Simply Walk The Talk

Joshua J. Holland
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  1. 4d ago

    Why your movement might be stuck in one gear | NYC Solo Update

    Recorded between appointments, which is why Josh keeps promising to be concise and then takes a four-minute detour through every place in Manhattan he actually eats. This is the first proper update in a while, and it covers the Vivobarefoot store landing on Lafayette Street, the health coaching practice he's opening up beyond one-on-one clients, and a fall calendar that runs from Phoenix to Chicago to West Palm Beach. The turn comes in the back half, when he tells the story of a barefoot running workshop where he offered his usual line about running being a series of one-foot hops, and a world-renowned sprint coach in the room raised his hand. What follows is the part worth staying for: not who was right, but the idea of gears, and whether you have more than one. 5 Key Takeaways Ask what you are actually optimizing for before you pick a method.  Most people only have one gear. . Invite the pushback out loud. He asks rooms to challenge him on his own concepts, which is how the sprint-coach conversation started in the first place.  Stop waiting for everything to be polished before you share it.  Long-form and short-form are not the only two options.  STEMREGEN The whole back half of this episode is about gears, and about whether your body still has more than one setting available to it. That question sits underneath a lot of what Josh talks about: not what you can do on a given day, but what your body still has the capacity to do. That's the reason STEMREGEN is in his routine. As we get older, the number of stem cells circulating in the bloodstream declines, and those circulating stem cells are the foundation of the body's own repair system. STEMREGEN is a plant-based formula that supports the release of your own stem cells from the bone marrow. He'll also be presenting a workout on behalf of STEMREGEN at Eudēmonia this fall, and sitting down with founder Christian Drapeau for an interview. Go to https://www.stemregen.co/ and use code JOSH at checkout. Timestamps 00:00 START 00:30 Vivobarefoot is putting its first US store on Lafayette Street  02:00 A very spicy podcast found a way to put me on it  06:00 The events stacking up before the store opens  07:00 Why I'm opening up the coaching instead of gatekeeping it  08:00 A new scale, a new band, and a series built on both  10:00 Series, not shorts: ideas that need more than three minutes  11:30 The book, the five pillars, and where they go next  12:00 Nine days out from the Sensory Intelligence Summit  16:30 Sprinting is not running, and running is not walking  19:00 Do you have an ultramarathon gear and a sprint gear?  19:30 Chicago, Eudēmonia, and the rest of the calendar Resources Mentioned Vivobarefoot (first US flagship, 248 Lafayette St, SoHo) — https://www.vivobarefoot.com New York or Nowhere (the neighbor Josh names, 250 Lafayette St) — https://newyorkornowhere.com The List of Lovers (the podcast Josh recorded with; Josh's episode is unreleased) — https://www.thelistpodcastproject.com Matter (macro-tracking fast-casual, 170 Crosby St, NoHo) — https://matterformula.com Springbone Kitchen (bone broth and bowls, multiple NYC locations) — https://springbone.com SunLife Organics (the Malibu-founded smoothie shop Josh couldn't name on air) — https://sunlifeorganics.com The Alchemist's Kitchen (plant-based apothecary, SoHo and Bowery) — https://www.thealchemistskitchen.com SPIN (ping pong social club, Flatiron and Midtown) — https://wearespin.com Toloache (Midtown and Upper East Side) — https://toloachenyc.com Sanctum (mindful movement community) — https://www.wearesanctum.com Hume Health (the Body Pod scale and the Hume Band) — https://humehealth.com Naboso — Sensory Intelligence Summit, Phoenix (Josh speaks twice; virtual access available) — https://www.naboso.com/pages/sensoryintelligencesummit Vosk Center (the Midtown clinic where the running workshop happened) — https://www.voskcenter.com Derek Hansen, sprint coach (the raised hand in that room) — https://www.sprintcoach.com "The Awareness Shift: Unearth the Five Pillars of Optimal Health and Wellness" by Joshua J. Holland and Tessa Cash (book) 🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

