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MEP aims to explore the intersection of spirituality and sport through the practice of movement. The podcast, hosted by Ryan Willms delves into endurance sport through the lens of personal growth, in connection to Self and community and how the convergence of movement and inner alchemy can enrich our experience of life.
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On this episode I dive into my experience with the Gene Keys over the last 22 months, how it's been helpful and some insights into how best to work with your profile. Gene Key 25 goes from Constriction to Acceptance to Universal Love and Richard Rudd refers to it as THE "hub" Gene Key. While I don't have it in my own profile, it has been one of the most potent and consistently helpful keys in the whole canon. I am eternally grateful for Richard and the Gene Keys, and I am excited to begin sharing some of my insights with this work on the podcast.
On this episode, I share my journey to launching Mindful Endurance Program, from my magazine Inventory, working for Stussy, and moving to NYC to quitting everything and drinking Ayahuasca. This is a contextual journey about my path to starting MEP and what it is really about.
Welcome to Season 3 of the Mindful Endurance Program. After a long hiatus, we're back with a bit of a fresh format and excitement to explore and share. Each month, we'll be sharing new episodes and contemplations, featuring solo episodes and guests. In the first episode of the new season, I dive into the age-old question, "Who am I?" and what Self-Realization really means. Through a bit of a wild exploration, I also try to offer some practical tips for identifying with your true nature, seeking Truth and understanding the ego.
On this episode I got to catch up with Grayson Hart, former pro rugby player and founder of Puresport. It's been his more recent shares on exploring who we truly are, absolute truth, non-duality and cultural conditioning that inspired me to reach out and have him on the podcast. He shares more about his journey and evolution of understanding what's really true and following his heart.
On episode 93 of the podcast, I'm back with Hermanos Koumori founders Alex Leon and Alex Sandler, as well as Emiliano Hernandez. We dive into how Alex and Alex met, the beginnings of the brand and how it evolved into running. The has a unique design aesthetic and is rare in that it's brought Mexican running culture to the global stage. They share on their journey, the challenge of making clothing and their upcoming foray into performance wears.
On this episode I reconnect with Sean Hotchkiss, as we started Into the Well together back in 2019. Over the years we've been on parallel journeys, finding similar wisdom and teachings along the way. We dive into these experiences, the nuances of menswork, the neglected but important Mother-wound exploration and share some laughs around our follies and growth.
Sean is a coach and you can find out more about his work here: https://www.seanhotchkiss.com/
The first guest of season 3 is Sam Parsons. Co-founder and creative force behind Tinman Elite, professional runner and Olympic hopeful. Sam comes on and shares about some of the fears and challenges of 2023, how he's shifting his mindset and going all-in for 2024 and his dreams. We also dive into the creative process of Tinman Elite, designing product, and collaborating with Adidas.
After a few months off, I'm back to podcasting. I'm sharing some of my plans for MEP in 2024 including a Running Practice workshop and the MEP Race Team. I also share some experience with Gene Keys and some of my takeaways from working with this amazing tool. I'm excited to be back and share new episodes regularly moving fowards.
In this FOCUS episode I share about my recent MDMA Therapy sessions and the importance for creating a foundation in your nervous system and having the necessary education to create context for the ego-mind for this kind of work. I was inspired to share this mini-episode after Huberman released a recent MDMA solo episode, which was extremely narrow in its science-based information. This type of work is so deeply complex and I felt he wasn't able to include some of the most crucial components to experiences like this, some keys to preperation, and the core of what trauma is and how we can be with it and process it through these types of intential medicine sessions.
George MacPherson is back on the podcast. We spoke about a year and a half ago and much has evolved since then for us both, this is one of those episodes where I wanted to catch up and ask him some questions regardless and figured we might as well record it. I'd had some personal experiences with sound lately that really sparked an increased connection to it's potential and wanted to get more of Geroge's insights and experience to see if I was on the right track. I also recently began watching 'Sound of Creation' on Gaia tv which has been really interesting. George shares of his full exit from PR and his new role at Sound + Sage in New York, as well as how his own practice and guidance with sound has developed.
This is my first FOCUS episode, a short exploration on topical issues, research, health and performance that I've been learning about. This first mini-episode is a musing on my findings and inspiration after listening to Andrew Huberman and Jack Kruse on Rick Rubin's podcast. It really blew my mind and I've since dove into the importance of light, circadian rhythm, melatonin production, light production within our cells and how this all ties back and into our mitochondrial health. Essentially I really enjoy learning, and this is a web of current research and a new paradigm of health that I found really exciting to dive into.
