Simply Walk The Talk

Joshua J. Holland

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  1. 1d ago

    Why the Only Study That Matters Has a Sample of One | Dmitri Leonov of The One Device

    Dmitri Leonov, co-founder and CEO of The One Device, is back on the show for his second conversation with Josh, recorded remotely on October 27, 2026 (Dmitri in Spain, Josh in New York the week of the marathon). Nothing was prepped. Josh brings the questions he keeps seeing in his comments and DMs: what a wellness brand is allowed to claim, whether it's really platinum, why some orders took so long, and what to expect once you put it on. It opens with the Red Bull "gives you wings" lawsuit and turns into the real topic, how a company talks honestly about a product, and Dmitri's answer to every skeptic: the only study that matters has a sample of one, and that's you. 5 Key Takeaways Claims and perception are two different things. Josh separates what a company intends to say from what a reader hears, and Dmitri explains why his earlier medical device company had to take down dozens of customer testimonials.The One Device is built as a wellness product on purpose. Dmitri says keeping it out of the medical category was a goal from the start, and the team is careful about what it says publicly.There's still no Bluetooth. The copper casing works like a Faraday cage, so the app programs the device through phone vibrations, and HRV data comes in from Oura, Whoop or Apple Health and Android Health Connect.Skepticism is welcome. Dmitri says he was a skeptic himself, and he asks skeptics to stay curious, give it at least a month, and lean on the 90-day return window if it isn't for them.Biotuning is the personal piece. It's a separate session at a partner practitioner's center, about twenty minutes, that uses HRV biofeedback to find the frequency you respond to, which then goes onto your device through the app.The One Device The line I keep coming back to from this conversation is Dmitri's: the only study that matters has a sample of one, and that's you. I didn't want this episode to be a sales pitch. I wanted the hard questions out in the open, and then for you to try it yourself. The One Device is a wearable pendant that combines infrared light, visible light and sound at specific frequencies, designed to support a sense of balance and calm through your day. There's no Bluetooth. It's programmed from the app through vibration, and you can add a personal biotuning frequency. I wear mine every day, and when I see the light shift colors through the day it reminds me to check in with myself. Go to https://theonedevice.com/joshuaholland and use code JOSH at checkout. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:30 Dmitri is back, live from Spain 04:30 The one-sentence pitch 05:30 The Red Bull wings lawsuit 08:00 Why the testimonials had to come down 09:30 A wellness product, not a medical one 11:00 Does placebo have its place? 13:30 Connecting your Oura or Whoop data 15:00 Programming it like Morse code 18:00 A voice check on your emotional state 21:30 Why the copper means no Bluetooth 23:00 Is it really platinum, and where's my order? 24:30 Two chains in the box 27:00 Whack-a-mole and what's coming next 29:00 How long until you notice anything? 31:30 Feeling more like yourself 33:00 What about the skeptics? 35:30 The return rate question 37:00 Black nickel, rose gold and gold 39:00 Biotuning: finding your own frequency 40:00 Setting it up in the app 42:30 Next stop: Eudemonia and Europe 45:00 Everything is frequency 47:00 Share the good and the bad Resources Mentioned The One Device (light and sound wearable) — https://theonedevice.com — Instagram @theonefrequencyDmitri Leonov (co-founder and CEO, The One Device) — https://theonedevice.com/pages/the-aboutBiotuning for The One Device — https://theonedevice.com/pages/biotuning-for-the-onedeviceThe OneApp beta — https://theonedevice.com/pages/the-oneapp-beta-versionHume Health (Hume Band and scale Josh mentions) — https://humehealth.comSTEMREGEN — https://www.stemregen.coMagnetRX (magnetic necklace) — https://www.magnetrx.comBiohackers World (conference) — https://www.biohackers.worldEudemonia (conference) — https://eudemonia.netThe One Device (episode sponsor) — https://theonedevice.com/joshuaholland — code JOSHThis episode is for educational purposes and is not medical advice. Talk to a qualified provider before changing anything about your health routine. 🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

    Why the Only Study That Matters Has a Sample of One | Dmitri Leonov of The One Device

