Movers + Mavericks

Hey there and welcome to Thoughts On, the short form weMove podcast where we expand on themes from our weekly podcast topic. This time reflecting on our conversation with Lindsey Mathews the founder of BIrthfit here we talke about the Complete Human experience that is birth, how we can support mothers to give birth and transition forward with this next level of strength that women have. To get another perspective we asked Sophie Whippy who is experiencing the motherhood transition from all angles as co founder of Londons Stretch Yoga studios, a doula herself and mum to two great young dudes on her experience as a mum, a yoga teacher and a doula. There is so much we as a culture have to learn in many areas and certainly as a guy and now a father, I want to understand more about the motherhood transition to share via this platform and increase the conversation amongst women and men about how to celebrate the strength of the human body. You can follow sophie on instagram @sophiewhippy and @stretch_london

Hey there, welcome to the weMove podcast.Something a little different but related to the year that we, well I had. This one is about the power of birth, the epic adventure it is and was very timely as I became a dad a 6 weeks before hand. Watching my partner give birth to our boy, the lead up to it, the act of it and the post birth or post partum has taken me on a wild ride and that’s just my experience, let alone that of my partner. Truly amazing and as life unfolds we are discovering many practices and people creating support networks for the act of birth and beyond and that leads us today. We are in conversation with Lindsey Matthews a doctor of chiropractic, birth doula, NLP practitioner, and strength and conditioning coach and founder of Birthfit. The brainchild of Lindse,y Birthfit is an eco system of all things birth prep and beyond termed by Lindsey and the team as the motherhood transition.Birthfit is a movement, an approach to birth, a state of readiness and a support team with a mission to cultivat

Thoughts on the Ron Kauk Podcast with Chris and James

Today in our thoughts on we speak to Lindsey Mathews the founder of Birthfit, doctor of chiropractic, doula, NLP practitioner and S&C coach on how she uses reflection to move her ideas and process forward.We will be speaking to Lindsey next week in our main podcast, and thought it the right time to ask her about her daily reflection process that she posts as her Coffee Talk series on her instagram stories daily. Posing questions and thoughts for others to reflect on to support them in their process.You can follow Lindsey on instagram @lindsey_k_mathews

Today in our thoughts on series we pick up on the concept of reflection spoken about in our time with Ron Kauk and a strong theme amongst all those we are meeting. Taking time to look at your past, present and future honestly and without judgement. The latter part being a real challenge as we, that is movers tend to be quite alpha in personality and want to constantly make progress. The purpose of reflection is to turn around, look how far we have come and take that forward. So we speak to an ascendant movement specialist Wil Brown. First spotted him on insta as I was working out handstands and things and he was heading to Australia to explore movement culture. Its been great to hang out a few time with Wil, incredibly accomplished already in his early twenties and yet super humble with an enormous appetite to learn. NO surprise and also quite surprising for his age, he uses the process of reflection during his coaching sessions and for his personal development to integrate the thoughts and emotions with the

Today we are with the Yosemite climber Ron Kauk. Ron pushed the limits of climbing in Yosemite during the ascendance of the sport and paved the way to some extent of what we see now inspiring climbers of our generation Tommy Caldwell, Alex Honnold to create the next level of what is possible on the soaring granite walls of Yosemite and the wider world. Chris and I met Ron 3 years ago by chance. He was giving a talk in Yosemite on the few days we were there and as we sat there listening to his ideas of nature, how it has changed and what climbing has taught him about how to be a complete human we turned to each other and said we have got to spend a bit more time with Ron. WE hung out with him and featured him in Issue 1 alongside the lessons from Yosemite which we learned in our 3 day trip.Well that was 3 years ago and on our again impromptu stop of in Yosemite we sent him a text to see if he was around for a coffee. He was and we spent the rest of the day talking from daylight to darkness and wished we had re

As we start the new round of podcasts exploring the ideas of a Complete Human Experience, this podcast with Arthur Joseph, founder of Vocal Awareness and is the third in the series post after Jamie Wheal's. We talk about the ideas which jumped out at us during the conversation with Arthur and connect it back in to where we are heading with weMove.

