Mark Groves Podcast Mark Groves

Themes: Health, Mindset, Transformation, Growth, Wellness, Self-care, Self-discovery, Gratitude

Summary: 

Today's guest, Ben Azadi, is a force to be reckoned with in the health and wellness world. Ben is on a mission to help 1 billion people live healthier lives after having gone through a personal health transformation and losing 80 pounds. Ben is the author of four best-selling books, Keto Flex, The Perfect Health Booklet, The Intermittent Fasting Cheat Sheet, and The Power of Sleep. Known as 'The Health Detective,' he investigates dysfunction and educates to bring the body back to normal function. 

In this episode, Ben and I jam on what it means to be truly healthy and why modern-day health advice is so misleading and ineffective. Ben takes us through his easy-to-implement steps to instantly improve our health, the top 8 highly most inflammatory foods we should avoid, and how intermittent fasting, ketosis, and protein intake can help us achieve optimal health when done right.  If you’re like me and are constantly looking for ways to improve your health and need practical, no-BS guidelines to do it, this episode is for you! 

Discover:


How small changes can lead to big results that transform the quality of your health and your life
The top inflammatory foods that lead to poor health and why
How you can minimize toxin intake and damaging your health when eating at restaurants
The incredible benefits of the ketogenic diet, lowering glucose levels and increasing ketone production
The immense power of your mind when it comes to improving your overall well-being

00:00 Intro 

00:43 From victim to victor

04:46 From pain to purpose

06:09 The power of small changes

08:18 Importance of eating whole food

14:14 Eight highly inflammatory foods people should avoid

17:50 Start communicating your needs in restaurants

19:48 Three easy steps to instantly improving your health

24:58 Intermittent feasting

29:45 Ben's guidelines for protein intake

35:05 Benefits of ketones and the keto diet

39:49 Our body is a miracle

44:07 The cholesterol myth

48:25 The best ways to monitor your metabolic functions

53:43 The power of mindset on healing

58:00 The most important vitamin

Links:


Instagram: @thebenazadi 
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/benazadi/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thebenazadi
YouTube: www.youtube.com/ketokamp
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebenazadi
Podcast: The Keto Kamp Podcast
Website: www.benazadi.com 

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Themes: Politics, COVID, Individualism, Fear, Health, Government, Accountability, Truth, News & Media, Misinformation, Authenticity, Belonging, Transformation, Conflict, Mental Health

Summary: 

In this solo episode, I share my thoughts and grief on what has occurred over these last few years as a result of the pandemic. I believe in having open and honest discourse and avoiding inflammatory language that only pushes us further apart. I want to invite curiosity back into our experiences and encourage us to hold manipulative and dishonest individuals and groups accountable while keeping in mind that love and truth always win in the end! Let’s come together to change this world.

Discover:


Alternative viewpoints on how information as delivered to us during the pandemic
The usage of “misinformation” labels, nudge tactics, divisiveness, gaslighting, narcissism, and other abusive tactics
Why we must stand up as a village to hold the media and governing bodies accountable and demand truth and change

00:00 Intro 

00:53 Nudge tactics

02:45 Misinformation

03:56 You’re not free to choose if your freedom is at stake

07:22 There wasn’t enough data

10:16 They turned us against each other

13:34 Divisiveness, gaslighting, and narcissism

16:30 The importance of discourse without inflammatory language

21:52 We need to come together to make change

Links:


Emails referenced - The Virality Project: Twitter Files revealed that the US government and major social media companies worked hand-in-hand with Stanford University to censor or limit true information about Covid-19, suppress “true vaccine side effects” and “true posts which could fuel [vaccine] hesitancy.” The emails and documents were provided to Matt Taibbi by Twitter CEO Elon Musk. The documents, dubbed the "Twitter Files" and retweeted by Musk, were selected from "thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter." Matt Taibbi is an award winning author, journalist, and contributing editor for Rolling Stone. (Sources: New York Post, The Maine Wire, TRT World)
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Themes: Psychology, Relationships, Anxiety, Resilience, Attachment Theory, Transformation, Conflict

Summary: 

Join me in a fascinating exploration of psychology and relationships with Jillian Turecki, a certified relationship coach, teacher and writer who for 20 years has taught others how to transform their relationships with themselves. Under the tutelage of Tony Robbins and world-renowned family therapist Cloe Madanes and fueled by an insatiable curiosity about what makes a relationship thrive, Jillian has helped thousands through her teaching and writing revolutionize their relationship with themselves so that they transform their relationships with others. 

 

In this episode, we explore the fascinating experiences in relationships that are often overlooked or labeled with pop-psychology terms like anxious and avoidant. Listen in to hear Jillian’s perspective on what women and men need most, how to be more objective to understand your partner better, and more of her greatest learnings from being in a relationship.

