Fresh Leaf Forever

In this discussion, top junior golfer Maxwell Ford, a High School Senior in Ga, USA  talks about his game;  how it evolved over the years and aspects that are crucial for anyone to be successful.

Maxwell and host Vai discuss -

• how a junior can start playing golf and sort of chalk their path upward
• Mental side of the game
• Choosing the right equipment and how one achieves best fit
• Consistency and how that helps one to succeed
• His tournament successes and challenges
• Role of parents in the journey of a junior golfer
• College recruitment process
• Pathway to amateur and pro golf tour
• Relaxation and fun aspects
• Education and interests
• Tips to enjoy the game and be successful

Maxwell Ford is a college commit to play NCAA Division 1 Golf for UGA.

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Camryn Bryant is the Founder and CEO of House of Beverly. She is a teenage success story in the digital media space.
In this conversation, Camryn and Vai chat about how her creativity and ideas evolved over the years, right from her elementary school days. Her journey in middle and high school; how her being a Creative Director for feature films helped her transition into forming her own company.
Camryn started her company in 2018 as a multimedia production company and has subsequently started her own magazine and podcast.
In this fun and insightful conversation, we talk about the challenges she faced, especially being a person of color, and how she took advantage of her opportunities and made it big!

A not to miss episode to get to know how one can chalk their own path, and turn obstacles into positive avenues and achieve growth. Every teenager, every girl who dreams big, can map out her journey just like Camryn did. We talk about how she would proceed with every idea that she had and pursued it to perfection.
Everyone needs a mentor and inspiration; Camryn is no exception and explains how several people have inspired her to become what she is today.
Success needs work and this episode is a great example of a wonderful teen story in Digital Media, turning a pandemic driven world situation into something productive for herself and the audience benefiting from her work!

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My guest Sriram Sundararajan is the founder of Hypergrowth Labs, based in CA, USA and is an avid researcher in emerging tech landscape. His global industry experience and consulting experience makes him a very sought after Adjunct faculty at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University and at Stanford University.

In this episode, Sriram and host Vai talk about :

* Mentors and mentees
* Need for mentoring
* How mentoring differs from coaching
* Making mentor-mentee relationships thrive
* Role of mentors in achieving the above and the best fit that mentees can bring in
* Who can benefit from mentoring
* Mentoring as it applies to different category sets
* Key aspects in nailing down best fit in mentor-mentee relationships
* 3Cs that typically we come across in mentoring
* Mentor-mentees making it productive and fruitful
* Qualities possessed by people who are the right mentors
* Mentor categories and structures
* Student mentoring, executive mentoring
* Student perspectives and work perspectives globally
* Key to being successful as mentors and ways for career professionals and students to succeed in their career.

Sriram's on  LinkedIn and his company website is https://hypergrowthlabs.com. A not to miss highly engaging conversation on a much needed topic!

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Looking to get insights on what Ayurveda is, how the science views one's anatomy, metabolic typing ? This episode explores all of that in detail and guest Kate O'Donnell is an expert who clearly brings out the distinction and categorization of individual body types.
Kate and Vai talk about what one should eat to maximize their energy and well being based on their body type, the different seasons in the year, and why we feel a certain way.
Ayurveda teaches us how we can achieve a balance inspite of the changes around us.
Other focus areas in the episode include :
- Allergy seasons and how one can address it from an Ayurvedic standpoint
- Kate's suggestions on what to eat and how a family can incorporate easy to make, fresh meals
- Importance of diet on our lifestyle
- Ashtanga Yoga and what it is about?
- Yoga and women's health (menstrual cycle, menopausal stage)
- Yoga and autoimmune health
- Who can do Ashtanga Yoga
- Seasonal cleanses and body type based yoga practice
- Organ detoxification and sleep cycle, circadian rhythm
- Digestive fire and eliminating toxins
- Ideal time to eat, best time to exercise, need for proper sleep pattern

Kate is a nationally certified Ayurvedic practitioner, Ashtanga yoga teacher, and the author of multiple Ayurvedic cookbooks including The Everyday Ayurveda Guide to Self-Care and The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook: A Seasonal Guide to Eating and Living Well. Her other book is Everyday Ayurveda Cooking for a Calm,Clear mind

She studied in India for twenty years and continues to travel there annually for study. She is a contributor to many publications including Yoga Journal, Women’s Health Magazine, and NPR. She teaches trainings, cooking classes, seasonal cleanses, retreats, and
Kripalu programs . her website is https://ayurvedicliving.institute

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Candace Swanson, a return guest on the show, talks about her journey with COVID-19 and what symptoms she faced and how she's getting her body back in good health.

With her experience in Nutrition Response testing and seeing patients who have had COVID as well, Candace tells us about -
1. Common COVID symptoms and what she has seen majorly in her patients
2. What are some ways one can cope up to help the body deal with the symptoms
3. Guidelines on eating and lifestyle during, post COVID and as an everyday regiment to be in good health
4. Loss of smell and how she dealt with it
4. Role of Whole food supplements to improve well being
5. Role of Nutrition response testing
6. Diet, exercise and impact on anyone's health

Candace Swanson may be reached via her e-mail [email protected] and her mobile phone number she has mentioned in the episode.