  2. Sep 3

    Is Your Coffee Toxic? What You Need to Know

    Recorded remotely with Andrew in Atlanta and Josh scrolling the Purity site on screen as they talked, which is how half of this conversation ended up being Josh asking what a thing on the website actually means. Andrew Salisbury is the founder and CEO of Purity Coffee, a company he started after his wife asked him to prove that coffee was bad for her — and he came back with the opposite answer. They get into why quitting coffee for tea usually solves the wrong problem, what roast level does to what is actually in the cup, and how to store a bag of coffee so the last cup tastes like the first. The turn in the story is a dinner with two professors from Vanderbilt's Institute for Coffee Studies, who handed him a long list of what the research on coffee looks at and then could not name a single company making every decision with that in mind. Eighteen months of R&D later he was in the coffee business, and the takeaway he keeps circling back to is simple: the thing you drink every single day is worth being picky about. 5 Key Takeaways Upgrade your coffee before you quit it.  Caffeine and coffee are two different conversations.  Roast level changes what is in the cup. Lighter roasts hold more chlorogenic acids, and as the roast goes darker those compounds convert into chlorogenic lactones, so it is a trade rather than a ladder.  The clock starts when you open the bag, not when it was roasted. Every Purity bag is nitrogen flushed, so an unopened bag can sit on the shelf for months. His rule of 15 covers the rest: green coffee keeps around 15 months, roasted around 15 days, ground about 15 minutes.  Vacuum seal what you are not drinking and put it in the freezer, not the fridge. STEMREGEN The line from Andrew that stuck with me is that coffee is worth being picky about precisely because you never forget to do it. It is one of the few things you will repeat every morning for the rest of your life, so the quality of it compounds in a way that occasional decisions never do. That is the same reason I take STEMREGEN. As we get older, the number of stem cells circulating in the bloodstream declines, and those circulating stem cells are the foundation of the body's own repair system. STEMREGEN is a plant-based formula that supports the release of your own stem cells from the bone marrow. It sits in the same slot in my morning as the coffee does, which is the whole point — the daily things are the ones that get to matter. Go to https://www.stemregen.co/ and use code JOSH at checkout. Timestamps 00:00 The grinder, the aromas, and the cup that starts the day  02:30 Coffee as a carrier, not a caffeine hit  03:30 The "prove it" challenge that started a coffee company  04:30 Two professors, a shopping list, and nobody making it  06:00 Why people quit coffee, and what is actually bothering them  08:00 The green tea comparison nobody runs the numbers on  12:00 Whole bean or ground, and a five-year decision  14:00 Nitrogen in the bag, and what starts when you open it  16:00 Caffeine and coffee are not the same conversation  18:00 The case for decaf drinkers as the real purists  18:30 How coffee actually gets decaffeinated  22:00 A 550-page book and a standard above specialty  24:30 Roast curves, lab tests, and adding nothing to the bag  27:30 Pods, sachets, and two years to get instant right  32:00 Light, medium, dark: where to actually start  35:00 The rule of 15, and the freezer instead of the fridge  39:30 What happens if you just brew the green beans  46:30 The fourth reason people will buy coffee  50:30 Sacred Cups, the Amazon, and the ritual side of it 54:00 The painting behind him and the Fibonacci logo Resources Mentioned Purity Coffee (Andrew's company; organic, lab-tested, health-focused coffee) — https://puritycoffee.com The Purity Process (how they farm, decaffeinate, roast and test) — https://puritycoffee.com/pages/purity-process Sacred Cups — https://puritycoffee.com/collections/sacred-cups Vanderbilt University Institute for Coffee Studies — https://www.vanderbilt.edu/ics/ Prof. Adriana Farah — Institute of Nutrition, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Andrew's R&D collaborator) George Howell Coffee (the frozen green coffee and vintage work Andrew references) — https://georgehowellcoffee.com AeroPress (Josh's travel brew method) — https://aeropress.com Healf (UK stockist for Purity) — https://healf.com/collections/purity-coffee 🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

