A Life Of Education: Recent Episodes
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A Life of Education is the worlds first fitness education website. Tune into our FREE podcast with Caroline Leon and Keith O'Malley Farrell as they sit with the fitness industry's leading experts.
Joe Vaughan is back this week with his colleagues David & Jon as they share their own experiences with plant medicine and tell us how it changed their lives and lead them to creating Thank You Plant Medicine, an organisation established to raise global awareness about the benefits of entheogenic plant medicines.
Thanks to David, Jon and Joe for sharing their experiences with us and their continued efforts to spread awareness of the benefits of plant medicine and keep the momentum going with scientific conversations about the research from places like John Hopkins University stating the health benefits of plant medicine for conditions like depression, anxiety, PTSD amongst many more.
Follow their work online here; @thankyouplantmedicine on Instagram thankyouplantmedicine - Facebook thankyouplantmedicine.com
Joe Vaughan is an ordinary guy on an extraordinary mission, to spread awareness of the benefits of plant medicine and keep the momentum going with scientific conversations derived from the research from places like John Hopkins University stating the health benefits of plant medicine for conditions like depression, anxiety, PTSD amongst many more.
Joe is a volunteer from Thank You Plant Medicine, an organisation established to raise global awareness about the benefits of entheogenic plant medicines.
Follow their work online here; @thankyouplantmedicine on Instagram thankyouplantmedicine - Facebook thankyouplantmedicine.com
Dr. Cliff Harvey joins Caroline & Keith for a longer Part 2 conversation -> this time focusing on the magic of mushrooms from a nutritional perspective and the unique benefits on cognition, brain health, immune system that science & the nutrition world is starting to wake up to.
Today Dr. Cliff Harvey talks Keto-myths with Caroline Leon and Keith O'Malley Farrell, one of the first researchers in the world to start focusing on studying the carbohydrate diet spectrum in the late 1990s.
Discussing the low-carb to high carb spectrum Dr. Cliff busts the myths surrounding high fat intake only with keto-dieting, is testing blood ketones an important part of staying ketosis, and "what is keto-flu and who gets it?"
Helen Farmer joins Caroline and Keith to discuss how she's been finding the balance between her family and work life during the social distancing restrictions, how her own confidence has greatly increased during her home workout routines and how she finds being the voice the city listens to every afternoon in such an uncertain time!
Andrew Hallam joins Caroline and Keith during this crazy economic time for more enlightening advice on the wider economic picture how a saving portfolio might be performing at the moment, how to best protect your future savings and what strategy might be the best to action during this uncertain time.
Always a pleasure speaking with Andrew and listening to his wise words of reassuring wisdom.
We hope you enjoy
Our first attempt at an online podcast via Zoom during the Social Distancing restrictions. We discussed all things Mindset with world renowned kettlebell instructor Taco Fleur.
With Taco in Italy, Caroline in Dubai & Keith is Ireland this made for an interesting conversation comparing different experiences and lessons and how Taco has maintained a level of business as usual with his online presence, his Cavemantraining business and kettlebell education courses.
We hope you enjoy!
Lee Grantham is a Top Six Team GB Ultra Marathon Runner based between Chang Mai and Spain, he joined Caroline and Keith while in the UAE running the Abu Dhabi Marathon as training run. 🎧 Lee delves into the psychology of an elite runner and delves into the pressures on athletes to win at all costs and sheds light on different perspectives as to why athletes might cheat. 🎧 We hope you enjoy!
Warrick Mac Nicol is an adventurer and 70.3 Iron Man World Championship Competitor. He is an all round great example of enjoying life and focusing on improving the mind and the body will follow. 🎧 In this episode of the podcast he talks with Caroline and Keith about some of his adventures in South Africa, the Middle East and the contrast between his good day in Iron Man competition and a bad day and how to pick yourself up after the bad day and continue. 🎧 We hope you enjoy!
Ever heard of rolfing and wondered what it is and what . it's good for? In this episode of the A Life Of Education Podcast Liz Terry tell Caroline and Keith everything they need to know about rolfing and about the systematic application of its principles.
We hope you enjoy!
