Pushing The Limits

Natasha Sekulic is an overachiever. A young, ambitious Australian woman who is mild mannered lawyer by day an adventure seeking, limit pushing, kick ass ultrarunner by night.    Having no athletic background at all, she decided to run a half marathon to deal with the grief from a bad break up. Shortly after that, she was diagnosed with bipolar. In 2013, she took the plunge and entered the Big Red...

Dr Bill Henry Andrews, Ph. D. is an American molecular biologist and gerontologist whose career has centered on searching for a cure for human aging. Andrews is the founder and president of the biotechnology company Sierra Sciences.   Aging is a complex and difficult topic that has been the centre of attention of many scientists for centuries. That's also what Bill Andrews, Ph. D. has made his cha...

Canadian Carl Wright  is a Blogger, Warehouse Worker, Lay Pastor, Family Man and an ultramarathon runner. He only started running 4 years ago at the age of 56 and now at age 60 he is attempting to do his first 100 miler after already having achieved, the half marathon, marathon, 50km and 80km distances. He is a student in my "Mindset Academy" and this episode is actually a coaching call I did with...

Dr Susan Oldfield hails originally from England and completed her medical training in the UK at UCL medical school, obtaining MBBS. After this she went on to complete a Diploma in Family Planning as well as a Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, whilst completing her GP training and gaining the qualification MRCGP in the UK. Her family and her decided to move to NZ in 2004. She then obtained GP...

Run Coaches Lisa Tamati and Neil Wagstaff talk about using a checklist to check in with your body everyday and learning to gauge from that your body's preparedness for your training sessions. Training programmes shouldn't be arbitrary but rather take into account your daly performance ability according to your ratings on different aspects of your life. For example how do you rate your hydration, y...

Rob has been leading and guiding people in business, outdoor adventure and personal growth for twenty years. He has traveled extensively throughout the world on climbing, kayaking, mountain biking and multisport expeditions and has experience as a certified mountain guide, search and rescue operator and working with adaptive athletes and injured veterans in the outdoors. Along the way he's climbed...

Ultramarathon runners and coaches Lisa Tamati and Neil Wagstaff of  www.runninghotcoaching.com  talk about their running and coaching journey together.  How Coach Neil took Lisa's already strong ultramarathon running career to a whole new level and how he learnt so much for his own coaching and running career along the way.  Lisa and Neil talk about what Lisa was doing wrong when they met, how the...

Meet my wonderful and inspiring friend Molly Sheridan of Reno, Nevada. Molly and I met while running the Badwater Ultramarathon through Death Valley, then again the La Ultra 222km at altitude in the Himalayas. She is a truely inspiring woman with an inspiring story. At 48 years old Molly entered her first marathon. Four weeks into training she injured her foot and was told that she was too old to...

If you are just starting out as a newbie runner or perhaps you have been at it for a while but want to improve your running experience, times, distances or enjoyment, then Lisa shares with you on this podcast some of her favourite quick win, running tips. Things you may have already heard but forgotten as well as some completely new insights and ninja tips learned through hard won experience.  So...

In this episode Lisa discusses proper breathing technique  and why it is so very important for health. The benefit list is long. But most people in our modern society don't breath properly i.e. diaphragmatic breathing for a number of reasons. The benefits Proper breathing helps with: relieving anxiety, stress and tension can stop panic attacks Helps our psychological state and helps us to control...

Mal Law is a living trail running legend.  His life philosophy is summed up in this one sentence. Dream Big. Live Big. Do Good. Inspire People. These are the beliefs that drive his passion for 'adventures with a cause'.  From early childhood he  devoured stories of great adventurers and explorers and  always dreamed big and imagined great adventures of his own, but until quitting a successful mark...

Te Radar (Andrew J Lumsden) is an award winning satirist, documentary maker, writer, stage and screen director, failed gardener, and amateur historian. He was also the presenter of six top rating TVNZ documentary series, Global Radar, Radar Across the Pacific, Radar's Patch, Off the Radar, Hidden In The Numbers and Homegrown. Global Radar won the 2012 New Zealand Television Award for Best Informat...