  3. Aug 28

    The Five Pillars, Live | Joshua J. Holland on the Hearthfire Health & Wealth Series

    Recorded live on a webinar, in front of a room of investors, with Josh in the guest chair for once and questions coming in from the chat. Josh — celebrity trainer, holistic health coach, and author of The Awareness Shift — walks through the five pillars of optimal health and wellness, why the ego works better as an ally than an enemy, and what to actually do when you've only got thirty minutes a day. He shares the five-day retreat that changed how he sees anyone carrying pain, and the conversation lands somewhere blunter than where it started: we all already know how to be healthy, and we're just better at making excuses. 5 Key Takeaways Awareness sits at the top of the pyramid, not nutrition. In Josh's five-pillar framework, quality awareness comes first and quality rest and recovery second — ahead of what you eat and how you move. His reasoning is capacity: those first two are the ones you have the most room to work on. Meditation isn't one thing. Breath, heartbeat, a walk in nature, prayer, a float tank — the throughline is reducing the noise, not adopting a particular practice. The version you'll actually do consistently beats the version that sounds most legitimate. Put the ego in the passenger seat. Josh reframes it as a friend who steps up when something is genuinely a threat and stays quiet when it isn't — so a comment section stops reading as danger. You can't get rid of it; you can decide who's driving. Your environment is something you consume. The people around you, the deadline stress, the food you scarf in ten minutes — Josh folds all of it into quality consumption, and points out that too much of even a good thing stops paying you back. We all know how to be healthy. We're just better at making excuses. His line for it: our bodies and minds adapt to what we do most of the time — so change starts with a reason strong enough to change what you do most of the time. STEMREGEN Two of Josh's five pillars land before anyone gets to diet or exercise, and the second one is rest and recovery. That's the part of this conversation that stuck with me — the idea that repair isn't the thing you do after the real work, it is the real work. That's why I take STEMREGEN. As we get older, the number of stem cells circulating in the bloodstream declines — and those circulating stem cells are the foundation of the body's own repair system. STEMREGEN is a plant-based formula that supports the release of your own stem cells from the bone marrow. It's part of the same philosophy I brought into this conversation: give your body what it needs to keep up with the life you're actually living. Go to https://www.stemregen.co/ and use code JOSH at checkout. Timestamps 00:00 Three cities, one heat index, and a hello  02:00 Why a self-storage firm is hosting a health conversation  04:00 The barefoot trainer Jordan couldn't stop telling people about 09:00 "You mean Josh the trainer?" — and the book that answered it 11:30 The inverted pyramid: why awareness outranks what you eat 14:00 The anxiety that had one host convinced he was dying  16:00 Martial arts, chi, and an upbringing built on awareness  18:30 Five days away and the veil coming off  21:00 Music, noise, and why meditation isn't one thing  23:30 A float tank tells you who you are in ten minutes  26:00 Ego as your best friend, not your enemy  30:30 Vipassana, prayer, and whatever you'll actually do  33:00 Labyrinth vs maze — and why there's no finish line  35:30 "We adapt to what we do most of the time"  38:00 The day a five-year-old asked about the belly  42:30 If you've only got 30 minutes: body schema, then sleep  45:00 The one pillar everybody neglects first  47:30 Watching the fork go in: taste instead of speed Resources Mentioned "The Awareness Shift: Unearth the Five Pillars of Optimal Health and Wellness" by Joshua J. Holland and Tessa Cash (book) Joshua J. Holland — https://www.joshuajholland.com/ Vivobarefoot — https://www.vivobarefoot.com/us/ "Ego Is the Enemy" by Ryan Holiday (book) Hearthfire Capital — https://hfirecapital.com/ STEMREGEN (episode sponsor) — https://www.stemregen.co/ — code JOSH 🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

