The Motivational Dude Podcast: Recent Episodes
Ross Anderson
The Motivational Dude Podcast is for those who seek to create a happy, healthy and fulfilling life! Each week your host Ross Anderson (The Motivational Dude!) will explore the disciplines necessary for you to optimise your mind and body and outline the practical steps you need to take to do so. All delivered with the perfect balance of silly, serious and science! Topics will include nutrition, neuroscience, sleep, meditation, gut health, fitness, motivation and more. Ross is a psychologist and wellbeing expert. His passion is the science and wisdom of wellbeing; his purpose, to optimise lives.
In this episode you'll discover:
-your two age types (bio and chrono)
-how stress can heavily impact your biological age
-how meditation can positively impact your biological age
-how you can reverse ageing
-some specific benefits of meditation
In this episode you'll discover:
-the 3 types and what they represent
-an exercise to get you on track (or back on track)
-some questions we all should be asking ourselves
In this episode you'll discover:
-A conversation between two people that speaks volumes
-A question well worth pondering
-An exercise for helping your find your purpose, or at least move toward it
-The power of a toilet pan
In this episode you'll discover:
-how many of us perceive fear and how its holding us back
-how to deal with fear
-how to be more courageous when facing your fears
In this short episode you'll discover:
- the thought process of a double champ (UFC and olympian)
- a 3 step process you must embrace if you are to achieve great success
- why 99% of people fail to realise their goals and dreams
In this episode you will discover:
- the untapped power of having the right kind of relationships
- How to assess your relationships so you can move forward and experience a better life
- 3 types of friends and the impact of each on your life
- some wise wisdom from Ross's Grandmother (who needs Socrates when you have gran)
Let's experiment!
Learn a simple scientific method to positively shift your mental state in as little as 30 seconds so as to feel less anxious and stressed and more grounded, positive and in control.
In this short episode you'll discover:
- One of the key factors that negatively impacts our sleep
- How this factor may also contribute to weight gain
- One quick and simple sleep tactic to sleep better, feel better and live healthier
Years ago someone taught me a very wise way of looking at nutrition.
Rather than making things difficult, this individual taught me to take a simple approach. Smart but simple.
Listen in so you too can utilise this advice.
In this short episode you’ll discover:
- the benefits of fasting
- why fasting is key for rejuvenation
- a tool that can rebalance your gut in as little as 24 hours
In this episode I share the details of some of my biggest challenges and how that lead to me being who I am and doing what I do.
Topics covered:
- Divorce
- Emotional Pain
- Education & Teenage Life
- Addiction
- Mental Illness
- Transformation
The 30 day Motivational Dude wellbeing challenge is designed to help you begin mastering the fundamentals (once and for all) to create new, more empowering health habits in 2019.
The challenge itself focuses on four major components of wellbeing: how to eat, sleep, move and think optimally. The end of each section will culminate with an aim and by the end of parts A and B you will have all you require to elevate you health and happiness this year.
*The podcast will be conducted almost like you were having a health consultation with Ross.
Time stamps for those who want to get stuck in:
0-9:50 NEWS FROM THE HOLIDAY SEASON. The good, the bad and the ugly.
12:10-18:17 FRAMING THE CHALLENEGE
18:17-39:40 SECTION 1 MOVEMENT
39:52-END SECTION 2 MENTAL TRAINING
The 30 day Motivational Dude wellbeing challenge is designed to help you begin mastering the fundamentals (once and for all) to create new, more empowering health habits in 2019.
The challenge itself focuses on four major components of wellbeing: how to eat, sleep, move and think optimally. The end of each section will culminate with an aim and by the end of parts A and B you will have all you require to elevate you health and happiness this year.
*The podcast will be conducted almost like you were having a health consultation with Ross.
Time stamps for those who want to get stuck in:
0:54-1:19 Intro Jingle
01:20-21:40 SECTION 3 NUTRITION
21:41-36:54 SECTION 4 SLEEP
37:50-40:30 RECAPPING THE CHALLENGE AIMS
40:30-49:24 THE MINDSET REQUIRED FOR THE CHALLENGE
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*Any questions regarding the challenge or resources, simply message Ross via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/themotivationaldude/?hl=en OR on his website www.themotivationaldude.com
Thinking caps on, dudes.
Honestly, how many times last year did you sit down (at a table) with a plate of food and fully engage with it?
No phones, TVs or iPads. Just you and your food.
