The advent of the #metaverse has brought Immersive Learning and VR #training to the forefront of the L&D space in the past year.   But what exactly is immersive learning? 

How does it work? And what evidence is there to support this #technology's increasingly widespread use in #business training?  

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As companies adapt to the rapidly changing face of the workplace, the phenomenon of ‘workplace culture’ is undergoing its own seismic shift. With the advent of the #metaverse bringing Virtual and Augmented reality tech to the office, how can organisations harness the power of XR technology to redefine their culture?  

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On the podcast this week is Dee Caffari. One of the sport’s most accomplished offshore sailors, Dee Caffari boasts a remarkable career that includes six laps of the planet, three of them solo. Dee has challenged diversity and inclusion in the sport of sailing with the projects she has undertaken. Now having seen first hand the decay of our oceans, Dee acts as an advocate for Ocean Health helping industry facilitate change for a better future. We talk about empowering your team to succeed, owning outcomes in order to grow and being open to honest feedback!

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In today's episode, we speak to Richard Rierson.

Richard Rierson has over 30 years of real-world, practical leadership experience as a U.S. Marine Corps Officer, professional aviator, & corporate executive at the Vice President & Director level.  He’s maniacally passionate about leadership & believes that it’s central to every aspect of our lives. Central to his philosophy is that all of our leadership challenges should be met with the lifelong dedication & pursuit of becoming composed, confident, consistent, courageous, & compassionate.  In addition to being a sought after Speaker, Coach, & Consultant, he is the host of the highly acclaimed Dose of Leadership Podcast.

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On the podcast this week is Jeffrey Shaw. 

How many people can say they’ve never worked for anyone else? Selling eggs door-to-door at 14 years old began a lifetime of self-employment. As a speaker and small business consultant, Jeffrey Shaw helps self-employed and small business owners gain control of their business in what seems like otherwise uncontrollable circumstances. Drawing on his experience as a renowned portrait photographer, Jeffrey shows business owners how to see business through a different lens and strategies to compose the often-chaotic pieces of life and business into sustainable success.  Jeffrey’s TEDxLincolnSquare talk is featured on TED.com and he’s the host of the top-rated podcast, The Self-Employed Life, author of The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success and LINGO: Discover Your Ideal Customer’s Secret Language and Make Your Business Irresistible.

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On the podcast today is Jason Lauritsen. Jason is transforming management as a keynote speaker, trainer and author. He liberates managers from outdated and inhumane practices so that they can cultivate human potential at work and improve people's lives. Jason's advice and teachings are informed by decades of experience as an entrepreneur, corporate executive and employee engagement researcher. His insights have been described as a secret weapon by leaders who strive to create a more engaging and human experience for their people. We talk about the current state of management training, why cultivating relationships is so important and the future of work.

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On the podcast this week is Allistair McCaw is recognized as one of the world’s leading figures in High Performance, Team Culture and Leadership. For over 25 years, he has worked with numerous World Champion Athletes, multiple Olympians and no less than 14 Grand Slam Tennis Champions. He also consults to various Colleges and Professional Sports Teams around the world. An author of 5 best-selling books and a much sought-after keynote speaker, Allistair resides in South Florida. If you enjoyed this episode, why not sign up to our Newsletter? virti.com/newsletter  When you sign up, you'll receive a copy of our weekly 'Level Up' newsletter straight to your inbox every Thursday, with the latest Virti product and feature announcements, as well as tips, tricks and news about all things human performance.

My mantra is: your #morning routine should be #SIMPLE. If you have to waste your whole morning getting your #coffee at the EXACT right time, then you're gonna feel stressed every morning. That's why, in today’s HPP Bite I run you through how I wake up every day, and give you a few strategies for getting the best out of your morning and making that #routine work for you.

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On the podcast this week is John Register.

