BORN OR MADE EP75: JP O'Brien | You Are What You Eat

JP O’Brien is the Founder and CEO of Me Biosciences, a precision nutrition company that utilizes artificial intelligence to help people manage their health. He is also the founder of Black Lab Sports, a venture ecosystem. In this episode, JP shares his unique origin story as well as many of the lessons that he’s learned throughout his successful career. You’ll also hear how a health scare inspired him to create his newest company, Me Biosciences.

We touch on a lot of different topics in this episode, but here are a few of the big ones:

  • The Effects of Growing Up in Two Different Cultures

  • The Impact of Having a Service Mentality 

  • What “Showing Up” Really Means

  • Operating as a Double Threat: Logical & Creative

  • The Creative Process as a System

  • How a Health Scare Led to the Creation of Me Biosciences 

  • And MUCH MORE!

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SHOW NOTES

0:00 | Introduction

1:10 | Show Premise

2:10 | JP’s Childhood

2:35 | Being exposed to so many different cultures

5:08 | Getting to College

5:30 | Bringing a Team Together to Build a Car

6:45 | Realizing Purpose

9:18 | Being a Captain of a Team

10:20 | Showing Up as Space

11:15 | Living Life as a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ book

12:45 | Graduating and Becoming a Systems Engineer

13:37 | First Foray into Entrepreneurship

15:12 | A Double Threat: Logic + Creativity

16:14 | Bringing Different People Together to Work on Common Goal

17:05 | Life Gives an Opportunity

18:09 | Creativity as a System

20:21 | A Framework for Managing Signals

22:40 | Advice For Those Looking for Purpose

23:59 | What Me Biosciences Does

24:49 | How a Health Scare Led to Me Biosciences

“Let’s go build a precision nutrition company using true science to figure out from a diagnostic perspective, what you need individually.”

28:02 | Learning How Important Food was to Health

“It makes so much sense that what you eat is the number one impact on your body but nobody says that.”

31:45 | Michael Shares Genetic Issue with his Son

36:15 | Epigenetics and Reversing Gene Expression

37:58 | Contract with Department of Defense to use AI

41:58 | The Importance of Relationships

46:04 | Habits to Live By

47:52 | Born or Made

 

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