Feelings with Strangers

Losing Weight & Building Muscle
Mind Mind-set matters | Exercise and the placebo effect
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17425538/

What if you could become younger, lose weight, and build muscle without treatments, calorie counting, or working out?
 
In this conversation, I sit down with MikeyBreathes - a teacher, traveller, unintentional provocateur, and one of the more unique voices in the modern health and embodiment space. Mikey’s work sits far outside the usual language of wellness. He is not speaking about another supplement, protocol, diet, or biohack. His central idea sits far outside the usual textbooks on human health and biology: that the power we are searching for is already within us, and that the body is not a machine to be fixed but an expression of consciousness, belief, attention, and energy.
 
We speak about health, ageing, fasting, identity, illness, belief, embodiment, and what happens when we stop outsourcing our power to authority figures, systems, experts, and inherited ideas about what is possible. Mikey shares his own story, growing up in poverty, experiencing deep childhood difficulty, developing gynecomastia as a young boy, and beginning a lifelong inquiry into the body, the mind, and the hidden architecture of belief.
 
His claims are challenging, sometimes might appear outrageous, and will undoubtedly stretch the limits of what many people are willing to consider. But beneath this is a deeper invitation: to question how much of what we call biology is also shaped by perception, identity, fear, and the stories we unconsciously live inside.
 
This is a conversation about the body as a divine instrument. About the difference between living and simply not dying. About why so much of modern health is built on fear, control, and disconnection. And about what might become possible when we stop trying to escape the body and instead come all the way back into it.
 
At its heart, this episode is an invitation to stay curious. To ask better questions.
 
Mentioned Studies
Dwarf to Giant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Rainer
Losing Weight & Building Muscle
Mind Mind-set matters
Exercise and the placebo effect
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17425538/
 
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In this conversation, I sit down with Brian Withers, author, life coach, and creator of Higher Vibrations Now, to explore manifestation from a different lens.
Manifestation, not as wishful thinking. Not as forcing the universe to give us what we want. But as a deeper education in thought, emotion, vibration, and the power we have to choose the meaning we give to life.
Brian’s work centres on personal empowerment, that our emotions are not random but offer guidance. That the way we think about ourselves, our experiences, our struggles, and our desires shapes the energy we live from. And that when we begin to change the way we see, speak, and respond to life, the world we experience begins to change with us.
We speak about contrast, grief, childhood programming, the stories we inherit, and why so many of us unconsciously create from old beliefs rather than from who we truly are. Brian explains what he calls the “creative process,” the role of the Law of Attraction, and why negative emotion may not be something to fear, but a signal pointing us back towards a truer perspective.
This is also a conversation about responsibility in the most liberating sense. The responsibility to notice our thoughts. To choose our focus. To stop letting the outside world dictate our inner state. And to remember that the energy we carry into the world is not just personal; it contributes to the collective.
At its heart, this episode is about reclaiming authorship of your life.
About learning to tell a new story.
And perhaps, about realising that nothing has gone wrong, we have simply forgotten how powerful we are.
About Brian 
Brian Withers, HCT, CECP, is a life coach, author, personal empowerment teacher, and the creator of Higher Vibrations Now. His work focuses on helping people understand and shift their personal energy vibration through present-moment thought choices, emotional awareness, and what he describes as personal vibration training.
He is the author of Higher Vibrations for Health, Happiness and Harmony, Higher Vibrations for a Healthy, Happy and Harmonious Relationship, and The Book of Life. His first book includes a 20-week programme designed to help people shift into a more positively focused mind, while The Book of Life explores what Brian calls the Creative Process Cycle, a framework for understanding why we are here, who we are, and how life works.
Brian holds a certification in Health and Wellness Coaching and is also a Certified Emotion Code Practitioner. Through his books, coaching, online teachings, and YouTube channel, he shares practical tools for changing thought patterns, understanding emotional guidance, and returning to what he describes as our natural high-vibration state.
His work is rooted in the belief that health, happiness, harmony, and personal transformation are available to everyone when we learn how to work with our own thoughts, emotions, and energy.
 
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What if time isn’t just something we move through, but something that lives inside us? In this conversation, I sit down with Bryan Hubbard, philosopher, journalist, author, and the creator of Time-Light Therapy, to explore the idea that trauma may not simply be stored in the body but expressed through our relationship with time.
 
Bryan’s work turns much of the conventional language around healing on its head. Rather than seeing ourselves as fixed individuals carrying depression, anxiety, anger, self-sabotage, or old wounds, he suggests that what we call the self is a creation of the past shaped by unresolved energies, inherited stories, and the moments we were never fully able to meet. We speak about childhood trauma, the emotional patterns that quietly repeat through our lives, why the past keeps seeking vindication in the present, and how so many of the behaviours we judge ourselves for may not be “who we are” at all, but expressions of something deeper asking to be seen.
 
