Send us a text When I first began Highly Optimized & selected that name for the business, I was imagining much more than simply optimized health & nutrition & was instead imagining a way of living. A way of living in which an individual can feel truly optimized & balanced in their physical, emotional, mental & spiritual well being. In my own experience, balance between these realms & in life in general IS the goal. Without balance, one will ultimately fall short in their ...
Jun 15, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 110
Send us a text It is said that the journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. As someone who has passion oozing out of every fiber of my being, I found myself becoming challenged in taking the big picture of my dreams & goals & solidifying them down to that first single step. This being said, I was able to transmute this challenge by meeting others who allowed me to stop taking myself so seriously in them showing me that not only was anything I dreamt of possible, but that it was ...
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 109
Send us a text As I imagine you have all been able to tell at this point, I adore podcasting. For me, life is the most beautiful when I am able to have conversations with like minded individuals who allow me to realize that in our truest sense, we are all much more similar than we might realize. Within this realm of conversations, however, some of my favorite are when I have the opportunity to speak to individuals who also podcast, as I find podcasters to be those individuals who share my passio...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Send us a text In the modern era, there seems to be an uprising in the subject of leadership & what it means to be & act as a leader. Since the dawn of time, it has been leaders that have been able to not only guide others in how to live a fulfilling life, but also become friends with the shadow aspects of themselves, such as their fear. These leaders recognized that rather than run from fear or try to ignore it, the best way out of it was to move directly through it. Todays guest on the...
May 25, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 107
Send us a text Over 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates stated to “let food be thy medicine & medicine be thy food.” I imagine at the time of him stating that, he truly believed that people would quickly catch on & that would be the end of that story, however, when we look around at the world today, it’s easy to see that something became lost in translation. With much of our food in the present day being poisoned with herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, rodenticides & glyphosate, to name bu...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Send us a text Throughout our lives, we will inevitably move through seasons in which we question everything it was that we knew up until that point. These season changes can come forth as if from out of thin air & really do a number on our state of being when they do, however, in my experience, they always come at the perfect time in hindsight to be able to evolve into the next best version of ourselves. Todays guest on the show is a man who has gone through quite a few seasons within his l...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 105
Send us a text When it comes to the subject of life & the goals you have that you’re looking to manifest into this reality, the main component as to whether you will be successful in accomplishing them boils down to your lifestyle. Lifestyle, said simply, is the physical, emotional, mental & spiritual processes by which you live your life & with more & more information coming out daily, it is easy to see why so many are having challenges figuring out how to structure their lifest...
May 04, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 104
Send us a text A lot of times, people think of the idea of “optimization” as an outcome, rather than a process & if there is one thing I’ve learned it’s that what we do to optimize ourselves today may change tomorrow. The more that we are able to look at the idea of optimization as a journey, rather than a destination, the more we can actually enjoy that journey & trust in the notion that so long as we put our best foot forward each day, we will ultimately end up exactly where we’re mean...
Apr 27, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 103
Send us a text For anyone listening to this show, I imagine you are all passionate about being a go getter & a high achiever. This being said, living life with these types of passions can create the slippery slope of understanding how to balance your desires in a way that allows your life to still have time left in it for you to develop your relationship to yourself. Todays guest on the show is someone who has been able to successfully explore his many desires while, simultaneously, still be...
Apr 20, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 102
Send us a text A notion I have been actively tuning into as of late is the notion of the hero’s journey that each of us have the opportunity to embark upon within our lives. This journey, although it’s called the heroes journey, is a journey in which much of the time, speaking from my own experience, the individual walking this path will feel far from a hero, as challenges & dark nights of the soul present themselves, however, it is actually these challenges & dark nights & our abili...
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 101
Send us a text Welcome to episode 100 of the Highly Optimized podcast! In this episode, I get the opportunity to be in the interviewee seat & be interview by one of the individuals who is directly responsible for me discovering my passion for coaching & beginning Highly Optimized, the one & only Mark England Together, we dive into a ton of hilarious & fun stories & memories over the past 2 years & Mark also asks me some of my favorite questions I’ve ever been asked to dat...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 100
Send us a text Over 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates stated to “let medicine be thy food & food be thy medicine.” In the modern day world, much of society has forgotten this notion. With chronic disease, obesity & stress being seen as almost “normal” these days, it is more apparent than ever that what the world needs now more than ever is to re-educate them on the importance of high quality food & the importance of soil health, as more of our soil is now considered dirt than ever, with c...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Send us a text If there is one thing that life has taught me up until this point, it’s that anything can happen. This notion of anything being able to happen at any moment, when we really sit into it, is one of the main reasons so many of us are experiencing challenges in our state of being, such as anxiety, paranoia & agitation, to name but a few. These all stem from an overactive sympathetic nervous system, which is classically referred to as the “fight or flight” system within our bodies....
