Recorded the day after the Sensory Intelligence Summit wrapped, a few hours before Josh's red-eye back to New York, and he spends most of it in a pedicure chair. Sisters Maria and Elizabeth Oloyede run Born to Splay, the only barefoot shoe store in Arizona, alongside their Ethereal foot care and skin studios in Old Town Scottsdale. The conversation covers how they fit people into barefoot shoes without rushing the transition, why a medical pedicure is done dry, and what to ask any salon before it touches your feet.

The marquee moment is Josh opening the kimono on his own feet: every toe broken at least once, a corn he tried to handle himself, and bunions from years of basketball shoes a size too small. What it opens onto is Maria's rule for the whole building, no toefanity, and the idea that foot care has to go along with footwear.

5 Key Takeaways
Foot care has to go along with footwear. Maria's point is that the barefoot community puts real work into foot strength and mobility and then forgets the skin. Skin's first job is protection, and it can only do that job when it's intact.
Don't rush into barefoot shoes. They feel great on day one, which is exactly why people overdo it. The store guides first-timers toward transition-friendly options, and a trainer on their own camera crew learned the hard way that fit athletes still have untrained feet.
Toes are acquaintances, not twins. Each one has its own job, which is why the sisters push toe socks and toe spacers, and why they check that a barefoot shoe isn't still too snug for the toes to spread.
Ask where the autoclave is. Their standard is heat-and-pressure sterilization, with a sterilization pouch whose indicator changes color after processing. If a salon can't answer, Maria suggests asking what product they use to disinfect tools and looking it up yourself.
Stop talking badly about your feet. No toefanity is the house rule. The feet are carrying you everywhere, and Elizabeth closes on the line that ties the whole visit together: self-care is wellness, and wellness is self-care.
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Timestamps

00:00 Walking into the only barefoot shoe store in Arizona 

01:00 Meeting at a summit booth and noticing the Vivobarefoot on the wall 

01:30 A fit session that ends with a functional podiatrist's review 

03:30 Barefoot shoes only work if people will actually wear them 

05:00 Why first-timers don't start in the most minimal shoe 

06:00 Toes are acquaintances, not twins 

07:30 Why a medical pedicure is done dry 

09:00 Autoclaves, single-use tools, and a place you'd bring your grandmother

 10:00 Opening the kimono on a corn I tried to handle myself 

11:30 Foot care has to go along with footwear 

13:00 No toefanity 

15:30 Why a barefoot educator stopped getting pedicures in New York 

16:30 Every toe broken at least once 

18:00 How to tell whether the tools were sterilized 

26:00 The retainer argument for toe spacers every day 

27:00 The double bunion surgery that didn't happen 

30:30 Questions to ask any salon before they touch your feet 

34:00 From cracked heels to podology school 

36:00 Why the sisters say faith is what lets them work together 

37:30 Running LA to Vegas in barefoot shoes 

40:30 "Is that the guy on TV?" 

47:30 Why 40 percent of their clients are now men 

50:30 Toe socks, merino wool, and repurposed socks 

52:00 Ten years, three buildings on 67th Place 

54:00 Elizabeth on the skin barrier as the foundation 

57:30 Self-care is wellness, and wellness is self-care 

59:00 Thank you to Dr. Emily Splichal

Resources Mentioned
Born to Splay (barefoot shoe store and signature fit sessions, Scottsdale AZ) — https://borntosplay.com — Instagram @borntosplay
Ethereal Medi-Pedi & Handcare (Maria's dry medical pedicures) — https://medi-pedi.etherealwe.com — Instagram @etherealmedipedi
Ethereal Wellness & Esthetics (Elizabeth's skin care studio) — https://etherealwe.com — Instagram @etherealwellnessandesthetics
Dr. Emily Splichal (functional podiatrist, Born to Splay's clinical partner) — https://dremilysplichal.com
Naboso (Neuro Ball, sensory insoles, Splay toe spacers; host of the Sensory Intelligence Summit) — https://www.naboso.com
Vivobarefoot — https://www.vivobarefoot.com
Xero Shoes — https://xeroshoes.com
Lems — https://www.lemsshoes.com
Be Lenka — https://www.belenka.com
Koel — https://koel.shoes
Bridge Soles by P.R. Gear (transition insoles) — https://prgear.com/products/bridgesoles
Creepers (merino toe socks) — https://www.creeperssocks.com
Podoexpert (the hydrating foot foam Maria uses) — https://www.podoexpert.com/us-en
The North American School of Podology (where Maria trained) — https://northamericanschoolofpodology.com
The Speed Project (LA to Las Vegas relay Josh ran with a Vivobarefoot team) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Speed_Project

This episode is for educational purposes and is not medical advice. Talk to a qualified provider before changing anything about your health routine.

