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Michael Schauch is a mountaineer, entrepreneur and storyteller who lives to explore remote places around the world and to share the depth and beauty of human connection he discovers along the way. With early success as an entrepreneur at age 15, and over 20 years of global financial investment experience, Schauch brings his business acumen and altruistic heart to lead and support local and international mentorship, fundraising and educational initiatives. These include the education of girls and student mentorship in Nepal, outdoor youth leadership for those facing barriers to access nature and holistic Indigenous leadership development in British Columbia, Canada. He holds an MBA from Queen’s University and is a member of the Explorers Club. Michael lives with his partner, Chantal in Squamish, British Columbia.

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Most Influential Person

My mom.

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness has taught me to be much more accepting, much more calm, and trusting with love.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing is rhythm. I practice breathing very deeply in the mountains and in nature. Connecting with nature is part of my meditation practice. Breathing is a core component of that.

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Book: In Love With The World by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Helen Tworkov

Book: A Story of Karma: Finding Love and Truth in the Lost Valley of the Himalaya by Michael Schauch

App: My app is nature 

Bullying Story

There's a story where Pemba's best friend, who is Indigenous, her mother said to me, nobody has ever truly seen my daughter as Pemba sees me daughter. That's a deeper level of mindfulness that they're cultivating [in Nepal].

In Nepal, we went to this one little monastery and Karma and Pemba approached the shrine and very intentionally  put their hands to their forehead, to their lips, and then to their heart, while uttering a Tibetan mantra that means ‘homage to the Buddha', which they consider my highest self.

Homage to the teachings, wisdom that has come before, and homage to the community, the interconnectedness of all things. That's the level of mindfulness they're operating from.

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Giovanni Dienstmann is an author, certified meditation teacher, coach and speaker. He has a diverse training with over 9,000 hours of meditation, and a teaching style that is pragmatic, simple, methodical, and non-sectarian. Giovanni's personal anthem is Empowered Peace and Empowered Peace is the reality he lives in now. At only 15-years old,  meditation taught Gio that the real bully was inside his head, and that he could learn to be his own best friend. It taught him how to let go, be greater than his problems, and accept himself. Giovanni has written a book called Practical Meditation: A Simple Step-By-Step Guide.

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Book: Practical Meditation: A Simple Step-By-Step Guide by Giovanni Dienstmann

Most Influential Person

The Buddha

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness for me means that I don't need to run away from any emotion and that I don't need to react to any emotion. I can just accept whatever emotion is happening to me right now, with all the sensations in my body, pleasant or unpleasant and that there's still space for me to chose what I want to do with it. Do I just want to watch and let it pass? Do I want to fuel it to attention and then increase it if it's a positive emotion? Do I want to process it so that it kind of disappears. Mindfulness gives me these options.

Thoughts on Breathing

My style of meditation is not about breathing. I've tried breathing styles in the past and they were not the best ones for me.

Having said that, breathing is an important element of my mindfulness practice throughout the day.

I notice that when I am eating, I try to pay attention to my breathing. When I breathe more deeply and slowly while I eat, I chew better and I feel that digestion happens easier after that for some reason.

When I'm working, I may be answering emails or something and from time to time I remember to breathe deeply and slowly and the more I do that throughout the day, the less tired I feel at the end of the day. 

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Book: Practical Meditation: A Simple Step-By-Step Guide by Giovanni Dienstmann

Book: Mindfulness In Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

Book: Meditation For Beginners by Jack Kornfield

App: Insight Timer

Bullying Story

In high school I had bullying experiences with kids who were much older than me. That didn't turn into a trauma because I fought back.

Even though they were 2 or 3 years older than me, and they physically abused me, punched me and everything, I punched back and I got beat up severely, but it didn't turn into a trauma because I fought back. …

Then I started to take Kung Foo classes which because a big part of my life for over a decade. A few months after I started taking martial arts classes, no one else bothered me. Something had changed. No one else bothered me.

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Dr. Joe Nieusma is the CEO, founder and Chief Toxicologist at Superior Toxicology & Wellness, an international scientific consulting firm that works to passionately educate and inspire individuals to look for better ways to treat their health and wellness. Dr. Nieusma has  30 years experience with human exposure to drugs, chemicals and microbials. He provides tips on intermittent fasting, protection from COVID-19, and how to add longevity to our lives, including ways to eliminate some medications from daily routines. Dr. Nieusma is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Vitro Biopharma, a firm that brings new stem-cell related products for diabetes research to scientific, pharmaceutical, and ultimately medical markets. Dr. Nieusma is also on the editorial staff for the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, published by Informa Healthcare.

