Welcome to another episode, this week we have Matt Caruana what a story he has, words cant do it justice so I'm just going to let you have a listen.

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Recorded live on the shores of Manly.

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Listen to the relaxing meditation from Kiki Bosch recorded live on Manly beach

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Summary: 

In this episode, Eddy chats with Gus Rickard, the resident ‘Gut expert’ for the About My Brain Institute. He regularly presents to companies like Microsoft and ASX on the links between gut health and brain function. Today, he shares with us a plethora of information and value about gut health, including what affects it, what food we should stay away from, and the importance of paying attention to your body. Aside from these topics, Gus also walks us through his martial arts experience, why he walked away from his martial arts group, and the life lessons he learned through his experience.

Time Stamped Show Notes:

• 00:01 – Eddy welcomes Gus
• 00:40 – Gus believes the reason most people have gut issues is that people moved away from their natural environment
• • Lifestyle has changed dramatically — both in diet and agriculture
  • Antibiotics and the huge increase in stress are also causes of gut issues
• 04:13 – Gus talks about physiological stresses that stimulate cortisol production
• • The perception of stress also does the same to our body
  • Living in a city causes physiological stresses even with a stress-free mindset
  • Acute stresses like exercises and workouts are needed by the body
  • When a person is in a stressful state, food tends to sit longer and ferments in the gut because of the absence of hydrochloric acid in the stomach
  • Body temperature rises and inflammation becomes present with stress
• 09:40 – Our gut is a very delicate, balanced eco-system
• • Antibodies cure indiscriminately
  • ⅓ of people recover the diversity of their guts in 2 weeks, ⅓ takes 6 months and the last ⅓ never recover
  • “I’ve ruined my gut,” said Gus when he took antibiotics for 10 years
• 13:32 – Food to take depends on a person’s genetics and microbiome
• • Everything that goes in your gut feeds the microbiome
  • A change in the diet means a shift in the microbiome
• 19:15 – There are foods that are generally bad for your gut like gluten and processed dairy
• • Dairy in the form that we get it, will not have a positive effect on our gut
• 22:31 – Obvious signs that come from your gut
• • Any abnormality that you feel after eating gas, burping, bloating, constipation, and diarrhea
  • The gut is responsible for so much more than just digestion of food
  • A lot of illnesses, including mental and emotional challenges, can be cured thru the gut
  • The gut transfers information to the brain
• 26:30 – Eating meat should be a nice balance of nutrients, not just muscle meat
• 28:06 – A healthy diet differs for everybody
• 29:04 – Gus talks about the many species of whole foods that we should be eating
• • Pay attention to your body
  • Any food you eat will have an effect on your body for at least 72 hours
• 32:26 – Gus shares his martial arts experience, especially with Jeet Kune Do
• • He talks about the book, The Artist of Life, and how it influenced him
  • “Be like water” and “responding like an echo” are two things Gus learned from Bruce Lee’s martial arts
• 36:05 – The calling of doing meditation and Tai Chi
• • Mindfulness and being present in the moment lessons
  • The difference between Tai Chi and Qi Gong
  • “I kind of committed 6 years of my life to that teaching”
  • Gus talks about leaving the practice
• 41:24 – “I don’t think anyone has bad intentions, only selfish intentions”
• • Gus left realizing the manipulations that were happening in the school he was in
  • “I choose to only believe in the material”
• 47:05 – Gus believes that somehow, you lose yourself to the group
• • A “cult” is like an addiction
• 50:46 – Gus had some of the best moments in his life in the group he was in
• • His whole sense of self-worth was tied to that practice
  • He had a belief that he was safe because he was “protected” being there
• 52:45 – The ideology of death has changed for Gus
• • For Gus, we are an eternal soul that is here to learn and to grow
• 57:49 – Setting the space you’re in and your mindset
• 59:47 – What brings the most joy in his life right now:
• • It’s discovering and connecting with his purpose and knowing that he has something of value to offer the world
• 01:00:31 – Gus’ 3 highest values in life:
• • Growth / Evolution
  • Taking Care of Yourself / Health
  • Community / Family/ Connection
• Contact Eddy at Peeling It Back or on Facebook and Instagram

Resources Mentioned:

• The Artist of Life – A book recommended by Gus

Summary:

In this episode, Eddy introduces Andri Iceland to the show.. Andri is a Life Coach,  Cold Therapy & Movement expert. A method that has impacted his life to the point to define himself to be "reborn", the inflection point from where years of severe chronic lumbar pain and migraines simply disappeared. Inspired by Mindfulness, Yoga, Movement, Cold Therapy  (Wim Hof Method certified) and other techniques, he is now dedicated to share his story aiming to guide others to be re-born to the health benefits of Cold Therapy.