John Register failed to clear a hurdle as he trained for the Olympic Games—a move that led to a tragic accident and altered his life forever. He shifted his focus and embraced a “new normal mindset.” The decorated Persian Gulf War combat U.S. Army veteran world champion became a two-time Paralympic Games Silver Medalist, professional speaker, and global influencer. Register “amputated his fears” and founded the U.S. Olympic Committee Paralympic Military Sports Program. He authored 10 Stories to Impact Any Leader: Journal Your Way to Leadership Success in Spring 2020 and works with business leaders to hurdle adversity, amputate fear, and embrace a new normal mindset to win life's medals. The artificial leg he used to win the silver medal is displayed in the Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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Picking up Journaling is a quick and easy way to structure your days and be more #productive. Whether you're a student in #exam season needing a way to break down your work, or a YouTuber needing to keep track of their production routine, #journaling is a great way to steal back your productivity and tackle the day, week or month head-on!

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Think back to the last time you learned something. Was there a concept or subject that just clicked for you? You understood it clearly, and it made sense. Now, think about a time at #school when you couldn’t understand a concept or subject no matter how hard you tried. Well in today's video I dive into some learning theory to help you to understand how we #process information and how different ways of teaching and learning can impact how quickly and effectively you #learn.

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On the podcast this week is Maura Thomas. Maura Nevel Thomas is an award-winning international speaker, trainer, and author on individual and corporate productivity and work-life balance, and the most widely-cited authority on attention management.

We talk about managing stress, keeping an efficient workflow and avoiding burnout.

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On the podcast this week is Paul Schempp.

• Paul Schempp is the Director of the Sports Instruction Research Lab at the University of Georgia. Before this, he was a Performance Coach for the Swedish Golf Federation.
• He's spent the last 25 years bringing this experience and research to the corporate world, focussing on increasing individual performance in businesses around the world.

We talk about:

• The differences between how winners and losers think.
• Preparing for success.
• Maximizing experience.

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My guest on the podcast this week is Marie Leslie. Marie is a business consultant, a messaging strategist who specializes in helping small businesses become more productive, more focused and more successful. She's a lifelong entrepreneur who started her first business at age 13, and on today's podcast, we talk about productivity, simplifying processes and how you can get the best out of your day.

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In this weeks bite, I discuss how Virti scaled their culture while working remotely.
Culture is the most important part of keeping your business afloat, and gives every single employee a reason to get up in the morning and give you their all. It's vital that you keep your team happy and engaged in the culture of your company.

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My guest on the podcast this week is Frank Wander. Frank is a former Turnaround CIO, author and founder of People Productive, a next generation human capital management company. Frank helps H.R. organizations and their business partners tap vast pools of dormant talent potential so the people side of that businesses can move faster than the rapidly changing business environment itself. By increasing the velocity of work, his clients unlock stronger business results. Frank helps focus themes around productivity and get the best out of people through productive culture. In today's podcast, we talk around everything to do with productivity in business and how you can get the best out of your people through positive culture across any department.

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My guest on the podcast this week is Pandit Dasa. Pandit is a mindful leadership expert who's spoken on mindful leadership and conducted workshops at Google, JPMorgan Chase, Citi, State Farm, Bank of America, Novartis and multiple other Fortune 500 companies.

Pandit also presented the World Government Summit in Dubai, and at these workshops he presents research on mindfulness and explains the importance of leading by example, appreciation, communicating mindfully and managing one's emotions.

In today's podcast, we discuss everything to do with the mind, how to manage yourself and how to get the best out of your emotions in a work environment.

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My guest on the podcast this week is Nigel Paine. Nigel is a change focus leader with a worldwide reputation and a unique grasp of media learning and development in the public, private and academic sectors. He's written three books in the learning technology space and and while at the BBC headed up their learning development operation, developing leaders and a brand new onboarding experience to ramp up all of their staff. He speaks regularly at conferences around the world and teaches in a doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania. We discuss onboarding systems, his unique insight into learning development, how it's progressed over the last 20 years, and we also look at how new technology is emerging to empower the workforce and how you can implement change at your organization right now.

