Barefoot Across Borders: Recent Episodes
Julia Chi
In this podcast, we investigate how to go beyond the boundaries that limit us from living our lives fully.
This week Julia talks about winning the Dublin Marathon in 1985 - and she also talks about running as a meditation on the move - and the metaphor of the running journey and the life journey from birth until we leave our body...
Julia Chi Taylor is a lifelong runner.
She has been running races for 50 years since the age of 12.
She ran at international level from the late 70's to early 90's representing GB and England in races from 5k to marathon.
Her fastest 5k in the 80's was 15.50 and her marathon personal best is 2.36.31.
She has a wealth of experience from her years as a competitor, and she has been a coach nearly as long!
In the series, she will explore each week aspects of the running journey with reference to freeing ourselves from the boundaries that prevent us from living in a state of joy creativity and fulfilment
In the week after the London Marathon, Julia talks about her first marathon in 1982 and some of her ideas about training to run 26.2 miles...
Julia Chi Taylor is a lifelong runner.
She has been running races for 50 years since the age of 12.
She ran at international level from the late 70's to early 90's representing GB and England in races from 5k to marathon.
Her fastest 5k in the 80's was 15.50 and her marathon personal best is 2.36.31.
She has a wealth of experience from her years as a competitor, and she has been a coach nearly as long!
In the series, she will explore each week aspects of the running journey with reference to freeing ourselves from the boundaries that prevent us from living in a state of joy creativity and fulfilment
Julia Chi Taylor is a lifelong runner.
She has been running races for 50 years since the age of 12.
She ran at international level from the late 70's to early 90's representing GB and England in races from 5k to marathon.
Her fastest 5k in the 80's was 15.50 and her marathon personal best is 2.36.31.
She has a wealth of experience from her years as a competitor, and she has been a coach nearly as long!
In the series, she will explore each week aspects of the running journey with reference to freeing ourselves from the boundaries that prevent us from living in a state of joy creativity and fulfilment
Julia Chi Taylor is a lifelong runner.
She has been running races for 50 years since the age of 12.
She ran at international level from the late 70's to early 90's representing GB and England in races from 5k to marathon.
Her fastest 5k in the 80's was 15.50 and her marathon personal best is 2.36.31.
She has a wealth of experience from her years as a competitor, and she has been a coach nearly as long!
In the series, she will explore each week aspects of the running journey with reference to freeing ourselves from the boundaries that prevent us from living in a state of joy creativity and fulfilment
Sinead established her sports nutrition company Feed Fuel Perform in 2018.
She describes her work as "Helping athletes optimise performance through nutrition tailored to their training, physiology and lifestyle."She continues
We are what we eat: what we eat and drink becomes the building blocks of our body and the fuel we run on.
So what we eat impacts our physical capacity and performance.
Feed.Fuel.Perform offers Nutrition Coaching and Education to help athletes use nutrition to optimise their training, recovery and performance.
In this podcast Sinead shares with us her passion for research and tells us how this brought her to Sports Nutrition via working in the corporate world; and how her love of investigating processes and solutions links her profession with her own life journey to date!
Matt Shore is a performance coach; his company is called Coaching Shore.
In his work, he helps people to become stronger fitter and more capable on all levels.
Matt works face to face with people in Deptford London at the Commando Temple and in Eastbourne East Sussex, and with clients all over the globe online.
Matt is also a mountain leader, and has undertaken some big challenges himself including summiting Aconcagua, the highest peak at 6962 metres outside the Himalayas in 2020.
He talks in this podcast about his most recent body building challenge, where he embarked on a personal transformation over a ten week period.
The results in his photos speak for themselves - but here Matt describes the process that has brought him to the best shape of his life at forty six years old
Ben Weeks is a barefoot runner; he started wearing zero drop running shoes 15 years ago and hasn't looked back - he feels that it improves his running style, posture and performance.
He has since moved into completely barefoot for much of his running,
Barefoot running is intended to be a pure way of running, as your body and moreover your feet and legs do as they where built to do.
Barefoot running in its minimalist style, has become an analogy for Ben's family life.
he explains how they rarely eat processed foods, and try and cook everything they eat
Also, when they need something for the house, they try and make it.
The Barefoot Daddy has developed out of a desire to share how we do it, so that others, perhaps, can take something that we are doing and try it themselves.
