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242: Ra Optics, The Light Diet, Avoid EMF, and Have Faith

Scott Mulvaney — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 17:00:00 +0000

Today’s New Guest Co-Host Discusses Healthy Lifestyle, Ra The Sun God, Blue Blocker Glasses, The Light Diet, Avoiding EMF, and Reminds Us To Have Faith:

“Matt Maruca is a student, entrepreneur, and teacher of optimal human health, and the Founder of Ra Optics, his first company to share information and create products that teach people to build health in the modern world. Ra Optics is focused specifically on Blue Light Blocking Glasses to protect our sleep/wake cycle, melatonin, repair quality, mitochondria, energy levels, and health from toxic artificial lighting. He travels and has met with some of the leading researchers of quantum biology. He is 19 years old.”

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”02:00″] How Matt and Scott met and Ra the Sun God, and the old cartoon ThunderCats.
[spp-timestamp time=”05:00″] Financial freedom and stability. Finding neurosurgeon, Dr. Jack Kruse at 19 years of age.
[spp-timestamp time=”07:00″] It became so obvious after reading a few Silicon Valley books, going back to the entrepreneurship, like a Lean Startup by Eric Ries. The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. How do I run my own business from anywhere in the world?
[spp-timestamp time=”15:00″] Fabrication and taco’s inspired entrepreneurship.
[spp-timestamp time=”17:00″] Plastics, polymers, anti-glare, anti-reflective coating. Making Blue Blocker glasses.
[spp-timestamp time=”25:00″] How Matt learned about the Egyptian Sun God Ra through Jack Kruse. Proper sun exposure, becoming supercharged, and digging into understanding natural light vs artificial light.
[spp-timestamp time=”29:00″] Understanding natural light’s impact on our eye health, melatonin, healthy sleep, and more. Plus Matt digs into his past health issues as a youth, including gas, bloating, headaches, hormones, and more.
[spp-timestamp time=”33:00″] Relating firefighting, inversions in the atmosphere, and temperature shifts to inflammation in the human body.
[spp-timestamp time=”40:00″] It always seems to go back from the macro levels to the micro level. The whole story comes together when I was trying to use diet to fix issues in my health, which is really relating to our fundamental mitochondrial.
[spp-timestamp time=”44:00″] I basically tell people is imagine that you took your car and you open up the hood and you pour tar all over the engine.
[spp-timestamp time=”54:00″] In the world of the gadgets and all these things, and I didn’t know that I didn’t realize just how big of a deal that is. But now seeing my little brother and his friends, and how much time they spend on their devices, and all my adult friends too. [spp-timestamp time=”59:00″] The Romans knew about sun and health. They had solariums where they could sun themselves and built their houses open to the sky. Likewise, this was common for a long time architecture to lead in more natural lighting. Eventually, with the advent of artificial lighting, people believe that it had the same impact as far as our bodies because they didn’t know about the health impacts they just thought lighting was lighting.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:19:00″] Once I started loading up on seafood, good quality spring water, and morning sun exposure, I was able to start absorbing more sunlight in tanning and getting a really nice color of my skin. So we can change our biology anyway. Avoid manmade EMF. So basically avoid manmade EMF.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:38:00″] Final Words

Quote: “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable” – Seneca

[spp-tweet tweet=”The power of the sun, the dangers of artificial light, blue blockers, and more! @livethefuel “]

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Final Words:

From Seneca, the old stoic philosopher, he said, if one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind can be favorable. In other words, find where you are at least directionally want to go. If you want to go to Africa, Asia, Europe, Antarctica, then you at least have a general destination. The more specific we can kind of tailor what we want, the more likely we’re going to end up closer.

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235: No Alcohol Entrepreneurs, Contentment, and Blue Blockers

Scott Mulvaney — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 17:00:00 +0000

Do you live with Contentment? Have you consider quitting alcohol to crush your success?! We catch up with James Swanwick of Swanwick Sleep and his amazing Blue Blocker Glasses!