Nabil Habbouche runs Adventure Quest and works closely with Gulf for Good, a registered charity organisation based in Dubai that organises outdoor activities and adventure trips to raise money to support local charities around the world.
Nabil also organises trips and adventures in Dubai that combine outdoor activities, connecting with nature combined with bringing families together in the great outdoors and educating them not just about the scenery but also about the history of the area, the rock formations, plants, animals and local populations.
We hope you enjoy!
Helen Farmer joins Caroline and Keith for the return of A Life Of Education's podcast with a conversation about her journey as a mum, a Radio Station DJ, losing 30kg in a year and trying not to get bored in the gym nowadays.
The guys also discuss the promise they each made live on air on Helen's afternoon show Dubai Eye, to climb to Everest Base Camp to raise money for Gulf for Good.
We hope you enjoy.
Petrina Barber is a cervical cancer survivor who was diagnosed when her son was four months old. She also went through multiple rounds of chemotherapy and radiation which helped her to beat the cancer, but the side effects left her organs heavily scarred making eating almost impossible.
In this episode of the podcast Petrina discusses her journey, the strain she felt it put on her family and her struggle to come alive again physically, mentally and emotionally and offers her advise to anybody suffering health challenges.
We hope you enjoy.
Matt Cotterill is a student, a lecturer, a tutor, a personal trainer and a managing partner of his own coaching company, The Physical Training Company. In this episode of the podcast, Matt discusses his Masters in Psychology and some ideas from histories finest philosophers.
Join Matt, Caroline and Keith for a fun and interesting chat on the interconnection between action and pleasure and how the choice to challenge ourselves can be a very rewarding endeavour.
Dina Ghandour and Jane Rushworth are from Little Leather Collective, a group of licensed Doulas here in Dubai that help families throughout pregnancies and post birth by offering support and education on sleep, feeding, loss multiples and much more.
Caroline and Keith talked babies, birth and what exactly Doulas do, and that's to make sure that parents and parents to be are informed of all of their options when considering how to birth their new born and the experience is as harmonious and healthy as possible.
We hope you enjoy
45 is a catch up with Andrew Hallam, author of the Best Selling Book Millionaire Expat & Millionaire Teacher. Caroline & Keith met with Andrew for the second podcast during his recent time in the UAE delivering talks on the psychology behind being a good investor.
Following their original conversation in episode #24, Andrew delves into comparisons between investing in property and investing in low cost index funds and discusses this concept of a successful investor's psychology on this episode of the podcast
45 is a catch up with Andrew Hallam, author of the Best Selling Book Millionaire Expat & Millionaire Teacher. Caroline & Keith met with Andrew for the second podcast during his recent time in the UAE delivering talks on the psychology behind being a good investor.
Following their original conversation in episode #24, Andrew delves into comparisons between investing in property and investing in low cost index funds and discusses this concept of a successful investor's psychology on this episode of the podcast.
We hope you enjoy
44 is with David Johnson, a Sports Therapist, Doctor of Osteopathy and a Strength and Conditioning Coach. An educator and experienced practitioner, he spends his time primarily in his clinic with patients recovering from injuries and post surgery.
In this episode of the podcast David, Caroline and Keith discuss some thought processes surrounding when surgery is necessary or unnecessary from both a medical and ethical standpoint and also how patient’s experience throughout the process can effect their post surgical outcomes.
Cloe Sommadossi is a 20 year veteran in the pilates industry and has just opened her second pilates studio in the last four years with the Pilates Academy in Dubai.
In this episode of the podcast Cloe describes the challenges she faced when making the jump from pilates teacher, the lessons she learned along the way, sometimes the hard way and she shares her knowledge and expertise for those people thinking about one day owning a s Pilates studio of their own.
43: Cloe Sommadossi is a 20 year veteran in the pilates industry and has just opened her second pilates studio in the last four years with the Pilates Academy in Dubai.
In this episode of the podcast Cloe describes the challenges she faced when making the jump from pilates teacher, the lessons she learned along the way, sometimes the hard way and she shares her knowledge and expertise for those people thinking about one day owning a s Pilates studio of their own.