My guess is not many.
I belive being a little more mindful with our food can serve us all on some level, especially in a world that seems to do its best to steal from us the most precious of moments.
So as the year begins and you're thinking about how you'd like to better operate in 2019, take 5 minutes out your day to tune in and tune out distraction. Dive into this 5 minute mindful eating challenge and see what comes of it.
In this podcast you’ll discover:
-An experiment that will help you create new, healthier eating principles
-How to supercharge the joy you experience when eating
-A simple seven step routine that will help you eat your food mindfully, not mindlessly
-A fun and educational experience you can perform with friends and family over dinner to bring your closer together
-A task that'll unveil how disconnected you've become with our food
This thought of the day explores the link between depression and an area of the brain associated with memory and emotion.
In this episode you’ll discover:
-A simple sleep assessment task to improve your sleep
-How sleep can negatively impact your physiology
-The dietary factors your body requires for optimal sleep
-The role melatonin (the get good sleep hormone) has on our sleep
-How menopausal related sleep problems could be improved with this one sleep strategy
-The chemical chain of events that has to occur for you to sleep like a baby
LINK
Foods High In Tryptophan
https://www.myfooddata.com/articles/high-tryptophan-foods.php
In this episode you’ll discover:
-The Motivational Myth- a formula that explains motivation >think: (B)ehaviour first! Not (F)eeling first
-How motivation is overrated
-A brain study that speaks to how to break free from the stress and tension that comes with procrastination
-A quote that changed the game for me
-What the mentality of high a achiever looks like
In this episode you’ll discover:
-Why some people are really happy and others are really unhappy
-More about the world of positive psychology
-Some of the best (well researched) tactics for attaining true happiness
-How to live a more happy and fulfilling life
-An explorative experiment (challenge) that will broaden your understanding of what happiness is
-The difference between hedonic and philanthropic behaviours
In this episode you’ll discover:
-How meditation boosts your immune system
-How mediation can help you recover from the common cold and flus
-What NK cells are and their use
Thought of the Day
Anxiety. Stress. Overwhelm. No Motivation.
Feelings we’ve all felt when facing or contemplating a major goal, task or project in life.
These feelings can prevent us from taking action.
They can prevent us from being and doing our best.
However!
When thinking of or faced with a goal, task or project, most of us focus on ends. Meaning, we focus on the end product (the result).
The huge 15,000 word essay.
That talk in front of 250 of your colleagues.
The 30lbs of fat you need to lose.
Running a 26 mile marathon when you’ve barely ran the length of yourself
If we focus on ends we make things difficult for ourselves.
First, this product (ends) focused thinking may stop you from doing anything worthwhile at all.
And then if you do manage to get started, focusing on the product will burden you further, limiting your ability to enjoy the process and produce the best results you can.
An so, in this short Thought Of The Day we explore (with a story) how focusing on the process NOT the product will help you:
-Get started
-Achieve more
-Boost motivation
-Improve task/project/goal enjoyment
-Optimise your performance to produce your best.
In this episode you'll discover:
-How the gut and the brain communicate
-Some interesting gut facts
-Several toxic foods you don’t want in your diet
-2 universally indisputable nutritional facts
-Psychobiotics and how they may be the answer
-A health rhyme to help you make better dietary decisions
In this episode you’ll discover:
-How to sit when mediating
-The power of body posture and positioning on your psychology and physiology
-The sad reality of the ihunch
-How certain body positions can change your brain waves and leave you feeling more calm, centred and creative
Remember! mind feeds body; body feeds mind
Meditation is way more than 10/20 minutes of sit down practice, meditation can and should be used beyond that. This short episode speaks to that very idea. We don’t just meditate to be good meditators; we mediate to be better people.
How do you eat your food?
Are you a mindless or mindful eater?
In this episode you’ll discover:
-The definition of mindfulness meditation and how it can be applied to many things (food included) to great effect
-The connection between chewing and your health
-How to create the perfect conditions to eat healthfully
-What mirror neurones are and how understanding them can help elevate your health
-How to gamify your eating experience
-Mental tools to help you approach your food intelligently to better your eating habits
*Note! This is a bonus piece from an online training course on mindful eating. The audio has been taken from a video.
In this introductory episode you will discover WHO I am, WHAT I do & most importably WHY I do it. I will also explain what you can expect from the show. An extended and more in depth introductory episode will be available very soon.