Posts in Health
#70 - How To Train Your Mind: Daily Recovery

In this episode, we are exploring daily recovery. Prioritizing daily recovery for Erich has been striving for the better part of the year. As an engineer, he sees as ultimate quality problem. Companies spend a considerable amount of time and money on focusing on the qualities of their products and services. We've overlooked a significant component, the humans that make the products and services possible.

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#68 - How to Train Your Mind: Mindfulness

Nick Buegel and Erich have a conversation about training the mind. In this episode, we go deep on how to train mindfulness. Mindfulness can be interchanged with meditation, but we specifically use the word mindfulness to make it a skill-based practice. We try our best to get very practical from our own lives on how we have used mindfulness. We want to make mindfulness as accessible to as broad an audience as possible.

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#64 - Work-Life Balance

In this week's episode, we are joined by Joe Jackowski, Mike Taccona, and Nick Buegel. Our topic of discussion was work-life balance. How do we manage what we do for a living while continuing pushing our boundaries or achieving fulfillment outside of work? In the world we live in, it can be easy to have a job that pulls too much energy from us so that we don't have enough left to pursue other goals.

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#63 - Mike and Mary Taccona: Nursing, Travel in the US and Costa Rica

Mike and Mary Taccona are both registered nurses. Mike works in the Post Surgical Unit, and Mary is in the Emergency Department. Outside of nursing Mike and Mary are avid travelers. They have traveled throughout the United States and time abroad as well while balancing Nursing school and jobs. In this conversation, we start with a look at adapting to their roles as nurses, pulling back the curtain to the type of stress the situation puts in them. From there, we transition to travel. We break down how and why they travel. We close on an impactful trip to a Field Station in Costa Rica.

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#57 - Joel Salatin: A Different System of Food Production

Joel Salatin co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc., the farm services more than 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, 10 retail outlets, and a farmers’ market with salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, and forestry products.

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Claudia Skowron: Do What Works for You

In this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Claudia Skowron. Claudia is a Mental Health Therapist specialized in adolescents and young adults. In this wide-ranging conversation, we cover many areas of mental health and ways of helping. One area we talk about how the openness of the culture has started to remove the stigma of speaking out our mental battles. Aside from her work as a Therapist, Claudia is an avid traveler, usually somewhere else in the world every other week.

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Diana Fornaris: Boxing and Finding Yourself

In this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Diana Fornaris. She has always had a passion for movement and exercise, so after her diagnosis and taking some time off to work on herself, she pursued teaching boxing and became a full-time personal trainer at Merritt Clubs. After a little over a year of working there, she now works at a local boxing gym called Knockout Fitness, which has helped her grow more with her boxing both in teaching and in practice.

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Addiction, Anxiety and Depression

In this podcast episode, the guys talk about addiction, anxiety, and depression. The topics we discussed are complex, and we barely scratch the surface on them. None of us are trained in this area, and we don't pretend to be, so anything we say is just talking through a complex topic. We want to find better solutions for these situations. Lastly, I'd like to thank Ben for being able to articulate his experiences with anxiety in such a concise way.

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