Kyle is passionate about helping change the conversation around veteran suicide rates with Healing our Hero’s and helping people understand imposter syndrome and how that affects our everyday lives.

In this episode we’re talking about:

• Imposter Syndrome and what it is
• How Kyle’s life was changed through working with veterans
• The founding of Healing Our Hero’s
• Kyle’s research around emotional healing through Ayahausca treatment
• How to take your health into your own hands
• The role of communication in building adaptive communities
• The Race for Forever project and the effectiveness of bio-optimization
• … and so much more

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About Kyle

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Jon is currently collaborating with Veteran’s Path, an organization that promotes mental well-being for the armed forces. In addition, he’s running his personal business, Macaskill Consulting, to promote mindfulness and meditation in the corporate arena.

In this episode we’re talking about:

• Jon’s transition from Navy SEAL to his work with meditation and mindfulness
• The tools Jon uses for practicing meditation and mindfulness
• How you can optimize yourself through mindfulness and meditation
• How a lack of mindfulness affects every aspect of your life
• How mental fortitude can help with physical activity and working out
• The challenges Jon is facing in his transition
• How to find your identity in whatever you’re doing
• and so much more!

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• HYLETE: 40% off retail price; USE Code: NEWNORMAL40
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About Jon

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Being on the Veteran’s PATH podcast hosted by Jon Macaskill, Mindfulness Teacher, Deputy Executive Director was an honor. Jon, is a a Navy SEAL Commander and as humble as they come who has been through more than any of us can ever imagine, focused as ever, and taking time to listen, share, and give back to his fellow veterans.

On this podcast I got a chance to share the “whats next” after my Marine Corps service experience. I hope this whats next journey is helpful to many, and gives people hope that whatever they are facing, they can too become a master of their own condition.

Now I am a wife, mother, advocate, and business owner with my husband. Our business is aimed to impact the 21 million veterans and their families in our country, as well as companies in need of physical well-being programs that actually impact the individual employees for their life.

Listen, share, pay it forward! Whether you are a veteran or not, I believe this story, this podcast can help you in your life….if you want to become unstoppable.

Listen to the Episode

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Kate’s here to talk about what’s in the works for HYLETE in 2020, her personal journey on finding a new normal, the transition from entrepreneurial development to the executive level of business management, and a whole lot more! Check out the episode below.

In this episode we’re talking about:

• What Graced By Grit is and how it was formed
• How seeking advice and support from others can help with success
• Kate’s entrepreneurial journey
• How to find the balance between work and parenting
• How Kate used obstacles in her life for motivation versus derailing
• and so much more!

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• HYLETE: 40% off retail price; USE Code: NEWNORMAL40
• Rx Smart Gear: 15% off; USE CODE: NHLBRX
• Adaptive Functional Fitness Trainer Course: 15% off via TRS; USE CODE mynewnormal15

Classes Available

• ADAPTIVE Functional Fitness Classes in San Diego; FREE for veterans with disabilities

Courses Available

• San Diego, Colorado Springs, and Columbus Ohio….coming up! Secure your spot for our Adaptive Trainer Course

About Kate

Kate is a gritty entrepreneur with experience in the management and development of teams in startups and non-profit organizations. She is a published author of Graced By Grit: The Entrepreneurial Woman’s Guide To Starting A Business With Power, Passion & Purpose. Kate received her BA in Sociology and Psychology from UMass Amherst. As an entrepreneur, she owned her own company, Absolutely Organized, that organized small businesses and homes. She launched, coached, and grew a youth and masters swim program at a private health club in Plymouth, MA. Upon moving to Southern California in 2008, Kate was a youth and masters swim coach and an executive for The Boys and Girls Club in which she planned and ran events, coordinated fundraisers, ran the day to day office operations, and launched new revenue-driving community programs. In addition, she privately coached women and women’s running groups.

Kate and her business partner, Kimberly, were inspired to start GRACEDBYGRIT while training for a triathlon. They realized there was a lack of high-performance athletic apparel for 30-60-year-old women that made them feel safe, look great and protect them from the sun. They started GRACEDBYGRIT in 2013 and sold the company to HYLETE in 2018. Kate was hired as the VP of Brand Experience for HYLETE. She brings a female voice and narrative to the HYLETE brand focusing on expanding the women’s product offering at HYLETE and elevating the emotive, relatability and relevance to the brand voice. Kate takes the first female seat at the executive table at HYLETE.

Stay in touch with Kate through HYLETE on Instagram at @trainhylete, on their website, hylete.com, or on LinkedIN @KateNowlan.

Season 2 is sponsored by Adaptive Sports Connection whose mission is to empower children, adults, and veterans with physical and cognitive challenges through sports and therapeutic outdoor recreation.

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Gifts from Partners

• HYLETE: 40% off retail price; USE Code: NEWNORMAL40
• Rx Smart Gear: 15% off; USE CODE: NHLBRX
• Adaptive Functional Fitness Trainer Course: 15% off via TRS; USE CODE mynewnormal15

Classes Available

• ADAPTIVE Functional Fitness Classes in San Diego; FREE for veterans with disabilities

Courses Available

• San Diego, Colorado Springs, and Columbus Ohio….coming up! Secure your spot for our Adaptive Trainer Course

About Heidi

• Feel empowered and resilient instead of frustrated and impatient
• Create a daily mental training plan to ease identity crises and negative self-talk
• Practice hope and positivity to speed physical healing
• Use neuroscientifically-proven tools to calm and relieve anxiety and depression
• Establish a care team, including specialists to properly address individual needs
• Make new, pragmatic injury-friendly goals, including physical exercise

Visit InjuredAthletesToolbox.com for more information.

Heidi can be reached at Heidi@InjuredAthletesToolbox.com or 512-431-3853

Season 2 is sponsored by Adaptive Sports Connection whose mission is to empower children, adults, and veterans with physical and cognitive challenges through sports and therapeutic outdoor recreation.

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Please welcome Dr. Theresa Larson to the Do Great Things Podcast! Theresa Larson (aka) Dr. T is an expert on movement health and a former Marine Corps Engineer Officer and Combat Veteran. With a doctorate in physical therapy, Theresa embarked on an entrepreneurial and personal “Hero’s Journey” into creating workout and therapy programs that help people reduce or eliminate suffering.

We’re talking about a variety of things in this podcast, ranging from Dr. T’s loss of her mother and how that affected and inspired her life, to serving in the Marine Corps as an officer with an eating disorder.

Dr. T ended up taking an early release from the Marine Corp and turning her eating disorder into a completely different direction for her life. She knew that she wanted more than what she was doing and she knew that she wanted to help people and now she had the space to really explore what that direction was.

The direction ended up being going to school for Physical Therapy, starting a solo business 6 months after she got done with her clinicals, and now running a thriving PT practice that helps adaptive athletes find their new normal.

IN THIS EPISODE OF DO GREAT THINGS:

• Overcoming childhood loss and creating a resilient mindset
• The challenges and rewards of serving U.S. Marine Corps as a female officer
• How to recognize when you ought to seek help and support from your superiors
• How suffering helps you start asking different and better questions
• Starting a solo business after 6 months of clinical practice in PT
• Entrepreneurship path as a way of getting to know yourself deeply
• The importance of creating a culture before creating a product
• Why you need a network of supporters in building the business side of PT practice
• Direct contact with clients in mobile practice Vs. digital therapy practice approach

Check out the full episode here:

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Albert Einstein is a genius…. The first law of thermodynamics, also known as Law of Conservation of Energy, states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; energy can only be transferred or changed from one form to another. … In other words, energy cannot be created or destroyed.

This can apply to humans too. You do not need to make something more of a situation or try to fix it…sometimes the best solution is just let it be.

I was recently interviewed by the GracedByGrit Foundation an organization committed to providing young girls and young women empowerment by discovering their GRIT and through GETGRITTY events. In the interview I’m discussing a time in my life where I discovered my GRIT by walking away from a situation instead of engaging.

Check out the details from my interview below!

A friend, blamed me (not to my face) for something I did not know anything about. Essentially instead of confronting me she spoke to people close to me, blaming me, my character, all because of what she saw on social media. To me this hurt, as she was my friend. However, instead of REACTING to her, even though upset, I let go of the need to do anything. I disengaged my mind, my heart, and told myself that whatever this friend was upset about, was not about me. We truly only react based on how we view with the world and our past experiences.

GUTS: How did you “grow guts” and be brave enough to get through your “gritty moment”? Were you afraid? Where did you find your courage? How did facing that moment affect your confidence? Did you feel more confident afterward?

I was anxious for sure, as this person is someone who I have been close with for years. However, my interaction with this person always had a negative feel the past few years. I could never really put a finger on it, but kept in touch because we have mutual friends. However their actions spoke louder than their words in this case. Me not wanting to take part in the being a victim, blaming, explaining for something I did not know happened was an important decision. 10 years ago I did not know that I COULD do this. It was an incredible relief to let myself know…it is ok to let go, Theresa.

