Simon Alexander Ong is a best-selling author, mindset coach, and energy strategist helping people redesign their lives from the inside out. After burning out in the finance world, Simon rebuilt his identity and purpose—and now teaches others how to create aligned, energized lives through intention, awareness, and small daily shifts.

In this episode, Simon shares his journey from rock bottom to bestselling author, how to create momentum even when you're stuck, and why the way you manage your energy is more important than time or goals. If you’re feeling lost, blocked, or unsure what’s next—this is a conversation about reclaiming your power, one breath and one decision at a time.

Expect to learn:

Why hitting rock bottom can be the greatest teacher

How journaling, mentors, and vision boards shape self-belief

The difference between paranoia and pronoia—and why it matters

The 4 dimensions of energy (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual)

How to reset your identity and take the first small step

Why creativity and self-expression are your secret power

And how to write a story you’ll be proud to tell

⏱ Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Intro: Do you feel you'd be proud of your story?

00:03:39 – Career pressure, identity, and escaping the banker box

00:07:19 – Rock bottom: when your day starts to push back

00:10:59 – Vision boards, desire, and expanding imagination

00:14:39 – Crisis, pivots, and rediscovering purpose

00:18:19 – Gratitude, alignment, and the spiritual reset

00:21:59 – Energy mindset: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual

00:25:39 – Living your truth and creative expression

00:29:18 – AI, disruption, and your unique human advantage

00:32:58 – Finding gratitude and perspective every day

00:36:38 – Redefining success and not borrowing expectations

00:40:18 – Joy, winning, and the energy of celebration

00:43:58 – Releasing attachment to outcomes

00:47:38 – Parenting, presence, and how kids teach us

00:51:18 – Creative energy, voice, and what lives beyond words

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Dr. Olivia Lesslar is a physician, researcher, and expert in psychoneuroimmunology - helping people understand how chronic stress, trauma, and environmental overwhelm affect the body at a cellular level. She’s one of the rare voices bridging medicine, mindset, and nervous system science.

In this episode, Olivia breaks down how modern life mimics ancient survival threats and why your symptoms are often protection, not dysfunction. From mitochondria to mirror neurons, quantum biology to ancestral trauma - this conversation is a deep dive into how we heal, think, and reconnect with the body’s wisdom.

Expect to learn:

What psychoneuroimmunology is—and why it’s the future of medicine

How stress lives in the body: skin, joints, hormones, and breath

Why anxiety, fatigue, and shame are often survival signals

How ancient threats like plague, exile, and famine still affect you

Why your nervous system needs coherence—not control

What slow movement, mirror work, and barefoot grounding can do

And how to move from hypervigilance to healing—without losing your edge

⏱ Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Intro: You’ve slept in a toxic bed—what else are you missing?

00:04:11 – What medicine gets wrong about chronic stress and burnout

00:08:23 – Your brain, your eyes, your environment—rewiring happens fast

00:12:35 – Nervous system healing vs just managing symptoms

00:16:46 – How trauma hides in layers—and what to do about it

00:20:58 – The 9 survival threats and how your body still reacts

00:25:10 – Why shame, anxiety, and behavior are biology—not character flaws

00:29:21 – Skin, intuition, and decoding physical signs of trauma

00:33:33 – How ancestral famine and plague live in your stress patterns

00:37:45 – Why the body protects with symptoms—not to sabotage you

00:41:56 – Teaching emotional safety: language, posture, and space

00:46:08 – Free energy, mitochondria, and how cells sense safety

00:50:20 – Why you are apex—and what that means for healing

00:54:32 – Deep work, awareness, and releasing protection patterns

00:58:43 – Screens, survival mode, and why your phone is a stressor

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🎙 Hosted by Julian Issa

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Stig Severinsen is a four-time freediving world champion, PhD in medicine, and the founder of Breatheology, a science-backed method for mastering your breath to control stress, boost performance, and transform your health.

In this episode, Stig sits down with me to share how breathwork can reset your nervous system, sharpen your focus, and unlock a sense of calm in any situation. From overcoming childhood asthma to swimming under ice for over 500 feet, Stig reveals how learning to breathe differently changed his life, and how it can change yours too.

Expect to learn:

Why how you breathe is how you feel—and how to rewire both

The science behind slow exhales, nitric oxide, and emotional control

How breath influences your sleep, focus, mood, and resilience

The 4 phases of conscious breathing—and how to train them

Why we’re overbreathing and underliving in modern life

How to use your breath as a built-in reset for daily stress

And why breathwork belongs in every school, clinic, and home

⏱ Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Intro: Training the Royal Air Force and Navy SEALs

00:03:30 – Childhood fears, adventure stories, and why breath is primal

00:07:00 – How dinosaurs, diving, and asthma shaped Stig’s mission

00:10:30 – Learning to breathe differently: the shift that changed everything

00:14:00 – Breath rituals, gratitude, and daily nervous system resets

00:17:31 – Coaching young people: courage, calm, and confidence

00:21:01 – Nitric oxide, nasal breathing, and your body’s natural filters

00:24:31 – The 4 phases of breath and how to master them

00:28:01 – Breath and charisma: how calm shapes relationships

00:31:31 – Athletic performance and delaying fatigue through breathing

00:35:02 – Using tools and tech to track your breathing

00:38:32 – Breathwork in schools: mental health and emotional safety

00:42:02 – Mirroring, emotion, and the unseen power of breath

00:45:32 – Why modern life is disconnecting us from our lungs

00:49:02 – Final reflection: one breath at a time, one life changed

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🎙 Hosted by Julian Issa

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