Dr Lior Rauchberger talks in this interview about the future of personalised health care through the use of DNA tests. Simple swab tests can now reveal how your body will uniquely respond to some medicines, what you eat and drink, and how you exercise. MyDNA is helping move healthcare from offering solutions that work for most people, to finding what is best suited to your body. Less 'one-size-fit...

Chris McDougall is the world wide best selling Author of Born to Run and Natural Born Heroes. Two books that have revolutionised the running world and bought to the fore the discussions around human endurance, the history of running, the ability of people to run incredible distances and the barefoot running revolution. In this fireside chat we discuss how he writes his incredibly entertaining and...

In this solocast Lisa talks about the different types and styles of leadership. The different phases that a leader can go through throughout the stages of their career. She gives examples and stories of the differing leadership archetypes and how to transition between different leadership facets in a given role.  She talks of the character traits necessary to engender respect, trust, loyalty and m...

Ben Warren, founder of Be Pure is all about designing a scientifically driven  and holistic health and nutrition programme for the individual. Helping clients with difficult chronic health issues through eating plans and supplementation designed according to their profile and genetic type. Ben believes that our health and optimal energy is influenced by what we eat, how we move, how we sleep and h...

Many have come to know about Barefoot Ted through the pages of Christopher McDougall's best-selling book Born to Run Barefoot Ted spent over a decade mastering natural running techniques, and is an accomplished athlete known for self-experimentation and testing his natural human capabilities. He is founder and president of LUNA Sandals, the adventure sandal company based in Seattle, and Solowheel...

David has participated in adventure Sports for more than 30 years and have competed in the Coast to Coast One Day, Southern Traverse, Arrow Adventure Race Series and every North Island Multisport race held in the 1990's. David has instructed in the Outdoors since 2000 in kayaking, caving, climbing and tramping. He keeps current by continuing to find challenges in the outdoors and spends a huge amo...

Epigenetics is about to change the way we view our health and fitness, how we understand the expression of our genes. But what is epigenetics? We won't go into the deep scientific defintion here rather look at how a particular assessment tool can help you interpret your own epigenetics and how it can improve your life, your health, fitness even your mindset, career direction and understand how you...

Lisa Tamati Ultramarathon athlete, Author, health,fitness and mindset coach interviews Angela Jenkins and David Liow from the Kaizen Institute from the Sunshine Coast in Australia about their holistic health and fitness programmes, their hormonal and food allergy testing procedures or health diagnostics and epigenetics. We find out what the future of personalised health and fitness programmes look...

Dr Nick Kimber is passionate about helping people get their nutrition dialled in. Whether you are an elite endurance athlete or an executive battling the bulge.   Educating and empowering others to become the best version of themselves through optimal nutrition is his life's work. Dr Nick has developed an easy to follow framework that never leaves you hungry, is flexible, includes readily availabl...

Learn to win in the mind before going into battle. Understand what a growth mindset it and how to harness your potential through passion, finding your why, discovering your purpose and developing your core set of values that inform your actions.  Understand the self talk required for achieving lofty goals and develop the depth of your self awareness so you can work on the traits and skills you wil...

Exercise physiologist Neil Wagstaff and Ultra marathon athlete Lisa Tamati from Running Hot Coaching ( www.runninghotcoaching.com)  talk about ideal running form, how to strengthen your body to run faster for longer, the importance of the kinetic chain, running drills and much more around running and fitness. Here is a  link to a pdf's on the drills we mentioned in the podcast.  Form drills  https...

Ever wanted to know about Autonomous vehicles, the future of transportation, yoga, mindset, controlling your autonomous nervous system, racism or autism, savant syndrome,  then this extremely interesting man and this interview has some thing for you. Dave Verma was born in India in 1967 in very humble circumstances and following immigration in 1970 at the age of three into a frequently hostile env...

Mindset expert and ultra marathon athlete Lisa Tamati talks about her secrets to being able to tackle the biggest and scariest of projects and not giving in. It's all about using accountability on different levels to keep yourself focused on the end goal. Building a framework that helps you keep the discipline going to get where you want to be. Check out the mental toughness, resilience and leader...