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FlowCast # 14 | Favourite Recovery Methods

Show Notes:

2:45 - Telsi’s 2 favourite steps to recovery

3:40 - What recovery methods do researchers recommend?

5:30 - How much sleep do NBA players get? (Including Lebron’s typical daily sleep time)

6:00 - Professional athletes sleep before important games and competitions

8:30 - Nutrition the day of versus the day before a game or competition

11:45 - Book recommendation - Good To Go

21:20 - Is Animal Flow good for recovery?

26:00 - Recovery of the mind

30:20 - Sleep before competitions revisited

34:20 - Counter-intuitive effects of recovery for sports like powerlifting

35:10 - Busy Mind = Busy Body

37:40 - Nature for de-stressing.

Books mentioned in this episode:

Good To Go - Christine Aschwanden

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FlowCast #13 | Digital Minimalism

This episode is a BIG DEAL.

Technology is taking control of our lives and leaving us feeling exhausted and lacking control due to its addictive nature and the issues with compulsive use.

In this episode we breakdown:

  • what is digital minimalism

  • how compulsive technology use is leading us to feel more lonely and anxious

  • what impact technology and social media has on flow

  • how to create a philosophy of technology use

  • how to be a digital minimalist while running a business

  • what the heck are EMFs and why should we care?

Additional Resources from this Podcast:

Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport

Zucked - Roger McNamee

Reclaiming Conversation - Sherry Turkle

Growing Up Tethered - Sherry Turkle

The Four-Hour Workweek - Tim Ferriss

Forest App - available on Android and iOS

How To Configure Your iPhone To Work For You, Not Against You - This comprehensive guide is fantastic for implementing digital minimalism on an iPhone. It’ll take you over an hour to read through so you know it’s the real deal.

Gabby Reece on Joe Rogan

Sam Harris and Roger McNamee - The Trouble With Facebook

Nontinfoil Guide to EMFs - Nick Pineault

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FlowCast #12 | Q&A - Float Tanks and the Darkside of Flow States

You’ve Got Questions, We’ve Got Answers

Show Notes (and rough time stamps):

5:00 - How long is a float?

6:50 - Are you in the float tank the whole time?

7:20 - What do you do in the float tank?

11:30 - Boredom and the cure for boredom

15:30 - Expectations of a float

16:10 - What if you can’t float?

18:00 - What if you get stuck in the float tank - addressing claustrophobia

20:45 - Floating when you can’t relax

20:20 - Suggested places to start before floating

28:15 - The downsides of flow

36:12 - Flow takes grit

39:00 - What you resist persists

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FlowCast #11 | Finding Our Flow

Show Notes and Rough Locations:

- The Addictiveness of Flow (14:10)

- RJ’s discovery of Flow and Strongman (15:50)

- Telsi’s journey into flow through dance and gymnastics (21:00)

- There is no straight path to Flow (27:00)

- Finding belonging in life and in school (33:20)

- Telsi’s career as a personal trainer (35:30)

- Animal Flow coaching (44:00)

- Finding and Identifying Flow for yourself (55:00)

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FlowCast #10 | Building Integrity

How do you build integrity?

This episode tackles a challenging question and for some, it may seem like a dose of tough love. It’s packed full of good advice though so I hope you enjoy it!

What is integrity and how do you define your limits in order to live with more integrity in your life?

Some of the points we tackle throughout this episode include:

• How does becoming more self aware lead to integrity?

• What does Seneca have to do with integrity and self-awareness?

• Why Yoda is the embodiment of our integrity episode.

• How our problem with being constantly tethered is leading to a lack of self-awareness.

• What do your emotions and vulnerability have to say about integrity?

• How to bounce back from failure.

• How does integrity lead to flow?

• Being precise with your language and using affirmations.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

Letters from a Stoic - Senca

Grit - Angela Duckworth

Mindset - Carol Dweck

The Obstacle Is The Way - Ryan Holiday

How To Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - Scott Adams

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FlowCast #9 | Spring Cleaning and Declutter Your Mind

On this episode we talk:

• Spring cleaning tips and the one and only Marie Kondo

• Why cleaning is messy

• Decluttering your life for more flow and creativity

• What are micro-meditations and how just one breath can change your day.

Be sure to share this episode with friends and family who are currently going through spring cleaning!

Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcasting app and be sure to leave us a review to help more listeners find us!

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FlowCast #8 | Student Stress-busting Strategies

This episode of the FlowCast is the first episode with co-host Telsi and we talk about the different techniques we used as students to stay stress-free during exams.

In this episode we also talk about several different stress-reducing breathing techniques that anyone can use to reset and refresh themselves at any point during the day when feeling overwhelmed.

Find out what nature has to do with student well-being and how to maximize your productivity during study sessions. I think that this episode is full of great advice that anyone can combat stress with - not just students.

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FlowCast #7 | Mallory Graham - Digital Marketing as a Minimalist

In this episode I tried out a new podcasting setup but also happened to be doing it at a time where there were some brief instances of background noise. I apologize for this and will work on smoothing out our quiet place for podcasting.

Show Notes (time stamps may have gotten a little off track):

8:20 - Where Mallory’s passions lie

16:00 - Where small businesses should start with online marketing

19:00 - Digital Marketing Strategy - what’s the point of a post?

21:30 - Mallory’s thoughts on “Document don’t Create”

24:00 - What’s your competitive advantage?

26:30 - Micro-content - how much is too much?

31:20 - Are you just afraid to post something?

35:30 - Picking your platforms

38:30 - Digital Minimalism

43:00 - Being Present and going all in

44:30 - Followers vs. follower count and Instagram tactics

Books Mentioned:

Digital Marketing Strategy - Mallory Graham

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook - Gary Vaynerchuk

Crushing It! - Gary Vaynerchuk

Crush It - Gary Vaynerchuk

Digital Minimalism- Cal Newport

Atomic Habits - James Clear

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