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She defines downregulation as,

“The biology of calm. More specifically it is a system of creating a more parasympathetic aka “rest digest state” in the body that is an aspect of the autonomic nervous system. It is a focus on helping your nervous system, specifically the sympathetic part, or “fight or flight” of the autonomic nervous system to flip to a more parasympathetic state: to relax, find calm in the mind and body, improve digestion, improve respiration, improve oxygen intake, and less mental scattering due to less tension in the body.”

At Movement Rx, we understand that those suffering from mental health issues, physical ailments, and pain do not always have the information needed to find solutions for these issues. Pain causes the body to tense up, while your mind and heart rate start to race. The source of the pain is not always where you might feel the pain occurring. According to Dr. T, “We have to heal you from the inside out.”

We do this using the following 5 steps: 

1. Breathwork – Dr. T will guide you through proper breathing sequence as you start to breathe through your belly first and then breathe through your chest, followed by releasing your breath in the opposite direction. The target goal is a five second inhale with a five-second exhale. Instead of breathing shallow into your chest (upregulated), you should use your lung space at the diaphragm and pelvic floor, fully. This protects your lower back, making breathwork one of the most powerful tools.
2. Mobility – Mobility is about how your joints and soft tissue move. Dr. T shows you techniques focused on joint space and movement. She also presents tools to help relieve tension, such as the use of a ball on your shoulder while performing breathwork. Soft tissue work should be done a few hours before you train, or after. Joint work should be completed prior to your training session.
3. Stability – This is all about control of your body. By activating the right muscles using external rotation to gain stability before a squat, for instance, you gain controlled motion.
4. Retraining Movement Patterns – Stabilize your spine by bringing it to neutral, while focusing on the way you load your joints, and how you apply torque.
5. Sleep – A speedy way to heal mental health, fatigue, and your mood. The National Sleep Foundation recommends 7- 9 hours of sleep per night. The way you sleep also matters. Dr. T shows you how to decompress the spine for proper alignment. She also suggests a cool, dark room to remove all stimulus and give yourself a cave-like environment.

Are you ready to try downregulation? Check out the video below!

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Dr. T knew that she wanted to get her story out, but writing it was a whole different animal. She was in grad school, tackling speaking engagements, and had a very busy schedule. But she was speaking at an eating disorder conference when she met a ghost writer who finally made up her mind.

The actual book writing process took Dr. T and her ghost writer a couple of years. They started writing the book in 2014, but before that Dr. T had to do interviews with publishing companies to pick up the book. A lot of the publishers wanted to bring out pieces that Dr. T didn’t want to, so she had to stand up for herself until she finally found one that just wanted to take her story for what it was: a strong woman, dealing with, and overcoming mental health issues.

While the book Warrior touches specifically on eating disorders, it’s a very relatable story. It covers addiction and how Veterans struggle with it and most importantly, how they can speak up and get help.

In our society there’s a huge stigma surrounding addiction, specifically eating disorders, and especially in the military. You’re supposed to be strong and not have struggles, but yet the book shows how you can be a strong woman and struggle internally, but also show strength by asking for help.

The process of asking for help is hard, no matter who you are. And not everything makes sense once you do ask for help. But as the book shows, if you can step outside of your comfort zone and trust the process and have hope, the despair will go away.

Check out the full interview here or watch it below

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We’re talking about strength and how it shows up in so many different ways, Dr. T’s struggles with an eating disorder stemming from the loss of her mother, boundaries, and practices that help her stay healthy, balanced, and centered.

Topics we cover on this episode:

• Why a true warrior is someone who is open to being vulnerable, asking for help, and taking ownership for yourself.
• How her bulimia began and how she transitioned out for it when she finally asked for help and received the outside support she needed.
• Her childhood and the story she told herself after her mother’s death that to be loved, she had to achieve.
• The words of advice and love from her mother that have made a lasting impact on her own life and wellness journey.
• Why there’s always a way out if you’re struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts.
• The need she had to win and be noticed by everybody as a young athlete which then led to her struggling to take care of herself.
• Why the more pressure people face, the more it exasperates undealt demons.
• Why eating disorders aren’t about food but an addiction that begins in the soul and the lack of belief in oneself.
• The judgment she felt from other people when she went on medical leave during her deployment in Iraq.
• The various tools of distraction we face today in modern society and how they affect our health, relationships, and wellness journey.
• Steps she takes to set up healthy boundaries to stay true to her purpose, take care of her health, and be there for her family.
• What skills we can focus on obtaining to learn how to live in and embrace the present moment.
• Why multitasking is taking away from your self-care practice and attention to life.
• The toll that invisible wounds like eating disorders can take on people and why you should never compare your issues to other people’s.

Listen to episode 261 here!

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