Steve Cronin is the owner and director of Om Life, a physiological bio-testing company based in Dubai that do hyperbaric oxygen therapy, altitude chamber training, VO2 max testing and many more advanced physiological training and assessments.
In this episode of the podcast Steve discusses the truth behind staying hydrated and when people need to really consider their hydration and take action to stay healthy. He also takes Caroline through her a sweat and electrolyte hydration test of her own to demonstrate how easy it is to understand our own biology.
A very enjoyable conversation with some entertaining insights into the world of endurance and ultra endurance running, we hope you enjoy!
Lee Grantham is a professional marathon and ultra marathon runner for Great Britain and England. With some of the fastest times in the world over 42k and 100k in 2017 Lee Grantham is currently eyeing up the 100k World Championships title in 2018.
Lee's mission is to not only become World Champion and break the 100k world record, but also to bring character and charisma to the world of endurance sports. He spends his time training between Chiang Mai, Thailand and Granada, Spain and is very active on social media channel "jungle.vip" on Instagram answering questions and displaying his wild and bubbly personality.
A very enjoyable conversation with some entertaining insights into the world of endurance and ultra endurance running, we hope you enjoy!
Cloe made the leap from her corporate job as a food engineer to follow her passion of pilates and left the security of her well paying salary to set up her own Pilates studio.
In this episode of the podcast Cloe Sommadossi explains her inspirational story and talks about her dream of owning a Pilates studio and how her mindset and her belief in creating the future she wanted motivated her to the position of owning and running two successful studios in Dubai.
We hope you enjoy.
Tom Waldron is a Biomechanics Master Trainer & Franklin Method Practitioner. Tom discusses how our body is represented in the brain with brain maps in the homunculus and many principles of the Franklin Method.
He also discusses some ideas and myths that he sees circulating the health and fitness industry surrounding the knees, sitting, posture and movement.
We hope you enjoy.
Dr. Jacob Harden is a Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine and movement and mobility specialist. He owns and operates his own sports medicine clinic out of Orlando, Florida and travels the world teaching his movement and rehabilitation system via his Prehab 101 seminars.
Dr. Jacob joins Caroline and Keith for thoroughly enjoyable conversation on injury prevention and rehabilitation. He is enormously popular on social media regularly posting some of the highest level informative content on the topic of injury rehab, prehab and restoration.
Anja Taljaard is biokineticist and Iron Man competitor from South Africa. In her impressive career she has worked training patients undergoing chemotherapy and recovering from beating many different types of cancer. She also works week in week out as an injury rehabilitation expert helping post operative hip, knee and ankle reconstruction patients as well as lot of work with pre and post natal clients.
In this episode of the podcast Anja delves into her experience training those confronted with one of life's toughest challenges and explains the benefits to some different cancers tat exercise can bring from both a physical and mental approach. As well as her experience balance her work life and her preparation for her Iron Man competitions.
We hope you enjoy
Dan Lawrence owns and runs Perform365, a freelance elite level strength and conditioning coaching provider based in London, UK. Dan works primarily in the sport he is passionate about, boxing. He is Head of Performance at Matchroom boxing Gym where he trains some of the best young up and coming fighters.
We caught up with Dan when he was on a recent vacation and got to pick his brain on how to best compliment boxing preparation with research based strength and conditioning best practices.
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Marianne Tafani is the creator of a pre and post natal pilates course and one of the educators at Pilates Academy. From Marianne's difficult experience with her first birth, she created this course to give pilates teachers more knowledge and confidence in helping clients through pre and post natal pilates routines.
Mariane joins Caroline and Keith to discuss her experience and offers advise surrounding how to have a more comfortable birth and how to exercise post births that have both been smooth and have had complications.
We hope you enjoy
Sebastien Aguile founded SimplyFI.org in 2015, a non-profit community of volunteers that empower each other to invest in a simple way to achieve financial independence. Sebastien went from being broke to being financially Independent within seven years.
He joins Caroline and Keith to discuss the bigger picture with financial freedom and the question, how can somebody do the most good for the world, in the most effective way that still aligns with their values and passion?
