FlowCast #66 | Creating Flow With Music with Josh Cook
Josh Cook @_joshthemusician is an entrepreneur who composes, produces, and teaches music. He’s also a fellow infinite learner and in this conversation we talk about flow states in music, bringing others along for the ride, zen stoicism, and applying creativity and flow to stock trading.
1:30 - Who is Josh Cook?
2:00 - Musical background
4:15 - Building passive and digital income sources during COVID-19
6:45 - Josh’s online music courses
8:30 - Flow and music
9:45 - Snapping back into flow*
11:00 - What type of music does Josh find most flowy
13:30 - Magic and creating awe
16:00 - Teaching and passing on the craft with music
17:15 - Tricking students into flow
20:30 - Fixed versus growth mindset
23:00 - What is Josh pushing himself for growth with right now?
25:45 - What trading stocks has to do with learning piano
29:00 - Remembering what’s under our control *
32:00 - Practicing mindfulness with patience *
38:00 - What is Josh reading right now?
42:00 - Disaster proofing Flow Spa
49:30 - What is RJ using at Flow Spa more than he expected?
52:30 - The Neurochemicals responses of floating and cold plunges
56:00 - What’s RJ reading right now?
1:00:30 - The big FlowCast reveal - new intro song.
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Spreading Light With Business | FlowCast 28 with Kent Sheehey
Kent Sheehey has been on a journey of self-discovery since his teenage years when he first found fitness. He is an entrepreneur and the co-owner of Sweat Happy Wellness, a reformer pilates studio with locations in Peterborough and Lindsay. Along with his wife Becky, they have been bringing a refreshing and holistic take on fitness to the community and have been seeing great growth in their business by bringing that light. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about foraging, finding flow in music, and becoming a bearer of light and positivity in business.
Show Notes:
1:45 - Who is Kent Sheehey?
3:00 - Foraging
9:15 - Kent’s origins with fitness
11:30 - Kent’s nutrition evolution
14:30 - Eating 30 bananas a day
17:00 - Kent’s flow state
18:00 - How diet helps Kent’s flow state
21:00 - Music and flow
24:30 - Just be cool in business and flow *
29:30 - Spread light as a business
32:00 - Reformer Pilates and Sweat Happy Wellness
40:30 - Go Time
41:15 - Brain training with pilates and Animal Flow
43:15 - The performance of teaching classes
44:00 - The power of partnerships
45:30 - Key business lessons
Shout Outs
37:00 - Becky Sheehey @sweathappywellness
38:00 - Amy Stubb - @sustainableyogi
39:30 - @thehealthysweetpotato - Jess Daliday
Resources
Markus Rothkranz - Free Food and Medicine
Tero Isokauppila, Four Sigmatic Founder — Finding Mastery — Overcast