RUNGA Radio

Dan Brulé is a master of pranayama and a firm believer in the transformative power of the breath. He’s been teaching breathing techniques for over fifty years, and he’s personally trained over 250,000 people, including elite warriors, martial artists, and Olympic athletes. Dan is the author of Just Breathe: Master Breathwork for Success in Life, Love, Business, and Beyond .  His mission is to spre...

 Today, I talk about brain health, spiritual growth, and EMF protection with Lance Schuttler. Lance is the CEO and owner of EMF Harmonize, an electromagnetic field (EMF) protection company. He’s also the co-founder of Ascent Nutrition, which provides high-quality holistic nutritional supplements to support optimal physical, mental, and spiritual health.  We discuss neurogenesis (the process throug...

Welcome to my first Instagram Live Q&A podcast, where I answer a bunch of your questions. Amongst other health-related topics, I talk about the benefits of walking after meals, consider whether you should walk fast or slow, and explain how long you should wait after eating before you walk or exercise. I dive into the difference between fasting for health and fasting for weight loss and respond...

This week I welcome holistic growth coach Alvey Thompson Junior onto the show.  Alvey and I first met when he was a guest at a RUNGA event, and we’ve been friends ever since. He’s a certified professional coach whose heart-centered approach to health focuses on emotional as well as physical well-being. He’s also an enthusiastic speed walker who took up the practice during the pandemic and posts in...

This Friday, I focus on healing the mind as well as the body.  At a time when many of us are experiencing stress and anxiety, my advice is to create a little more stillness in your life. If you can, try to avoid checking your phone or scrolling through social media for the first two hours of the day. Instead, I recommend going inwards and aiming to live a more heart-centered life free from unneces...

Today, I talk kettlebells with my guest Karen Smith, a certified master instructor for the StrongFirst School of Strength founded by Pavel Tsatsouline. Karen teaches on StrongFirst’s kettlebell and bodyweight courses, and she is also about to release her own e-book on bodyweight training. As one of the first women to claim the Iron Maiden title (awarded on successful completion of a pistol squat,...

In this solo show, I speak about how important it is to take a preventative and proactive approach to health rather than simply relying on doctors and pharmaceutical drugs to make us feel better. At a time when obesity rates are rising and physical fitness levels are declining, I believe we each have a personal responsibility to prioritize our health and fitness. Of course, if you’re a regular lis...

Today’s guest is Angelo Keely, the co-founder and CEO of Kion, a supplement and functional food company dedicated to helping people lead healthy and active lives. After studying religion, philosophy, and music at college, Angelo worked in France and India, where he completed an advanced yoga teacher training program at an ashram and volunteered at an orphanage. Prior to launching Kion with his co-...

Today, a week after returning from the longest Runga event we’ve delivered since 2018, I reflect on the energizing and healing effect of combining super-healthy food with a structured exercise program, targeted supplementation, and therapies such as hyperbaric oxygen and pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMF). The results are transformative; people leave revitalized and with a renewed determi...

In today’s episode, I chat with Lieutenant Mark Cucuzzella, a professor at West Virginia University’s School of Medicine and the author of Run for Your Life. Mark is a national-level Masters runner who has won the Air Force Marathon twice and has more than one hundred marathon and ultramarathon finishes to his name. He’s also in charge of the US Air Force’s Efficient Running Project and has presen...

This week, I welcome Dr. Dennis Rebelo back onto the show. In our previous podcast, we spoke about story-pathing and connecting to our purpose, and today, we discuss Dennis’s new book, ‘Story Like You Mean It’, which sets out how to build and use your personal narrative to illustrate who you really are. To make the storytelling process even more interesting and collaborative, Dennis has created a...

Welcome to this week’s AMA episode, where I chat about some of the health, nutrition, and fitness issues I’ve been asked about lately. I also share the 5-day supplement program I’ll be using with the corporate guests attending our live Runga Event at Lake Austin this week. The supplement protocol focuses on maximizing sleep, hydration, and immunity and consists of two shots of Quicksilver’s Immune...