24 weeks ago Ben created 'The Barefoot Crew 5k' - an ever growing group on instagram which is proving to be very popular
For the video links, Ben mentions in the podcast, he has this playlist link on his channel, that has them all in including the breathing podcast, the earthing movie that Ben talks about in the podcast and a couple of other things of interest.
The Book he talks about is The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss, and to read part one of Ben's personal journey, click here
Jamie Jeffery has many things that could serve as an introduction to this podcast.
He has represented Britain as an acrobatic gymnast and achieved a silver medal in the European Championships in 2019.
He could also be described as an Artist and a Writer...
But here Jamie shares with us about his journey to encountering himself through his activities and endeavours and what this means to him.
Recently Jamie ruptured his achilles tendon, and speaks candidly about the process.
He talks about how he has gained a greater level of self awareness through the injury and the subsequent journey to health .
Julian Oakland shares with us his running journey and how he came to start running in races and enjoy training to improve his times.
Julian started on the LIFFE floor as a trainee in early 1995, and next month will 'celebrate' 25 years of actually trading.
He talks about his career as a derivatives trader and the positive attitude he has, that cross over and supports him in his career and sport.
He shares with us how he developed his resilience and investigates how he applies this in all areas of life, without stress.
'When it doesn't go so well there's always tomorrow'....
He shared with us his goals in terms of times over distances from 5k - 1/2 marathon and a personal challenge to run twenty five Ealing half marathons. He ran the first one 10 years ago - and each one ( including virtual during lockdown) since.
Athena Jane Churchill is an Artist
She creates installations, imaginary worlds, projects and experiences inviting viewers, participants and audiences to step into a world between the real and the imagined and journey within.
Recently she created a site specific installation called 'Free as a Bird' and in this podcast she speaks to us about the process that led to the installation at the same time as caring for her mother.
During the exhibition her mother Sandy, was coming to the end of her life, and she died the day after Jane's exhibition.
Jane talks candidly about the experience and shares with us how she lived all that was going on - I witnessed her during this time and she did so with enormous presence and grace
More about her work....
It includes:
Theatre set design
Visual Arts in many different media
Heritage Artist
Creator of Imaginary worlds.
Curator.
Project leader
Art Engagement Artist
Community Artist
Creative Development with organisations, museums, schools and communities.
One to One Creative Development for Individuals.
Her work encompasses all these realms and she loves living a creative life following her inspiration, creating artwork in many ways and working with people.
Her work is highly imaginative expressing her inner world, at times that takes the form of theatre sets or walk through installations, gallery exhibitions, or art that appears in unexpected places. Sometimes it is tiny boxes of memories and dreams. Sometimes it takes the form of creating projects and working with others to help them develop their creativity.
This is the second podcast with Juan and Monika Steigerwald where they go deeper into how they have consciously created their dream life.
They explore mind set, motivation and managing self effectively, amongst many more wonderful insights into living a fulfilling life with joy and creativity.
Juan and Monika are the founders of Wave :Business Excellence Footprint which is an environmentally friendly training company that boosts quality, efficiency, CSR and sustainability initiatives.
Previously they spent twenty years in the corporate world, both achieving high levels of success and excellence.
In this podcast they share with us, how they went beyond boundaries to leave the safety of the life they were used to and instead created something entirely different.
They also share how taking off their shoes to live a barefoot lifestyle have been part of the transformation.
'Become the best version of yourself with Ben Parker'
Ben is a running and fitness coach for all levels, and earlier this year he launched
The RunBuddy
In the Podcast Ben talks about The Run Buddy and how you can get your perfect training plan when you sign up - and for listeners of this podcast here is a discount code JULIA20
Ben shares with us his own fitness journey and subsequent running and triathlon successes; he completed his first 'ironman' in 2018 and is now ranked 4th in his age group in the UK.
He tells of how his love of sport has developed into the thriving business he now runs.
Ben's work has taken him around Europe and the UK and he is now based in Richmond London
He is also a barefoot runner and we talk about the benefits and how it can be integrated into training and racing performance
This is Part 2 of a conversation with Cathy Ulliott where she shares with us that she is on a regrouping exercise open to connecting with others , with a website that is now up and running !
Self love before sixty will run for 28 months or end sooner if the issue of self love is resolved.
Anyone who would like to hop aboard and join the journey please subscribe !
Cathy completed her first marathon in London in 1997, she went on to compete in seven more London marathons.
She worked through some years of chronic injury to then compete in seven Brighton marathons.
Her marathon time has reduced from just inside 4.30 for her first run, to 3.05 and seen her compete 3 times for England V 55, with a fourth due to happen this year in York.
