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Imagine having the power to breathe in and create happiness oxygen. How would that change your life? Happiness 2.02 is a mental-health show for anyone who wants to access their full human cognition, increase energy, and develop high-performance tools they need to tap into their happiness oxygen and reach their next level. Hosted by John Tukums, a TEDx speaker, entrepreneur, author, and inquisitive human being who loves understanding root knowledge and adding value at each and every touchpoint. Get your weekly dose of happiness oxygen every Monday from game-changers—like Former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann; Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Lou Ignarro; NY Times Best-Selling Author of ‘Breath’, James Nestor; CEO and Chair, Global Wellness Summit, Susie Ellis. Hear from the people who are reshaping our world and providing hope based on what's possible through their breakthroughs in mindset, biology, and health.
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Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
“I am incredibly curious about stuff and it’s such a privilege to be able to be curious about stuff for a living. And just the idea that I can wake up every morning and learn new things is really exciting. It keeps me running” – James Nestor is a journalist and an author who has written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and many more. Most recently, he released his book called Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art. Just before joining today’s podcast, he found out that the book hit #6 on the New York bestseller list!
James grew up in Southern California and developed a deep bond with the ocean that has been with him ever since. In today’s episode, James and John talk about:
- How James’s conservative upbringing impacted the decisions he made during his professional and personal path
- Starting his professional career in writing in his late 30s and playing catch up
- His breakout job with Outside magazine writing about free divers in Greece
- His connection and relationship with water
- How water has been instrumental for him when wanting to achieve mental clarity
- Insights on his new book: Breath: The New Science Of A Lost Art
- His thoughts on being objective and curious about everything, because if something can be measured, it can be studied!
Be sure to follow James Nestor on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn and learn more about him on his website MrJamesNestor.com. Visit James’s Amazon page, if you are interested in buying his most recent book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art.
Connect with John on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. To delve more into breath and high performance, check out johntukums.com; or better yet, sign up for the newsletter so the best content related to breath and high performance comes straight to you.
If this podcast brings you happiness, we’d be so grateful if you shared that with others. We appreciate everyone who takes 60 seconds to leave an honest rating & review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes or wherever you listen.
Until next week; keep breathing in your Happiness Oxygen.
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
“I feel like I have been called to help empower wellness worldwide, and I have been doing it for 4 decades!” – Susie Ellis, Chair and CEO of the Global Wellness Institute and Global Wellness Summit, and celebrated keynote speaker. Susie is one of the pioneers in the wellness world responsible for growing the industry for several decades. With her passion and perseverance, she has proven her trailblazing methods and changed the perception of the wellness industry across the globe.
We are very fortunate to have spoken with Susie about her career, her initiatives, and projects, and her life. Some of today’s highlights are:
- What influenced Susie Ellis to do what she does now
- Why she is known as the ‘godmother of the spa industry’
- Understanding the difference between wellness and spa... wellness and wellbeing
- The progress that has been made with the medical field
- Getting a call from the Vatican and working with the pope on his new vision for health!
- This year’s Global Wellness Summit plans
- Watch it on-demand here
Be sure to follow Susie Ellies on LinkedIn and learn more about the Global Wellness Institute and Global Wellness Summit here. You can also contact her at susie@globalwellnesssummit.com
Connect with John on LinkedIn and Twitter @JohnTukums. To delve more into breath and high performance, check out johntukums.com; or better yet, sign up for the newsletter so the best content related to breath and high performance comes straight to you.
If this podcast brings you happiness, we’d be so grateful if you shared that with others. We appreciate everyone who takes 60 seconds to leave an honest rating & review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes (here’s where and here’s how)—or wherever you listen.
Until next week; keep breathing in your Happiness Oxygen.
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
“I would love to see what part I can play in helping people be healed and whole such that they could be free to find their form of expression utilizing the gifts that are unique to them.” Tim Chang is a partner at Mayfield Fund and a driving force behind many social impact initiatives.
From early on in life Tim has been a very curious person, this has led him not only to learn more about himself but it has led him to impact others around him by living a life of service. Some of the highlights of today’s episode are:
- How living in an immigrant household mold this upbringing
- The impact of empowering and helping others!
- How caring less about money helped him in his journey
- Morning meditation, music, and acting
- His power description of what a flow state feels like
Be sure to follow Tim Chang on LinkedIn and Twitter. To learn more about the initiatives he mentioned please see below:
- #Quaranteam
Connect with John on LinkedIn and Twitter @JohnTukums. To delve more into breath and high performance, check out johntukums.com; or better yet, sign up for the newsletter so the best content related to breath and high performance comes straight to you.
If this podcast brings you happiness, we’d be so grateful if you shared that with others. We appreciate everyone who takes 60 seconds to leave an honest rating & review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes (here’s where and here’s how)—or wherever you listen.
Until next week; keep breathing in your Happiness Oxygen.
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
“Gratitude for me is the root and the key to happiness. So the simplest exercise is to have gratitude journal and every morning, just write a few lines of the things I'm grateful for. And I will tell you anything that is causing problems pales by comparison to what I could be grateful for.” Jim Estill is the CEO at Danby Appliance and ShipperBee, but most importantly he’s a compassionate human being that loves to help others. One of his biggest and most impactful projects consisted of sponsoring hundreds of Syrian refugees to come to Canada.
Some of the highlights from today’s episode:
- His personal and professional path that has led him to where he is now
- How he uses breathing to center himself
- What led him to start the Syrian Project and how it's going now.
- His happiness formula!
- How he recharges
- How he pivoted after seeing the effects of COVID 19 on people
- And knowing what your core values are!
Be sure to follow Jim Estill on LinkedIn and learn more about the Syrian Project here.
Connect with John on LinkedIn and Twitter @JohnTukums. To delve more into breath and high performance, check out johntukums.com; or better yet, sign up for the newsletter so the best content related to breath and high performance comes straight to you.
If this podcast brings you happiness, we’d be so grateful if you shared that with others. We appreciate everyone who takes 60 seconds to leave an honest rating & review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes (here’s where and here’s how)—or wherever you listen.
Until next week; keep breathing in your Happiness Oxygen.
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Jim Olds is a university professor of Neuroscience and Public Policy at George Mason University, has served as head of the Biological Sciences Directorate at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), was the director and CEO of the George Mason University’s Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and has managed billions of dollars across his career.
He joins John on today’s episode to speak about an array of topics including:
- How his family background influenced his career path
- How he reinvented himself after he was denied tenure at the national institutes of health
- The importance of making command decisions!
- How getting into flow states allows him to see alternatives to fix problems
- The perspective that all science is connected
- Why COVID-19 is so fascinating and how smoking influences the virus.
Be sure to check out Jim’s blog here!
Connect with John on LinkedIn and Twitter @JohnTukums. To delve more into breath and high performance, check out johntukums.com; or better yet, sign up for the newsletter so the best content related to breath and high performance comes straight to you.
If this podcast brings you happiness, we’d be so grateful if you shared that with others. We appreciate everyone who takes 60 seconds to leave an honest rating & review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes (here’s where and here’s how)—or wherever you listen.
Until next week; keep breathing in your Happiness Oxygen.
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
“Integrative medicine is understanding that there are a lot more different elements to health and a lot more solutions to wellness than you would see on the surface, it's not all about pharmaceuticals.” Marvin Singh is a keynote speaker, a triple board-certified medical doctor, a bestselling author, and the founder and CEO of Precisione Clinic. His life purpose revolves around helping people in meaningful ways so that they take control back over their health and not feel lost.
At an early age, Marvin blamed himself and looked down at himself until he reframed his perspective and saw how many possibilities life gives us! Today’s conversation with Dr. Singh was incredibly powerful, here are some key takeaways:
- How Dr. Singh took control over the adversities he faced earlier in life and turned them into a career to help people
- Who introduced him to integrative gastroenterology and why he pursued a career in it
- Using breath work to achieve flow states (plus his powerful description of a flow state!)
- What integrative medicine is and why it’s so important
Be sure to follow Marvin Singh on Instagram, Twitter and learn more about his Precisione Clinic here. Also, don’t miss his podcast: HealthCast.
Connect with John on LinkedIn and Twitter @JohnTukums. To delve more into breath and high performance, check out johntukums.com; or better yet, sign up for the newsletter so the best content related to breath and high performance comes straight to you.
If this podcast brings you happiness, we’d be so grateful if you shared that with others. We appreciate everyone who takes 60 seconds to leave an honest rating & review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes (here’s where and here’s how)—or wherever you listen.
Until next week; keep breathing in your Happiness Oxygen.
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
“Pain is a great catalyst for change.” Karen Guggenheim is a social entrepreneur, speaker and co-founder of WOHASU®, World Happiness Summit, and H-20 Government meeting. Karen has gone through traumatic experiences throughout her life, but she’s taken control of her personal and work life by living purposefully and deciding to be happy by understanding the science of happiness!
Her conversation with John was extremely powerful, you wouldn’t want to miss it. These are some of the highlights:
- What she takes away from her upbringing in Nicaragua.
- Being KIND and living with purpose!
- How she took the decision to live happy after her husband passed away
- Her secret to journaling and expressive writing.