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Recorded between appointments, which is why Josh keeps promising to be concise and then takes a four-minute detour through every place in Manhattan he actually eats. This is the first proper update in a while, and it covers the Vivobarefoot store landing on Lafayette Street, the health coaching practice he's opening up beyond one-on-one clients, and a fall calendar that runs from Phoenix to Chicago to West Palm Beach.

The turn comes in the back half, when he tells the story of a barefoot running workshop where he offered his usual line about running being a series of one-foot hops, and a world-renowned sprint coach in the room raised his hand. What follows is the part worth staying for: not who was right, but the idea of gears, and whether you have more than one.

5 Key Takeaways
Ask what you are actually optimizing for before you pick a method. 

Most people only have one gear. .

Invite the pushback out loud. He asks rooms to challenge him on his own concepts, which is how the sprint-coach conversation started in the first place. 

Stop waiting for everything to be polished before you share it. 

Long-form and short-form are not the only two options. 

STEMREGEN

The whole back half of this episode is about gears, and about whether your body still has more than one setting available to it. That question sits underneath a lot of what Josh talks about: not what you can do on a given day, but what your body still has the capacity to do.

That's the reason STEMREGEN is in his routine. As we get older, the number of stem cells circulating in the bloodstream declines, and those circulating stem cells are the foundation of the body's own repair system. STEMREGEN is a plant-based formula that supports the release of your own stem cells from the bone marrow.

He'll also be presenting a workout on behalf of STEMREGEN at Eudēmonia this fall, and sitting down with founder Christian Drapeau for an interview. Go to https://www.stemregen.co/ and use code JOSH at checkout.

Timestamps

00:00 START
00:30 Vivobarefoot is putting its first US store on Lafayette Street 
02:00 A very spicy podcast found a way to put me on it 
06:00 The events stacking up before the store opens 
07:00 Why I'm opening up the coaching instead of gatekeeping it 
08:00 A new scale, a new band, and a series built on both 
10:00 Series, not shorts: ideas that need more than three minutes 
11:30 The book, the five pillars, and where they go next 
12:00 Nine days out from the Sensory Intelligence Summit 
16:30 Sprinting is not running, and running is not walking 
19:00 Do you have an ultramarathon gear and a sprint gear? 
19:30 Chicago, Eudēmonia, and the rest of the calendar

Resources Mentioned
Vivobarefoot (first US flagship, 248 Lafayette St, SoHo) — https://www.vivobarefoot.com
New York or Nowhere (the neighbor Josh names, 250 Lafayette St) — https://newyorkornowhere.com
The List of Lovers (the podcast Josh recorded with; Josh's episode is unreleased) — https://www.thelistpodcastproject.com
Matter (macro-tracking fast-casual, 170 Crosby St, NoHo) — https://matterformula.com
Springbone Kitchen (bone broth and bowls, multiple NYC locations) — https://springbone.com
SunLife Organics (the Malibu-founded smoothie shop Josh couldn't name on air) — https://sunlifeorganics.com
The Alchemist's Kitchen (plant-based apothecary, SoHo and Bowery) — https://www.thealchemistskitchen.com
SPIN (ping pong social club, Flatiron and Midtown) — https://wearespin.com
Toloache (Midtown and Upper East Side) — https://toloachenyc.com
Sanctum (mindful movement community) — https://www.wearesanctum.com
Hume Health (the Body Pod scale and the Hume Band) — https://humehealth.com
Naboso — Sensory Intelligence Summit, Phoenix (Josh speaks twice; virtual access available) — https://www.naboso.com/pages/sensoryintelligencesummit
Vosk Center (the Midtown clinic where the running workshop happened) — https://www.voskcenter.com
Derek Hansen, sprint coach (the raised hand in that room) — https://www.sprintcoach.com
"The Awareness Shift: Unearth the Five Pillars of Optimal Health and Wellness" by Joshua J. Holland and Tessa Cash (book)

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Recorded remotely with Andrew in Atlanta and Josh scrolling the Purity site on screen as they talked, which is how half of this conversation ended up being Josh asking what a thing on the website actually means. Andrew Salisbury is the founder and CEO of Purity Coffee, a company he started after his wife asked him to prove that coffee was bad for her — and he came back with the opposite answer. They get into why quitting coffee for tea usually solves the wrong problem, what roast level does to what is actually in the cup, and how to store a bag of coffee so the last cup tastes like the first.

The turn in the story is a dinner with two professors from Vanderbilt's Institute for Coffee Studies, who handed him a long list of what the research on coffee looks at and then could not name a single company making every decision with that in mind. Eighteen months of R&D later he was in the coffee business, and the takeaway he keeps circling back to is simple: the thing you drink every single day is worth being picky about.

5 Key Takeaways
Upgrade your coffee before you quit it. 

Caffeine and coffee are two different conversations. 

Roast level changes what is in the cup. Lighter roasts hold more chlorogenic acids, and as the roast goes darker those compounds convert into chlorogenic lactones, so it is a trade rather than a ladder. 