We hope you enjoy
Follow Sebastien's blog at http://impactivated.com/blog/
Stefan Sanderson is the Scottish Super Welterweight Champion since 2014. He also works alongside his professional boxing career as a boxing trainer taking clients as a boxing trainer and conditioning coach. Stefan joins Caroline & Keith to discuss his career as a boxer and the type of discipline it takes to become a champion and maintain his unbeaten record.
In this episode we discuss mindset, discipline, diet and weight cutting as well as what it takes to juggle a professional boxing career and his part time passion of coaching.
We hope you enjoy.
This is the second part of our conversation with Steve Cronin from Dead Simple Saving. In this episode of the podcast Steve takes us through steps five through 10 of his Ten Step Guide to Financial Independence.
This podcast is perfect for you if you want your savings to go further and work hard to earn you more.
Hannah is a physiotherapist and Taif is a Sports Therapist, both work together as part of the medical team at Valiant Clinic. In this episode the guys discuss differences in running technique between heel striking and forefoot running with shorter and longer distance running.
They also discuss the effectiveness of MRI scans and the pros and cons of regularly sending patients for scans when sometimes it may be counterproductive, the language used when discussing things with clients and the importance of asking questions when something isn't clear.
We hope you enjoy.
Allaoua Gaham is an animal flow instuctor and yoga instructor. Allaoua quit his fashion job a few years ago to pursue his love and passion of yoga and recently became one of Dubai's only Animal Flow instructors. In this podcast we learn about what "Animal Flow" is, the benefits and how it differs from Yoga.
Five years ago, Sujith suffered a motor cycle accident which left him with 18 fractures to his skull and paralysed from the mid section downward. In a desperate attempt to try everything, he met with an alternative medicine practitioner who promised him recovery, only to be lead back to hospital with infections and body sores potentially threatening his life. Now Sujith is in good health, his is an avid fitness enthusiast and motivational speaker. In this episode of A Life Of Education's podcast, Sujith tells his inspirational story of recovery and talks about his new lease of life. He offers his advice and motivation to anybody who has been told they cannot do something.
In this ALOE podcast session Business Grant Goes discusses the successes and failures of working in the fitness industry.
Andrew Hallam is the author of the book Millionaire Expat. In this episode of the podcast Andrew discusses how expats living around the world can take control of their financial future and invest sensibly and safely, without getting ripped off by fees and hidden fees. A hugely educational podcast for anybody with a desire to enable their money work for them and thinking about investing in their own future. We hope you enjoy
In this episode of the podcast we chat with CEO of one of the leading digital agencies in Dubai, Jamie Wilks. Jamie, sheds the light of building a social media identity with some simple tips for creating a strategy
In this episode of the podcast, Sports Scientist Alex Lee talks about the importance of data across a large population and how it can be used to monitor health trends amongst a huge cross section of a population.
Fitness Myth Busting with Brian Reilly, Caroline Leon and Keith O'Malley-Farrell. Brian is a physiotherapist with previous experience working with the British Navy, in this episode of the podcast, Brian discusses some myths that have been circulating around the fitness and physiotherapy industry for years and blows the lid on some ideas and practices that science as yet just does not support.
In this episode of the podcast, Tom Otton tells the story that he kept quiet for nine years that fuelled his motivation and drive that he only revealed for the first time during his Ted Talk on grit, determination and fighting against the odds.
In this episode of the podcast, we meet Paul Thornley faculty teacher at Real Pilates, currently teaching instructors in STOTT Pilates Method, he is a qualified Neuromuscular Therapist originally from the UK. In this episode of the podcast, Paul talks about one of the hottest topics in the fitness industry at the moment, fascia. Dispelling some myths about fascia in general, how we understand fascia, how we do not understand fascia and how many fitness professional's basic understanding of anatomy fails to include the most important structures, fascia. We hope you enjoy!
In this episode of the ALOE podcast we sit with Dr. Greg as an academic lecturer in professional ethics. He joined Caroline Leon and Keith O'Malley-Farrell to discuss ethics and professionalism in the evolving health and fitness industry.
