Greg Scheinman - The MidlifeMale

My interview with @jesseitzler is out today! We overestimate what we can do in a day, and underestimate what we can do in a year. That’s why I love the @thebigasscalendar so much! I can see my entire year all in one place! This has been such a huge life changer for me. Listen to the entire conversation (LINK IN COMMENTS) with Jesse and you’ll learn why, and more importantly, HOW you can build your own life resume and maximize midlife. He’s freakin awesome 🔥 Here’s just a glimpse at my ‘25… 25th wedding anniversary w/ @kmscheinman Moved Harper into college Auden had his first boxing match😳 Finished my 4th @29029official in Jackson Hole Did my 3rd @hyroxamerica Hiked the Skyline Traverse w/ @business_outside in Boulder Spoke @eudemoniasummit @foundersonly.club @ypoglobal @athletechnews Completed @xptlife @goruck marathon in Sedona Went to @usopen 🎾 Hosted first @themidlifemale Excellent Adventure in Miami Saw @metallica @khruangbin @countingcrows @foofighters @thegaslightanthem @eagles Spent the day with @jesseitzler in Atlanta Took a Family Vacation thru Italy! Hosted Thanksgiving at our house Warrior weekend in Savanah with my boys! Interviewed 52 amazing men! Guested on @gabbyreece @juddlienhard and @chipconley podcasts and more! Hosted @staccatoranch_tx day with the guys’ Did my 1sr @xptlife experience in Kauai with @lairdhamilton Turning 53 on Dec 23rd! Every one of these things is right there on my BigAss Calendar. Show me your calendar, I’ll show you your priorities. We crossed 30,000 subscribers to The MidlifeMale Newsletter & still just gettin’ started. ‘26 is shaping up to be epic with more adventures, experiences, interviews, and stories to help you maximize middle age. Link in comments to read and watch the full interview and get an exclusive MidlifeMale offer on your own Big Ass Calendar🙌🏻 Make sure you’re subscribed to the MidlifeMale newsletter so you can join us for all thats ahead! ✌🏻❤️💪🏻 Greg

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You’re allowed to change. Midlife is not too late to start. Not just your look. But anything and everything about how you live, operate, the actions you take, choices you make, what you consume, produce, put on your body, in your body, who you spend your time with, what time you wake up, go to bed, how you use your money, you name it. And none of what im saying is of the “quit your job and follow your passion” BS narrative. It’s not random, impulsive, or irresponsible. In midlife in particular what holds men back is our obligations, responsibilities, situations and circumstances we’ve gotten ourselves into; both good and bad over the past 10-30 years… So it’s one thing to want to make change. It’s another to make a plan on HOW to change. A plan that works for YOU. Not based on a motivational meme, a weekend retreat, a psychedelic experience, or just your hundredth bad day at the office where you’ve “reached your limit”, walk out the door and instantly regret it because if you think you’re unhappy while getting paid and cashing checks, just imagine how much more unhappy you’ll be without the money coming in. That’s why you need a MAP. A midlife action plan. A business plan for your life. The one that serves as the blueprint for how your going to make the next phase your best phase. With the exact steps, standards and framework to follow in order to reverse engineer from the midlife you want back to the annual, quarterly, monthly and daily positive action steps you need to take in order to make the possible…probable. I wrote one for myself after interviewing 200 of the highest performing middle aged men in the world. Categorically redesigning my life. Testing and retesting. Then I followed it for three years. Everything I put in there came true. Now, I’ve helped over 100 men write theirs. I’m also writing my next one, because plans change. Life changes, and evolves. But the framework remains the same. Mediocrity happens by default, maximization happens by design. DM me if you want to work together and write your own MAP. I take on a few clients 1:1 every quarter. And subscribe to my newsletter and join the 45k M40-60 getting better every week

Happy Mothers Day to the one who always puts her family first. We’ve been at this a while, and it just keeps getting better. We love you dearly and you are truly the best mom to our boys! Always.