The clock starts when you open the bag, not when it was roasted. Every Purity bag is nitrogen flushed, so an unopened bag can sit on the shelf for months. His rule of 15 covers the rest: green coffee keeps around 15 months, roasted around 15 days, ground about 15 minutes. 

Vacuum seal what you are not drinking and put it in the freezer, not the fridge.


STEMREGEN

The line from Andrew that stuck with me is that coffee is worth being picky about precisely because you never forget to do it. It is one of the few things you will repeat every morning for the rest of your life, so the quality of it compounds in a way that occasional decisions never do.

That is the same reason I take STEMREGEN. As we get older, the number of stem cells circulating in the bloodstream declines, and those circulating stem cells are the foundation of the body's own repair system. STEMREGEN is a plant-based formula that supports the release of your own stem cells from the bone marrow.

It sits in the same slot in my morning as the coffee does, which is the whole point — the daily things are the ones that get to matter. Go to https://www.stemregen.co/ and use code JOSH at checkout.

Timestamps

00:00 The grinder, the aromas, and the cup that starts the day 
02:30 Coffee as a carrier, not a caffeine hit 
03:30 The "prove it" challenge that started a coffee company 
04:30 Two professors, a shopping list, and nobody making it 
06:00 Why people quit coffee, and what is actually bothering them 
08:00 The green tea comparison nobody runs the numbers on 
12:00 Whole bean or ground, and a five-year decision 
14:00 Nitrogen in the bag, and what starts when you open it 
16:00 Caffeine and coffee are not the same conversation 
18:00 The case for decaf drinkers as the real purists 
18:30 How coffee actually gets decaffeinated 
22:00 A 550-page book and a standard above specialty 
24:30 Roast curves, lab tests, and adding nothing to the bag 
27:30 Pods, sachets, and two years to get instant right 
32:00 Light, medium, dark: where to actually start 
35:00 The rule of 15, and the freezer instead of the fridge 
39:30 What happens if you just brew the green beans 
46:30 The fourth reason people will buy coffee 
50:30 Sacred Cups, the Amazon, and the ritual side of it 54:00 The painting behind him and the Fibonacci logo

Resources Mentioned
Purity Coffee (Andrew's company; organic, lab-tested, health-focused coffee) — https://puritycoffee.com
The Purity Process (how they farm, decaffeinate, roast and test) — https://puritycoffee.com/pages/purity-process
Sacred Cups — https://puritycoffee.com/collections/sacred-cups
Vanderbilt University Institute for Coffee Studies — https://www.vanderbilt.edu/ics/
Prof. Adriana Farah — Institute of Nutrition, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Andrew's R&D collaborator)
George Howell Coffee (the frozen green coffee and vintage work Andrew references) — https://georgehowellcoffee.com
AeroPress (Josh's travel brew method) — https://aeropress.com
Healf (UK stockist for Purity) — https://healf.com/collections/purity-coffee

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Recorded live on a webinar, in front of a room of investors, with Josh in the guest chair for once and questions coming in from the chat. Josh — celebrity trainer, holistic health coach, and author of The Awareness Shift — walks through the five pillars of optimal health and wellness, why the ego works better as an ally than an enemy, and what to actually do when you've only got thirty minutes a day.

He shares the five-day retreat that changed how he sees anyone carrying pain, and the conversation lands somewhere blunter than where it started: we all already know how to be healthy, and we're just better at making excuses.

5 Key Takeaways
Awareness sits at the top of the pyramid, not nutrition. In Josh's five-pillar framework, quality awareness comes first and quality rest and recovery second — ahead of what you eat and how you move. His reasoning is capacity: those first two are the ones you have the most room to work on.
Meditation isn't one thing. Breath, heartbeat, a walk in nature, prayer, a float tank — the throughline is reducing the noise, not adopting a particular practice. The version you'll actually do consistently beats the version that sounds most legitimate.
Put the ego in the passenger seat. Josh reframes it as a friend who steps up when something is genuinely a threat and stays quiet when it isn't — so a comment section stops reading as danger. You can't get rid of it; you can decide who's driving.
Your environment is something you consume. The people around you, the deadline stress, the food you scarf in ten minutes — Josh folds all of it into quality consumption, and points out that too much of even a good thing stops paying you back.
We all know how to be healthy. We're just better at making excuses. His line for it: our bodies and minds adapt to what we do most of the time — so change starts with a reason strong enough to change what you do most of the time.
STEMREGEN

Two of Josh's five pillars land before anyone gets to diet or exercise, and the second one is rest and recovery. That's the part of this conversation that stuck with me — the idea that repair isn't the thing you do after the real work, it is the real work.

That's why I take STEMREGEN. As we get older, the number of stem cells circulating in the bloodstream declines — and those circulating stem cells are the foundation of the body's own repair system. STEMREGEN is a plant-based formula that supports the release of your own stem cells from the bone marrow.

