Hardiness with Dr Paul Taylor

Today’s episode is a podcast share with my old mate ‘Bobby’ Cappuccio, who has been working in the health and fitness industry for two decades. Having grown up In Brooklyn, New York, Bobby now lives in LA, where he helps companies and individuals create positive change through mindset shifts. He’s a coach, a keynote speaker who’s presented at conferences all round the world, and he’s also a unique...

Today's episode is all about optimising your immune system and is a solo effort by Paul Taylor. In this episode, I go through a quick overview of the immune system and then explore a number of lifestyle factors to optimise the functioning of your immune system, with some of these practices being specific to Covid-19. Here are the research papers I mentioned: The paper on physical activity and...

As a top-level sport psychologist and performance consultant, Dr. Stan Beeham knows what it takes to succeed—on the playing field, in the board room, and in all aspects of life.  His award-winning book, Elite minds, takes you inside the minds of major-league athletes, Olympic medal winners, and world-class business leaders to reveal the key motivators and mental processes that drive people to vict...

Nir Eyal is a behavioural designer who has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. He is the bestselling author of "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" and "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life." His writing on technology, psychology, and business, appears in the Harvard Business Review, T...

My guest today has been variously described as success coach, high performance coach, leadership mentor, talent consultant, trusted advisor, speech writer and confidante.  Lisa Stephenson is also a published author and keynote speaker and has worked across a wide range of industries, with a focus on building success for individuals, teams and organisations. Today’s conversation started off on coac...

This episode is a podcast share with Craig Harper, host of The You Project Podcast.  In this wide-ranging conversations, Craig and I discuss a wide range of psychological phenomenon, from the placebo effect and how t harness it, to dodgy clinical trials and self-esteem bullshit. Enjoy... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My guest today is Trudy Boyle, an expert in Japanese Psychology, who specialises in running courses for people with chronic illness. Trudy formerly had cancer and used the techniques from Japanese Psychology to help her get through that period and for the last 11 years, Trudy has run programs on Living well with Cancer at Wellspring Calgary and has now published a book on thesubject.    In the pod...

Today’s interview is with a very special person, who I also have the pleasure of calling a friend. Ron Smith has had a pretty amazing journey, including being an apprentice jockey professional boxer, ultra-endurance athlete and reformed alcoholic, who at 77 years old, inspires many people, young and old, to a journey of lifelong health and fitness.    If you are interested in improving your life w...

In today's wide-ranging interview, I speak to Harvard-educated Elan Divon, an author, speaker, entrepreneur, podcast host and founder of the Divon Academy - an organisation that prepares professionals and students for success in this age of disruption by teaching critical soft skills - more on this at www.divonacademy.com Over the last decade Elan has translated his passion into helping peopl...

Its something that we could all use at times - an increase in will-power or self-control.  In this episode, I go into some iconic research studies in this area that reveal just how much of an influence that it has on our success in life. Then, more importantly, I go into a number of proven strategies for enhancing our self-control, under the structure of Angela Duckworth and James Gross 'Proc...

Today's episode is a solo one with yours truly, where I dig into the science of how exercise improves our mental health, boosts our cognition and reduces our risk of developing neurodegenerative disorders. There are a few patches of geeky science stuff, but that is balanced out with practical recommendations at the end. Please share with anyone who's interested in good mental and cogniti...

This is the second part of the interview with Lee Ellis.    Lee is a retired United States Air Force Colonel, award-winning author, speaker, and consultant. He was shot down and captured in the Vietnam war and spend 5 ½ years as a POW, including time at the notorious Hanoi Hilton.  Lee’s military decorations include a Bronze star, Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal and a Purpl...

My guest today is a very special individual. Lee Ellis is a retired United States Air Force Colonel, award-winning author, speaker, and consultant. He was shot down and captured in the Vietnam war and spend 5 ½ years as a POW, including time at the notorious Hanoi Hilton.  Lee’s military decorations include a Bronze star, Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal and a Purple Heart....

