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Superhero Podcast 15: Inka Immonen: Meditation and Priming For Less Pain And More Daily Clarity

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Inka Immonen is an expert in meditation and mindfulness. She is a friend and colleague I’ve often had deep discussions with about the science of meditation, our practices, hardships and discoveries - I’ve learned immensely from our discussions. 


That’s why this talk became such a treasure trove of information: Inka combines her personal transformation story of conquering severe migraine pain through meditation with her impressive knowledge of the science of meditation, her studies in psychology, as well as her experience of passing her knowledge on as a yoga teacher.

We talk about

- Inka’s path into meditation

- How Inka has used meditation to conquer migraine pain

- The scientifically backed benefits of meditation

- The hardships and small victories of starting and keeping up a meditation practice

- How Inka and Simo use meditation and mindfulness techniques in daily life

- How life feels different after taking up meditation

- The three areas and styles of meditation that anyone can use

- What is morning priming and what benefits does it bring?

- Inka’s Morning Priming audio you can do right now to experience the numerous benefits yourself

Ready try Morning Priming yourself and find out what it’s all about? Learn more and experience priming yourself on the Ambronite Morning Priming Page where you will also find the full audio by Inka Immonen.

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Superhero Podcast 14: Annastiina Hintsa: How to Unlock Meaning in Life, Overcome Burnout and Reach Sustainable High Performance

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In this episode, I talk to Annastiina Hintsa, COO of Hintsa Performance.

After working in top management consulting and experiencing burnout, she was faced with profound questions about balance and meaning. She found answers in a transformation that involved running 250 km (155 miles) ultra races in places like the Gobi Desert and Antarctica, and joined Hintsa Performance as an entrepreneur, helping people unlock a life of meaning and sustainable high performance.

The holistic Hintsa coaching method has been used by Fortune 500 executives and world-class athletes like F1 Champions Fernando Alonso and Mika Häkkinen.

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Superhero Podcast 13: Dr. Ali Binazir, Engineering Happiness, Stopping Cravings and Rewriting Habits

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In this episode, I talk to (and do a live hypnosis experiment with) Dr Ali Binazir

Trained as a physician, business consultant, and behavioral change therapist, Dr. Ali is what he calls a Happiness Engineer - an expert in helping people change their behavior for more health, happiness, and fulfillment in life. 

During the episode, I become the guinea pig in a live experiment with hypnosis. 

Dr. Ali is a licensed hypnotherapist and knows how to use hypnosis to help people stop cravings, addictions and other unhealthy habits, including fast food, sugar, chocolate, cigarettes and procrastination. Can a hypnotic induction with Dr. Ali reprogram my brain and stop my cravings for crappy hamburgers - one of my long time guilty pleasures?

In today’s episode of the Superhero Podcast with Simo T. Suoheimo: 

  • How to design your life around happiness and meaning instead of money or power
  • How to stop cravings for sugar, junk food, or any other food
  • The lessons from the five areas that constitute a happy life and how to how to apply them in your life right now
  • How to solve the conflict between career and relationships
  • How to overwrite old habits and how to program new ones

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Superhero Podcast 12: Kiki Bosch, Coach and Ice Water Freediver

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Kiki Bosch is a true badass. She is an Ice Water Freediver and coach who helps people create positive transformations using uncommon methods. After experiencing a transformation herself, she is helping people break through barriers and overcome trauma. 

When it comes to harnessing and mastering the element of cold, Kiki is not only a world-class athlete but an expert in pushing the boundaries of what is humanly possible. It’s only fitting that she is also a practitioner of breathwork and a Wim Hof Method instructor.

We cover many topics, including

  • Kiki’s transformation journey 
  • Turning an experience of sexual abuse into an uncommon superpower of helping others conquer trauma
  • Surviving a near death experience
  • Disturbing the Comfort and Comforting the Disturbed 
  • Psychology and benefits of cold exposure that anyone can use to upgrade mind and body 
  • Food and nutrition strategies for breaking world records in diving in icy waters
  • How cold, breathing, mind, nutrition, and movement can be used together effectively
  • Record-breaking freediving in extreme conditions under the ice 
  • How cold exposure can help people transform and overcome trauma 

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Superhero Podcast E11: Moments of Fear & Lessons from a High Altitude Mountain Expedition

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What does it feel like to push through fear, ice and high altitude towards a long time goal on a mountaineering mission? Simo Suoheimo shares his experience from Tian Shan

We turn the tables around in this episode. My cofounder and dear friend Mikko Ikola interviews me about my high altitude mountain expedition in Kazakhstan.

