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In this episode, Steph Gaudreau explains how lifting weights is a catalyst for a more expansive life. Steph helps athletic women over 40 fuel themselves better, get stronger, increase their energy, and perform better in the gym. She’s a sports nutritionist and lifting coach trained in biology and human physiology and a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Certified Intuitive Eating Counsellor, and USA Weightlifting Sports Performance coach.

If you’re ready to fuel your body, lift, and recover using evidence-based strategies, this episode is a must listen!

Connect with Steph:

• Fuel Your Strength podcast
• www.stephgaudreau.com
• Instagram: steph_gaudreau
• Instagram: fuel.your.strength

Episode highlights:

00:00:44 Steph's story

00:07:23 What makes strength training different (vs endurance training)?

00:12:00 Muscle: the best anti-aging accessory you can't buy

00:15:16 How diets and dieting misinforms how we think about nutrition

00:25:31 Why protein is so important for women who train

00:34:40 How feelings of low motivation could be caused by low energy availability

00:44:21 What does "lifting heavy" mean?

00:49:30 Why it's so hard to have a neutral relationship with the bathroom scale

01:04:00 How to get started (or start again)

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Hypnosis is a relaxed, inwardly focused state of mind that makes it easier to accept new ideas. The hypnotist’s role is to help you enter that state, and then to suggest perspectives that will help you in your situation.

In this episode, Luke Chao illuminates the value of hypnosis and hypnotherapy – free of mysticism, spiritualism or dubious thinking. His approach is client and solutions focused, brief and humanistic.

Luke Chao founded the Morpheus Clinic for Hypnosis in 2006, and he holds an honors bachelor of arts degree from the University of Toronto as well as consulting, hypnotist and certified instructor certifications with the National Guild of Hypnotists. Morpheus Hypnosis has helped over 7000 clients with a wide-ranging variety of issues and trained dozens of new hypnotherapists.

Learn more about Luke's life philosophy through his videos on TikTok and YouTube

Episode highlights:

00:00:46 Defining hypnosis

00:03:18 Differences between stage hypnosis and hypnotherapy

00:10:23 Hypnosis compared to placebos

00:14:13 Bypassing the analytical mind / critical faculties

00:18:27 Can everyone be hypnotized?

00:21:29 Luke's clients and working outside a diagnostic model

00:31:18 Hypnosis is more an art than a science

00:36:10 Hypnosis treatment plans

00:48:46 Hypnosis as a means of discovering our moral authority over ourselves

00:55:47 How to apply Luke's insights immediately for your own benefit

01:00:52 What's next for Luke

• The Morpheus Clinic for Hypnosis | Hypnotherapy in Toronto and Worldwide

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Nearly one million people start a small business annually, but 20 percent of those companies fail in the first year, and almost 65 percent close within a decade. Mike McFall is a Co-CEO and Co-Founder of the third-largest U.S. coffee franchise, BIGGBY, and author of the Inc. Original book, Grind, a practical guide for starting a new business.

Mike doesn't have a yacht or an MBA, and you won't hear him talking about disruption, leveraging assets or changing paradigms. Mike has learned through hands-on experience the value of refreshing your business to build and maintain a successful work environment; this has helped BIGGBY grow the fastest it has grown in 20 years, 25%-30% year over year, despite COVID-19.

At a time when there's a lot of confident-sounding start-up advice from academics or ultra-wealthy tycoons, Mike's remarkable life journey from minimum-wage barista to business leader has given him a very different outlook. His perspective on business—shaped by spending the last 23 years helping hundreds of people open and operate successful coffee shops—provides a much-needed roadmap for today's entrepreneurs, so they can turn their ideas into a profitable reality. If Mike's business philosophy can be distilled down to its essence, it would be this: Be brave. Be humble. Be thoughtful. Be aware of others. And be yourself.

In Mike’s book Grind, he explains the leading indicator in your business and shares the GRIND Score, an assessment test based on his 26 years of entrepreneurialism and leadership coaching. Every person can take the test to evaluate their readiness for entrepreneurship and starting a new business. After completing the quiz, participants receive their personal “Grind Score”, which highlights the TEN crucial steps in doing due diligence to become a successful entrepreneur as well.

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00:58 Mike introduces Biggby Coffee

04:06 Introducing Mike's book, Grind

10:30 "If you believe you're self-aware, you're not"

16:35 "One of the more powerful ways to build a relationship is to ask someone for help"

18:24 "Treat the customer like your first crush"

26:24 "Finding good people"

30:25 Rethinking hospitality

38:55 Selling and rethinking sales

42:29 How to think about competitors

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We have more ways than ever to escape feelings of boredom, but what would happen if we didn't try to escape those feelings? This brief episode highlights how our ideas about happiness and boredom tie into adaptation and addiction. 

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Lucas Cantor is a podcaster, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker. He hosts his own show, the Book Society podcast, featuring weekly conversations with fascinating guests from diverse backgrounds.

Lucas and I are both hooked on great storytelling and popular history, and today’s conversation is a great example of how re-reading a book that we love draws us down a winding path of intrigue and ideas. Lucas has re-read Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek several times, and we explore the reasons why this topic is so fascinating. We cover thousands of years of Mesopotamian history and mythology and Lucas makes some intriguing connections to Julian Jaynes’ 1976 book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.

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Dr. Nicole Tschierske  is a scientist and positive psychology coach who helps experts and teams in STEM do better work. Today’s conversation covers Nicole’s story and how she became interested in coaching through her experience of "boreout".