On this episode I speak with Dr. Katelyn Lehman, founder of the Quantum Clinic in Los Angeles. I found her through this inspiring new space and had to reach out to find out more about her and her path to opening the "clinic." We dive into her work and exploring Coherence, something I've been familiar with through HeartMath and Joe Dispenza over the last number of years. We talk about the technologies at the clinic, the shift in mind to realize we are our own medicine and the extremely rare and interesting Rasha, a unique technology that have that helps to heal and optimize your DNA while delivering frequencies through sound and water.
On episode 85 I speak with Michael Washington, founder of Usal, "a Los Angeles based community providing experiences & goods for the modern nature enthusiast." It sounds simple but what Michael and his partners have created in one short year is remarkable and inspiring. Changing the way people interact, what they feel is safe and possible for them, and forming a greater connection to nature and other people is no small accomplishment. We dive into Michael's journey from a Texas high school football star to following his intuition and creativity on a unique path to Colorado to the music industry to the launch of Usal. I really loved listening to Michael speak and share his introspective process, the questions he asked himself and the organic way that it all unfolded and continues to each day.
On this intimate and education solo episode, I dive into my current adventures with adrenal fatigue, nervous system healing and how poly-vagal theory ties these together. I also share about my insights into spiritual bypass and how I was unable to see where my work really was, until I couldn't 'do' anything else. I share my insights from Irene Lyon's work and programs and some of my key takeaways from learning about adrenal burnout, the different phases and some of the key remedies that we can do to help our kidneys and adrenal glands (hint: vitamin C). It's been enlighting for me on a deep level and I'm happy to report I'm starting to see and more importantly, feel, some shifts. It hasn't been easy and patience is taking on a new meaning, but I do feel this work specifically on the nervous system, is absolutely essential for true healing and being at our most vital.
Episode 83 features running, coach, content creator, Matt Fox. Best known for his video channel Sweat Elite—I found the YouTube channel through a video documenting a training session with Kristian Blummenfelt, Gutav Iden and Aaron Royle. From there I dove in, started following Matt and his journey towards running a sub-2:20 marathon the insights from his videos. The training sessions he documents are really simple, but have a beauty to the intimacy and also I fell in love with the sound of footsteps, breathing and subleties of the documentation. On our episode we dive into Matt's recent run camp in Kenya, his new approach to running by feel, his favorite shoes, his vision for Sweat Elite and his hopes for Osaka. We recored a couple weeks before the race and he's since run that race and has his sights on London, so check out his channel for the race recap and what he's up to after the episode.
After trying to catch up with Knox for the last year, we decided the best way to link would be to jump on Zoom and record. Episode 82 is quite casual as we dive into a variety of topics from Knox leaning into coaching, 'The List' and the experience of creating a safe space on the running track for women specifically. Knox shares about his most recent trip to Africa and how that shaped his purpose and vision moving forwards, a return to writing and all the while targeting sub-2:30 marathon this year. I always enjoy speaking with Knox, the way he thinks and articulates his experience. There is a curiosity, openness and boldness that I appreciate, find inspiring and I hope you enjoy the conversation as well.
On episode 81 I speak with Bec Wilcock, we dive into her journey into sport and triathlon as a teenager and having to take a full year off after a massive burnout. Bec shares how this inspired her to learn and study, get into training and the opportunity with Nike that brought her to LA from Australia. Bec shares her perspective on coaching, working with different types of people, developing self-belief and how this lead to the launch of Her Sports and Her Trails. Bec is also about to give birth to her second child, and we go into her journey and development of a five-phase program that starts before pregnancy and continues into the 'fifth' trimester and how important rest and recovery truly is.
Also please excuse the brief disruption mid-episode by our new robot-vacuum Ewan.
On episode 80 I dive in with Christian Straka, a mindset coach for Adidas globally, founder of MindSize and overall inspiring character. Christian shares a couple of the 'big' experiences he had that shifted his perspective and awareness, and inspired a deep curiosity into all things mind-training. Since he's continued to evolve his own coaching process, bringing together spiritual practices, physical performance in a unique way for individual clients and Adidas communities.
On this long overdue solo episode I share in-depth about my process of accepting I don't believe I'm good enough and how that's manifested throughout different aspects of my life from work to triathlon to my spiritual journey. I share about retirement from triathlon, for now, and my plans for more play in 2023. I also share about MEP and our upcoming retreats schedule for 2023.
I reached out to Sarah a couple months ago, soon after the birth of our child looking for some help and support. I found myself in a very closed and contracted place and after googling 'heart opening' I found her podcast on Sounds True, listened, and immediately downloaded her book, Heart Minded, How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love. I suppose it was the right time and the book was exactly what I needed. After listening through twice back to back, I emailed Sarah and was grateful to hear back. It was a couple months since that email, many lessons and the result ended up being more of a conversation about her experience and process, my own and a sharing and exploration of nurturing and keeping an open heart in the midst of both calm and turbulent waters.
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