Restore To Explore

This week we have a very special guest on the show, someone who has been a major influence on my perspective and my approach to movement personally and has really inspired a lot of the philosophy and practices that we promote here at TFC. Katy Bowman is a Biomechanist and is the bestselling author of 9 books, including  Move Your DNA, Whole-Body Barefoot, Grow Wild,  and her latest book&...

Anya Jensen is the human behind a footwear review blog called Anyas reviews and also an online shoe store that sells natural footwear. As someone who started wearing orthotics at 9 years old and was debilitated by foot pain, Anya went down a path of personal exploration to figure out how to get out of pain once and for all. Now through her work, she shares her experience to help others resolve the...

Michelle Bergeron is a Melbourne based physiotherapist with a special focus on foot and ankle rehabilitation. Throughout the episode, we explore Michelle’s journey with physiotherapy including her experience working with the Australian Ballet, in the AFL and Cirque du Soleil. We also discuss her general approach to foot and ankle conditions, some common errors that she sees and how she uses footwe...

This week I chat with Huw Darnell, who is a Brisbane-based exercise physiologist, specialising in musculoskeletal rehabilitation. Throughout the episode we explore Huw’s own journey with movement and rehab, we discuss the importance of addressing your mindset and beliefs, the value of barefoot training and why context really matters with that. We also delve into Huw’s approach to running and why h...

This week I’m back with Tom Williams from Breath Performance to explore the topic of Tibialis Posterior Tendinopathy. In this episode we will be exploring what it is, how it happens and what you can do about it based on the current evidence and our experience with our physiotherapy clients. The aim of these podcasts is really to help you better understand the condition in question and help you get...

This week I have a conversation with Mathieu Jang who goes by parkour.jang on Instagram. Mathieu is a high level parkour athlete and shares his story about how he found parkour and why he does it barefoot. We talked about risk perception and his process of approaching a challenge in parkour by breaking it down into individual parts and working through each component individually before piecing it...

This week I chat with Tahlia Wall from Physio Smart in Adelaide which was the location for our seminar when we were down there last in 2021. While we were down there I had a great chat with Matt who is the owner of Physio Smart, which would pair really well with this episode, so if you’re keen to listen to that one as well, it’s called 'A Smart Approach to Rehab' and it’s in season 1 of the podcas...

This week I’m back with Tom from Breath Performance to explore the concept of Shin Splints - what they are, how they happen and what you can do about them based on the current research as well as our experience with our physiotherapy clients. If you’re struggling to make progress in your rehab, please feel free to reach out as we can either help you directly with our online consultations or can po...

This week we’re bringing you our first Live Fireside. On the first Friday of every month we host a live monthly catch up around the virtual campfire inside our community. It’s a warm welcoming space where our members can come together face to face to share stories and ask those burning questions to help them on their journey. This Live Fireside was all about our brand new Explorer Membership. It’s...

This week I chat with Marty and Ange from The A Life - throughout the episode we explore their journey with movement and health, including how and why they transitioned from owning a physical osteopathy practice to a now thriving online movement community. We also delve into their experience with pregnancy so far and discuss the value of mindset and movement practices in preparation for birth and...

This week I’m back again with Tom from Breath Performance Physio to explore the concept of Morton’s Neuroma - what it is, why it happens and what you can do about it based on the current research and our experience with our physio clients. If you’re struggling to make progress in your rehab, please feel free to reach out as we can either help you directly with our online consultations or can point...

This week we’re back with a brand new episode on the 'Restore To Explore' podcast. I’m joined by Chloe-May Bennett from Functional Soles, which is a podiatry clinic here in Brisbane that she runs with her partner Travis. Throughout the episode we explore Chloe-May’s journey with podiatry and how her approach has evolved over time, we discuss the role of orthotics in a holistic model of care,...

It’s flashback Friday where we bring you the greatest hits from the TFC Audio Project hosted by The Foot Collective’s Canadian founder Nick St Louis. On this episode from 2019 Nick has a conversation with Tony Riddle. Also known as The Natural Lifestylist. Tony Riddle is a natural lifestyle coach, father, husband, best-selling author of ‘ Be More Human ’ and record-breaking barefoot endurance athl...

