weMove Podcast

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast 

We have been having many conversations with people as we work out the route forward for the podcast and weMove as a whole. Most we haven’t recorded, but these four seemed right record and put out. In a way they are the types of conversation we have when we are on our travels, following a curiosity but with no real set direction. They are the kind of chat we would have around the kitchen table with a brew. 

In order of release we speak to Rob Wilson, co founder of Art of Breath, chiropractor and master healer Perry Nickelston, friend of weMove and Nurse Paul Jones and to finish the series, music producer and co founder of the band Killing Joke, Martin Glover aka Youth. 

We will be releasing podcasts under our Gear series, where we talk to the creators of brands in the realm of movement, health and wellbeing and then returning in a few weeks with an updated format for new and existing listeners. 

Thanks as always for listening, these conversations are ones that might take a time of reflection for them to filter through and make sense. I know they did and still do for me. 

Enjoy.

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast 

We have been having many conversations with people as we work out the route forward for the podcast and weMove as a whole. Most we haven’t recorded, but these four seemed right record and put out. In a way they are the types of conversation we have when we are on our travels, following a curiosity but with no real set direction. They are the kind of chat we would have around the kitchen table with a brew. 

In order of release we speak to Rob Wilson, co founder of Art of Breath, chiropractor and master healer Perry Nickelston, friend of weMove and Nurse Paul Jones and to finish the series, music producer and co founder of the band Killing Joke, Martin Glover aka Youth. 

We will be releasing podcasts under our Gear series, where we talk to the creators of brands in the realm of movement, health and wellbeing and then returning in a few weeks with an updated format for new and existing listeners. 

Thanks as always for listening, these conversations are ones that might take a time of reflection for them to filter through and make sense. I know they did and still do for me. 

Enjoy.

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast 

We have been having many conversations with people as we work out the route forward for the podcast and weMove as a whole. Most we haven’t recorded, but these four seemed right record and put out. In a way they are the types of conversation we have when we are on our travels, following a curiosity but with no real set direction. They are the kind of chat we would have around the kitchen table with a brew. 

In order of release we speak to Rob Wilson, co founder of Art of Breath, chiropractor and master healer Perry Nickelston, friend of weMove and Nurse Paul Jones and to finish the series, music producer and co founder of the band Killing Joke, Martin Glover aka Youth. 

We will be releasing podcasts under our Gear series, where we talk to the creators of brands in the realm of movement, health and wellbeing and then returning in a few weeks with an updated format for new and existing listeners. 

Thanks as always for listening, these conversations are ones that might take a time of reflection for them to filter through and make sense. I know they did and still do for me. 

Enjoy.

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast 

We have been having many conversations with people as we work out the route forward for the podcast and weMove as a whole. Most we haven’t recorded, but these four seemed right record and put out. In a way they are the types of conversation we have when we are on our travels, following a curiosity but with no real set direction. They are the kind of chat we would have around the kitchen table with a brew. 

In order of release we speak to Rob Wilson, co founder of Art of Breath, chiropractor and master healer Perry Nickelston, friend of weMove and Nurse Paul Jones and to finish the series, music producer and co founder of the band Killing Joke, Martin Glover aka Youth. 

We will be releasing podcasts under our Gear series, where we talk to the creators of brands in the realm of movement, health and wellbeing and then returning in a few weeks with an updated format for new and existing listeners. 

Thanks as always for listening, these conversations are ones that might take a time of reflection for them to filter through and make sense. I know they did and still do for me. 

Enjoy.

Hey there and welcome to the weMove Gear podcast where I talk to brands who have caught our eye by doing something we find interesting or would wear and use. 

These are not gear reviews per se, rather conversations about the journey from the start to the present and onwards. Inspired by my interest in the people behind the brand, because it is their energy that comes through in the product and makes for something special.