  4. Aug 22

    ENCORE EPISODE: Emotional Intimacy on a Massage Table | Allana Pratt's Cut

    Recorded in NYC on Joshua's 45th birthday — and, for the first time, on a massage table — this heart-first conversation with emotional intimacy expert Allana Pratt covers morning rituals, being direct without manipulation, and why truth sets you free even when it stings. Allana shares the 6.5-year estrangement from her son that ended in a Mother's Day miracle, and together they explore how to feel a feeling all the way through — and move from excellent to living in your genius. 5 Key Takeaways • Feel it all the way through. Emotions move in waves and pass. Shoving them down, projecting, or numbing keeps them stuck — feeling them fully turns pain into power. • Truth is love. Speak from an open heart with no attachment to the outcome. What someone does with your truth is about them, not you. • Feed yourself from the inside. When you stop needing approval from the outside in, you stop being manipulated by other people's reactions. • Put the ego in the backseat. You can't get rid of it — but who's driving determines your whole life. Soul up front, ego with a sippy cup. • Excellent isn't the finish line. You can be highly competent at something that still doesn't feed you. The "big leap" is letting it go to live in your genius. STEMREGEN  This whole conversation with Allana kept circling back to one idea: your body is always talking to you. The tension, the tightness, the feeling that won't go away — it's information. And the work isn't to shove it down, it's to let it move all the way through so your body can do what it was built to do: repair. That's exactly why I take STEMREGEN. As we get older, the number of stem cells circulating in our bloodstream drops — and those circulating stem cells are the foundation of the body's natural repair system. STEMREGEN is a plant-based formula that supports the release of your own stem cells from the bone marrow so they can travel to wherever your body needs them most. For me it's part of the same philosophy I brought to this episode — recovery, feeling more, and giving your body what it needs to keep up with the life you're actually living. If you want to support your body's own repair system, go to https://www.stemregen.co/ and use code JOSH at checkout. Timestamps  00:00 Why I stopped needing you to like me 02:30 A gratitude prayer to open the conversation 05:00 Morning rituals: the AeroPress and a "witch's brew" 10:00 Visualizing your day before it happens 14:00 Learning to be direct without manipulation 18:00 Truth is love — what people do with it isn't about you 21:00 Letting go of the birthday party I thought I wanted 25:00 Allana's 6.5-year estrangement and the Mother's Day miracle 31:00 Co-parenting across two continents and three languages 38:00 What an "emotional intimacy expert" actually does 43:00 How to feel a feeling all the way through 47:00 The TSA, a widow's ashes, and being an angel 50:00 Sensory movement: feeling more in body, mind, and spirit 56:00 From excellent to genius — the Big Leap most people skip 62:00 A husband's message from the other side 68:00 What we each want to call in next 74:00 Closing: one degree of change Resources Mentioned  • Allana Pratt (Intimacy Expert) — https://allanapratt.com/ • Allana Pratt on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/allanapratt/ • Vivobarefoot — https://www.vivobarefoot.com/us/ • Rasa (adaptogenic coffee alternative) — https://wearerasa.com/ • Magic Mind — https://magicmind.com/ • AeroPress — https://aeropress.com/ • "The Big Leap" by Gay Hendricks (book) • STEMREGEN (episode sponsor) — https://www.stemregen.co/ — code JOSH 🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

