#91: Ollie Ollerton - How To Become ‘Battle Ready’

05/04/20 • 69 min

Matthew 'Ollie' Ollerton is a former Special Forces soldier and a member of the Directing Staff on Channel 4's hit show SAS: Who Dares Wins. Ollie's military career began at the age of 18 when he joined the Royal Marine Commandos and toured operationally in Northern Ireland and in Iraq for Operation Desert Storm. He subsequently spent six years in the Special Boat Service rising to team leader, before working in Iraq as a private security contractor and carrying out charity work in South-East Asia. Ex-Special Forces soldier Ollie Ollerton knows more than his fair share about keeping going. As a recruit he survived the infamously tough SAS selection process on a busted ankle with the Directing Staff pleading with him to give up. But it's in Ollie's personal life that he really had to dig deep. At his lowest he was battling a failed relationship, substance abuse, depression and a pronounced death wish. After leaving the services Ollie found himself at a loss. Feeling worthless, lacking purpose, he turned to drink to numb the pain. Looking for a way out, Ollie made a discovery. Often in life we find ourselves looking for an external fix - drink, drugs, other people's agenda. But the truth is the solution is not out there, it's inside. In Battle Ready Ollie teaches you how to access this potential, find your inner strength and transform your life. From finding your purpose to visualising your outcome, to putting in a process to break bad habits and create positive new routines, Ollie's 12-step plan shows you how to make positive progress and recover when things go wrong. By following his plan, you can realise your full potential, find your happiness, and become battle ready. ‘Special Forces soldiers aren’t supermen. We’re just ordinary people, with the same frailties and vulnerabilities as everyone else. But ordinary people can achieve the extraordinary.’ Ollie Ollerton Instagram: @FreedomPact FreedomPact.co.uk

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#90: Dr Andrew Huberman - Stanford Neuroscientist On The Rules Of Long-Lasting Adaptive Brain Change

Welcome back! We are in the middle of a global pandemic. Whilst we’ve placed such a focus on saving physical health, we’re socially isolated from the people and activities we love, gyms are closed and there’s a lot of stress over whether our physical and safety needs will be met. Que, Professor Andrew Huberman. @hubermanlab Andrew is a neuroscientist and tenured professor at Stanford University’s school of Medicine. Andrew has made numerous contributions to the field of neuroscience particularly for brain development and brain plasticity. In this episode with Andrew, we discuss the brain and how it’s affected, we discuss the rise in Internet pornography and Tik Tok during the pandemic and what it’s doing, as well as practical, evidence-based tools to aid with things like stress, to sleep better, the neuroscience of gratitude and how to re-wire our brains in the midst of everything that’s going on. Before we start the episode, I want to give a big shout-out, to you the listener. After nearly 3 years, our friends at Chartable have now informed us that we’ve now officially made it to the top 100 of every global podcast chart, including number 1 in many of them, so I cannot thank you for enough for tuning in. From the bottom of my heart, it means so much and lets keep up this insane momentum. If you like the work, please like, share and subscribe on iTunes as it helps us to get the best guests possible. Without any further ado, please enjoy this deeply insightful conversation, with the incredible Dr Andrew Huberman. Links: https://www.instagram.com/hubermanlab http://www.hubermanlab.com instagram.com/freedompact Youtube - Freedom Pact

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#92: Dr. Will Bulsiewicz - Fiber, Healing, Longevity and Optimising the Microbiome

Will is an award-winning, and board certified gastroenterologist who both practises and researches at the cutting edge of science related to gut-health. Many of you will remember the episode we did with Will or Dr B, from an episode we did last year entitled “The scary secrets of the microbiome” that episode blew up, we still get tagged in it to this day. For our listeners that may be interested in hearing that episode it is episode 33. Today on the show, I sat down with Will again, but this time it was to discuss his latest book Fiber Fuelled. We speak about the power of Fiber, using food as a tool to heal, Dr B’s superfoods recommendations, his thoughts on the increasingly-popular Carnivore diet, fasting and much much more. Get a copy of Will’s latest book Fiber Fueled here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiber-Fueled-Plant-Based-Optimizing-Microbiome/dp/059308456X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=fiber+fueled&qid=1589134873&sprefix=fiber+fuel&sr=8-1 Without any further ado. Please welcome back the guest who has our second most ever downloaded episode. Dr Will Bulsiewicz. Links: YouTube.com/freedompact Instagram.com/freedompact Instagram.com/theguthealthmd https://theplantfedgut.com