Back To The Present

Back To The Present

By Mitchell BastockEducation
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Back To The Present episodes

  • Turn Down The Noise If You Want To Listen w/Megan Henry

    It’s all happening as it should be.

    I couldn’t agree with these words anymore than I do, even on the days and in the moments I’m challenged & almost forget.

    That being said, the power is always still in our hands. As much as we sometimes don’t want to admit it, our reality is a result of our choices.

    Megan’s years of athletic experience drove her to reach the peaks of multiple mountains, and those moments forged her savage mindset.

    The work is never done and the practice never ends, which is why Megan’s wealth of knowledge is so vast & energising.

    We explored many a mountain, some of which included:

    🌀 Confidence as a skill

    🌀 “Be it until you become it”

    🌀 Performance affirmations

    🌀 Megan’s greatest lessons learnt from athletic career

    🌀 The power of intentions

    🌀 What to control and what not to

    🌀 Blocking vs Lacking

    Connect with Megan

    Instagram | thesavagemeglet

    1 hr 30 min
  • What You Resist, Persists w/Cate Zoltan

    Energy flows where attention goes.


    When we think of our overthinking, we very likely continue overthinking. That's where meditation can become equally as rewarding as it is challenging. 


    Cate co-founded the Undo app with the intention of offering an inside out approach, which shifts the over-thinking struggle toward a body first focus. 


    Also discussed in this weeks epsisode:

    🌀 Honesty in relationships 

    🌀 The effects of Natrual Meditation 

    🌀 Resolution & healing through discomforting emotions 

    🌀 The impact on connection through technology 

    🌀 Tension as information in the body


    Connect with Cate Zoltan

    Instagram | undo_app

    Website | undoapp.com

    Linkedin | Cate Zoltan

    1 hr 15 min
  • Be You Now w/Jason Pickard

    ‘What if’ everything had a purpose? And what if we lived our lives with this thought more present than the alternative?


    My guess is some of us do, and some of us do some of the time. I certainly know how easy and breezy my life feels when I’m remembering those 2 little words. 


    This weeks guest Jason Pickard is one of those that do, and it’s pretty evident in his actions, which is why I pay close attention to his words.


    On top of our abundant filled conversation, we also spoke about: 

    🌀 Questioning everything and being open-minded 

    🌀 The point of arguing 

    🌀 The Abundance Archetype 

    🌀 Achieving flow states

    🌀 Dissecting beliefs 

    🌀 Exploring the unconscious 

    🌀 The intelligence behind everything 

    🌀 True wealth 


    Connect with Jason Pickard 

    Website | jasonpickard.org

    Instagram | @jasonpickardofficial

    1 hr 26 min
  • Navigating and Transforming Life w/Jason Olivea

    “Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.” Mary Anne Radmacher


    I believe Enneagram's and the like can help show us the road we're on, and I firmly believe a holistic approach to this personality assessment provides a more clear roadmap on our personal journey of discovering. 


    It's important to bring awareness to our core beliefs, biases, patterns and emotion suppression, and then the next chapter is what we want to do with that awareness.


    Jason's Enneagram model does just that and a considerable amount more. All of which I find incredibly fascinating and trust others will too.


    Amidst the psychological discussion in the deep end, Jason and I have fun bringing to the surface a range of personal floatation devices such as:

    🌀 Jason's holistic & comprehensive approach to mental and emotional health

    🌀 Thinking, feeling & behaving 

    🌀 Why we often focus negative aspects and limiting beliefs 

    🌀 Compensation patterns for managing core beliefs 

    🌀 How to move beyond patterns 

    🌀 Multi-layed triggers and how to navigate them 

    🌀 A tornado exercise for emotions 

    🌀 Self-sabotage and its relation to core beliefs  


    Connect with Jason Olivea

    Website | innercompass9.com

    Instagram | @innercompass9

    1 hr 29 min
  • Quiet Mind, Soma Body w/Rachel Graham

    The Human Design system measures your specific essence and offers ways to live in accordance with that. 


    It's a logical system that brings together principles of The I Ching, astrology, Kabbalah, Hindu-Brahmin chakra system, and quantum physics. 


    There are many different self-discovery & improvement systems available, and I believe all play their unique roll, with some people resonating with certain styles for certain reasons.


    I personally love this tool because it is helps identify the ways in which we function differently and in turn how we can thrive or notice when & why we aren't. 


    On top of this complex system, Rachel and I also discuss:


    🌀 Ways to quieten the mind to tune into our body 

    🌀 Somatic Healing

    🌀 Auraflow 

    🌀 Working through resistance 

    🌀 Trauma through experience showing up in our bodies

    🌀 Reclaiming our power

    🌀 Personal freedom & how we give our energy 

    🌀 The value of introspection 


    Connect with Rachel Graham

    Instagram | @rachelgraham.com

    1 hr 22 min
  • What Does Your Truth Mean To You? w/Sara Gustafson

    Values and principles can influence one’s perception of truth.