Helen Tardent is the founder of Pilates Moves and Energy Pilates in Sydney Australia. Helen joins Caroline Leon and Keith O'Malley-Farrell for episode 17 of A Life Of Education's podcast to discuss pilates, the origins of pilates and how the pilates industry has evolved over the last 25 years. Helen also offers her advice on those interested in becoming a pilates teacher and how to go about learning from the many different styles and disciplines of pilates and what to consider when thinking about making the transition from pilates instructor to starting up a pilates studio.
In this episode of the ALOE podcast we sit with Youth Development coach Kris Greene about training kids and the ins and outs of strengthening teenagers both physically and mentally .
Steve Cronin is an exercise physiologist and personal financial advisor who's mission is to help people become financially secure then financially independent.
In the first part of this two part conversation Steve explains the first steps in his ten step guide to becoming financially secure and financially independent. He discuss what those terms mean and the difference between the two from the psychological side of money to the practical side of tracking.
Nik Jordan is a physiotherapist and previous biomechanics lecturer in Switzerland. He joined Caroline Leon and Keith O'Malley-Farrell to discuss the importance of educating clients and patients to better understand their pain and discomfort to help reduce their anxiety and speed up their recovery. He discuses the psychology behind being injured and how that can slow down recovery. A very good conversation, we hope you enjoy
Dr. T is a clinical psychologist. She joined Caroline Leon and Keith O'Malley-Farrell to discuss the psychology behind why people form bad habits and the difficulties attributed to changing them into beneficial habits.
In Episode 2 of the ALOE podcast Matt Cortterill and Keith O'Malley-Farrell discuss Anatomy and Physiology, Anatomy Myths and tips on how to learn Anatomy and why its important.
A Life of Education 3rd Podcast with Oliver Blenkinsop discussing pain, injuries and advice for fitness professionals looking to help their clients through injury set backs. Oliver Blenkinsop is the Course Director for the MSc in Sport Rehabilitation at St. Mary's University London. He has worked for MSL Seattle Sounders championship season in 2014 and is now educating undergraduates and masters student as the Course Director in anatomy, physiology, pathology and rehabilitation techniques.
For more information on our courses visit www.alifeofeducation.com
Our very first podcast for A Life of Education introduces Caroline Leon and Keith O'Malley Farrell. Listen to how A Life of Education started and what to expect on the UAE's first online fitness education platform.
Matt Cotterill speaks about his General Adaptation Syndrome course. He explains what stress is, how our body reacts to stress and how there is a finite amount of resources our bodies can utilise when tying to recover from any given stressor.
For more information on our courses visit www.alifeofeducation.com
Episode 6 of A Life of Education's podcast discusses pre & postnatal considerations with Catherine Williams. What women need to know when exercising during pregnancy and what fitness professionals need.
A life of Education Podcast 10 Stephen King joins Caroline Leon & Keith O'Malley-Farrell to discuss his Movement Assessment Technology (MAT) and his views on different ways patients and clients obtain information and educate themselves around complex issues like pain, motivation, adherence and monitoring. http://www.alifeofeducation.com
Episode 4 of A Life of Education's podcast is with Joe Maynard discussing gait, gait analysis, different types of footwear for running and the benefits of wearing footwear versus the benefit of not wearing footwear when exercising.
For more information on our courses visit www.alifeofeducation.com
A Life of Education Episode 12 "Career Transformations". with Zeta Yarwood. This episode is all about realizing your values and aligning your life and career towards those values so that you can live a more purposeful life.
A life of Education Podcast 10 "Over Yogering" with Miffy Edlund. In this Podcast Miffy Edlund as Australian physiotherapist discusses some of the common injuries with excessive yoga practice. We then explore remedies and an assortment of tips Yoga practitioners can put in place to keep their practice safe and injury free.
Episode 5 of A Life Of Education Podcast with Dr. Lanalle Dunn & Dr. Vanda Corbett from The Chiron Clinic, in Dubai UAE, discussing their presentation on the nervous system and how positive psychology is one of the leading areas in the science of the nervous system. - What is the nervous system - What is the autonomic nervous system - The difference between the sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system - The effect of the autonomic nervous system on catabolic and anabolic states - The benefits of positive psychology from a neurophysiological perspective