The Zen Meathead

"If the core of your foundation is in disrepair, it's hard to be your best intellectual self."

In today's episode, fitness and Sarah's success story takes the front row with the assistance of our guest Dean. Fitness is a core driver for our daily lives. Finding the motivation, navigating gym culture and social media can be a taxing endeavour.

Mental fortitude can be as much of a challenge as running that extra mile and making a change.

Today, Chris is talking with his wife Sarah and fitness trainer, Dean from The Pro Club. Sarah shares her amazing success story. She talks about her physical change and hard work; the perseverance that was required to succeed. Dean is along for the ride with 24 years of professional fitness experience, a plethora of wisdom and of course fitness advice.

The Pro Club Gym - Bellevue Washington https://www.proclub.com/club

"Anything you're not changing, you're choosing."

"Tectonic shifts in my consciousness…My ideas about how the world and the universe work were breaking apart...they were doing that because they don't work…a release from this prison in my own mind."

In todays episode we explore psychedelics as medicine. It's too easy to accumulate notions of yourself and the world that don't serve you and that can even make you sick and it takes a guided journey to uncover these things in your conscious and subconscious mind. Psychonautics is the use of entheogen plant medicine and other psychedelics as guides to navigate the depths of your heart and mind with the aim of initiating transformation. For many it is a spiritual experience that opens a person to the less tangible aspects of being human.

Today Chris is talking to Ben. Ben is more than equipped to give us great insight into the world of psychonautics, its benefits and how to navigate this path safely. They discuss, spirituality and psychology, intuition, healing, the entheogens; Kambo (frog poison), Ayahuasca, Sananga, and psilocybin, as well as MDMA.

Ben has established a Church Of Daime with his wife, where they combine the plant medicine, Ayahuasca, with Christian song and prayer. As an extension to his spiritual work, and inspired by the work of the Mankind Project, Ben has created a six month program to help guide men through powerful transformation, to push past boundaries and build trust using men's work principles and entheogens.

Resources:

Movie: Heal on Amazon

Movie: How To Change Your Mind on Netflix

The Mankind Project

Men's work with Tony Rezac

Today we chat with fellow men's group worker, published author, motivational speaker and body worker Tony Rezac. You'll be hard pressed to find another individual with more passion around helping elevate the frequency of men in todays society! In the late 80s, it was becoming clear that men, especially young men, weren't showing up in the world the way that men traditionally would. There was no defining moment where a boy was made to acknowledge the end of his childhood and the beginning of his manhood and the responsibilities that come with it. Instead, men could spend decades being dragged around by their emotions, hurting themselves and their families and even their communities. The mankind project was formed to address this by creating powerful opportunities for men and boys to cross the threshold into a more mature masculinity.

Tony hosts his own podcast show called Basecamp For Men, where he and his guests talk about healthy masculinity, consciousness and myth, extraterrestrials, and deep discussions on some of the narratives out there that are shaping, or trying to shape our future, for better or worse.

https://www.basecampformen.com

Also mentioned:

Joseph Campbell https://www.jcf.org/about-joseph-campbell/

Mankind Project https://mankindproject.org

Sacred Sons https://www.sacredsons.com

Iron John by Robert Bly: https://www.amazon.com/Iron-John-Book-About-Men/dp/0306813769

Fire In The Belly by Sam Keen: https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Belly-Being-Sam-Keen/dp/0553351370

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The conversation and the original music in this episode is a journey that will probably change your world view. Dwaine Casmey has been 'there and back again', more than once, and the fact that he's here today to tell us the story, all laid back and in good humour, is testament to the incredible resilience of the human spirit. The details are in the conversation but what stands out is Dwaine's resolve to believe in himself, despite every opportunity to give up hope. Dwaine has proven to us all that people can truly change. It starts in your mind. If you want change, believe it can happen and only choose the thoughts that will get you there.

Dwaine has written his autobiography called Roller Coaster Hill. You can find it on Amazon.

"Running into imposter syndrome and overcoming that thing will make you so much more competent."

"We're more tormented by the things we didn't try that we really wanted to, than the things that we tried that we didn't like."

As the leader of Microsoft's Insider Program, author of 8 or 9 books (she's not sure), and creator and designer of the Prima Dona fashion line (#DoTheThing), Dona Sarkar doesn't seem like she's ever experienced the imposter syndrome. But she's here to share how she started as an imposter in all three of her careers and it was through that process that she found the mindset she needed to manifest her reality.

Some of Dona's coaching includes:

• The 'try five times' rule.
• Graduate instead of quit.
• Be your own best cheerleader.
• Stagger your success.
• Your jealousy probably isn't justified.
• Follow your curiosity and don't scared to experiment.

Dona is the leader of Microsoft's Insider program, where millions of Windows enthusiasts preview and give feedback to Microsoft engineers, shaping future releases. Through her curiosity and experimentation, she discovered a unique entrepreneurial opportunity that created 1000 jobs in Kenya and 800 in Lagos with Microsoft offices being built in both locations.

For. More information about Dona at Microsoft, go to https://news.microsoft.com/stories/people/dona-sarkar.html.

And to learn more about Dona the author, entrepreneur, and fashion designer, go to https://donasarkar.com, https://primadonastudios.com, https://donasarkar.com/my-books.

This inaugural episode establishes The Zen Meathead podcast as a veritable source of lively, unscripted, grounded and mind-opening conversations that will bridge the gap and demystify the broad spectrum of spirituality for the average person.

Your host, Chris Beatie, is joined by his wife, Sarah Beatie, his longtime friend, and today's special guest; Chris's very own spiritual coach, Eric Fernandez. They dive deep into Chris's own process of going from meathead to spiritual warrior and the impact that's had on Chris's marriage and family life.

We touch on yoga, energy work, balance, cultivation, intuition, astrology, controlling emotions and thoughts for optimal living, relationship alchemy and the power of the masculine/feminine relationship, among many other topics that can help you find your way toward your own true fulfillment.