“Having access to the skills or the opportunities to experience the skills that would give someone the foundation of health, happiness and fulfill their potential - that is really what it is about.” – Nichol Bradford, Founder, CEO, and Transformative Technology Pioneer.

Changing her life after an attack by choosing not to allow being in the wrong place at the right time, Nichol Bradford, through her incredible inner drive of curiosity and possibility, dedicated her life to working at the intersection of human-centered technology and wellbeing.

Highlights of today’s episode:

• Her drive of curiosity and possibility at her core
• Working at the intersection of human-centered tech and wellbeing
• Her curiosity related to how things work
• Her love of science fiction and thinking about problems against a different backdrop
• How her deep influence by Star Trek created a deep love of technology
• Applying technology to the inner landscape
• Being attacked in a park and how choosing not to allow being in the wrong place at the right time changed her life
• Her love for building Excel models, reading, meditation, boxing and martial arts
• Studying with Dan Brown to see the vast ocean of awareness
• Her experiences while meditating
• Waking up while dreaming
• Deep personalization and awareness
• The Transformative Technology Conference
• Technologies that help us understand ourselves better

Be sure to follow Nichol Bradford on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and connect with her on LinkedIn. Learn more about Transformative Tech Org, Transformative Tech Lab, Transformative Tech Conference and on Nichol Bradford.

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“The way you breathe is a marker for your longevity. Your lung capacity, your lung velocity and the mechanics of your breath tell you more about what kind of life you are going to live, your health and how long you are going to live.” – Dr. Belisa Vranich, clinical psychologist, author, public speaker, and founder of The Breathing Class.

After experiencing panic attacks in New York and hitting a wall, Dr. Belisa Vranich, through her psychology background and fascination with breathing, set an audacious goal of helping the world to breathe better.

Today’s conversation focused around:

• Her drive to show people that they can get better
• Coming from a family of academics
• Supporting people to access something they already know or have lost access to
• Her belief in the importance of serving
• Hitting the wall and then having to change
• How her panic attacks in New York led to finding a better way to live
• Her fascination with breathing
• Working for Jacques Cousteau
• As a psychologist, understanding how people learn and how people breath
• How Belisa gets to a state of flow when a client begins to understand
• Locomotive pairing to connect breath to a movement
• Integrating and connecting the heart, gut and lungs
• The importance of breathing for digestion
• Her background in psychometrics, her move to biometrics and The Breathing IQ
• The importance of the middle of your body for a deep breath
• Breathing in fight or flight, or rest and digest
• ITS (interrupt the stress) and practicing rebooting for sleep

Be sure to follow Dr. Vranich on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and connect with her on LinkedIn. Learn more about her book, and body of work on Dr. Belisa, her Wikipedia page, and on The Breathing Class.

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“There is a reason for everything.” – Professor John Mew, British orthodontist and the creator of Orthotropics and the practice of Mewing.

After being diagnosed as dyslexic, failing his final dentistry exam three times, and then going on to fail his specialist exam eight times, Professor John Mew, through his remarkable persistence and determination, created The Tropic Premise and the rules of Mewing and has gone to help over ten million people’s lives.

Today’s conversation highlights:

• The feeling of being obliged to help people out
• ‘There is a reason for everything’ - a simple message from his father
• His determination to find answers to important and complex questions
• His philosophical discussions with his dentist father
• Overcoming dyslexia
• Persistence
• His competitiveness in sport
• Happiness is a change in your level of contentment
• Reading books on ideas and theories
• His fascination in researching
• Sleep apnea and difficulty breathing at night
• Orthodontics and being an oral surgeon
• The Tropic Premise and the rules of Mewing
• Keeping your mouth shut
• The theory of brain action, and the process of cell division and growth

Be sure to follow Professor John Mew Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and connect with him on LinkedIn. Learn more about his body of work on the John Mew Wikipedia page, and on his John Mew Orthotropics website.

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Until the next episode; take a deep breath and breathe in your Happiness Oxygen.