The Ronan Levy Podcast

Jayson Gaignard is the Founder and Head Curator of MMT (MastermindTalks), one of the world’s most exclusive communities for entrepreneurs.

The invite-only MMT community has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard University and brings together brilliant minds from various industries for networking, targeted troubleshooting, and community building.

Jayson’s work has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Life Hacker, Business Insider, and as part of Tim Ferriss' New York Times bestseller Tools of Titans but I really brought him on to have an excuse to go deeper with my close friend and learn more about his origin story and values.

What makes for a great event? How do we find our tribe? What does it all mean in the big scheme of things anyway?

I finally got in all the questions I’ve always wanted to ask and remembered that Jayson is one of my favorite people on the planet and my life is infinitely richer for his presence in it.

Whether you are a big hockey fan or not at all, I thought the beginning of the NHL season was a good excuse to invite strength & conditioning coach Andy O’Brien on the show.

He’s worked with some of the world’s biggest athletes and I wanted to ask him about how sports are changing and what lessons us non-athletes can take away from hockey players around team building and resilience.

For more than 25 years the athletes have turned to Andy for sports nutrition, rehabilitation, injury management, and the unique mental health struggles they face.

This year we started working together on Cwench Hydration where he is the Chief Performance Officer.

This podcast is brought to you by Cizzle Brands, a company that I helped start whose mission is to elevate the game in health and wellness by replacing all of the unhealthy sugary and fattening foods in our cupboards with healthy nutritious alternatives.

Our first product is Cwench Hydration which has been formulated to be the world’s healthiest and best made hydration drink.

For a 20% off coupon code visit CwenchHydration.com and enter LEVY20 at checkout.

Pilar Gerasimo is a health journalist, podcaster, and the author of The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World.

In today’s society where such a small percentage of people are truly happy and healthy, Pilar says we have to take it upon ourselves to buck a lot of society’s norms and reject a lot of conventional health prescriptions to find our own sense of balance and wellness.

When I started thinking about it, rule-breaking really is one of the most prominent traits that every single guest on this podcast shares, whether it comes to health, business, music, or spirituality.

If you feel like you might be a fellow Healthy Deviant like us take Pilar’s quiz and sign up for her email list at https://healthydeviant.com/quiz

This podcast is brought to you by Cizzle Brands, a company that I helped start whose mission is to elevate the game in health and wellness by replacing all of the unhealthy sugary and fattening foods in our cupboards with healthy nutritious alternatives.

Our first product is Cwench Hydration which has been formulated to be the world’s healthiest and best made hydration drink.

For a 20% off coupon code visit CwenchHydration.com and enter LEVY20 at checkout.

In 1968 a young Canadian filmmaker named Paul Saltzman was seeking solace in transcendental meditation for a broken heart and was befriended by The Beatles in Rishikesh, India during their immersive study with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. 

2020 saw the release of his documentary, Meeting The Beatles In India - a film that brings together others who were there for this pivotal moment in music history.

As amazing as his experience in India with The Beatles may have been, it is by no means the only incredible story from his fascinating life and career. In this podcast we talk about what we can learn from the virtues of the 60s hippie movement, our understanding of consciousness, and the power of love for our fellow humans.

This podcast is brought to you by Cizzle Brands, a company that I helped start whose mission is to elevate the game in health and wellness by replacing all of the unhealthy sugary and fattening foods in our cupboards with healthy nutritious alternatives.

Our first product is Cwench Hydration which has been formulated to be the world’s healthiest and best made hydration drink.

For a 20% off coupon code visit CwenchHydration.com and enter LEVY20 at checkout.

Raghunath Cappo (@raghunathyogi) is the punk who became a monk.

A teen in search of meaning, Ray Cappo fled his suburban Connecticut enclave for New York City—and found community among the misfits of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. He fell in love with punk rock, so he started a band and a record label. By the late 1980’s, Youth of Today had thousands of fans, cementing Ray as a leading voice and trendsetter at the bullseye of hardcore culture.

However, a growing existential itch led Ray to call it quits. At just 22, he walked away from his band and label and decamped for India—a spiritual pilgrimage that led him to the holy village of Vrindavan where he would become Raghunath.

Ultimately Raghunath returned to the States. Now married with 5 kids, he leads spiritual quests throughout India, teaches yoga training in upstate New York at his Supersoul Yoga and Farm. 

This is the incredible story of a modern day yogi who has a lot of wisdom to share around how we can improve our lives through connection and service.

This podcast is brought to you by Cizzle Brands, a company that I helped start whose mission is to elevate the game in health and wellness by replacing all of the unhealthy sugary and fattening foods in our cupboards with healthy nutritious alternatives.

Our first product is Cwench Hydration which has been formulated to be the world’s healthiest and best made hydration drink.