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Most Influential Person

Max Champie of Live Longer Labs

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness has affected my emotions very positively because in my younger years I had a temper that was one of the tops in the universe and when I lost it, it was like a train wreck.

The train was off the track and there was nothing you could do to bring it back.

Being mindful has actually helped me to contain, corral, and not be a victim of my own anger and temper since I've aged.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing is how I center myself. I swim a lot and breath control is a very big part of swimming. A deep breath will allow your gases to exchange.

I can actually feel the increased circulation in my body as I take a big, deep breath and hold it in for a second or two, or five or ten or even thirty. I can feel my body getting invigorated because I've given it the opportunity for that very efficient gas exchange.

So breathing is a huge part of how I can improve my physiology on a second to second basis.

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Mitzi Perdue is the co-author, along with Mark Victor Hansen of How to Be Up in Down Times. She is a science writer and a health writer. She holds a BA with honors from Harvard University and an MPA from the George Washington University. Mitzi combines the experiences of three long-time family businesses. Her father Ernest Henderson co-founded the Sheraton Hotel Chain and her late husband Frank Perdue was the second generation in the poultry company that today operates in more than 50 countries. She herself founded CERES Farms in 1974. In 2019 she founded WIN THIS FIGHT, STOP HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

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Most Influential Person

Mother Theresa

Effect on Emotions

I've loved the idea of controlling emotions. Some you can't. If you have a child who's ill, I don't know what to do about that. But of ordinary garden variety things, I think it's a question of will. I think, do I let that get to me? Then I think, that's their problem.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing I consider so important that I've been taking lessons with a voice coach about deep breathing.

When things are really tough, if you can take a deep breath, (My breath is purple in my imagination), and you breathe it out, it takes away tension and other stuff.

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Bullying Story

I have been in many jobs during my lifetime that have been dominated by men. You can imagine that a lot of bullying came my way, so how did I handle it? Here's where it gets a little bit off-beat.

If you criticized me in some way and it's going to make me better, I embrace it, I love it, I'll act on it.

If you're just bullying me or if you're being critical because you think you can get away with it, you don't exist for me. You just don't exist. I'm not going to let you get under my skin.

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Jayson Gaddis is the founder of The Relationship School, an impact-based company dedicated to helping people work out their differences and have fulfilling long-term partnerships. He is on a mission to reach 1,000,000 teens and young adults with formal relationship education. He's the creator of Interpersonal Intelligence™ and trains people how to be relational leaders and coaches. Jayson is also an author, speaker, and podcaster of ‘The Relationship School Podcast, is the father of two children and has been married since 2007.

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Most Influential Person

Reggie Ray, my first big meditation teacher

Effect on Emotions

I think I used to be so jammed up emotionally and cut off. Now I can be with my sadness, my anger, my rage, and my fear; and breathe into it and not run from it. It's incredibly empowering to welcome whatever's arising.

Thoughts on Breathing

I didn't learn much about breathing until I started to learn to meditate. Then I learned that there are all kinds of ways to breathe and breathe differently; breathe through the body, breathe through the nose, breathe through the mouth, hold my breathe, exhale longer.

I'm still learning, I'm still on that journey. I think how we breathe has a big impact on our life.

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Bullying Story

I was bullied and I, in turn, bullied some people. In every story, mindfulness would have made a difference. In Middle School I bumped into some big football player and knocked over his chocolate milk and he grabbed me by the neck and held me up.

I was this little scrawny kid and I hadn't gone through puberty yet. I was terrified and I ran off. I felt so ashamed and embarrassed because it was in front of everybody at lunch.

[With mindfulness] I probably would have still run off because that was an appropriate thing to do. Had I just rounded the corner and just sat down outside and just knew to breathe, and cry and be with myself, and even better, have some adult or older kid who would have been able to hold space for me and breathe with me and just hang out while I just moved through the trauma.

That would have made a massive difference.

