Karlee Owens on Natural Movement, Spirals and Listening to Your Body

Coach Karlee is a movement coach who teaches her athletes to move their bodies as nature designed: strong, secure, pain-free, and forward. Utilizing slow-motion video assessment, she can assess, address, and correct pattern errors that are causing pain and/or hindering performance goals. With a background in soccer, endurance running, and strength and conditioning, Karlee takes an intense passion for competition and athletics into her coaching style to help build mentally and physically capable athletes, regardless of age, gender, sport, or background. She prioritizes foundations for durability through awareness and integration of pain-free movement practices to maximize performance and longevity. Are you ready to unlock your INNER ATHLETE?

HealthErich WenzelApril 15, 2023Coach Karlee, Primal MovementComment

Gina Iaffaldano on Life Lessons Overcoming Guillain Barre Syndrome

Gina Iaffaldano is a legal operations professional, writer, and everyday athlete. She has recently relocated back to the Chicagoland area. She is working on her first book, Little Gifts, which covers much of her experience with overcoming Guillain-Barré syndrome - a rare autoimmune syndrome that caused her to be neurologically paralyzed. Gina is two years in remission and is in training for her second Spartan competition post-recovery.

Health, Mind SetErich WenzelApril 7, 2023Gina Iaffaldano, Guillain-Barré syndrome Comment

Dr. Justin Ternes on Breathwork, Learning and Coaching

Dr. Justin Ternes is a Doctor of Physiotherapy, Breath & Mindset Coach, and Human Performance Optimizer. His work centers on three pillars: mind/body, breathwork, and performance.

Mike Taccona on WHOOP, Tracking and Changing Behavior

Today on the podcast, I am joined by my friend, Mike Taccona. In this particular episode, we talk about his experiences with joining the whoop community. If you're a longtime listener to the podcast, you know how much I enjoy wearable technologies like Whoop and Oura ring.

Mike has been wearing his Whoop for just about just over a month at the time of this recording. Mike is a registered nurse. And one thing that I really enjoy talking about wearables, in general, is that the impact that these devices can have on people with high-stress jobs.

I wanted to get his take on what he's been learning by wearing Whoop. This is a step one conversation since he hasn't been wearing it for too long—this kind of prefaces his opinions early on.

Anne Kertz Kernion on Nature, Habits and Creativity

Anne is the owner/artist of Cards by Anne, an inspirational greeting card company founded in 1986. Anne's cards, hand-designed in calligraphy and ink, are available online (cardsbyanne.com) and hundreds of stores.

For fourteen years, Anne taught “Cross-Cultural Understanding of Religious Meaning” at Carlow University; for seven years, she taught courses ranging from Chemistry, Environmental Science, and Nutrition, to World Religions and Ethics at a local community college.

Bret Gornik on Having the Best Day Ever

My guest today is Bret Gornick. Brett is the co-founder of Live Better. Live better's his mission is to design wellness experiences to connect people to pursue purpose. He empowers people to take care of their mental health and physical health to give back to our planet.

In his previous life, Brett was a data analyst at Walgreens. Since then, he advises CEOs, fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, entrepreneurs, and creatives alike on two things: making self-care a top priority and applying the energy towards finding purpose in their work.

Krista Stryker on Gratitude, Commitment and Taking Action

Krista Stryker is the founder of 12 Minute Athlete, a leading expert on high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and bodyweight fitness. She is also the author of the new book, The 12-Minute Athlete.

In today's conversation, we don't spend too much time around the working out aspect of Krista's life. Instead of we talk about how we deal with the uncertainty in your life. It's front and center. And we talk about how we deal with uncertainty. How can we learn to focus on things that we can control?

Darin Davidson on Medicine, Wellness and Mindfulness

Today on the podcast, we are joined by Darin Davidson. Darin is an orthopedic surgeon. Darin is the founder of Darin Davidson MD consulting to improve everyone’s health and wellness to integrate holistic principles within the traditional medical model. By combining the best available knowledge and evidence from all fields that contribute to human performance and wellness, such as medicine, psychology, sleep, nutrition, and exercise, we can obtain the greatest well-being.

Alex Ivy and Jordan Criss on Taking the Leap into the Unknown

Today on the podcast. I am joined by two of my returning guests and closest friends. Jordan Criss and Alex Ivy. And the reason I have them on the podcast today was pretty special to me. Jordan and Alex, at the time of this recording, are now living in LA. And this conversation took place roughly three weeks ago. As they were packing up to leave and we covered that.

But the whole point was I'm assuming many of you just had a wait, what, why would you leave right now? And that's the whole point. Because in the pandemic, the idea of moving sounds insane. But. The idea of moving at any point in your life, making a big drastic change. Be it a job. Be it a relationship, be it moving to a new place. Why now? Is always the question.

