The Fourth Quarter Podcast

Send us Fan Mail A doctor tells you there’s nothing they can do, and you’re supposed to just go home and wait. Angie Fernandez did the opposite, and her story will make you question how often we accept limits that aren’t real. Doug and Ted meet Angie through a health event, expecting a conversation about organic food, and quickly uncover a lifetime shaped by migrant farm work, pesticide exposure, and an early drive to advocate for safer choices for farm workers and consumers alike. Ang...

Send us Fan Mail Your body can whisper for years before it finally screams, and Jen Marchetti knows that truth in the most personal way. Jen is a health and fitness coach, a mom, and a rare cancer advocate who went from feeling unstoppable to slowly shutting down without understanding why. What started as “small” things like night sweats and occasional high blood pressure turned into relentless headaches, exhaustion, and scary complications she tried to outwork and out-tough. We talk through...

Send us Fan Mail We almost skipped releasing this one, and that’s exactly why we hit record. When life gets busy and the plan falls apart, the habit that matters most is the one that brings you back, consistency. Doug and Ted talk straight about why consistency is not perfection, why “something” is always better than “nothing,” and how a restart can be the most powerful move you make in your health journey. We dig into practical habit building for the fourth quarter of life: a 90-day c...

Send us Fan Mail A single question can expose years of excuses: do we avoid something because we truly can’t, or because we haven’t trained ourselves to try? We open with that mindset gut-check from Betty, the “guiding light” of our show, then we connect it to what it really takes to live your best life in the fourth quarter of life: small actions done consistently, especially when motivation fades. We also share what we witnessed at JP’s Backyard Ultra, a free community run that exploded in...

Send us Fan Mail A head-on collision. A split-second impact. Then the long, unglamorous work of rebuilding a life. Sherri Reinfurt joins us from New Hampshire with a story that still feels unreal: two days after an NFL cheerleader reunion, she and her daughter are hit by a driver who falls asleep and crosses the double yellow line. Doctors tell them most people don’t survive this kind of crash and now Sherri is learning to live in a new body, with a broken right hand, concussion symptoms, bro...