The Dr. Greg Wells Podcast

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It’s hard to believe that this is our 150th episode! After this, we’re going to take a break and regroup. When we come back, we hope to uplevel the podcast and dive even deeper into the science of high performance to help you boost your performance and reach your potential.

In this final episode of Season 5, I’m sharing an interview I did with Dr. Lisa Belanger. Lisa recently launched The Science of Work podcast, which shares science based strategies to build the ideal work design for the modern workplace and improve business outcomes.

Lisa is the CEO of ConsciousWorks, an organization that helps leaders apply their findings from leading-edge scientific research to maximize their mental capacity and performance. She has a Ph.D. in Behavioural Medicine, an Executive MBA, and is a Certified Exercise Physiologist and High Performance Specialist.

Lisa was on this show earlier this year and now I had the opportunity to be on her show. In this episode, we dig into recovery, regeneration, high performance, and tactics to reach your absolute potential in your work and in your life.

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This week I had the privilege of sitting down with Marc Champagne. Marc is a mental fitness strategist, which is, by Marc’s definition, the combination of two core drivers:

1. To teach, guide, and illuminate a unique way of thinking through asking the right questions.

2. To distill, organize, and simplify complex situations and solutions.

In other words, he’s an expert at the intersection between mental fitness and strategic thinking.

Marc studies the mental fitness practices and reflective questions that shape the lives of some of the most successful and brilliant thinkers in the world. He hosts the top 50 ranked podcast Behind The Human and co-founded the journaling app KYO, which reached 87 million people. He’s studied mental fitness practices for over a decade and consults with Fortune 500 companies as a mental fitness strategist and speaker.

In this conversation, we talk about asking good questions - Are they the right ones? Are they the best ones given the situation? And are we asking enough of them?

If you want to learn more about him, you can check out his website behindthehuman.com.

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This week I had a great conversation with Dr. Marie-Helene Pelletier. Dr. Pelletier holds a PhD and an MBA from The University of British Columbia, and teaches leadership resilience at the UBC School of Business.

She is an award-winning work psychologist who has led workplace mental health strategy in senior leadership roles at various organizations including Sun Life Financial. She’s a past Director on the boards of the Canadian Psychological Association and the International Association of Applied Psychology and an active member of the Global Clinical Practice Network of the World Health Organization.

We have a great conversation all about fatigue, stress, and burn out. As these topics are extremely relevant right now, I’m really excited to share her insights and strategies that we can use every day to help us cope better.

You can learn more about her at her website drmhpelletier.com or find her on LinkedIn. 

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This week I sit down with Sébastien Sasseville. Sébastien holds a bachelor’s degree in communications, he is a TEDx speaker, and has spent the first ten years of his career working for Fortune 500 companies. His biggest strength as a speaker is to build strong connections between the world of sports and business.

Seb was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2002. He vowed that the obstacle would never keep him from living life to the fullest and today his story is a testament to how challenges can be turned into opportunities.

In 2008, Seb reached the Summit of Mount Everest. He then completed 6 Ironmans and the mythical Sahara race. In 2014, he ran across Canada from St. John’s to Vancouver, totalling 7,200 km, or 170 marathons in nine months.

In this amazing conversation we talk about accomplishment, routine, and excellence. If you want to learn more about Seb you can visit his website sebinspire.com or check him out on social media.

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This week I had a great conversation with my good friend and adventurer Ray Zahab.

Ray is a global adventurer, having completed some of the most intense expeditions on the planet. His list of accomplishments include running across the Sahara desert, skiing to the south pole, and Arctic expeditions (including a solo expedition in January 2020).

In this episode we discuss goal setting and mindset around world class performance and health. As one of the most prolific adventurers and explorers in the world, Ray is a great person to have this conversation with.

If you want to learn more about him, you can go to his website rayzahab.com and at his organization website impossible2possible.com.

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This week I had an amazing conversation with Dr. Elaine Chin, who has a medical degree and MBA.

Dr. Chin is a North American trailblazer of personalized medicine. Her goal is to help educate people on how to stay healthier for longer. Dr. Chin is the founder of The Executive Health Centre, a premier precision medicine practice in Toronto. Most recently, she has developed a virtual health care offering, Health in a Box, which includes a patient health record as part of The Innovation Health Group.

She is the author of the book Lifelines: Unlock the Secrets of Your Telomeres for a Longer, Healthier Life, which was on the Globe & Mail’s Top 10 Bestseller List. She also just published a book titled Welcome Back! How to Reboot your Physical and Mental Well-Being for a Post-Pandemic World.

We're really lucky to have her because she brings a great research and evidence-based medical perspective. In this episode, we talk about all of the issues that we want to address coming out of the pandemic and how to stay super healthy.

If you want to learn more about her, you can check out her website drelainechin.com.

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Recently I had a conversation with Dr. Marco Altini. Marco is a scientist and developer working at the intersection between health, technology, and performance. He has a PhD in Data Science and a MSc in Computer Science Engineering and in Human Movement Sciences.

In 2012, Marco started HRV4Training, a mobile platform using advanced signal processing and data analytics to measure physiology and quantify stress using heart rate variability (HRV) to help athletes better balance training and lifestyle stressors to improve performance.

I'm really excited to share this conversation with you because wearable technology has just exploded in the past few years and more and more people are using it to track their recovery and stress, and to boost their performance. Marco is an expert in this field and so it was really great to sit down and talk to him all about how he uses wearable technology to help people boost their health and performance. 

You can learn more about his work at HRV4Training or at his personal website marcoaltini.com. 

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This week I'm excited to share my conversation with Sarah Gilks. Sarah has built such an incredible community of women around the world who are working on getting healthier and reaching their potential. 

Sarah is the founder and CEO of the internationally renowned women's health and fitness movement Healthy Role Model (HRM). Sarah created HRM when she saw a need for a community made up of women who were passionate about health, supporting one another, and striving for excellence in all areas of their lives. Centred around community, HRM teaches through modelling instead of telling. 

HRM has quickly grown from 20 women from her hometown to 1400 people worldwide. You can learn more about it at her website healthyrolemodels.com.  

Enjoy this conversation all about the power of community!

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This week I had an amazing conversation with Shaun Francis on the Medcan Live Well podcast. Shaun is the CEO of Medcan, an executive health service that does full comprehensive medicals for executives all over Canada and the U.S.

We had a great conversation all about the benefits of recovery, why we all need to be thinking about how to sleep better, and how to optimize our lives for the best results.

You can check out more Live Well episodes here.

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This week as I return home, I took a step back to reflect on the past year and how my priorities have shifted. In this short episode, I dig into the three P's of building your Personal Positive Community: People, Places, and Pursuits. Deliberately choosing who you spend your time with, where you spend your time, and what you spend your time doing, has enormous impact on your life and happiness. 

Let me know what you think!