  5. Aug 13

    Your Tendons Can't Keep Up With Your Muscles. Here's the Fix. | Raj Chaudhuri

    Raj Chaudhuri spent 25 years coaching professional tennis players on tour — then built the tool he couldn't find anywhere. Synapse CCR is a two-pound "gym in a bag" that delivers supermaximal eccentric and isokinetic work with no weights at all. He joins Josh to break down why the lowering phase is roughly 40% stronger than the lifting phase, how a 4:1 mechanical advantage lets a 140-pound coach load an NFL lineman, and why deceleration may be the most under-trained quality in sport. Featured Sponsor Segment — The One Device Everything Raj and I talked about comes back to one idea: your nervous system is doing more of the work than you think. The tool doesn't make you strong. The signal does. Recruiting the right fibers, at the right moment, fast enough to absorb the force — that's a nervous-system job, not a muscle job. That's why I wear The One Device every single day. It layers infrared light, visible light, and sound — all pulsing at the same frequency — into one small pendant that sits right over your heart. Try it for yourself at https://theonedevice.com/ and use code JOSH for 10% off. Link: https://theonedevice.com/ Code: JOSH (10% off) 5 Key Takeaways - The eccentric phase is the one you're leaving on the table.  - "Custom Calibrated Resistance" means the tool matches you, rep to rep. Put 100 pounds in, it reflects 100 pounds back.  - Deceleration is the under-trained quality.  - Tendons adapt slower than muscle.  - Efficiency is the real win.  Timestamps 00:00 The "perfect gym in a sack" — meeting Raj Chaudhuri 02:04 MOCEAN NYC, and the certification course coming up 03:27 25 years on the pro tennis tour, and taking over strength & conditioning 04:00 Stumbling onto supermaximal eccentric loading — and its one big drawback 05:07 Concentric, isometric, eccentric: the three phases, defined 05:50 Why the eccentric is ~40% stronger — and why that's so hard to load 06:43 Two spotters, two-hour sessions, 45 weeks of travel: how Synapse was born 07:06 Josh on Raj as an educator — and setting the unit up for the first time 08:39 Training Oscar Isaac on it, mosquitoes and all 09:04 Just under two pounds in a bag, and what that changes 09:31 "One repetition and he said, dude, what is this thing?" 10:15 What Synapse CCR actually is — and what CCR stands for 12:04 Tonal, ARX and the isokinetic space: what's different here 13:01 The bench-press spot problem — why assisted eccentrics get risky 13:49 How the load tracks your fatigue, rep by rep 15:33 Can you actually measure the force? 16:27 The 4:1 mechanical advantage and the control strap 17:23 The PitchSix Force Board: live graphs, ghost lines and targets 19:41 Flavio Cobolli's GPS data — decelerations at nearly 2:1 20:19 Josh on basketball, the big toe and absorbing force through gait 22:24 90 seconds of work, five days of recovery 23:00 Tendon stiffness, collagen alignment and why muscle outpaces connective tissue 25:16 Building a community around it — and the case for the 65+ population 27:01 The demo that sold Oscar: mechanical advantage in one rep 27:44 140 pounds of coach vs. NFL linemen — and a 700-pound split squat 28:46 What happens when form breaks down mid-rep 29:20 Five to six hours a week down to thirty or forty minutes 30:04 More time for recovery — and Keith Boutwell's 50+ clients in Cary, NC 31:12 Bilateral vs. unilateral: what works in solo mode and what doesn't 32:13 Partner mode, attachments and running two units at once 33:16 The bilateral deficit, explained 34:21 Getting creative — and what the certification course is really for 37:03 Setup: anchoring to something genuinely rooted 38:31 The door anchor, and working out in hotel rooms worldwide 39:18 Privacy, and the noise maximal effort makes 40:07 Door safety, tensioning and which way it should close 41:42 Top and bottom anchors, and how the tension system works 43:03 Prussik knots and creating any force vector you want 44:10 What people miss until they actually try it 46:40 Where to find Raj, the website and the courses 49:40 Upcoming certifications — September 12–13 at MOCEAN NYC 50:39 Closing thoughts RESOURCES: - Synapse CCR — https://www.synapse-ccr.com/ - MOCEAN — Integrative Physical Therapy & Wellness, 315 Madison Ave, NYC — https://moceanpt.com/ (IG: https://www.instagram.com/moceanpt/) - PitchSix Force Board (the force gauge + app Raj uses) — https://pitchsix.com/collections/force-board - Force Board app (iOS) — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/force-board/id1575849276 🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

