#13 The Importance of Barefoot Shoes with Galahad Clark
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
Dr Rangan Chatterjee
4.8 • 10.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Dr Chatterjee talks to co-founder of global footwear brand, Vivobarefoot, Galahad Clark. Galahad comes from the family behind shoe-making dynasty Clarks and he explains why he set up Vivobarefoot. They discuss why it is important to allow your feet to move naturally and what impact kids shoes can have on their future health.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Dr. Rongan Chatterjee, medical doctor, author of the 4-pillar plan and BBC television presenter. |
| 0:08.0 | I believe that all of us have the ability to feel better than we currently do, but getting healthy has become far too complicated. |
| 0:16.0 | With this podcast, I aim to simplify it. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm going to be having conversations with some of the most interesting and exciting people both within, |
| 0:24.0 | as well as outside the health space to hopefully inspire you, as well as empower you with simple tips that you can put into practice immediately to transform the way that you feel. |
| 0:35.0 | I believe that when we are healthier, we are happier because when we feel better, we live more. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm very pleased to welcome onto the podcast today the founder of my favourite Footwear brand, Vivo Barefoot. |
| 0:51.0 | It's somebody who comes from a long line of coblers and actually is the seventh generation in the Clark family who are behind Clark Shoes. |
| 1:00.0 | Galahad Clark, Galahad, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:03.0 | Thanks, hi. Happy to be here. |
| 1:05.0 | Galahad, I'd love to understand from you why you set up Vivo Barefoot. What was the inspiration behind that? |
| 1:14.0 | I was never intended to go into Shoes having been more or less born in a shoe box in Somerset. |
| 1:20.0 | I ended up at University in America and to cut a long story short, because of one of my favourite music bands, |
| 1:27.0 | I ended up getting back into the shoe industry. |
| 1:29.0 | I was already making shoes when a childhood friend of mine called Tim Brennan, who was a student at the Royal College, |
| 1:37.0 | came with a pair of Nike Haraches with the sole cut off and he'd stitched a tennis racket cover on in place of the sole, |
| 1:45.0 | and said to me, look, this is the way shoes should be made. |
| 1:49.0 | And for whatever reason, I just instinctively loved the idea, less shoe, more you, |
| 1:56.0 | and then started a long journey of development to what has become Vivo Barefoot today. |
| 2:06.0 | Wow, what a story. How long ago did that happen? |
| 2:08.0 | It's where in 2018, when did that tennis racket shoe first come about? |
| 2:14.0 | It was like a sort of Indian moccasin, a big Nike shoe that had been turned into a sort of Indian moccasin, |
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