Elia Mrak is a gifted dancer, a teachers teacher of human movement and thought leader on how to enjoy moving and being in your body over a lifetime.

In this episode Elia shares more of his counter intuitive wisdom about the power and relevance of dance to all physical training and movement. Wonderfully thought provoking, he’s as engaging today as he was as my first podcast guest ever in 2017.

This time he returns for another 7IN7 mini podcast. Short, sweet worth and golden.

From his education at Stanford, Harvard and through his own internal explorations, Jonathan Marshall found his niche helping people in the role of psychotherapist, executive coach and leadership trainer.  With his passion and toolbox of skills he assists people to open into living life with greater ease and vibrancy by becoming more aware of our inner core.

John’s a former high level soccer player and youth soccer coach. In this podcast is he talks about how youth sports have become a ultra competitive , adult centered enterprise which has taken the fun and ‘play’ out of ‘play ball’ and how to fix it.

How results got Sue Falsone accepted in a male dominated culture. The keys to healing from injury and the psychology to stay positive. Her poignant story of learning to rest and recover to be more vital and perform better. Plus her views on techniques and methods to speed up the recovery process.

Mac and I were teammates on the University of Oregon track team in the early 70s and shared the legendary coach and inventor of the Nike shoe, Bill Bowerman. A gift to both of us. Mac’s resume is impressive. He was a 4 x Olympic team member as discus thrower. He won the Gold medal in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and a Silver in the !984 Olympics in Los Angeles. After his lengthy athletic career he became a coach, a mentor and a teacher to many young track and field athletes striving to become the best athletes possible. 

In this podcast he shares his wealth of knowledge, from his own pursuit of ever better physical and mental performance and his evolved skills and wisdom to guiding others  to become the best versions of themselves. 

In this podcast we discuss:

• The life lessons learned from his track coach Bill Bowerman
• Discovering a more powerful way to learn to become better.
• His philosophy in successfully handling huge disappointments
• How having fun is more important than just striving to be more successful
• How persistence and knowing you can get better are keys to success physically and life.

 

 Listen in to hear these life changing tips and much more

What a pleasure to speak with Elena. Not just because she espouses eating fresh and natural foods. And not because she believes in food as being the life force that makes us ready to meet each day healthily and more vibrant, which she does. It’s because she has a fresh and unregimented way of pointing people towards how to eat without so many dos’ and don'ts successfully for life. That’s fresh.        

Elena Razmpoosh is a registered dietitian with a master’s degree in Nutrition Sciences from the University of Washington.

She grew up in a household where wholesome food and holistic medicine was the way of life which eventually led her to her nutrition career. Aside from developing new delicious, vegan recipes for Jujubeet, a Seattle based juice and tasty nutrition rich foods company, Elena is passionate about helping people change their lives through a healthy diet and lifestyle by taking small, simple steps to create lifelong habits.

In this episode we talk about:

• How to be more intuitive in eating what your body needs
• How we eat can affect our genes… in a positive or negative way
• Learning to be in tune to what our body needs… which is often lost from childhood
• Letting go of rules around what you eat and to eat what need not what you think you need
• The impact of eating meat vs eating a plant-based diet
• The need to focus on eating with diversity and seasonally for a more sustainable earth healthy way.

One day in 1995 Marjolein was out for her daily run when her life took a dramatic turn for the worst.  She was hit by a car.  Her rehabilitation, as you can imagine was long and arduous but in time she recovered, in part due to her perseverance and the use of pilates as her physical therapy.

She credits pilates as a big reason for her being able to run, move fluidly and be more connected to her body.  Today she still moves like someone half her age or younger… and I’ve seen her move!

From there her story becomes even more fascinating and more positive as well.

Being the entrepreneur she is ( and she believes entrepreneurs are born, not made…. more on that in this episode) she decided to embark on an all encompassing journey to create a home pilates machine that was affordable to the masses and could help people receive the benefits she receive during her rehab period as a fitness tool.  