THIS EPISODE IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE NOR A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL ADVICE. PLEASE ALWAYS CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN FOR INDIVIDUAL CASE TO CASE NEEDS.

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OctoGifts was founded by Sebastian Flores, stemming from his passion areas - origami and engineering, technology.
In this interview, Sebastian along with his mom Melanie Flores, an engineer herself and Tedx speaker, engage in a dialogue about the company and how it evolved over the years.

It's the story of a young entrepreneur, who at 15 years of age, is making headlines selling his patent pending work online. Sebastian's journey, facilitated by support from his parents, is fascinating and is an inspiration for any student to become an entrepreneur while in school, and that age is no barrier.
Hear about how he has grown his business, challenges that he faced, and how he used his time productively and made it worthwhile for people to buy his products. Sebastian has helped people experience and enjoy their creation from the DIY kits sold by OctoGifts. A great activity for people to do together even in a pandemic driven world! Young Sebastian has not only created a business for himself but has given people a way to connect via engaging in doing an activity - all in a socially distanced fashion! Check out OctoGifts at https://www.octogifts.com

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Dr.Micah Yu talks about auto immune illnesses, the role of Diet and lifestyle and how one can achieve well being tweaking certain things they do.

Focus areas in the discussion include -

• Auto immune illness and types of auto immune conditions
• Environment, geographic impact, polarity
• Vitamin mineral deficiencies and impact
• Role of Vitamin D, B12
• Role of diet in anyone’s life ; Dr.Yu’s personal journey with his auto immune condition
• Benefit of whole food plant based  diet on auto immune conditions
• Diet and microbiome
• Impact of microbiome on one’s health and its effect of medications
• Biologics and auto immune conditions
• Integrative medicine and auto immune illnesses
• Inflammatory markers - CRP, ESR and role of gluten, fats, omega 3s, probiotics in auto immune illnesses
• Mind-body influence and breathing techniques
• Exercise and auto immune illness
• Covid vaccines and auto immune illness
• Different diets out there and significance if any
•  Standard American Diet and impact on health
• Overall Tips for well being

Dr.Micah Yu may be reached via his website www.myautoimmunemd.com. His Instagram handle is @myautoimmunemd and is the same on Facebook, twitter.

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David Ford is a Senior in High school at Rivers Academy  in GA, USA.
He has played multiple sports and transitioned to golf later and is now the world's #1 junior golfer in the Rolex AJGA rankings.

In this conversation, David highlights
* his involvement in multiple sports and transitioning to golf at age 14 and being very successful.
* parents, their involvement in making him successful; parents' role in the life of a junior golfer.
* His game and what helped him rise to the top
* Recovery, fitness, nutrition aspects
* Finer aspects of his game, relaxation
* His college commit to UNC and the NCAA Div1/ finding the right coach
* Areas of focus, challenges, adversity
* Pathway to playing professionally

Enjoy this insightful discussion and get inspired to persevere, work hard and perform better in anything you choose to do.

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Have you always wanted to know all about Yoga right from a Yoga 101 to an in depth discussion ? This episode is totally the one you're looking for.
- What is Yoga, its origin, different forms of yoga
- Who can do Yoga and what is the correct way to do Yoga
- Benefits of doing Yoga
- Incorporating correct breathing practices into a Yoga routine
- Meditation and how to get started with it
- Yoga for pregnant moms
- Yoga for athletes
- Best time to do Yoga and diet and Yoga

My guest Vidhya Kripashankar, is a well trained Yoga teacher with certifications from Yoga Alliance USA, Param Yoga in Pune, India and Vyasa Institute, Singapore and has several other certifications to her credit. She currently lives in India but travels outside to other countries also to conduct and participate in workshops.
Her receptive, therapeutic and nourishing side comes from training with Dr. Renu Mahatani (MD medicine, FMNM) of Param Yoga, Pune and with Dr.Kuldeep from the prestigious Vyasa Institute, Singapore. Her more energetic and dynamic nature is influenced by her studies with Dr. Venky Reddy of Shivshakti Yoga Institute, India/Singapore. Vidhya prefers to use her own blend of yoga for teaching and personal practice by combining elements from her diverse training background, while also striving for harmony and balance.

Vidhya writes on yoga practice and answers queries on the website www.Ketchupmoms.com. She's on Facebook and Instagram and her handle is @yogawithvidhya.

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Ayurveda originated several thousand years ago in India and is an alternative/integrative form of healing. Special guest Myra Lewin explains very clearly the origin, what the science and healing is about and how food is a major component of how Ayurveda helps address the well being and vibrant health of an individual.
In Ayurveda, food combining guidelines stipulate  what foods go together and what may be eaten together; what cannot be had together to avoid toxin buildup which may result in disease.
How one needs to eat for robust health and wellness is something every listener can take advantage of, from this episode.

Myra is a highly experienced Yogini, certified in Ayurveda and Yoga with 30 years of experience and teaching more than 50,000 hours of yoga. She's also an energy healer and is the Director and Founder of Hale Pule, a center based in New Zealand(www.halepule.com). Myra is a book author on Ayurveda("Freedom in your relationship with food", "Simple Ayurvedic Recipes") and is extremely well known across the world for her consults and courses on Ayurveda and Yoga. Her website above has all the information.

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