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Episode 35: Melanie LeMay

Today’s guest Life Athlete is Melanie LeMay. Melanie lives the talk. She’s accepted the mantle of muse of happiness with… well with happiness. She’s has developed her own massage style called Meyobay, after years of practice and is set to host a retreat in Hawaii where she’ll train experienced massage therapists in this style.

Habit of Thought:

Be Present. Life it up. See the beauty that is everywhere.

Habit of Action:

Choose your thoughts. Find Beauty. Give yourself reminders. Take time to be consciously grateful.

Greatest area of strength:

To be comfortable and at ease in any situation.

Training for this area:

Let go of judgements and leave space for compassion.

Book:

The “fuck it” therapy –

The four agreements

The four hour work week
Web Resource:

Totally unique thoughts

Notes from the Universe – Thoughts become things

The Elephant Journal

http://www.museofhappiness.com

http://meyobay.massagetherapy.com

Episode 34: Chris Duncan

Habit of Thought:

“I’m a champion because champions keep on winning… A winner can win once but a champion keeps on winning.”

 

-have a morning ‘rich-ual’

Momentum club. pointbeducation.com

Habit of Action:

Don’t set a goal you don’t achieve.

Achieve every goal you set.

Greatest area of strength:

Determination.

Training for this area:

Don’t dabble. Commit all the way.

Have a mentor.

(“A good mentor can demonstrate that they have what you want to learn from them. They have a replicable system. They can do it right now… their skills aren’t based in old paradigms.”)

Book:

The seven habits of highly effective people – Steven Covey
The freedom business blueprint – Chris Duncan (Coming out mid July 2015)
Web Resource:

Tim Ferris

Michael Jordan – Failure commercial. 

Contact:

To enter for a chance to have Chris build you a freedom business that will make you $10,000 in a day: http://tinyurl.com/pv5g2xf 

Bonus Episode: Les Leventhal

Sometimes a guest and I will talk at length before or after an interview and the resulting conversation is something I want to share with you. Life Athletes, welcome to this bonus episode of the Life Athletics Podcast.

Life Athletes, welcome to a bonus episode of the Life Athletics Podcast. Les Leventhal is a fantastic yoga teacher and an even better person. He’s famouslybeen through the fire and emerged on the other side. His story is an inspiration that proves that people can overcome their past and create an inspiring future for themselves. This conversation was recorded right after the formal interview that was featured inepisode 6 of the Life Athletics podcast.

Episode 33: Michael McCastle

Today’s guest Life Athlete is Michael McCastle. Mike is an air traffic controller for the us navy by day and a marvel of human will and herculean physical effort by night. He has taken on 12 increasingly difficult labours to bring attention to various charities. among his feats, he Flipped a 250-Pound Tire for 13 Miles and for an encore he spent 27 hours climbing a rope the equivalent hight of Everest. “Anything worth having isn’t going to be easy. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”

“It’s better to choke on greatness than to nibble on mediocrity.”

Habit of Thought:

“A habit that I have is maintaining an inner dialogue that is positive and doesn’t let me just go for the easy way. I kind of lean towards the harder way of things because I know that through that harder lesson I’m going to grow more, I’m going to learn more. I might not want to wake up at four in the morning to work out but I know that by starting my day off by doing something that I don’t necessarily like, the rest of the day is going to be that much easier to conquer.”

“Anything worth having isn’t going to be easy. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”

“It’s better to choke on greatness than to nibble on mediocrity.”

Habit of Action:“A habit of action that I have is that I refuse to let my failures define me. I never really get things right the first time. It takes me several times to achieve things. Each time I fail I don’t let it set me back. I don’t allow it to define my future performance. I actually use failure as a tool. That allows me to learn more and grow as a person.”

Greatest area of strength: “I think that my greatest strength comes from my mind and my ability to overcome those mental blocks, those mental walls, those obstacles. When I hit those mental walls, when something challenging or difficult comes up, it’s not a question of ‘man this really sucks, I wish I was doing something else’, it’s a matter of ‘okay, how am I going to get over this wall, how am I going to get past it?’ I’m able to overcome pain and struggle very well.” Training for this area:

“The first thing I’d tell someone is to have a goal… something you’re looking to achieve and to take value from the small victories. have a plan for how you’re going to get there.”

Book:
Web Resource:

http://www.twelvelaborsproject.com

http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org

https://www.michaeljfox.org

Episode 32: Charissa Monique

Today’s guest Life Athlete is Charissa Monique. Charissa wants you to know that you’re the creator of your own reality and to add some beauty and passion to it! she’s a biosciences engineer by training a model, traveller, dancer, walking inspiration and muse by choice. She encourages all to live a life beyond normal and then to take a step or two past that. We got together at her villa in Bali for this conversation.

Episode 31: Maria Farrugia

Today’s guest Life Athlete is Maria Farrugia. Maria is the co-founder of the Kul Kul farm, a sustainable and organic teaching, learning and living farm in Bali, Indonesia minutes from Green School. We met for this conversation right on the farm, a space that is growing in every sense of the word at a rapid rate.

Habit of Thought:

“My happiness depends on me. My success depends on me.”

Habit of Action:
“Not thinking. Just going out and doing it.”

Greatest area of strength:

Being really empathetic with people and seeing people.

 

Training for this area:

Book:
Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind – Gene Logsdon

Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches from the New Farmers’ Movement – Zoe Ida Bradbury

Wayne Dyer

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose – Eckhart Tolle
Web Resource:

www.kulkulfarm.com

Contact:

http://kulkulfarmbali.com/contact/

Episode 30: Jelena and Masa Avramović

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Jelena – Chief Enlightening officer – the wise elder of the team

Masa – Chief Manifesting Officer

Today we have not one but two guest LifeAthlete’s on the show, Jelena and Masa Avramović, sisters who have jointly founded Yoga Soda, a kambucha beverage company, based out of Toronto Canada. In one busy year they have taken the company from concept to launch and they share their journey with us here. Enjoy!

Habit of Thought:

Jelena: “When I fall myself falling into negative patterns of thought I’m able to step back from it, realize that I’m not manifesting what I want to be manifesting and just switch from there.”

Masa: Mantras and affirmations help in manifesting if you know exactly what you want.

Habit of Action:

Jelena: Meditation

Masa: Meditation

 

Greatest area of strength:

Jelena: One of my key strengths is always persistence. Even if I didn’t get things right away… I know that failure is inevitable… I’m willing to fail again and again to eventually get there.

Masa: I make people feel welcome and comfortable. I’m able to bridge people together.

Training for this area:

Jelena: You need to start visualizing yourself being persistent. and then you have to have some sort of strategy to see it come to life.

Masha: It would begin by breathing, going inward, making sure that you feel comfortable first. Yielding to the situation and not trying to control it… allowing it and feeling through the discomfort of it… so you can eventually shift the space.

 

Book:

Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, And Live Like You Mean It! – Kris Carr

Web Resource:

Les Brown

Bob Proctor

Tony Robbins

Think and Grow Rich

Contact:

YogaSoda – Contact

Episode 29.2: Vanessa Fung – the follow-up

This is a follow up to an interview we did in advance of Vanessa’s participation in the Crossfit Pacific Regionals (click here for part 1). In this episode we talk about how she did and how she felt about how she did. As fate would have it Vanessa was in Bali to be the guest coach at S2S Crossfit in Kuta, about an hour away from where I was in Ubud.  We did the interview in a little cafe that wasn’t as quiet as we’d hoped but still, it was great to reconnect and hear about her experience.