Time Stamped Show Notes:

• 00:39 – Eddy welcomes Andri
• 01:26 – Andri was a gymnast at 5 until he got into an accident at 13
  • Andri was paralyzed from his knee to his waist
  • Pain from the accident had Andri quit gymnastics
  • At 14, Andri started drinking alcohol and it wasn’t until later that he realized he drank because of the pain he felt
• 04:20 – The pain Andri felt was constant — he was never pain-free except when he was drunk
  • Hearing the clink of the beer can already has an effect with Andri
  • He started drinking on weekends and then turned everyday
  • Today, Andri doesn’t drink anymore
  • “It was just an escape from reality”
• 07:28 – Andri shares about how many times he wanted to stop drinking
  • Andri and his struggles dealing with his spine injury
  • At 39, he looked down at his life and realized his marriage was gone
• 10:43 – “It’s crazy to look back into it and see all these years I was just complaining”
  • “I didn’t do anything, I was always waiting for somebody to fix me”
  • Realizations have to come from within
  • He believed he could not do anything for himself, and so he did nothing
• 13:04 – A dream led Andri to find Ido Portal Movements
  • He threw out his medications and drugs and started the program
  • 3 weeks into the program, Andri got rid of his migraine and depression
• 15:00 – “Depression feels like hell. It feels like hopelessness”
  • The belief system you have makes your reality
• 18:55 – Andri knows he had to go through the hardship to wake up
• 19:46 – Finally deciding to do something with his life
• 22:20 – Andri talks about his relationship with the cold
  • “You can’t fight the cold. You need to surrender to it”
  • Andri shares his thoughts on hypothermia and a close call to death
• 29:03 – Andri almost had a stroke after a swimming session with 2 other guys
  • The nurse was talking to him how his core temperature dropped
  • The next week, Andri swam in the ice cold water again
  • The lesson: Listen to your body, not your mind
• 37:48 – Andri’s message to people who are taking medication and drugs
  • “You have to do something.”
  • Do not limit yourself
  • Surrendering to the cold completely shuts down your ego
• 43:44 – Reacting triggers chemicals and feelings
• 47:28 – Staying a couple of minutes in cold water already gives you all the benefits you can get from it
• 53:15 – What drives Andri to help others with the program he offers
  • Don’t be confined in society’s box, go out and experience life
  • If you believe it, it’s true
• 59:11 – The society creates standards that later become your belief system
  • Everything we put out is our story
  • Your belief system is your limit
• 01:08:03 – Not doing anything will lead you to nothing
  • Just do something
• 01:09:37 – The cold is a beautiful tool that helped Andri
  • “There is no limit. The only limit is you...your mind”
• 01:17:32 – Andri’s phrase: HÆTTU AÐ VÆLA KOMDU AÐ KÆLA
• 01:19:45 – The most influential book for Andri is The Power of Now
• 01:20:15 – His earliest teachers were his gymnastic mentors and learned a lot of discipline
• 01:23:25 – Andri’s 3 highest values
  • “Believing in myself”
  • Letting go of b*llsh*t
  • Caring and sharing
• Contact Eddy at Peeling It Back or on Facebook and Instagram

Resources Mentioned:

• The Power of Now – Book that influenced Andri

Summary:

In this episode, Eddy chats with Vincent Hurner. Vince’s activities revolve around passion, desire to learn and share, and exploring life. He teaches Systema, a Russian martial art, and hypnosis. Today, he graces the show by sharing his journey to learning and practicing hypnosis and Systema, and how these two influenced his life and the work that he does today.

Time Stamped Show Notes:

