"it's very rare that you get to meet entrepreneurs that are following and have followed in the steps that you followed in in your life and like so whenever i meet people like you and ben francis who is..."

"health condition that bad that i would psychologically throw up when there was nothing biologically wrong with me um that's really awkward to admit to yourself it's also far more terrifying to admit i..."

"like like get me on uh meds and sort me out but it's so interesting because even knowing that that had happened to me i didn't relate the cause to actually a deeper root cause which was another mental..."

"nothing um you know i think it's really interesting to have conversations with people intelligent people like yourself when you talk about purpose and vision and these things it's very hard to imagine..."

"was 90 percent of my hallucination was observing what happens in nature with cycles right birds bees oxygen air soil all of this recycling all the time for a sustainable system and being like you know..."

"on this ayahuasca experience what exactly did you do on that experience so ayahuasca is essentially uh and it's completely natural it's tree sap from the amazon um and it's been practiced for thousand..."

"worst realities and i've learned more in those weekends that i've done this then you know you can learn with therapists and you can learn yourself so staggering everyone says this to me and it's and y..."

"thinking and it's it's it's crazy crazy for a normal person that isn't in this world or doesn't understand this to think that you can take a magic mushroom or a drug or a psychedelic or whatever you w..."

"me you lie down the pitch blacks fluid it's like a shot it tastes disgusting but some people like it you lie back um and and the shamans basically start playing music and it's a completely guided faci..."

"um and especially because it's not pleasant um the first time i did it was you know the single most life-changing moment in my life not only got over my depression you know i went and spent the whole ..."

"the world but a very poor part of the world where there was this like kid like begging in the street basically and i like became that kid and i became this person like trying to get water for his fami..."

"weekend and i've been guilty of that too i've learned i've learned lessons that i haven't necessarily followed through with and you know and and sometimes it's because they take bravery and i feel lik..."

"and that almost imprisoned me it almost stopped me from doing the thing that actually liberated me made me the most fulfilled i've ever been and by allowing me to be my like true self and in fact what..."

"it's just been 101 now um in 100 weeks i won't be a neuroscientist or a nutritionist but i will have read over 100 science papers and i'll know what science says is good for your brain according to jo..."

"you know that impressive but i went from like 3 000 followers or something to almost 25 000 on the basis of and as you know there's no putting money behind anything in linkedin or anything literally j..."

"with the help you know it's the other thing going slightly off piece sorry but you know my biggest bug bear in entrepreneurship is stealth mode i think stealth mode is like the most stupid thing that ..."

"this is what i think these are my ideas comment below if you agree yeah you're it's a great question um so i guess as a starting point like it's worth saying that i think a very healthy way to approac..."

"and i can think that person from four years ago is going to think i'm a dick 100 dude like the thing that i've learned which is so interesting is 90 percent of my fear of what people will think is bas..."

"you know mental health conditioning is attached to our holding onto the past and refusing to sort of embrace the future and that's why you know i think it's really important to set out a clear underst..."

"that um if you are into spirituality like i am then it's called manifestation right it's spending the time thinking about what you're gonna do and how you're gonna get that and then to put it into lik..."

"and us being a burnout generation and how we've kind of glamorized it we're optimizing our lives so we can fill it with more things to do did you burn out how did you burn out and you understand why y..."

"in the sense that because he's being his authentic self which we can't you know uh um we can't criticize anyone for being in fact that's what we tell everyone to be be yourself and chat you know and b..."

"but here's the thing like there's two reasons why i had burnout last time the first was because i wasn't happy on what i was working and running a startup can feel a bit like a cage sometimes so uh un..."

"me like you were getting dragged you weren't pulling a bit yeah a bit but then at the same time like you know like everyone i'm scared of failure so i didn't want to be a failure so i wanted to make i..."

"but then motivation and i started looking at motivation and the spectrum it sits on of on one end being totally uh extrinsic you're literally doing it because you're forced to and then on the other en..."

"three in heaven but you know i don't quite believe in heaven so it's irrelevant but point being um you know so many co-founders introduced i really just believe in the serendipity of creating you know..."

"time but the thing that's really interesting to me this time right so i analyzed that as partly burned out and i was trying to do too much to and not spending enough time on myself not having any rest..."

"this time around because it's a bit like the imposter syndrome right how am i going to overcome it i'll write a newsletter every week great i feel way less like that now same thing burn out i don't fe..."

"anxiety yeah so the anxiety and insomnia were completely linked with each other so a really really fascinating experience to me the most interesting of all of them really because at the time i got and..."

"and you know basically chronic anxiety the feeling of chronic anxiety is lots of sweating lots of self-doubt um lots of um almost like a bit of a personality change in me you know outwardly i'm quite ..."

"exactly so the the truth is i tried all these different things so like i went to i did therapy i did sleep therapy i used all the apps calm sleepio i tried you know uh cutting out alcohol i tried drin..."

"for this journey the search for why this was happening and it led me in the end to a dietitian which i'd never worked with before and by the way i didn't even know what a dietitian was and heard of nu..."

"would help make lymphatic system whilst i slept right she's saying this stuff to me i'm like so skeptical i can't even tell you not only not a supplement taker um but she's now recommending me three s..."