  6. Aug 6

    5 AM Clients, 4 Movies a Week, 1 Very Full Life | NYC Solo Update

    Josh is back in New York for a solo catch-up: rebuilding his career and business after losing his manager and business partner, bringing back in-person clients, and turning years of free advice into a real consulting practice. He also gets honest about a reset that didn't go the way he planned, the plantar fasciitis that told him to slow down, what's coming in Phoenix and West Palm Beach, and why he's back in movie theaters. 5 KEY TAKEAWAYS - Structure is what carries you through the hard season. Losing his manager and business partner meant rebuilding everything from the ground up — and Josh's answer wasn't to grind harder, it was to live by the calendar. The structure came first; the capacity followed. - You are allowed to not hit the goal. Josh set out to complete the holistic reset the way he normally does and didn't. He names it out loud instead of quietly editing it out — because the environment, the grief, and the rushed start all played a part, and pretending otherwise helps no one. - Rest is a business decision, not a reward. From six to eight in-person sessions a day at the Core Club to four or five now, scheduled around getting home early, eating early, and sleeping early — the schedule exists so clients get the sharpest version of him, not the most available one. - The body sends the signal before the breakdown. Plantar fasciitis showed up again after weeks of events, workouts, and short nights — and Josh had felt it coming in his gut long before his foot said it. The lesson isn't the injury, it's the intuition he overrode. - Balance means claiming both sides. Josh calls himself an ambivert — genuinely social, genuinely protective of his time alone. Not choosing between the two is what makes the pace sustainable.  SPONSOR: This whole episode is basically one long lesson in what happens when you stop listening to your body. Weeks of events, late-night run clubs, 5 AM alarms, and travel — and then my feet finally spoke up. Plantar fasciitis, again. Not new information. Just information I'd been ignoring. Here's what I keep coming back to: recovery isn't something you bolt on at the end. It's what your body is doing every single day, quietly, whether you support it or not. My job is to give it the conditions to do that work — enough sleep, enough real food, enough downshift time, and the right inputs. STEMREGEN is one of those inputs for me. It's a plant-based supplement designed to support your body's own natural renewal and recovery processes — not to override them. That's why it fits how I train and how I live. I'm not trying to force an outcome. I'm trying to give my system what it needs to do what it already knows how to do, especially in a season where I'm asking a lot of it. If you want to try it, go to stemregen.co/josh and use code JOSH for 15% off. Link: https://stemregen.co/josh Code: JOSH (15% off) TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Back in NYC — and rebuilding after losing my manager 02:25 New clients, 5 AM alarms, and the Core Club years 04:46 Vivobarefoot, protecting sleep, and cleaning up the business 07:05 Turning 15 years of free advice into a consulting practice 09:23 The reset that didn't go as planned — and being honest about it 11:47 Plantar fasciitis again: the signal I'd been ignoring 14:12 Inside the Sands Point activation — foot scans and barefoot classes 16:33 Sensory Movement, the book, and what's coming in Phoenix 19:00 The SoHo store, more run clubs, and NYC's strange summer 21:24 Back to the movies — and the AMC A-List math 23:51 Obsession, online dating, and how well we know people 26:18 The Odyssey, the star-power question, and dozing off 28:40 Ambivert energy: balance, solitude, and keeping the conversation going RESOURCES: - STEMREGEN (episode sponsor) — https://stemregen.co/josh — code JOSH (15% off) - Book a 15-minute consult with Josh — https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland - Vivobarefoot — https://www.vivobarefoot.com/us/ - VivoBiome 3D foot scan — https://vivobiome.vivobarefoot.com/ - Othership (Williamsburg, Brooklyn) — https://www.othership.us/williamsburg - Pulse PEMF — https://pulsepemf.com/ - Sands Point Preserve, Port Washington NY — https://www.sandspointpreserveconservancy.org/ - Springbone Kitchen — https://springbone.com/ - Eudēmonia Summit — Nov 5–8, 2026, West Palm Beach FL — https://eudemonia.net/ - AMC Stubs A-List — https://www.amctheatres.com/amcstubs/alist - Joshua J. Holland (all links) — https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland 🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