It's part of the same philosophy I brought into this conversation: give your body what it needs to keep up with the life you're actually living. Go to https://www.stemregen.co/ and use code JOSH at checkout.

Timestamps

00:00 Three cities, one heat index, and a hello 
02:00 Why a self-storage firm is hosting a health conversation 
04:00 The barefoot trainer Jordan couldn't stop telling people about 09:00 "You mean Josh the trainer?" — and the book that answered it 11:30 The inverted pyramid: why awareness outranks what you eat 14:00 The anxiety that had one host convinced he was dying 
16:00 Martial arts, chi, and an upbringing built on awareness 
18:30 Five days away and the veil coming off 
21:00 Music, noise, and why meditation isn't one thing 
23:30 A float tank tells you who you are in ten minutes 
26:00 Ego as your best friend, not your enemy 
30:30 Vipassana, prayer, and whatever you'll actually do 
33:00 Labyrinth vs maze — and why there's no finish line 
35:30 "We adapt to what we do most of the time" 
38:00 The day a five-year-old asked about the belly 
42:30 If you've only got 30 minutes: body schema, then sleep 
45:00 The one pillar everybody neglects first 
47:30 Watching the fork go in: taste instead of speed

Resources Mentioned
"The Awareness Shift: Unearth the Five Pillars of Optimal Health and Wellness" by Joshua J. Holland and Tessa Cash (book)
Joshua J. Holland — https://www.joshuajholland.com/
Vivobarefoot — https://www.vivobarefoot.com/us/
"Ego Is the Enemy" by Ryan Holiday (book)
Hearthfire Capital — https://hfirecapital.com/
STEMREGEN (episode sponsor) — https://www.stemregen.co/ — code JOSH

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Recorded in NYC on Joshua's 45th birthday — and, for the first time, on a massage table — this heart-first conversation with emotional intimacy expert Allana Pratt covers morning rituals, being direct without manipulation, and why truth sets you free even when it stings.

Allana shares the 6.5-year estrangement from her son that ended in a Mother's Day miracle, and together they explore how to feel a feeling all the way through — and move from excellent to living in your genius.


5 Key Takeaways
• Feel it all the way through. Emotions move in waves and pass. Shoving them down, projecting, or numbing keeps them stuck — feeling them fully turns pain into power.
• Truth is love. Speak from an open heart with no attachment to the outcome. What someone does with your truth is about them, not you.
• Feed yourself from the inside. When you stop needing approval from the outside in, you stop being manipulated by other people's reactions.
• Put the ego in the backseat. You can't get rid of it — but who's driving determines your whole life. Soul up front, ego with a sippy cup.
• Excellent isn't the finish line. You can be highly competent at something that still doesn't feed you. The "big leap" is letting it go to live in your genius.

STEMREGEN 
This whole conversation with Allana kept circling back to one idea: your body is always talking to you. The tension, the tightness, the feeling that won't go away — it's information. And the work isn't to shove it down, it's to let it move all the way through so your body can do what it was built to do: repair.

That's exactly why I take STEMREGEN. As we get older, the number of stem cells circulating in our bloodstream drops — and those circulating stem cells are the foundation of the body's natural repair system. STEMREGEN is a plant-based formula that supports the release of your own stem cells from the bone marrow so they can travel to wherever your body needs them most.

For me it's part of the same philosophy I brought to this episode — recovery, feeling more, and giving your body what it needs to keep up with the life you're actually living.

If you want to support your body's own repair system, go to https://www.stemregen.co/ and use code JOSH at checkout.


Timestamps 
00:00 Why I stopped needing you to like me
02:30 A gratitude prayer to open the conversation
05:00 Morning rituals: the AeroPress and a "witch's brew"
10:00 Visualizing your day before it happens
14:00 Learning to be direct without manipulation
18:00 Truth is love — what people do with it isn't about you
21:00 Letting go of the birthday party I thought I wanted
25:00 Allana's 6.5-year estrangement and the Mother's Day miracle
31:00 Co-parenting across two continents and three languages
38:00 What an "emotional intimacy expert" actually does
43:00 How to feel a feeling all the way through
47:00 The TSA, a widow's ashes, and being an angel
50:00 Sensory movement: feeling more in body, mind, and spirit
56:00 From excellent to genius — the Big Leap most people skip
62:00 A husband's message from the other side
68:00 What we each want to call in next
74:00 Closing: one degree of change


Resources Mentioned 
• Allana Pratt (Intimacy Expert) — https://allanapratt.com/
• Allana Pratt on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/allanapratt/
• Vivobarefoot — https://www.vivobarefoot.com/us/
• Rasa (adaptogenic coffee alternative) — https://wearerasa.com/
• Magic Mind — https://magicmind.com/
• AeroPress — https://aeropress.com/
• "The Big Leap" by Gay Hendricks (book)
• STEMREGEN (episode sponsor) — https://www.stemregen.co/ — code JOSH

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Raj Chaudhuri spent 25 years coaching professional tennis players on tour — then built the tool he couldn't find anywhere. Synapse CCR is a two-pound "gym in a bag" that delivers supermaximal eccentric and isokinetic work with no weights at all.

