Episode 10: Energy & Wellbeing with nathan walz
Guest Nathan Walz joins Marti & Todd to discuss energy and wellbeing, both at an individual and organizational level. Nathan brings his knowledge of mitochondria and taking care of your own energy levels to the conversation about health that extends beyond the physical body.
From the Edge: The Microbiome (Todd)
Conscious Rant: “I can’t because . . .” (Marti)
Guest: Nathan walz
Nathan Walz helps growth oriented people increase their energy, focus, and drive to succeed in their career and life. He founded Journey to Optimal Health to work one-on-one with busy professionals and to work with organizations to help their employees feel better and have increased productivity. He teaches simple lifestyle habits to help people have more energy and focus, better sleep, less stress, and avoid chronic disease.
He is passionate about achieving peak physical and mental performance and continues to study the work of leaders in health, physical fitness, psychology, and wellness.
Timeline
4:06 How the cause and effect framework blinds us
7:34 Nathan tells his story
13:58 Being a “mitochondriac”
15:17 The importance of sleep
16:00 Spending time in nature
17:36 Why to avoid looking at your phone when you wake up
19:12 Energy at work
20:32 Presenteeism at work
23:48 Water chemistry of our bodies
25:33 Being “high energy” at work
27:40 Primer on mitochondria
32:27 Getting beyond “the fix”
35:29 Frequencies of indoor light
37:37 Eating seasonal and regional foods
42:07 From the Edge: The Microbiome (Todd)
46:26 Conscious Rant: “I can’t because . . .” (Marti)
Quotes
“The degree of our wellbeing is in direct proportion to the degree of our openness, our motivation for positive action, our ability to relax and connect, and even our drive to be creative.” — Marti Spiegelman
“The human is not a unitary entity, but a dynamic and interactive community of human cells and microbial cells. This has gigantic implications for how we view ourselves.” — Todd Hoskins
“Learning to shift towards a healed state, towards the wellbeing of self and organization requires a lens of relationship, and giving up the fantasy of easy fixes – diagnoses and prescriptions that may work in the short term but don’t treat the underlying conditions that have led to ill health.” — Todd Hoskins
“We need leaders who are able to see and sense the whole system – the sets of relationships that sustain life – and make choices based on what will serve the whole system.” — Todd Hoskins
“We are no longer aware of how our real genius, our experiential intelligence, is informing us, or how accurate it is, or how to let it work on our behalf. The very genius we need in order to regain our health and re-ignite healthy life on the planet needs our attention.” — Marti Spiegelman
“So that complaint we began with – ‘I can’t because . . .’ – really turns out to be a profound statement. We say we can’t take an action on our own behalf because our awareness is not engaging our actual experience. We can’t because we are not aware of what is occurring in the moment. We can’t because we are only paying attention to outcomes, to what has happened in the past moment, and not to what IS occurring and to the life-positive possibilities that can emerge.
The truth is that the physical body remembers its own healed state. It simply needs us to be present to its experience, and it needs us to be in relationship with the natural world around and all the powers that create life in the first place. When we allow ourselves even the first taste of experiencing these powers, we shift from ‘I can’t because’, to ‘I can’ – and in that moment causality falls away to reveal all that is and all that is possible. And this certainly is the beginning of being well again.” — Marti Spiegelman