In todays episode, we talk to Karin Hurt, CEO of Let's Grow Leaders, and an experienced executive, speaker and writer. Karin was named of one the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trusted Business Behavior by Trust Across America and Multiplier of the Year by the Wiseman Group.

We talk about getting the most out of your new hires, nurturing an innovative company culture and allowing every single employee to have a voice.

Ever wondered how memory experts can instantly remember long digits of numbers but you are still struggling to learn everything you need for an exam? Well in today's Human Performance Bite I'm going to cover how we can hack how we learn and remember things for longer by understanding how our memory works!

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On the Podcast this week is former premiership rugby player and coach James Parkes. Following his time in rugby, James has gone on to found Evexia Health International Limited, an employee wellness and wellbeing app. In terms of human performance, James is extremely well versed in getting the best out of his team and people, and has some great tips on how to constantly be your best and stay motivated.

On the Podcast this week is the legendary author, speaker and entrepreneur Joan Koerber-Walker. Joan is President and CEO of the Arizona BioIndustry Association and founder of CorePurpose, Inc. and in this weeks podcast discusses how to grow your company, the most important aspects of company culture and how to get the most out of yourself and your people as your business scales.

Want to be a better reader? Bill Gates the former CEO of Microsoft and one of the richest men in the world said that he reads about 50 #books a year. Here are eight productivity #tips that I find helpful for #reading more effectively and consistently.   For me reading has been a super power. I've been able to learn from mentors who I've never met by reading autobiographies, taught myself how to scale every element of a business and grown as a person by applying what I've learned from books. I routinely read 2-3 books each week and did so during my time working as a surgeon and now as the CEO of a tech business.

On the podcast this week is Neil Crofts:

• Neil is Co-founder and CEO of Holos - an entirely virtual leadership and culture consultancy working with global clients. Neil was head of strategy for Razorfish during the dot com boom, has written 4 books on authentic leadership and co founded Holos in 2014. He lives in Surrey UK with his family and is a keen cyclist.

We talk about:

• The Post Conventional Context 
• Authentic Leadership 
• Emotional regulation and triggering

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Whether you are a YouTube creator, startup CEO or a doctor, being able to delegate effectively is one of the most important skills to free up your time and scale your work. However lots of people struggle with delegating things as they lack a repeatable process and sometimes find that relaying information to others is more time consuming than actually doing a task themselves.  FREE DELEGATION TOOL https://bit.ly/AYdelegate

How well do you actually know what you're teaching? In this bite I look at how to explain better using the The Feynman Technique which is a teaching and communication tool designed to convey information using concise thoughts and simple language. If you want to pitch your company better, make your explanations clearer and make your teaching more focused, the Feynman Technique, which is named after Nobel-Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman, is a great way to do it.

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When scaling businesses I've used lots of frameworks to help align people and  track goals and in this bite I'm going to look at one specific framework made popular by Google called Objectives and Key Results or OKRs I'll give a brief overview of what OKRs are and how they work and then some practical advice on how you can use them to grow your business and improve productivity.

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In todays episode, I discuss the Virti Journey, from our company's roots, to our growth to our Series A funding round of $10 Million Dollars. 

We announced a Series A round of $10m for Virti led by IQ Capital with participation from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Fundraising is considered by some founders to be the hardest part of scaling a technology company. For me, this round was the opportunity to accelerate our mission to improve human performance by fundamentally changing how people learn, train and perform.

Despite having graduated from medical school in 2009 I can still remember a ton of medical facts and anatomical knowledge in a huge amount of detail because I learned it over a long period of time. Whether you're studying for an exam or learning a new language you want to ensure that you are maximising your time and learning as efficiently as possible to get the maximum benefit from your learning.

Being productive is all about having a process that predictably achieves your goals. Whether studying for an exam, launching a product or building muscle you need to have a process that reliably and efficiently helps you to succeed.

Having a reliable process that predictably helps me to complete tasks quickly is the cornerstone of my productivity. I've used this process for scaling companies, generating passive income, staying fit and developing pretty much everything that I do and I honed it down over time.