He joins Josh to break down why the lowering phase is roughly 40% stronger than the lifting phase, how a 4:1 mechanical advantage lets a 140-pound coach load an NFL lineman, and why deceleration may be the most under-trained quality in sport.


Featured Sponsor Segment — The One Device
Everything Raj and I talked about comes back to one idea: your nervous system is doing more of the work than you think. The tool doesn't make you strong. The signal does. Recruiting the right fibers, at the right moment, fast enough to absorb the force — that's a nervous-system job, not a muscle job.

That's why I wear The One Device every single day. It layers infrared light, visible light, and sound — all pulsing at the same frequency — into one small pendant that sits right over your heart.

Try it for yourself at https://theonedevice.com/ and use code JOSH for 10% off.

Link: https://theonedevice.com/ Code: JOSH (10% off)



5 Key Takeaways
- The eccentric phase is the one you're leaving on the table. 
- "Custom Calibrated Resistance" means the tool matches you, rep to rep. Put 100 pounds in, it reflects 100 pounds back. 
- Deceleration is the under-trained quality. 
- Tendons adapt slower than muscle. 
- Efficiency is the real win. 


Timestamps
00:00 The "perfect gym in a sack" — meeting Raj Chaudhuri
02:04 MOCEAN NYC, and the certification course coming up
03:27 25 years on the pro tennis tour, and taking over strength & conditioning
04:00 Stumbling onto supermaximal eccentric loading — and its one big drawback
05:07 Concentric, isometric, eccentric: the three phases, defined
05:50 Why the eccentric is ~40% stronger — and why that's so hard to load
06:43 Two spotters, two-hour sessions, 45 weeks of travel: how Synapse was born
07:06 Josh on Raj as an educator — and setting the unit up for the first time
08:39 Training Oscar Isaac on it, mosquitoes and all
09:04 Just under two pounds in a bag, and what that changes
09:31 "One repetition and he said, dude, what is this thing?"
10:15 What Synapse CCR actually is — and what CCR stands for
12:04 Tonal, ARX and the isokinetic space: what's different here
13:01 The bench-press spot problem — why assisted eccentrics get risky
13:49 How the load tracks your fatigue, rep by rep
15:33 Can you actually measure the force?
16:27 The 4:1 mechanical advantage and the control strap
17:23 The PitchSix Force Board: live graphs, ghost lines and targets
19:41 Flavio Cobolli's GPS data — decelerations at nearly 2:1
20:19 Josh on basketball, the big toe and absorbing force through gait
22:24 90 seconds of work, five days of recovery
23:00 Tendon stiffness, collagen alignment and why muscle outpaces connective tissue
25:16 Building a community around it — and the case for the 65+ population
27:01 The demo that sold Oscar: mechanical advantage in one rep
27:44 140 pounds of coach vs. NFL linemen — and a 700-pound split squat
28:46 What happens when form breaks down mid-rep
29:20 Five to six hours a week down to thirty or forty minutes
30:04 More time for recovery — and Keith Boutwell's 50+ clients in Cary, NC
31:12 Bilateral vs. unilateral: what works in solo mode and what doesn't
32:13 Partner mode, attachments and running two units at once
33:16 The bilateral deficit, explained
34:21 Getting creative — and what the certification course is really for
37:03 Setup: anchoring to something genuinely rooted
38:31 The door anchor, and working out in hotel rooms worldwide
39:18 Privacy, and the noise maximal effort makes
40:07 Door safety, tensioning and which way it should close
41:42 Top and bottom anchors, and how the tension system works
43:03 Prussik knots and creating any force vector you want
44:10 What people miss until they actually try it
46:40 Where to find Raj, the website and the courses
49:40 Upcoming certifications — September 12–13 at MOCEAN NYC
50:39 Closing thoughts

RESOURCES:
- Synapse CCR — https://www.synapse-ccr.com/
- MOCEAN — Integrative Physical Therapy & Wellness, 315 Madison Ave, NYC — https://moceanpt.com/ (IG: https://www.instagram.com/moceanpt/)
- PitchSix Force Board (the force gauge + app Raj uses) — https://pitchsix.com/collections/force-board
- Force Board app (iOS) — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/force-board/id1575849276

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Josh is back in New York for a solo catch-up: rebuilding his career and business after losing his manager and business partner, bringing back in-person clients, and turning years of free advice into a real consulting practice.

