Go With The Flo

We sit down with Sandy, the founder of besuperfied for this one. His mission is to empower everyone to be their own nutritionist and take charge of their health, largely through the foods that we eat. His software blends ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with modern science to give you food recommendations specifically tailored to you based on your body type and personality. He's a fascinating human, here's what you can expect:

 

00:01:27 - What is Superfied?

00:03:51 - The body as a machine

00:09:30 - All disease starts in the gut

00:13:57 - Sandy's Story

00:29:48 - Ayurvedic view of the body-mind

00:38:26 - Does your body type change?

00:44:12 - Why is chicken different from turkey?

00:51:11 - How do you decide what energy different foods have?

00:54:57 - Does Ayurveda differentiate between the body and mind?

00:57:19 - Modern medicine vs holistic medicine

01:03:31 - How did besuperfied start?

01:19:08 - Sandy's & Superfied's values

01:23:24 - The link between disease, the gut & the brain

01:26:56 - Why aren't there more studies on food?

01:31:09 - Future ideas for superfied

01:38:43 - Supplements & Food tech

01:45:37 - Sandy's guiding principle and life philosophy

01:50:06 - Fear of failure

How can we change & improve ourselves without feeling that we aren't good enough as we are? Is it possible to change others? And how can we best deal with external changes and uncertainty in our lives?

 

We cover these delightful questions that we've been wrestling with in our own lives, as well as discovering Dom's only kryptonite and erupting into spontaneous cartoon karaoke.

We went big. Really big. Based on a recent conversation we had in the car, we decided to tackle the question "What is true?".  It's a mishmash of winding conversation trying to get to the core of what is true. We get into things like:

How do you know something is true?

Is there anything that is true for everyone in the universe?

Objective truth vs subjective truth

How does good and bad play into being truthful. Is there such a thing as a bad truth?

Honesty in everyday life

Are WE telling the truth?

Truth in the media industry.

How to spot facts and choose trustworthy and truthful information sources

Finger banging your friend's cat (not really)

 

We hope you enjoy this conversation and spoiler alert: We don't know what truth is. Talk to Socrates or Plato if you wana find out. 

PS. This is an interesting article we found after recording about "Reality vs Truth"

https://medium.com/@daniel_riley/what-is-real-vs-what-is-true-47abe3ac156

How are thought patterns and past emotions stored in our bodies, and what can we do about it?

How can an emotional event like experiencing an episode of racism lead to developing a physical illness such as asthma? 

This topic is of great relevance and interest to both of us at the moment, and we had a lot of fun recording this 'landmark' 10th episode.

Have a listen to answer those questions, as well as to find out how Alex calms down Dom's 'aggressive white van man driving' and to hear the biggest words Dom can muster up...

Big welcome to Emily Doe, founder of the Movement Foundation for schools. We shut up for this one and let her talk about her work with movement, breath and her holistic approach to wellbeing, for children and adults alike. Emily states the importance of moving our bodies, our breath as a tool for centring and grounding, being kind to ourselves and going easy on our nervous systems. It's a fun, inspirational chat, with a lot of passion and energy. We learnt a lot and hope you will too. Enjoy!

How are values formed, how do they influence our actions and why are they so important in determining whether we feel fulfilled or not?

 

We explore these questions and share a couple of exercises to discover your own values, all while navigating our way through a recent addiction to online chess...

We're both big fans of meditation and have been practising for a while now. And we've mentioned it in every other podcast episode so we thought we'd do it justice. In this episode we start with the basics and try to explain what meditation is, why we do it, how we got into it, different types of meditation and what to try if you're just starting out.

We also talk about some our meditation retreats, our challenges and some of the weird and wonderful experiences that we've had with it. Dom shares a lot in this one, you can expect constipation analogies, impromptu burp chanting and you also get to find out if Dom's ever slapped anyone in a meeting.

 

Episode breakdown:

02:22 - How we got into meditation

03:43 - What is meditation?

15:12 - Has Dom ever slapped anyone in a meeting?

15:24 - Different types of meditation

25:25 - Where to start if you've never done it before

31.21 - Benefits of meditation

37:50 - Challenges with meditation

46:13 - Experiences with meditation retreats

1:03:53 - Where we're at with meditation now

Our first guest on the podcast, we invited our friend Stefi to talk about Nutrition. She has an Msc in Nutrition from the University of Nottingham, studying for a second from University of Surrey and runs regular nutrition coaching sessions with her clients. You can reach her at [email protected]. We explore a lot of questions and myths around salt, sugar, gut bacteria, fermented foods, supplements and more. Here is the full show outline. We hope you enjoy!

 

01:16 - Stefi's breakfast

02:44 - Smoothies & blending fruit

08:31 - Salt - the good, the bad and the ugly

16:27 - Sugar

27:37 - Fermented foods and the gut -brain connection

39:12 - Making tasty food healthy

40:46 - Supplements

50:09 - How did Stefi get into Nutrition

53:14 - What to expect from talking to a nutritionist

56:17 - Contact Stefi

57:33 - Food puns and goodbyes

We tackle the elusive and sometimes taboo subject of Spirituality this week, starting by defining what it is exactly and why it has the reputation it has in today's society.

 

Brace yourselves though because we go pretty freaking deep as we try to articulate answers to some of the biggest questions that have come up for us on our journeys.

How can we make positive habits become automatic? Are habits just physical actions like running and eating healthy, or are they also patterns of thinking that we constantly repeat in our heads? How can we bring our unconscious negative habits into the light and change them?

This is what we cover in this episode as Dom takes the interviewer role and gets personal by digging into what my worst habit is.