Life Athletes, hello and welcome to episode 68 of the Life Athletics Podcast. Today’s guest Life Athlete is Laura Thomas. Laura a digital nomad who has dedicated her life to free people from two of her past addictions: Sugar and the traditional path. Her website http://happysugarhabits.com will assist you in reframing your relationship with Sugar and her role as the head of Tribe Wanted Bali assists entrepreneurs in living and working on their terms.
Episode 67: Penny Livingston -Regenerative Agriculture, Permaculture, and Life
Name: Penny Livingston Life Athletes, hello and welcome to episode 67 of the Life Athletics Podcast. Today’s guest Life Athlete is Penny Livingston. Penny is a regenerative agriculture and permaculture specialist. She has focussed her life on how we can we design a more resilient future. Penny was in Bali to work with Maria and Orin at the Kul Kul Farm next to Green School. Habit of Thought:
“If something comes along that is stressful one of the first things I ask is ‘is it worth it to my nervous system to deal with this?’”
Habit of Action: “Starting out the day with some kind of gratitude.”
Greatest area of strength: I’m a good storyteller. I make beautiful gardens. I’m good at working with the plants. I’m good at bringing the hidden forward. I’m good at seeing the microcosm and macrocosm. I’m a good medicine woman. I’m good at trusting my intuition. I’m a good teacher.
Training for this area:
To trust the intuitive is to surf the edge of the least familiar. Where you feel like you have no ground to walk on that you can rely upon.
Book:
The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles - Bruce H. Lipton
The Fifth Sacred Thing - Starhawk Web Resource:
http://www.regenerativedesign.org
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Episode 66: Steve Munroe - CEO and Cofounder of Turnpoint and Cofounder of Hubud
Name: Steve Munroe Life Athletes, hello and welcome to episode 66 of the Life Athletics Podcast. Today’s guest Life Athlete is Steve Munroe. Steve is the co founder and CEO of Turnpoint and a cofounder of Hubud, a co-working hub in Ubud Bali. He left a career at the UN for a life on his own terms. He advocates putting more life into your work and doing so with a bit of flair and a bit of fun. A good life. A really, really, good life.
Habit of Thought:
Getting my ego out of the way using mantras
ex:you will not mine
Habit of Action: The Stephen reeducation campaign
Things like brushing and not forgetting to floss. I have a sign that says “don’t forget to floss.”
Greatest area of strength:
I’m very good at making people feel good about themselves. Training for this area:
Honing the ability to look someone in the eye.
Book:
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl Web Resource:
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Episode 65: Gabriela Andreevska - Volunteer Coordinator / Activist
Name: Gabriela Andreevska Hello and welcome to episode 65 of the Life Athletics Podcast. Today’s Guest Life Athlete is Gabriela Andreevska. Gabriela is a volunteer coordinator, assisting with refugees crossing through Macedonia. She is also an activist, fiercely opposed to old rules that dehumanize and justify the brutal treatment of those in need by those in power. I saw a video of her on Facebook and I decided to reach out. She graciously took time, found a cafe with wi-fi and spoke to me about her role in these current events.
Habit of Thought:
To stay optimistic, no matter what. Habit of Action:
Greet, welcome, hug, and maybe even kiss, the refugees.
Greatest area of strength: “People say that I’m a good listener.”
Training for this area:
“I would try to put them in these kinds of situations, crisis situations and try to develop empathy in them.”
Book: Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Peter Harry Kropotkin Web Resource:
"Help the Refugees in Macedonia:
NGOs - 1) LEGIS (nvo_legis@yahoo.com), deals with humanitarian relief, lobbying
2) Leftist Solidarity Movement (ld.solidarnost@gmail.com), focus on pro-refugee campaigns, protests, marches of solidairty, lobbying
Here's how people could get involved: https://www.facebook.com/
In solidarity beyond borders,
Gabriela"
Contact: Face Book
Episode 64: Steffen Stäuber - Creating Meaning in Business
Name: Steffan Stauber
Steffan is a marketing whiz who escaped the traditional road and opted for the path less travelled. He is traveling the world in an effort to create meaning inside of the businesses he works with and you can follow his journey on the appropriately named website: www.createmeaning.com
“A business is the personification of the people”
Habit of Thought:
“I’m very, very visual so I like to create a picture of the desired outcome.”
Habit of Action:
“I start and end my day with the most important task at hand.”
