212: James Colquhoun - Food Matters • Building A Thriving Online Community • Transformation Starts In The Mind
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
James Colquhoun, filmmaker of Food Matters and Hungry For Change and founder of FMTV. Along with his wife Laurentine, James founded Food Matters, giving people the tools (films, books, website, TV) to take charge of their own health.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Going from working at sea to building a huge health brand
- His father's health crisis and transformation
- Sharing health information with family members
- The birth of Food Matters
- How to connect with health experts, early on
- All health transformation starts in the mind
- Divorcing yourself from nutritional dogma
- How to remain a critical thinker, in the health world
- Raising a child on a healthy diet
- Building a thriving online community
- Changing the world through how we approach the next generation of children
- A new era... a freedom of cinema
- The trojan horse in our living rooms
- We actually live in a very peaceful time
- What are you feeding your mind?
- James' meditation practice
- Bringing meditation into day to day activities
- Spending time in the now makes you happier
- Drink more water/form a hydration ritual
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Related links:
Follow Food Matters on Facebook and Instagram
Hungry for Change (documentary)
Listen to Dan Buettner previously on TUHP (episode #170)
Listen to David Wolfe previously on TUHP (episode #14)
Listen to Dr. Bruce Lipton previously on TUHP (episode #142)
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| 0:00.0 | if they do want certain things that are not that healthy, |
| 0:04.4 | don't make a big deal out of it. |
| 0:05.9 | Don't belittle the child, don't make it seem bad, |
| 0:08.9 | and just educate. Hello and |
| 0:17.0 | welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode 212. |
| 0:20.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:22.0 | and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:26.0 | This week our featured guest is James Calhoun. He's a filmmaker of Food Matters and Hungry for Change and he's the founder of FM TV. |
| 0:34.3 | Along with his wife Laurentine, James founded Food Matters, giving people the tools to take |
| 0:39.0 | charge of their own health. |
| 0:40.7 | I hope you guys have had the chance to see Food Matters, a documentary that came |
| 0:44.0 | out many years ago, and it was so good. I can't believe how long it's been. And it's one of those |
| 0:49.2 | films that still holds true. And what I love about the Food Matters brand |
| 0:53.6 | is that it's grown into something so much more |
| 0:55.7 | than just a documentary. |
| 0:57.2 | And I've loved seeing the brand grow over the years. |
| 0:59.5 | And it's something that Jesse and I aspire |
| 1:01.2 | to have the Ultimate Health Podcast become this umbrella brand that has so many |
| 1:06.0 | different resources. |
| 1:07.4 | So loved hearing about the backstory of food matters and so many other good details. So here's what we talked about with James. We talked about how to connect with other health |
| 1:16.3 | experts, how transformation starts in the mind, and James shares a wonderful story about his father, |
| 1:22.0 | remaining a critical thinker in the health world, |
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