And this week I catch up with Asher Clark, Creative Director for Vivo Barefoot who we are no strangers to ourselves. The barefoot revolution seems to be gaining momentum and Vivo are doing good things in this space, as you would expect from the team who literally have shoe making in their genes. The surname Clark is no coincidence here.

Asher knows his game and is super open about what Vivo are trying to do and most interestingly for me anyway is how they see what they make as foot wear rather than shoes. We talk about the elephant in the room of the “ugly shoe” which barefoot brands for sure fall in to and how the brand came to be.

I rate Vivo, Asher, Galahad and the rest of the team who we have had the pleasure of meeting are passionate and driven that alongside being a business, they are bringing something needed to the feet of people around the world.

This was recorded a few weeks ago so the conference we mention is no longer available, but as with the way of the world these days, it will be available online somewhere.

Thanks Asher and the Jonathan at Gung Ho PR for making this possible.

Hey there and welcome to the weMove Gear podcast.

This is a new and I am hoping on-going series where I talk to brands who have caught our eye by doing something we find interesting or would wear and use. 

Gear has always been an area of interest for me, from selecting climbing gear as a youth to starting my own brand back in 2005. And what these conversations are about is the interest I have for the people who start the brands because they think they can do something special. Because for me it is those reasons that people resonate with something. You can feel that energy. 

These are not gear reviews but rather conversations about the journey from the start to the present and onwards.

We kick off our new podcast series on Gear this week with a chat with Seb Beasant, founder of the active wear brand Torsa who feature on our site in a review of the core offering they have. We chat through his start in the industry to what he sees as his and Torsas role in the world of making clothing and the plans for the future.

I have many conversations with people about wanting to start a clothing/apparel brand and few follow through and Seb is not one of them. He’s young, humble, driven and gentle and he is attracting the right people around him to make steps forward in a big ocean full of big fish. I wish him all the best and I trust that you will check out Torsa for yourself or a loved one at Torsa.co.uk

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Hey there, welcome to the weMove podcast.

From day one we believed and still do that movement is perhaps the most important tool for self-discovery and becoming a better version of ourselves.

Whilst this idea is very easily commercialised and the meaning lost in favour of the latest colour of t-shirt. The importance of movement has never gone away.

When you move, you see the world in a different way. When you see the world in a different way, positive internal changes begin to happen. Problems that you had no longer seem to be front and center of your mind, and solutions that you needed somehow appear.

Now when you combine movement with an active pursuit to work through an issue or problem to make sense of it, that can feel like quite a powerful combination.

And that is where we pick up this week's podcast with a chap called William Pullen, a psychotherapist and author who specialises in depression, anxiety, self-confidence and “boarding school syndrome” who uses running as the vehicle for working through blocks, and barriers in life.

We pick up on a few points of interest. 

The often used word ‘resilience’.

How you work through trauma, or the memory of things that have happened to you in the past.

And we talk about place that we both went to from young ages which was boarding school and how it can be it can be an unknowing experience of neglect. 

So whilst this would seem to be a running therapy episode, it highlights a few common themes in our conversations

There's a whole bunch of stuff that we didn't know that happened to us growing up, that we compartmentalize and forget about which can and often does rear its ugly head. As we go through life, affecting not only our lives but also the decisions we make on a day to day basis, and the relationships we have with others,

It highlights the importance of talking about our experiences. Not to get sympathy, but to develop our ability to lead and live a more prosperous life without being affected by negative memories. And that movement and in this case running is quite possibly the best medium to do this with.

And we also touch on the importance of not just talking about the importance of mental health, or that we are suffering from poor mental health. But to foster and encourage an environment of proactively doing something about improving and  strengthening our mental fitness. So that we can move on and live.

So we touch on a few things in this short episode that may well offer a route or path for someone who has something that they are struggling to find a way to resolve.

Also of note is that William is the author of ‘Running with mindfulness’, or ‘Run for your life’ in America. And you can find out more about William on his website. www.williampullenpsychotherapist.com on Twitter @pullentherapy.