• 00:02 – Eddy introduces Vincent to the show
• 01:19 – Vince shares his first encounter with hypnosis
  • Influenced by the book, Auto-hypnose : Un manuel pour votre cerveau by Kevin Finel
  • Fact: Vince didn’t want to read the book at first
  • On the third time his friend was convincing him to read the book, Kevin Finel, the author, walked in at the restaurant they were eating at
  • The second thing that struck Vince was the quotes inside the book were from books he already read
• 04:30 – The coincidence of meeting the author was what pushed Vince to follow the course
  • The book initially triggered Vince’s curiosity in what the human brain can do
• 07:05 – “Self hypnosis is like learning martial arts — it’s hard to learn it from a book”
  • Learning requires patience and hard work
• 08:35 – Vince was working in criminology before he started to study self-hypnosis
  • Working with his own emotions was a big step
• 10:07 – Vince talks about the 4-week course he took on hypnosis
• 12:42 – For Vince, hypnosis is a set of tools and techniques that helps someone to create the right framework to explore the realms of reality
  • “Everything is based on our subjectivity”
  • It’s hard to know hypnosis without exploring it
• 16:16 – Hypnosis is a common thing; Kids, most of the time, are in a sort of state of hypnosis
  • Hypnosis is either winning or losing
  • The power of belief
  • Fact: Our subconscious wants to help us
• 22:59 – With hypnosis, you can open the possibilities of learning from mimicking
• 27:13 – Our brain is hard-wired on things that could potentially go bad
  • That’s how we survive as a species
  • “Fear is rational”
• 34:56 – Hypnose has helped Vince to feel more relaxed in general
  • Vince describes hypnosis as a “very practical thing”
  • “Everything is subjective...what’s important is the way we deal with what happens to us”
• 39:51 – Vince talks about how people taking hypnosis classes later realize how much an individual manipulates himself
  • The biggest manipulator of all — your brain
  • If you believe you can or can’t do something, you’re right
• 46:24 – “Nothing is a problem unless it is being lived as a problem for a person”
  • A problem can be a driving force for a person
• 48:24 – Hypnosis is not changing anything, it’s just creating the condition in which a person can change himself
  • There’s a difference between hypnosis and therapy
• 52:53 – Vince shares his martial arts journey
  • 3 things that martial arts taught Vince:
    • Nothing comes off easy
    • The value of practicing hard
    • Learning dedication for the arts
  • Every martial art is a culture
• 58:00 – Systema opened the way for hypnosis in Vince’s life
  • Systema is an internal art
  • The movement you have to do in Systema is yours, it’s not taught
• 01:06:15 – Once you start to open up and feel life again, life starts to open up too
  • Vince just got back from Russia, learning with his friend
  • He realized that Systema, like hypnosis, is something that you really have to “feel”
  • “There’s so much more than just fighting”
• 01:13:41 – An interesting point to raise: there is a connection and difference between trauma stored in the body and in the mind
  • To keep everything general, things do not go away per se
• Contact Eddy at Peeling It Back or on Facebook and Instagram

Resources Mentioned:

• Auto-hypnose : Un manuel pour votre cerveau by Kevin Finel – The book that influenced Vince to hypnosis

Summary:
In this episode, Eddy introduces Olivia Shanti. Olivia is a Life & Wellness Mentor, a Yoga & Meditation
Coach, and a Siddha Yoga Practitioner. She grew up in the countryside of France, with an established
connection with nature at a young age. She lived her life mostly with her father and siblings after her
parents divorce. But life stopped when she found out her father has been murdered and a complicated
crime investigation began. Listen as Olivia walks us through her life journey in finding the murderer of
her father and finding forgiveness in years of learning and practice of Buddhism and Yoga.
Time Stamped Show Notes:
● 00:02 – Eddy welcomes Olivia to the show

● 00:13 – Olivia shares about growing up in countryside France
○ She had a connection with nature at a young age
○ All her childhood, she was with horses
○ Horses can feel a person’s emotions

● 05:07 – At 8 years old, her parents had a divorce and Olivia and her siblings stayed with their
father
○ She was in-charge of the horses from then
○ Her Dad never spoiled them, rather he encouraged them to find a way when they don’t
know how to do things
○ They had an organic garden that let them have a sustainable life

● 07:41 – When she was 21, Olivia had to do a business preparation in Tahiti
○ She met her mom who was living there
○ She came back to Paris to continue her studies and traveled the world for school
○ Her father was murdered in their house just a few weeks before Olivia’s final exams

● 09:48 – She knew she had to finish her exams for her father
○ Olivia was in Paris with her sister when her cousin brought the bad news
○ Her father has been killed and Olivia felt she also died
○ It was Olivia who had to takeover her father’s businesses

● 13:01 – Olivia felt like she was in limbo
○ She felt like she was in a bubble where she’s in a different world
○ That was the time when Olivia felt her connection with herself

● 15:16 – Olivia’s family relationship became even stronger
○ The problem was her lost connection with her father
○ “I couldn’t live without knowing who did this”
○ Her life became about finding who killed her father
○ After 11 years, they found out the police didn’t do their job

○ Olivia got a lawyer to get through the files of her dad’s murder
○ She did not live a normal life

