Are you spending or investing your down time?! What we choose to do with this time is what separates the best from the rest.

Alex is a certified life coach with a passion for career development and sales. He recently moved to San Diego and works at a startup called Pathrise, the world’s first talent agency for the everyday jobseeker which helps people transition into tech or level-up in their current career.

Growing up, he’s had the opportunity to live in 3  continents, 4 countries, 4 states, and 12 different cities. These experiences turned Alex into a highly adaptable person who embraces change and welcomes challenge.

We talked all about hitting goals, living with purpose, building community, and dug into his story of overcoming his dependency to adderall. It was a really insightful conversation.

Alex is NOT on social media which you’ll hear about so no social to follow. Just buckle up and enjoy!

If we don’t actively lean into the stress, the stress will lean into us. Join me as I explore the concepts of eustress and destress, why we actually need stress, and how we can make it our best friend.

Katie Reines, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with the Create Cures Foundation Clinic, in Santa Monica, CA

She has been plant based for over 10 years and wrote her master's thesis on plant based nutrition and cancer.  Katie is also a published author of the “Heart Disease Cookbook,” as well as a certified vegan chef who provides educational cooking classes and food demonstrations for many audiences.  She has experience working under some of the biggest plant-based doctors in the world and has her own private practice where she utilizes her experience with plant-based nutrition and disordered eating.

She is also a food freedom and body image coach, and helps young women transition to a plant-based lifestyle focusing on empowerment and health promoting behaviors rather than weight.  Katie enjoys teaching yoga and dance classes as well, and incorporates mindset and holistic health into each consultation.

We talked all about the plant based lifestyle, and her approach to mindset and eating.

Give Katie a follow on IG @vitamin.katie

“Who is a wise man? He who learns from everyone.” - Ethics of Our Fathers

On today’s HDH, we chat about how you can embody the student/teacher philosophy to learn more from every interaction. And how a wifi problem at my new apartment helped me reinforce this lesson :)

Chad Sonkin is one of a kind. If you have the pleasure of knowing him, you know. If you don’t, you’re about to get a taste of why.

Chad moved across the country to LA without having a job lined up to pursue his passion, and hasn’t looked back. He was one of the first 100 employees at the electric scooter startup, Bird, which was the fastest company to reach a valuation of $1billion ever. Chad now leads a sales team at Cloud Kitchens, the newest venture of the former CEO and co-founder of Uber.

To hear more about his backstory, check out Episode 9 on the podcast.

On today’s episode we chat about navigating your career, creating your identity, and believing in yourself

You can find Chad on Instagram @sonkybomb

Alright, buckle up, here’s Chad Sonkin.

The best way to build that self-reflective muscle is through having a journaling practice. 

Here’s 4 reasons I journal every day and how you can start journaling or take your practice to the next level

Tara Viswanathan is the CEO and Founder of Rupa Health, whose goal is to make functional medicine more accessible, affordable, & available to patients everywhere.

Their first product, Rupa Labs, is a lab ordering portal for telemedicine providers that turns 15 hours of weekly physician admin work into 15 mins. Rupa is HQ’d in San Francisco and backed by world class investors like First Round Capital, Floodgate Capital, Ron Conway / SV Angel, and more.

We talked all about her journey to starting a Rupa Labs, her self care rituals and routines, how she harnesses the power of solitude, and much much more.

Give Tara a follow on IG https://www.instagram.com/taraviswanathan/ and you can check out Rupa’s website https://www.rupahealth.com/ and Tara’s personal site http://www.taraviswanathan.com/

You know those impulses you get to go do something, go call that person, or the idea that comes? FOLLOW THAT! This is how you can really tap into the flow of life and play the game at a higher level.

Just last month they set the record for longest highline ever walked in California at Yosemite National Park

Highlining is high altitude slacklining in which a narrow strip of strong, nylon webbing — usually an inch wide and a few millimeters thick — is strung between two anchor points and serves as a kind of balance beam.

They used the help of 18 friends and fellow highliners to navigate their webbing through and across the landscape — hiking lines up from the valley floor, rappelling down from the cliffs above and maneuvering through countless tree branches.

It took a week straight of stringing the line, 2,800 feet in length, from Taft Point west across a series of gullies that plunge as deep as 1,600 feet

Then they walked across!

We dig into the preparation behind it, the mental approach to it all, and how 2 of them actually have a fear of heights!

>> LA Times article 

Daniel Monterrubio @daniel_monterrubio

Steve Griggs @stevegriggs

Jewels Esparza @unit._.of._.energy 

Moises Monterrubio @moecheese2408