What’s it like to go from smoking 60 cigarettes on a night out, to waking up the next day and deciding to make a change and take up running. Something as simple as running round the block can literally move you to change your life and that is where this week’s weMove podcast goes. We talk to Simon Freeman, co-founder of running publication Like The Wind magazine. Having met Simon a few years ago, through a shared interest in printed magazines with weMove and Like the Wind we knew him to be a runner but I never really asked him why he ran, and even his where his passion for running came from, we would simply shoot the breeze and put the world to rights. 
And it's one of those stories that could easily be applied to anyone who is looking for a change or a re routing of there current life path. Simon is a regular guy who made a couple of decisions based on his life and channelled that energy into something more positive unintentionally taking him on a journey that would see him finish in the top 100 at the London Marathon. No mean feat. 
Before running Simon was working in London, working long hours in a corporate job, he was no doubt, very good at. But by the sounds of it, not particularly enjoying it, or the life that he had created as a result. 
And it was after a night out in London that he woke up, and wondered what had happened to the 60 cigarettes he had bought at the start of that night out. 
Now the idea of smoking and waking up, seems like an impossibility. I can't even imagine how he must have felt waking after that night out, but it motivated him to do something different, so he ran. Perhaps it was an inner knowing that he wanted/needed to make a change, or a curiosity if he could make a change and see what was on the other side. 
What started as a run round the block, gassed out at the end, lead on to a bit of a personal inquiry into what's next, what is possible, which led to running a marathon, in a respectable time of three hours, 37 minutes for someone who had a few years previously smoked and by his own admission been pretty unhealthy. 
This continued leading him to the London Marathon top 100 and taking a full hour off his time finishing in 2h37m07s. 
Now the time is an irrelevance but does show Simon’s dedication, tenacity, and ability to double down and experience just what he is capable of, leading him to a new life with a successful creative business with Like the Wind, a print publication sharing the joys of running. It’s a lovely read and really captures the personal experiences of the power of running.
Our interest lies in the journey and process he went on. How he changed his world and lifestyle by taking up running and then evolving from using running as a punishment to avoid self-loathing into running being expressive, playful, and ultimately being in a happy place. 
How anyone chooses to move is personal to them and it is not our interest so much. Running was and is Simon's vehicle or movement for expressing himself. what we think matters is how we integrate the feelings that we have when we are moving. The expression, the playing, and ultimately being in a happy curious place into our daily lives, so we can understand the feeling. So when it happens again in our life we are better equipped to recognize those feelings. And when we need to dig in and be resilient, then we can. 
It’s a great story of what can be done, we really enjoyed it. So thank you, Simon. And for anyone else who has enjoyed it or thinks this might be an incentive for someone that they know, do share. And if you feel inclined to support us with a donation. There is a link on our website at weMove.world, or the link in our Instagram bio, where you can send us a metaphorical coffee, and it's very much appreciated, so thank you for that, sign up to our newsletter also at weMove.world. 
And thank you very much for listening.

Hey there and welcome to the we move podcast.

This week we are catching up with Carl Paoli, who was the first person we had lined up to see when we started weMove. For those of you who haven’t heard of Carl, I heard of Carl as a result of his bestselling book Freestyle Connection, What I then found out was that he was coaching gymnastics movements to various action sports athletes and also at the time some of the fittest people on the planet in the CrossFit realm. So he came with a professional pedigree that interested me back in 2015/16 when I was exploring movement over sport.

So Chris and I met with Carl in San Francisco that began the start of a connection as we were unknowingly on a similar trajectory for challenging what we had become for we can be.

Carle was definitely experiencing, and explaining movement in that way. To move by feel, to understand the foundations, and when, when you understand the foundations, you can go and explore for yourself, and that makes the movement the practice whatever you're doing so much richer.

Last year I noticed a turning down of the volume on social media, as many of us did. And I was curious to speak to him then but it didn’t feel the right time so we just let him do his thing. And then this year he posted a few posts that caught my eye and he was talking about this idea of what's beyond the training, why are we training, why are we moving.

