Carl Paoli
You Make Sense with Sarah Baldwin | Episode 103
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Today's journaling prompts:
Choose your emotion on the Valence-Arousal Model.
Describe what is coming up for you around your current emotional state.
Identify and describe your 3 Best Qualities.
Identify and describe 10 aspects of your(self) that you love (appreciate).
BONUS: Ask a friend to describe you. Have them add as much detail at every level as they possibly can.
Leave any questions, concerns, or curiosities that may come up for you during this process.
See you tomorrow at the same time and same place.
Carl :)
In this podcast with Carl Paoli, Durante highlighted fundamental gymnastics movements, including creating good shapes, a strong core, and mobility while mastering handstands, rolling, and twisting. He explained how these movements are essential for gymnasts and transferable to general fitness and sports like CrossFit.
Dave also dives into his experiences in gymnastics, his love for the sport, his challenges, and how he became the co-owner of Power Monkey Fitness after retiring. Power Monkey Fitness provides training and education for gymnasts and athletes through their camps and online programs.
Here are 9 main takeaways from the conversation:
Fundamental movements are essential for gymnasts and transferable to general fitness and other sports.
Good shapes, strong core, mobility, mastering handstands, rolling, and twisting are fundamental gymnastics movements.
CrossFit and functional fitness has exposed gymnastics movements to the general population, allowing them to utilize tools to help with fitness goals.
Training towards the highest level version of a movement, not just training towards a standard, facilitates technical progressions and builds towards a deeper understanding of movements.
Some athletes are freaks of nature and can perform movements in specific technical ways due to their anatomy or unique abilities, which may not apply to the general population.
Exposing people to gymnastics in CrossFit and functional fitness allows for a greater understanding of the sport.
The history of sports and its regulations is essential to understand better and appreciate the evolution of the gymnastics applied movements.
Although gymnastics is mainly an individual sport, pursuing it as a team sport is the best route to finding success.
When pursuing one's passions with dedication, finding balance in life is crucial to success.
One quiet Sunday morning, my friend Linda sent me a text message with a diagram asking if I had heard of Ikigai. While I had not, Linda casually explained that it was similar to what I taught in my Lifestyle Design workshops but way more elegant in its presentation.
In a nutshell, Ikigai is exploring the self to find a greater purpose that brings satisfaction and more meaning to life.
In this video, I delve into the concept of Ikigai and its four primary focuses: what you love, what you are good at, what you do in exchange for money, and what you believe the world needs more of. And how one can identify their passions, profession, vocation, and mission by exploring these focuses.
Through this video, I intend to encourage people to find their own Ikigai and live more meaningfully.
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00:00 - Intro
01:16 - The Back Story
08:44 - Interface Inception
11:19 - Emotional Fitness
15:19 - The Four Phases
18:12 - The Four Practices
18:49 - Meditation & Breathwork
22:45 - Journaling
25:06 - Ikigai
33:14 - Passion, Profession, Vocation
34:46 - Personal Mission
36:56 - The Performance Tripod
37:36 - Hermeneutic Circle
39:47 - Closing Your Mental Tabs
43:16 - Movement Practice
46:29 - Creative Practice
49:06 - The New Self
51:08 - Join Me (Check The Link In The Description)
52:10 - Interfacing Is Movement
54:07 - TASK
57:31 - Outro
In this podcast, I share my story about retiring from teaching movement seminars in 2019. Due to accumulated stress, I suffered from debilitating Tinnitus, and how it made me re-think my entire approach to coaching. I also discuss my challenges in starting new workshops in 2020 and how the pandemic affected my plans.
Emotions influence how we perceive the world and understand human behavior. I believe in working with emotions, not suppressing or compartmentalizing them, to utilize them to channel better results. I define my approach to developing emotional fitness as one’s ability to move into a state of being that translates into purposeful action.
The way I’ve coached people through developing Emotional Fitness has been through the INTERFACE Experience, which is a deep dive into self-mastery that involves four stages: expression, experimentation, integration, and transcendence. I explain how meditation, breath work, journaling, physical movement, and creativity are tools to unlock, harness, and channel our emotions into becoming more productive while also feeling at peace.
