Personal Transformation

PYP 077: Julie Piatt on Influencing Others, Coming Back to Ourselves, and “Meditating on One Foot in the Moonlight”

November 26, 2014

Julie Piatt is a musician, plant-based chef and healer, yogi, home-schooling mom, cookbook author, and contributor to MindBodyGreen.com.

She’s also the muse and support system that her husband Rich Roll leaned on to transform himself from sedentary, junk-food and late-night TV addicted couch potato to one of the world’s fittest men in the span of just a couple of years. (Read his story in his bestselling book, Finding Ultra.)

In some sense, Julie “lived the fantasy”: influencing her spouse to change in a big way.

Don’t most of us have a fantasy like that? If not about our spouse, then about our kids, or co-workers, or boss, or politicians, or customer-service reps on the other end of the phone, or – probably most common – ourselves?

PYP 071: John Bruna on the Myth of Happiness and the Little League Secret to a Good Life

November 13, 2014

When John Bruna was 10 years old, he was already stealing from liquor stores. Born into an environment of poverty, violence, and substance abuse, John began to turn his life around at the age of 22.

Along the way to his current leadership of the Mindful Life Program and Way of Compassion Foundation, John served as a dishwasher, auto mechanic, school teacher, substance abuse counselor, corporate manager, graduate student, and spiritual practitioner.

PYP 066: Glenn Murphy on Systema, Subverting Fight or Flight, and Remaining Human No Matter What

October 30, 2014

In addition to being a bestselling science author, musician, and tiger-handler (really!), Glenn Murphy is an instructor of one of the most powerful, esoteric, and valuable martial arts ever developed: Systema.

PYP 063: Matt Frazier on Running Long Distances, Plant-Based Nutrition, and Building a Movement without Trying to Convert Anybody

October 7, 2014

OK, so I’ve been procrastinating writing this intro to the Matt Frazier interview for about a week, because I wanted to get the prose just right.

Matt is the founder of No-Meat Athlete, originally a blog, then a book, and now a movement growing on its own steam.

PYP 062: Elana Priesman on a Junk-Food Childhood, “Try Anything” Desperation, and “Plantsformation”

October 1, 2014

Elana “Titanium” Priesman is an unlikely subject for a magazine devoted to fitness.

Overweight as a child, obese as a young adult, uninterested in sports, picked last in gym class to the groans of her teammates, Elana achieved a stunning turnaround a couple of years ago.

Culminating in her profile in the October 2014 Vegan Health and Fitness magazine, in an article titled “How I Lost 100 Pounds.”

PYP 059: Dr Garth Davis on Weight Loss and True Health

September 22, 2014

Dr Garth Davis is medical director of Surgical Weight Loss at Memorial Harmon Memorial City Hospital in Houston, Texas.

After years of performing weight loss surgery, with himself overweight and faced with a medical recommendation to start taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, Garth woke up one day and asked the question, “Why are Americans so overweight and unhealthy?”

Which led him to a second question: “Where in the world are people slim and healthy?”

Which led him to a comprehensive study of nutrition, a complete overhaul of his personal lifestyle and diet, and a totally new way of working with his obese patients.

PYP 058: Janice Stanger on The Perfect Formula Diet and Trusting Our Own Bodies

September 19, 2014

In college, Janice Stanger developed serious eating disorders to hide her binge eating from others. At 5’4″, she ballooned somewhere past 165 pounds (she admits to having stopped weighing herself when the news got too grim).

Even when she licked that disorder, she still tried pretty much every diet under the sun in an attempt to get thin. Nothing worked for long, leaving her with a closet full of “thin clothes,” “fat clothes,” and every size in between.

Furthermore, she was plagued by a slew of health problems, including chronic respiratory infections, severe endometriosis, fatigue, intense headaches, and ongoing bouts of depression.

At no point in her journey up to this point had she even considered that her food intake could be related to this issues.

Then… something happened that slowly, inexorably, changed everything.

PYP 057: Emily Nolan on Radical Honesty, Radical Kindness, Radical Self-Acceptance, and Going “Topless”

September 17, 2014

Emily Nolan is one of my heroes. She’s an internationally sought after model, a former Olympic trainee, a serial entrepreneur, and a tireless advocate for kindness, self-acceptance, and positive body image.

As the founder of MyKindofLife.com, Emily writes and creates media that provides “inspiration for kind people.”

And as the founder of the non-profit “Topless,” Emily empowers women and men to accept and love their own bodies in a public way, through yoga classes and other live events.

PYP 056: Bianca and Michael Alexander on the Journey of Conscious Living

September 16, 2014

Bianca and Michael Alexander are buddies of mine and co-founders of ConsciousLivingTV.com.

Bianca is an EMMY-award winning TV correspondent, as well as on-camera talent for hit shows on Lifetime, TV Guide, and TV One. She’s a certified yoga instructor and energy healer.

Michael is a serial entrepreneur, provocateur and innovator in the areas of sustainability, health and entrepreneurship. He cameos in Conscious Living TV videos as “Vegan Man,” and is a budding organic gardener.

China Study co-author T. Colin Campbell on writing WHOLE

September 12, 2014

In 2004, T. Colin Campbell rocked the worlds of nutrition and science with his outspoken and powerful book, The China Study. Nine years later, Dr. Campbell is back, and feistier than ever, taking on the medical, research, government, media, non-profit, food, and supplement industries. Nutrition, he asserts, is the “master key” that controls our health….

PYP 077: Julie Piatt on Influencing Others, Coming Back to Ourselves, and “Meditating on One Foot in the Moonlight”

PYP 071: John Bruna on the Myth of Happiness and the Little League Secret to a Good Life

PYP 066: Glenn Murphy on Systema, Subverting Fight or Flight, and Remaining Human No Matter What

PYP 063: Matt Frazier on Running Long Distances, Plant-Based Nutrition, and Building a Movement without Trying to Convert Anybody

PYP 062: Elana Priesman on a Junk-Food Childhood, “Try Anything” Desperation, and “Plantsformation”

PYP 059: Dr Garth Davis on Weight Loss and True Health

PYP 058: Janice Stanger on The Perfect Formula Diet and Trusting Our Own Bodies

PYP 057: Emily Nolan on Radical Honesty, Radical Kindness, Radical Self-Acceptance, and Going “Topless”

PYP 056: Bianca and Michael Alexander on the Journey of Conscious Living

China Study co-author T. Colin Campbell on writing WHOLE

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