Talking, Acting & Thinking Positively w/ Dr. Alessandra Wall. Guest Hero: Dr. Alessandra Wall, Ph.D. – Licensed Clinical Psychologist at Life in Focus Therapy When negative events or mistakes happen, positive self-talk simply seeks to bring the positive out of the negative to help you do better, go further, or keep moving forward. The practice of positive self-talk is often the …
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Out of Office – Work Life Balance
Out of Office – Work Life Balance. Hello, My Workplace Heros. Brock Armstrong here, in a totally stripped down (or maybe the “unplugged”) version of the podcast today because I am currently out of the office. Actually, you can think of this episode as my podcasting Out Of Office reply. I am spending the week at my mom’s house, visiting …
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Shift Work. According to NSF’s 2005 Sleep in America poll, 14% of North Americans take part in what is called shift work. Shift work is an employment practice designed to make use of, or provide service across, all 24 hours of the clock each day of the week (often abbreviated as 24/7). The practice typically sees the day divided into …
Read More »Is it a Workout, Exercise or a Movement Snack w/ Ben Greenfield
Is it a Workout, Exercise or a Movement Snack w/ Ben Greenfield. Guest Hero: Ben Greenfield. Fitness, nutrition and human performance consultant at BenGreenfieldFitness.com While we all know that staying physically active is essential to a long, healthy, productive life, we don’t often make time for it in our days and I think that is because we really don’t understand exactly …
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Unwanted Distractions. Let’s face it, everything demands our attention these days. It’s not just our family, friends and co-workers but also our phones, our email and our social media that all fight for our attention at any given moment. It can be downright overwhelming at times and makes it really challenging to get focussed and get a job done. Yeah, …
Read More »Low Energy w/ Hailey Rowe
Low Energy w/ Hailey Rowe, Guest Hero: Hailey Rowe from Prime Time Health. As a Personal Trainer and Nutrition Specialist, Hailey serves clients by providing the tools necessary to end sugar addiction, find enjoyment in exercise, and manage stress. Your morning is going great… right up until around 9:30 or 10:00 am when you start feeling yourself losing energy and focus. Your eyes start …
Read More »The Perils of the Commute – Feat. Abi Carver
The Perils of the Commute – Feat. Abi Carver. According to a report in USA Today, the average North American’s commute is 25.5 minutes each way. That’s about 51 minutes per day or about 204 hours a year spent commuting. Just to put that in perspective, researchers recently found that most adults only do 17 minutes of fitness activities per …
Read More »Air and Light w/ Dr. Tamsin Lewis
Air and Light w/ Dr. Tamsin Lewis. Guest Hero: Dr. Tamsin Lewis. Medical Doctor and Personalised Integrative Health/Performance for Life, Mum, Former Pro Triathlete & Ironman Champ. You can find her at curoseven.com or @sportiedoc on Twitter. We may feel like the air and light around us are out of our control and that we are at the mercy of the building superintendents but …
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To Do Lists. Between your job, your exercise program, your friends, your hobbies, and pretty much everything else you want to get done, achieving your goals and nailing your deadlines is often harder than it should be. Heck, for some people just creating an efficient to-do list is a major achievement, and that is where today’s podcast comes in. Hello …
Read More »To Sit or Not To Sit w/ Katy Bowman
To Sit or Not To Sit w/ Katy Bowman. Guest Hero: Katy Bowman – Part biomechanist, part science communicator, and full-time mover at nutritiousmovement.com Our desk jobs, commuting, watching TV, and playing video games all conspire to make us sedentary and this comfortable lifestyle takes its toll. Even those of us who exercise regularly still spend much of the workday planted in a …
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