The 5 phases: planning, research, prototype, implementation and reflection can be applied to literally anything and I'm going to break each down for you below.

My guest on the podcast this week is Nad Narimani. Nad is an English mixed martial artist and UFC star, who started his professional MMA career in 2011. Nad won the Cage Warriors Fighting Championship Featherweight Championship against Paddy Pimblett in April 2017.

With a record of 10 to 2, he competes in the featherweight division of the UFC. Nad is a lifelong learner and coaches both children and athletes in mixed martial arts to help them get the very best out of themselves.

We talk MMA training, what it's like to fight in front of a crowd and how learning and coaching can change your life.

Hey folks, welcome to Human Performance Bites!

As you know, I'm a huge gamer and also a learning nerd, so in this week's episode I dive into one of my favourite topics: How to Make Learning Fun Using Game Design.

Human Performance Bites are short bursts of wisdom from the Virti Team, hosted by Dr. Alexander F. Young. In this series, Alex covers a broad range of topics from business tips, to learning strategies, to human performance and productivity.

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My guest on the podcast this week is Wendi Friesen. Wendi is a worldwide leader in creating rapid change for life's difficult problems. Since 1994 her site at Wendi.com has influenced the lives of millions worldwide and brought insight, wisdom and spiritual growth to people in need.

As a flat broke single mother of two, with no resources, money, help or partners, Wendi created a transformation business for devoted followers who seek real change. Her work caught the attention of the media and she quickly became an authority on how to make rapid and massive change in people's mind, body and spiritual life.

Wendi.com grew to experience millions in sales in a short time, reaching the hearts and minds of people who understood how her sincerity and passion could transform their lives.

We discuss creating courage and focus to be more creative, breaking through your limitations and greatly improving your skills with powerful mental hypnotic practice and how does hypnosis affect your wealth and success and can anyone do it?

Hey folks, welcome to Human Performance Bites!

On this week's episode, we jump into Active Recall and why it's one of the best learning strategies and give some research into what makes it so effective for learners.

Human Performance Bites are short bursts of wisdom from the Virti Team, hosted by Dr. Alexander F. Young.
In this series, Alex covers a broad range of topics from business tips, to learning strategies, to human performance and productivity.

Learn more over on Alex's YouTube Channel, at virti.com/alex

On the podcast this week is Deb Calvert.

• Deb has 25 years of experience in leadership development, organizational effectiveness, and management training. She was an HR Director with a Fortune 500 company prior to founding People First Productivity Solutions in 2005. 
• Deb is an ICF-certified executive coach, licensed practitioner in numerous assessment tools, and a Certified Master of The Leadership Challenge®. She is a published author, and her research and methodologies have been published globally in academic journals.

We talk about:

1. Entelechy
2. Ennoblement
3. Engagement

• + What this means, and what it means for you!

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My guest on the podcast this week Liz Lewinson. Liz is the award-winning author of “American Buddhist Rebel,” “Women, Meditation, and Power,” and “The Power of the Loving Man.” A long-time practitioner and teacher of meditation and mindfulness, she enjoys up-ending traditional, repressive views of power, women, and men. Her executive career spans public relations, Wall Street technology, and non-profit management. A constant learner, she enjoys being taken on long walks by her two terriers.

We discuss how to practice meditation to boost you over pandemic, how raising your internal energy gives you a new approach to your daily performance and Liz provides some practical tips for gaining energy.

My guest on the podcast this week is Alison Pena aka Bad Widow.

Alison supports clients to tap into their innate resilience and take back their lives after loss with stories, insights and strategies. After losing her husband to pancreatic cancer in 2016, Alison designed new ways to re-engage, reinvent, and rebuild back to life, work and even love.

We discuss how to deal with grief, how companies can support employees through difficult times and how people can reclaim their lives and identities after major trauma.