And the answer to that should be, why not?

Fritzi Horstman on Shame, Forgiveness and Compassion

Fritzi Horstman is the Founder and Executive Director of the Compassion Prison Projection organization dedicated to bringing compassion, childhood trauma awareness, and creative inspiration to all men and women living behind bars.

She is currently directing “Step Inside the Circle,” a documentary about childhood trauma behind bars. The PSA created from some of the footage from the documentary has already received over 2 million views across all platforms.

Fritzi is passionate about equality, civil rights, education, and stories about justice. It is her life’s work to makes sure these stories get told.

Kristen Holmes on Performance, Sleep and Psychophysiology

In this episode, we are joined by Kirsten Holmes. As Vice President of Performance Science at WHOOP, Kristen drives thought leadership by engaging with industry-leading researchers and partners to understand better individual and team biometric and performance data across high-stakes verticals. Kristen also works with hundreds of the best tactical, professional, and surgical teams and NCAA Athletes/Teams worldwide, helping them interpret WHOOP data to optimize training, recovery, and sleep behavior.

Panos Papadiamantis: Cardio Metabolic Analysis and Effective Training

Panos Papadiamantis, Co-Founder of PNOE, the world’s first portable cardio-metabolic analyzer. PNOE is a mask that you wear during a 10-minute test on a treadmill, and from that, you gain incredible insights into your health and fitness

PNOĒ is on a quest to bring cardio-metabolic analysis to everyone. As the gold standard for nutrition & exercise prescription, the most non-invasive method for cardiovascular disease screening, the clinical standard for triaging between pulmonary and cardiac limitations as well as a valuable tool in detecting latent causes of myoskeletal problems, cardio-metabolic analysis is rapidly becoming the central assessment in holistic health.

Andy Vasily: Darkness, Movement and Self Discovery

Andy Vasily is an educator who wants to push his understanding of teaching and learning to a deeper level. Andy decided to begin blogging to share his teaching practice and connect with other educators and top researchers around the world. The value that he saw in this exchange of vision and practical applications led to an enriched professional learning journey that he has shared with practitioners and scholars alike.

This conversation is a continuation of our first conversation you can listen to here. The first conversation covered Andy’s experiences related to travel, recovery, and connection. In this conversation, we expand on Andy’s inner exploration, starting with darkness in his life and experiences. Andy shares what works for him to keep the darkness from overwhelming him. We expand on the ideas of self-discovery and reflecting on your journey to help guide others on there own.

Michael Greenberg: Dealing with Fear, Anxiety and Helping Others

Dr. Michael Greenberg is a Dermatologist dedicated to providing patients with state-of-the-art care at the Elk Grove office of Illinois Dermatology Institute. He specializes in medical dermatology, as well as treating patients with an emotional or spiritual component to their skin condition. He is a co-founder of Illinois Dermatology Institute.Dr. Greenberg embraces the benefits of a group practice, stating that "practicing in a group that is more family than corporate has added to my joy of being a physician."

In this conversation, Michael shares his insights on how to cope with heightened stress-related to COVID-19. Michael strives to be in service to his community for as long as he can and truly wants to make an impact on each person he connects with. Even though this conversation takes place during this time I believe the ideas are timeless; they are only more relevant given the current situation.

Checking In: A New Normal

In this episode, Erich wanted to check in with each of you! In the wake of the response to COVID-19, the world seems to hold its breath. In this short podcast, Erich shares how he's dealing with the quarantine in effect.

Gabe Salinas on Performance, Habits, and Coaching

Gabe Salinas is the owner of the Sports Performance Facility, The Sports Lab, a former professional MMA Fighter, and a speaker on the topic of performance in various facets.

Gabe has helped Professional Athletes to Weekend Warriors and everything I'm between to achieving their peak athletic performance. As someone who desires to learn and improve daily, Gabe stays on the cutting edge of the research on Human Performance in hopes of helping both his athletes and himself.

Chris Ruden: Champion of Quitting Last

Chris Ruden is an elite Powerlifter, entrepreneur, model, and motivational speaker– despite his congenital birth defect leaving him with only two fingers on his left hand and a shorter left arm. Nineteen years into battling his physical situation, he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. But for Chris, losing is not an option.

Claudia Skowron: Stay In Your Situation

Claudia is someone who prefers to go by many hats. By day she works an adolescent/young adult mental health therapist in private practice. Outside of her professional career, she enjoys sports/exercise, dinners with friends, and above all, TRAVEL. 2019 was the year of battling several major health conditions while still trying to live life to the fullest.