  2. Oct 22

    Most People Don't Know They Have a Repair System | Joshua J. Holland

    Recorded on the floor of Dave Asprey's BEYOND Biohacking Conference in Austin this past May, and shared here with Christian's permission, this one flips the usual setup: Josh is in the guest chair and STEMREGEN founder Christian Drapeau is asking the questions. Christian is a stem cell scientist and author, and they get into why Josh started paying closer attention to recovery as he got close to 45, the bioregulator peptides Christian was introducing at the conference, and why the body's repair system gets so little attention. The turn is the question Christian says he started with more than 20 years ago: once stem cells are released into circulation, how do you get them where they're needed? It opens onto the idea this episode is named for, that everyone knows about the immune system and few people know they have a repair system at all. 5 Key Takeaways Your body has a repair system, not just an immune system. Christian's point is that everyone accepts the immune system as essential, while most people have never heard their repair system described at all. In his framing it isn't only switched on by an injury. It's at work every day maintaining organs and tissues.Releasing stem cells is only the first step. Christian describes his work in phases. Getting stem cells into circulation and reducing the background noise comes first, and the tissue itself is a separate problem, which is where the bioregulator peptides he was introducing come in.Ask where a peptide was made. Christian's view is that much of the peptide market raises real questions about purity and sourcing. So he paid close attention to who made his, and chose a sublingual spray.Skepticism is healthy. Josh says the average consumer is a lot smarter now and assumes anyone on camera might just be selling something. His answer is to sit down with the people behind a product and ask the questions that don't usually get asked.Put stem cells on the priority list. Christian isn't dismissing mitochondrial health, which most people have already heard plenty about. His argument is that stem cell function deserves to sit higher on the list than it usually does.STEMREGEN The line from Christian that stuck with me is the simplest one. Everybody knows they have an immune system, and very few people know they also have a repair system working every day. STEMREGEN is a plant-based formula that supports the release of your own stem cells from the bone marrow. 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. It's part of my daily routine, and it's why I keep sitting down with Christian. Go to https://stemregen.co/josh and use code JOSH at checkout. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:30 Catching up on the floor at BEYOND 03:00 Two weeks from 45 and paying attention to recovery 04:00 A Saturday clearing fallen trees on 11 acres 05:30 The first interview, and what the critics said after 06:30 Twenty years of one question: where do stem cells go? 07:30 Why releasing stem cells is only half the job 09:30 Everyone knows the immune system. Few know the repair system. 10:30 Where peptides come from, and why it matters 11:30 The Khavinson connection 12:30 Stem cells and mitochondria on the priority list 13:00 Mic drop Resources Mentioned Christian Drapeau (stem cell scientist and STEMREGEN founder) — https://www.christiandrapeau.com — Instagram @stemcellchristian"Fasting, Focus, and Stem Cell Repair with Christian Drapeau" (Josh's first SWTT episode with Christian) — https://simplywalkthetalk.buzzsprout.com/2090503/episodes/19097771-fasting-focus-and-stem-cell-repair-with-christian-drapeauBEYOND Biohacking Conference (Dave Asprey's Austin conference, where this was recorded) — https://beyondbiohacking.comNathalie Niddam (longevity educator, Christian's collaborator on the bioregulators) — https://www.natniddam.comVladimir Khavinson (the Russian researcher behind decades of bioregulator peptide work)STEMREGEN (episode sponsor) — https://stemregen.co/josh — code JOSHSTEMREGEN sponsors this episode, and Josh has an affiliate relationship with the brand. This episode is for educational purposes and is not medical advice. Statements about supplements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Talk to a qualified provider before changing anything about your health routine. 🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

