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In good optimistic um kind of like Health Journey side of stuff I I've as probably you guys have been bombarded with a bunch of adverts By Zoe and you've probably watched don't be a door stop not don't be a door stop the Diary of a CEO the other popular podcast um and seen uh Steven bartler advertised Zoe because he's a an investor in Zoe I finally broken and decided to get involved so I thought I'll wait until a.

You eat a normal like white chocolate chip cookie in the day in the morning like for your breakfast and then you fast and then you eat these blue cookies for lunch and then you fast and then you take your blood so that's all good you then send off your blood test on your on your gut health test and um 30% of people don't see the blue tint in the cookie ever again if that makes sense which is funny so it's like where's the.

Think I'm nervous right you kind of like nervous I'm not going to be the 30% so then you can't go because you're nervous which is fun but I'm really enjoying it like there's this glucas monitor so you can trial and you all you do is like you touch this um this back sensor with your phone and then it syncs up with your phone so it's not real time in the sense of my phone's always reading I have to.

Create kind of like something to stop you having the the low as it were yeah I'm really enjoying this new health thing and Kim is like you're always into trying these like startups and I am and she's like next time when they're like there's a startup that can duplicate you and create a clone of you or whatever you'll be super into it when you I like no I draw the line at that one I don't know if it could do if it.

Your whole life are you quite healthy right now or unhealthy G give like a bit of a summary to know have you changed anything or so so right now I'm generally so a couple of weeks ago um switched over to entirely like plant-based meals as like my primary like dayto day but it doesn't mean that I'm not eating meat it would be like in the week I would eat promly like plant-based stuff and a variation of plant-based stuff from a company called.

Like without dairy or without gluten it doesn't always necessarily mean that they're actually healthier right so I I've been snacking a little but in the last week or so I've like tried to cut out the snacks again to kind of like get back on it because I've noticed my weight has started to come back up so and I've not done squash for like six months I've hibernated the winter months drink wise Fizz or alcohol drinks wise I I I don't drink alcohol generally.

Slumping on because I'll go for a walk but that's never like raising your heart rate enough to kind of like make a challenge of it right so I need to get back into the squash stuff so I was expecting for the numbers to be reasonably good anyway and I don't have any like other condition on on top of that so um yeah it's just really interesting to see if there's anything I have been tempted to do um a full blood.

Like 3:00 4:00 I thought that would be considered kind of like a dip right low sugar but it's actually not so in me thinking oh I should eat a chocolate bar right now that's not actually right it's like it feels like there should be another alternative like maybe it is like don't eat a chocolate bar just sleep or or like take a nap right rather than trying to like pick up the curb which is what I subconsciously think it.

That's been taking blood tests like full blood tests with all the breakdown of it and he's put it online so he could get people to kind of like critique it and so he's had it at like different stages over the fast light probably five 10 years uh just to see numbers and um I'm tempted to do something of the same because you know with like this heel stuff really if you if you're not deficient in something I assume that it.

This stuff and and you could be like oh cool I mustn't be deficient because I am taking all this stuff on but you'd want to be like more more focused and more like tailored to stuff I I don't know that there probably is a downside to over doing nutrients probably because there's always a downside to everything right because we always say everything in moderation mod so but um yeah yeah who knows you're doing a blood test with Zoe aren't you so what does that.

Allergies um but it might be because it might be like your gut's bad because of X right your gut is is not healthy because yes you do have also a um McDonald's nearby intolerance yeah you have a McDonald's intolerance okay any of the other brands yeah yeah yeah so it's really interesting to be like embracing it um and not seeing it as a scary thing but like with all Health stuff really like proactivity is the best type of.

Then tomorrow they're like hey you've got diabetes so you got to eat stop eating chocolate like that would be like harder for them to do but they it's like a must right so it's like you have to do this whereas if you were like eating chocolate and you had a test I'm like hey if you carry on eating chocolate like this it's probably going to lead to diabetes or whatever and then you could be like cool well I don't want that to.

Of monitoring more because that would be super handy in like 64 or more uni or start of your career because then you know what is like normal for you like be like you said before anything goes bad it's like this is your Norm how can you stay within the sort of average sort of boundaries to to keep your health it's just like benchmarking extreme yeah like if if we were able to Benchmark a little bit better and and I would say the same with.

Breakdown of it so every time I go and give a blood I get all these like Health insights which then would inspire me to go and give blood again and they benefit from my blood and for the benefit of that I just get a free health check like a free like breakdown of my efficiencies or inefficiencies in the uh in the blood like like an NFC tag that you could just scan and then it's on your iPhone or.