Today's journaling prompts:
Choose your emotion on the Valence-Arousal Model.
Describe what is coming up for you around your current emotional state.
Draw a self-portrait.
Describe yourself while looking at your self-portrait.
Physical
Describe where and what do you spend most of your time doing?
Who do you spend most of your time with? Name each person.
Describe the interactions with the people you spend most of your time with.
Mental
Why do you spend most of your time doing what you do and interacting with the people you do?
Do the people you spend most of your time with nourish you? Yes or No? and How so?
Emotional
How do you feel doing what you do most of your time?
How do you feel around the people you spend most of your time with?
Leave any questions, concerns, or curiosities that may come up for you during this process.
*Here is the link to the Alan Watts clip.
See you tomorrow at the same time and same place.
Carl :)
00:06:18 - What Is Drive?
00:11:31 - Being Different
00:16:19 - Life Through Cerebral Palsy
00:22:18 - Productivity With Cerebral Palsy
00:31:19 - Being An Adaptive Athlete
00:37:49 - Creating New Ways To Move
00:44:38 - What Do Your Athletes Need?
00:55:47 - Being Proud
00:57:52 - Steph's Business
01:02:12 - Going Beyond Fitness
01:08:47: - Imposter Syndrome
01:17:17 - Outro
In this episode, Carl Paoli engages in an inspiring conversation with Steph Roach. As an athlete, author, and business owner, Steph shares her extraordinary story of overcoming personal struggles, including living with cerebral palsy and overcoming cancer, to reveal her true potential.
Steph's resilience and drive have led her to become the first female level-one CrossFit trainer with cerebral palsy and create signature movements in training. She attributes her success to the support and strength of her community and how it heavily influenced her journey.
Throughout the episode, Steph stresses the importance of living in a state of personal growth, creativity, and community building. Steph embodies perseverance and determination and has never let her struggles hold her back.
Steph's IG: instagram.com/stephthehammer
Steph's Business: stayingdrivenlive.com/engagements
Steph's Book: https://a.co/d/6cMjfst
Today's journaling prompts:
Choose your emotion on the Valence-Arousal Model.
Describe what is coming up for you around your current emotional state.
Draw a line to represent your LIFE timeline.
Set a 10 minute timer and write a brief autobiography.
Mark the events that stood out in your autobiography on the timeline.
Draw a wave along your LIFE timeline to represent your valence during the events that occured.
Leave any questions, concerns, or curiosities that may come up for you during this process.
See you tomorrow at the same time and same place.
Carl :)
Today's journaling prompts:
Choose your emotion on the Valence-Arousal Model. Remember that now you can use the entire space inside the V-A Circle.
Draw a line to represent a 24-hour timeline.
Describe the most significant events that occurred.
Mark the events on the timeline.
Describe what you felt during those events.
Draw a wave along the 24-hour timeline to represent your valence during the events that occurred over the last 24 hours.
Describe the thoughts associated with the events that occurred over the last 24 hours.
Leave any questions, concerns, or curiosities that may come up for you during this process.
See you tomorrow at the same time and same place.
Carl :)
As we age, getting up from the floor can become challenging due to muscle loss and back/joint issues. To improve, practice getting up using the standard method of rolling onto hands and knees or using your hands for assistance. Implementing a full-body strength training routine 3-5 times per week with wall sits, pushups, squats, and balance exercises can also help.
These exercises, as simple as they may seem, are valuable. Holding these two positions with your eyes closed is a game changer.
00:01:55 Why Menopause?
00:08:05 Stages Of Menopause
00:11:07 Identifying Symptoms
00:23:24 Hormone Replacement Therapy
00:28:13 Who Is A Candidate For HRT
00:43:32 Managing Menopause
01:06:46 Call To Action
In this podcast episode, we discuss the often-unacknowledged transition of menopause and its effects on women.
Our guest, Monika Björn, hit perimenopause in her mid-40s and struggled to find relatable information for women in the middle of their careers. Monika decided to research and write a book about her journey, which included physical and mental symptoms such as joint pain, muscle aches, irregular heartbeats, difficulty sleeping, and anxiety, all commonly experienced by 80-95% of women during menopause.
