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Head First with Dr. Hill

17 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 7 years ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings

Head First is an in depth conversion with thought leaders in the wellness space. Guests include entrepreneurs, fitness professionals, elite athletes, psychologists, biohackers, and out of the box thinkers.

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Episodes

Ep16 - Building the Unmistakable Creative with Srini Rao

August 08, 2017 08:00 - 42 minutes - 19.9 MB

Srini Rao is an author and podcaster focused on what makes us creative. He joins Dr. Hill on Head First to discuss how to build that into your life, with tips on creative output, how to find your unique voice, and other lifehacking wisdom and strategies. Bio: Srinivas Rao is the host and founder of The Unmistakable Creative podcast where he has conducted over 600 interviews with thought leaders and people from all walks of life, which has given him an incredibly distinctive view into b...

Ep15 - Biohacking Cancer with Eric Remensperger

August 01, 2017 08:00 - 55 minutes - 26 MB

Eric Remensperger has been a practicing attorney for over 30 years, and casual biohacker until he discovered his Stage IV cancer and began an exploration of the science and treatment possibilities available to him. Learn about how he returned to health. Bio: Eric Remensperger is not just a big-time attorney, but also a deeply knowledgeable and practice biohacker who beat Stage IV metastatic Prostate Cancer. He has been a practicing attorney for over 30 years and a “health nut” for the pa...

Ep14 - The Lifestylist: Dialing in what works, with Luke Storey

July 25, 2017 08:00 - 1 hour - 32.2 MB

Fashion stylist, transformational coach, public speaker, and entrepreneur Luke Storey joins HeadFirst with Dr. Hill to discuss his journey from fashion styles to life stylist, and how he uses himself as a guinea pig to evaluate different biohacking strategies. Bio: Luke Storey has spent over 20 years developing and refining the ultimate lifestyle, based on powerful principles of health and spirituality. As a transformational coach, public speaker, and entrepreneur, Luke continues to...

Ep13 - Becoming Ultra Spiritual and HealthyAF with JP Sears

July 18, 2017 08:00 - 49 minutes - 23.2 MB

Health coach and comedian, JP Sears, discusses how comedy can deliver different perspectives and help us get in touch with our emotions by teaching us to not be so rigid and attached to our own beliefs to the point that we can negatively impact our health and well being. JP also shares 3 affirmations that he lives by, plus his daily self-care rituals to center the mind, wake up the body, connect mind with body, and connect to feelings. Bio: JP Sears is a life coach, comedian, and author....

Ep12 - Nourishing Our Bodies and Minds with Wendi Michelle

July 11, 2017 08:00 - 47 minutes - 22.2 MB

Health coach, author and nutrition entrepreneur, Wendi Michelle discusses optimizing health, nurishing our bodies, healing ourselves, reversing her late stage lyme disease, cryotherapy, neurofeedback training, and the “brain cocktail.” Bio: Wendi Michelle is the VP of Operations and Executive Director of Wellness at Next Health, which is one of the premier health and wellness centers in Los Angeles. She is also a nutrition entrepreneur as the founder and creator of food startups Hoola Ba...

Ep11 - Creating the Unbeatable Mind of a Navy SEAL with Mark Divine

July 04, 2017 08:00 - 53 minutes - 24.8 MB

Human performance coach and former Navy SEAL, Mark Divine, discusses how to develop an unbeatable mind through traveling your personal "5 mountain" journey, practicing integrative training, and incorporating a forward thinking morning routine, plus the keys to longevity. Bio: Mark Divine is an expert in human performance as it is displayed in mental toughness, leadership and physical readiness. His work is based on an integral warrior-leader model that he developed and tested on over a...

Ep10 - Optimizing the Mind with Daniel Schmachtenberger of Neurohacker Collective

June 27, 2017 08:00 - 56 minutes - 26.2 MB

Neurohacker, systems scientist, and philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger discusses the questions at the heart of modern science which will allow us to unlock the secrets of the most complex instrument in the known universe: the human brain, and offers avenues to begin quantifying and hacking it.  Bio: - Global Strategist - Systems & Data Science - Social science & Memetics Daniel Schmachtenberger is a member of the Neurohacker Collective and founder of the Emergence Project. His areas...

Ep9 - The Whole Life Challenge and a CrossFit journey with Andy Petranek

June 20, 2017 08:00 - 46 minutes - 21.5 MB

Fitness expert Andy Petranek discusses how to build healthy fitness habits, the Whole Life Challenge and his early CrossFit entrepreneur journey. Bio: Andy Petranek is an athlete and CrossFit entrepreneur, cofounder of the Whole Life Challenge and the host of the WLC podcast.