  7. Jul 31

    ENCORE EPISODE: The Wearable Technology Debate | What Dr Marty Miller Had to Say

    ENCORE EPISODE. Dr. Marty Miller — VP of Research and Education at Super Patch and the first Director of Performance Enhancement for the New York Yankees — joins Josh to trace his path through sports medicine, elite performance, and injury prevention. He breaks down the science behind Super Patch: a drug-free wearable that stimulates the skin to bring neural networks back into balance and nudge the body toward homeostasis. Plus the formulas, how to use it, and why education beats hype. Featured Sponsor Segment — The One Device Marty and I spent this whole conversation on one idea: your nervous system is always listening. Not to what you tell it — to what you give it. Input in, response out. Change the input, change the state. That's exactly why I wear The One Device every single day. It layers infrared light, visible light, and sound — all pulsing at the same frequency — into one small pendant that sits right over your heart. Think of it as a tuning fork for your nervous system. In a world constantly pulling you into fight-or-flight, it quietly helps you drop back into the rest-and-digest state where your body actually repairs. Marty's whole point is that the body already knows how to find balance. It just needs the right signal. I fly constantly, I live in the middle of New York City, and keeping The One Device in circadian mode is one of the ways I keep giving my body a signal worth listening to. If you want to try it for yourself, head to theonedevice.com and use code JOSH for 10% off. Link: https://theonedevice.com/ Code: JOSH (10% off) 5 Key Takeaways - Never stop being a student. Marty's whole career — sports medicine, athletic training, performance enhancement, a doctorate in health sciences — is built on continuing education. The pros who stay useful are the ones who keep learning after the credential. - Elite sports medicine is mostly problem-solving under pressure. As the Yankees' first Director of Performance Enhancement, the job wasn't magic protocols — it was reading bodies, managing loads, and preventing the injury before it happened. - Super Patch works through neurology, not chemistry. There's no drug and nothing absorbed through the skin. A ridged pattern stimulates the skin's receptors, and that input signals the nervous system to bring its networks back into balance. - Homeostasis is the goal, not "more." The point isn't to push a system harder — it's to return the body to its own baseline so sleep, energy, focus, and movement can regulate themselves. - The tech only matters if the habits follow. The Kick It patch is aimed at breaking cravings and building better patterns — and Marty is clear that the patch supports the habit change, it doesn't replace it. Timestamps 00:00 Meeting Dr. Marty Miller & the road into sports medicine 02:43 Why you never stop being a student 08:13 Real challenges inside elite sports medicine & injury prevention 19:30 The Yankees years and the path that led to Super Patch 31:03 What Super Patch actually is: skin, receptors & neural balance 39:34 The science underneath: why it's neurology, not chemistry 41:03 How to use the patch — placement, timing & guidelines 43:43 Walking through the different formulas 46:48 The Kick It patch: cravings, habits & pattern change 48:32 The weirdest places people have put a patch 52:04 Who it's for (short answer: everybody) 54:27 Building good habits around the patch 58:26 What life looks like without it 01:06:35 Education, critical thinking & doing your own homework 01:09:03 What's next for Marty & Super Patch Resources Mentioned - Super Patch — https://www.superpatch.com/ - Super Patch US store — https://us.superpatch.com/ - Super Patch on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/superpatchco/ - Super Patch on YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@SuperPatchCo - Kick It Patch (habit & craving support) — https://www.superpatch.com/product-detail/kick-it - How the Super Patch technology works — https://www.superpatch.com/how-it-works - Dr. Marty Miller author page (ACE Fitness) — https://www.acefitness.org/resources/author/175/dr-marty-miller/ - The One Device (episode sponsor) — https://theonedevice.com/ — code JOSH (10% off) - Joshua J. Holland (all links) — https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland 🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