    Most People Don't Know They Have a Repair System | Joshua J. Holland

  3. Oct 15

    She Took Care of NFL Players. Her Own Heart Was 80% Blocked | Barbara Depta

    Barbara Depta spent years traveling with the Baltimore Ravens and working with PGA Tour golfers as a fascial stretch specialist, until a cardiologist told her one of her own arteries was 80% blocked. She and Josh met at the Sensory Intelligence Summit and talked the whole Uber ride there, and this conversation picks up from that ride: a dislocated elbow that ended her gymnastics at eight in communist Poland, landing in the US with a pocket dictionary, and the referral that put her at Ray Lewis's front door. The turn is the diagnosis. Barbara says she had been helping everyone but herself, and it opens onto the idea at the center of the episode: strength without internal flexibility won't get you very far. 5 Key Takeaways • Take your own advice first. For years Barbara told athletes they come first, then realized she wasn't doing it for herself. Her words for it: she didn't walk the talk. • Strength needs flexibility on the inside too. Her line is that functional strength without internal flexibility is useless. She means room to feel and process things, not just range of motion. • Adapting to stress isn't the same as letting it go. She learned to hold her own in any room, from Polish gymnasiums to an NFL facility, and says the stress still traveled with her. • Loss can go either way. After her mother's sudden death, she describes loss as something that can make you more nurturing and caring, or break you, depending on what you do with it. • What you consume emotionally counts. Her closing point: pay attention to what you eat, and pay just as much attention to what you say to yourself. Hume Health Basia's story stuck with me because it's so familiar. She spent years paying close attention to everyone else's body and very little to her own, and that's easy to do even when you coach people for a living. Hume Health makes the Body Pod, an at-home body composition scale that breaks your results down by arms, trunk and legs, and the Hume Band, a wearable that tracks your data over time. Everything lives in a free app, so you can see your own trends instead of guessing. I use both in my own routine and in how I coach, because it keeps me honest about what I'm actually doing day to day. Go to https://humehealth.com/ and use code JOSH at checkout. Timestamps 00:00 Helping everyone but herself 01:20 Intro 02:30 A 15-minute Uber ride at the Sensory Intelligence Summit 05:00 "Is he playing for the Arizona Cardinals?" 08:30 Listening to act versus listening to judge 12:00 Raised on no pain, no gain 14:30 A dislocated elbow and the doctor who missed it 20:30 Michael Jordan, basketball, and playing with the boys 22:30 One exchange year that turned into a life 26:00 Why flexibility and strength belong together 30:00 Meeting Ann and Chris Frederick 33:00 The referral that led to Ray Lewis's door 39:00 Bulldog or Jane Fonda 48:00 Life is a movement 50:30 Another injury: a heart blockage 53:00 Adapting to stress isn't letting it go 55:00 When silence meant pain 57:00 She didn't walk the talk 58:30 Strength without internal flexibility 1:02:00 Geneva, red spinach, and a terrible first taste 1:07:00 Selling her apartment, losing her mom 1:09:30 Loss is a loss 1:14:00 What's the best that can happen? 1:21:00 No mistakes, only lessons 1:22:00 I am the wealth 1:23:30 A processed life, The Comfort Crisis, and rain 1:28:00 Letting go of the people who ghosted you 1:29:30 Where to find Basia 1:32:30 What you consume emotionally 1:34:00 Eudēmonia plans and goodbye Resources Mentioned • Resync Your Body (Barbara's coaching, classes and Internal Conditioning System) — https://resyncyourbody.com — Instagram [@barbaradepta](https://www.instagram.com/barbaradepta/) • Resync (Barbara's recovery nutrition line) — https://resyncproducts.com — Instagram [@resyncproducts](https://www.instagram.com/resyncproducts/) • Resync Your Body, Simply Walk The Talk special: https://resyncyourbody.com/resync-your-body-system-simply-walk-the-talk-special/ • Resync products: https://resyncproducts.com • "Fascial Stretch Therapy" by Ann Frederick and Chris Frederick (book) • "The Comfort Crisis" by Michael Easter (book) • Naboso, host of the Sensory Intelligence Summit — https://www.naboso.com • Eudēmonia Summit, West Palm Beach, Nov 5–8, 2026 — https://eudemonia.net • Hume Health (episode sponsor) — https://humehealth.com/ — code JOSH *This episode is for educational purposes and is not medical advice. Statements about supplements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Talk to a qualified provider before changing anything about your health or training routine.* 🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

