In this episode of Mindful Paths Podcast, Nick and Harry explore how modern life quietly pulls us away from presence, and what it really takes to protect our energy, attention, and wellbeing.

The conversation moves through fear disguised as wisdom, perfectionism, habit friction, screen addiction, and the subtle ways technology erodes connection with ourselves and others. They reflect on Christmas pressure, consumerism, wellness gadgets, parenting in a screen-heavy world, and why presence matters more than performance.

This is a grounded, reflective episode about simplifying, letting go of perfection, and choosing practices that actually support a calm, connected life.

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(00:00) Fear disguised as wisdom and the trap of perfectionism

(04:59) Why environment determines whether habits stick

(07:12) Making good habits easy and bad habits harder

(11:19) Decluttering gadgets and clearing internal clutter

(15:37) Swapping perfection for presence during the holidays

(17:00) Phones on the table and what presence really signals

(21:02) Screen-free moments and the power of unplugging

(25:32) Screens, addiction, and the coming mental health cost

(28:32) Will AI remove screens or make presence harder

(30:03) Children, gaming, and losing the ability to play

(33:52) Making time for wellness before illness forces it

(36:47) Idle minds, overstimulation, and filling time with movement

(39:13) Downtime vs overuse and finding balance

(44:09) Producing over perfect and taking imperfect action

(45:37) Fear, comparison, and why perfection kills momentum

(48:01) Shipping imperfect work and trusting iteration

(49:00) Presence, play, and closing reflections

In this episode of Mindful Paths, Nick and Hari reflect on Christmas as more than a joyful holiday and explore how this time of year amplifies emotions like grief, loneliness, pressure, nostalgia, and gratitude.

Why does Christmas bring unresolved feelings to the surface? How do expectations around family, traditions, productivity, and self improvement quietly create stress instead of connection? Nick and Hari discuss how grief, loss, and reflection often collide during the holidays, especially when the year has included change, challenge, or personal loss.

Through honest conversation, they explore mindfulness as an integrated daily practice rather than something to add to an already full life. From being present while cooking or hosting to letting go of perfection, they examine how presence, self compassion, and emotional honesty matter more than performance, productivity, or appearances during the holidays.

They also unpack loneliness at Christmas, the pressure to evaluate the year, and the trap of constant self optimization. The episode closes with a powerful reframe: Christmas is not about becoming a better version of yourself, but a kinder one. A reminder to slow down, acknowledge what you have survived, give yourself credit for quiet wins, and meet the season with compassion, presence, and care for yourself and others.

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00:00 Preview & Intro

05:22 Christmas and Emotional Pressure

07:35 Grief and Loss at Christmas

09:06 Letting Go and Memory

18:13 Giving Back and Meaning

23:40 Presence Over Presents

28:36 Everyday Mindfulness Practice

30:54 Compassion Over Self Critique

33:34 Loneliness and Gratitude

36:51 Quiet Wins and Courage

43:25 Self Improvement Traps

51:33 Kindness as Fulfillment

54:19 Mindfulness and Acceptance

In this episode of Mindful Paths, Nick and Hari take a clear, research grounded look at creatine and why it may be one of the most misunderstood yet evidence backed supplements for both physical performance and brain health.

Is creatine really just for bodybuilders, or has it been unfairly dismissed because of outdated myths and poor marketing? Nick and Hari break down what creatine actually does in the body, how it supports ATP production, and why decades of research continue to show benefits for strength, power, recovery, and training quality.

They also unpack common concerns around water weight, kidney health, bloating, and hair loss, explaining what the science actually says and who should be cautious. The conversation compares creatine monohydrate to newer forms like capsules and serums, discusses loading versus steady dosing, and explains why simplicity, testing, and cost effectiveness matter more than flashy supplement claims.

Zooming out, the episode uses creatine as a lens to question modern supplement culture and lifestyle driven deficiencies. Through reflections on aging, cognition, stress, and a desert island thought experiment, Nick and Hari explore which supplements truly earn their place and how to think more clearly about health, performance, and longevity in the modern world.

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0:00 Preview & Intro

3:39 Why creatine matters

5:12 Performance and recovery benefits

7:36 Brain health and cognition

8:52 Safety, side effects, risks

10:40 Strength and muscle gains

12:31 Aging and disease research

13:56 Dosing and water weight

16:05 Powder vs capsules

22:45 Creatine for everyday health

25:20 Creatine serum myths

29:08 Cost and product quality

33:20 What to look for

38:54 Supplements vs natural living

41:09 Desert island experiment

49:18 Media trust detour

51:52 Training, sauna, sleep

In this episode of Mindful Paths, Nick and Hari dive deep into the sleep and recovery conversation that has taken over modern wellness. From early nights and winter rhythms to smart mattresses, mouth taping, red light therapy, and sleep trackers, they explore why rest has become both a personal struggle and a booming industry.

