The Dr. Greg Wells Podcast

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This week, I'm interviewing Sara Thompson.

Sara has a Masters in Exercise Science and is a Registered Kinesiologist. Sara is a member of my team and she has developed an expertise in exercise physiology, coaching, and expeditions that push the limits of human performance.

A few years ago Sara successfully summited Chimborazo, the furthest point from the centre of earth, and she just got back from her successful summit of Aconcagua, which is the highest peak in the Americas. She also recently did an expedition in Thailand, in which she was the high performance coach for a group of people learning Muay Thai and Freediving. You can learn more about that trip and the high performance company at createmomentum.co. 

In this conversation we talk about her background, what she has learned in her work as a high performance coach, and what it takes to push the limits of human performance in extraordinarily difficult environments. 

Enjoy the conversation! 

Hey everyone, welcome back to the show!

This week we're really excited to bring you Steve Fleck. Steve Fleck is one of the leading Professional Endurance Sports Race/Event Announcers & Commentators in North America. Each year he is on the microphone at over 30, running, cycling and triathlon races/events across the continent. His entire working life has been spent in and around the world of Endurance Sports with roles in Retail, Sales, Marketing, Media, Communications, and Events. 

Steve isn't just a race announcer, he's a storyteller. Steve helps to create the experience of being at those events, and he has seen it all. He has seen the successes, he has seen the failures, and he has conducted the interviews. So he has some tremendous insights into what it takes to be successful at a lot of these events, but also what it means to just simply participate and how powerful the experience itself is.

Please enjoy my conversation with leading world class race announcer and my friend, Steve Fleck!

"If you want to make something that's like nothing you've made before, then you have to shake yourself up, go beyond whats comfortable and known and let yourself feel disoriented, overwhelmed, even intimidated. Those moments, when you lose your bearings or where you're forced to sink or swim, and the moments when you have an opportunity to rise to the occasion, to surprise yourself, to do the things you didn't know you could do. That's what making this album was for me, I'm so proud of the process, and I'm so proud of the result.” - Peter Katz

This week I'm really excited to bring you an interview that I did with my friend and singer-songwriter Peter Katz!

Over the past decade, Peter's seen his albums debut at number one on the iTunes singer-songwriter charts. He has shared the stage and studio with the likes of Academy Award winner Glen Hansard, Juno Award winners, The Good Lovelies, Polaris Prize nominated Melissa McClelland, and the legendary Garth Hudson from the Band. He has toured all over the world playing regularly to capacity crowds and has managed to build an impressive fan base of loyal listeners. The London Free Press describe one of his concerts as "try listening without getting goosebumps."

In this conversation, we talk about creativity, learning, pushing through, even though you may not necessarily feel like it. I think there are some tremendous insights here that can benefit everybody.

Enjoy!

Welcome back and Happy New Year!

I'm happy to announce that this is the first episode of Season 3! We have a ton of incredible interviews scheduled for the upcoming year, however I would like to start the season off by reflecting on the first two seasons. I think it's good to reflect on past seasons before diving into the next. So in this episode I talk about some of my favourite guests and what some important take aways were for me. 

So hope you enjoy this short recap and we'll present our first guest of Season 3 next week! 

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As we near the end of 2019, I want to totally change up the direction and share a conversation that I had with Brent Jensen on his No Sleep Til Sudbury podcast. Brent's podcast is all about music and the power certain songs have on us. On his podcast, Brent talks about those songs and about how music tells us who we are.

In this conversation, we dig into my five favourite songs and why I chose them, how they relate to different points in my life, and how I think about music. I think this conversation is really relevant as we enter into the holidays and have a chance to listen to more music.

We’re also learning more about the effect that music has on our mental health. We're discovering that music can be used as a specific treatment for mental health challenges, especially depression. Recently I was privileged to go to the launch of an initiative called the Awesome Music Project, designed to raise awareness and funds for mental health research across the country.

So please enjoy my conversation on amazing music with Brent Jensen!

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This week I'm excited to share with you an interview that I did on Keith Macpherson's podcast.

