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A journey worth returning to the podcast for: 2650 miles from Mexico to Canada through scorching deserts, tunnels of forests, with shaded mountain passes, and conical volcanic peaks with my partner and her two-year-old ...  Learn more about this journey at https://intentioninspired.com/pct/

A casual drink often unknowingly leads to alcohol abuse. Victor Yocco shows us how to prevent it and how to create healthy environments to break the habit. Key takeaways and further resources can be found at mattprindle.com/alcohol --- Connect with Victor Yocco: website: victoryocco.com twitter: @victoryocco email: victoryocco[at]gmail.com book: Design for the Mind --- Audio: 'Raggamuffin' Instrumental by Selah Sue

Join me as I unpack the riveting account of therapist and struggling alcoholic, Mike Pond. With the help of his partner and filmmaker Maureen Paler, they venture on a quest to find a better way of treating addiction. Key takeaways and further resources can be found at mattprindle.com/alcohol --- Resources mentioned by Mike and Maureen: Book: Wasted: An Alcoholic Therapist's Fight for Recovery in a Flawed Treatment System Documentary: Wasted (curretnly only available in the UK) Online Resource: AddictionTheNextStep.com --- Audio: 'Raggamuffin' Instrumental by Selah Sue

Tonic or a poison? A bit of understanding, appreciation, and respect can help develop a happy, healthy relationship with alcohol. Joining me is Sommelier and Mixologist Kelly Woods, owner of Gillespie’s Fine Spirits in Squamish, BC where Kelly and her partner John McLellan have been honing their passion of distilling local, awesome, booze. Kelly walks us through her distillery and offers us a taste of her life's work while educating us on the ins and outs of the craft. Key takeaways can be found at mattprindle.com/alcohol  

Meditate for 30 minutes for 30 Days? Challenge Accepted! See how this meditation challenge that has equipped me to embrace the vast richness of life in a way that cannot be described, but only experienced. In this episode, we're joined by Sunirmalya Symons, who started The Meditation Society of Australia to help others explore meditation techniques, styles and traditions without any associated obligations or hidden agendas. Through his 30+ years of experience, he helps me break down mediation in a very straightforward and exciting way. Learn more at mattprindle.com/meditate Music: 'Get Lucky' by Daft Punk (DJ Pretentious Remix)    

Meditate for 30 minutes for 30 Days? Challenge Accepted! Join me as I approach meditation with a clear and fresh understanding of practices that cultivate mindful awareness during the 30 Day Meditation Challenge. In this episode, we're joined by Martial Arts Expert, Richard Gilbert who teaches us how to move more mindfully and cultivate more awareness throughout the ups and downs of daily life. Learn more at mattprindle.com/meditate Music: 'Get Lucky' by Daft Punk (DJ Pretentious Remix)

Meditate for 30 minutes for 30 Days? Challenge Accepted! Join me as I approach meditation with a clear and fresh understanding of practices that cultivate mindful awareness during the 30 Day Meditation Challenge. Learn more at mattprindle.com/meditate In this episode, we're joined by Diana Winston who, after 30 years of mindfulness training, is now working with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center as the Director of Mindfulness Education. Her goal is to ultimately cultivate a more peacefulness compassionate society through mindfulness meditation training. In our conversation, she shares the benefits from her own experience, how meditation affects the brain, and how to further cultivate mindfulness regardless of one’s beliefs or background. Music: 'Get Lucky' by Daft Punk (DJ Pretentious Remix)

Meditate for 30 minutes for 30 Days? Challenge Accepted! Join me as I approach meditation with a clear and fresh understanding of practices that cultivate mindful awareness during the 30 Day Meditation Challenge. Learn more at mattprindle.com/meditate Ashley Dahls website: ashleydahl.com   Music: "Intro" by The XX, remixed by Go Jane Go

Living off food stamps for 30 Days - Challenge Accepted! As an impetus to better understand what others go through with a limited food budget, I accepted the challenge to live on food stamps for a month. Learn more at mattprindle.com/foodstamps  

Zero Waste for 30 Days? Challenge Accepted! Joining me is Lauren Singer, who started her company The Simply Co and authors her lifestyle blog Trash is for Tossers to help others learn how to reduce their waste. And guess what? She’s all around a pretty normal-ish person.  Learn more at http://mattprindle.com/waste Music: Muy Tranquilo by Gramatik

Zero Waste for 30 Days? Challenge Accepted! The zero waste life doesn't have to be hard. With a bit of awareness, preparation, and creativity, anyone can enjoy the bliss of a life of less waste. I'm joined by Anamarie Shreeves created Fort Negrita (fornegrita.com) who shows us that with a bit of awareness, preparation, and creativity, anyone can enjoy the bliss of a life of less waste.   Learn more at http://mattprindle.com/waste   Music: Muy Tranquilo by Gramatik

Zero Waste for 30 Days? Challenge Accepted! Here to help is Kathryn Kellog, founder of Going Zero Waste as we tackle her top 10 tips for a zero waste lifestyle.   Learn more at http://mattprindle.com/waste   Music: Muy Tranquilo by Gramatik

30 Days to Zero Waste - CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! Join me and learn how to live a life freed from the burden of more stuff and instead, use that time and money on what matters most, like meaningful relationships and experiences. A big thank you to Bea Johnson, my guest on this show, who turned this “zero waste” lifestyle practice into a worldwide movement. Music: Muy Tranquilo by Gramatik 

Join me as I tackle the ethical concern during my 30-Day Vegan Challenge to determine where to drawing the line on eating animals. 3000 animals die every second on cruel and unhealthy factory farms, which make up more than 90% of all our animal products. Ignorance is bliss and frankly I'm scared what I'm going to uncover. Learn more and join the discussion at mattprindle.com/vegan Huge thanks to following guests in this episode (in order of appearance): Casey Taft of Vegan Publishers Ben Prindle and Lindsay Seligman Steven Rinella of Meat Eater Anthony Overton Music Truth by Alexander

Dr. Garth Davis sets the record straight, dispelling the myths that have been perpetuated by doctors, weight loss experts, and the media regarding protein and a vegan diet. Learn more and join the discussion at mattprindle.com/vegan Music: "Truth" by Alexander

From the get-go of this vegan experiment, one of my biggest concerns about going vegan was that I’d be missing some key nutrients. Especially after hearing from a friend who almost died from a nutritional deficiency after going vegan. So I tracked down one of the highest recommended plant-based consultant, Matt Ruscigno. A Registered Dietitian with a Nutritional Science degree, a Public Health Nutrition masters degree, and enjoys the casual 10 hour bike rides. He’s been a vegan for over 20 years and is in ship-shape. Enjoy our conversation Get the key takeaways from this episode at www.mattprindle.com/vegan2  Music: Truth, by Alexander 

I love meat, but to better relate to the millions of vegans out there, I went vegan and captured some insightful stories along the way. Music: "Truth" by Alexander

Hi there, Matt here, and I love a good challenge. This podcast itself is the result of a challenge I gave myself to figure how I could leverage my challenges. My intention is to use this podcast as a tool for investigation and to share my findings so others could be entertained, educated, and maybe even challenged as well. The topics will variety depending on my current interests, but you can expect a wide range from health to wealth to wisdom. Whatever the topic, I’ll strive to transparently communicate my experience while diving in hands-on and reaching out to friends and experts along the way. So my first challenge for you is simple, subscribe. Join me and let’s Flipping some Chapters together - mattprindle.com/love-truth