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Building Unbreakable Humans with Steph Gaudreau Oct 24, 2018

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Steph Gaudreau's mission in life is to help build unbreakable humans. Her calling is to help women build stronger bodies and minds is what drives all of her work. From her incredibly powerful instagram posts of over 200k followers to her best selling books, she creates meaningful content to help people change for the better.

Steph is well-versed in creating changes in life. She walked away from a secure 12 year teaching career to pursue food blogging in the Paleo world. The diet helped her get off sugar and processed foods and she started eating healthier. She also transitioned from an 8 year span as an endurance athlete to squatting and lifting heavy weight in the gym. After building an impressive empire, thousands of recipes, and an identity in the Paleo world, she shifted once again.

What is Steph up to now? She recently decided that diet doesn't need to be limited to a label, and is finding a new definition of nutrition as a holistic nutrition coach. She has a book coming out next year that covers her four pillars: Eat nourishing foods, Strengthen your body Recharge your energy, and Get your mindset right . We barely scratched the surface of Steph's wheelhouse. As a business person and brand, I am inspired by the work she does.

Topics Discussed in the Podcast

Importance of transparency and vulnerability online
Why body type can make fitting into a sport feel hard
How to focus on being healthy, not smaller
Changing habits is about adding in healthier foods, not restriction
How Steph grew comfortable and shifted her identity and business
Steph's Four Key Pillars for Health

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The Danger of Being an Excitement Junkie: How to Recover from Burnout and Actually Rest Oct 18, 2018

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Is your mind on overdrive? Are you exhausted? Is it hard to leave your email alone on nights and weekend? Don't worry, you're not alone. Office workers report a burnout rate of 40 percent in the United States and Canada. Physicians are closer to 50%. Burnout is not only attributed to the workplace; "keeping up with the joneses" and trying to be a "balanced" human who works more than full time, exercises regularly, eats healthy, sleeps 8 hours a night, has a family, and makes time for friends can seem overwhelming. In a society that champions the hustle and reveres people who seem to be doing it all, it's hard to feel a sense of ease when we aren't doing something productive. I was excited to dig into this conversation with burnout expert, previous podcast guest, and author Brad Stulberg because burnout is a regular part of the conversation amongst my peers and family. We wanted to get to the bottom of why we feel pressure to push ourselves so hard, how to actually define rest, why obsessive passion can be detrimental, and how to live more easeful lives.

Brad is the co-author of one of my favorite books, Peak Performance. which is specifically about avoiding burnout and elevating your game. Listen on our last episode and definitely get this book. I've read it a couple times! If you're not already familiar with Brad's writing on human performance in his regular column in Outside Magazine, or in publications like the New York Times, Thrive, Sports Illustrated, and more, you're missing out. He is my favorite person to follow on Twitter because he always has insightful and actionable information.

My favorite takeaway from today's episode was to define rest as the act of doing an activity without needing to progress.

Topics Discussed in the Podcast

how to tell if you're burnt out
why being an excitement junkie can kill you
difference between excitement and happiness
how do you define true rest
how to implement 3 key habits to foster happiness and human connection
harmonious vs obsessive passion
what to do if you constantly are seeking external validation

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How Embracing Pressure and Competition Powered Figure Skater Meagan Duhamel to Olympic Gold Oct 11, 2018

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Meagan Duhamel is the perfect blend of power, poise, flexibility, and grace on the ice. As a figure skater since the age of 3, her entire life has been dedicated to being a hard working and multi-faceted athlete. With parter Eric Radford, she is a 2x Olympian. She won a gold medal this year in the team event and a bronze in the pairs event. In 2014, they won a silver medal in the team event. She and Eric are also 2x World Champions amd Meagan has been the Canadian National Champion 7x. And that's just the tip of the iceberg of her impressive accolades. I first met Meagan just 2 weeks ago on an athlete panel at the Toronto VegFest. I loved her inspiring attitude and stories about how changing her diet 10 years ago changed the trajectory of her career. This is a fascinating podcast episode going into the mental and emotional aspect of figure skating, discussion about how Meagan's best performances coincided in the highest pressure environments, and also about her plant-based diet and the food they feed athletes at the Olympics (like there's a 24 hour McDonald's!).