Greatest area of strength: Having ideas and a clear idea of what this emerging future might look like and then I’m very motivating.
Training for this area:
I think you need to reconnect with your inner self and get the pictures out. Allow yourself to have the ideas that you might not think are possible to achieve.
Book:
Theory U: Learning from the Future as It Emerges - C. Otto Scharmer
Web Resource:
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Episode 63: Janelle Jones - Queen of the Side Hustle
Name: Janelle JonesJanelle is the owner of a tutoring company in Atlanta Georgia but that is just the tip of the iceberg. She has more going on than most people. She’s the “Side Hustle Queen” of the “Hustling Hotties”. She helps women and men build up side hustles. Businesses they can build that allow them to make the extra money that can make the difference in the modern world.
Habit of Thought:
“I keep a positive mental attitude.”
Bonus action from Janelle: Be very selective with the people you surround yourself with. Have them be people who lift you up and don’t pull you down.
Habit of Action:
Keep lists.
Greatest area of strength: I’m able to help with so many areas of life. I’m a resource. “People call me google”.
Training for this area:
I would suggest coursera.com
Book:
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere - Timothy Ferriss Web Resource:
Contact:
Episode 62: Claudia Eslahpazir - Cause an Effekt
Name: Claudia Eslahpazir Today’s guest Life Athlete is Claudia Eslahpazir. Claudia is a marketer whose passion is to help smart, and driven entrepreneurs catapult their businesses to success She’s on a quest to demystify, simplify and empower by bringing focus on what to do next. She left the hustle and bustle of New York but stays busy in Bali. She apparently also likes to sing off-colour songs at Karaoke.
Habit of Thought:
Asking, “How can things be: new, better, or different?”
Habit of Action:
“I’ve moved from living a life of get up with the alarm, get ready, go to work, dive into action, you’ve got to be ready for action from the moment you wake up; to more of a slow, gentle, lazy, entre into the world, that has allowed me the space to be more creative.
Greatest area of strength: Being able to look at a situation holistically.
Training for this area:
It’s really an investigation. It’s like solving a mystery. There always is an answer but you sometimes have to dig for it.
Book:
Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World - Lama Surya Das
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill - Matthieu Ricard
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Episode 61: Talayna Fortunato - One of the Fittest Women on the Planet
Name: Talayna Fortunato Today’s guest Life Athlete is Talayna Fortunato. Talayna is one of the fittest women on the planet and one of the chillest. Here we sat down during a rare spare moment at Ninja Camp in Bali to talk about life and training while a palm tree smacked the roof. I had the opportunity to do workouts that she put together and led and I also got to
Habit of Thought:
“I just try to be productive. I plan my days out well. I try to get everything done that I need to get done.”
Nik’s take: “You’re pretty chill”
Habit of Action:
“I always have an agenda. I always have a plan of what I have to get done. I plan my social life around that. First it’s my work and then my workout and then everything else comes around that.“
Greatest area of strength: “Maybe being chill, like you said”
Training for this area:
“I ask people, why is that a big deal? Why do you want that? and then you make a plan and do the plan every day... I don’t know why some things bother people more than others. I just let things go.”
Quotation:
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.
I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
I run to see who has the most guts.”
Steve Prefontaine
“How you do anything is how you do everything.”
Book:
The Secret - Rhonda Byrne Web Resource:
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Episode 60: Josh Davies
Name: Josh Davies Today’s guest Life Athlete is Josh Davies. Josh is a World renown chef, hospitality consultant, sommelier, adventure, father, husband, joker and all around good guy. He’s now the head of operations at Ninja camp Bali but most importantly to me, he’s still responsible for the food which is some of the best in Bali.
Habit of Thought:
I’m always looking to make a better experience for me and the people around me. “Friends say ‘if Josh wins, we all win”
Habit of Action: “I’m an action guy. Touch it once and do it right.”
Greatest area of strength: “I’m consistent and reliable”
Training for this area:
Set up some a few things a day that you will commit doing and then do them.
Book:
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
Q & A - Vikas Swarup Web Resource:
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Episode 59: Jocelyn Gordon
Today’s guest Life Athlete is Jocelyn Gordon. Jocelyn is a movement specialist, dance therapist, purveyor of love and awesomeness as well as the founder of Hoop Yogini, a movement system that incorporates a hula hoop into a practice that builds you up mentally, emotionally, and physically.