Ostrolenk speaks with Chris Jones, owner of Synergy Float Center, www.synergyfloatcenter.com. Following his 26 years of military service, Jones discovered the value of holistic healing to combat PTSD while in Peru. Floating was recommended to Jones, and after trying it when back in the United States, he found it led to numerous personal health benefits. Jones decided to open his own Float Center, a business plan he developed while also earning his MBA. Jones now operates the Synergy Float Center in Alexandria, VA. He also started and runs a non-profit, National Float It Forward Association (www.nfifa.org). To learn more about Chris Jones and his work, visit www.synergyfloatcenter.com, and check out his advisory business, Stay Salty Consulting, at synergyfloatcenter.com/interested-in-opening-a-float-center/.

Today's show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: https://www.cosperscafidi.com/

Ostrolenk speaks with Jim Turner, President of the National Institute for Science, Law, and Public Policy and a lawyer who has worked on health and food freedom issues. Turner offers that most arguments are bifurcated, leaving little room for agreement. Rather, issues should be seen through the transpartisan matix, which categorizes opinions both on their left-right nature and on their freedom-order nature. Turner presents how one might approach fundamental disagreements around food, technology, and vaccines through this lenses. Turner also discusses how many policy decisions concerning how society is going to run are made by an individual special interest within that society, and the negative impacts that this has.

To learn more about Jim Turner and his work, visit citizens.org and transpartisanreview.org.

Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: https://www.cosperscafidi.com/.

Ostrolenk and Gary Collins, host of Your Better Life podcast (https://www.thesimplelifenow.com/category/ybl-podcast/) and TheSimpleLifeNow.com, speak with Abel James, the Fat Burning Man (https://fatburningman.com/). James discusses his journey through the world of health and nutrition, including lessons learned and how the scene has evolved over time. Having observed some players stay true to their goals and others sell out, Ostrolenk, Collins, and James reflect on the positives and negatives of the ongoing work in the health and nutrition sector. James concludes with his thoughts on how ancestral principles have influenced his path and the importance of authenticity in work that ultimately impacts peoples’ health. To learn more about Abel James, visit his website The Fat Burning Man (https://fatburningman.com/) and check out his new book Designer Babies Still Get Scabies (https://www.amazon.com/Designer-Babies-Still-Get-Scabies/dp/1099353092).

Ostrolenk speaks with Gary Collins, whose unique background in military Intelligence, the US Diplomatic Security Service, Department of HHS, and FDA, bring a multidisciplinary approach to his work on health and financial freedom. Collin details the ways that people unconscious spend money, and how money is an answer to freedom. Gary discusses how in various aspects of our lives we spent money due to social pressure and consumer based values. Collin also describes how you can eat healthy for roughly a third of the cost of eating out, and how health, finances, and freedom are intertwined. Gary is the creator of The Simple Life website (https://www.thesimplelifenow.com/) and best selling books series (https://www.amazon.com/Gary-Collins/e/B009MSJDD6?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1581862430&sr=8-2).

To learn more about Collins' work, read his newest book The Simple Life Guide To Financial Freedom: Free Yourself from the Chains of Debt and Find Financial Peace and visit his website The Simple Life (https://www.thesimplelifenow.com/).

Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit https://www.cosperscafidi.com.

Ostrolenk speaks with Retired SGT. Jonathan Lubecky, a disabled Combat Veteran who served in Iraq from 2005-2006 and as a US Marine from 1995-1999. SGT. Lubecky suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a mortar impacted near him in Iraq in early 2006, and developed PTSD that exasperated the effects of his TBI. Although attesting that the US Army’s recognition and treatment of TBI and PTSD has improved over the past decade, SGT. Lubecky struggled to find adequate treatment. After five unsuccessful attempts to take his own lift, SGT. Lubecky discovered a clinical trial in MDMA, which led to significant benefits and healing. SGT. Lubecky details his experience in psychedelic psychotherapy and the ways in which he believes it could shift the mental health paradigm.