    She Took Care of NFL Players. Her Own Heart Was 80% Blocked | Barbara Depta

  4. Oct 8

    Foot Fest, Not Foot Fetish: What I Learned in Denver | Hamptons Solo Update

    This one is a check-in between trips: what he gave and got at the Sensory Intelligence Summit in Phoenix, a week of paying attention to his feet after his medical pedicure at Born to Splay, and two certification courses at Foot Fest in Denver with Dr. Courtney Conley and Dr. Jenifer Perez of Gait Happens. The running joke is that everyone hears "Foot Fest" as "foot fetish." Under it sits the line he keeps coming back to, that the best technology to go into a shoe is the human foot, and his point that a barefoot shoe only hands you a clean canvas. What you paint on it is up to you. 5 Key Takeaways • The best technology in a shoe is the human foot. Josh's view is that when a foot pronates or flattens, people tend to look for a shoe to correct it. He doesn't dismiss support and says there are times someone needs it, but he wants the foot doing its own work again afterward. • Think of footwear as a cast. An elbow that spends six to eight weeks in a cast comes out smaller and weaker, and nobody is surprised by that. Josh looks at modern shoes through the same lens, while saying plainly that he doesn't think they're inherently bad. • Being active isn't the same as exercising. In first consultations he asks clients how active they are, because walking around a city adds up to more than most people count. Then he asks how mindfully they're walking: hip extension, a straight foot, rolling through the heel and the big toe. • A barefoot shoe is a clean canvas. A wide toe box gives your toes room to splay. It won't splay them for you, and Josh points out you could wear barefoot shoes for 20 years and never do any toe work at all. • Use your tools actively. Toe spacers can just sit there, but Josh would rather move his foot in the new position. The toe strengtheners from the Gait Happens kit add resistance to the same idea. Hume Health Early in this episode I talk about the first thing I ask new clients: how active are you? Most people guess. They don't count the stairs, the subway, the walk to the appointment. And it's hard to change something you've only ever guessed at. That's where Hume comes in. Hume makes in-home health devices: the Hume Pod, a body composition scale, and the Hume Band 2.0, a wearable. Together they track a range of biomarkers in one app, so you can see how your sleep, movement and recovery line up over time. I use the pair with my virtual coaching clients, and it's where I like to start with someone new. You don't have to wear the band forever. A week or two of real data is usually enough to start a better conversation. Go to https://humehealth.com/ and use code JOSH at checkout. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:00 Checking in from the Hamptons 02:00 A week of noticing my feet after the medical pedicure 03:00 Two certifications with Gait Happens in Denver 03:30 Foot Fest, not foot fetish 04:30 The best technology to go into a shoe is the human foot 05:30 Six weeks in a cast, and footwear as a foot cast 07:30 The difference between activeness and exercise 08:30 How mindfully are you walking? 09:00 Inside the Functional Gait Assessment course 10:30 What's in the foot health kit 12:00 Toe spacers vs toe strengtheners 14:30 Passive tool or active work 15:00 How the toe strengtheners work 17:00 A barefoot shoe is a clean canvas 18:30 The BodyLever, Synapse CCR and the tools I'm testing 20:30 The OneDevice, STEMREGEN and Eudēmonia 23:30 Why my coaching starts with Hume 28:00 Share it if it helped Resources Mentioned • Gait Happens (Dr. Courtney Conley and Dr. Jenifer Perez; Foot Fest, the Functional Gait Assessment course and the Trainer Certification) — https://gaithappens.com — Instagram @gaithappens https://www.instagram.com/gaithappens/ • Foot Fest (Gait Happens, Denver, Oct 2–4, 2026) — https://gaithappens.com/event/foot-fest/ • The Foot Health Kit (toe spacers, toe strengtheners and mobility ball, from Gait Happens) — https://shop.gaithappens.com/products/the-foot-health-kit • Sensory Intelligence Summit (Naboso; hosted by Dr. Emily Splichal) — https://www.naboso.com/pages/sensoryintelligencesummit • Naboso (the Neuro Ball Josh compares the kit ball to) — https://www.naboso.com • Born to Splay & Ethereal Medi-Pedi (Josh's SWTT episode with Maria and Elizabeth Oloyede) — https://www.buzzsprout.com/2090503/episodes/19859409-no-toefanity-a-dry-pedicure-at-arizona-s-only-barefoot-shoe-store-maria-elizabeth-oloyede • Vivobarefoot — https://www.vivobarefoot.com • BodyLever (the lever tool Josh is testing at the ankle) — https://www.bodylever.com • Synapse CCR (portable custom calibrated resistance trainer) — https://www.synapse-ccr.com • The OneDevice (the wearable Josh has on a magnetic necklace) — https://theonedevice.com • STEMREGEN (Josh presents a workout on its behalf at Eudēmonia) — https://www.stemregen.co/ • Eudēmonia Summit (West Palm Beach, Nov 5–8, 2026; Josh's interview with STEMREGEN founder Christian Drapeau is Nov 8) — https://eudemonia.net • Hyperlight Optics (eyewear) — https://hyperlightoptics.com • Hume Health (episode sponsor; the Hume Pod and Hume Band 2.0) — https://humehealth.com/ — code JOSH This episode is for educational purposes and is not medical advice. Talk to a qualified provider before changing anything about your health or training routine. 🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