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Send us a text When we think about the concept of health as a whole, few subjects come to mind quicker than that of nutrition. The food we eat can either act as medicine which allows us to live out our full potential or poison that will force us into the throes of dis-ease as our body attempts to perform its processes without high quality food. The challenge in the modern day however, is that, along with there being a surplus of bad quality food & misinformation on what food is & how to ...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Send us a text When it comes to the subject of health, there are endless side quests one can go on to create harmony in their physical, emotional, mental & spiritual well being. This being said, it begs the question for all of us on this collective journey of health to ask ourselves, where do we start? What I have found in my own health journey is that this is the hardest part, especially with the endless amount of info available today on the ever expanding topic of health. For me, this is w...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Send us a text When we think of the concept of life, what is immediately apparent is that no life is without its fair share of challenges. If there is one thing I’ve come to realize in my own experience of life, it’s that we must fight to not only accomplish our dreams, but to also remember who & what we truly are. This fight is cyclical, in that throughout our lives, we will inevitably face new challenges within the many cycles of our lives & the way in which we resolve these conflicts ...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Send us a text Joining in with us today on the show is a woman who has not only been a huge influence in my self development & positive self image journey, but has also done the same for countless individuals looking to transform, connect to themselves & the world around them deeper & take their experience of life to the next level. She has a background in business, an absolutely incredible amount of knowledge regarding how to go about healing traumas, especially those rooting back t...
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Send us a text When I began viewing life through the lens of us being the creator of my reality, no area became more important & pertinent to put that concept into play than the choice of language I spoke. The famous term “abrakadabra” literally translates to “with my word I create.” This shows that this is no new discovery & is actually much more of a re-membering that many are currently embarking upon as this information gains traction in the world at large. The power of the spoken wor...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 31 min
Send us a text One of my favorite aspects of life is discovering people who remind me how similar we all are, despite are unique differences. For me, this is yet another example of the gift we can receive when we choose to see ourselves mirrored back in the people around us & tune into the freedom that occurs when we take ourselves less seriously, embody the medicine of laughter & allow our egos to take a back seat in place of learning from one another. Stopping by to share his time &...
Feb 09, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Send us a text For anyone who has been listening to this show long enough, you know my love & affinity for the Cannabis plant. This plant is one which I have a deep relationship with & one which has aided me in my never ending quest for physical, emotional, mental & spiritual well being. This being said, one of the areas that is gaining a lot of popularity within the realm of Cannabis is that of Cannabis & exercise, specifically within the area of running. When we run, we stimula...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Send us a text When we look at the idea of masculinity as a whole, it is easy to see that somewhere along the way, our path as men became challenged & confused. A path that was once focused upon concepts of being centered in ourselves, acting as pillars of strength for those we love & being compassionate warriors for the world at large became refocused into concepts of aggression towards one another & ego driven insecurities presenting themselves in a way that has led to masculinity ...
Jan 26, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 90
Send us a text For anyone who knows me personally, you’ll know that one of my core values is liberty, or, said differently, the ability to be free in all the aspects of my life. To me, freedom is, quite literally, the bridge which allows us to cross into living life on our own terms or have our terms created for us by someone else & their goals & aspirations in life. I don’t see one as necessarily “good” & the other “bad”, however, I know which of those scenarios I consciously choose...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 89
Send us a text Within the realm of business, more & more individuals are breaking out of the typical paradigms given to us by society & are combining their mission & soul purpose into the aspect of business in order to create alignment in the areas of physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, material & financial well being. Speaking for myself, I feel this is the change we have desperately needed in a society that in the present day is otherwise known for more diagnoses of anxiety...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Send us a text If there is one thing I have noticed within the world at large & more specifically, the realm of plant medicines, it is that we have many elders, but have lost much of the wise elders of the world. In ancient societies & even today in small circles, these wise elders would help the rest of their tribe understand the process of life & in the realm of plant medicines, act as guides that would protect those that were looking to traverse these worlds & allow them to un...
Jan 07, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Send us a text There is a big reason that breathwork is becoming such a hot topic right now as the collective of human beings begin remembering their true power. As many ancient traditions have spoken about since the dawn of time, breath is life. It is our connection to the infinite source of spirit within each of us & allows anyone, regardless of age, gender, location or status to tap into this life force energy & allow it to positively affect their lives in numerous ways. That being sa...
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Send us a text More & more often as of late, I am having the pleasure of meeting individuals who are clearly on their path to inner-standing themselves & are open to the idea that they don’t know anything, but rather are eternal students in the art of curiosity. When we see children, the reason they are able to feel their emotions & move through the energies of life in a way that us adults often have trouble with us, in a big part, due to the fact that they are yet to be confined to ...
Dec 29, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Send us a text Along my journey throughout this life, I am continually amazed at the people I meet & the opportunity within each of them to see myself mirrored back to me. Those of us that learn to lead with our hearts then have the ability to act as battery chargers for the world around us & the best part of this is that EVERYONE has this ability within, yet only certain people choose to dive in to the often times challenging process within of reaching this state of coherence between th...
Dec 22, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Send us a text Throughout the often times tumultuous journey of life, we are faced with challenges that allow us, if chosen to be felt, moved through & learned from, to rise to the occasion of our fullest potential as human beings. Even though these times can force us to find the calm within the metaphorical storm of our lives & can be challenging in endless different ways, these ARE the times that give us the highest highs & allow us to truly feel ALIVE while in this experience we c...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Send us a text When I think about one of the absolute best ways to move energy, engage in the practice of health & shift your physiological state into one that is flooded with neurotransmitters such as dopamine & seratonin, no methodology comes to mind & heart quicker than that of movement. Movement allows our emotions to act as what they truly are, energy in motion. Through our movements, we can create a masterpiece of self love that transcends any of the lower vibrational states we...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Send us a text When it comes to the word “success”, nothing matters more than our mindset. Mindset is the reason that certain wealthy people feel poor, certain poor people feel rich, certain successful people feel like failures & certain people who are down on their luck believe it’s all going to turn around tomorrow. The reason this matters so much is because the mind is similar to a computer & just like a computer, many times our minds can become constricted by “malware”, or patterns/p...
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 81
