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Becoming a Brave Athlete – and Screen Writer! – with Simon Marshall and Lesley Paterson: PYP 550

March 2, 2023

Five years after Lesley and Simon appeared on this podcast to talk about how to set and achieve athletic goals, Lesley just won a BAFTA for screenwriting. So let’s listen again to this 2018 conversation for clues about how to live a brave life.

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Relentless Solution Focus: Dr Ellen Reed on PYP 525

July 19, 2022

Our brains are brilliant at finding problems, and are great at keeping us alive by avoiding them. But this doesn’t work when our problems are in our heads. What does? Find out in this conversation.

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Combating BS with James “Lightning” Wilks: PYP 355

December 17, 2019
James Wilks is a producer, as well as narrator and chief instigator of The Game Changers, already the bestselling documentary of all time on iTunes. We talk about the 7-year odyssey of making the film, its effect on popular culture and our food choices, and his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast earlier this… Read More

How to Have a Good (and Healthy) Day with Caroline Webb: PYP 344

October 15, 2019
Caroline Webb is the author of the wonderfully entertaining and useful How to Have a Good Day, which is basically a cookbook of how to be an effective human in the world. She is an executive coach, economist, and speaker, and the book comes out of her extensive knowledge of behavioral science and its application in… Read More

Vanquishing Procrastination with Hillary Rettig: PYP 306

January 22, 2019
Hillary Rettig is both an activist and a productivity expert, two vocations that don’t seem to have much in common at first glance. But as soon as I started reading two of her books, The Lifelong Activist  and The Prolific Writer, I got the connection. Unproductive would-be activists are disempowered activists. And in a world that systematically… Read More

Howard Jacobson on Procrastination, Cocoons, and the Unfinished Office: PYP 303

January 2, 2019
Happy New Year! I come to you today from the cab of my truck, in my driveway, to talk about the fact that my new office isn’t ready to move in, and it’s January 1, and it’s kind of driving me crazy. I don’t even have access to my studio, my computer, my completed interviews… Read More

Defeating Distraction and Living Powerfully with Chris Bailey: PYP 301

December 18, 2018
When you’re doing a video podcast with the guy who wrote the book on focus and mastering our attention, you don’t take lots of notes. Instead, you look at your guest and stay present to the wisdom and insight he’s dropping left and right. Which explains why I don’t have a lot of show notes… Read More

The Art of Fitness and Transformation with Gary Whitaker: PYP 287

September 12, 2018
Gary Whitaker is the founder and owner of Plant-based Fitness, a transformation gym located in Oakland, CA.  Read More

An Olympic Quest Powered by Plants with Sarah Bofinger: PYP 271

May 22, 2018
Sarah “Mergoddess” Bofinger swam before she walked – literally. Born with hip dysplasia (I thought the same thing: “Isn’t that something Golden Retrievers get?”), she required six surgeries before she celebrated her fourth birthday. Sarah was put in the water for therapy and rehabilitation, and took to it like a, well, mergoddess to water. Swimming,… Read More

Becoming a Brave Athlete with Simon Marshall and Lesley Paterson: PYP 262

April 10, 2018
Lesley Paterson, the “Scottish Rocket,” is a three-time world champion in off-road triathlon, an Ironman triathlon champ, a professional mountain biker, an athletic coach, and a world-class slinger of profanity. Simon Marshall, her husband, is a sport and exercise psychologist at San Diego State, performance psychologist for BMC Racing, and a self-described “mid-pack endurance athlete.”… Read More

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Hi, I’m Howard Jacobson, host of the Plant Yourself Podcast, co-author of You Can Change Other People and Sick to Fit, and co-founder of WellStart Health Coach Academy.

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