In this episode, we clarify what boreout means, how it’s related to boredom, and how you can use feelings of boredom to your advantage instead of avoiding it with distractions or sinking into inertia. We discuss how you can use nearly any type of feedback to your advantage, and practical tips for communicating for impact and influence, even when that means holding back or instead of holding forth!

02:13 About Nicole

09:07 What is boreout?

16:40 Nicole's experience with boreout

25:00 Boreout warning signs

30:00 Victim vs villain stories

36:37 In praise of boredom

51:30 Getting more value out of feedback

01:05:00 Better communication skills

Resources and podcasts we highlight in this episode:

• https://nicoletschierske.com/ 
• The No Fluff Immediately Applicable Guide to Reduce Stress & Burnout in Your Team 
• The Better Work Podcast 
• What Works podcast: What is Money? (Time & Money 1
• Connect with Dr. Nicole Tschierske on LinkedIn

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Elena Iacono designs and facilitates well-being and mental health programs to help people thrive in the workplace. Looking back to our initial podcast conversation in 2021 on Audiobook Reviews in Five Minutes, we revisit timely themes, including managing stress, toxic positivity, languishing, finding new ways to thrive, and finding flow. 

02:07 Our current state and the mental health landscape

06:03 Withdrawal and isolation

07:00 What is toxic workplace culture?

10:00 The dark side of innovative culture

14:45 What is toxic positivity?

22:31 Languishing in 2021 (Adam Grant)

26:44 Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)

37:59 Book and TV recommendations

Articles we refer to in this episode:

Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation (MIT Sloan Management Review)

There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing (New York Times)

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Elena recommends

· Mental Health Commission of Canada (resource hub)

· Mental Health First Aid

· Canadian Mental Health Association

· Anxiety Canada

· Root in Nature programs

· Kids Help Phone

· The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature by Sue Stuart-Smith

· Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan

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Brian Asingia  is the CEO and co- founder of the Dream Galaxy platform, an innovation studio that trains, advises, and funds ethical entrepreneurial leaders to launch, grow, and scale content, programs, and businesses.

Today's conversation covers a diverse range of topics that focus on and relate to what Asingia calls the Cashless Society, which in its broadest sense reframes how we as individuals and communities allocate invest and exchange value. Cashless Society is both an ethical philosophy and a technocratic ideal. This concept is already transforming transactional relationships within countries and communities around the world.

Asingia's forthcoming book, Cashless Society 101, will be published in March 2022. In his book, Asingia captures the essence of how humanity-first design and innovation can leverage technology in delivering meaningful solutions for the 21st century and beyond. By putting ethics and values first, automation, data privacy, cyber-security and other concerns of the future of work, education, health and finance can be approached in a sustainable way.

02:21 Introducing Brian Asingia & Dream Galaxy

09:56 What is the "cashless society" idea

13:17 Determining value and putting a price on things

17:48 Identity vs individuality

27:27 Asingia's personal experience of cash and corruption

32:29 Tax and the cashless society

34:13 About M-PESA and fiat currencies in Africa

41:28 Record keeping and blockchain as a means of accountability

45:32 Banking the unbanked

51:56 Google in India and post-colonial digital culture

57:15 Digitizing health records

59:57 Creative destruction: the cost of innovation

01:11:00 Innovative disruption and IP enforcement in different countries

01:13:21 Reframing ideas about ownership

01:19:00 Technology is neutral, but humans are not: the importance of regulation

01:21:43 What's next for Asingia

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Matthew Walker's book, Why We Sleep, was published in 2017. And as much as I enjoyed it, I didn't review it on my Audiobook Reviews in Five Minutes podcast because I felt he sensationalized some problems that people tend to have, and it might make people worry about them. So, the idea of insomnia as being a dangerous thing, or even something that would increase our mortality is something that I didn't want more people to focus on.

However, since that book came out, Matthew Walker has evolved his ideas, evolved his framing around research, and he's made some strides towards giving people practical, non-scary advice for getting better sleep. And recently, when I listened to his conversation with Sam Harris in November of 2021, on the Making Sense podcast, I was struck by how practical Matthew Walker's ideas could be perceived if they were just applied a little bit less sensationally.

This episode highlights the problematic science AND the useful ideas from Matthew Walker's book, Why We Sleep, so you can simplify your approach to improving your sleep.

Matthew Walker on the Making Sense with Sam Harris podcast #267 - THE KINGDOM OF SLEEP

Matthew Walker earned his PhD in neuroscience from the Medical Research Council in the UK, and subsequently became a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is currently Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science. Matt’s research focuses on the effect of sleep on human health and disease, brain, and body. Walker has published more than 100 scientific research studies and has received numerous funding awards from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and is a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. He was recently awarded the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization. Matt has given a main-stage TED Talk that has been viewed over 13 million times, has also created several TED Miniseries on sleep, a MasterClass series on sleep, and is author of the New York Times bestseller, Why We Sleep. Matt is also host of the 5-star-rated, The Matt Walker Podcast.

Twitter: @sleepdiplomat

Web: www.sleepdiplomat.com 

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Jane Austen novels set in the English countryside and various drawing rooms help transport me to a delightful fantasy world – and I'm in good company.  Austen's writing is so strongly associated with providing solace that she was prescribed to World War One soldiers suffering from severe shell-shock (PTSD). In the UK, Austen experienced a sales rise of 20% throughout much of 2020, compared to 2019. 

What is it about Austen’s work that keeps us perpetually entertained? This humble homage to the original Regency Romance writer explores why there's nothing quite like the real thing – and why it's never too late to discover great literature.

 What Jane Austen can teach us about resilience by Heloise Wood (BBC)

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