James Swanwick is an Australian-American investor, entrepreneur, speaker, former SportsCenter anchor on ESPN and host of The James Swanwick Show podcast. He is the CEO of Swanwick Sleep and creator of blue-light blocking glasses (blue blockers) Swannies, which helps people sleep better; and the author of The 30 Day No Alcohol Challenge, which helps people reduce or quit alcohol. Forbes listed James as one of 25 Professional Networking Experts to Watch in 2015. Swanwick has interviewed celebrities including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”29:30″] If you are operating at a nine out of 10, and a nine out of 10 means clarity, focus, energy, drive, productivity, happiness, all the studies show that happy people are wealthier, healthier people that tend to be happier and have good habits. Okay, if you just go from a seven to a nine, chances are, you are going to go from 50 grand to something approaching 100 grand, at least now you’re in a job, and you’re phoning it in, and your bosses like, Imagine if you’re nine out of 10, and all of a sudden, you come in, you go, Hey, I got this great idea for this thing. Let’s do this. Well, you start selling more, or you start going the extra mile, your chances of getting up promotion increase exponentially. which results in could be $10,000 more, $25,000 more. Maybe you all of a sudden go I’m too big for this damn company. I’m so damn good. I’m going to put myself on the market. And then another company comes in and hires you and offers you 120,000.
[spp-timestamp time=”32:54″] I’m an entrepreneur, you’re an entrepreneur, and especially with entrepreneurs who have the ability to go out and just create their own universe, you know, I mean, everyone can, but I like talking to entrepreneurs. There’s a there’s a guy called Kevin who is in my program I have called Project 90 and Project 90 is essentially, coaches, entrepreneurs who drink into quitting alcohol for at least 90 days. So they can see the huge benefits that they can get from that.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:00:00″] Final Words

[spp-tweet tweet=”Go No Alcohol with Project 90 for Entrepreneurial Success! @JamesSwanwick “]

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Dr. Jack Kruse

Final Words:

Besides, obviously, Project 90, sleeping better, and just don’t drink as much as alcohol or quit alcohol all together? You do those two things, and everything else is cream cheese.

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158: Vulnerable Strength, Blue Blockers, and the No Alcohol Challenge

Scott Mulvaney — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:00:00 +0000

Swanwick Sleep and Swannies Blue Blockers Founder:

James Swanwick is an Australian-American investor, entrepreneur, speaker, former SportsCenter anchor on ESPN and host of The James Swanwick Show podcast. He is the CEO of Swanwick Sleep and creator of blue-light blocking glasses (blue blockers) Swannies, which helps people sleep better; and the author of The 30 Day No Alcohol Challenge, which helps people reduce or quit alcohol. Forbes listed James as one of 25 Professional Networking Experts to Watch in 2015. Swanwick has interviewed celebrities including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”02:33″] Celebrate competitors and the competition that breeds better entrepreneurial success.
[spp-timestamp time=”04:01″] Dave Asprey, his own blue blocking glasses, his instrumental movement three to four years ago to put butter in your coffee.
[spp-timestamp time=”06:38″] Let me tell you, kids are actually the most susceptible to the dangers of blue light. As we age, our eyes actually develop more of a barrier to blue light. When we’re very young, our eyes haven’t developed as much. That blue light that has been emitted from an iPad or TV screen or cell phone is literally hitting their eyes. We don’t know exactly what damage it’s doing.
[spp-timestamp time=”10:17″] Even if you got seven or eight hours of sleep, your sleep quality was compromised from blue light. I have not actually limited my screen time, my screen use if anything has increased. However, I protect my eyes with these glasses while I’m using it. I got to tell you, Scott, I sleep flawlessly. I mean for a 42-year-old man, I’m sleeping as good as I’m sure 40 something man can sleep.
[spp-timestamp time=”11:45″] Geeking out on Dr. Jack Kruse.
[spp-timestamp time=”14:30″] Ten, twenty, or thirty years from now, we are going to look back to this time and realize that putting a phone to our ear and using WiFi was actually just disintegrating our brain and messing with our neurology. All of this causing irreparable damage, just like when people first smoked cigarettes, they didn’t really realize it was it was bad for your health.
[spp-timestamp time=”17:00″] I’ve had people challenge me a lot. In fact, my voice is busted at the moment, you can probably hear it’s a little bit creaky. I’ve been at a self-development seminar for five days, where they broke me down and made me cry in front of 50 people.
[spp-timestamp time=”21:28″] One thing that I’ve been able to grow with, this is not self-promotion, is this level of vulnerability that we reach as a man. This is not to take anything away from the ladies. We as men are afraid to show that softer side or that vulnerable side.
[spp-timestamp time=”25:45″] I would imagine them saying just stop being a pussy, dude. I gotta say, I don’t want to say I’m drinking the Kool-Aid, but I will say that I am certainly embracing going deep, getting triggered, and bringing up some nasty, awkward stuff for the sole purpose of growth. So far, it’s working. It’s not pretty. It’s messy. But I have to say that it’s working.
[spp-timestamp time=”30:27″] Our job description in relationships has changed. It used to be, go out, hunt, kill, and provide, Be tough, deal with the stuff and take care of business. They’re demanding more of us and that more is vulnerability and emotions. It’s challenging and it’s messy sometimes.
[spp-timestamp time=”36:06″] If we’re not getting out of our comfort zones, if we’re not challenging ourselves, if we’re not taking risks and risking failure, we’re not learning. We’re not gaining either, you’re just paused.