"not just your mental health below the baseline so if you're suffering from insomnia if you're suffering from anxiety even if you've got depression schizophrenia like so many medical papers scientific ..."

"taking care of your brain not something anyone's actually talked about clearly and actually found a really meaningful way to communicate what that stands for and what science papers do really badly is..."

"um you know a lot of people say brand and comms that is not a market strategy that is not defensible i think those people are idiots and the wrong market because you know my counter to that is do you ..."

"and so you started heights and so i started heights how's it going great question we launched january the 6th in a pandemic well not in a pandemic yet i have to say you know i saw this on my facebook ..."

"so guess how much seven seas put into their number one best-selling product 45 on the dot and that means you have to take seven c's for six days straight just to get one day's worth of the scientific ..."

"so people just give up and you know there's two things to that there's one there's sort of like guilt about the promises that you were like with the person you wanted to be and then the second is just..."

"now what happens for most people in the first month let's be real right like you just said you know scientifically typically speaking this product will last will take three months for you to feel anyt..."

"understanding why it's important you know the amount of money that we spend on skin care or hair care every day but nothing on brain care the most important organ in our body is so completely normaliz..."

"i talk about myself as a lifelong learner but lifelong intern was like even more powerful right i was like wow that's you know it's a real mindset towards you know um redefining what success is yeah b..."

"forward um i think that's probably the one of the most important things i've done in my life with spending time on company values with a business partner by identifying gaps weaknesses and spending ti..."

"because what he meant by that was joel is like a very intelligent person so he is motivated by challenge if something is hard to fix right then he'll find a way to fix it that is like he'll get up in ..."

"but being able to say this stuff to each other with a letter to all out that then also gave me the confidence to say like joel came up with like two or three business ideas before like heights and we ..."

"to pick right now your mates are married i literally gave her all the banter i was like your mates are married you're running out of options i'm still available you know let's do it you're not going t..."

"were rejecting her kind of in a way and protecting myself absolutely um and you know i think that was mutual for whatever reason for for a year and actually after a year you know we had that awkward c..."

"find a little bit of um compromise somewhere in me um but still being ruthlessly apologetic didn't go well um and now i'm at a place where i'm currently single completely single and i need the answers..."

"and i think having a spiritual connection with others and you know for some people like a sexual connection with multiple partners i think that this stuff is totally acceptable a b completely biologic..."

"framework to our marriage right what is the objective a long sustainable happy and fulfilling marriage what are the key results that get us there well we broke them down into mind body and soul right ..."

"to achieve it's it's people some people a certain type of person will listen to that and they'll think to themselves how robotic how robotic and you know i had the same conversation with near il who c..."

"think about the opposite of this right so if you don't do some of this stuff if you don't i mean there's so many examples that are like filling my head right now so if i don't ask my wife how her day ..."

"if i don't call my mom every day she will call me up and ask me why i don't love her which will make me feel like [ __ ] for three days so i actually find that this stuff in in my you know again not e..."

"if you're lucky enough to learn what you like and how to be with yourself which takes quite a lot of learning a lot of us are very dependent on other people um and if i was still completely dependent ..."

"mental health because you know you see things like you know but that husband loved that wife so much like why does he end up killing those two daughters and his wife oh you're talking about america ye..."

"suppress making a short-term tough decision but that comes back to exactly what i was saying right which is yeah that comes back to the relation no it comes back to setting a vision for your relations..."

"what's your type i'd be like okay the brown hair the this that this they want to look like this they want to talk like this and this list was almost like it was endless right of like little specific s..."

"that what are yours well i have to say sexual attraction is such an important thing to me in general but what i've learned is and you learn this a lot the more you read about relationships that is act..."

"thing purely on the basis of um i'm more likely to fall out of love with the person that i'm with if one like you just said they don't intellectually challenge me second one again like you said like t..."

"a person as well when you've got space and time and you've had thoughts there's a reason why thoughts come to us in the shower or on walks right it's because you're literally scientifically speaking y..."

"fumbling hot air balloons and all of this stuff i'm really hoping she isn't listening but the whole point of this podcast is to be honest so and it just wasn't there the first time ever in my life and..."

"god we make each other laugh you know like we we have we both have a very similar very dark sense of humor um you know one of our things is actually um my when we fought on our first date um i brought..."

"are you happy yeah i was thinking about this question um the other day someone asked me two answers to that one yes i am happy like the the blunt answer is yes i'm happy because i'm fulfilled the good..."

"was in fact when you talked about you it's not when you you know you know what i mean yeah and i think that i mean of course like you talking about the struggles you've had and the agenda and motivati..."

"literally just think she's phenomenal yeah it felt stupid asking why yeah i mean just in every way right as in i just it's hard to pick a thing but let's just say then because of personal growth media..."

"will end up as because he just beat schumacher's record um and he seems like quite a nice bloke just in general like i just like when i see interviews of him i just like what a relatable guy that says..."

"yeah hamilton sounds amazing listen thank you so much for your time today it's a pleasure to consider your friend uh a mentor through the content you produce in your podcast secret leaders but also ju..."