    Foot Fest, Not Foot Fetish: What I Learned in Denver | Hamptons Solo Update

  5. Oct 1

    The Athlete Serves the Artist | Cyril Rabbath, Master Juggler

    Recorded less than a week after Josh and Cyril met at the Sensory Intelligence Summit, where Cyril opened day one and Josh closed it. Cyril Rabbath has spent 30 years as a circus performer, touring the world and with Cirque du Soleil before settling on the Las Vegas Strip, and now teaches through his own school, Juggle Groove Academy. The conversation covers how he found the circus at 13, what a show taught him about presence over technique, and the first lesson he gives every new student, which has nothing to do with the throw. The marquee story is Cyril walking on stage to find a clown act had left water everywhere, scrapping his whole routine, and doing it from a chair. It opens onto the idea that runs through the episode: accept what's actually happening, lean into it, and let the skill serve the moment. 5 Key Takeaways Accept reality and lean into it. When the stage is wet or a ball rolls under the bleachers, fighting it only builds tension, and Cyril's experience is that an audience picks up whatever energy the performer brings. Adapting in real time is what earns their trust. The athlete serves the artist. Thirty years in, Cyril says the work that matters on stage is presence, not difficulty. What he delivers can be very simple. It just has to be real. Learn the catch before the toss. Most beginners grab at the ball. Cyril teaches absorbing it instead: the hand travels down with the ball, fingers stay soft, and he locates the catching motion in the triceps rather than the hand. Train the shadow side. The weaker hand, the quality of the catch, the parts of a technique only you can feel. Cyril found that skipping them is what eventually caps progress on the strong side. Build it clean from the first ball. Cyril taught himself, busked across Europe for years, then rebuilt his technique from the ground up at the Moscow State Circus School. Now he'd rather get a beginner's one-ball pattern right so every step after it sits on a stable foundation. Timestamps 00:00 Meeting at the Sensory Intelligence Summit less than a week ago 01:30 A Homo sapiens jugglus shirt and a lab of his own  02:30 Growing up in Paris without an answer  03:30 The smallest circus in the world  06:00 A skill nobody can take away from me  08:00 Thirty years on the road, from China to the Vegas Strip  10:30 How long it actually takes to get good at juggling  2:00 Walking on stage to find water everywhere  14:00 Accept reality and lean into it  17:00 The athlete serves the artist  18:30 Why trainers can't be limited by the plan  22:00 Calling the circus myself at 13  24:00 The Murphy's law of juggling for an audience  25:30 The six-year-old who loved the stage  28:00 From 65 seats to 5,000 a night, and back again  32:00 A 7:30 AM juggling workshop that filled up  34:30 The circus is not chaos, and clowning takes 30 years  39:00 Picking up juggling and chess during the pandemic  41:30 Why I'm not a magician  43:30 Why circus performers drop on purpose  45:00 A sculpture in the air  47:00 Where are your eyes when you juggle?  51:00 Start with the catch  53:30 The catch is in your triceps  55:00 Posture, rhythm, and relaxation, from juggling to running  57:00 Height and rhythm are two sides of one coin  58:30 Philosophers walked, jugglers juggle  1:01:30 Juggling isn't right-handed or left-handed  1:03:30 The shadow side of the technique  1:08:00 Self-taught, busking, then starting over in Moscow  1:11:00 The drop of water that eats the stone  1:13:00 Why I love teaching people who've never juggled  1:15:00 How much you can see through a little camera  1:21:00 Meet the team at Juggle Groove Academy  1:24:00 Juggling on Naboso boards  1:25:30 Mastery is simplicity Resources Mentioned Juggle Groove Academy (Cyril's live online juggling school, small-group classes on Zoom) — https://jugglegroove.academy — Instagram @jugglegrooveacademy Cyril Rabbath (personal site) — https://www.cyrilrabbath.com Naboso (the sensory boards and mats Cyril juggles on; host of the Sensory Intelligence Summit) — https://www.naboso.com Dr. Emily Splichal (founder of Naboso, organizer of the Sensory Intelligence Summit) — https://dremilysplichal.com Cirque du Soleil — https://www.cirquedusoleil.com This episode is for educational purposes and is not medical advice. Talk to a qualified provider before changing anything about your health or training routine. 🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

  6. Sep 24

    No Toefanity: A Dry Pedicure at Arizona's Only Barefoot Shoe Store | Maria & Elizabeth Oloyede

