A Life of Education

Lee Grantham is a Top Six Team GB Ultra Marathon Runner based between Chang Mai and Spain, he joined Caroline and Keith while in the UAE running the Abu Dhabi Marathon as training run. 🎧 Lee delves into the psychology of an elite runner and delves into the pressures on athletes to win at all costs and sheds light on different perspectives as to why athletes might cheat. 🎧 We hope you enjoy!

Warrick Mac Nicol is an adventurer and 70.3 Iron Man World Championship Competitor. He is an all round great example of enjoying life and focusing on improving the mind and the body will follow. 🎧 In this episode of the podcast he talks with Caroline and Keith about some of his adventures in South Africa, the Middle East and the contrast between his good day in Iron Man competition and a bad day and how to pick yourself up after the bad day and continue. 🎧 We hope you enjoy!

Ever heard of rolfing and wondered what it is and what . it's good for? In this episode of the A Life Of Education Podcast Liz Terry tell Caroline and Keith everything they need to know about rolfing and about the systematic application of its principles. We hope you enjoy!

Nabil Habbouche runs Adventure Quest and works closely with Gulf for Good, a registered charity organisation based in Dubai that organises outdoor activities and adventure trips to raise money to support local charities around the world. Nabil also organises trips and adventures in Dubai that combine outdoor activities, connecting with nature combined with bringing families together in the great outdoors and educating them not just about the scenery but also about the history of the area, the rock formations, plants, animals and local populations. We hope you enjoy!

Helen Farmer joins Caroline and Keith for the return of A Life Of Education's podcast with a conversation about her journey as a mum, a Radio Station DJ, losing 30kg in a year and trying not to get bored in the gym nowadays. The guys also discuss the promise they each made live on air on Helen's afternoon show Dubai Eye, to climb to Everest Base Camp to raise money for Gulf for Good. We hope you enjoy.

Petrina Barber is a cervical cancer survivor who was diagnosed when her son was four months old. She also went through multiple rounds of chemotherapy and radiation which helped her to beat the cancer, but the side effects left her organs heavily scarred making eating almost impossible. In this episode of the podcast Petrina discusses her journey, the strain she felt it put on her family and her struggle to come alive again physically, mentally and emotionally and offers her advise to...

Matt Cotterill is a student, a lecturer, a tutor, a personal trainer and a managing partner of his own coaching company, The Physical Training Company. In this episode of the podcast, Matt discusses his Masters in Psychology and some ideas from histories finest philosophers. Join Matt, Caroline and Keith for a fun and interesting chat on the interconnection between action and pleasure and how the choice to challenge ourselves can be a very rewarding endeavour.

Dina Ghandour and Jane Rushworth are from Little Feather Collective, a group of licensed Doulas here in Dubai that help families throughout pregnancies and post birth by offering support and education on sleep, feeding, loss multiples and much more. Caroline and Keith talked babies, birth and what exactly Doulas do, and that's to make sure that parents and parents to be are informed of all of their options when considering how to birth their new born and the experience is as harmonious and...

#45 is a catch up with Andrew Hallam, author of the Best Selling Book Millionaire Expat & Millionaire Teacher. Caroline & Keith met with Andrew for the second podcast during his recent time in the UAE delivering talks on the psychology behind being a good investor. Following their original conversation in episode #24, Andrew delves into comparisons between investing in property and investing in low cost index funds and discusses this concept of a successful investor's psychology on this...

#44 is with David Johnson, a Sports Therapist, Doctor of Osteopathy and a Strength and Conditioning Coach. An educator and experienced practitioner, he spends his time primarily in his clinic with patients recovering from injuries and post surgery. In this episode of the podcast David, Caroline and Keith discuss some thought processes surrounding when surgery is necessary or unnecessary from both a medical and ethical standpoint and also how patient’s experience throughout the process can...

#43: Cloe Sommadossi is a 20 year veteran in the pilates industry and has just opened her second pilates studio in the last four years with the Pilates Academy in Dubai. In this episode of the podcast Cloe describes the challenges she faced when making the jump from pilates teacher, the lessons she learned along the way, sometimes the hard way and she shares her knowledge and expertise for those people thinking about one day owning a s Pilates studio of their own.

#42: Steve Cronin is the owner and director of Om Life, a physiological bio-testing company based in Dubai that do hyperbaric oxygen therapy, altitude chamber training, VO2 max testing and many more advanced physiological training and assessments. In this episode of the podcast Steve discusses the truth behind staying hydrated and when people need to really consider their hydration and take action to stay healthy. He also takes Caroline through her a sweat and electrolyte hydration test of...

#41: Lee Grantham is a professional marathon and ultra marathon runner for Great Britain and England. With some of the fastest times in the world over 42k and 100k in 2017 Lee Grantham is currently eyeing up the 100k World Championships title in 2018. Lee's mission is to not only become World Champion and break the 100k world record, but also to bring character and charisma to the world of endurance sports. He spends his time training between Chiang Mai, Thailand and Granada, Spain and is...

#40: Cloe made the leap from her corporate job as a food engineer to follow her passion of pilates and left the security of her well paying salary to set up her own Pilates studio. In this episode of the podcast Cloe explains her inspirational story and talks about her dream of owning a Pilates studio and how her mindset and her belief in creating the future she wanted motivated her to the position of owning and running two successful studios in Dubai. We hope you enjoy.

#39: Tom Waldron is a Biomechanics Master Trainer & Franklin Method Practitioner. Tom discusses how our body is represented in the brain with brain maps in the homunculus and many principles of the Franklin Method. He also discusses some ideas and myths that he sees circulating the health and fitness industry surrounding the knees, sitting, posture and movement. We hope you enjoy.

#38: Dr. Jacob Harden is a Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine and movement and mobility specialist. He owns and operates his own sports medicine clinic out of Orlando, Florida and travels the world teaching his movement and rehabilitation system via his Prehab 101 seminars. Dr. Jacob joins Caroline and Keith for thoroughly enjoyable conversation on injury prevention and rehabilitation. He is enormously popular on social media regularly posting some of the highest level informative content on...

#37: Anja Taljaard is biokineticist and Iron Man competitor from South Africa. In her impressive career she has worked training patients undergoing chemotherapy and recovering from beating many different types of cancer. She also works week in week out as an injury rehabilitation expert helping post operative hip, knee and ankle reconstruction patients as well as lot of work with pre and post natal clients. In this episode of the podcast Anja delves into her experience training those...

#36: Dan Lawrence owns and runs Perform365, a freelance elite level strength and conditioning coaching provider based in London, UK. Dan works primarily in the sport he is passionate about, boxing. He is Head of Performance at Matchroom boxing Gym where he trains some of the best young up and coming fighters. We caught up with Dan when he was on a recent vacation and got to pick his brain on how to best compliment boxing preparation with research based strength and conditioning best...

#35: Marianne Tafani is the creator of a pre and post natal pilates course and one of the educators at Pilates Academy. From Marianne's difficult experience with her first birth, she created this course to give pilates teachers more knowledge and confidence in helping clients through pre and post natal pilates routines. Mariane joins Caroline and Keith to discuss her experience and offers advise surrounding how to have a more comfortable birth and how to exercise post births that have both...

#34: Sebastien Aguile founded SimplyFI.org in 2015, a non-profit community of volunteers that empower each other to invest in a simple way to achieve financial independence. Sebastien went from being broke to being financially Independent within seven years. He joins Caroline and Keith to discuss the bigger picture with financial freedom and the question, how can somebody do the most good for the world, in the most effective way that still aligns with their values and passion? We hope you...