The Dr. Greg Wells Podcast

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This week I’m excited to share an episode I did on my old podcast a few years ago. I wanted to share it again because I received such great feedback from it and it was such a compelling conversation.

Mark is a specialist in body language and human behaviour. He’s trained business people, teams, CEOs of Fortune 500 Companies, and Prime Ministers of G7 Powers.

He is the author of several books including the best seller ‘Winning Body Language for Sales Professionals’ and his most recent book with Tracey Thomson ‘Truth and Lies: What People Are Really Thinking’.

Mark is the President and co-founder of TruthPlane, an organization that helps other organizations implement these ideas to improve performance.

In this conversation we talk about fear, confidence, and strategies you can implement in your life to improve your communication and confidence.

You can find out more about him at his website TruthPlane.

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This week I had a great conversation with my friend Alec Watson.

Alec was a gold and platinum earning recording engineer and producer who one day quit and turned to photography.

Now Alec is a professional photographer and digital media creator specializing in brand story-telling through visuals. Alec's work can be seen promoting brands including Goldwell, KMS, Microsoft, Sexy Hair, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Nordstrom, Britney Spears, and most recently as Brand Leader for Robin Sharma and Healthy Role Models.

Alec has a passion for understanding how imagery affects the way we think. We have an amazing conversation about sight versus vision, colour, emotional response to colour, how we interpret imagery, and how we can use imagery to interpret the world around us.

You can find out more about him at yourvisualbrand.com and at alecwatson.com.

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This week I had an amazing conversation with Dr. Melissa Piercell. 

Melissa graduated from The University of Windsor with an honours degree in Neuroscience. She developed her love for holistic wellness and decided to further her education by completing the four-year Naturopathic Doctor program at The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. 

Melissa currently works in downtown Toronto with her private practice involving the health of professionals and athletes, she's the naturopathic doctor for the National Ballet of Canada, and she is part of our consulting team at Wells Performance. 

Melissa has a special interest in motivating her patients to improve their lifestyle by making changes that are long-term and realistic. We dig into this topic a lot during this episode. 

Enjoy this conversation with optimizing nutrition and health specialist Dr. Melissa Piercell! 

If you have any follow up questions, you can contact Melissa directly at [email protected]. You can also find more information about her and her practice at newleafmed.ca.

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This week I had an amazing conversation with Andy Blow. Andy is a Sports Scientist who is an expert in exercise, hydration, and electrolyte replacement. 

When competing as an elite level triathlete in his younger days, Andy struggled with cramps and hydration that led to him specializing in electrolyte replenishment and founding Precision Hydration. He discovered how individualized fluid and electrolyte replacement can make a big difference to performance. That led him to setting up Precision Hydration, a company that specializes in sweat, dehydration, cramping, electrolyte replenishment, and helping athletes better understand their own hydration needs.

Enjoy the conversation!

Episode Notes:

If you want to learn about the Science of Endurance Hydration, you can sign up for Andy’s Course at Training Peaks University. Go to https://trainingpeaks-university.thinkific.com/courses/science-of-endurance-hydration and use the Code SWEAT457UXL when signing up to get access to the course.

You can also get 15% off your first order at precisionhydration.com. Use the Code WELLS15 at the checkout to get your discount.

Finally, if you have any questions about your hydration and fueling strategy, or want to know more about Precision Hydration, you can book a free one-to-one video call with a member off Andy’s team using this link: https://www.precisionhydration.com/book-a-sweat-expert-call/

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This week I had an amazing conversation with my friend Kunal Gupta.

Kunal is an entrepreneur in technology space. He runs a company called Polar, a digital media business that he’s been working on for over a decade. Polar provides advertising technology solutions to hundreds of trusted publishers in 30 countries around the world.

Kunal is a social impact entrepreneur, he volunteers with the Canadian Association for Mental Health, is a meditation teacher, and is becoming an influencer around mindfulness, wellness, business, and performance.

In this conversation, we talk about health, wellbeing, mindfulness, concentration, fear, and reaching your potential.

You can learn more about him at his website bykunal.com/blog.

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One of the big challenges that we’re all faced with as we emerge from this pandemic is how do we return to work? What does that look like? How do we do that in a way that improves our health and wellbeing?

This is a Q&A session that I did recently all around this topic. We talk about managing our return to the workplace and how we can make our work a place where we go to get healthier.

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This week I had the privilege of talking to Olympic Champion Kyle Shewfelt!

Kyle began his gymnastics career at the age of 6 when his mother was tired of him cartwheeling around the house. She and his father enrolled Kyle in gymnastics lessons at their local club as an outlet for his energy. Kyle’s passion for the sport quickly ignited and he soon realized it would be a lifelong pursuit.

Kyle is a three-time Olympian and a multiple World Championship, Commonwealth Games, and World Cup medalist. His gold medal performance in the men’s floor exercise at the 2004 Olympics was the first-ever medal for a Canadian in an artistic gymnastics event and was the first Canadian gold of the 2004 Olympics.

Kyle is known for the courage he showed in the face of adversity. After breaking his legs on a bad landing in 2007, he embarked on the biggest challenge of his career and had just 11 months to recover in time for the 2008 games. He qualified and his comeback inspired many young gymnasts.

Now Kyle’s focus is in involving and engaging others. After retiring from competition in 2009, Kyle is still heavily involved in the sport and the community. He has been an expert analyst for both CBC and CTV’s coverage of gymnastics. Kyle is an ambassador and mentor for Gymnastics Canada Gymnastique and he works closely with numerous charity organizations including Kidsport, Special Olympics and Right To Play. In addition, he sits on the board of directors for the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport and was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.

Above all else, Kyle is a perpetual optimist who enjoys helping others reach their potential. He believes in the power of a high five and is excited to connect everyone to the foundation of the sport he loves so much.

We discuss his learnings from being involved in sport and his future vision of a safe space around sport.

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In the first episode of Season 5, I’m super excited to share my conversation with world class sports science journalist Alex Hutchinson. He’s one of the best sports science journalists out there and he focuses a lot on endurance training and what we can do as endurance athletes to be better.

He has a great blog called Sweat Science which you can check out at Outside magazine. You can also follow him on twitter @sweatscience.

We have a great chat all about pushing the limits, heat, the latest research on how the brain copes with suffering and pain, recovery from injury, and how to exercise at an even higher level.

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This week I’m excited to share an interview I did on Ramon David’s podcast BrainFirst.

We dig into mental performance, brain function, optimizing health, wellbeing, and high performance, coping with this strange era, and my new book Rest, Refocus, Recharge. There are some really cool nuggets that you can take away from this episode.

You can listen to more amazing episodes with Ramon, in which he interviews leading neuroscientists and brain experts to help you upgrade your brain and life, at his website BrainFirst Radio.

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This week I had an incredible conversation with Stephen Drum.

Stephen is a combat-tested retired Navy SEAL Master Chief with 27 years of experience leading and developing high performance teams. He’s an in-demand speaker and consultant who helps individuals and organizations develop leadership and performance strategies so they can plan, prepare, and execute at the highest level when it matters the most.

Stephen’s trained and led U.S. and foreign partner special operations forces on high risk and strategically vital missions around the world, including combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He recently co-developed and taught warrior toughness training for the U.S. Navy, which fundamentally changed the culture of the Navy in how it trains and prepares young sailors and officers for the acute stress of intense combat operations.

We had an amazing conversation all about performance psychology, mental rehearsal, and how to plan and prepare for adversity and critical moments.

You can learn more about Stephen and his work at his website stephendrum.com.

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