Life is Curious: Recent Episodes
Simon Dannapfel
Life is Curious (formerly The Fitness To Health Podcast), is an exploration of life, full health and the human experience through the eyes and ears of host Simon Dannapfel and his guests.
In this episode, I visited sports performance coach and scientist Bam Hennessy at his gym in Helsinki where, among many others, he coaches the Finnish Women´s Rugby 7´s team. The gym, called The Clubhouse (@theclubhousehelsinki and www.clubhousehelsinki.com), caters for athletes of all levels and was founded by Bam and his Finnish wife Heidi. Our discussion centred primarily around the topics of coaching, communication, and our mutual interest in sports performance, while touching upon related topics such as research and social media. It was a fun and thoughtful discussion that I enjoyed immensely, with many useful insights to take away that I am sure you will also have when you join us to listen. You can find out more about Bam on Instagram either via the Clubhouse or his own profile @bamrugby. His aim in the future is to continue some sort of career in research, with a focus mostly on female team sports athletes, load management and the impact of the menstrual cycle.
Join me and Andrew for a conversation about life through the lens of coffee and cafe culture, the nuances and quirks of culture, entrepreneurship and life balance. This easy-going episode flowed through our mutual experiences and looking at health in a different lens, while noting that priorities do change over time. Enjoy this episode and Andrew´s chilled take on life over a cup of good coffee and relaxed vibes.
To find out more about Andrew and his cafe, visit https://www.stayfriendly.coffee, @stayfriendlycoffee and @thefriendlysamoan (both on Instagram).
My guest today is none other than Julian Roach, an experienced and well-travelled physiotherapist currently based in Toronto, Canada.
As a longterm clinical practitioner, former athlete, family man and businessman, Julian brings an interesting and deep expertise to the topic of exercise, health and performance as it pertains particular to the area of physiotherapy, but also in the context of achieving the best outcomes for a variety of different people and cases.
We discuss a range of topics including the influence of having lived in multiple countries and the lessons learned from experience as well as what the future may hold for physiotherapy.
I enjoyed this discussion immensely and look forward to sharing with you all.
The video version of this episode and the time-stamped show notes can be found at https://www.simondannapfel.com/podcastblog
Ways to get in touch or find out more about Julian:
IG: Julianroachpt
Twitter: BajanPhysio1
Facebook: Julian Roach
website: www.julianroach.com
Physelite: www.physelite.com
In this episode I am very happy to bring to you my conversation with Jonathan Goodman. To start, here is a little background on Jonathan: He is working to bring the fitness industry together. Since 2011 he's published 11 books, welcomed over 20M visitors to his website, and sold over 250,000 educational items to health and fitness enthusiasts. Originally from Toronto, Coach Goodman has enjoyed over 1,300 days exploring the world with his young family. Coaches, like me, know him from his outstanding education for taking our coaching work online which in these current times is even more important than it has ever been. With Jonathan we discussed being human in an online world, what is important in business (particularly as it relates to the fitness industry) including focusing on quality over quantity. We also talked about living in an unconventional way (in Jonathan´s case traveling for significant periods of time with a young family) while remaining grateful for what we have … and much much more. I had a lot of fun in this episode and really enjoyed what was a genuine and deep chat with a very interesting guy. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did…for a full outline of topics covered and to find out more about Jonathan, have a look in the show notes.
Find out more about Jonathan’s Personal Trainer Development Center here: https://www.theptdc.com Follow Jonathan on Instagram here: https://urlgeni.us/instagram/CoachGoodman
Show Notes 03:26 Being a genuine human in an online world and how Jonathan has returned to this ethos being first and foremost 7:00 The two questions about business that helped Jonathan make changes 8:50 Caring about others and the steps to really engage with your community online 10:20 A rhetorical question that makes you think more deeply about how we interact with businesses 15:00 What was the thing or things that lead Jonathan to change how he was doing things 25:00 What Jonathan is focusing on now in business and why 31:50 Advice from a monk about knowing how much is enough in life 34:20 Taking action 40:00 What Jonathan cares most about in the fitness industry 42:00 Jonathan makes sure he keeps fit and healthy and what time management is really about 48:00 Why Jonathan travel with his family so much 55:20 Define your potential worst case scenario to helps you move to action and try what is possible
This was a very cool conversation with Jorge as a guest on his podcast Exploring Journey about migration, meditation, creating communities, parenthood and much much more.
Join Aleks for the second half of our interview in which we chat about daily routines, fatherhood and how this effects fitness and health routines, the all or nothing mindset, finding your fitness groove as a part of normal life with your family and kids, plus much much more.
Join Aleks and I in the first Fitness To Health Podcast episode in which we chat about daily routines, fatherhood and how this effects fitness and health routines, the all or nothing mindset, finding your fitness groove as a part of normal life with your family and kids, plus much much more.