As a TV producer of informerials already she had the know how to marketing to those potential buyers. And that she did. She not only created the Aero Pilates machine but she marketed them through infomercials and QVC and the rest is history.

The net result is that The Aero Pilates machine has been the longest selling and most successful fitness product in the history of QVC. Marjolein has creates a multimillion dollar business.

Marjolein’s story is amazing one. It’s filled inspiring, insightful and nuggets of wisdom for entrepreneurs and those wanting to live their best lives. I hope you’ll be a enthralled to listen to it as I was to hear her story in person.  

In this episode we’ll discuss:

• How her morning ritual is key to her well being and success throughout the day and in business.
• How her rehab and recovery from a grave injury gave her more awareness and greater connection to her body which enhanced her entire life.  
• Her entrepreneurship as an adolescent and how that impacted her life later on in a most positive way.
• Her belief in how discipline is the key ingredient in being successful in business and life!     

     Check out Marjolein's website for more information on what she’s up to today - https://www.lighterliving.com/

In this episode, I get to talk with Ryan Munsey on a subject I’ve always been interested in: optimizing human performance and energy through diet and supplementation. It’s a highly debated subject, but I think Ryan helps make it more precise and more straightforward.

Ryan is the chief Optimizer at Natural Stacks a supplement company leading the way in brain health and optimization. He has a Dietetics degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition from Clemson University. And on top of that, he’s a podcaster, writer, speaker, and high-performance consultant.

It’s great to be able to speak with someone so well informed and passionate about this subject matter and to be able to share it with you.

In this episode we talk about:

- How the role of creating a lifestyle of eating quality foods and exercise precedes the use of nutritional supplements
- The evolution of locally sourced foods, higher quality foods, and open sourcing into the mainstream of our food culture.
- The power of the cordyceps mushroom.
- How he boosts his immune system during the flu season and travel.
- Why the daily multivitamin is a waste of money.
- And much more!

You can reach Ryan at - http://ryanmunsey.com/blog/

Perpetua is an executive coach, mentor and psychologist. She received her Doctorate in clinical psychology from the prestigious UCL and a Masters from Cambridge. She works mostly with high achieving women helping them become who they can they truly are to be effective leaders in the world. That said her advice and teachings are for all.  

Whether helping them through toxic relationships, panic attacks and just feeling like they don’t have time for themselves, she guides people to how to blossom in their jobs and relationships by learning to love and honor themselves.

On top of that she writes for The Huffington Post, MindBodyGreen and Thrive Global. Her work has been translated into 21 languages.

In this podcast we talk about :

• How she dealt with her own panic attacks led to helping use the same approach with her clients.
• How she came to learn what’s ‘good enough’ and that it doesn’t have to be perfection.
• How not to feel like you have to over perform in every area of your life.
• Her journey of learning to rest and not feeling guilty over it.
• How to move forward by letting go of your old stories you have of yourself.

She‘s a remarkable coach and teacher we all could use. 

Decades ago Dave Phillips accomplished some epic endurance events, like skiing 83 hours continuously to water skiing over 2000 km with a buddy. These intense and painful physical feats were performed to help raise money and awareness for some notable causes, like cystic fibrosis. Little did he know, another benefit would come from those events.

The gift would be Dave’s clear understanding of what purpose in life should be that day forward. 

From there it’s full speed ahead, living out of that purpose and helping people do the same. He’s a mentor, coach, motivational speaker, columnist and author of the book -  3 Big Questions    

In this book and in his words you’ll hear in this podcast, Dave encourages people to care about standing up to be a person of virtue, purpose and meaning. In doing so he believes people will live a more satisfying and expansive life.

In this podcast Dave also touches on:

• Why retirement is a bogus concept.
• Why you should choose to step up in life with courage.
• How to avoid shrinking back into comfort is a dead end in life.
• How to finding meaning in your life beyond all material goals.
• How to become happy and satisfied in you life.

 

Please listen. There is a ton of meaty subject matter in my conversation with Dave  to keep you engrossed.