The new thing seems to be meal planning, weekly prepping, detailed recipes, tracking and counting everything…It makes it seem like this is what you have to do to lose weight, and be healthy. I think it stops a lot of guys from getting started. It’s the appearance that it’s all or nothing sacrifice and that’s just not the case. I don’t meal prep, use recipes, or count cals/ macros. I don’t think most men in midlife want to do it either. If that works for you, great. Im just saying you don’t have to in order to be fit and lean. You don’t need a 6 pack either. At 53, I keep real, high quality, basic foods in our house and eat them. Breakfast, lunch, dinner between 9-7pm. High protein, low/med carbs, healthy fats. Fruits, veggies, lean meats. Stay away from fried, sugars, alcohol. Scramble some eggs, slice an avocado, air fry some chicken, grill a steak, microwave a potato, steam some veggies, make a salad,keep fruit around, in a pinch grab a bar or protein powder…Seriously, it’s not hard. Drown out the noise and BS and stop overthinking everything. I see a nutritionist once a year. Get my bloodwork done quarterly. Strength train 3x per week. Stay active playing sports and getting plenty of “zone” cardio and a lot of sleep. It’s basic. And boring. And repetitive. And unsexy. And simple. And consistent. And great at the same time. And it works. It will always work. It’s not more expensive. It doesn’t require more time. It’s not being replaced by any new technology, hack, drug, game changer or shortcut. (And yes, there’s some great stuff out there, and more coming in the years ahead but none of it replaces putting in the work, having high personal standards, developing healthy habits and taking agency over your health). It’s just daily choices. And when you make a series of good choices over time, that becomes your lifestyle. It’s no more complicated than that. And when you get up each day and keep doing it, you become happier, healthier and have more fun in midlife. - Join the 42,000 Men 40+ reading The MidlifeMale Newsletter every week and start living happier, healthier, wealthier, stronger and having more fun without all the BS. Link in bio.

I think this is the most important piece I’ve written to date.⁣ My son graduated from college this weekend.⁣ And instead of just being there, I spent most of it in my head.⁣ Worrying about his living situation. Wondering if he’s ready for his job. Asking myself where the line is between helping and enabling. Questioning whether I’d done enough. Done too much. Done it right.⁣ That’s what we do as fathers. We spend years trying to get our kids to a good place, and then when they finally arrive, we’re already onto the next thing to stress about.⁣ This piece is about that. But it’s also about something bigger.⁣ It’s about the pressure fathers quietly carry. The instinct to fix everything before our kids even feel the struggle. The grief that shows up uninvited at moments that are supposed to be pure joy. The realization that guiding and letting go are often the exact same move.⁣ And it’s about a line that I keep coming back to:⁣ You can open the door for your son. You just can’t walk through it for him.⁣ I’m proud of him. I’m proud of us. And I’m learning…slowly, to let that be enough before I move on to the next worry.⁣ If you’re a dad you’re going to want to read this, and if you’re a woman married to a dad, you’re going to understand us a whole lot better if you read it as well. Subscribe to Midlife Male and have my full column in your inbox this Sunday.​ Link in bio

The dinner I hosted in New York last week made me walk away realizing something most midlife men are missing: better conversations, stronger friendships and a more meaningful life don’t happen by accident.⁣ ⁣ You Have To Build the Room You Want to Be In.⁣ ⁣ Most men spend the second half of their lives waiting to be invited into the right room. They’re waiting for the right network or right circle or right friendships or the right opportunities to magically come along. Well, I have news for you. It ain’t happening. Also, I think that mindset is backwards. ⁣ ⁣ I believe you need to create the rooms you want to be in and here’s why:⁣ ⁣ There’s a certain point in midlife where you realize you’ve spent years walking into rooms that don’t actually fit you anymore.⁣ ⁣ Business dinners you don’t care about. Networking events that feel transactional. Surface-level conversations with people who are more interested in performing than connecting. You look around and think, “How did I even end up here?” Not because the people are bad, but because somewhere along the way you stopped being intentional about who you’re spending your time with and what kind of energy you actually want in your life.⁣ ⁣ At 53, I know exactly the kind of conversations I want to be having and exactly the kind of people I want to spend more time around. I want to sit with guys who are building things, evolving, struggling, succeeding, failing, learning and actually talking honestly about all of it. Men who care about being better husbands, fathers, leaders and friends. Men who have perspective. Men who have done interesting things but aren’t trying to convince everybody in the room they’re important.⁣ ⁣ And I realized something: if that room doesn’t already exist, there’s nothing stopping you from creating it yourself.⁣ ⁣ That’s really what these dinners have become for me.⁣ ⁣ I hosted one in New York last week. Ten guys around a table at Cathedrale for a few hours and, honestly, it reminded me again how badly most men need this kind of thing in their lives.⁣ ⁣ To read the rest, subscribe to The Midlife Male Newsletter and join the 42,000 Men committed to maximizing midlife. Link in comments 👇🏻

