Ageless Energy

In this day in age I believe most of us have the mind set of more. We want more things instead of considering where it will go after it breaks and how the environment will be affected. We want bigger, louder, better when we don’t think about quality over quantity. What about less instead of more and keep the ‘better’?

Can’t we find better things that are better quality instead of finding the cheapest whatever on sale, throwing it away when it breaks and buying a new one? Most of us have clothes in our closet we don’t use, we have basements and garages full of things we haven’t pulled out in years and all the while we feel having more is better.

And I’m not just talking about the thing we have, I’m talking about the way we go about life. What about looking at better quality food because it will give us the energy we need, what about a quality workout which could be shorter and efficient and you could get more out of it because it represents quality not quantity?

If we think about quality just for a moment, weather it’s clothing, cars or relationships I think we’ll find a better way of life. And who knows, maybe even improve our environment as well.

Show Notes:

* What the things you have represent in your life?

* Computers

* Clothing

* Workouts

* Nutrition

* Lifestyle

* Think of your higher self

* Perfect practice makes perfect (not practice makes perfect)

* Be efficient in the gym

* stop wondering why healthy food is expensive and consider why junk food is so cheap

* work on yourself first (the rest will come)

Links and Resources:

* Material Possessions 

* Surround yourself with life

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Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health (the department she chaired from 1988-2003) and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. For more information about Marion click here.

Show Notes:

* What is the biggest issue with our diets

* How do you feel about GMO’s

* Agrees with food labeling because the people wanted it, it inspires trust, trust in the FDA

* What change could make the biggest difference in our diets

* How portion size needs to be controlled

* Opinion on sugar

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Here is another show I pieced together with Troy asking me questions in studio on Food, Drinks, Maintenance and Injuries. (Q and A: Food Drinks Maintenance Injuries)

Food

It’s absolutely essential so supplement your body properly with quality nutrients both before and after a workout. It doesn’t do you any good to spend hours in the gym and hit the drive through on the way home. If you want to get the results you’re looking for, you need to spend just as much time if not more in the kitchen than in the gym.

Drinks

It’s important to avoid sugary drinks when you’re not only working out buy throughout the day. Conventional sports drinks will have refined sugar, toxic coloring and preservatives added to make it look and taste great, with your health the last priority on the company’s mind.  Read all the ingredients on everything you consume (including everything you drink), if you can’t read it or pronounce something on the list put in back on the shelf.

Maintenance

I’m not sure if there ever really is a maintenance stage in health (fitness or life for that matter). I feel that we’re always trying to get better in some way. So ‘how to maintain’ is a difficult question to answer. I feel that if you’re working out on a consistent basis, you actually start to enjoy what you’re doing, you find new goals and new achievements you want to accomplish so instead of looking at maintaining you’ll actually be looking to move forward on a regular basis.

Injuries

It’s always important to take care of yourself with it comes to injuries. Personally I believe it’s always best to look at where the injury came from (which most likely from some form of stress), the heal from the inside out and finally strengthen.

Many times we do nothing when an injury comes up which doesn’t help anything. Without strengthening from the inside out the injury always comes back.

And lastly, I know it’s difficult to ease back in to exercise or activity after an injury but if you don’t you’ll be right back where you started in no time. Our bodies adapt and adapt and adjust quickly but we still need to give it time to strengthen and get back to full use (and strength).

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It’s hard to believe 4 years ago I came into this town I’m now living in with only a thought of running a business and looking for a way to market. It was difficult trying to get started, it seems like when you come into a small town (at least this one) many are closed off to the ‘new guy’.

As difficult as it was, I knocked on doors of gyms in the area but no one seemed interested in having me around. I found a list of health and wellness businesses in the area, called each one of them but found little interest as well. Not to be deterred, the truth is I didn’t have another option, there really wasn’t any turning back. If I was going to make a run at putting food on the table through my own business I had to push forward.

I knew I had to find different ways to market, so I went in the studio and presented them with an offer of trading services. This idea wasn’t exactly welcomed but after I continued to persist an offer was returned to me to host a 15 minute health and wellness show.

In order to achieve something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done – Jefferson

After we ironed out details and once again I put my comfort zone to the side, I was able to find enough sponsors to run the show. It’s hard to believe that the first recording of 13 minutes took 8hrs to piece together. It was a grueling episode and if you go back to the first one which is almost embarrassing to put out there, you may think (as I did), “who would want to listen to this?”

Who would have thought 4 years later I’d still be here improving and getting better and welcoming bigger named guests on air.