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Simon Lovell is a super high performance and emotional intelligence coach for successful CEOs, Entrepreneurs and Leaders that holds people accountable and heals their relationships, self-sabotage, and mindset struggles so they can live their happiest lives. Simon Lovell went from a bullied teen, addicted to drugs, alcohol, gambling and then built his own million dollar company, but he still wasn't happy. After healing his childhood trauma he now helps CEOS and entrepreneurs become fulfilled through this proven six week transformational process called The Super High Performance Formula. He is the author of The Black Ball: Does Anybody Else Have a Secret? and has been featured on Entrepreneur and Forbes. Simon is also the host of the Unshakeable Leaders podcast.

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What Does Mindfulness Mean To You?

Mindfulness means being aware of bringing ourselves back home to ourselves. Connecting with our body. I call it the Universal Slap. It's a reminder from the universe that we need to bring ourselves back to ourselves.

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Book: The Black Ball: Does Anybody Else Have A Secret?

Bullying Story

One of my first bullying events was when I was about 6 years old and it was through a teacher at school. Imagine a classroom of 20 children and the energy of that room is green, green being positive.

So you're 6 years old and you're in this room playing and you're talking about the Simpsons. Then a teacher who is very angry, comes into the room and says, ‘wipe that smile off your face, Lovell'.

He shames me in front of the other kids at a key developmental age. This happened multiple times. I am now creating a story that says, I'm not good enough, what's wrong with you, you're bad.

When it comes to your present life, that interruption of energy from green to red, when I'm being shamed by the teacher, it's called hyper arousal. It's that hyper arousal that sends you into fight or flight.

If that doesn't get resolved, you will continue to live a life where, when I'm 13 years old and I'm in a shower room being bullied by a rugby kid, now based on the earlier event, do I now stand up to the bully in the shower room, or do I cower? I cower.

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Dr. Aria Campbell-Danesh is a doctor in clinical psychology and an expert in the fields of behavior change and long-term health. A mindfulness specialist and creator of the F.I.T. Method, he works internationally with clients on their mindset, exercise, and nutrition. Seth J. Gillihan is a clinical psychologist, best-selling author, podcast host, and creator of the Think Act Be Online School. He specializes in mindfulness-centered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Both of my guests are authors of the best-selling book, A Mindful Year: 365 Ways to Find Connection and the Sacred in Everyday Life (Blackstone Publishing).

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Most Influential Person

  Author of Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior

Effect on Emotions

Aria: I was once at a talk with the Dali Lama. I was going through clinical depression at the time, in my early 20s. Someone asked the Dali Lama, what would you do if you were depressed, as a Buddha? First, he laughed and said, I wouldn't know, I'm not depressed. Then he said something which resonated and stayed with me.

He said, your emotions are like the waves on an ocean … sometimes they're bigger and sometimes they're smaller. And they are always passing by. But deep below the waves, there's a calmness, a serenity; there's clarity and there's wisdom. And any point in time, you can often find waves of going deeper within, you can operate from that place.

Thoughts on Breathing

Seth: I would first set a specific time to practice because it's really easy to have an intention to do it but then other things will inevitably get in the way.

Then, start small with maybe a minute, or 3 minutes, or 5 minutes and just sit, notice the breath, be with those sensations, and know that meditation is not about making your thoughts stop. The more we try to do that actually, the more persistent the thoughts become. We just focus on the breath and then the mind will wander and will bring it right back.

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Tim Shurr is President of Shurr Success, Inc., a leadership and sales training company that saves companies 6-figures by lowering high employee costs! After studying human behavior for the last 32 years and facilitating over 15,000 Hypnosis sessions, Tim discovered how to upgrade unconscious mental programming so you can achieve at the highest level. He’s been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX NEWS and the TEDx stage. Tim has written six books including Get Out Of Your Way and One Belief Away, which releases in January 2021. Tim is also an award-winning speaker and host of the popular podcast, How To Be Mesmerizing!

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Most Influential Person

Dr. Denis Waitley One of the kings of the personal development movement. Earl Nighting ale like him personally. His psychology of Winning program became one of the best selling audio coaching programs of all time.

Patricia Frip The Queen of Presentation Skills

Ford Sakes A marketing expert

Effect on Emotions

It's everything. Without mindfulness you end up in stress and anxiety. With mindfulness, you find inner pieces. And I call it inner pieces because you get pieces of it and then you go through the other human emotions and then you find your way back to peace.

But you're not in inner peace all the time because you need all of the other emotions to channel you, to challenge you, to help you grow, to help you remember what not to do.

Anger, worry, fear, stress, shame, guilt, are all useful emotions if you use them to your advantage.

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing through your nose, down to your belly and slowly exhaling is the first step to every thing.