For a 20% off coupon code visit CwenchHydration.com and enter LEVY20 at checkout.

Mike Brcic is an entrepreneur, adventurer, writer, and family man in Toronto with a penchant for world travel.

After selling his company Sacred Rides in 2019 (the AirBNB of adventure mountain biking) 

He went into a deep existential search for meaning and a journey to find new practices that would raise his consciousness and self awareness.

Today he runs Wayfinders, where he works with impact-driven entrepreneurs through courses, workshops, consulting, and of course, travel adventures.

In this podcast we talk all about connection. Connection to the self, the planet, other human beings, and the great mystery that is life.

This podcast is brought to you by Cizzle Brands, a company that I helped start whose mission is to elevate the game in health and wellness by replacing all of the unhealthy sugary and fattening foods in our cupboards with healthy nutritious alternatives.

Our first product is Cwench Hydration which has been formulated to be the world’s healthiest and best made hydration drink.

For a 20% off coupon code visit CwenchHydration.com and enter LEVY20 at checkout.

Dr. Jack Feldman @jacklfeldman is a neuroscientist, the David Geffen School Chair in Neuroscience, and a Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at The University of California Los Angeles.

If you are a fan of Andrew Huberman and the “physiological sigh” you can thank Jack’s research for making that a thing.

We’ve never really explored breathing in depth on this podcast but if you do a little bit of digging you’ll see that our breath is one of the most powerful tools we have for changing our state of mind.

In fact, my biggest psychedelic experience so far involved zero substances but only my breath. So I brought Dr. Jack Feldman on to discuss everything we need to know about breathing and the brain for our mental and physical health.

This podcast is brought to you by Cizzle Brands, a company that I helped start whose mission is to elevate the game in health and wellness by replacing all of the unhealthy sugary and fattening foods in our cupboards with healthy nutritious alternatives.

Our first product is Cwench Hydration which has been formulated to be the world’s healthiest and best made hydration drink.

For a 20% off coupon code visit CwenchHydration.com and enter LEVY20 at checkout.

Ben “Doc” Askins, PhD (Hon.) has an eclectic background with degrees in Outdoor Education, Intercultural Studies, Physician Assistant Studies, and Divinity. 

I wanted to bring him back on the podcast after his last visit was an audience favorite so he could share his ideas on how to live a good, long life.

Doc has nearly two decades of experience practicing and teaching wilderness, tactical, and expeditionary medicine in the military.

In civilian life, he is a Psychiatric Physician Assistant with an evidence-focused and integrative approach to mental health that includes extensive experience providing ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, medicine management, and spiritual direction. He is certified with the Multidisciplinary Association on Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. 

This podcast is brought to you by Cizzle Brands, a company that I helped start whose mission is to elevate the game in health and wellness by replacing all of the unhealthy sugary and fattening foods in our cupboards with healthy nutritious alternatives.

Our first product is Cwench Hydration which has been formulated to be the world’s healthiest and best made hydration drink.

For a 20% off coupon code visit CwenchHydration.com and enter LEVY20 at checkout.

Dr. Jordan Shallow aka The Muscle Doc (@the_muscle_doc) is a chiropractor, strength and conditioning coach, powerlifter, and founder of Pre-Script and RX’D RADIO.

Jordan works with teams, companies, and individuals on biomechanics, sports performances and injury risk management.

In this episode we discuss the role of intuition and feeling in fitness, the dangers in putting too much faith into scientism as a belief system, and what evidence-based living really means.

This podcast is brought to you by Cizzle Brands, a company that I helped start, whose mission is to elevate the game in health and wellness by replacing all of the unhealthy sugary and fattening foods in our cupboards with healthy nutritious alternatives.

Our first product is Cwench Hydration which has been formulated to be the world’s healthiest and best made hydration drink.

For a 20% off coupon code visit CwenchHydration.com and enter LEVY20 at checkout.

Laura Gassner Otting is an executive coach, speaker, and best-selling author who inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo by helping people think bigger and accept greater challenges.

She is the author of three books, including Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn’t Feel Like It Should… and What to Do About It, Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life, and Mission-Drive: Moving from Profit to Purpose.

I brought her on the podcast to discuss how we define success as so many of us are taught at a young age that happiness will come from achievement only to realize that perhaps there is more to life.

We discuss her early political career, best practices for hiring and making yourself attractive to talent scouts, the state of the self-help industry, and what it looks like to change paths.

This podcast is brought to you by Cizzle Brands, a company that I helped start, whose mission is to elevate the game in health and wellness by replacing all of the unhealthy sugary and fattening foods in our cupboards with healthy nutritious alternatives.

Our first product is Cwench Hydration which has been formulated to be the world’s healthiest and best made hydration drink.

For a 20% Off coupon code visit CwenchHydration.com and enter LEVY20 at checkout.

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