Are you building simple habits that genuinely help you sleep, or getting pulled into optimisation culture and expensive gadgets? Is your bedroom a place of recovery or slowly becoming a biohacking lab filled with trackers, lights, and data?

Using their own routines, missteps, and real sleep challenges, Nick and Hari unpack what actually improves rest. They talk about caffeine timing, blue light, breathing, sound therapy, consistent wake times, and why the fundamentals still outperform most trends. They also explore the rising popularity of breathwork, the shift from meditation to stimulation, and why frequency and sound healing may be the next major wave in wellbeing.

Along the way, they discuss the difference between helpful structure and obsessive tracking, how to work with your circadian rhythm, and why not all wellness tools need to be bought. You will hear practical takeaways on grounding, light exposure, recovery basics, and how to rethink rest in a world that turns simple practices into products.

Whether you are struggling with insomnia, curious about sleep science, or trying to build healthier evening routines, this episode will help you understand what really supports your mind and body during the darker months and beyond.

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00:00 Preview & Intro

00:35 Winter Evenings and Routines

04:40 Sleep Trends and One-Upmanship

17:21 Early Dinners and Experiments

21:24 Bedtime vs Wake Time

22:00 Caffeine Intake and Sleep Data

25:37 Deep Sleep and Dreams

37:27 Supplements That Work

39:54 Breathwork vs Meditation

48:32 Wellness Trends and Adoption

49:40 Future Health Tech

51:28 Sound Healing and Frequency

55:06 Red Light Therapy

In this episode of Mindful Paths, Nick and Hari take a hard look at TikTok’s Great Lock-In, the Silent Walk trend, and the rise of “winter arc” challenges as tools for self improvement.

Are you joining these trends to live more intentionally, or because the algorithm told you to? Are silent walks, winter lock-ins, and streak challenges helping you feel more aligned with your values, or just adding another layer of pressure and comparison?

Using the idea of winter as a personal “lock-in” season, Nick and Hari explore how to turn viral habits into simple, sustainable routines that actually serve your life. They dive into silent walking without headphones, digital nutrition, and what happens when tracking, step counts, and streaks quietly shift from supportive structure to obsession.

They also unpack the tension between quitting and commitment, the line where discipline becomes self tyranny, and why process based habits beat short term outcome goals every time. Along the way, they offer practical questions and mindset shifts to help you use trends like the Great Lock-In and Silent Walk as starting points, then rebuild them in a way that fits your values, your season, and the person you are trying to become.

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0:00 – Preview & Intro

2:30 – Great Lock-In And Silent Walk

6:13 – Winter As Growth Season

8:10 – Silent Walking And Habit Seeds

12:10 – 100-Day Challenges And Streaks

22:17 – Busy Bravery And Challenge Culture

29:04 – Trends, Strava And Tracking

37:00 – Connection Tools And Embracing Silence

43:45 – Supplements, Pain And Progress Tracking

47:59 – Five Whys And Identity

49:36 – Intrinsic Motivation And This Podcast

In this episode of Mindful Paths, hosts Nick Day and Hari Kalymnios explore one of the most important shifts in personal growth today: moving from living out of alignment to living in alignment with your values.

Are your daily choices matching what you say you care about, or are hidden habits pulling you off course? Can simple check-ins and value-first planning outperform complicated systems and endless to-do lists?

From spotting early signs of misalignment to building small practices that keep you true to yourself, Nick and Hari unpack clarity exercises, boundary scripts, and decision filters that help you design your day, protect your attention, and realign quickly when life gets messy.

They also discuss how to separate values from beliefs so disagreements do not derail relationships, why tiny acts of integrity compound into confidence, and why clear priorities, restful sleep, movement, sunlight, and recovery still carry most of the load when you want a life that actually fits your values.

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In this episode of Mindful Paths, hosts Nick Day and Hari Kalymnios explore one of the most overlooked shifts in modern living: moving from a reported life to a created life.

Are you simply reporting your day as it happens, or intentionally creating it? Can simple, portable mindfulness habits outperform complex gadget-heavy routines?

From losing routine anchors to building travel-proof practices, Nick and Hari unpack the mindset, single-tasking strategies, and micro-rituals that help you design your mornings, protect attention, and let go when plans change.

They also discuss how to separate productivity hype from habits that actually stick, why flexible systems beat motivation, and why the foundations of health like sleep, movement, sunlight, and recovery still do 95% of the work.

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00:00 Intro & Preview

02:09 Cold exposure and Breath

04:49 One-minute breath reset rule

08:59 Reported life vs created life

10:38 Stacking vs single-tasking

14:41 Portable morning ritual

16:26 What a “created life” looks like

18:38 Anchors at begin/end of day

22:40 RAF: Rules Allow Freedom

27:50 When plans slip

37:41 Create space for reflection

41:35 Phone boundaries & Simple constraints

In this episode of Mindful Paths, hosts Nick Day and Hari Kalymnios explore one of the most controversial topics in modern health: lab-grown stem cells.