My ❤️ is full. Best weekend in Boulder celebrating Auden’s graduation. We love you so much kiddo and are so proud of you. It’s been an amazing four years; working hard, playing hard and continuing to grow into an exceptional young man. While this is all bittersweet, with one chapter ending and a new one ahead, we know you’ll continue to thrive in your new job, city and in business and in life. No matter what, we’re always your biggest fans and supporters. Keep being you. Keep living life to the fullest. Keep moving forward. ❤️U

Midlife Lately…April @melrobbins You’re amazing. @the.chrisrobbins you’re a great friend. @sawyerrobbins such a pleasure meeting you. @themidlifemale Guys dinner in NYC with old friends, new friends and men who inspire me every day. Conversation with @patrick.mcenroe that I can’t wait to share with y’all. Bat Mitzvah for my friends daughter was really special time to reconnect with some of my lifelong friends. @lookopticusa partnership launched and I can see clearly now;) @arod we need to talk 😉 We got our @eightsleep and this is definitely going to help my marriage @getrally.co is the massager I didn’t know I needed and I’ve tried every one of ‘em… Harper went to Joshua Tree and I had serious FOMO Still FaceTiming a f*ck ton with both my boys. Just love them ❤️ Training and rehabbing shoulder continues…This time @anatomy Spoke @wellistweek & met up with friends in Miami Found my dream car 😉 Changed my mind…Pickleball isn’t stupid. I’m addicted. - How is this my Midlife? Join the 40,000 men reading The Midlife Male Newsletter every week. Design your midlife action plan and start living happier, healthier, wealthier, stronger and having more fun in midlife. It’s all possible! Link in bio

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How do you maximize midlife? Not just survive it. Not just manage it. But truly live it.⁣ ⁣ You do cool sh*t with cool guys. Things that challenge you, push you just outside your comfort zone, and remind you what you’re actually made of. ⁣ ⁣ That’s exactly what our next Midlife Male Excellent Adventure is all about.⁣ ⁣ Here’s why this one is special. There are only two XPT performance pools in the entire United States. One is at Laird Hamilton’s house. The other is here in Houston at Shadow Sanctuary and that’s where we’re going to be.⁣ ⁣ We’re talking an incredible weekend of XPT pool workouts, food prepared by a private chef, saunas, cold plunges, yoga, and most importantly, real connection and camaraderie with like-minded men who take this stuff seriously, but not too seriously.⁣ ⁣ This is the whole point.⁣ ⁣ Not whether you’re the greatest swimmer (you just need to be comfortable in the water…We’re not here to do countless laps and race). Not whether you’ve done something like this before (not like this you haven’t) and not whether there’s any litany of reasons you can concoct not to come (there will always be…), ⁣ ⁣ But because when we commit, and put things on our calendar, we not only fill the spaces on our wall, but in our hearts and spirits. We give ourselves something to look forward to because we need that in our lives to feel full. We take on experiences that challenge us because that’s how we grow. And we have a hell of a lot of fun because that’s what we work so hard for.⁣ ⁣ This is how you build healthy habits that stick. This is how you set standards for your life. This is how you lead by example, for yourself and your family. ⁣ ⁣ Now imagine what your life would be like if you started stacking these types of experiences up. Started saying yes. One big thing for yourself at a time. ⁣ ⁣ When I ask myself how I want to be living in my 40s, 50s, and beyond, this is the answer. Don’t talk about it, be about it. ⁣ ⁣ These events are small and normally reserved for our inner circle, but I’m opening up 10 spots here, so If this speaks to you, don’t wait. ⁣ ⁣ Link in comments for details & registration. Use code HOUSTON10 and save! ⁣ ⁣