This week Nick speaks with Rina Harris who is a natural podiatrist from the United Kingdom

They start by talking about Rina’s story about why she became a podiatrist and her journey towards discovering natural podiatry as an alternative to conventional podiatry.

She talks about how her experience with pregnancy impacted her and reinforced the innate intelligence and capacity within her body. That insight led her to think differently about feet and ultimately shift how she practices podiatry.

They talk about natural footwear, restoring function at the feet and how her current approach is based on education instead of orthotics. Finished with Rina sharing some words of wisdom with conventional podiatrists who might be looking to take a different path in their profession.

Rina is a great storyteller. Nick really enjoyed this conversation with her and hopes you do as well.

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This week’s Story From The Sole comes from Mishelle Boniface, a reflexologist and mother from the UK. Mishelle found The Foot Collective after reaching a pivotal point in her life that forced her to seriously consider her health.

As someone who already worked with feet for a living she immediately resonated with our mission but her journey over the past year has been truely transformational. Mishelle has become a true foot nerd, embracing every aspect of TFC’s philosophies and passing what she’s been learning onto her two young boys.

She ditched her unnatural footwear, embraced ground living in her home and even traded her bed for a mattress on the floor to bring her closer to the earth and reconnect her with a more natural lifestyle. While these may seem like extreme moves for some, Mishelle believe these changes have helped her rediscover a love for her body.

As someone who has suffered chronic back pain for more than two decades, she believes these simple lifestyle and mindset tweaks along with a playful approach to movement have helped her finally start to see improvements. In this chat we discuss all of the above plus how she’s empowering her own kids to make choices about their health and the benefits its had for their family as a whole.

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In this week’s episode I catch up with Mark Sisson.

Mark is a pioneer in the primal and paleo movement, the brains behind the widely acclaimed 'Mark's Daily Apple', and the author of bestsellers like 'The Primal Blueprint' – Mark is a man who has reshaped how many of us think about food, fitness, and health and is now dipping his toes into the natural footwear world too with his new brand Peluva.

We are stoked to announce Peluva is joining TFC as a Natural Footwear partner!

By partnering with leading brands in the natural footwear space, we aim to bring you exclusive insights, stories, and opportunities to make that switch to a healthier foot lifestyle while delivering leading TFC foot health education straight into the shoe boxes of footwear customers.

As part of the new partnership Peluva are offering all TFC customers a special discount off their shoes if you use the code THEFOOTCOLLECTIVE one word.

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Quote - Allan Watts

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Dream Chaser - Lunareh

Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong

Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week is a special episode that was recorded on our recent trip to Clearwater in Florida where we hung out with Ben Patrick (aka Knees Over Toes Guy) and his team at the ATG headquarters. We had an epic time experiencing the ATG method firsthand, followed by recording this podcast and then running our Playshop there the next day.

This episode was actually recorded for the ATG podcast, so it’s essentially Ben Patrick and Derek Williams interviewing Nick and Jim all about our approach to feet, footwear and training so in that sense it’s a great overview of what we’re all about at TFC.

For anyone interested more in the ATG approach, we actually had Ben on our podcast a few years back, where he shares his story and approach to lower body training - obviously his personal focus is mostly on the knees due to his previous injury history but the ATG system is a really great holistic training methodology that can be amazing for lower body and whole body movement health so we definitely recommend checking out that episode as well as The ATG podcast itself and Ben’s YouTube channel The Knees Over Toes Guy if you’re keen to learn more - we also will be featured in a YouTube video on there over the next week or so, so you can stay tuned for that.

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 Free Ebook (The Guide To Foot Freedom)

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Quote - Allan Watts

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Dream Chaser - Lunareh

Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong

Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

Destiny Beach - Cody Martin

Written by - Cody Kurtz Martin

Performed & Produced By - Cody Kurtz Martin

This week Jim & Tom are back to explore the concept of Patella Tendinopathy, previously and more commonly known as Patella Tendonitis and more colloquially as Jumper’s knee, it is one of the most common causes of knee pain especially in active people and so will be the first in a series of episodes exploring different knee conditions - that’s right the boys are taking a break from the foot and ankle conditions to move up the chain but of course it’s all connected and especially with knee pain there tends to be a strong contribution from foot and ankle dysfunction that needs to be addressed.

Of course they discuss all this in more detail throughout the episode, along with some practical tips to help you navigate your rehab journey as efficiently and effectively as possible!

If you’re struggling to make progress in your rehab, please feel free to reach out as we can either help you directly with our online consultations or can point you in the right direction of other practitioners or resources that can help you.

Helpful links:

 Free Ebook (The Guide To Foot Freedom)

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Quote - Allan Watts

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Dream Chaser - Lunareh

Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong

Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

Destiny Beach - Cody Martin

Written by - Cody Kurtz Martin

Performed & Produced By - Cody Kurtz Martin

This week I catch up with Josh Stiles from Shamma Sandals, kicking off an exciting new chapter in our story. As we continue our mission to empower our listeners and change how we all think about our feet, we're thrilled to announce Shamma as our very first Natural Footwear partner!

