Majoring in the Minors

In this episode, Mahi and Louie are joined by A. Salooje, a strength coach and founder of Multifarious Coaching, where we had an impromptu conversation that focused on the importance of developing a capacity to endure and grow from hardship. We also discussed other random topics.

Summary of discussion points:

- Capacity to endure

- importance of Grit

- Random conversations related to strength training

- Ability to look within to grow

- Being Multifarious

You can Find Saloojee here.

In this episode, Mahi and Louie are joined by Chako Nejad, a junior doctor in the UK. She has given us various tips for keeping safe in the pandemic and gave us insights into the general state  of the pandemic in the UK.

Summary of discussion points:

- Tips for staying healthy

- The difficulties of containing COVID

- The ability to endure and grow

- Staying sane during a pandemic

- Comfort foods

In this episode, Mahi and Louie are joined by Killian Hamilton, Director of Innovation and Program Design at Pre-Script and the Head coach at k2 Coaching. He provided us with a wealth of information and delved into his philosophy of Skill Acquisition and its relevance to every discipline. 

Summary of discussion points: 

Recommended book:

The Five Rings

You can find Killian at K2coaching.ca & On Pre-Script Skill Acquisition

In this episode, Mahi and Louie are joined by Sophie Smart and Flavia Masini, two successful personal trainers in London. Following last week's episode, we continue with another conversation about the fitness industry and more tips for Personal Trainers or anyone else who is client-facing.

Discussion points:

Tips for those just starting out:  

You can find Sophie here, and Flavia here.

In this episode, Mahi and Louie are joined by Nathaniel Morris, General Manager at the Gym Group, and is a coach for and someone who is very dear to Mahi.

Join us for an insight-filled conversation full of gems that would be useful for anyone in the fitness industry and any services based industry.

As usual, we also strayed off course and explored a range of geekier topics including but not limited to:

- Pokemon

- Comic books 

- Video games 

- Why Robocop is the greatest movie of all time?

you can find Nathaniel "here" 

In this episode, Mahi and Louie are joined by Frankie Ward, an Esports and gaming host for a discussion on women in the gaming industry.

Frankie provided us with insights on what it is like to be a woman in the video game industry as well as personal insights into how she deals with the toxicity that is prevalent online.

We also have a fun segment on her personal experiences with video games.

You can follow Frankie @getfrankgames on Instagram and Frankie on twitch.

In this episode dedicated to Halloween Mahi and Louie talk about the fear of failure and ultimately wade into stories about getting scared, watching horror movies, as well stories that one could even categorize as funny? 

we had a lot of fun with this one and went slightly off-script.  

Hope you enjoy the podcast and thanks for listening. 

In this impromptu episode, Louie and Mahan talk about empathy and the power of the hypothetical. Nowadays, we humans tend to show a lack of awareness towards our fellow kind... this is probably one of the reasons why things are going down the drain in the world.

In this episode, Mahi and Louie are joined with their great friend Sahi (Sahar Ahmed) a trainee psychotherapist to talk about World Mental Health Day and Mental Health for all.

Sahar made great points talking about mental health when it comes to empathy, setting boundaries, and gaslighting. 

She also had 4 easy points for everyone to help improve their mental health hygiene which we got to discuss further into the episode.

the 4 points were:

1) Making small promises to yourself

2) Journaling (especially future self journals)

3) Exercise and Activity

4) Meditation and Breathing

You can find her on Instagram @dimaghi.damsel and  Mahan @elmi.fitness.

Thanks for Listening to Majoring in the Minors.

In this episode of Majoring in the Minors. Louie and Mahan discuss the concept of Antifragility and how it applies to both life and training.

Antifragile is part of a series of books written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.