This week in EQUIP we hear from the man behind So We Flow, the yoga brand for men with movement in mind. We met Jake in 2018 when he was launching the brand and in the yoga world what he was doing felt rather unique. Simple workwear styles for men who do yoga. So simple in fact that that is their genius and their pants are some of the best climbing pants we have had and not a purple in sight.Like the brand itself, Jake is super mellow, straight forward and a pleasure to talk to, even though we did this Q&A remotely. See more of what they do on soweflow.com

Hey there and welcome to the weMove podcast.This next podcast was initially out of left field. Our voice is unique to us and often is hidden behind a version of ourselves we think the world wants to see. When we are not ourselves, our voice changes and when we discover our true voice then we step into our self, becoming heard by others and able to communicate clearly the ideas we have and the person we truly are.We were introduced Arthur Joseph the leading vocal coach in the US quite possibly the world and founder of the Vocal Awareness methodology. During the conversation we were pretty quiet and when we did speak, Arthur would coach us much like the conductor of an orchestra, and there is a point where the sound I make when I speak does not sound like me, it didn’t feel like my normal self, instead something much calmer and more assured. Very strange and yet enough for me to felt he effect of developing how I communicate with myself and others.The connection for us with the people we are meeting is the conn

As we start the new round of podcasts exploring the ideas of a Complete Human Experience, this podcast with The Rewire Projects Tony Molina is the second in the series post after Jamie Wheal's. We talk about the ideas which jumped out at us during the conversation with Tony Wheal and connect it back in to where we are heading with weMove.

We ask Logan Gelbrich founder of Deuce Gym and Captain of the process, on his thoughts on how our ego can hinder our performance and sabotage the path to performance and with that in mind what we can do to get the ego out of the way to do what we actually want to do which is improve and move forward. This episode of Thoughts on follows the Finding Flow podcast with Jamie Wheal as we pondered and chatted with listeners on the often blind obsession that can come with finding flow and being our best. Usually a result of our ego getting in the way. It might sound like we are in two different places during this podcast and that’s because we are. Using the power of technology to connect the weMove world together. We record these not as a conversation but as a series of emailed questions the guest records the answers to in the comfort of their own home. Follow logan @functionalcoach

This week in Thoughts on, we ask our cold water compadre and natural movement specialist Tony Riddle aka The Natural Lifestylist about movement and the play state. The thoughts on series is a result of wanting to go a little deeper and gain another perspective on themes which emerge from the main weekly podcast and this comes from our pod with Tony Molina founder of the Rewire project. Who said that the fundamental with people wanting to move is that they simply cannot very well. And that is the foundation and starting point for everything we do. It might sound like we are in two different places during this podcast and that’s because we are. Using the power of technology to connect the weMove world together. We record these not as a conversation but as a series of emailed questions the guest records the answers to in the comfort of their own home. Follow tony @thenaturallifestylist

Following on from Finding Flow with Jamie Wheal we bring you the second podcast from our California and Texas trip, this time with the guy who has changed our ideas on fitness and health more than any other. We describe him to others as a real life Jason Bourne, Tony Molina, founder of the Rewire Project began life in Marine Reconnaisance, endured more than most crossing countries at speed and then found himself wanting to understand more about his own physical performance in order to support others to get out there rather than watch vicariously on a screen.The Rewire Project his boutique health and fitness space looks like no other gym we have set foot in, there are no free weights, no tredmills or rowing machines, and yet here you will boost your systemic health, increase your performance and develop the skills to do things that you never perhaps thought you would, getting out of your comfort zone and making the choice whether to thrive or survive.In fact the testing workout which Tony had us do was probabl

Thoughts on the Finding Flow podcast with James & Chris.As we start the new round of podcasts exploring the ideas of a Complete Human Experience, the Finding Flow podcast with Jamie Wheal marks the start. We talk about the ideas which jumped out at us during the conversation with Jamie Wheal and connect it back in to where we are heading with weMove.