Discover:


Why attachment theory only scratches the surface of understanding each other
The biggest reasons why relationships fail
What men and women want and need most in relationship and how to understand each other better

00:00 Intro 

00:54 Jillian’s journey from yoga to relationship coach

10:36 Yoga and the mind

14:15 Somatic awareness

18:03 The loneliness of not being with yourself

19:52 The toxic dance of push-pull

26:43 How much anxiety in a relationship is too much?

28:25 We over-pathologize others as anxious or avoidant 

38:24 Asking for your needs to be met

40:28 Greatest learnings in relationship

44:13 Men and their needs in a relationship

49:31 The importance of being appreciated and understood

54:01 The complexity we hold due to familial dynamics

Links:


Website: www.jillianturecki.com
Podcast: https://listen.qcodemedia.com/jillianonlove
IG: @jillianturecki
Tik Tok: @jillian.turecki
Twitter: @JillianTurecki

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Themes: Trusting Yourself, Intuition, True Liberation, Self Love, Authenticity, Transformation

Summary: 

Comin’ at ya with a quick espresso shot of love on embracing change and trusting our internal guidance system. I hope my reflections inspire you to gain insight into your own circumstances and ways of being in the world.

Discover:


Why you need to trust yourself when you say yes to change 
How we’re being asked to orient ourselves from intellectual/logical to intuitive/heart centered 
True liberation and how can we find it

00:00 Intro 

00:17 Trust your intuition

03:00 True liberation

03:49 Orient through your sensations

05:37 Start asking the right questions

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Themes: Relationships, Romantic Relationships, Relationship Struggles, Couples Therapy, Communication, Healing, Conflict

Summary: 

Back for the second time is my good friend, Nick Solaczek. Nick is a relationship coach and teacher specializing in romantic relationships with an emphasis on safe conversations, conscious relationship principles, mindfulness, authenticity and boundary setting. Nick works closely with IMAGO theory in his practice, believing that the image we project has a significant influence on who we are attracted to and how we show up in our relationship. 

In this episode, we jam on how to create stronger romantic relationships, how our childhood experiences are responsible for many of our triggers in our adult relationships, the influence of fear and how it guides our actions, and more juicy relational truths. Tune in to hear Nick share mic-drops on how to communicate more clearly to ask for what we want and how to use struggle to strengthen our partnerships instead of drive us apart. 

Nick also teaches us about his relational theory, The Developmental Mountain, which he shares in depth in his new course: Romantic Relationship Reset. Get the link and a discount below!

Discover:


Core relational dynamics of romantic relationships and which ones you and your partner relate to
How and why opposites attract when it comes to romantic relationships
The power of fear and its presence in our interactions with our partners
The benefits of both individual and couples therapy when it comes to long term relationships 
The power of IMAGO dialogue as a powerful method of communication for couples

00:00 Intro 

02:12 How we have historically approached couples work

06:34 Romance is propagandized by culture

10:14 We all have conflicts in the kitchen

18:24 Relational dynamics of the Seeker, Maximizer, Minimizer

25:40 How childhood experiences show up in adult relationships

26:48 We show and respond to emotion differently

29:56 The power of fear

34:54 The struggle is normal

41:47 Ways to ask for what you want

48:01 Why we deal with things the way we do

50:35 The Developmental Mountain

57:32 The Relationship Reset

Links:


Special offer: $50 off Nick’s course "Romantic Relationship Reset" with promo code: CREATE50
Website: www.nicksolaczek.com
Course: www.nicksolaczek.com/mark
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicksolaczek/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coachingwithnick

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Themes: Relationships, Connection, Health, Mental Health, Transformation, Belonging, Purpose

Summary: 

Today I’m nerding out with Dr. Robert Waldinger, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and co-author of The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study on Happiness. Dr. Waldinger is also a Zen master (Roshi) who teaches meditation worldwide.

In this episode, we explore Dr. Waldinger’s fascinating research on what makes a “good life” based on the longest study of adult life that has ever been done - the Harvard Study of Adult Development. He shares his insights on the power of relationships and how they affect our mental and physical health, practical tips for improving our happiness, and how to create and nurture thriving relationships. This is a pod you won’t want to miss!

Discover:


The power of relationships and how they affect our mental and physical health
The types of relationships we need to thrive
The impact of conflict and how to use it to nurture relationships
How to improve the quality of our relationships
Ways to build resilience and cope with conflict

00:00 Intro 

01:55 What is the happiness study?

04:34 Relationships help us live longer

09:26 Impacts of life events

11:03 High-conflict relationships

12:27 Stress and the body

14:11 Attachment styles and relationship longevity

17:21 Relationships and the body

19:26 Social fitness

21:20 Be curious

24:30 Stratifying the data

27:42 Effects of the study on participants

31:39 Being in Zen

33:28 Religion and spiritual practice

36:39 Rituals and habits

38:38 Study results and expanding the research

Links:


Website | Harvard Study of Adult Development
Book | The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

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