  8. Jul 23

    16,000 Chemicals in Your Food — and Only 1% Are Deemed Safe | Johanna Hellrigl

    Chef Johanna Hellrigl — owner of DC's mission-driven restaurant AMA and an Environmental Working Group board member — joins Josh to connect personal and planetary health, from the plastic chemicals migrating into our food to the waste we never see. They get into her TED talk "The Plastic You Eat," the Fed Up movement on ultra-processed food, composting at home, regenerative farming, and why slowing down and voting with your dollars can shift the whole food system. Word from our sponsor.  This whole conversation with Johanna kept landing on the same truth: your environment is shaping your body whether you notice it or not. The plastics, the packaging, the pace we're all running at — it adds up. And the antidote isn't one more thing to push harder at. It's slowing down enough to let your body get back to baseline. That's exactly why I wear The One Device every single day. It layers infrared light, visible light, and sound — all pulsing at the same frequency — into one small pendant that sits right over your heart. Think of it as a tuning fork for your nervous system. In a world constantly pulling you into fight-or-flight, it quietly helps you drop back into the rest-and-digest state where your body actually repairs. Johanna kept saying your body is always talking to you. The One Device is one of the ways I stay calm enough to listen — on flights, in the middle of New York City, wherever I land. If you want to try it for yourself, head to theonedevice.com and use code JOSH for 10% off. Link: https://theonedevice.com/ Code: JOSH (10% off) KEY TAKEAWAYS: - It's not just the container — it's heat, fat, acid, and time. That's the "perfect storm" that pulls plastic chemicals into food. There are ~16,000 known plastic chemicals, and only about 1% have been deemed non-hazardous. - The fix is awareness, not fear. Endocrine disruptors like BPA (and its cousins BPS and BPF) affect hormones, fertility, and kids — knowing where plastics hide lets you make better choices and vote with your dollars. - Waste is invisible, and that's the problem. One second of convenience — a coffee cup, a takeout box — can last centuries in a landfill. Seeing the scale (a child goes through ~6,000 diapers) is what actually changes behavior. - Close the loop at home and in sourcing. Tools like the Mill food recycler, local compost pickup, whole-food ingredients, and microplastic-tested seafood shrink waste and support soil and health at the same time. - Change the incentives and slow down. Reward people for better choices instead of only charging for convenience, back regenerative farmers with guaranteed demand, and remember ~60% of meals are eaten outside the home — so restaurants have to be part of the solution. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Meeting Chef Johanna Hellrigl & the mission behind AMA 01:47 Growing up Italian in the restaurant industry 03:30 The Fed Up movement & the science on ultra-processed food 05:04 "The Plastic You Eat": heat, fat, acid & time 07:08 16,000 plastic chemicals, BPA/BPS/BPF & the health cost 08:15 Voting with your dollars — the protein craze in reverse 11:56 The waste we never see: know your farmer, know your food 12:48 Hiro's plastic-eating diapers & making waste visible 15:42 Composting at home: the Mill, the garden & zero-waste at AMA 17:33 Recycling vs. reality — where our trash actually goes 19:36 Bringing your own containers: lessons from Europe 23:33 The GRAYL bottle, vintage clothing & the Ridwell exercise 27:48 Shopping local, the parasite outbreak & ozonated water 32:44 Slow food, slowing down & the compostable cup 37:10 Why restaurants can't be left out (60% of meals are eaten out) 39:30 Sourcing clean: Lummi Island Wild, Seatopia & bioindividuality 41:35 Regenerative farming & guaranteeing farmers the demand 43:35 Composting with her son & teaching kids where food comes from 46:00 What's next: helping other restaurants transform 48:46 Where to find Johanna, AMA & a little Vivo Barefoot love 🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

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    Joshua J. Holland
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