This is also a conversation about hope. Not the shallow kind. But the kind that comes from recognising that no matter how heavy the past has become, there may still be a way through. That healing is not about becoming someone new, but remembering the part of us that was never truly damaged.
 
Bryan also shares the deeply personal origins of Time-Light, how his own experience of childhood abuse, chronic depression, and eventual revelation led him to develop a therapeutic model centred around time, trauma, consciousness, and the possibility of becoming fully alive in the present.
 
At its heart, this episode is about the courage to look within. To see the patterns. To stop mistaking the mask for the self. And perhaps to remember that the revolution we keep waiting for out there has always had to begin in the heart.
 
About
Bryan Hubbard Bryan Hubbard is a philosopher, journalist, author, publisher, and the creator of Time-Light Therapy, a spiritual therapeutic method that explores trauma through our relationship with time. He is the author of Time-Light and The Untrue Story of You, and is co-editor of the international magazine What Doctors Don’t Tell You. His work brings together philosophy, trauma healing, spirituality, journalism, and personal inquiry to offer a new way of understanding the self, the past, and the possibility of freedom.
 
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In this conversation, I sit down with Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan, a practitioner of Chinese medicine, a researcher of human potential, and someone who, quite literally, had her world turned inside out through a single, profound experience during meditation.
What followed wasn’t a neat spiritual awakening. It was years of questioning… of trying to reconcile what she had felt. A state of complete love, peace, and contentment with the density of everyday human life.
From that moment on, her work has been about one thing: how we return to what we already are.
We explore what it means to be human, not just biologically, but energetically. The idea that much of what we experience as limitation may simply be unpractised capacity. That intuition isn’t something mystical, but something we’ve forgotten how to use. This is where our true human capacities may go beyond anything we can currently imagine, such as learning to literally see without sight. 
But underneath all of it is something far simpler.
A return to self-awareness.To self-care.To self-love.
Because maybe the most radical idea in all of this,is that we’re not lacking anything.
We’ve just forgotten how to look.
 
Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan  
Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan is a holistic Chinese medicine doctor, consciousness and human potential coach, author, speaker, and educator. Her work focuses on meditation, human potential, intuition, wellness, “blindfold vision,” conscious parenting, and what she describes as “new human possibilities.” She combines traditional Chinese medicine, spirituality, meditation practices, and human potential coaching.
 
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The School of Dan Tian WellnessSchool of Dan Tian Wellness
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Kajabi Course PortalDr Edith Course Portal
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Blindfold Trainings (Kids, Adults & Facilitator training)
http://Blindfold.Vision

There’s something unsettling about how little we actually understand hydration.
We’ve reduced it to numbers…Two litres. Eight glasses. Tick the box and move on.
But what if that’s not hydration at all?
What if the real question isn’t how much water you drink…but whether it ever truly reaches your cells?
In this episode, we explore a deeper idea,that the body isn’t just chemical, but electrical…and that hydration isn’t just about liquid,but about energy, structure, and flow.
We talk about the difference between simply drinking waterand actually hydrating the body at a cellular level.
Why the foods you eat might matter more than the water you drink.and how something as simple as fruit could be deliveringnot just hydration, but the very charge your body runs on.
This is a conversation about what it means to feel alive in your body again,to move from dryness to flow,from depletion to coherence.
Because maybe hydration.isn’t something you do.
It’s something you become. You are a body of water.
 
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There’s a quiet tension running through the world of health and wellness right now. On one side, endless protocols, supplements, and optimisation. On the other… a growing sense that maybe it was never meant to be this complicated.
In this conversation, I sit down with Greg, known to many as The Hydrogen Man, someone who has spent over a decade working at the edges of what’s considered possible. What he’s uncovering is confronting not just because of the results, but because of how simple it all seems. We talk about the business behind modern wellness… the subtle ways people are sold solutions they don’t need… and why the more complex it becomes, the further we may be drifting from something fundamentally true.
 
But this isn’t just a conversation about hydrogen, or protocols, or even health. It’s about trust, learning to question what you’re told, to reconnect with your own body, and to recognise that perhaps the intelligence we’re searching for externally has always been within us. We explore the idea that the body isn’t broken… that it may just need the right conditions to do what it’s always known how to do. And that real healing might not come from adding more, but from removing what was never needed in the first place. This is a conversation about simplicity, integrity, and the courage to think differently.
 
