The Michael Ostrolenk Show

Ostrolenk speaks with Merete Holm Brantbjerg, psychomotor-trainer and co-creator of Bodynamic Analysis, a somatic psychotherapy tradition developed in Denmark. Brantbjerg speaks about her approach, Relational Trauma Therapy, which combines psychomotor skill training and systems oriented work with the goal of establishing systems in which mutual regulation of what has been held in dissociation can...

Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Kirk Parsley, MD, a former Navy SEAL turned physician, turned physician for the SEALs, turned health and sleep optimization consultant and performances enhancement coach. Dr. Parsley discusses the importance of managing and minimizing stress, for which adequate sleep plays a key role. Managing stress not only benefits the individual, but the wider society, as it allows us...

Ostrolenk speaks with Joan Blades, co-founder of Living Room Conversations (https://www.livingroomconversations.org/), an open source effort to build respectful connections across ideological, cultural, and party lines while embracing our core-shared values. Blades details the purpose and process of Living Room Conversations, though which 2 people invite 2 friends into a six-person structured conv...

Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Amber Elizabeth Lynn Gray, an award winning dance movement therapist and a somatic/human rights psychotherapist. Dr. Gray has worked for many years with people who have survived human rights abuses, war, and torture. Dr. Gray details how various educational and career experiences, and ultimately her time in Rwanda, drove her decision to pursue her degree in Somatic Psycho...

Dan Grazier on the latest failures with the F-35: My conversation with Dan, Jack Shanahan Military Fellow, Center for Defense Information Straus Military Reform Project at POGO on his new report entitled “Uncorrected Design Flaws, Cyber-Vulnerabilities, and Unreliability Plague the F-35 Program”. In our interview Dan discusses the four lowlights from the director of operational test and evaluation...

Ostrolenk speaks with Chris Jones, owner of Synergy Float Center, www.synergyfloatcenter.com. Following his 26 years of military service, Jones discovered the value of holistic healing to combat PTSD while in Peru. Floating was recommended to Jones, and after trying it when back in the United States, he found it led to numerous personal health benefits. Jones decided to open his own Float Center,...

Ostrolenk speaks with Jim Turner, President of the National Institute for Science, Law, and Public Policy and a lawyer who has worked on health and food freedom issues. Turner offers that most arguments are bifurcated, leaving little room for agreement. Rather, issues should be seen through the transpartisan matix, which categorizes opinions both on their left-right nature and on their freedom-ord...

Ostrolenk and Gary Collins, host of Your Better Life podcast (https://www.thesimplelifenow.com/category/ybl-podcast/) and TheSimpleLifeNow.com, speak with Abel James, the Fat Burning Man (https://fatburningman.com/). James discusses his journey through the world of health and nutrition, including lessons learned and how the scene has evolved over time. Having observed some players stay true to the...

Ostrolenk speaks with Gary Collins, whose unique background in military Intelligence, the US Diplomatic Security Service, Department of HHS, and FDA, bring a multidisciplinary approach to his work on health and financial freedom. Collin details the ways that people unconscious spend money, and how money is an answer to freedom. Gary discusses how in various aspects of our lives we spent money due...

Ostrolenk speaks with Retired SGT. Jonathan Lubecky, a disabled Combat Veteran who served in Iraq from 2005-2006 and as a US Marine from 1995-1999. SGT. Lubecky suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a mortar impacted near him in Iraq in early 2006, and developed PTSD that exasperated the effects of his TBI. Although attesting that the US Army’s recognition and treatment of TBI and PTSD has...

Ostrolenk speaks with Chris and Holly Santillo of Five Backpacks Family (https://fivebackpacks.family/). Nearly a year ago, Chris and Holly sold most of their worldly possessions and took themselves and their three children on a journey across the US and Asia. Holly and Chris tell their tales of their travels, from visiting friends in the States, to following the silk road and walking across the b...

Ostrolenk speaks with Jeff Grant, Coach, Ultra Endurance Athlete, and author of several books on mind training and running. Grant discusses how he transitioned from a corporate lifestyle to coaching athletes to finish some of the toughest events on the planet, including desert and mountain ultra-marathons, Ironman Triathlons, SEALFIT Kokoro and long-distance open water swims. Grant also details hi...

Ostrolenk speaks with Erwan Le Corre, founder of MovNat, a forward-thinking approach to fitness that educates people to physical capability for the real-world. Natural movement is a philosophy, practice, and lifestyle based on humanity’s ancestral roots. Le Corre discusses his pathway to developing MovNat, including the skills encouraged of him in childhood and his early resistance to conventional...

Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Stuart Sovatsky, a marriage-family therapist for 44 years and author of Advanced Spiritual Intimacy (https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Spiritual-Intimacy-Tantric-Sensuality/dp/1620552647), Words From the Soul (https://www.amazon.com/Words-Soul-Spirituality-Psychotherapeutic-Transpersonal/dp/079143950X), and Your Perfect Lips (https://www.amazon.com/Your-Perfect-Lips-Spiritu...

Ostrolenk speaks with Joan Davis, a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, a Hakomi Sensorimotor Trauma Psychotherapist, and author of Origins: a body-based approach to developmental evolutionary process from preconception to standing. Davis describes her own background and what life experiences drove her engagement in self-exploration; she further details how she learned and practices body-mind cente...

Ostrolenk speaks with Joe Gagnon, an entrepreneur, bio-hacker, CEO of Performance Tea, CEO of Sparkcentral, and author of Living the High Performance Life, An Ordinary Joe’s Guide to the Extraordinary. Gagnon describes the importance that curiosity has played in his life, and how he ultimately decided to travel down the path his life is now on. Highlighting the pillars of his book – life, learning...

Ostrolenk speaks with Charlie Deist, a writer and radio producer, regular guest host of The Bob Zadek Show (http://www.bobzadek.com/), and master level MovNat trainer (www.movnat.com/). Deist discusses the importance of primal intelligence in fitness, including the value in engaging with stresses from our natural environment and exposing ourselves to the elements. His newest publication is a guide...

Charlie Deist, filling in for Bob Zadek, interviews Michael Ostrolenk on The Bob Zadek Show. Below is Deist's summary, and also find the interview on The Bob Zadek Show website (http://www.bobzadek.com/past-shows/2019/6/20/michael-ostrolenk). Michael Ostrolenk is host of the #OShow - a show exploring individual and social transformation. In this show, producer Charlie Deist asks Michael about his...

Ostrolenk speaks with Doctor Diaz, a Sports Psychology Consultant with a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Diaz focuses on teaching peak performance and mental wellness, primarily to athletes, through an embodied mind and body approach. Under high levels of stress, the human nervous system feed behavioral patterns that disrupt learned skills, resulting in under-performing. Conversely, an...

Gary Collins of The Simple Life interviews Michael Ostrolenk. Below is Collins' summary, and also find the interview on his website (https://www.thesimplelifenow.com/e9/). In this episode, I interview Michael Ostrolenk. Michael is a Master Coach/ Head Instructor at the Unbeatable Mind Academy and host of the Michael Ostrolenk Podcast. He is a licensed psychotherapist. Ostrolenk completed his MA in...

Ostrolenk speaks with Sheila Weinberg and Bill Bergman, from Truth in Accounting, which offers comprehensive analysis of government fiscal data on the federal, state, and local government level. Weinberg and Bergman express the importance of this analysis, noting that citizens don’t have the financial information needed to be knowledgeable participants in their governments. Truth In Accounting pub...

Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Lara Pence, a licensed clinical psychologist, who also serves a chief Wellness Specialist with Spartan Race. Dr. Pence discusses how she became a clinical psychologist and how her approach to working with her client’s has evolved over time. She also discusses how she transitioned to working with individuals, including professional athletes, who struggle in their relations...

Ostrolenk speaks with Serge Prengel, LMHC and author of Inspirational Fables: Bedtime Stories for Your Inner Child. Prengel details his experience guiding clients away from operating with a reactive mind, which is a primitive way of responding to stimuli. His view is that the mind can respond in a more positive and constructive way, and the body is involved in the process of response. Prengel disc...

Ostrolenk speaks with Michelle James, CEO of The Center for Creative Emergence and founder of Quantum Leap Business Improv. Michelle is an applied creativity catalyst, facilitator, and coach who has worked with diverse organizations – including Microsoft, PBS, NIH, Deloitte, Pepsi, and NOAA among others – using whole-brain and somatic creativity, including applied improvisation, to support better...

Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Marianne Brandon and Dr. Abraham Morgentaler. Dr. Brandon is a clinical psychologist and diplomat in sex therapy, and Dr. Morgentaler is an international authority on men’s health and a pioneer in the treatment of testosterone deficiency in men. Both doctors are the authors of several books. Ostrolenk, Mortentaler, and Brandon discuss the importance of physical health in...