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Bullying Story

I was bullied all through school, all the way up to my senior year when I actually had a fight at a dance with the bully who had been torturing me for three years.

I actually won that fight and still felt bad about it because I'm not a fighter.

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Dr. Richard Shuster is a clinical psychologist, TEDx speaker, and CEO of Your Success Insights, which helps consumers, corporations, and athletes achieve peak performance. He is also the host of The Daily Helping with Dr. Richard Shuster: Food for the Brain, Knowledge from the experts, Tools to Win at Life which is regularly downloaded in over 150 countries. Dr. Shuster’s clinical expertise and podcast have been featured in such publications as The Huffington Post, NBCNews.com, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, and others. He is also the president of Every Kid Rocks, Inc., a 501c3 which helps schools provide therapy services to children.

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Most Influential Person

Hal Elrod (Author of the book, The Miracle Morning)

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness allows me to take a step back. There are similar tools we use in cognitive behavior therapy that allow you to be an objective bystander so-to-speak to emotions and recognize that the world isn't doing this to you. This is something that's happening and you have a choice as to how you respond to it. 

Thoughts on Breathing

Breathing is really important. Shallow breathing is not great, it's that deep, diaphragmatic breathing … I do that every day.

I have a red-light therapy panel that hangs on my wall and I stand in front of that thing for twenty minutes every day and I do my breathing during that. So I get to combine those two so I know I'm getting at least twenty minutes of deep breathing every day. 

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Bullying Story

It happened to me a bit in elementary school. I've worked a lot with children who have been physically and sexually abused. Mindfulness isn't going to make the bullying stop. You as a parent or you as a victim would have to take some kind of action to make that stop.

If you have a mindfulness practice, you're better able to handle the stress of what that looks like.

[With mindfulness], you are going to be less prone to internalize what's being said about you.

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Jerzy Gregorek is a world champion weightlifter, poetry writer, and the co-author of "The Happy Body", a science-based mindful exercise & nutrition program, which connects what the body needs and what the mind wants with the better person you want to be. Jerzy has won 4 World Weightlifting Championships and established a world record that still stands today. Jerzy has been mentoring clients for over 30 years and The Happy Body program has reached more than 30,000 practitioners throughout the world, including numerous Hollywood stars, Silicon Valley luminaries, people with chronic conditions, people of all sizes and shapes. In 1988, Jerzy earned an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications including The American Poetry Review.

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Most Influential Person

Jerzy Popieluszko, a Priest I knew in Poland who became a Catholic saint.  

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness helps me to stay with the poems. When I write a poem, I meditate. Every time that I work with a poem, I'm in a mindful state.

In a class I was teaching, a woman told me she didn't have thirty minutes to exercise every day because she had two jobs. When I was driving home I was thinking how could a person not have thirty minutes in a day to create this micro progressive system so they could get better in life.

So I came home, went to my meditation room for four hours and then wrote a poem. I went back to the class and read the poem and the poem was very moving to everyone.

The women said that the poem moved her. (Jerzy shares the poem later in the episode).

Thoughts on Breathing

I created singularity of the brain within one repetition and there are six things that happen with one repetition. Inhale and then holding the breath, flexing the seven body parts, lifting, stretch, return, and exit. 

All six things repeat, and those six things create the mantra and that singularity and mindfulness that happens during this time creates thirteen minutes of exercise system when they exercise that way. They also feel like they meditate.

So they are completely mindful during the thirty minutes.

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App: n/aBullying Story

I was one of the shorter boys and of course the communism was there too, and communism was tough. When you are thirteen, you sense what parents are going through. They were persecuted and they have problems so you feel it.

When I was around thirteen I was bullied, badly. I had to walk to the school, not a long walk, maybe a quarter of a mile. During this walk I would be caught by boys to get money, and they would hold me upside down by the ankles and shake me to get money from me. There was constant bullying. 

Final Words of Advice

I think that we need to focus on goodness, the goodness in every way and fight for it. The goodness is getting more flexible or stronger or more mindful. The goodness is be kind in the world. The goodness is to love people as they are and give them the science of what to do to get better.

Goodness is to choose hard choices verses easy choices in life to create micro progressive systems.

Goodness is an amazing thing because goodness also creates self-control and self-discipline, delayed gratification and it is a sign of virtues.

I think the stoics were right that virtues are more important than almost anything that we do in life. 

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