her own cancer diagnosis, the emotional realities of clinical work, and why building a life worth living does not mean living a life without pain.
This is a thoughtful episode about what it means to stay, to suffer honestly, and to keep moving toward purpose even when life feels unbearable.
Get Dr. Shireen Rizvi's new book:â https://www.shireenrizvi.com/booksâ
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Brad Thor, bestselling author of the Scot Harvath series, joins Tim Green for a wide ranging conversation on national security, courage, faith, and the moral gray zones behind the defense of a free society. Drawing from decades of research with intelligence and military professionals, Thor reflects on evil, institutional fragility, social media, and the personal cost of confronting danger.
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Benedict Allen recounts being hunted by illegal gold miners and forced into an unthinkable survival decision, then reflects on fear, solitude, and what it costs the people you love when you choose a life on the edge.
SPONSORS:
ElevenLabs: Thanks to ElevenLabs (â https://elevenlabs.ioâ ) for supporting this episode and powering Tim’s voice.
SOCIAL:
Website: â https://nlupod.com/â
X: â https://x.com/nlutimgreenâ
Facebook: â https://www.facebook.com/NLUpodâ
Instagram: â https://www.instagram.com/nlupodâ
PERSONAL:
Tackle ALS: â https://www.tackleals.comâ
Tim Green Books: â https://authortimgreen.comâ
Tim’s New Book - ROCKET ARM: â https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062796895/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - Show more
