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Filipe Masetti Leite is a journalist, cowboy, author, and adventurer who rode horseback from the Centennial Calgary Stampede to Ushuaia, Argentina (2012 to 2017). Born in Brazil and raised in Canada, he graduated in journalism from Ryerson University in Toronto. He has worked for OmniTV, CBC Radio, and Rede Globo. He currently writes for several publications in Canada and Brazil, including the Toronto Star and Trip Magazine. During his 23 500 km journey in the saddle, Filipe filmed a reality series for the Lonely Planet’s OutWildTV (post-production) and wrote a book released in Portuguese by Harper Collins - 13 weeks on the best-seller list in Brazil - in August of 2017. The English version of the book came out worldwide July 15, 2018. "Long Ride Home: Guts, Guns, Grizzlies," became a number one best seller on amazon.ca and is currently being adapted into a major motion picture.

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Flow states are some of the most incredible experiences you can have as a human being. They occur when we engage in an activity that completely consumes our attention and challenges us at exactly the right level.

Maybe you are exercising at a new level and it feels easy. Maybe you are working, lose all track of time and get five times as much done. Maybe you are having an amazing conversation over dinner with a group of people or sitting on a beach coming up with a new solution to an old problem.

Flow states are absolutely incredible, and they have been a reference point for guests on this podcast over and over again. So I wanted to share with you a condensed version of The Power of Flow, which explores what happens when you get into that state, how you can deliberately activate it and what it can do for you.

It is a simple idea that can make a huge difference in your life, so check out my presentation on the POWER OF FLOW.

In this era of constant, unrelenting distraction, I have become more and more and more convinced that focus is a prerequisite for any sort of world-class performance. You cannot perform well if you are distracted, and I don't think you can be particularly healthy either. I think mental health depends, to some extent, on our ability to control and maintain our attention. I've also worked with hundreds of Olympians and seen how much the ability to sustain a consistent level of focus is crucial for world-class performance.

I wanted to explore this topic in more depth, so I did a presentation on The Power of Focus. I recorded the audio and have pulled it out to share with you. I’d love to hear your thoughts about how you focus, what you use focus for and what challenges you face in maintaining it.

As part of our ongoing conversation about better health and human performance, please enjoy my presentation on THE POWER OF FOCUS.

In this episode, I want to share an idea with you that I call The Power of Challenge. I've been studying how people overcome obstacles in their lives to put themselves on a better trajectory. It’s really interesting to think about mental health and how we can help people move into a space where they maximize their potential.

I gave a session recently exploring The Power of Challenge and recorded it, so I wanted to share it with you. This is sort of new thinking for me, and I’d love your opinions and comments about your experience with this and how you apply it in your life. The more we can create a conversation around this, the better, because mental health is one of the biggest issues we're faced with today.

So here we go. Let me know what you think of this session I did recently on the POWER OF CHALLENGE.

Today we have a really cool interview with my friend Kunal Gupta. Kunal started a company about 10 years ago called Polar mobile, which has expanded and grown into a global technology company. As the company has grown Kunal has as well. He has lately begun to write blog posts on finding focus, and has become a leader in integration of mindfulness into leadership and into the workplace. I was really excited to chat with him because I think that he has an interesting perspective. He has business credentials that are tremendous and he also has very practical ideas on how to implement all of these these ideas into your life. He's experimented with minimalism and with Mindful Leadership. This is a deep dive into a life that's been transformed over the last decade. So please enjoy this conversation with my friend Kunal Gupta.

Ariel Garten is a neuroscientist, innovator, and entrepreneur whose driving purpose is to empower and help others overcome mental obstacles in order to live healthy, happy lives and reach their maximum potential. Garten is the Founder of InteraXon, the makers of Muse: the brain sensing headband. Before founding InteraXon, Ariel was not only trained as a neuroscientist and psychotherapist, but also started her own international clothing line while she worked in labs researching Parkinson’s disease and hippocampal neurogenesis. Her creativity and entrepreneurial head combined with her fascination with the brain lead her to join forces with two like-minded friends, the later co-founders of InteraXon. Together they founded a Silicon Valley backed startup that allowed people to control computers with their minds, the technology that sparked the creation of Muse. These days, Ariel can be found at on stages across the world speaking about happiness, meditation & mental health.

Hello podcasters! It's great to be with you today. I want to share an interview with communication and leadership guru Judith Humphrey, who coached me in my early career and was instrumental in preparing me for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics and the Superbodies series, which won a Gemini award.

In 1988, Judith launched The Humphrey Group, the first Canadian firm to focus on uniting leadership and communication. Now led by her son Bart Egnal, it remains a major presence in the field, continuing to deliver pioneering programs established by Judith like Taking the Stage for women leaders. Since her retirement in 2017, Judith has continued to write and speak widely, sharing her knowledge about how to inspire through communication. In 2012, she was awarded the prestigious YWCA Woman of Distinction award for entrepreneurship.

I hope you benefit tremendously from this deep conversation about leadership, communication and crafting a world-class life.

Welcome back everyone. It's great to be with you. I want to continue with a keynote presentation I gave called How to Live to 120. This talk was part of a series that ultimately led to my bestselling book, The Ripple Effect, which is the advanced version of ideas that I was just beginning to distill and organize.

In part three, I explore nutrition and its role in causing inflammation, along with a bunch of tactics and recipes you can use to make sure you are as healthy as possible. From there, the keynote moves into the power and benefits of being in nature, both physically (including at the cellular level) and mentally.

Here’s part three of my presentation, HOW TO LIVE TO 120.

Hey everyone. Welcome back! Thanks so much for sharing your attention with me on my podcast. I want to continue with part two of my keynote, How to Live to 120. This talk was part of a series of thinking processes that ultimately led to my bestselling book, The Ripple Effect, which is the advanced version of ideas that I was just beginning to distill and organize.

In this segment, I begin with physical health, move into mind-body connections and then explore meditation and mental health.

Please enjoy part two of my keynote, HOW TO LIVE TO 120.

Hi folks! I am really excited to share this podcast with you. It’s a keynote I gave a couple of years ago in which I tried to deconstruct how to live to 120.

In this podcast, I explore several cutting-edge medical technologies that are emerging before getting into an approach to physical fitness that will help extend your life that I call the Four Fs model: Fit, Force, Fast and Flex . This talk was part of a series of thinking processes that ultimately led to my bestselling book, The Ripple Effect, which offers the advanced version of ideas that I was just beginning to get distilled and organized.

I hope you enjoy these ideas and also those found in part two and three of this same talk. Thanks for listening and enjoy HOW TO LIVE TO 120.