It’s flashback Friday where we bring you the greatest hits from the TFC Audio Project hosted by The Foot Collective’s Canadian founder Nick St Louis. In this episode from 2020 Nick chats to Brian Mackenzie an innovator in human performance and stress adaptation. They discuss breathing, how he got into breath, and the physiology of respiration. They also touch a bit on mental health and they finish...

This week we’re back with another flashback Friday episode. This time it’s our founder Nick and fellow TFC O-G Mike who are the guests. They chatted to Dr. Rangan Cheterjee on the Feel Better, Live More podcast back in 2018. The trio discuss orthotics and the damaging effects of wearing narrow shoes which squash our feet and talk about how we can help restore our feet to their natural state. Nick...

This week we’re kicking off our first flashback Friday where we bring you the greatest hits from the TFC Audio Project hosted by The Foot Collective’s Canadian founder Nick St Louis. In this episode Nick chats with Ben Patrick better known as Knees Over Toes Guy. They discuss Ben’s story, solving knee problems, the importance of feet and how they think of money. TFC Helpful Links: Free Training Ex...

To kick off the R2E podcast for 2023 we have a special episode with our founder Nick St Louis. Nick was over from Canada at the end of last year for a few weeks and it gave our team a chance to get some great clarity on the vision for TFC and also just to play and connect in person after a few years apart. One of the biggest take aways for us from the trip was the power of story and how crafting a...

This week we have special episode to celebrate our 10,000th tree planted with Reforest Now. For the past couple of years we’ve been donating a percentage of our profits to the Byron Bay based charity. $5 equals one rainforest tree planted, which means with your help we’ve been able to donate more than $50,000 so far. In this episode we chat to Reforest Now’s founder Maximo Bottaro. He’s a passiona...

This week I’m back with Tom Williams from Breath Performance to explore the concept of achilles tendinopathy - what it is, how it happens and what you can do about it based on the current research as well as our experience with our physiotherapy clients. If you’re struggling to make progress in your rehab, please feel free to reach out as we can either help you directly with our online consultatio...

This week I’m joined by Richard Game , who is a physiotherapist, performance coach and functional medicine practitioner based here in Brisbane. Throughout the episode we explore the differences between conventional or allopathic medicine and functional medicine, the concept of an evolutionary approach to health and how it relates to things like nutrition, movement and sunlight exposure, we also di...

This week I’m back with Tom Williams from Breath Performance to explore the concept of bunions - what they are, how they happen and what you can do about them based on the current research as well as our experience with our physiotherapy clients. If you’re struggling to make progress in your rehab, please feel free to reach out as we can either help you directly with our online consultations or ca...

This week I’m joined by Jeff Goff from Natur Athletics , which is a family-run startup based in the US that is developing a solution to the problem of athletic footwear. Throughout the episode we discuss the issues with conventional sports footwear and how these came about, the different dangers of our modern sporting culture, the power of movement variability and play for injury prevention and th...

This week I’m joined again by Tom Williams from Breath Performance Physio to chat all about Plantar Fasciitis - so what it is, why it happens and what you can do about it based on the current research and our experience with our physio clients. This is the first of many episodes that we’ll be doing on the common conditions that we see or get asked about with the aim of building awareness and under...

This week I chat with Bart De Vries who’s a New Zealand based physiotherapist and founder of Limber , which is an awesome growing company that is changing the game when it comes to dynamic desks and workstations that promote mobility and movement health.  Throughout the episode we explore Bart’s story and his experience with pain as an athlete and a physiotherapist, we discuss the history of...

This week I chat with   Tom Williams   from   Breath Performance Physio   all about the principles of injury rehabilitation - we delve into the importance of your beliefs and mindset, environmental and lifestyle factors, load management and progression and social support. We finish up with an actionable framework you can take into each rehab session along your journey.  TF...