Keith attained his certified leadership coach designation through the Coaches Training Institute and the Leadership Circle. He has a vast knowledge and experience in the world of wellness and leadership, and has positioned himself as a global teacher on how to establish workplace culture that's both healthy and effective.

Keith is brilliant in thinking about the field of mental and spiritual health, and merging those two ideas together. He is probably most renowned for his work as a professional musician - he was a finalist on the hit television series, Canadian Idol. He's a regular columnist for Balance Magazine and he speaks to thousands of people around the world every single day via his daily intentions on social media. If you're interested in checking out his podcast, check out the Keith Macpherson podcast, and you can learn more from him at keithmacpherson.ca.

In this conversation we dive into loads of different concepts around health, wellbeing, high performance, and music. Enjoy!

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This week we have a great guest on. I am so excited to bring you again Neil Pasricha. This talk is super-timely - it’s coming out the same week that he has his new book out, You Are Awesome. That book has just hit number one internationally. We talk a lot about that as well as other really cool topics around resilience, bouncing back, and mindset.

Neil is an author, entrepreneur, podcaster, and public speaker. He focuses on positivity and adding simple pleasures to your day, which is pretty cool in this crazy era that we live in. He's best known for the Book of Awesome series and the Happiness Equation, both of which are international bestsellers. He has sold over 1 million books, and he's an established speaker. His TEDx talk, The Three A's of Awesome, is ranked as the ninth most inspiring TEDx talk, with over 3 million views to date. He has an unbelievably popular blog, A Thousand Awesome Things, that won three Webby Awards and was ranked in PC Magazine's list of the top blogs and websites in 2009 and 2010. He is frequently sought out as a consultant on positivity and leadership.

I'm really excited to bring this episode to you. It's great to have him back on the show and I'm sure you're going to love this episode. Enjoy!

Welcome back! 

I'm really excited about this week’s interview, which is with one of the top golf players in the world, Tommy Fleetwood.

Tommy is currently ranked number five in the world on the PGA tour. Last year he was runner up at the British Open, his second finish at a major championship. He has been consistently improving his performance at events like the Ryder Cup and BMW Championship, the RBC Canadian open, the US Open, the British open, and just yesterday finished his season with another incredible finish. So he's on quite an upwards trajectory right now.

In this conversation we talk about excellence, routines, mental skills, all the daily practices that Tommy uses to make sure that he's performing at a high level and how to overcome a disappointing result and get back in the game.

Enjoy!

Welcome back! This week, I am super psyched to share with you my conversation with Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe. She is an expert on resiliency and workplace wellness. She is an award-winning psychology instructor and she specializes in resiliency, navigating stress and change, and personal wellness, and behaviour change. 

Robyne is a Senior Educational Developer for the Center for Teaching and Learning at Trent University, and she focuses on providing professional development for the teaching community and cultivating student engagement. All of her work now, in addition to what she is doing at the university, revolves around actually getting out into the community and helping people to build their capacity to be more resilient, help people in incredibly challenging circumstances, and apply the information that she has either developed herself or learnt from others, to make a difference in people's lives.

So I think you're going to really like this conversation. She is totally engaging and thought-provoking. We dig deep into resiliency and the components that you need for resiliency, which is the ability to bounce back and overcome obstacles in your life.

Please enjoy this conversation with Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe!

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I am super excited about this interview that I did with Olympic hurdler, Sarah Wells. She is transforming the world and has an unbelievable track record - literally - as an Olympic hurdler. She is a Pan Am Games medalist, a multiple national champion, ranked top 12 at the Olympic Games, and has gone on now to build a speaking career. Sarah has launched the Believe Initiative, which is transforming the lives of tens of thousands of children and students around the world, helping them learn how to build confidence, to build resilience, and to build their ability to accomplish more.

I'm really excited about having Sarah on the show. We dig a lot into the process around excellence, about overcoming obstacles, about staying positive despite unbelievable setbacks, and ultimately how she's built a framework around her strategies to improve resilience and to develop confidence.

I’m really excited to share this interview to you. You can check her out online at her website sarahwells.ca and on twitter @sarahwells400mh, which stands for meters hurdles. So please enjoy this interview with Olympian, Sarah Wells.

For more information about the peak performance training in Thailand, check it out at createmomentum.co!