My Guest today is a qualified nutritional medicine practitioner and now Head of Healthcare Operations and Development for Queensland-based microbiome testing and research company, Microba.  Hayley Parcel leads a team of healthcare professionals to drive clinical understanding and implementation of gut microbiome analysis at Microba and today we do a truly fascinating deep dive into what cutting-ed...

My guest today is Jonas Salzgeber, author of the Little book of Stoicism . On his quest to be the best he can be, Jonas stumbled upon Stoicism – and got hooked. He digested everything he could on the subject and ended up writing a brilliant book full of practical advice on the most important step: to put the wisdom from book page to action. At the core of this actionable philosophy lies the goal o...

My guest today is one of those people that you read about and go – is that really possible? Lisa Tamati  is an extreme ultra endurance athlete  with a 25 year history of competing in the world's toughest endurance events and leading and participating in expeditions. She is the author of three best selling books , one of which tells the one in a million comeback story of bringing her mother ba...

This podcast was so good that I had to split it into 2 parts, and today is part 2. My guest today is Dr. Austin Perlmutter, who is a board-certified internal medicine physician and New York Times bestselling author.  His research interests are the factors that impact our decision-making and helping others to improve their decision-making and quality of life.  He is the co-author of the outstanding...

This podcast was so good that I had to split it into 2 parts! My guest today is Dr. Austin Perlmutter, who is a board-certified internal medicine physician and New York Times bestselling author.  His research interests are the factors that impact our decision-making and helping others to improve their decision-making and quality of life.  He is the co-author of the outstanding book Brain Wash and...

It’s not every day you get to interview a 35th generation Shaolin Master, and certainly not one with 2 University degrees, including an MBA! Master Shi Heng Yi has been studying Martial Arts since he was 4 years old and has been running the Shaolin Temple in Europe since 2010.  He is a contemporary monk who carries a smartphone and is focused on the sustainable development and spreading of the Sha...

My guest today is Dr. Michelle Segar .  She directs the University of Michigan’s Sport, Health, and Activity Research and Policy Center  and is the author of the critically acclaimed book, No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness . The book is being used as curriculum for nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, physician...

Today's episode is an exploration of your brain with a quite incredible person.  Baroness Susan greenfield is a professor at Oxford university, an honorary Australian and the CEO of a Biotech company called Neuro Bio.  She has published 10 books and been awarded 32 honorary degrees by British & foreign universities. Her work has aimed to uncover some of the most elusive questions about th...

Today's episode is a little different - it's a podcast share with Craig Harper, who interviewed me about my PhD research on his podcast, and it quickly turned into a conversation about performing under pressure, keeping our sh*t together in the mess and mayhem, psychological and physiological responses to stress, the impact of anxiety on skill level, concentration and performance and my ...

My guest today is one very successful and cool lady. She’s a self-made business icon (the type raised without the silver spoon!) who founded Boost Juice and has gone on to build a number of successful brands (Boost Juice, Salsa's Fresh Mex, CIBO Espresso and Betty's Burgers & CONCRETE CO) and she is a Director of both Retail Zoo and Michael Hill Jeweller.  She has been a panel member...

In this episode I interview the super-knowledgable Cognitive Psychotherapist and Stoic Philosophy expert Donald Robertson, author of the excellent book How To Think Like A Roman Emperor , as well as 5 other on Philosophy, Psychotherapy & Psychological skills Training. Donald takes us on a journey through ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, from Socrates to the Emperor  Marcus Aurelius, explori...

My guest today is one sharp cookie. Barbara Horowitz is a Cardiologist and Professor at UCLA, Professor of Medicine at Harvard and Professor of Evolultionary Biology at Harvard. She’s also a trained Psychiatrist for good measure  Today we discuss her recent focus on species-wide patterns in development in critical periods of life and her books Zoobiquity & Wildhood.  We explore what we can lea...