This is podcast part 2 where Cathy talks in more depth about her new website and blog
'Self Love before 60' and shares with us the lessons learned through her work and her running and how both were helpful in each area.
The conversation is a reflection on a lifetime of working and running life.... In particular wondering if there is such a thing as being overly determined and what the possible costs of this might be ? Whether the blinkering that comes with the relentless pursuit of goals can stop us from allowing for the unexpected and unimagined, the possibility even of winning!
How goals or boundaries can be as experienced as pressurising and even limiting by closing our minds to a wider range of possibilities, and whether it is possible to adopt a more self nurturing mindset but still embrace the pain needed to succeed and win and how to achieve that balance.
Steve Walker is a veteran of the Royal Ordnance Corps.
This is the fourth in a series - the other three can be found in Bodhisattva Conversations with
Steve was homeless for many years, from 1996 until Gary Stockton of Phoenix Heroes
helped him to go into rehab and start a new life.
For 18 months Steve lived without drugs, but life became too difficult and for awhile he relapsed, but it was Gary who encouraged him to start a new life.
and on March 19th 2021 he set off for Wigan where Steve has been living without drugs and doing a lot of fishing...
In this podcast he tells us about his ongoing journey.
Stuart Armstrong is a fundraiser extraordinaire, raising over £50 million in a career spanning twenty five years.
He is author of the book 'Fundraising : the essentials for success revealed in under 1 hour'
In this podcast Stuart talks about how he went to boarding school at three years old, and then his mother was killed in an air crash when he was just nine years old.
He adapted to these huge events with great self reliance.
This quality has stood him in good stead at every turn in his life as he went on the create his own communications business which after the tragic death of his wife Ruth lead him into fundraising
Juan and Monika Steigerwald are the founders of Wave :Business Excellence Footprint which is an environmentally friendly training company that boosts quality, efficiency, CSR and sustainability initiatives.
Previously they spent twenty years in the corporate world, both achieving high levels of success and excellence.
In this podcast they share with us, how they went beyond boundaries to leave the safety of the life they were used to and instead created something entirely different.
They talk about the conscious creating of their dream life and how a change to a vegan diet and taking off their shoes to live a barefoot lifestyle have been part of the transformation.
Cathy Ulliott completed her first marathon in London in 1997, she went on to compete in seven more London marathons.
She worked through some years of chronic injury to then compete in seven Brighton marathons.
Her marathon time has reduced from just inside 4.30 for her first run, to 3.14 and seen her compete 3 times for England V 55, with a fourth due to happen this year in York.
Cathy was also a consultant psychiatrist for twenty years for older people until she retired in 2018.
She has recently taken up writing and is finding it both cathartic and creative.
She is interested to explore how much of what she learned through running sustained her in her working life - and vice versa....
She also has a new blog called 'Self love before sixty'
This is part 1 of a two part podcast where Cathy shares with us her life stories, running stories and her insights.
Anadi James Taylor practised Kung Fu to a high level between 2000 and 2008...
In 2005 he travelled to China to train with the Shaolin monks to experience for himself how they practise with and build the flow of Chi.
In this podcast he shares with us how he stretched his boundaries to the max!
Julia Chi's running career spans over 50 years, She was an international marathon runner in the '80s with a personal best time of 2:36:31.
This is part 2 - in part 1 Julia described her early years as a runner; starting barefoot and moving into wearing light shoes as the competition became more serious!
In this podcast she talks of her return to barefoot running - and the journey to realise this after spending £100's of orthotics to help re align and allow pain free running.
It took 15 years, but she eventually shed not only the orthotics, but the shoes as well!
She also talks about the plan her feet have for her next year... To run from John O'Groats to Lands end in her bare feet in aid of the charity Crisis
Tim Crook has been a lawyer for all of his professional life.
In 2003 he created his business 'Housing Law Services'.
In this podcast he shares the process of building it to be a renowned and highly successful enterprise to completing its sale, this April 2021.
In 2017 he created 'The Bavard Bar' which is a live show and which Tim describes as... 'A blend of Ted, comedy and Radio 4'
Tim also explores how his energy and motivations have shifted as he has discovered him-self more fully
Julia Chi's running career spans over 50 years, She was an international marathon runner in the '80s with a personal best time of 2:36:31.
In this podcast, Julia talks about her early years and how she went beyond the boundaries to put her on the road to realising her dreams.