Ostrolenk speaks with Chris and Holly Santillo of Five Backpacks Family (https://fivebackpacks.family/). Nearly a year ago, Chris and Holly sold most of their worldly possessions and took themselves and their three children on a journey across the US and Asia. Holly and Chris tell their tales of their travels, from visiting friends in the States, to following the silk road and walking across the border from China to Kyrgyzstan, training in the Shaolin Temple in China, and collaborating with an English school in Russia. Chris and Holly highlight the value they found in exploring local areas in each country and investing in the culture.

The Five Backpacks Family will soon set off again, this time traveling to Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand, after which they will plan their next journey.

To learn more about Chris and Holly and their family’s travels, visit their website (https://fivebackpacks.family/).

Ostrolenk speaks with Jeff Grant, Coach, Ultra Endurance Athlete, and author of several books on mind training and running. Grant discusses how he transitioned from a corporate lifestyle to coaching athletes to finish some of the toughest events on the planet, including desert and mountain ultra-marathons, Ironman Triathlons, SEALFIT Kokoro and long-distance open water swims. Grant also details his own experience with nutrition, weight, internal work, and teaching across the globe.

To learn more about Jeff Grant and his work, visit his website (Hillseeker.com) and follow him on Instagram (@Hillseeker). Also check out Grant’s books Hill Running: Survive and Thrive (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/395246676X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0) and Flow State Runner Activate a Powerful Inner Coach's Voice(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3952466700/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1), and be on the lookout for upcoming publications.

Today’s show is brought to you by Resilience Parenting (https://fivebackpacks.family/).

Ostrolenk speaks with Erwan Le Corre, founder of MovNat, a forward-thinking approach to fitness that educates people to physical capability for the real-world. Natural movement is a philosophy, practice, and lifestyle based on humanity’s ancestral roots. Le Corre discusses his pathway to developing MovNat, including the skills encouraged of him in childhood and his early resistance to conventional systems. Le Corre also details the differences between gym-based training and real-world training that teaches the whole body how to operate in its physical surroundings. Le Corre and his international team of instructors hold training workshops around the world, where participants rediscover, practice and master the movement skills of their nature-dwellling ancestors.

To learn more about his work and become certified visit his website https://www.movnat.com/. Online training is also available. And read his book "The Practice of Natural Movement." https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Natural-Movement-Reclaim-Freedom/dp/162860283X/ref=asc_df_162860283X/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=270645996404&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6556103316151703395&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007541&hvtargid=aud-829758849484:pla-549422445978&psc=1

Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, a rolfer and body worker https://www.cosperscafidi.com/.

Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Stuart Sovatsky, a marriage-family therapist for 44 years and author of Advanced Spiritual Intimacy (https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Spiritual-Intimacy-Tantric-Sensuality/dp/1620552647), Words From the Soul (https://www.amazon.com/Words-Soul-Spirituality-Psychotherapeutic-Transpersonal/dp/079143950X), and Your Perfect Lips (https://www.amazon.com/Your-Perfect-Lips-Spiritual-Erotic-Memoir/dp/0595375871). Their conversation arises from Dr. Sovatsky’s commentary on the strengths and weaknesses of the psychiatric-medicalization of life's challenges which risks missing the full picture of their aliments and potential. Dr. Sovatsky discusses the maturation of character that comes by meaningful engagement with the stress and struggles in life, but not to over-focus on these events in the healing process. Rather, progress can be made through highlighting the client’s continued efforts, week by week, and focusing on positive events, compassion, and the bestowing meaningful admiration, not merely “mirroring” the client’s experience.

To learn more about Dr. Sovatsky and his work, find him on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/stuart.sovatsky.

Today’s show is sponsored by Synergy Float Center (https://synergyfloatcenter.com/).

Ostrolenk speaks with Joan Davis, a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, a Hakomi Sensorimotor Trauma Psychotherapist, and author of Origins: a body-based approach to developmental evolutionary process from preconception to standing. Davis describes her own background and what life experiences drove her engagement in self-exploration; she further details how she learned and practices body-mind centering, Hakomi, authentic movement, and pre and perinatal training. Davis details some of the content of the 9 spirals of her book Origins. To learn more about Joan Davis and her work, visit her website at https://www.gorsehill.net/books/origins/.

Today’s show is brought to you by Somatic Psychotherapy Today: https://www.somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/.