Can we really harvest pluripotent stem cells from blood? Are these treatments a biohacking breakthrough or a biological risk waiting to happen?

From Swedish lab discoveries to the 2012 Nobel Prize in stem-cell research, Nick and Hari unpack the latest science, ethical questions, and real-world risks of stem-cell therapy, mesenchymal cells, and regenerative medicine.

They also discuss how to separate scientific fact from marketing hype, why personalization and testing matter before trying new therapies, and why the foundations of health like sleep, movement, sunlight, and recovery still do 95% of the work.

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00:00 Preview and Intro

02:00 Health Optimization Summit Recap 

08:25 Biohacking Overload 

10:55 Tools, Saunas, and Lowering Habit Friction  

14:30 The 95/5 Rule for Real Health  

17:15 Peptides, Light Therapy & Grounded Gear  

22:36 The Stem-Cell Debate – Breakthrough or Biohazard?  

29:45 The Cost of Wellness & Perceived Value  

33:30 Corporate Wellness Culture  

40:00 Why You Should Avoid Over-Optimization  

45:00 Hope vs. False Hope in New Science  

50:00 Energy as the True Multiplier

Join us on this special episode of Mindful Paths as Hari takes us behind the scenes of his brand-new book Super Vitality, a project more than 10 years in the making.

In this candid conversation, Hari reveals how redundancy sparked a personal transformation that led him to explore NLP, personal development, and the science of health optimization. You’ll hear how he created the BEAT Model (Brain, Elements, Activity, Tranquility), overcame perfectionism and procrastination, and turned hundreds of lifestyle experiments into a simple, actionable framework that anyone can follow.

Whether you want to boost your energy, build resilience, improve your mindset, or simply feel more “on beat” every day, this episode will inspire you to take action.

Order Hari’s Book, ‘Super Vitality’: https://amzn.to/4ndTmEi

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(00:00) Why This Book Took 10+ Years to Write  

(02:35) Redundancy as a Catalyst for Transformation  

(06:20) Discovering Personal Development & Health Optimization  

(09:07) Overcoming Fear, Perfectionism & Procrastination  

(12:47) Lessons from Biographies, Failure & Iteration  

(16:27) The Birth of the BEAT Model  

(20:05) Turning 200 Life Changes into a Practical System  

(23:50) Building a Book That’s Easy to Use & Actionable  

(28:00) Finance, Stress & Mental Health: Why It Matters  

(30:12) What Makes Super Vitality Different From Other Wellness Books  

(34:33) Breaking Down the BEAT Framework (Brain, Elements, Activity, Tranquility)  

(37:17) Spirituality as the Thread That Ties It All Together  

(39:25) Key Insights & Lightbulb Moments Readers Will Have  

(44:15) Why There’s a “Light” Version and a Full Version of the Book  

(47:04) Lessons for Aspiring Authors & Overcoming Creative Fear  

(51:03) Life After the Book Launch & What’s Next for Hari  

(55:02) The Power of Staying a Generalist & Falling in Love with the Process 

After 10+ years in the making, Hari has launched Super Vitality — a powerful guide to optimal health, boundless energy, and becoming superhuman, based on his Leadership BEAT Model™.

Available now on Kindle & Paperback: https://amzn.to/4ndTmEi

Special discount (lowest allowable prices on Amazon) for the first 72hrs only!

Feeling the back-to-work slump after summer?

In this episode we share a practical reset you can actually keep. We start with a real-life health scare and why antibiotics sometimes help and sometimes hurt, then show how grounding, removing inflammatory inputs, and tiny prep moves rebuild momentum. You will learn the CCC framework to focus on what matters, RAF to create freedom through simple rules, and the “done list” that turns rough days into wins.

 We end with how to make wellbeing your default and a first look at “Super Vitality,” Hari’s new book. 

Subscribe if you want small, daily actions that add up to a calmer, stronger you.

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Mental Health Disclaimer & Guidance: The content in this podcast is informational…

(00:00) Grounding 101 and why it helps

(00:45) Hari’s vertigo, labyrinthitis, and ear infection

(04:11) Antibiotics talk and gut impact

(15:20) Grounding sheets: setup, cost, sleep effects

(18:31) Curcumin, hydrogen water, and inflammation basics

(20:18) H = H: remove harm before adding fixes

(21:00) Mindvalley reflections and lessons

(23:58) Listener question: post-holiday blues with kids back at school

(26:37) CCC framework and involving kids in routines

(28:44) RAF: rules allow freedom, batching smoothie boxes

(29:45) Be kind to yourself, rebuild routine, prep the night before

(55:09) The “done list” and momentum on tough days

(58:11) Book drop: Super Vitality 

(01:00:29) Make wellbeing your default, like Dutch cycling