We rigorously test the shoes of all of our partners to ensure they deliver on what they promise. As you’re about to hear, Shamma is a brand that's at the forefront of crafting genuine, foot-shaped sandals that embody the true essence of natural movement and foot health.

So, why are we teaming up with brands like Shamma? Because our missions are intertwined. Both of us are driven by the belief that footwear should be an extension of ourselves, allowing us to move freely, naturally, and comfortably.

It's about time that we, as a society, relearn the importance of treating our feet right. By partnering with leading brands in the natural footwear space, we aim to bring you exclusive insights, stories, and opportunities to make that switch to a healthier foot lifestyle while delivering leading TFC foot health education straight into the shoe boxes of footwear customers.

As part of the new partnership Shamma are offering all TFC customers 10% off their shoes if you use the code THEFOOTCOLLECTIVE one word. 

Helpful links: 

Free Ebook (The Guide To Foot Freedom)

Free Training

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Dream Chaser - Lunareh

Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong

Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week Jim and Mac explore the concept of the 'Cave of Comfort' which is an element of this new story that we’ve been crafting around the Journey to Foot Freedom. The basic premise is that most people are essentially reading from the wrong map, which means that even despite a lot of investment of time, money and energy, they can’t effectively progress towards true foot freedom and tend to end up further down this metaphorical cave of comfort.

So throughout this episode we talk through the evolutionary basis of comfort and why we naturally tend to seek comfort, we discuss the importance of exposure to discomfort to promote resilience and growth as well as the value of having a community of people around you who are on the same journey and can either inspire and guide you or who can be inspired and guided by you.

We recorded this episode earlier in the year while we were out bush doing some filming - we had a rainy morning so we sat by the fire and recorded this conversation, so just to note that you will hear a bit of that white noise in the background, but the rest of the audio should be clear. We certainly enjoyed this setting and style of podcast so if you enjoy it too, please do let us know and feel free to send through requests of topics for us to dive into around the fire.

Also if you get value out of our podcasts in general then you can support us by sharing out our episodes with friend and family and also by leaving us a review where ever you usually listen to podcasts.

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Dream Chaser - Lunareh

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This week I speak with Dr. Kelly Starrett who is a coach, physical therapist, two-time New York Times &
Wall Street Journal bestselling author, speaker, and co-founder of The Ready State, the world's
most comprehensive collection of guided movement, mechanics, and mobility instructional
videos.

We unpacked the topics of performance and durability, living in alignment with our biology. 

We share our definitions of Health, things we’ve learned on our journeys to date and the importance of helping humans take better care of themselves which is what he aims to do with his new book, Built To Move.

We talked about training balance, doing basic maintenance on ourselves and the importance of looking at things like sleep and food when seeking to improve physical health.

I really enjoyed speaking with Kelly and hope you enjoy listening.

TFC Helpful Links:

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Music:

Dream Chaser - Lunareh

Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong

Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

Destiny Beach - Cody Martin

Written by - Cody Kurtz Martin

Performed & Produced By - Cody Kurtz Martin

This week I’m back with Tom to explore the concept of Ankle Sprains which are one of the most common injuries in the lower limb but are often the least well managed.

Throughout the episode we discuss what an ankle sprain actually is as well as other injuries that may come along with or even be confused with an ankle sprain, we go through the current best practice for managing an acute sprain (spoiler it’s not the RICE method), and we explore what kinds of strategies you should focus on in your rehab process, whether you’ve just had an ankle sprain or if you’ve ever had one in the past.

If you’re struggling to make progress in your rehab, please feel free to reach out as we can either help you directly with our online consultations or can point you in the right direction of other practitioners or resources that can help you.

TFC Helpful Links:

Free Training

Explorer Membership

Free Ebook (The Guide To Foot Freedom)

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Natural Footwear Finder 

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Music:

Dream Chaser - Lunareh

Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong

Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week I speak with Courtney Conley from Gait Happens. 

Courtney shares the story of how she came to do the work she does today, the role of footwear in restoring natural foot health and how she explains it to patients she works with.

We also talk about how we define Health, things we’ve recently changed our mind about and dive deeper into the concept of team foot health and the idea of an annual foot summit to foster collaboration and create awesome content to educate the world. 

I really enjoyed speaking with Courtney and hope you enjoy listening to our conversation. 

Ciao for now. 

TFC Helpful Links:

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Explorer Membership

Free Ebook (The Guide To Foot Freedom)

Shop TFC tools and training (Use the code R2E10 to save 10%)

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Natural Footwear Finder 

Fountain - Earn money while you listen to our podcast

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Music:

Dream Chaser - Lunareh

Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong

Performed & Produced By - Lunareh