I have to thank friends and family that were more than encouraging to keep me moving forward, especially in the early days when I wasn’t very good and knew it. I still have sponsors that have been on from the very first episode which in all honesty, I wouldn’t be here without them.

* GDK Gravel and Sand

* Shoppers Drug Mart

* AG Foods (Didsbury)

* Health Street

“A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations that he or she is willing to have.” -Tim Ferris

Show Notes:

* How I started on air

* success and failure

* thankful to my sponsors

* how radio improved my life skill (writing, talking, speaking, communicating)

* step outside your comfort zone

* find a mentor

* find someone who knows more than you

* it’s okay to be nervous

* Dan Millman coming on for my 200th show!

If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re likely in the wrong room – Anonymous 

Links and Resources:

* Widening your scope of success

* Jeff Brown 

* Dan Millman

* Ram Dass

* Ekhart Tolle 

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It was an absolute pleasure having Lou on the show talking about his 4 principles. Lou really is a fountain of unending information. So much so that we actually have 20 mins of BONUS material for you! Lou has an incredible story of how he healed himself from numerous health issues in which no one had answers to. Once Lou started to clean up his life and implement what he now teaches as his 4 principles he started to naturally heal himself and get rid of all the dis-ease in his body.

Who is Lou Corona?

Lou Corona, President and founder of Puradyme, A company grounded on the 4 Principles to a healthy and vibrant life!

Like most people.  It takes a sudden shock, or rude awakening in order for us to come to the place of awareness with ourselves and the reality of our own life in general.  That sudden shock of reality gripped Lou Corona at the age of 21 years old when he found himself suffering from a multitude of illnesses. Spending endless hours in and out of Doctors’ offices and searching for answers beyond the diagnoses, Lou refused to give up until he found out why.  What was the cause?  At 21 years old Lou suffered from:

* Chronic asthma

* Severe allergies

* Major constipation

* Candida

* Debilitating arthritis

* A tumor

* Severe acne

Unsatisfied and still without answers as to the cause of his symptoms, Lou Corona continued to search.  Where he found his answers was near a place every living being fears, near death.  Read the rest of Lou’s story here.

Lou Corona’s 4 Principles 

Show Notes:

Cellular Communication

* generating or degrading

* everything you think and feel – your body is always communicating

* your body’s communication can make or break you

* Empower or dis-empower

* stinkin thinkin

* Get rid of self pity – change your thoughts, perspective, attitude

* take responsibility

* take action

* be in the drivers seat

Cellular Environment 

* Create a declaration of how you want to be, read it 3X/day

* embrace the sun

* get outside – energize, clean and detoxify your body in nature

* breathing exercises

* drink clean water

* get grounded -find a grounding mat

Cellular Exercise

* 2 forms of exercise – internal and external

* stimulate your lymphatic system

* breath – breath in for 8 seconds, hold for 5 seconds and let out for 8 seconds

* rebounding

* bath

* sauna

Cellular Nutrition

* cellular food

* juicing

* ginger lemon blast

* enzymes

I’d like to take a moment to thank Lou for coming on the show and offering such valuable information to our listeners. And to thank Puradyme as well for all they’re doing. This is a incredible family run business who are an absolute pleasure to work with. Thanks for all you do team Puradyme!

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Are you aging or evolving? Have you ever thought about it, have you thought about the difference? This all has to do with our mind set and what we accept in this life. Do we feel it’s acceptable for our health to decline as we get older? Do we feel like less mobility is on the way? If we change our mind set, if we push those limiting beliefs to the side, we’ll soon realize the only thing that holds us back is our mind. And we’ll understand we evolve as we get older, not age.

The only thing that limits us in this life is our own thoughts – Drew Taddia

Show Notes:

* transform into the person you want to be

* thoughts, words and actions all determine who we want to be

* what do we accept in this life

* we need to take action to see difference results

* we get what we really want out of this life

* change your negative environment

* we are the average of the 5 people we spend most of our time with

* Marc Allen interview

* being present in the moment

* address fear

* “age is mind over matter, if you don’t mind it don’t matter” – Anonymous

Show Resources and Links:

* Environment

* New World Library

* Marc Allen – Tantra for the West

* Eckhart Tolle

* Material Possessions 

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Recently my email account was hacked and not only did ‘I’ send out many spam emails to all of my contacts but I was receiving them as well. First of all, my sincerest apologies to anyone that was contacted and may have had their day disrupted because of this.  It pretty much took up an entire day for me to fix this issue with changing passwords, apologizing and clearing up what shouldn’t have come from my account.