    Our principles/guidelines are likely conditioned to society and therefore shiftable, our values are not, and so they are important to understand and be aware of.


    Through exploration into our values we can begin to uncover our truths. How scary & exciting that wandering is. 


    Sara’s experience has her very well versed in this area and many others, making for a really fun and in depth conversation. 


    Amongst the ocean of knowledge and wisdom, Sara and I discuss:


    🌀 The 4 types of Truths

    🌀 Archetypes 

    🌀 Relationship patterns 

    🌀 Challenges of navigating childhood and adolescence 

    🌀 Sara’s experiences influencing her parenting style 

    🌀 In-stilling self-worth in children 


    Connect with Sara Gustafson

    Instagram | @wisewomen.rise

    Websites | primalfusionhealth.com AND members.primalpride.com

    1 hr 32 min
  • Self-discovery Through Recovery w/Matt Gardiner

    Addiction is a hell of a beast, and we all have our own addictions; causes run deep and stem wide.


    So sobriety is a feat worth acknowledging because it is NOT easy.


    Matt peeled back the layers in his own journey to sobriety and now he shares his humility & vulnerabilty to help others naviagte their similar experiences.


    Matt & I shared interests and experiences, some of which included:

    🌀 Personal growth as a gradual process

    🌀 Practical help using the Enlifted Method (last weeks podcast)

    🌀 The power of asking for help 

    🌀 The ego and relapse 

    🌀 Achievement as a numbing agent

    🌀 Allowing and accepting emotions 

    🌀 Factors that contribute to addiction 


    Connect with Matt Gardiner

    Instagram | @recoveryroadmap.me

    YouTube | @mattgardinerLIVE

    51 min
  • Don’t Take The Stories in Your Head Personal w/Mark England

    The stories we tell ourselves inside us shape our outside world. 


    The thoughts in our head and the words we speak have a huge influence both internally and externally, to ourselves and the people around us. 


    Mark England is a master teacher in re-shaping these stories so that we can begin to use them to our benefit.


    When we begin to take responsibility for our story and learn some of the techniques Mark shares, we begin to create a different perspective, one that we want to tell ourselves and live out. 


    Mark and I turn some serious & fun mouth-noise into words on this episode , some of which includes:

    🌀 4 key story aspects 

    🌀 Turning down the trash talk inside our heads

    🌀 Parents language scaffolding children’s identities 

    🌀 The victim mentality; as a collective parasite 

    🌀 Mindset as the story we tell ourselves 

    🌀 3 Pillars of conflict language 

    🌀 What soft talk is and does to us 

    🌀 4 step approach to the stories that haunt and annoy us 

    🌀 Why breathing is so important in everything we do 


    Connect with Mark England

    Instagram | @enliftedcoaches

    Website | enlifted.me

    1 hr 40 min
  • Being Unimportant and Valuable w/Mike Bledsoe

    Individual sovereignty is something I only heard for the first time a few years ago, and I’ve struggled with the concept a little since then.


    But Mike put it simply; no one person is more important than another.  Let that sink in for a minute. Imagine a world where everyone was equal.


    Mike has been around the health and wellness block a few times and he has forged enough of his own trails to know a thing or two. Yet he stills remains curious, open and embracing toward wherever life takes him. 


    Mike and I danced around some nuance conversations and I had the time of my life doing so. Some dance moves included:

    • Mikes willingness to always do the next scary thing 
    • Acute and chronic fear 
    • Two parts of consciousness 
    • Important = emotional attachment 
    • The trouble in attachment to meaning 
    • A lack of principles in society 
    • The one and only authority 
    • Giving away power for safety 
    • Freedom 
    • Force as a result of communication breakdown 
    • The (potential) future of AI 

    • Connect with Mike Bledsoe

      Instagram | @mike_bledsoe

      Website | www.sovereignty.codes

      1 hr 13 min
    • If You Want To Make The World a Better Place, Do It In Everything You Do

      Simple routines & habits go a long way in a noisy complex world. 


      There is soooooo much information available to us nowadays and I’ll be the first to admit it’s an amazingly beautiful time to be alive because of it. However, I’m not convinced our monkey-brains have the RAM capacity to process everything our senses are absorbing. 


      Adam’s Calendar Method and Essential Task Cards are some useful tools to help us prioritise winning moments (not just days) and begin making longterm lifestyle changes in short & approachable ways. 


      Adam & I filled both our cups simultaneously on this episode and touched on:

      • Creating habits first, for outcomes to follow 
      • The accountability skill in making things visual 
      • Adam’s 3 simple and powerful self development practices 
      • What to do when you don’t fulfil a task 
      • Adam’s defining moment (and invitation for you to try the same) 
      • The ability to pause in the present moment and ask what it means to you 
      • The potential to Be You, Be Bold and Follow Your Heart

      • Connect with Adam Snook

        Instagram | @believe_visualize_execute

        1 hr 34 min

      About Back To The Present

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      Deep, open & amusing conversions with curious, honest & conscious people.