Hello there, #Ultratribe and #Yuvians. We have some thrilling news to share with you all. The "Find Your Ultra" podcast is venturing into the world of video content! Head over to youtube for the video. Links at the end.

This podcast episode features a conversation with Purnima Bist, who leads the breast cancer program at the Yuvraj Singh Foundation (YouWeCan). This nonprofit organization was founded by the legendary cricketer @YuvrajSingh himself, who's also a cancer survivor. 

You’ll hear us talk about recognizing signs of breast cancer, addressing the stigma that surrounds it, and how everyone, including men, can contribute towards finding solutions. Above all else, we provide steps that you can take right after listening to this podcast.

Take time to listen till the end and share this content with your loved ones. Together we can spread awareness about breast cancer, encourage beginnings filled with life and hope. So without further ado, here’s Purnima Bist and Me in the find your ultra podcast episode 32. Indulge away!

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Episode 31 brings you a conversation with my long time friend Tarun Walecha. 

Tarun holds a degree in architecture from Manipal institute of Technology, and a Post graduate diploma in Environment planning and a project management course from IIT

Tarun is a seasoned runner who’s been running for nearly a decade and a half and has built a couple of amazing communities of fitness lovers by the name ‘Runextreme’ and ‘Fit with T’. He has also written numerous blogs on running, fitness and architecture. 

But in this conversation you’ll barely hear about any of these. My goal with this conversation was to get to know him as a person, the way he navigates his relationships - especially fatherhood, we talk about the wisdom that he shares with young children during his talks at various schools and on a few occasions, I push him to reflect and go deeper into places one usually doesn’t often visit, especially not on a public platform.

This conversation is about relationships, it’s about life lessons, it’s about love. In essence, this conversation is about a beautiful life journey with all it’s ups and downs.

Here’s Tarun Walecha and me in the find your ultra podcast episode 31. Indulge away!

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Since I’ve been exposed to the health and fitness scene over the last few years, I find myself paying close attention to everything I see during my visit to a hospital, which is often to see someone known to me.

I’ve noticed If we set aside genetic conditions, and accidents, pretty much everything else is life-style related in some manner or the other.

Even if lifestyle doesn’t directly control the onset of a disease, or doesn’t directly have the power to fix it, it certainly has the power to make it better or worse in most cases. 

We can’t change the world we live in, but we can certainly take time to develop a deeper understanding of the risks that come with our modern lifestyles and the diseases they bring with them. 

Welcome to episode 30.

We’re meeting Dr Trishala Chopra, who specializes in the management of lifestyle diseases such as Diabetes, PCOS, Cardiovascular diseases, Sleep disorders, Gut health, and Obesity.

Dr Trishala is also the founder of The health Medic, which is a practice based out of mumbai. She has over a decade of experience in reversing a lot of these conditions and she speaks passionately about the need to not just treat but prevent them in the first place. 

And so without further ado, I present to you an engaging conversation that explains these multi-layered problems in simple words. Here’s Dr Trishala and Me in the find your ultra podcast episode 30.

Indulge away!

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Second installment of our catch-up series where we share life updates, our own fitness (or the lack of it) updates, and life in general.

We also dive in to some of the updates from the Indian ultra running scene including the national team announced by the Athletics Federation of India for 24-hour world championships later this year. We discuss selection of some of our friends, and some race specifics before talking about the recently concluded running festival in Ladakh - The Ladakh Marathon and give shout outs to some of our friends.

Do let us know how you like the episode, and what more you'd like us to discuss in this series.

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Welcome to episode 26. 

At the beginning of this year, I promised my friend and podcast mentor Keshav that I will just focus on releasing 52 episodes in this year, do as good a job as I’m capable of doing with those, and until we’ve done the amount of work, I will keep out that negative voice in my head telling me that I’m doing a shitty job, or that I’m wasting people’s time, or this isn’t up to the mark etc etc, that voice can get pretty ugly pretty soon.

I had promised to let that voice have no say until we’ve released 52 episodes and then evaluate and see where we want to go from there.

The release of Episode 26 means, we’re half way there. And I can’t help but think what an amazing journey this has already been. It’s allowed me the opportunity to sit with some remarkable humans who were generous enough to give me their time, and a peak into their minds. It has been one of the most rewarding things I’ve done.

Speaking of remarkable humans, I’m delighted to present to you a conversation with Mohit Oberoi, who’s a climber, a runner, a triathlete, an open water swimmer, an author, a teacher, and an entrepreneur. 

He likes to live mostly off the grid so you many not have heard of him, but I can tell you he’s from our own tribe, and started paying these sports way before we had even heard of them. Consider this, he ran his first half marathon on 1985. I was born in 84. So, he’s super senior but he’s all of 54 and kicking ass as he’s out trekking even right now as I release this episode.

Just give you an idea of what he’s been up to, Mohit was among the first lot of climbers from India. He pretty much was among the very first people who started building a climbing culture in northern India, and he even wrote a book - A guide to rock climbing in and around Delhi. He’s climbed multiple well known and challenging peaks, and I’ve seen some Indian climbers refer to him as nothing short of a legend, when it comes to Indian climbing scene.

