Nudity and Naturism
03/18/24 • 32 min
The English and the Australians – of which we here at Spirit Levels represent both – are notoriously prudish when it comes to nudity, so Frank and Jenny want to know if they can break their conditioning. This episode takes us from tischtennis halls of Berlin to the secret beaches of Australia. Listen along:
01.16 Frank slept in his mum and dad’s bed till he was six.
02.33 Titillation is not the same as nudity (yeah, Frank).
03.56 Lucian Freud: Oh my god.
04.20 Are all nudists = perverts or is that just an English equation?
05.48 Nude sport options in Berlin.
06.35 Visiting Stadtbad Neukölln.
08.41 Freikopterkultur (FKK) and ‘free body culture’ in Germany.
10.15 Ela, from Frankfurt Oder, tells us about FKK when she was growing up.
16.18 How Bravo magazine freaked out Ela’s sister’s host family in the US.
18.21 Finally! Time for the nude table tennis.
20.01 Naturists and conservation (featuring a cameo from a rare orchid).
22.35 Jenny and Frank go ‘beyond the wire’ in Portsea.
25.02 A sad story about jetskis.
29.44 Ritualistic nude events, like Dark Mofo’s Winter Solstice Swim and the Sydney Skinny.
30.20 Yoni sunning – the kinda Taoist practice that draws in solar energy and Vitamin D.
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The English and the Australians – of which we here at Spirit Levels represent both – are notoriously prudish when it comes to nudity, so Frank and Jenny want to know if they can break their conditioning. This episode takes us from tischtennis halls of Berlin to the secret beaches of Australia. Listen along:
01.16 Frank slept in his mum and dad’s bed till he was six.
02.33 Titillation is not the same as nudity (yeah, Frank).
03.56 Lucian Freud: Oh my god.
04.20 Are all nudists = perverts or is that just an English equation?
05.48 Nude sport options in Berlin.
06.35 Visiting Stadtbad Neukölln.
08.41 Freikopterkultur (FKK) and ‘free body culture’ in Germany.
10.15 Ela, from Frankfurt Oder, tells us about FKK when she was growing up.
16.18 How Bravo magazine freaked out Ela’s sister’s host family in the US.
18.21 Finally! Time for the nude table tennis.
20.01 Naturists and conservation (featuring a cameo from a rare orchid).
22.35 Jenny and Frank go ‘beyond the wire’ in Portsea.
25.02 A sad story about jetskis.
29.44 Ritualistic nude events, like Dark Mofo’s Winter Solstice Swim and the Sydney Skinny.
30.20 Yoni sunning – the kinda Taoist practice that draws in solar energy and Vitamin D.
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What Can a Performance Coach Teach Us All?
Sport psychology is psychology on steroids. Athletes experience success failure, goal-setting and pressure at a heightened level, so delving into their mindsets has so much to teach us mere mortals about optimising our everyday lives.
Our guest is mental fitness coach Brett Stephens, aka Moose. He’s a former professional footballer who then became a performance coach on the professional tennis circuit for over 20 years (including full-time for Pete Sampras in the last 5 years of the tennis legend’s career), also working with surfers, golfers and other athletes. He’s a larger-than-life character on the Mornington Peninsula in Australia, where he lives now.
We’ve time-stamped Moose’s interview below so you can jump to the key points.
05.55 Pete Sampras’s game plan when he didn’t win a tournament for two years
08.20 Moose’s philosophy of effort over perfection
09.25 Your attitude towards losing is more important than your attitude towards winning
09.52 How his first conversation with a new client goes
11.03 The trap of getting caught up in the outcome
11.34 Use negative thoughts as fuel
13.07 You may be evolving fast, but so is your industry
14.21 The language of mindset coaching
15.19 You can lose your temper, but you must reset fast
16.03 The impact of social media distraction on performance
18.29 How do you deal with, overzealous parents?
19.31 Is it important to visualise being number one?
23.51 The optimum state of ‘relaxed intensity’
25.08 The chief lesson Moose learned on his AFL journey
27.57 Working with Pete Sampras
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Life Coach Cults
If your life coach is a psychopath, is that necessarily a bad thing? Coaching is marketed to wannabes as a luxury, business-class lifestyle that grants you total freedom and easy money. (And oh yeah, you might have to deal with some clients in crisis, too.) You’ve just got to learn how to hustle, which means paying a whoop-load of cash to other coaches to get 'the codes'. Possibly for the rest of your life.
This episode, Frank and Jenny revisit their favourite topic, piggybacking off the Netflix UK documentary Psychopath Life Coach.
We ask our guest Danielle Ryan – a former life coach who now makes explainer videos dissecting the scammier side of the industry – what trends she’s seeing. These range from the escalating industry of coaches coaching coaches, to the ‘fitness coach to business coach pipeline’, to business coaches rebranding as spiritual coaches.
Along the way, Frank and Jenny discuss Matthew McConaughey’s infiltration into coaching, sweat-lodge disaster guy James Arthur Ray, NLP, Landmark and Dale Carnegie. We also get Jenny’s Indonesian language teacher Jamsen on the show, to talk about how life coaches are taking over Bali and his take on whether that’s all bad.
By the way, if you dig this episode, you’ll love our eps Make Me a Life Coach and also the episode Energy Healing, Manifesting and The Placebo Effect.
LINKS
Danielle Ryan on the most common business coaching scams.
Danielle Ryan’s videos on NLP, part one and part two.
Jenny’s Bahasa teacher, Jamsen. Hire him!
Jenny talking about life coaching on ABC radio and Disrupt radio (scroll down to Mar 12).
Further reading: Is Life Coaching Just Modern Sophistry? (Quillette) Life Coaching Industry Scams (BBC). The Cult-like Language That’s Coursing Through Business (Inc). Jay Shetty’s monk back-story questioned (The Guardian).
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