[spp-tweet tweet=”Just Do It and Do It Now! @JamesSwanwick “]

[spp-timestamp time=”42:30″] I think we’re reaching new levels of growth and that’s actually more exciting. Be a little selfish about that. What if you grow and you attract even more success because you stop being a douche bag and you treat people like you want to be treated?
[spp-timestamp time=”52:40″] No alcohol challenge. I looked in the mirror and I was a weathered man, I had wrinkles. I’d put on about 25 pounds in the course of a year, which isn’t a huge amount, but it’s, it’s noticeable. I had little fat rolls, kind of like hanging over my little inflammatory storage.
[spp-timestamp time=”54:45″] I don’t think you can necessarily get better looking. It’s just that your body can finally unleash your true self. You look the way nature intended you to look.
[spp-timestamp time=”57:14″] I have this program called 30 days, no alcohol challenge. I don’t tell people to quit drinking. I just encourage people to quit drinking for 30 days. I put about almost 10,000 people through this. Now, in three years, since I’ve had this program, most people at the end of 30 days do go back to drinking. However, they go back at a far reduced rate than before. So they’re now no longer relying on alcohol to relieve stress. They no longer are relying on alcohol to social and realize they now have a better relationship with alcohol.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:02:08″] Alcohol affects you all over and shows up in your skin, it dehydrates your body’s biggest organ, which is your skin. All of these women and men around the world are spending all of this money on moisturizers, face anti-aging, all that stuff. If you want to reduce wrinkles and reduce the site visible signs of aging, quit drinking. It’s so simple, just drink a bunch of water.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:10:47″] Are you getting into fights or not saving money to invest. There are all of these little things, incremental things. It’s not that alcohol is the devil but if it’s slowing you down just a little bit, explore that.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:19:20″] Final Words

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Final Words:

Just Do It… and… Do It Now!

Just do it: despite fear and despite challenges.

Do it now: not tomorrow, or the next day, do it now.

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145: Eye Love Cares, Coffee, and Blue Light with Travis Zigler

Scott Mulvaney — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:00:00 +0000

Coffee Lovers, Blue Light Blockers and the Eye Love Cares Foundation With Travis Zigler:

Dr. Travis Zigler graduated in 2010 from The Ohio State University College of Optometry with Magna Cum Laude honors. He is the founder of Eye Love, whose mission is to end preventable blindness. Dr. Travis and his wife, Dr. Jenna Zigler, use the profits from Eye Love to fund free and low-cost clinics in Jamaica. They also started a charity called the Eye Love Cares Foundation, which provides exams, glasses and sunglasses for those in need, free education, and scholarships for students that align with their mission. Dr. Travis enjoys traveling to Jamaica, training for marathons, and playing the ukulele while he drinks his morning coffee (French press… mmmm). Let’s not forget their blue light blocker glasses!