He also gets honest about a reset that didn't go the way he planned, the plantar fasciitis that told him to slow down, what's coming in Phoenix and West Palm Beach, and why he's back in movie theaters.

5 KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Structure is what carries you through the hard season. Losing his manager and business partner meant rebuilding everything from the ground up — and Josh's answer wasn't to grind harder, it was to live by the calendar. The structure came first; the capacity followed.
- You are allowed to not hit the goal. Josh set out to complete the holistic reset the way he normally does and didn't. He names it out loud instead of quietly editing it out — because the environment, the grief, and the rushed start all played a part, and pretending otherwise helps no one.
- Rest is a business decision, not a reward. From six to eight in-person sessions a day at the Core Club to four or five now, scheduled around getting home early, eating early, and sleeping early — the schedule exists so clients get the sharpest version of him, not the most available one.
- The body sends the signal before the breakdown. Plantar fasciitis showed up again after weeks of events, workouts, and short nights — and Josh had felt it coming in his gut long before his foot said it. The lesson isn't the injury, it's the intuition he overrode.
- Balance means claiming both sides. Josh calls himself an ambivert — genuinely social, genuinely protective of his time alone. Not choosing between the two is what makes the pace sustainable.



 SPONSOR:
This whole episode is basically one long lesson in what happens when you stop listening to your body. Weeks of events, late-night run clubs, 5 AM alarms, and travel — and then my feet finally spoke up. Plantar fasciitis, again. Not new information. Just information I'd been ignoring.

Here's what I keep coming back to: recovery isn't something you bolt on at the end. It's what your body is doing every single day, quietly, whether you support it or not. My job is to give it the conditions to do that work — enough sleep, enough real food, enough downshift time, and the right inputs.

STEMREGEN is one of those inputs for me. It's a plant-based supplement designed to support your body's own natural renewal and recovery processes — not to override them. That's why it fits how I train and how I live. I'm not trying to force an outcome. I'm trying to give my system what it needs to do what it already knows how to do, especially in a season where I'm asking a lot of it.

If you want to try it, go to stemregen.co/josh and use code JOSH for 15% off.

Link: https://stemregen.co/josh Code: JOSH (15% off)


TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Back in NYC — and rebuilding after losing my manager
02:25 New clients, 5 AM alarms, and the Core Club years
04:46 Vivobarefoot, protecting sleep, and cleaning up the business
07:05 Turning 15 years of free advice into a consulting practice
09:23 The reset that didn't go as planned — and being honest about it
11:47 Plantar fasciitis again: the signal I'd been ignoring
14:12 Inside the Sands Point activation — foot scans and barefoot classes
16:33 Sensory Movement, the book, and what's coming in Phoenix
19:00 The SoHo store, more run clubs, and NYC's strange summer
21:24 Back to the movies — and the AMC A-List math
23:51 Obsession, online dating, and how well we know people
26:18 The Odyssey, the star-power question, and dozing off
28:40 Ambivert energy: balance, solitude, and keeping the conversation going


RESOURCES:
- STEMREGEN (episode sponsor) — https://stemregen.co/josh — code JOSH (15% off)
- Book a 15-minute consult with Josh — https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland
- Vivobarefoot — https://www.vivobarefoot.com/us/
- VivoBiome 3D foot scan — https://vivobiome.vivobarefoot.com/
- Othership (Williamsburg, Brooklyn) — https://www.othership.us/williamsburg
- Pulse PEMF — https://pulsepemf.com/
- Sands Point Preserve, Port Washington NY — https://www.sandspointpreserveconservancy.org/
- Springbone Kitchen — https://springbone.com/
- Eudēmonia Summit — Nov 5–8, 2026, West Palm Beach FL — https://eudemonia.net/
- AMC Stubs A-List — https://www.amctheatres.com/amcstubs/alist
- Joshua J. Holland (all links) — https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT

Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com

YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk

Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk

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Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

ENCORE EPISODE. Dr. Marty Miller — VP of Research and Education at Super Patch and the first Director of Performance Enhancement for the New York Yankees — joins Josh to trace his path through sports medicine, elite performance, and injury prevention.

He breaks down the science behind Super Patch: a drug-free wearable that stimulates the skin to bring neural networks back into balance and nudge the body toward homeostasis. Plus the formulas, how to use it, and why education beats hype.

Featured Sponsor Segment — The One Device
Marty and I spent this whole conversation on one idea: your nervous system is always listening. Not to what you tell it — to what you give it. Input in, response out. Change the input, change the state.

That's exactly why I wear The One Device every single day. It layers infrared light, visible light, and sound — all pulsing at the same frequency — into one small pendant that sits right over your heart. Think of it as a tuning fork for your nervous system. In a world constantly pulling you into fight-or-flight, it quietly helps you drop back into the rest-and-digest state where your body actually repairs.

