The NXT LVL Podcast

EP 42 - From Pain to Power with Koorosh Rassekh

Your host // Tim Bishop

Our guest // Koorosh Rassekh, MMFT

Having confronted addiction in his own life, Koorosh takes us on his personal journey through his challenging childhood, to how and why he founded Evo Health and Wellness.

Koorosh was beaten & bullied daily as a child because of his name, ethnicity and look, but much like the pounding of a rock produces a diamond, Koorosh has alchemised his pain into his greatest power. His unwavering passion to serve those in need is breathtaking and inspiring, and his personal experience in those darker places of depression and addiction gives him an understanding and authentic compassion no University could teach or Degree could define. His vision is powerful and clear; to break the stigma around mental health and create a world of healthier people, families, and communities.

Koorosh has undergone extensive training in multiple therapeutic approaches, including: Assertive Community Reinforcement Approach (ACRA), Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA), Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Motivational Interviewing, and numerous meditation and mindfulness techniques.

Learn more and connect with Koorosh here.

EP 18

Your host // Sarah Hickey

Our guest // Nat Hodges

About Nat

Today the host becomes a guest! Specialising in individual performance for the last 5 years, Nat is the Academy Director of NXT LVL.

Nathaniel has built 3 strength and performance facilities that at their core resonated the vision of turning potential into action. He currently acts as an advisor for multiple businesses that centre their philosophy around the performing individual who is constantly seeking progression.

This Episode:

We explore Nat’s rich history and the challenges he has overcome

• What has led Nat to be an in demand high performance coach
• Growing up in a small town with a sense of something bigger
• The day he discovered that his Dad, wasn’t his biological father
• Losing his Dad to suicide as a teen
• His insights into grief, death & personal challenge
• Overcoming dark times
• Creating several businesses & the journey of a tumultuous business sale
• The personal philosophy that was born from his story

Connect with Nat

Website & blog – www.nxtlvl.com.au

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nat.hodges.39

EP 05

Your host // Nat Hodges

Our guest // Matthias Turner & Stacey Harris from The Chief Life

About The Chief Life

Stacey and Matthias are the directors and co-founders of The Chief Life, a tribe of like-minded, motivated and inspiring individuals who live by example and want to help you improve your health and performance by transforming your whole life from a health perspective. You can reach out to them today if you want to take personalised control of your health and fitness, it's not just training and a nutrition plan, it's a way of life.

This Episode

• What and who is The Chief Life?
• How Stacey & Matthias discovered The Chief Life.
• What does it mean to be a Chief?
  • Enhancing human performance & the various aspects you can explore this
• How to manage risk in business
• Being led by heart, head or gut
• How Stacey & Matthias balance each other with starting & finishing a project
• The importance of resynthesis in business & life
• Taking and funnelling feedback from clients – lessons in this process
• Pay to pay attention
• How they maintain strong connection with clients, despite being mostly an online business
• Getting real about ONLINE
• Matthias & Stacey's backgrounds & how that has shaped their approach to business and decision making
• Where business & spirituality interconnect
• The element of a hero in business // Chief

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

Anything You Want - Derek Sivers

www.thechieflife.com

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thechieflife/

Instagram - @thechieflife

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgtU-rbG4kiurZMh1BRDo0g

Podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-chief-life-podcast/id1077606927?mt=2

Wealth of Health Event on 1 July - http://www.freddyjaco.com/event

If you're ready to play a bigger game, go here | www.nxtlvl.com.au/zero

In this podcast Tim interviews Dr. Cam McDonald, CEO of ph360 Australia, a company that specialises in understanding the unique biology and genotypes that underlies every individual in order for them to be their best selves.

Throughout their time together, Tim and Cam combine their insights from their fields and touch on several important points: from the differentiation of stress, to the creation of certainty in crises, the importance of basic exercise science, and most valuable of all, not just knowing who you are but the genetics (the ‘what’ of ‘who’ you are) that underpins your behaviour and mechanics.

IG: @nxtlvl.community

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In this episode Tim Bishop discusses the adult version of the game Hide and Seek. How we play small and hide ourselves from ourselves and refuse to bring all of who we could become in the world, and what it takes to meet ourselves.

The importance of your peers, the people you associate with, is an important point that is discussed. The people you need in your life may not always say what you want to hear, but they will reveal the depths of your own self-deception and offer a feedback loop for you, pushing you forward into your greater self.

Also, the patterns of habit we fall into that keep us from becoming the man or woman we need to be. Instead of there being a lack of answers for our perennial questions there is an avoidance of the deep work that is required.

This is a thought provoking episode offering you a series of takeaway insights and questions that will inspire you to dig deeper into how you are showing up in the world today.

IG: @nxtlvl.community

Episode Notes here.