My guest today is Dr. Jason Sonners, a certified hyperbaric practitioner and regenerative medicine specialist. Jason is the Director of NJ HBOT, a clinic in New Jersey that supports patients with various autoimmune and neurological conditions. Jason combines hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) with nutrition, exercise, and detoxification programs to guide his patients through their health challenges....

On this Friday’s show, I’ve decided to share a twenty-minute workout that builds on the alternating EMOM of ten kettlebell swings and ten push-ups that I talked you through in Episode 101. However, this routine focuses on power, endurance, and stamina, and it has more of a metabolic component which means you’ll have to work a little harder this time. Today’s EMOM consists of ascending reps of five...

This week, I sit for a second time with Dr. Michael Rintala. Dr. Rintala is a chiropractor specializing in chiropractic sports medicine and rehabilitation. He’s also an international instructor for the Prague School of Rehabilitation who uses the principles of Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) to help his patients recover from injury and improve their performance.  Since DNS works by train...

In this episode, I share the recent conversation I had with Strong Coffee founder Adam Von Rothfelder on his Up and Adam podcast. We talk about David Hawkins’ scale of consciousness and how negative emotions, such as fear, guilt, shame, and jealousy, keep us resonating at a lower vibration, whereas courage raises our levels of consciousness. As fathers and business owners, we compare notes on pare...

My guest today is conditioning and performance expert Joel Jamieson. Joel is an online educator who teaches fitness professionals how to write science-based conditioning programs that deliver real-world results. He is also the CEO and founder of Morpheus, the world’s first personal digital recovery system. Joel was one of the first people to realize the importance of using heart rate variability a...

Today I want to talk about the therapeutic effects of exposing the body to hormetic stressors such as exercise, fasting, and extremes of heat and cold. It’s important to remember that the benefits of these practices come with consistency. In the case of cold water immersion, I recommend trying to establish a routine that includes at least five cold showers and one ice bath per week. The water does...

In today’s episode, I chat with my old friend Jeff Vernon, creator of the Trueform Runner, a treadmill designed to improve running form. Talking to Jeff reminded me of the first time I tried the TrueForm. As I recall, it was a somewhat awkward experience with a crowd of people looking on and making me feel self-conscious about my performance. The TrueForm Runner is self-powered, and it was unlike...

In this solo episode, I talk about the importance of focussing on the foods and exercises that make the most difference to our well-being. If you follow me on Instagram, you may have noticed my recent post supporting the theory that ‘pulls are proteins, pushes are carbs, and swings and carries are fats.’ Basically, I believe that certain foods and exercises are more important for our health than o...

To follow on from my recent appearance on the Eben Flow podcast, Eben Britton joins me to talk about mindfulness, truth, and the healing power of cannabis. Eben is a former offensive lineman who played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Chicago Bears. He’s also a super-sensitive spiritual guy who studied creative writing at the University of Arizona and practices yoga, breathwork, and meditation...

In this solo episode, I talk about the four ways I’m bringing burpees back into my coaching programs. During my time as the Head of Sport for Spartan Race (where the penalty for failing to complete a challenge in a race was 30 burpees), I was responsible for making people do a lot of burpees. Perhaps understandably, ever since then, I’ve been reluctant to incorporate burpees into my training progr...

Today, I sit down for the second time with Daniel DeBaun, the founder of Defender Shield, a company that provides industry-leading protection against the electromagnetic (EMF) radiation emitted from our digital devices. Daniel is a former engineer who has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He is committed to helping people protect themselves from EMF radiation and has...

This Friday, I’m sharing a clip from my recent appearance on Eben Britton’s ‘Eben Flow’ Podcast. Eben is a former NFL player turned mindfulness practitioner and cannabis advocate. He’s a super-interesting guy, and we get into some profound and somewhat controversial topics in his show. My episode is called ‘Trust Thyself with Joe DiStefano’, and the first forty-five minutes are dedicated to kettle...

In this week’s show, I weigh up the benefits of the Carnivore Diet with cookbook author, chef,  and avid CrossFit competitor Erin Blevins. Erin has a background in competitive distance running, and she was introduced to CrossFit in 2016 while working as a chef for the Superman actor, Henry Cavill, during the filming of Justice League. As well as cooking for superheroes, Erin has worked as a nutrit...