ABOUT
Greg, widely known as The Hydrogen Man, is an independent researcher, educator, and leading voice in the field of molecular hydrogen therapy. After facing severe chronic health challenges, including tumours, autoimmune conditions, heart failure, and a period of being wheelchair-bound, Greg began an intensive personal exploration into alternative healing approaches. Through his work, he has become a prominent advocate for the therapeutic potential of hydrogen, which he credits as a key factor in his recovery. Today, he shares his ongoing research, protocols, and insights with a global audience through his YouTube channel, Uprising144K, alongside various online platforms. Greg’s work sits at the intersection of health, consciousness, and emerging science—focused on simplicity, accessibility, and empowering individuals to take ownership of their wellbeing.
 
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Ya’Acov Darling Khan, a shamanic teacher and co-founder of Movement Medicine. In this conversation, we explore what it really means to be human, as something lived, embodied, and felt. We speak about the deep necessity of integrating our past, not bypassing it, not transcending it, but transforming it into something alive within us.
 
As Ya’Acov shares, every experience we’ve lived holds the potential to become medicine, not through denial, but through presence, movement, and meaning. This conversation moves through the tension between the rational and the imaginal, the world we can explain and the one we can only feel. We explore how modern culture has separated the mind from the body, and how practices like movement, rhythm, and breath can restore all the felt places that words can't reach.
 
This is a conversation about growing up, standing up, and ultimately, playing your part in the larger unfolding of life.
 
About
Ya’Acov Darling Khan: Ya’Acov Darling Khan is a globally respected shamanic teacher, author, and co-founder of Movement Medicine, a contemporary practice that integrates indigenous wisdom, movement, and embodied awareness. With over 40 years of experience, Ya’Acov has studied with elders from multiple traditions, including the Sami people of Northern Europe and Native American lineages. Alongside his wife Susannah Darling Khan, he has developed Movement Medicine as a grounded, practical path for modern life, one that brings together body, heart, and mind. His work focuses on transforming personal history into strength, cultivating presence through movement, and helping individuals connect with their purpose in a way that is both deeply personal and collectively meaningful.
 
He is the author of Jaguar in the Body, Butterfly in the Heart and Shaman: Opening the Door Between the Worlds.
 
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Jaguar in the Body, Butterfly in the Heart
Shaman: Opening the Door Between the Worlds

Questioning what we’ve been taught - not out of rebellion, but out of a quiet sense that something deeper is missing- is what Eric Laarakker has spent his life doing.
 
In this conversation with Eric, a man whose work moves between science, nature, and something less easily defined. What begins as a discussion around water slowly opens into something much wider, a reflection on how life organises itself, how information moves through the body, and what it means to return to a more coherent state of health.
 
Eric is the founder of Analemma Water, a body of work built on the idea that water is not just a substance, but a carrier of information - something that shapes biological systems in ways we are only beginning to understand.
 
We explore the tension between conventional understanding and lived experience, between what can be measured and what can be felt. This is a conversation about looking again - at the body, at nature, at the invisible structures that quietly govern how we live.
 
About 
Eric Laarakker is a scientist, veterinarian, teacher, and inventor, known for his pioneering work at the intersection of water, biology, and information-based medicine. He is the founder of Analemma Water, a technology developed to transform water into what he describes as a coherent, structured state-designed to support the health of living systems. Originally trained as a veterinarian, Eric became one of the first in the Netherlands to integrate acupuncture, chiropractic techniques, and holistic therapies into veterinary medicine.
Over the past three decades, his work has expanded into a broader exploration of how water, light, and frequency interact within the body and across biological systems. Through his clinical practice and research, Eric has treated thousands of people and animals, while continuing to develop new approaches to healing that centre around the body’s innate capacity to restore itself.
 
Driven by a vision to return water to its natural, harmonious state, his work with Analemma reflects a wider mission to improve the health of humans, animals, and the environment by addressing what he sees as one of the most fundamental elements of life.
 
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Information Medicine
https://informationmedicine.org

What if ageing is not what we’ve been told? What if longevity is not simply about extending lifespan, but about the quality of presence we bring to life itself?
In this solo episode, I explore the deeper architecture of health, ageing, perception, and what actually shapes the body over time. Moving between science, spirituality, direct experience, and cultural critique, I ask whether much of what we call ageing is not a fixed biological destiny, but a story reinforced by fear, conditioning, and collective belief.
This conversation moves through presence, stress, belief, sovereignty, water, light foods, biological coherence, and the possibility that the body may respond far more intimately to consciousness than we’ve been taught. The wellness industry’s obsession with external fixes, the cultural fear of growing older, and the idea that true vitality may come less from control and more from alignment.
 
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