Phone them up to do platelets because I've finally been like giv the green light for platelets again which is good so the green light is behind you yeah yeah this this screen light over here so yeah this um Zoe journey is interesting so I do this and then it's a month once these tests have been like given back to me they give me some insights and for four months I just like run the like the dietry stuff through the subscription so.

Studying like the effects of food um on um glucose levels with different people of all ages so I've opted into that and that's why I have the glucose patch if I hadn't opted into that I wouldn't have done the glucose measuring I would have just done the eat the cookie and do the do the blood and do the gut sample so the glucose is like bonus research for them and I thought why not because it'll be interesting to see for me I've never.

Whole Brian Johnson like his goal is basically not to die so he's used like 2 million pounds worth of like research and stuff to like perfect this idic setup for just like optimum health for him and he's like put it out in the open and it's called The Blueprint so if you're interested in that stuff search Brian Johnson blueprint and you'll see all of his like insights and stuff nice sounds good watch this journey here see if you get healthier or unhealthier.

Like you it um delayed gratification right delaying something that's good for you is like rare in this Society because you can do the on demand and you can get stuff really quickly and you can like you have purchasing power right so yeah if you're able to delay it then it does feel better lat later down the line have you've been watching the NFL stuff the um Lewis Reese zamit uh a little bit on Tik Tok I've spotted a couple of things so background.

Name it's called like a a farming name this like try out basically what's it called the co can't remember now it's called like this like tryy outs where 26 Scouts are there for all the different NFL teams watching and they might pick these people so there's basketball players there's rugby players they also do the kickers do do you see that they do um the kickers as well so there's a bunch of kickers that are like rugby kickers and they just train on kicking.

Welsh rugby player and super interesting how they're training them to not remove their uniqueness of their existing game so like he's a great rugby player so we're trying to like enhance into American football rather than like destroy his ability to play rugby because who knows when it comes to the um tryouts that individual might not get in so you kind of want to still keep their like authentic self right like the reason why you have been chosen is.

Globe to be selected they basically do like this like World tryouts type thing they then have selected and these are the individuals that have got through to the kind of like class of 20124 so I'm I'm very interested about you know how um how zamit ends up doing that it would be really cool to see him go through cuz at NFL the reason why they want to do the NFL is because one they might be super fans of the NFL and two the amount.

Be paid for just doing sports I think yeah I think most people would be intrigued with that the fact that you just do Sports and just yeah work out do nutrition um do physios and stuff like that for the rest of your life I think that's really interesting I think and I converted myself from football to hockey because I was more into football as a kid but really enjoyed hockey and and noticed that I could probably push it.

Wouldn't be able to do in hockey but yeah you learn these later in life the adult thing world of course the beauty of adult thing and another subject that's come up this week that I've spotted is um I was listening to a podcast about it's called a bootstrapped founder and they interview people that um bootstrapped again boost TR is where you've self-funded something where you've not gone to get money from somebody else like a um a VC like a money or a bank.

Happen all this stuff and she was saying like it's the first time she's writing a book and she has like got an agent and she's trying to get to Publishers and she and he was asking like oh that's super interesting like why haven't you gone the bootstrapped route and she was like it's imposter syndrome I don't feel good enough so I feel like this official route kind of like avoids kind of like the impostor syndrome or like has pushed me down that.

Others like that's not a that's not the best iteration let's say you do this like book agent and a publisher and stuff um because of your imposter you feel like you shouldn't be a writer or you're not very good writer or whatever so you en list all these things now the negatives are of that is like one she's already noticed that they're trying to she wants to write a book for like all people not a specific segment and the.

Focus on like the the most authentic version because that has the most like energy and backing behind it if somebody like pivots you and changes you and you don't agree with it then you kind of like it loses the momentum and the energy so that's like one thing they change stuff that you don't really want to do and then the the second thing I noticed is like it's great that people recognize stuff right amazing that you've realized you're driven by.

The fear and do it anyway therefore right now I've noticed imposter syndrome is driving this let let's stop everything contractual like let's pull out of it let's back out you always can whether or not there's a a penalty or whatever cool right wouldn't it not be better to do that so then you can start like basically living authentically to like what you what your gut feels and kind of like help yourself internally by addressing the fact that you feel.

Like you could Veer off and then like never really meet kind of like you might miss the mark right so for example her writing the book it might miss the mark because she's diluted it and it won't have the same effect she'll get another chance and she'll do another version and that's it so like progressively yes but if you could do it now why not right if you could do it earlier why not again it comes down to courage and bravery to do.

Sort of The Bravery side I guess it's just insight as well because I guess the difficulty with that imposter syndrome is the thought that if you quit everything then you'll feel an imposter everywhere and you won't actually get that I guess second wave of clarity of oh this is the thing that I should be doing moving forward I think it's the fear that I'll be just drifting into space now with no money no opportunity because I guess that.