One of the critical topics Monika addresses is the 2002 Women's Health Initiative study, which needed to be revised and revised, leading to a decrease in the use of Hormonal Replacement Therapy (HRT). Monika emphasizes the critical window for HRT being ten years within menopause to prevent hardening of the arteries, and recent studies suggest HRT may also protect against Alzheimer's and Dementia if started when symptoms appear.
In her book, Monika sheds light on the different types of HRT, including synthetic hormones, bioidentical hormones, and body-identical hormones. She explains why progesterone protects the uterus lining and prevents cancer. Monika encourages women in their 30s to prioritize their lifestyle, build muscle mass, and find stress relief techniques, and in their 40s to continue strength training but adjust intensity, duration, and frequency if necessary.
Monika suggests keeping a diary to log symptoms and interventions and acknowledges the concern of rapid weight gain but cautions against trying to combat it with diet and exercise as it may make things worse.
Finally, Monika acknowledges the frustration and identity crisis that women may experience during perimenopause but encourages them to know they will regain their full strength, speed, and ability. She stresses the importance of having knowledge and understanding during this time, as everything can be managed with a simple solution that can drastically improve one's experience over the arch of menopause.
Takeaways:
- Menopause is a transition that affects many women but often goes unacknowledged
- 80-95% of women experience physical and mental symptoms during Menopause
- HRT can prevent hardening of the arteries if started within ten years of Menopause
- HRT may also protect against Alzheimer's and Dementia if started when symptoms appear
- Different types of HRT include synthetic hormones, bioidentical hormones, and body-identical hormones
- Progesterone is essential in protecting the uterus lining and preventing cancer
- Women in their 30s should prioritize their life, build muscle mass, and find stress-relief techniques
- Women in their 40s should continue strength training but adjust intensity, duration, and frequency if necessary
- Keeping a diary to log symptoms and interventions can be helpful
- Women may experience frustration and identity crises during perimenopause but can regain their full strength, speed, and ability.
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In this video, Carl Paoli breaks down what’s known as the Turkish get-up.
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1. Nervous system regulation.
2. Identifying negative internal narratives change.
3. Identify and deploy performance tactics.
Tom also shares his expertise and insights on achieving peak performance and tapping into one's potential and his four-step process for belief change and how this approach can help individuals create a vision for success. This podcast is a must-listen for anyone looking to take control of their life and take their mental game to the next level. Join Tom as he provides valuable insights, wisdom, and advice to inspire you to achieve your goals.
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Contemporary artist Tracy Piper is well known for her vivid portraits and figurative acrylic paintings that examine social constructions in an abstract-realist manner. Piper has exhibited at SCOPE and SELECT in Miami, stARTup Art Fair in San Francisco and Los Angeles, SCOPE New York, and other national and international exhibitions. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Illustration from California College of the Arts and is represented by Voss Gallery. Piper won "Skin Wars: Fresh Paint" on GSNTV in 2017.
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One of the key elements of lifestyle design is the idea of being in alignment with our values. This means that our behaviors and actions should reflect what is important to us and align with our core beliefs. This is not always easy, as we may be influenced by outside forces or caught up in the chaos of everyday life. However, by engaging in activities like journaling and self-reflection, we can begin to identify and understand our values and make more deliberate decisions that align with them.
In today's workshop, we explored the concept of lifestyle design and how it can be leveraged to create a meaningful and fulfilling life. Through conversations and activities, we identified our values and explored how they align with our behaviors and actions. As we continue this journey of self-discovery, it is crucial to remain mindful and open to new ideas as we design a life that is authentic to ourselves.
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In this Episode, Carl Paoli talks to Artist Joanna Read, who believes art can awaken and transform the viewer and the creator into dreaming of a new reality.
Joanna says that connecting with art- becoming present to, receiving, and noticing what an image, sound, poem, person, or place in nature elicits in the mind, body, and emotions as well as the act of expressing through art: utilizing art as a vehicle for practice, a tool for reprogramming false narratives and affirming a new inner reality through inspired action and devotional commitment, continue to be profoundly transformative anchor points within Joanna's life's emergence.