● 20:24 – The role intuition played when Olivia was searching for the murderer
○ She had an idea who it was but the police didn’t want to go that route
○ She did everything to keep the case open
○ Olivia had 2 private investigators look for a person
○ That first person led them to another person, who finally confessed the crime he did
○ The criminal had been arrested in 2004, 11 years after her father’s death

● 23:46 – When Olivia’s life started to collapse, she found a book, The Tibetan Book of Living and
Dying
○ It was intuition — she realized this was her path and studied Buddhism
○ In 2003, Olivia entered the Kagyupa School of Tibetan Buddhism
○ In Buddhism, forgiveness is power; and Olivia felt that
○ It took her 3 years of meditation to try to forgive

● 29:18 – The choice Olivia had to make before meeting the murderer
○ “We all have opportunities. Every day we have opportunities, but how many of us are
taking them?”
○ Olivia shares how she met her father’s murderer
○ Without anger, she introduced herself and the man started crying
○ “Seeing him crying...it was like his soul was saying, I’m sorry”
○ The healing was complete even before Olivia met him

● 37:43 – Olivia talks about her experience meeting the Dalai Lama
○ She felt the hot chakra as soon as the Dalai Lama touched her hand

● 42:36 – She believes Buddhism and Yoga saved her life
○ “That was the only way to be alive, I was dead”

● 44:30 – Olivia had a child when she was 30
○ Her pregnancy was perfect but a phone call affected it
○ She received a call about closing her dad’s case
○ Immediately, she had cramps and later, oligohydramnios (low amniotic fluid)
○ Her child’s health is fine now

● 48:32 – Olivia’s learning: be strong, not give up, and follow your intuition
○ Everything happened as a preparation for her son’s future condition

● 53:55 – Olivia thinks about the ordeals she went through as a blessing

● 55:15 – “When you have a challenge, it’s the best for us”

● 58:40 – Olivia’s teaching yoga, relaxation, and meditation
○ She mentions meeting her teacher from Asia
○ The difference of Kundalini Yoga and Siddha Yoga
○ Olivia shares how Siddha Yoga helped her son get through surgery

● 01:06:33 – She shares yoga in terms of efficiency in your health

● 01:07:59 – Olivia talks about following Dr. John Demartini
○ She learned about the quantum of the universe in his breakthrough experience
○ Understanding that challenges don’t only bring negative experiences but also positive

things

● 01:14:13 – “We lose track of our life purpose”
○ Olivia’s purpose is to help people find their own purpose
○ “My experience is real”

● 01:18:01 – Who is someone you admire? — There are so many...I would say, Aung San Suu Kyi
○ What is the most influential book for you? —The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
○ What is your morning routine? — I wake up at 4:15 a.m, take a glass of water with salt
& lemon, and then I do my 1-hour meditation

● Connect with Olivia on her website
● Contact Eddy at Peeling It Back or on Facebook and Instagram
Resources Mentioned:
● The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying – The book that led Olivia to her path in Buddhism and

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In this episode we talk cats and AI and shop about Elon Musk

In this episode, Edward interviews Ben Peterson, the creator of Wastebot and Solar Station. Ben is very passionate about his work in making a difference in this world by eliminating waste and turning it into energy. He is also looking to help people start being self-sufficient by introducing off-grid ideas and communities. Listen as he shares more about the work he does, what inspired him to do this work, and some tidbits about his tantric experience.

This episode we're talking with Michael Allwight, a founder of Cafe Art in Sydney, Australia and Minerva Community Service. Michael had always wanted to begin something he could devote himself to and had various different ambitions over the years before deciding what he wanted to do. This indecision was solved when he saw photos of a Cafe Art exhibition in London which inspired him to do the same in Sydney.

Cafe Art is a cafe chain which has a concept of showcasing visual artworks created by people who were socially endangered or even homeless.  He thought it was a great and interesting way of engaging people in photography. What began as a Kickstarter campaign is now a Cafe with yearly exhibitions which gather more than hundred photos from people with unique, unsettling and meaningful histories.

Inspired by Cafe Art and how it worked out, Michael began developing a new project, a Community Service named Minerva, based on data science. He talks about how data science works and how they are using it with altruistic intentions, in order to solve problems such as domestic violence to a certain extent. He also talks about some useful innovations such as the smart watch which tracks your blood pressure and movements in order to predict when a crime is going to happen. Listen to this episode and you will hear various interesting things about these topics, as well as how to apply to the Cafe Art contest!