    Recorded the day after the Sensory Intelligence Summit wrapped, a few hours before Josh's red-eye back to New York, and he spends most of it in a pedicure chair. Sisters Maria and Elizabeth Oloyede run Born to Splay, the only barefoot shoe store in Arizona, alongside their Ethereal foot care and skin studios in Old Town Scottsdale. The conversation covers how they fit people into barefoot shoes without rushing the transition, why a medical pedicure is done dry, and what to ask any salon before it touches your feet. The marquee moment is Josh opening the kimono on his own feet: every toe broken at least once, a corn he tried to handle himself, and bunions from years of basketball shoes a size too small. What it opens onto is Maria's rule for the whole building, no toefanity, and the idea that foot care has to go along with footwear. 5 Key Takeaways Foot care has to go along with footwear. Maria's point is that the barefoot community puts real work into foot strength and mobility and then forgets the skin. Skin's first job is protection, and it can only do that job when it's intact. Don't rush into barefoot shoes. They feel great on day one, which is exactly why people overdo it. The store guides first-timers toward transition-friendly options, and a trainer on their own camera crew learned the hard way that fit athletes still have untrained feet. Toes are acquaintances, not twins. Each one has its own job, which is why the sisters push toe socks and toe spacers, and why they check that a barefoot shoe isn't still too snug for the toes to spread. Ask where the autoclave is. Their standard is heat-and-pressure sterilization, with a sterilization pouch whose indicator changes color after processing. If a salon can't answer, Maria suggests asking what product they use to disinfect tools and looking it up yourself. Stop talking badly about your feet. No toefanity is the house rule. The feet are carrying you everywhere, and Elizabeth closes on the line that ties the whole visit together: self-care is wellness, and wellness is self-care. [SPONSOR NAME] [No sponsor insertion identified for this episode. Block left empty on purpose. See Open flag 1. Do not carry over STEMREGEN or Purity Coffee.] Timestamps 00:00 Walking into the only barefoot shoe store in Arizona  01:00 Meeting at a summit booth and noticing the Vivobarefoot on the wall  01:30 A fit session that ends with a functional podiatrist's review  03:30 Barefoot shoes only work if people will actually wear them  05:00 Why first-timers don't start in the most minimal shoe  06:00 Toes are acquaintances, not twins  07:30 Why a medical pedicure is done dry  09:00 Autoclaves, single-use tools, and a place you'd bring your grandmother  10:00 Opening the kimono on a corn I tried to handle myself  11:30 Foot care has to go along with footwear  13:00 No toefanity  15:30 Why a barefoot educator stopped getting pedicures in New York  16:30 Every toe broken at least once  18:00 How to tell whether the tools were sterilized  26:00 The retainer argument for toe spacers every day  27:00 The double bunion surgery that didn't happen  30:30 Questions to ask any salon before they touch your feet  34:00 From cracked heels to podology school  36:00 Why the sisters say faith is what lets them work together  37:30 Running LA to Vegas in barefoot shoes  40:30 "Is that the guy on TV?"  47:30 Why 40 percent of their clients are now men  50:30 Toe socks, merino wool, and repurposed socks  52:00 Ten years, three buildings on 67th Place  54:00 Elizabeth on the skin barrier as the foundation  57:30 Self-care is wellness, and wellness is self-care  59:00 Thank you to Dr. Emily Splichal Resources Mentioned Born to Splay (barefoot shoe store and signature fit sessions, Scottsdale AZ) — https://borntosplay.com — Instagram @borntosplay Ethereal Medi-Pedi & Handcare (Maria's dry medical pedicures) — https://medi-pedi.etherealwe.com — Instagram @etherealmedipedi Ethereal Wellness & Esthetics (Elizabeth's skin care studio) — https://etherealwe.com — Instagram @etherealwellnessandesthetics Dr. Emily Splichal (functional podiatrist, Born to Splay's clinical partner) — https://dremilysplichal.com Naboso (Neuro Ball, sensory insoles, Splay toe spacers; host of the Sensory Intelligence Summit) — https://www.naboso.com Vivobarefoot — https://www.vivobarefoot.com Xero Shoes — https://xeroshoes.com Lems — https://www.lemsshoes.com Be Lenka — https://www.belenka.com Koel — https://koel.shoes Bridge Soles by P.R. Gear (transition insoles) — https://prgear.com/products/bridgesoles Creepers (merino toe socks) — https://www.creeperssocks.com Podoexpert (the hydrating foot foam Maria uses) — https://www.podoexpert.com/us-en The North American School of Podology (where Maria trained) — https://northamericanschoolofpodology.com The Speed Project (LA to Las Vegas relay Josh ran with a Vivobarefoot team) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Speed_Project This episode is for educational purposes and is not medical advice. Talk to a qualified provider before changing anything about your health routine. 🌐 Connect with Joshua & SWTT Podcast Website: https://www.simplywalkthetalk.com YouTube: @simplywalkthetalk Instagram: @simplywalkthetalk TikTok: @simplywalkthetalk Joshua Holland: https://linktr.ee/joshuajholland

  7. Sep 11

    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

  8. 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

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