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What does it mean to be truly healthy, happy, strong? Stephen Flynn from the infamous Happy Pear joins me to discuss the personal journey we must go on, the journey to finding the true you, to discover awesome levels of health, and discover what it means to live with purpose and passion. In this story telling podcasting journey we discuss plant-based food, cooking, morning dips in the sea, transforming from rugby playing jocks to vegetarian hippies, the value of travelling, and much more. Stephen is an awesome story teller, this is must listen to show. Find them @thehappypear

Show breakdown:
00:00 An introduction to Stephen from The Happy Pear
02:30 The journey to finding balance and true success with some Happy Pear history.
11:00 Reversing disease with online educational courses
14:50 A twin thing – running a marathon & turning plant based on different continents
17:55 Where is the plant based narrative heading
20:00 Travelling - Finding your identity & challenging your social conditioning
26:30 How to make your transition to plant based smoother – Stephens top tips
29:25 What does work look like now for The Happy Pear?
31:45 Sunrise swims
38:24 What’s next for The Happy Pear…

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Hows your mental health right now? At an event at the weekend 75% of people said they had suffered with mental health issues in the past, this then opened up one of the most powerful talks I've ever been a part of, in this short show I'll share my experience from this talk, the lessons we learnt, and what I now have to ask you to do...

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We all have habits, some good, some bad, and many are working to have better habits for better outcomes, but this is one step of the process, what about the issues along the way, how do we deal with them? James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, a #1 New York Times bestselling book joins me to talk about the science of habits, techniques you can use to improve yours, 3 key roadblocks most face, building identity based habits over goal based habits, his personal habit struggles, and the beauty of gaining creativity from all walks of life as someone into personal development.

Visit James at www.jamesclear.com

0:00 – 3:40 An introduction to James Clear and his book - Atomic Habits
03:45 - The area’s of learning James has taken inspiration from
05:15 - Structuring your environment to design good habits
06:30 - Redesigning your habits
08:40 – Identity based habits
14:30 – Habit, routine and teaching yourself to tell a new story.
17:00 – 3 reasons your new habit won’t last, and how to avoid it.
• Trying to perfect a habit before it is properly established
• The all or nothing attitude
• Not having a ‘what if’ plan.
24:08 – How to get back on track quickly
30:20 – Leaving environments that aren’t positively impacting your goals
34:00 – Finding your tribe
36:15 – What habits has James struggled with himself?

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What are you blaming that is holding you back? Give me 8 minutes of your time for this podcast and lets leave the BS at the door, it's time to make some serious life progress..

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Once you get a BMI over 50 you classify for weight loss surgery, but should this even be an option, how does someone even get to a BMI of 50? Is it just a lack of education around food, or are there deep underlying issues causing someone to eat to a place where they can barely move? Nics Nutrition, aka Nichola Ludlam-Raine, Registered Dietitian joins me to discuss all things obesity, surgery, and our food environment. Check out Nic @nicsnutrition

Podcast timings:
01:45 Who is Nicola?
03:10 Bariatric Surgery – how do people get there.
05:37 Extreme eating behaviours & their causes
08:05 Are some people more likely to be obese than others?
10:45 Is Bariatric surgery really the best & most cost effective option for the NHS
14:00 Is Bariatric surgery more beneficial than fad diets?
16:10 The downsides of Bariatric surgery.
18:00 Excess lose skin
21:40 How learned childhood behaviours can impact you as an adult and a parent.

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When the media report research, do you often stare at it and call BS? In this solo show co-host Tom explores the difference between research findings and the spin that is placed upon them in the media. Every day another food is found to cause cancer, heart disease, or a host of other ailments - or at least that's what you'd think if the news was anything to go by.

But is it really the case? And if not - what on Earth is going on?

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In this episode Tom interviews Medical Doctor and elite powerlifter Dr Jordan Feigenbaum. It's a fascinating discussion about pain, how it really works, and the mistakes people often make when thinking and talking about injuries and discomfort. They cover lower back pain, massage, movement screening and corrective exercises, posture, proper deadlift form, and mistakes often made by new and experienced gymgoers alike when thinking about their exercise programming. Almost everyone has or knows someone who has lower back pain - but does that mean what we think it does?

04:40 Where did the name 'Barbell Medicine' come from
10:00 The Bio-Psycho-Social Model
30:00 Should coaches be using movement screens
39:00 Foam rolling, stretching, activation exercises... do they actually work
55:00 Should you be getting weekly sports massages?
01:14 The biggest mistakes beginners make in the gym

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At the weekend I was at Vegan life show and spoke to over 200 people about their diet and supplement use and noticed 5 key themes that could be optimised. Could these issues apply to normal people, 100%, but I had to get these issues / optimisations out there to help anyone who is on a vegan diet, a diet that can easily lead to deficiencies if you don't work to optimise it. Listen in, it's only 7 minutes long :)

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I've avoided this topic so far mainly because it’s such an emotive one, in fact it's the main reason many become vegan, and I respect that. Although there is always another side to the story, and the argument around eating animal products often descends into insults far too quickly for it to become a productive discussion. When it comes to our food system we need to ensure it develops in a way that is sustainable and conducive to our future health and that of the planet, and so these difficult discussions need to be had. This show doesn't seek to promote an anti-vegan stance and convince anyone of anything, but it does seek to articulate why many feel that eating animals isn't something they find morally objectionable, so that we can hopefully move past this roadblock and find points of agreement to work towards. Along the way we look at where our morals and ethics come from, whether they are innate, and what that means if they are, and we hope this starts a dialogue between two camps that agree on a lot, despite some stark differences.

4.10 Why do people believe what they believe (Vegans & Carnivores)
6.40 If you’re vegan and listening…..
8:00 The evolution of eating meat
9:40 Is It morally correct to eat meat
12:30 Issues in the meat industry
13:10 what is normal. Moral Intuition. How we find answers in different camps
21:28 Hope and Glory
25:58 Activist vegans – Loud voices. (If you eat meat you’re a bad person)
29:25 The only way to move forward for carnivores & vegans
32:00 Left wing or Right wing,
39:00 Bens summary
40:00 Where do you sit, Tom helps define your morals.

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You know that thing you keep trying to do but keep failing at? That habit you keep trying to break?? The trick is to force yourself into a new environment, then you can't NOT do it, it's impossible, and it gets done. After a weekend away I realised it was the answer to my mental anguish, but I needed to force the environment for it to happen. It's time to optimise you with this simple hack...

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