Treadmill that you're running if you step off it you'll get energy and actually the insight and the influence and the following your gut and learning what that is will come along but obviously it varies for people some it might be just a week off might do it others it might be six months a year two years whatever and obviously it's easier if you've got that stability or finances or negotiation with the people around you to to figure it out that if.

Right so I'm like with these examples of like the old school like book stuff yeah cool it might be that to go globally in a moment yes a publisher is going to know certain tricks and certain people already so it's going to be harder to get the same thing but that like with your own audience because she has her own audience I think she'd be able to sell a bunch of books and and kind of get a lot of profit from the first.

For people to attach themselves to the individual or the people or the team or the face post internet I think everything was more categorized so like what are you in music or film I mean music okay what music do you want I want to be pop but really you you follow the artist let's say you follow Beyonce while she's going country and western does it mean that no one's listening to her because she's gone in a different category well no.

Bringing more complex complexities in what you're buying into which is a great thing because I think people are more complex than just oh they do one track they stick in the R&B sector in music and that well actually they jump around they do film they do TV they do country and western they do this they and it's sort of you could do whatever you want and I guess this will be really interesting of how how are we going to go forward.

This very um independent singer is perfect for you and you don't know why like how would you be able to grasp that to integrate it into someone's search or provide them with that song that they're like actually this random person that has created a song in the slumps of India is the best song ever for me and it's that intricacy that I think that we could go to that would be very interesting of like with the AI integrated within searches and and that.

Because it's on the top 10 New York bestseller list but that's not necessarily always true there might be a book that never made it to there but sold loads of copies that just never made it into that list but it's still as good and I think yeah AI with the whole like Mass personalization is like a really good kind of way to if there was like less loyalties to like think of like Forbes 30 under 30 like we know.

Ways of measuring success in this like list format or like uh top 10 or whatever like removing that to have a bit more like a bit more like choice and yeah would be it would be interesting and this is it it's like relative to yourself ultimately right to myself have I been able to sell this work or do my people like it do this audience like it and then you just re like scale it like that rather than like is my conference.

Stuff that she wants to do rather than stuff that other people have told her to do probably right and I think like a really easy growth um kind of like strategy you know how people have audiences because again we're kind of like talking about leverage right if you had leverage then you wouldn't need to feel imposter syndrome because you know your audience you built your audience your audience like you if you release a book your audience are probably going to.

Of tunnels and he's digging out in front of the garage and then he's digging out to the in front of his house so he can have a car that raises up from the ground can't remember the the name of the guy he's in he's in the UK he's British guy and he's created this like second Channel which just shows similar content kind of like behind the sceny but similar content and that now has a million subscribers so I'm like.

Will also subscribe so for that one subscriber you now have like two views rather than one View and I was like where are other ways that easy growth happens like random L you know um I I've been watching Love Island right typically guys in love Island are all like shaved their chest shaved right the they're kind of like the typical guy is like buff shaved chest right and I was like oh that's really interesting so I I'm like vit is a product so you can.

Like product difference it's just the packaging is different so the packaging is like Grays and blues rather than pinks and whites and I'm like yeah they are literally just it's the same product essentially the same like cream just packaged differently and now they've opened themselves up to a massive like male proportion of the of the market that they're now getting and I'm like it's such a very like simple easy growth Stu yeah of course you're now going to.

The example that we'll show is like Spanish with my accent still so to me it actually still sounds like me speaking very like like amazing Spanish and it modifies your mouth so your mouth is moving at the same time that the Spanish is being spoken the difficulty is is sentences sentence lengths are different so there is a bit where I'm doing this because the Spanish sentence is finished but the English sentence is still going so there is that glitch but really.

The point that know exactly what Mr Beast is thinking because they've done so many videos of how he does stuff yeah he's basically just replicated himself in other languages which is just really interesting and hasn't he hasn't he used somebody Super Famous from like a is it nutaro or some sort of like anime cartoon like some Japanese anime cartoon and that that voice over is actually his voice over his versions of the of the videos which is great again like with AI.

Multilingual version like a a Spanish version a Chinese version AKA like Mandarin um because I think that's more the predominant um it's predominantly Mandarin um or like an Arabic version and like would that provide just a complete different audience same same output same effort reasonbly with AI and we now have like an audience in you know UAE or in Dubai or whatever because now we're speaking Arabic it's very very very interesting very interesting good way to end watch your space yeah well.

If it is support because you you might can't do it alone exactly watch episode 39 or 41 or whatever it was for the whole find your people it was the last episode right yeah last week's episode I can't even know I don't even know what number we're on I think I think we're on 42 are we 41 come up to 50 we'll have to do something special for 50 maybe we'll actually do another in person one that's special hour one every 50 one every 50.