He then fell in love with long distance running - he ran a few ultra marathons, a few trail walks, and as recently as last month, he did a 600-650km long self-supported trail walk lasting 38 days, charting out a massive combination of 13 trails that can be done by anyone as one, or 13 individual trails with their own entry and exit points. This, along with a few FKTs are all work in progress.

In between he also fell in love with triathlons, and went on to become among the first few Ironmen From India. 

Mo’s also an open water ultra distance swimmers, he has done numerous sea swims, and among those features the most sought after - the English Channel swim as a part of a relay team. 

If this intro feels long, wait until you hear the richness, the variety and the depth of his experiences. I was honestly captivated, and blown away by some of these stories around each of these experiences and the honesty and humility with which he narrates them. They will give you a peak into what it feels like when you do things for the purpose love of them, and for nothing else.

And at 2 hours in, we dive into some of his personal life, family, raising kids, business etc.

It’s a wholesome conversation that I truly believe you should listen to right till the very end.

And so without further ado, I bring to you another life story that I promise will leave you inspired to follow your heart, head outdoors, and be one with the nature! This is me and Mo Oberoi in the find your ultra podcast episode 26, Indulge away!

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Episode 24 ladies and gentlemen. 

You’re about to listen to a Spanish guy in his 50s living in India for over two decades. Isn’t that interesting already? I can’t wait!

He has not only embraced the Indian culture and food but also the potholes of Delhi roads, the ridiculous AQIs and sweltering heat of Delhi, - all for the love of running.

We’re talking about Alfredo Miranda, popularly knowns as Alfie, in the running circuit. 

Alfredo is an engineer by profession, he loves to solve problems, he loves to get technical about stuff, and believes in finding solutions rather than complaining about stuff.

Alfie is also a running coach and a mentor to many runners across India. He keeps sharing training plans, and writes articles that answer some of the questions new and experienced runners have about training, improving, raising your game.

If you’re familiar with the Indian ultra running circuit, you would have definilty heard if Meenal Kotak, Apoorva Chikara, and Kanan Jain. All of these torchbearers of Indian long distance running scene have raised their game from being average to extraordinary and represented India at the highest Level. 

We’ve heard the story of Kanan’s and Apoorvas journey on the show, we will now get the coach’s perspective on that, and that’ll sort 0f close the loop of how ordinary folks with unwavering faith and resolve can pursue and achieve greatness.

In this conversation we talked about his early years, his transition to India, the cultural adjustments, his early days of running, his race experiences, his running Mantras, and a peak into how he makes a strategy for executing a good 24 hour race. This can be a very specific takeaway of principals that you can use to plan a race of any ultra distance.

This wide-ranging conversation has everything from stories, to Strategies, to humor, to life lessons.

I loved it, and I have no doubt you will too, and if you do, please follow the podcast on Spotify or wherever you’re listening to this, and share it with whoever you can share it with, it helps much more, much much more, than you think it does. Will you do it now? Also, rate the podcast.

And so without further ado, I bring you another conversation rich in human connection, this time across continents. Here’s Alfredo Miranda and Me and the find your ultra podcast episode 24, Indulge away!

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Hello and welcome to Episode 23

I think the biggest catastrophe of our times was that our parents, I mean Indian parents in particular advised us to save. Save Save Save. 

Saving doesn’t appeal to many people because sounds so defensive, One day you might need it.

Investing on the other hand has a hold different ring to it. It’s a game. It has a purpose, it’s a skill, there’s something to learn, get better at, and master. This gamification makes it exciting and there’s something to be won.

Saving doesn’t have any of this - the only thing saving evokes is - don’t spend it today, because you might need it one day. Which translates into Sacrifice your today, in fear of some imaginary doomsday.

The difference I believe lies in the emotion, I believe.

But our parents did the best they could given the limited knowledge they had access to. It’s not even been two decades that Mutual funds have become more mainstream, and we now have access to a world of knowledge about personal finance that was simply not publicly available. We now have access to experts who can guide us on what’s the most optimal way to manage our finances and build wealth with minimal risk.

Speaking of experts, we have with us today Divya Mathur Dayal who’s an ex banker turned entrepreneur and an investor. 

Dipali had been a banker for over a decade managing portfolios of ultra high net worth individuals, which is where she developed a deep undertsnading of luxury - That along with her flair for fashion and grooming led to the conceptualization of a chain of Luxury Boutique salons - called - Magnifique.

She also started a  toxin-free, cruelty free grooming brand aimed at Gen Z, called Super Smelly, Which also won Voted as the product of the year in 2020, and also won the organic beauty award, Australia in 2020 as well.

Dipali herself has won the prestigious Business world 40 under 40 award and is now on to her third venture called ‘Investqueen by Dipali’ where she intends to share investment knowledge for all, but especially she wants to normalize women talking about finance, making investments and becoming truly financially independent - I’ll share the links to all these in the show notes.

Finance is a mighty important subject that we’re all taught very little about, and therefore on the Find your ultra podcast, we will continue to bring on experts to help us fix our financial health. This is the first of many episodes to come in this subject.

Without further ado, let’s dive right in, this is me and Dipali Mathur Dayal in the find your ultra podcast episode 23. Indulge away!

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