My guest on the podcast this week is Lisa Erickson. Lisa is an energy worker specializing in women's energetics, sexual trauma healing, chakra manifestation, and kundalini awakening. She is the author of Chakra Empowerment for Women and The Art and Science of Meditation both published by Llewellyn Worldwide. She aids individuals through major life transits and trauma healing, with a particular focus on women’s sexual trauma. Lisa is certified in mindfulness meditation instruction and trauma sensitivity, and has trained in a variety of kundalini and energy healing modalities.

We discuss the impact of meditation on human performance and how to get started with energy work to improve your own performance.

My guest on the podcast this week is Randy Gage. Randy is a thought-provoking critical thinker who will make you approach your business — and your life — in a whole new way. Randy is the author of 14 books translated into 25 languages, including his recent worldwide best seller, Radical Rebirth.

He has spoken to more than 2 million people across more than 50 countries and is a member of both the Speakers Hall of Fame and the Direct Selling Hall of Fame. When he is not prowling the podium or locked in his lonely writer’s garret, you’ll probably find him playing 3rd base for a softball team somewhere.

We discuss the role of health in performance, the power of routines and the mental side of performance in reaching peak state

On the podcast this week is Simone Knego. Simone is the best-selling author of The Extraordinary UnOrdinary You, she is also a speaker, entrepreneur, and mother to six multicultural children. Sharing her journey of adopting three of her six children in foreign countries, her climb of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise cancer awareness, and all of the funny, scary, and inspiring stories that came along the way, Simone instills in her audience the powerful lesson that what you do matters. And it’s the little things we do each day that make the most difference.

We discuss Being a mom of six and the importance of self-care, Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mindset and the importance of believing in ourselves.

On the podcast this week is Susan De Lorenzo. Susan is a life coach who focuses on helping people who are emerging from life-altering adversities and guides them to evaluate the insights and wisdom that such times hold. She believes our “dark nights of the soul” contain amazing gems which we can use to construct an elevated platform that supports a joy-filled and authentic life and honours the journey and great being within. As a survivor of invasive breast cancer whose marriage dissolved as treatment ended, Susan draws upon her personal journey as well as her training as a life coach to give clients, readers and listeners the mindsets and tools to rebuild their lives in alignment with their deepest desires.

We discuss overcoming adversity, staying positive and what is essential in order to transform an adversity into a win.

On the podcast this week is Nate Palmer. Nate is a fitness and nutrition expert, coach, speaker, and writer who believes that being in incredible shape gives a massive advantage in business, focus, and relationships.

He also happens to be a dad, husband, and the #1 bestselling author of The Million Dollar Body Method and Passport Fitness. Nate helps business owners and entrepreneurs improve their physique, finances, and family time using fitness and nutrition as force multipliers.

We discuss nutrition, fitness, mindset and setting habits and goals when improving human performance.

On the podcast this week is David Richards. David is an international best-selling author, life strategist, and yoga instructor. He spent his early childhood living in various parts of the United States and three years living on the island of Okinawa, Japan. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in English, he was commissioned as an officer in the Marines. He earned two Masters degrees while on active duty and was part of the initial landing force in Somalia in support of Operation RESTORE HOPE.

David and I discuss Visualizing success, the power of meditation, and shaping our thoughts.

My guest on the podcast this week is Mike Cameron. Mike is a Canadian author, speaker, performance coach and advocate against Gender Based Violence. As a sales and leadership authority Mike has studied the impact that emotion has on human behaviour for over 2 decades. He has designed programs to assist individuals to tap into their emotions in a real and authentic way in order to become exceptional leaders and businessmen. His 2017 Tedx “The way men think of strong is wrong”, urges society to help redefine what it means to be a badass.  Mike coaches men to use his S.O.A.R framework to reconnect with their passions and purpose in life. His 2018 CBC Op-Ed “Dear Men” has been shared over 125,000 times and his keynotes addressing the importance of emotional intelligence have been heard all across North America. We discuss Mike's life-changing backstory, dealing with traumatic events and the impact emotion has on human behaviour.

In this episode, Rafael Grossman discusses the ever-fusing worlds of technology and medicine, and how we can use XR to drive great change in healthcare.