Topics Discussed in the Podcast

Body acceptance and growing up as a figure skater
How Meagan handles the pressure of performance
Pair skating vs individual skating
Mental toughness and being able to move on from mistakes
How Meagan views competition
Why Meagan decided to change her diet
Eating plant-based at the Olympics
Meagan's nutrition tips for athletes
What retirement from competition looks like

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Creating Positive Life Changes and Plant Based Athlete Tips: My Keynote Oct 04, 2018

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I was stoked when the Toronto VegFest invited me to speak at their even this year. It's the biggest VegFest with over 40,000 people over 3 days, tons of inspiring people, and great vendors. I made some new friends! In addition to my keynote, I sat on an athlete panel with some very cool people like John Lewis, Meagan Duhamel (on the show next week), and Ann-Marie Campbell.

My talk is about my story making changes in my career, moving to Canada, making changes to my diet and how you can make positive changes in your life too. I also have a section on plant-based performance as an athlete, followed by how to be inclusive. I hope you enjoy it!

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The Darkness of Injury and How to be and Athlete Mom with 4x National Mountain Bike Champ Rose Grant Sep 27, 2018

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Imagine having a career with massive success. In just 4 years of racing, you become a 4x USA National champion sporting the stars and bars cycling kit everywhere you go. You are a force on a bike and even perform at the highest level across multiple disciplines of cycling. Meet Rose Grant. In 2012, she start racing in the Pro field. After a pregnancy test, she had to put racing on a short pause to have her daughter, Layla. But pregnancy or having an infant didn't stop Rose from chasing her goals. Balancing a family and pushing her limits on the bike, Rose Grant's remarkable ascent in the sport had just begun. Winning her first Marathon Nationals in 2014 was the beginning of a rein of power in the endurance scene. She won Nationals each year consecutively, and signed on with a team that offered her great support.

But as it happens, the trip on Cloud Nine came crashing down as she had a crash that snapped her ACL and tore her MCL. Rose was relegated to her couch and slowly trained back to form on an indoor trainer. Her comeback was impressive, winning races as soon as she was back on dirt. After an incredible year of racing, reality struck again. This time, a crash dislocated her shoulder. Patient, tenacious and hard-working, Rose continued to win huge races in a shoulder brace. She took winter to rehab her shoulder and in 2018, raced the Pan Am Games early in the season. Unfortunately, her shoulder wasn't ready and she had another devastating crash, breaking her fibula and putting her out for the beginning of the season she has worked so hard for. To make matters more emotional, Rose was faced with a decision: continue trying to race with a bad shoulder, or sit out the rest of her season and have shoulder surgery. She chose the latter.

This is a powerful episode about the darkness of injury as an athlete, how to overcome setbacks in your life, how Rose manages being an athlete mom and racing at the highest level, and so much more.

Topics Discussed in the Podcast

Rose's background growing up
Her approach to being a pregnant athlete
How she got back to racing after having a baby
Rose Grant's ascent to becoming National Champion
Rose Grant's team: Stan's Pivot Presented by Maxxis
The injuries Rose has overcome in the last couple of years
How to emotionally cope with huge disappointments

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The Pursuit of Less with Greg McKeown Sep 13, 2018

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What does your closet look like? Is it meticulously organized or is there stuff everywhere? Greg McKeown loves using this analogy to describe how we organize our priorities and tasks in our mind. Most of us go through life stretched too thin. With all of the inputs between work, email, social media, and our social lives, there never seems to be enough time in the day. We are bombarded with notifications, images of things we feel like we should be doing, and we take on way too much. Sound familiar? It strikes a chord with me! Greg is the author of the NYT BestSeller, Essentialism. He writes, teaches, and lectures around the world to help people choose what they should be prioritizing in life and how to develop the mindset of an Essentialist. He has appeared on the Steve Harvey Show and has spoken at Apple, Google, Salesforce, Facebook and more. What is an Essentialist? Essentialists have the mindset of "less but better" over trying to be everything of everyone. Essentialists focus on only doing tasks that only relate to their highest contribution instead of constantly trying to do it all. How do we begin to say no to the seemingly infinite things we should be doing? How do we begin to eliminate the anxiety of not doing enough, create free space to be creative and play, and reduce our feelings of overwhelm? In this podcast episode, you'll learn what the actual mindset of an essentialist is (versus just going through the motions of doing less), how to say no, and the reality of trade-offs.

"If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will."

Topics Discussed in the Podcast

why we feel the pressure to say yes to everything
how our mind and to-do list are like a messy closet
how to define our priority
JOMO: Joy in missing out
the power of journaling
establishing an upper bound rule to win for the long run

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