Sharing Joanna's practice is an integral step in the cycle of creation: offering the fruits of these labors of love helps her knowledge-hungry mind find greater reverence and appreciation for a process rooted in a place that feels familiar yet not fully comprehendible.
Joanna's awe for this process is deepened whenever a client or customer expresses how an image or teaching that feels so alive within Joanna is also felt within them and experienced as a shared resonance or offering of "Soul sustenance."
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In this episode, Carl Paoli sat down with Anthony Denaro, M.F.A, aka YNOT, who explores the design, sustainability, history, and community of Hip Hop. Through a futurist lens, YNOT’s work manifests in dance, typography, music, and architecture. YNOT’s reputation in the dance world precedes him. As a B-boy, he’s traveled the world extensively, judging battles, teaching workshops, and building cultural awareness. In YNOT’s vision of the sustainability of Hip Hop, teaching and mentorship are paramount. Currently, his classes can be found on a workshop basis internationally, as well as online and in person through the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Arizona State University, and Texas Tech, where he facilitates Breaking Technique, Stylized Letterform Design, and Sound Design for Electronic Music Production. Alongside his dance and professorship, YNOT both physically and digitally creates two and three-dimensional visual works that construct a possible future of the Hip Hop aesthetic.
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Today Carl Paoli sits down with Justin Castelli, a financial advisor who is not content just being a financial advisor. Justin is also a family man and entrepreneur interested in making meaningful changes in those he serves.
Currently, Justin spends his days in the roles of Financial Advisor and Founder of RLS Wealth, Chief of Staff at Onramp Invest, Co-Founder of The AGC™, and recently launched a brand extension of RLS Wealth, Pursuit™.
Learn more about Justin here: justincastelli.io
“Brijesh Patel has one of the brightest minds in athletic performance development. Coach B understands every aspect of what it takes to make someone a better person and athlete. Coach B helps athletes to become the best versions of themselves not only physically but also mentally.”
— Scott Burrell, 8-year NBA Pro, NBA Champion (Chicago Bulls 97-98), Division 2 Basketball Head Coach.
In this episode of the Freestyle Way Podcast, Carl Paoli sits down with Coach Brijesh Patel, aka Coach B, to talk about the impact of Strength and Conditioning in Sport and Life.
NFT Project: coachbpatel.com/blog/lion-strength-series
Programs: coachbpatel.com/store1/digital-programs
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In this conversation, Shantell Martin reflects on the experiences of being discouraged from pursuing their creative interests as a child. She discusses how she used to hide their artwork and how she was punished for defacing property with their drawings. Shantell also reflects on how her lack of exposure to the art world and to artists contributed to her lack of understanding of what it meant to be an artist. She desires their younger self to have more encouragement and support in their creative endeavors.
In this episode, Carl Paoli sits down with Jacko, a Master Oxygen Advantage Coach, Co-Founder of the School of Calisthenics, and former Pro Rugby player.
Jacko is running the Ring O Fire, a 135-mile Ultra Marathon, and doing it for Petals Charity.
You can donate to their JustGiving page by clicking here: justgiving.com/fundraising/david-jackson-breathwork?utm_source=Sharethis&utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=david-jackson-breathwork&utm_campaign=pfp-email&utm_term=10f6ad1b92f7488fb1bf7b0644d9c8d8.
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5 Rounds for Quality and as much rest as needed between rounds and repetitions.
16 repetitions x Alternating Lunges
8 repetitions x Dips Tempo 33XX
8 repetitions x Headstand to Push Up Position
Bonus: Hollow Rock Active Recovery
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Today's journaling prompts:
Choose your emotion on the Valence-Arousal Model.
How does this emotion feel in your body?
Pause - Notice your breath.
Describe your breathing. Add as much color as you can.
Pause - Sit still and feel your heartbeat.
Where do you feel it?
Describe how your heartbeat feels. Does it feel pleasant or unpleasant?
Leave any questions, concerns, or curiosities that may come up for you during this process.