Clear Impact Conversations

Mitigating Toxic Technology with Jasen Masek. Have you ever been certain you missed a call, only to check your pocket and find no notification? Ghost vibrations are real, they are a sign of electromagnetic sensitivity in your body. Building Biologist Jasen Masek explains how your external environment has an impact on your internal biology. And how removing the toxicity from your world doesn’t mean throwing away your cell phone.

Today we’re excited to welcome Jasen to chat about everything from the magnetic charge of your desk lamp to the best place to put your wifi router. Learn how your gadgets might be affecting your productivity.

Living the Enhanced Life with the Manuel Family. What happens when wanderlust becomes more than just a passing feeling? What if it was possible to make vacation mode, your everyday mode? The Manuel family has been living nomadically for over two years, doing exactly that. They traded in a traditional career and home for a life filled with experiences.

Today we’re excited to welcome Dai and Christie Manuel all the way from Bali, Indonesia to discuss how they shifted their perspective and their lifestyle. We discuss common reasons and fears why some families want to, but never take the nomadic leap.

Stefano Tripney is a MovNat certificated team instructor, natural movement fitness trainer, and martial arts instructor based in Victoria, BC. Stefano creatively bridges the inner workings of the mind and body with our collective external landscapes in order to explore, learn, experience, and play with the world and our place in it. He is known for his bright energy and ability to inspire mindful execution, technical skill, physical competence and limitless creativity.

Today we’re excited to have him on the show where he’ll be sharing his take on natural movement as a cultural phenomenon, and how you can get involved and get started on your own natural movement journey.

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Pushing Mental Health in the Mountains with Brent Seal. Brent is the Founder and CEO of Mavrixx, a mental health training agency dedicated to redefining mental health. He also co-founded MINDvsMOUNTAIN, a web series exploring the parallels between climbing mountains and climbing out of mental health struggles, with filmmaker James Frystak. Since being diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2007, Brent graduated from Simon Fraser University as Valedictorian, ran a number of ultramarathons, and, in 2016, became the first person in history living with schizophrenia to summit South America’s highest mountain (Aconcagua) and then North America’s highest mountain (Denali).

Today we’re excited to have him on the show where he’ll be sharing the journey of his struggles and triumphs, and tell us more about how and why he’s dedicated to redefining mental health.What You Will Learn

What’s Brent most curious about right now? (2:17)

What Brent thinks the key elements of a successful mindset are when you have a mental illness diagnosis like schizophrenia (5:01)

Brent’s first step to pushing himself and being able to conquer all those huge peaks like Denali (7:12)

Why Brent hates the word “should” – (8:50)

How Brent get his spark and how others can find theirs (10:44)

What Martin Luther King Jr. means to Brent and the role he played in changing Brent’s life (11:40)

How the mountains helped Brent shift his perspective on mental health, struggle, and empowerment (13:27)

Brent’s climb up Denali as the first to summit as a climber with schizophrenia (15:38)

How does being on the mountain and being able to optimize flow states and control your nervous system there, translate back to everyday life? (18:37)

How Brent is giving back and redefining mental health with Mavrixx and Mind vs Mountain( 21:41)

How Mavrixx supports students, youth, and young professionals who are struggling with mental illness or stress (23:48)

What is MINDvsMOUNTAIN, and the parallels of climbing mountains and mental health struggles (25:56)

What’s the difference between when Brent first got diagnosed with schizophrenia, his recent struggles, and coming to terms with it now? (31:00)

Most critical thing someone can do when they’re first diagnosed and don’t know what to do (34:10)

Building your support network and communicating strategically (36:50)

How to get in touch with Brent (37:23)

The journey to climb Mt. Everest with MINDvsMOUNTAIN (38:33)

Artificial light has an impact on our biology. Learn how to manage this cultural norm on todays episode with David Limacher. An avid biohacker and sungazer, David Limacher is also the founder of VIGR Lifestyles, a Saskatchewan-based lifestyle company focused on natural health products for biohackers. His vision is helping others take steps to improve their personal health and happiness so they can live clean, healthy lives, full of energy, love, and vitality.

Today we’re excited to have him on the show where he’ll share his expertise around several topics of note, including: how cultural norms around light are hurting you, the benefits of a latitudinal diet, and how to use light in your biohacking routine.

Originally from South Africa, Vagner has been a staple in the BC teaching sector for many years, most notably as an instrumental member and coordinator of Windermere Secondary’s Leadership Program, an award-winning, 5-year program for high school students. The program seeks to inspire, challenge, and provide opportunities for students in the areas of social responsibility, environmental stewardship, and community engagement.

Today we’re excited to have him on the show where he’ll be enlightening us around some very significant topics, such as how cultural norms impact education, how to be engaged in active citizenship, and how others can learn from him and implement programs like this.