Ep8 - Meditation, Mindfulness, and Psychology of Anxiety with Dr. Lobsang Rapgay

June 13, 2017 08:00 - 49 minutes - 23.2 MB

Dr. Lobsang Rapay joins Dr Hill to discuss his early experience as a Tibetan monk and how it lead to a life in clinical psychology. Dr Rapgay talks about distancing yourself from your emotions in order to not be controlled by them. He speaks about techniques for extinguishing learned fear responses after the fact, as well as using mindfulness to conquer fear and anxiety. Bio: Dr. Lobsang Rapgay, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor Lobsang Rapgay, Research and Clinical psychologist at the De...

Ep7 - What is Ashtanga Yoga, with Certified Ashtanga teacher, Jörgen Christiansson

June 12, 2017 08:00 - 46 minutes - 21.8 MB

Learn a bit about Asthanga yoga from Jörgen Christiansson, a Certified Ashtanga yoga teacher with more than 30 years experience. He and Dr. Hill speak about yoga, meditation, long days in Sweden, and why Ashtangis take “Moon Days” off. Bio: Jörgen Christiansson is certified by the Sri.K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore India and has had a lifelong relationship with Yoga. With more than 30 years of teaching experience, he teaches Ashtanga Yoga in the same traditional manne...

Ep6 - Mark Sisson on the Primal Blueprint and Primal Kitchen.

June 11, 2017 08:00 - 54 minutes - 25.2 MB

What is the Primal Blueprint, and why would an endurance athlete go “low-carb”? Let’s talk to the founder of the Primal Blueprint, Mark Sisson about this health and wellness approach to peak fitness, eating, and aging. Bio: Mark Sisson is an American fitness author and blogger, and a former distance runner, triathlete and Ironman competitor. Sisson finished 4th in the February 1982 Ironman World Championship. He has written several books, including The Primal Blueprint, which incorporate...

Ep5 - Ryan Munsey from Natural Stacks on CILTEP and body biohacking

June 10, 2017 08:00 - 56 minutes - 26.4 MB

Bio: Ryan is a former fitness model and gym owner turned writer, speaker, and biohacker. He's a mental and physical performance specialist with a degree in Food Science & Human Nutrition from Clemson University. An avid hunter, you'll often find him in the woods.

Ep4 - The 30-day No Alcohol Challenge and Sleep Hacking with James Swanwick

June 09, 2017 08:00 - 1 hour - 30.7 MB

Bio: James Swanwick is an advocate for the 30-day No Alcohol Challenge, and has worked as an ESPN anchor on SportsCenter, is the author of ‘Insider Journalism Secrets’ and co-founder of international agency, Crocmedia, as well as the inventor of “Swannies”. He has been a print or TV journalist for 20 years, writing for newspapers and magazines in the US, UK and Australia. These include Associated Press, Sky Sports, ESPN, WPLJ radio, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Daily Telegraph, The Sun, S...

Ep3 - Nootropics and other biohacking with Smart Drug Smarts’ Jesse Lawler

June 08, 2017 08:00 - 51 minutes - 24.1 MB

Biohacker Jesse Lawler joins us to talk about plasticity, fasting, how important dark chocolate is to him, and different ways to eat including Intermitten Fasting.  We also look at some of Jesse’s QEEG brain maps. Bio: Jesse Lawler is a pan-disciplinary enthusiast and biohacker, who has written enterprise software for beer companies, produced zombie films, been a featured speaker at business conferences, and slept outdoors at gas stations. He is curious and a do-it-yourself’er entreprene...

Ep2 - Movement and Athletic Training with Erin Cafuro Makenzie and Brian Makenzie

June 07, 2017 08:00 - 1 hour - 29.1 MB

Who can be an athlete? Dr. Hill sits down with elite athletes and peak performance and movement coaches Brian Makenzie and Erin Cafuro Makenzie. They talk about Erin's training during the Olympics as well as Brian and Erin’s goals to help people understand their fitness and movement abilities. Bio: Brian Mackenzie is a human performance and movement specialist. He has participated in Ironman (Canada 2004), and has run the Western States 100 and the Angeles Crest 100 mile endurance runs. ...

Ep1 - Biohacking Ben Greenfield’s brain: light, sleep, and what his EEG shows.

June 06, 2017 08:00 - 58 minutes - 27 MB

See Ben Greenfield get his “brain mapped” and talk about what his personal fitness, peak performance, and biohacking tips and strategies are, and look at his Quantitative EEG for a suggestion of some brain performance targets. Ben Greenfield Bio: Ben Greenfield is a biohacker, human body and brain performance coach, ex-bodybuilder, Ironman triathlete, professional Spartan athlete, anti-aging consultant, speaker and author of the New York Times Bestseller “Beyond Training: Mastering Endur...