Rafael is a Surgeon, Educator, Speaker, Patient Advocate, Healthcare Futurist, and Immigrant - originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Throughout his career, he has focused on tapping the paradoxical power of technology to coexist with better, more humane medical care.

On the Podcast this week is Mita Mallick: 

• Mita Mallick is a corporate change-maker with a track record of transforming businesses. She gives innovative ideas a voice and serves customers and communities with purpose. She is currently the Head of Inclusion, Equity and Impact at Carta. She was formerly the Head of Inclusion and Cross Cultural Marketing at Unilever. 
• She has had an extensive career as a marketer in the beauty and consumer product goods space. Mallick is a LinkedIn Top Voice, a contributor for Entrepreneur and Harvard Business Review, and her writing has been published in Adweek, Fast Company and Business Insider.
• She is also the cohost of the recently launched The Brown Table Talk Podcast, where she and Dee Marshall share stories and tips on how to help Women of Color win at work, and advice for allies on how they can show up.

Mita and Alex talk:

• It's not the Great Resignation, It's the Great Awakening 
• It's all of our jobs to get women back into the workforce 
• Being an Inclusive Leader Starts at Home

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On the podcast this week, Emil Ekvardt talks about how high stakes poker changed his life, and how the lessons he learned from 12 hour-long sessions with no breaks and big economic swings helped him develop his mindset and increase his performance.

Emil picked up poker at age 16, and by 25 he was a poker millionaire. These incredible economic swings and extreme conditions made him obsessed with performing the best at what he does. Now, he's moved away from poker focusing on improving human performance and personal development, helping people to stop overthinking and find their passion.

On the podcast this week is Dr. Patrick J. Cohn. Patrick teaches mental skills and sports psychology strategies to athletes, teams, and corporate professionals to help improve performance. In addition to working with athletes and teams, Dr. Cohn teaches parents, coaches and athletic trainers how to help athletes achieve peak performance through mental game skills training. He is also the founder of the MGCP certification program for coaches and therapists.

In addition to his work with athletes, Dr. Cohn has also worked with major corporations such as IBM, Canada and USA Today. Furthermore, he’s been a sports commentator on the Golf Channel and has been featured in trade publications such as Golf Magazine and Golf Digest. He also participated in USA Today’s “Soul of a Champion” series and developed the “Soul of a Champion Test.” He was also featured as the mental game expert on Versus network.

We talk about improving mental performance and why in sports and business mental training is so important.

On the podcast this week is Karese Laguere. Karese is the author of Accomplished: How to Sleep Better, Eliminate Burnout and Execute Goals and a registered dental hygienist with a focus on orofacial myology. 

Karese, like many parents, suffered in silence while her children struggled with the symptoms of undiagnosed sleep and breathing issues. One visit to a pediatric dentist changed the trajectory of their lives. Already a Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH), Karese, trained with Sandra Holtzman, Lois Laynee and Sarah Hornsby to establish her orofacial myology knowledge. With this initial training and numerous others, in a few short years she had not only resolved all her children's issues, but helped hundreds of patients, children and adults alike, discover how great life can be functioning on full. Her private practice, The Myo Spot is now a leader in the quest for myofunctional therapy awareness and public education. Karese's mission is to transform and positively impact as many households as possible through dynamic breath, brain and body work.

We discuss the science behind poor sleep, why sleep hygiene is vital to being productive and helping you accomplish goals and the latest technology to help you improve how you sleep.

On the podcast this week is Kim "Kidd" Curry.  Kim worked in radio for nearly 33 years growing Miami's largest talk-time radio show until Multiple Sclerosis forced him to change his path in life aged 50.  What came next was a battery of doctor appointments, tests, therapies, expensive pharmaceutical drugs, hospital stays and adaptive equipment to live a quality of life worth living.

Since his diagnosis, Curry has written “Come Get Me Mother, I’m Finished” and “The Death of Fairness”

Kim discuss his diagnosis, how it changed his life, Kim’s book and his experiences working and growing a major broadcast radio station.

Website: https://www.krcurry.com/