Thoughts on Intrinsic motivation with Tom Foxley, founder of Mindset RX’d.Exploring the idea of intrinsic motivation from the Finding Flow podcast with Jamie Wheal. We speak with Tom Foxley, founder of Mindset RX’d the the functional fitness world's first scalable, learnable system to master the Inner Athlete.

Equip with Aiguille Alpine. Equip is the weMove way of sharing brands we think you might like to know about if you need to get ready for getting out there. Today we introduce the man behind Aiguille Alpine the UK made bag brand for climbers and adventurers.

Can you remember the last time you were in the zone? Where you forgot completely about what you were doing, time both stood still and flew by and you felt like you could carry on without stopping?Well that experience is known as Flow or the Flow State, and it can be accessed at will when you understand how and even more so it can create a way of living which provides a level up from the daily grind. As we explore in this weeks podcast with Jamie Wheal, founder of the leading research and experience facility the Flow Genome Project. The Flow State whilst a high performance mind “technology” can, if used inappropriately create a true disconnection with our ability as human beings in whatever we do. We cover a huge range of topics that connect being in the Flow; Burning Man, Psychedelics, action sports, the masculine and feminine, death and rebirth and much more.A big thanks to Rich Husseiny for connecting us, and of course Jamie Wheal and the Flow Genome team.

This weeks pod is brought to you from the heart of Venice, Los Angeles. One of our go to places when we are in California. We have been fortunate enough to be introduced to a great group of individuals out there who are all exploring and innovating within the movement, health and adventure space.This recording is with one of the leaders in the gym culture space, Logan Gelbrich. This is Logans second appearance on the weMove podcast and for those who don’t know him, Logan is a former pro baseball athlete, turned innovator and entrepreneur with a mission to create a gym whose culture, accelerates the development of the individuals who go, be they the coaching team or the active user.Overtime we set foot in Deuce, there is a work ethic and focus running through everyone there. How much you lift, push, pull is irrelevant, the real marker of success we see and take inspiration from is the obsession with the process of improvement and the unrelenting dedication to show up take the necessary steps to move forward.Th

This weeks’ podcast is with Chris Luera, aka Tatted Strength. We first met Chris in 2017 when we were putting together the feature with him that appears in Issue 2. We hung out with him for an hour or so in the Sunshine of Muscle Beach LA listening to Chris’ incredible story. When we knew we would be back in that part of the world, we wanted to honour that story but putting it down on tape so to speak. We thought we knew what was coming, but we didn’t! We knew an outline of his story and not the fine details which is what you’re about to hear. To give you a slight inkling, Chris is now the 3 x middleweight WCO calisthenics world champion. Yet, he was born a drug addict from a mother who was also born to a drug addict. Chris himself was using drugs and in gangs in his early teenage years fed by the mindset of ‘I am who I am because of where I come from’. This led Chris by the time he was in his early 20’s to having already served 10 years in and out of various prison establishments. Listening to Chris talk at

This weeks podcast is the recording of a conversation we had with Tommy Caldwell at the start of 2017. The short story behind this conversation is that we had a received an advance copy of Tommy’s book ’The Push’, had been blown away by it and had then found out he would be in Fountain Blu, a five hours drive away us, a few months later and would be available to co-create a feature with us for issue 2.For those of you who don’t know, Tommy is the legendary climber who back in 2015 became more widely known through his first ascent of the Dawn Wall, of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. This is widely regarded as one of the hardest climbs in the world and became worldwide headline news, but is only the tip of the iceberg in his achievements and life experiences. There’s the being kidnapped at gunpoint in the remote Ak Su Valley of Kyrgyzstan almost 20 years ago, the speed record on El Cap and various other climbing achievements throughout his career, the loss of one of his fingers in a sawing accident and a whole l