We talk about

  • Why go on an expedition to climb a 6150m (18,000+ feet) mountain
  • What Simo learned in one of the harshest high altitude regions in the world
  • The nature of long mountain expeditions
  • Central Asia (over 18 000 feet)
  • The most dangerous and frightening moments and how I survived them
  • What I learned on this expedition
  • Lessons about human endurance and adaptability
  • Training for alpinism and mountaineering
  • Physical and mental preparation for mountain climbing adventures
  • Food and nutrition for rock climbing adventures
  • Psychology of pushing beyond boundaries

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Superhero Podcast #10 Zsombor Deak, Pro Ironman - Mastering Triathlon, Endurance and Life

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Welcome to another episode of Superhero Podcast! 

I’m Simo Suoheimo. In my podcast, I talk to world class top performers, experts and influencers and distill their secrets, tactics, tools and strategies for you to use, so you can kick more ass, crush your goals, and become unstoppable.


In this thrilling episode, I talk to Zsombor Deak, a professional long distance triathlete who has taken the world of triathlon by storm. The race that changed everything was the 70.3 Ironman Taiwan 2013 where he finished 4th, launching him to international fame.

Zsombor is a multiple top 5 World Cup finisher and multiple National Champion. Zsombor Deak is originally from Transylvania Romania and started his professional career in 2013 after moving to Australia. 

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Superhero Podcast #9 [Video]: Olympic Athlete, Hockey Player Minttu Tuominen talks food, exercise and the psychology of winning

Superhero Podcast #9: Hockey Champion & Olympic Athlete Minttu Tuominen

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In this episode Simo talks to Olympic Athlete and hockey player Minttu Tuominen. We talk about winning championships, training, recovery, food, the psychology of winning athletes, and the road to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

How does Minttu eat, train, recover and maintain consistent performance before and after critical games? Minttu shares some of her personal routines, tips and tactics that make her a successful athlete, stay focused under pressure, and are highly useful to anyone reaching for peak performance in sports, work and everyday life.

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Podcast #8: Improving Health, Thinking and Performance through the Air We Breathe with Aki Soudunsaari, CEO of NAAVA

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The air we breathe at home and in the office impacts our health, thinking, creativity, decision making and happiness.

In most large cities, indoor air quality is destroying health and making people less productive, but there are simple steps anyone can take to improve air quality today.

In this episode, I talk to Aki Soudunsaari, CEO of NAAVA smart green walls, about what they have learned about improving and “naturalizing” offices and homes around the world, and what actions to take.We talk about- How Aki’s personal struggles lead him to find solutions and create a novel science based solution for improving air quality- Why the air we breathe affects are health, performance, decision making and happiness- Problems and risks arising from poor air quality, from brain fog to asthma- Why millions of offices are suffering from poor air quality- What are the leading causes for poor indoor air and how to eliminate them- What steps anyone can take today to hack their home and office air for better health.

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Superhero Podcast #7: Performance Optimizing Foods, Fats, Probiotics and More with LA Lakers’ Doctor Cate Shanahan, M.D.

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In this exciting episode, I talk with Doctor Cate Shanahan, nutritional doctor of some of the toughest athletes in the world, Kobe Bryant and the LA Lakers, and the author of Deep Nutrition, talks about the optimal human diet for thriving based on evidence from around the world, working with top athletes. 

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Superhero Podcast #6: Nootropics, Cognitive Enhancement and Food Biohacks with Ryan Munsey

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Do you know how your daily habits, food and supplements affect your cognitive performance, learning, motivation and memory?

In this insightful and practical talk with Ryan Munsey we explore nootropics, cognitive enhancement and biohacking.

You will learn what people often get wrong about nootropics, the steps for cognitive enhancement for beginners and vital tests that even most advanced biohackers miss, and what steps anyone can take to get quantifiable results and avoid the pitfalls while optimizing their cognitive performance.

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