309: The Minimalist Approach to Health, Fitness, Longevity, and Spirituality | Light Watkins

The Genius Life

Max Lugavere

Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Light Watkins is a long-time meditation teacher and thought leader who has spoken and consulted at Fortune 500 companies around the world on the topics of wellness, purpose, and enlightened leadership. He is a best-selling author and host of the podcast The Light Watkins Show. His latest book, Travel Light: Spiritual Minimalism to Live a More Fulfilled Life, is out now.

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0:00.0	What up friends, welcome to episode 309 of the Genius Life. Let's go.
0:17.2	What's going on everybody, welcome back to another episode of The Show. I'm your host Max Lugovier,
0:21.6	a filmmaker, health and science journalist in New York Times best-selling author.
0:25.2	I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind how our choices,
0:28.3	including what we eat and how we live, affect our cognitive and physical performance,
0:32.3	how we feel, our health span, and our risk for disease. This podcast is all about how to live in
0:38.0	that optimal state, which I call living like a genius. On this episode of The Show, I am super
0:43.3	excited to welcome back my very dear friend, Light Watkins. Light is a long-time meditation
0:49.1	teacher and thought leader who's spoken and consulted at Fortune 500 companies around the world
0:54.2	on topics of wellness, purpose, and enlightened leadership. He's a best-selling author and host
1:00.1	of the popular podcast The Light Watkins Show. And his latest book is called Travel Light,
1:05.7	Spiritual Minimalism to Live a More Fulfilled Life. And it's out now. Guys, this episode of The
1:11.9	Show packs a lot of very useful, actionable, and inspiring, yes, inspiring information.
1:19.9	Among many other topics, we're going to discuss why walking is one of the most powerful
1:25.2	activities that you should be doing. The benefits of flanoring, which means walking for the sake of
1:30.2	walking without a particular destination. We're going to talk about how to build up your flexibility
1:34.0	with daily resting squats, why light focuses on one compound exercise per day, why functional
1:40.3	strength is the ultimate goal, and Light is going to reveal all the details behind his minimalist
1:45.4	approach to nutrition. I jump in at this point and share my daily hacks for hitting my protein
1:50.8	goal, which I'm sure many of you will benefit from. This was a widely, a wide-spending conversation.
1:56.8	We covered a lot of ground. Light is a very wise man, and so I am pleased, very pleased to bring
2:02.5	him to you for the second time, I believe. This is the second time he's been, or maybe the third time
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