Eye Love’s long-term mission and vision:

A portion of profits from Eye Love sales is donated to the Eye Love Cares Foundation and funds are then used to provide glasses, sunglasses, and eye exams for those who cannot afford to obtain proper eye care. In the future, the Foundation will be used to fund permanent free and low-cost clinics in both the US and Jamaica, and it is our goal to also provide optometry scholarships for students who have an interest in eyecare mission work.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”07:50″] Free blood testing thanks to donating blood regularly.
[spp-timestamp time=”09:00″] Prosthetic eyes made of hydroxyapatite.
[spp-timestamp time=”10:10″] Say no to Visine, stop shrinking your blood vessels, use quality eye drops until you can find the root cause of your dry eye syndrome.

[spp-timestamp time=”12:30″] Dry Eye is an inflammation symptom to a broader concern going on in the body.
[spp-timestamp time=”14:45″] Western Medicine is only 100-200 years old. Whereas Eastern Medicine is thousands of years old. Eastern Medicine is about finding the root cause of the problem and addressing that. Western Medicine is more about finding a way to fix a symptom with medication which causes even more side effects.
[spp-timestamp time=”17:45″] Cellular Cleansing. What is really breakfast? Learning about “Breaking Your Fasted State” after waking.
[spp-timestamp time=”21:40″] The USA is not setting a great example on health to the rest of the world.
[spp-timestamp time=”22:40″] Obesity can definitely be tied to education and income here in the USA.
[spp-timestamp time=”24:30″] In Travis’ book, he states, it is not up to your doctor to HEAL your dry eye. It is up to you and you alone.
[spp-timestamp time=”30:00″] Geeking out on our mutual love for the french press, coffee, and more.
[spp-timestamp time=”32:00″] Fatty Coffee with Kerrygold Butter, Coconut Oil, etc. No Sugar!
[spp-timestamp time=”34:45″] Plugging local passion from Kayla Sampson and her South Carolina based coffee biz, Palmetto State of Mind.
[spp-timestamp time=”36:00″] Differentiating the Eye Love brands.
[spp-timestamp time=”39:10″] People can’t drive, they can’t get to the bigger cities.
[spp-timestamp time=”41:00″] Make as much money as you can, so you can give back once you’re comfortable to do so.
[spp-timestamp time=”44:35″] Building MASH style, one week, eye clinics in Jamaica and turning them into a more sustainable model.
[spp-timestamp time=”45:20″] Solving preventable blindness.

A Quote from Travis’ Mentor:

A man with definiteness of purpose goes through life and watches how the world steps aside and then even comes beside and helps him with his aims.

[spp-timestamp time=”48:50″] The nationwide program for infants under 12 months, check out the Infantsee Exam.
[spp-timestamp time=”52:00″] Travis’ glasses, introducing Blue Blocker glasses for during the day. Launching 30% blue blockers plus photochromic when you go outside!
[spp-timestamp time=”53:35″] The HOT and SEXY reason for Blue Blocking for Blue Light.
[spp-timestamp time=”54:00″] Naturally increasing melatonin production which helps you enter REM sleep.
[spp-timestamp time=”55:10″] Connecting our Blue Light discussion back to our Episode 51 with the famous Dr. Jack Kruse.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:00:10″] Exposure to Blue Light increases your risk for Macular Degeneration.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:06:30″] The Dry Eye Syndrome Support Community on Facebook which includes Facebook LIVE interactions.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:15:10″] Final Words

Travis’s favorite quote:

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Gandhi

[spp-tweet tweet=”Quoted with #TravisZigler Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. #Gandhi @LIVETHEFUEL “]

Links and Resources:

New Blue Blockers Now On Amazon – Eye Love’s New Blue Blockers!

People Mentioned:

Eye Love Blue Blockers

Final Words:

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Gandhi

This quote all encompasses everything you need to do in your life. Every day is a blessing and a gift. You never know if you are going to be here tomorrow. Live like it’s your last one… go spend time with your loved ones. Travis reads every day and summarizes what he reads every single day.

This quote from Gandhi has been his lifelong favorite quote since he was 17 years old, and he still follows it today.

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