It makes me think how vulnerable we all are. At times I feel like I live in my inbox, it’s how I communicate. Email is how I talk to clients, set up interviews, have conversations with friends and family and in an instant someone or something negatively disrupted all of that.

Personally I feel like we lose more than we gain with all of this technology going around. Wees  lose communication skills, we stop shaking hands and giving hugs. How often do people really listen when you’re talking to them? We sit at tables at a restaurant and text on our phones and ignore that people we’re there with!  We live in a odd world and if you ask me the dangers of technology are more apparent than we realize.

Show Notes:

* how my email was compromised

* affecting friends, family, clients and my business

* Using technology less

* going on a phone detox

* how our eyes are effected staring at a screen all the time

* social media (the good, the bad and the ugly)

* miscommunication through text messages

* research around cell phones, computers and your health

* sending actual mail or a hand written letter

Resources and Links:

* My biggest waste of time and likely yours

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Today on Exploring Mind and Body Kim Campbell joins me for an interview all about their Plantpure Nation movement. Now, not only is this a study and cookbook but it’s a documentary as well. Kim is the daughter in law to Dr. T. Colin Campbell author of the China Study and creator of The Plantpure Nation cook book. For more details about Kim you can find them Kim Campbell.

Show Notes:

* How Kim became a culinary artist

* Kim growing up on a dairy farm

* being influenced by the Campbell’s at an early age

* Case study, 10 days on a plant based diet

* incredible results of those who go on a plant based diet for 10 days

* more about plantpure nation

* the movement

* the documentary

* Hydration

* how entire family is Vegan

* what it’s like to raise vegan children

* having kids help with dinner

* having kids pack lunches

* Simple and delicious recipes from the book

* portobello mushroom recipe

* black bean quinoa recipe

Resources and Links:

* Hydration

* China Study

* Forks Over Knives

I just want to say thanks so much to Kim for coming on the show. On air show told us she was visiting her 17 City while on tour, so I so much appreciate her taking the time to be on the show with us. I love what Kim and company is doing and think it’s a fantastic way to health spread the word on healthy living. All the best to Kim and the PlantPure Nation.

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It’s funny how we spend out entire lives chasing material possessions isn’t it? Then we wake up one day, we’re a little bit older and wiser and we figure out material possessions don’t make us happy. The only thing that makes us happy is family and friends and what we contribute to the world. But that doesn’t matter now, now does it.

We want bigger houses, fancier cars, shinier jewelry (the ones that come in the blue box). All the while all we’re doing is masking who we are, we’re hiding behind material possessions thinking more things will make us happier when all the while we know deep down, new things doesn’t fulfill any deep need or want we’re looking for.

Show Notes:

* hiding behind toys

* we don’t get to take anything with us when we leave

* why does money make us feel more secure

* how we plan for retirement

* we always want more, bigger, better, shinier

* where will you be in 5 years

* stop waiting for retirement to enjoy your life

* what would we do with our lives if we didn’t chase material possessions

* nothing material makes us happy

Links and Resources:

*  Hiding Behind Windows

* Quit everything, move to the Caribbean and scoop ice cream (I love this post)

 

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The Power of Accountability is incredible because it seems as though with a little accountability we could accomplish great things. This topic came because of a story I want to share with you coming from one of my clients. Now most of us know the pressure of being in a work environment where co-workers and even customers and clients are bringing in all types of goodies, treats and unhealthy snacks. So my clients to me when someone offers them something unhealthy, they say ‘no thank you, if I eat that, I’ll have to tell Drew I ate that’.

I thought this was so simple it’s genius. Here’s the issue, many of us know what it feels like when we eat something unhealthy. We feel guilt, we usually get a sugar boost, then a crash, have little energy and struggle to get through the day. There’s a good majority of people that actually want to avoid this but problem is, we have so much external pressure to try this or eat that so we don’t hurt someone’s feelings.

Show Notes:

* work towards creating a supportive environment where ‘treats’ aren’t welcome

* find someone to be accountable to: it could be a trainer, nutritionist, friend of family; they could even be made up!

* supportive community within cross fit

* supportive community in athletics

* let your friends, family and co-workers know you have a trainer that you are accountable too

* Don’t keep you healthy living a secret!

* avoid outside pressure and stand your ground

* adult bullying

* fitness partners

* the problem with external rewards

* find a new support group, find new friends to spend time with

In order to achieve something you’ve never had, you must be willing to try something you’ve never done – Thomas Jefferson 

Links and Resources:

* Setting and achieving goals

* Creating a positive environment 

* How our environment affects our lifestyle

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