Choose the Hard Way

Andrew Vontz

Booking Overview

Interview-driven show focused on resilience, high performance, mental health, mindfulness, and the lessons of difficult experiences, with external guests spanning sports, politics, business, technology, journalism, the military, and comedy. Agencies could credibly pitch accomplished athletes and coaches, veterans, performance or mental-health experts, entrepreneurs, policymakers, journalists, and public figures with compelling resilience narratives; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 149

Frequency: Monthly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Instagram: 2.1k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

choosethehardway@gmail.com

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Host

Andrew Vontz - Entrepreneur and founder of One Real Voice, a strategic and coaching consultancy for podcast guests and hosts. Previously a Strava executive, communications leader at TRX, and journalist with bylin...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Subject-matter expertise, significant professional or life experience, or a distinctive story of resilience, personal growth, high performance, or overcoming adversity. Suitable candidates may include athletes, coaches, veterans, scientists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, journalists, and public figures.

Required Achievements:

Leadership or achievement in sports, science, business, public service, media, comedy, or the military, Meaningful expertise in performance, fitness, mental health, resilience, or related fields, A compelling personal or professional journey involving sustained effort, adversity, or transformation

Recent Guest Discussions

Johnny Hilbrant Partridge - Comedy, Grief, Perseverance, Career Development, And Personal Transformation.

Stephen Seiler - Polarized Training, Breathing, Training Zones, Vo2 Max, Endurance Performance, And Training Differences Between Elite And Masters Athletes.

Graham Platner - Combat Fitness, Strength, Military Experience, Physical Preparation, Leadership, And Political Power.

Recent Topics

Resilience, High Performance, Endurance Sports, Mental Health, Mindfulness

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Choose the Hard Way

The PE Guy - Johnny Hilbrant Partridge on grief, bouncing back, & an overnight success 11 years in the making

June 17, 2026

Choose the Hard Way is the show about how hard things build stronger humans who have more fun. — One of my favorite comedians is Johnny Hilbrant Partridge, aka The PE Guy. His comedy operates at the intersection of private equity, hyper-conspicuous consumption, and radical insecurity. He is hilarious, and if you don't know his work, you soon will. — If you want to laugh go to @johnnyhilbrant, if you want to know who Johnny is, you're in the right place. This conversation is about the decade-...

Dr. Stephen Seiler - You're not Pogacar, don't train like him. Breathing, Polarized Training, Joy, & High Performance

May 13, 2026

Dr. Stephen Seiler coined the term polarized training and systematized the 80/20 method used by Tadej Pogacar, Kristian Blummenfelt, and the world's top endurance athletes. — From the New York Times to the podcasts of Andrew Huberman, Peter Attia, and Rhonda Patrick, Dr. Seiler's polarized training method and zone 2 and vo2 max protocols have become an often misinterpreted cultural obsession. — I'm on the Fast Talk Labs advisory board with Stephen and I thought it would be fun to hear dir...

Veteran & Maine US Senate Candidate Graham Platner: Combat Fitness, True Strength, & The Defense Insecurity Complex of Hegseth, RFK Jr., and Elon Musk

April 21, 2026

Graham Platner is a Marine Corps and Army infantry veteran with combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and a candidate for US Senate in Maine. He is also a lifelong student of fitness and strength whose training evolved from grunt-era running and calisthenics to CrossFit, Rob Shaul's Mountain Tactical programming, and Jim Wendler's 5-3-1. — He joins Andrew Vontz & Jonathan Kaplan on United States of Sweat p/b Choose the Hard Way to talk combat fitness, the multi-hour firefight his squad s...

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