Marty's whole point is that the body already knows how to find balance. It just needs the right signal. I fly constantly, I live in the middle of New York City, and keeping The One Device in circadian mode is one of the ways I keep giving my body a signal worth listening to.

If you want to try it for yourself, head to theonedevice.com and use code JOSH for 10% off.

Link: https://theonedevice.com/ Code: JOSH (10% off)



5 Key Takeaways
- Never stop being a student. Marty's whole career — sports medicine, athletic training, performance enhancement, a doctorate in health sciences — is built on continuing education. The pros who stay useful are the ones who keep learning after the credential.
- Elite sports medicine is mostly problem-solving under pressure. As the Yankees' first Director of Performance Enhancement, the job wasn't magic protocols — it was reading bodies, managing loads, and preventing the injury before it happened.
- Super Patch works through neurology, not chemistry. There's no drug and nothing absorbed through the skin. A ridged pattern stimulates the skin's receptors, and that input signals the nervous system to bring its networks back into balance.
- Homeostasis is the goal, not "more." The point isn't to push a system harder — it's to return the body to its own baseline so sleep, energy, focus, and movement can regulate themselves.
- The tech only matters if the habits follow. The Kick It patch is aimed at breaking cravings and building better patterns — and Marty is clear that the patch supports the habit change, it doesn't replace it.

Timestamps
00:00 Meeting Dr. Marty Miller & the road into sports medicine
02:43 Why you never stop being a student
08:13 Real challenges inside elite sports medicine & injury prevention
19:30 The Yankees years and the path that led to Super Patch
31:03 What Super Patch actually is: skin, receptors & neural balance
39:34 The science underneath: why it's neurology, not chemistry
41:03 How to use the patch — placement, timing & guidelines
43:43 Walking through the different formulas
46:48 The Kick It patch: cravings, habits & pattern change
48:32 The weirdest places people have put a patch
52:04 Who it's for (short answer: everybody)
54:27 Building good habits around the patch
58:26 What life looks like without it
01:06:35 Education, critical thinking & doing your own homework
01:09:03 What's next for Marty & Super Patch

Resources Mentioned
- Super Patch — https://www.superpatch.com/
- Super Patch US store — https://us.superpatch.com/
- Super Patch on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/superpatchco/
- Super Patch on YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@SuperPatchCo
- Kick It Patch (habit & craving support) — https://www.superpatch.com/product-detail/kick-it
- How the Super Patch technology works — https://www.superpatch.com/how-it-works
- Dr. Marty Miller author page (ACE Fitness) — https://www.acefitness.org/resources/author/175/dr-marty-miller/
- The One Device (episode sponsor) — https://theonedevice.com/ — code JOSH (10% off)
- Joshua J. Holland (all links) — https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT

Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com

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Chef Johanna Hellrigl — owner of DC's mission-driven restaurant AMA and an Environmental Working Group board member — joins Josh to connect personal and planetary health, from the plastic chemicals migrating into our food to the waste we never see.

They get into her TED talk "The Plastic You Eat," the Fed Up movement on ultra-processed food, composting at home, regenerative farming, and why slowing down and voting with your dollars can shift the whole food system.

Word from our sponsor. 
This whole conversation with Johanna kept landing on the same truth: your environment is shaping your body whether you notice it or not. The plastics, the packaging, the pace we're all running at — it adds up. And the antidote isn't one more thing to push harder at. It's slowing down enough to let your body get back to baseline.

That's exactly why I wear The One Device every single day. It layers infrared light, visible light, and sound — all pulsing at the same frequency — into one small pendant that sits right over your heart. Think of it as a tuning fork for your nervous system. In a world constantly pulling you into fight-or-flight, it quietly helps you drop back into the rest-and-digest state where your body actually repairs.

Johanna kept saying your body is always talking to you. The One Device is one of the ways I stay calm enough to listen — on flights, in the middle of New York City, wherever I land.

If you want to try it for yourself, head to theonedevice.com and use code JOSH for 10% off.

Link: https://theonedevice.com/
Code: JOSH (10% off)



KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- It's not just the container — it's heat, fat, acid, and time. That's the "perfect storm" that pulls plastic chemicals into food. There are ~16,000 known plastic chemicals, and only about 1% have been deemed non-hazardous.
- The fix is awareness, not fear. Endocrine disruptors like BPA (and its cousins BPS and BPF) affect hormones, fertility, and kids — knowing where plastics hide lets you make better choices and vote with your dollars.
- Waste is invisible, and that's the problem. One second of convenience — a coffee cup, a takeout box — can last centuries in a landfill. Seeing the scale (a child goes through ~6,000 diapers) is what actually changes behavior.
- Close the loop at home and in sourcing. Tools like the Mill food recycler, local compost pickup, whole-food ingredients, and microplastic-tested seafood shrink waste and support soil and health at the same time.
- Change the incentives and slow down. Reward people for better choices instead of only charging for convenience, back regenerative farmers with guaranteed demand, and remember ~60% of meals are eaten outside the home — so restaurants have to be part of the solution.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Meeting Chef Johanna Hellrigl & the mission behind AMA
01:47 Growing up Italian in the restaurant industry
03:30 The Fed Up movement & the science on ultra-processed food
05:04 "The Plastic You Eat": heat, fat, acid & time
07:08 16,000 plastic chemicals, BPA/BPS/BPF & the health cost
08:15 Voting with your dollars — the protein craze in reverse
11:56 The waste we never see: know your farmer, know your food
12:48 Hiro's plastic-eating diapers & making waste visible
15:42 Composting at home: the Mill, the garden & zero-waste at AMA
17:33 Recycling vs. reality — where our trash actually goes
19:36 Bringing your own containers: lessons from Europe
23:33 The GRAYL bottle, vintage clothing & the Ridwell exercise
27:48 Shopping local, the parasite outbreak & ozonated water
32:44 Slow food, slowing down & the compostable cup
37:10 Why restaurants can't be left out (60% of meals are eaten out)
39:30 Sourcing clean: Lummi Island Wild, Seatopia & bioindividuality
41:35 Regenerative farming & guaranteeing farmers the demand
43:35 Composting with her son & teaching kids where food comes from
46:00 What's next: helping other restaurants transform
48:46 Where to find Johanna, AMA & a little Vivo Barefoot love

🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT

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Fitness coach and biohacker Joshua J. Holland joins the Pulsecast to argue the body is one connected system — and that most pain starts at the foundation: your feet. Restrictive shoes, heel lifts, tight hips, and forward-rolled shoulders create a "perfect storm."

He breaks down how PEMF, grounding, and hydration recharge you at the cellular level, shares a five-minute experiment that proves it, and points to the simple get-outside habits that help you recover and perform.

I don't work with companies just for a paycheck — I only put my name on what I actually use. Pulse is one of those. It's been part of my routine for years, from the portable Pulse X I travel with to the XL Pro when a client needs real power and specific frequencies.

My non-negotiable is simple. Most nights I connect the PowerPad to my Pulse X, turn it to a comfortable level, and just sit with it while I wind down — no timers, no buttons to babysit. I used that same approach to recover from hernia surgery, and my surgeon couldn't believe how fast I bounced back.

The easiest place to start is your feet. Put the paddles under your feet and see if you can feel it. If you can't, that tells us something — maybe you need more circulation, better hydration, more cellular energy. That one question opens the door to everything else.

Explore the Pulse systems at https://pulsepemf.com/


5 Key Takeaways:

- Your feet are the foundation. Restrictive shoes and even a small heel lift can shorten the Achilles and calf, tilt the pelvis, and cascade up into back and shoulder pain.

- Cellular health is invisible — and that's why it's neglected. Like foot health, it's easy to overlook because you can't see it, yet it drives how you recover and perform.

- PEMF works from the ground up. Pulsing the feet is the easiest entry point, especially for circulation issues like neuropathy — if you can't feel it, that's information.

- Hydration and electrolytes power cellular voltage. In Joshua's grounding demo, five minutes on a PowerPad with electrolyte water restored conduction nearly every time.

- Get outside and embrace some discomfort. Constantly chasing comfort works against your biology; movement and nature are part of the foundation, not extras.


TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Why every issue can start at your feet
02:01 The perfect storm: heels, hips, and hunched shoulders
04:07 Selling the invisible: foot health and cellular health
06:33 Start at the feet — pulsing, neuropathy, and circulation
08:59 How Joshua's Pulse practice evolved (starting with the X)
11:22 Pulse X vs. XL Pro: when you need more power
13:45 Non-negotiable accessories and recovering "like Wolverine"
16:10 Defying limits and the transference experiment
18:35 The grounding line: who conducts and who doesn't
21:00 Hydration, electrolytes, and cellular voltage
23:23 Drinking from the firehose: biohacking without the overwhelm
25:47 Get outside: nature, discomfort, and The Comfort Crisis
28:10 A breakout 2026: books, a show, and a retreat
30:34 The five pillars (and why exercise isn't #1)
32:52 Where to find Joshua + the brands he stands behind

RESOURCES:

- Pulse PEMF — https://pulsepemf.com/
- Vivobarefoot — https://www.vivobarefoot.com/us/
- STEMREGEN (code JOSH) — https://www.stemregen.co/
- The One Device (code JOSH, 10% off) — https://theonedevice.com/
- Ra Optics — blue-light / daylight lenses — https://raoptics.com/
- Book: "The Awareness Shift" by Joshua J. Holland — https://www.amazon.com/Awareness-Shift-Unearth-Pillars-Wellness/dp/1953153690
- Book: "The Comfort Crisis" by Michael Easter
- Joshua J. Holland (all links) — https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT

Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com

YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk

Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk

TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk

Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland