Uncommon Living: A Dialogue in Human Resilience

Gym Guyz Founder Josh York describes his entrepreneurial journey, the importance of resilience, and how discipline and mental toughness over comes anxiety and drives success. York tells Professor Thomas Seager about how he changed his ice bath routine to precool his intense workouts, and what happened to his testosterone as a result. Both men agree that success in entrepreneurship requires that they "Burn the Boats," because there is no Plan B.

Dean Hall returns to the Uncommon Living podcast to share how his experiences as a cancer patient and survivor have reshaped him as a trauma therapist. This interview with Thomas Seager, PhD describes Hall's disillusionment with traditional talk therapy, and the realization that he must stay more closely connected to Nature to manage the health risks of feeling being connected to his clients. Hall's proposes a new method, called BioWild Psychology, for treating what he calls "Synthetic Living Syndrome" -- i.e., ill health resulting from a chronic exposure to florescent lights, disrupted sleep patterns, and failure to ground (earth), and disconnection from the natural environment.

Somalive Founder Sean Patrick Maher joins Professor Thomas Seager on the Uncommon Living Podcast to describe experiences with vibroacoustic therapy. They explore the technology and architecture of sound and its effects on the human body, from ancient cathedrals to soundscape ecology, and how the digital tactile transducers in the Somealive sound bed create an amazing yet unexplainable sensation.

In this episode of the Uncommon Living podcast, Beth Lambert describes her recent peer-reviewed journal articles focusing on autism. She tells Thomas Seager, PhD about her work educating parents and clinicians about the Total Load approach to understanding the origins of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Sean Finney, co-Founder of Tano Skincare, describes the banana sap-based skincare creams he developed that were inspired by a traumatic leg injury he suffered as a child. In this episode of the Uncommon Living podcast, Finney tells Arizona State University Professor Thomas Seager, CEO of Morozko Forge, how banana sap offers a natural alternative to retinol for promoting skin health by accelerating wound healing, and reducing signs of aging without harmful side effects.