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  • 09: Ted Ryce - Optimizing Your Resilience, Compassion & Purpose
    [WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of graphic violence and may be very distressing or offensive to some listeners.]
    What would you do if at the age of barely being a young adult, your entire life was turned upside down with a personal tragedy that was so extreme it caught the attention of national news media?
    What if someone you loved, cherished and protected was taken from you and your entire sense of reality was completely ripped apart?
    This is exactly what happened to Miami based Ted Ryce when at the age of 19, his 9 year old brother, Jimmy Ryce, was kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered and his life was turned upside down. Ted's story, however, doesn't end there and is ultimately not a story of painful tragedy; it's a story of incredible resilience and infinite inspiration.
    After enduring traumatic pain that most people can barely even begin to imagine, Ted ultimately persevered, claimed full responsibility for his own leadership, and optimized his life in ways that will leave you spellbound. Ted now works as a personal trainer with some of the most famous and influential people in the world.
    On this episode of The Life:Optimized Show, Ted shares what inspires him to push through the pain and suffering anybody would have excused him for getting caught up in, and how he prevents himself from becoming self-absorbed and instead focuses a tremendous amount of energy on creating a massive impact on the world.
    We talk about how he got through everything and forged his own journey and identity; and how everyone will inevitably face some form of personal hardship in their life, and how you can be better prepared for it and optimize your life in the process of doing so.
    This is one of the most inspirational and motivating episodes yet!
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    Ted is a science nerd, an accomplished martial artist, and a personal trainer with 14 years of experience. Using exercise and nutrition principles that he learned from extensive study, he transformed from a skinny 150lb fast food eating party guy to an athletic 205lbs muscular physique.
    In his 14 years of experience, Ted has trained celebrities like Ricky Martin and Robert Downey Jr, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, professional and amateur athletes, and ordinary men and women who simply want to look better in their bathing suits. Ted’s highly motivating, yet non-intimidating personality makes fitness approachable for people of ages and commitment levels.
    You can learn more about Ted at http://alphamanproject.com.
    To learn more about and support The Jimmy Ryce Center For Victims Of Predatory Abduction please visit http://www.jimmyryce.org.
    1 hr 20 min
  • 08: Dr. Sapna Samant - Optimizing Your Personal Journey & Individualism
    Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you had gone down a completely different path to what you chose?
    Do you ever look at people who seem to have lived such an outrageous life, that you wonder what goes on in their head, and why they even bother?
    Do you wish you knew how to trust your instincts and live more true to your own expression, and not have to worry so much about what the world around you expects you to do?
    On this episode, my friend from New Zealand, Dr. Sapna Samant, and I talk about our respective journeys away from traditional expectations, and pursuing a life that is a truer expression of ourselves, despite enormous amounts of pressure to confirm to a particular lifestyle or image. We also explore and reflect on ideas of optimizing your personal leadership to handle the seduction of becoming externally validated, and how people fall prey to materialism whilst never really enjoying what they actually achieve and attain.
    Sapna opens up with her wealth of wide ranging experience, from being a practising GP to working in media, arts and journalism as a film-maker, back to a career in medicine. And I open up and share some experiences and insights from my own journey that I've never spoken about with anyone before.
    This is one of most raw, open and honest conversations I've ever had so listen in now!
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    Sapna Samant was born in Bombay, India. After practising as a GP for nine years, she got very bored of it all, moved to New Zealand in 2001, and decided to explore other parts of her brain - leading to a Masters in Film, Television and Media Studies from the University of Auckland.
    Sapna worked as a freelance producer for Radio New Zealand until 2009, produced her own show for Radio Live, produced and directed a documentary film, and produced and wrote a short film, revelling in her love for writing.
    In 2012, with the encouragement of "we need people like you to be doctors", Sapna decided to try her hand at medicine again and sat the three exams required to requalify, clearing them all in her first attempt. She currently works as a GP in Cannons Creek, one of the most diverse, complex and poorest areas in New Zealand.
    "This is my dream job as a doctor, because it is about serving people and not making money. When I worked as a doctor in Bombay it was all about net profit and that was one of the main reasons I was put off the idea of continuing as a doctor."
    Sapna describes herself as a free-spirited soul, a wanderer, a dreamer, a deliberate exile. Blessed with excellent health, high education, a very good brain and abundant energy, she believes her karma then is to transfer all of it to this world for the betterment of humanity; the journey is to harness this force for optimum use while purifying it at the same time. The destination is unknown in spiritual terms but only death can be the end point in this life.
    You can follow Sapna on Twitter at http://twitter.com/drsapna.
    You can visit Sapna's blog at http://drsapna.wordpress.com.
    You can read Sapna's short story published in Ingenio Magazine at http://www.ingenio-magazine.com/upside-down-by-dr-sapna-samant.
    1 hr 24 min

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Dev Singh speaks with amazing entrepreneurs, executives and everyday leaders, to explore a variety of philosophies and strategies for optimising your business, leadership and life.