And that's very much, where Chris and I are with our thoughts, films and directions of conversation so it felt like it could be an interesting conversation to hear his story and perspective of the last year, and moving away from the very things that lit him up in the first place. The movement itself, instead of the nice to have benefits of; success and acclaim.

He is always very eloquent in what he's going through, very open and incredibly sincere. And I think that there are some points made that might be would be interesting for people who are questioning where they fit in the world at a moment and how to ignite the spark for movement and training.

This is not how to guide, or a telling of anyone that they should do a certain thing. Rather, this is a personal account of Carls experience. Rediscovering His love of movement, and the power and stability of a dedicated daily practice.

Carl has always been a very vocal about how the body is our way of experiencing the world around us. And as he says, our bodies are the instrument we use to interface with the external world. So when your instrument i.e. your body is clean and clear (your own definition) how you experience the world around you changes.

That's what I take from this conversation anyway

Enjoy the podcast

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Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast.

Breaking up our, loose theme on Shadow Work, masculinity, and self-improvement. Chris and I wanted to speak to someone who's within our circle, and is a nutritional therapist, and that's Grace Kingswell.

We've known Grace for a while. But what made this podcast timely, was her calling out of Oatly the non-dairy milk brand in particular their ‘Barista version’ for it’s use of ingredients which are known to compromise health and vitality, whilst being marketed as a positive health choice.

So we wanted to speak to Grace about this because she has and is positively vocal about this new trend for industrially produced non dairy drinks and her comments were triggering a lot of people about how to eat, what to eat and why to eat.

I feel she's got some super, valid points. Chris and I are not nutritionists, or nutritional therapists, but we are our own nutritional experiments of one who have discovered without doubt, that a return to simplicity in what we eat, how we live, how we think combined with a return to nature, which, by its very means is a return to simplicity has incredible benefits for our health, our performance, our mind, our everything.

It was about a year ago, that in conversation I said to someone “I think non dairy milks are a health disaster waiting to happen”. Saying this not from having the professional knowledge Grace has, rather a deep human understanding that processing of foods and drinks disconnects us from supporting optimal body health.

Because you need to know what's in your food, and you need to know the sources of where those ingredients and foods come from, and you need to know what those things really are that you think are healthy because you have been told by a marketing team that it is healthy.

And with that in mind and for this very reason it has been really interesting to watch the growth of the dairy backlash which I will call the industrialised dairy production process and see all these non dairy milk alternatives come out, which, more often than not, are laced with a load of other things that you don't need in your diet, and which Grace pointed out, have negative benefits for your health.

We also bring up one of our key books in the weMove library Nourishing Fats by Sally Fallon chairwoman of the Weston A Price foundation and also the work of Weston A Price himself who promote the return to minimally processed natural, seasonal, local food source diets in order to support the optimal functioning of our human bodies of which we will be exploring further in our food and farming series later this year.

This Weston A Price idea is massively in favour of unpasteurised dairy, animal fats and eating food that is grown in your country or residence (calling out avocado eating, coconut water drinking English residents, not so indigenous a diet really)

I'm a big dairy fan. I'm a big real, raw, unpasteurized dairy fan, have been for a while, and whether it's in my constitution or I have been lucky it suits me very well. No mucus build up, no allergic responses, nothing other than positive effects and energy, and the people that I know who also have experimented with raw, unpasteurized dairy milk from grass fed grass finished ideally biodynamic cattle, who are antibiotic free who are reared free from modern world industrial pharmaceutical intervention. Have had the same response.

Its important to add this podcast is not a raw dairy propaganda, but it does approach a conversation that we believe is becoming overlooked. Whether you chose to consume at the polarities of diet i.e. veganism or carnivorism, or settle somewhere in between or eat according to feel and connection. Culture and marketing is pushing an idea that plays on emotional beliefs whilst ignor