- How purposeful breathing saved her life.
Be sure to follow Karen Guggenheim on LinkedIn and learn more about the World Happiness Summit and the WOHASU platform here.
Connect with John on LinkedIn and Twitter @JohnTukums. To delve more into breath and high performance, check out johntukums.com; or better yet, sign up for the newsletter so the best content related to breathe and high performance comes straight to you.
If this podcast brings you happiness, we’d be so grateful if you shared that with others. We appreciate everyone who takes 60 seconds to leave an honest rating & review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes (here’s where and here’s how)—or wherever you listen.
Until next week; keep breathing in your Happiness Oxygen.
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
“One of the most dramatic things that's changed is the overuse of antibiotics and preservatives in food. We really have to understand that we are being poisoned and the food industry has done a fantastic job of covering that up.” Powerful words from the conversation with Dr. Momo Vuyisich, the founder and Chief Science Officer of Viome.
After rheumatoid arthritis took over his life, Momo has been determined to not only publish scientific papers and data but turn his findings into resources that can help humanity. Some of the episode highlights:
- Project managing and discipline as keys to success
- Preventing and containing chronic disease through dieting
- The power of gardening!
- Viome’s blood and fecal tests to understand your microbiome
- Asking the right questions: which humans is this food good for? And which humans is this food bad for?
Connect with John on LinkedIn and Twitter @JohnTukums. To delve more into breath and high performance, check out johntukums.com; or better yet, sign up for the newsletter so the best content related to breath and high performance comes straight to you.
Be sure to follow Momo Vuyisich on LinkedIn and learn more about his company here. If you are interested in purchasing Viome’s products, find them here.
If this podcast brings you happiness, we’d be so grateful if you shared that with others. We appreciate everyone who takes 60 seconds to leave an honest rating & review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes (here’s where and here’s how)—or wherever you listen.
Until next week; keep breathing in your Happiness Oxygen.
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
“I think that we are at the perfect moment. I think that we have enough chaos everywhere in the world for people actually be more awakened than any time in history. And we have all the resources we have all the technologies needed to really move forward as a society and in an exponential way. So, I am very optimistic about what we are living now.” —Luis Gallardo, the founder, and president of the World Happiness Foundation and World Happiness Fest, author of Happytalism and The Exponentials of Happiness, and lifelong entrepreneur.
Being an entrepreneur all his life, Luis has some incredible insight on achieving happiness and having control of your life. Some key takeaways from today’s conversation:
- How and why the current state of the world gives has him hopeful about achieving world happiness
- Having an entrepreneurial foundation
- The impact sports have had on his life
- The different meditation types that help him
Connect with John on LinkedIn and Twitter @JohnTukums. To delve more into breath and high performance, check out johntukums.com; or better yet, sign up for the newsletter so the best content related to breath and high performance comes straight to you.
Be sure to follow Luis Gallardo on Twitter @lgallardo and LinkedIn. If you are interested in learning more about him, visit his website here or the World Happiness Fest page here.
To learn more about his latest book The Exponentials of Happiness and the THEOLab, visit here.
If this podcast brings you happiness, we’d be so grateful if you shared that with others. We appreciate everyone who takes 60 seconds to leave an honest rating & review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes (here’s where and here’s how)—or wherever you listen.
Until next week; keep breathing in your Happiness Oxygen.
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
“When I found out that social anxiety is actually a real thing that gave me a lot of power.” In this first episode of the Happiness 2.02 podcast John takes a deep dive into social anxiety with Mark Metry, a Forbes featured Keynote Speaker, host of the Global Top 100 podcast ‘Humans 2.0’, and New York Times Bestselling author.
After learning how to manage and overcome anxiety, Mark has dedicated his life to spreading his story and helping others who have gone through similar struggles. Some key topics from today’s episode include:
- Key life events that helped Mark start his journey
- How Mark learned what social anxiety is
- The misrepresentation of the word SHY! (Go read his book: Screw Being Shy)
- Achieving flow of states to become the best version of yourself
Be sure to follow Mark Metry on Instagram @markmetry, Twitter @markymetry, and LinkedIn. If you are interested in learning more about him, visit his website here. To buy his book visit his Amazon store here.
Connect with John on LinkedIn and Twitter @JohnTukums. To delve more into breath and high performance, check out johntukums.com; or better yet, sign up for the newsletter so the best content related to breath and high performance comes straight to you.
If this podcast brings you happiness, we’d be so grateful if you shared that with others. We appreciate everyone who takes 60 seconds to leave an honest rating & review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes (here’s where and here’s how)—or wherever you listen.
Until next week; keep breathing in your Happiness Oxygen.