Andy Zaremba - Unexpected Surprises, Psychedelics and Sensory Deprivation (Floating)

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Relationships, Mental Health, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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*Apologies for the poor audio quality... It gets better around episode 005 Andy Zaremba is the co-host of the Vancouver Real podcast and co-founder of Float House. He was a speaker for the Man Talks conference and is back with more wisdom to share with today's audience. One of Andy's defining moments was the premature birth of his daughter, who was an unexpected surprise. He really opens up with our co-hosts today about the pregnancy and some of the challenges he faced during the birth of his daughter. He also talks why he and his brother decided to open Float House, what it is, and why people should do it. Key Takeaways: [1:10] How did Connor get to know Andy Zaremba? [2:45] What does Andy do? [3:25] What is sensory deprivation or 'floating'? [6:00] When Connor left the float room, he felt like everything was sharper and clearer. [7:10] Floating is completely different from meditation. [10:10] Why did Andy and his brother start float house? [13:55] When you face challenges, that's when you're going to grow the most as a human being. [16:00] What was a defining moment for Andy? [25:25] Man Talks challenges men to really think differently about how they show up in the world. [26:45] Not a lot of men are willing to share their experience with an unplanned pregnancy. [35:20] Instead of fighting your emotions, let them be, let yourself feel them. [37:20] What's Andy's meditation routine? [40:00] There are some really 'crazy' gurus out there promoting spirituality in a negative way. [41:10] Andy talks psychedelics. [48:50] Why are role models important for men? [54:25] Your inner demons may never go away fully, but you can work on dealing with them better. [56:45] Best advice Andy received? Mentioned In This Episode: http://www.vancouverreal.tv/ http://mantalks.com/ http://www.floathouse.ca The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts The Culture High by Adam Scorgie Music Credit: Parlange & Latenite Automatic (jesusparlange.com – lateniteautomatic.com) http://mantalks.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You've got some living yet to do.
0:04.6	I won't give up on you.
0:08.5	See these machines can bring you back to life.
0:12.9	Hello to all the world listeners in Mantox land and welcome to the Mantox podcast.
0:16.5	My name is Roger Naird and I'm the director of marketing for Mantox.
0:19.7	And my name is Connor Beaton. I am the founder of Man Talks. Once again, we're super excited to bring you an amazing hour with another amazing individual. The goal of this podcast is to bring you inspiring men and inspiring conversations and bring you the men that make a difference in this world. This interview definitely delivers on that. Connor, tell us all about your connection to Andy Zaremba
0:38.1	and why you're excited about our interview with him. Absolutely. So Andy and I met actually when
0:43.5	he and his brother, Mike, interviewed me for their podcast, Vancouver Real. They both are the co-founders
0:50.8	of Float House here in Vancouver. And after getting to know Andy a little bit and getting to know his journey of being an
0:58.8	entrepreneur, being a father, going through these incredible, incredible challenges around fatherhood
1:05.4	and entrepreneurship and, you know, just being a man in general in today's society, some
1:10.1	of the lessons that he brings are just so invaluable.
1:12.9	Yeah, it's an incredible interview.
1:14.6	We're sitting here in our fuzzy slippers amongst this amazing float house space.
1:19.8	You'll learn all about that.
1:21.4	So with that, we're going to pass you on to Andy Zirimba.
1:24.5	Yeah, and just a quick note before we do pass off to Andy Ziramba, you might hear some birds in the background. There are some birds. We are live on location. We wanted to do something a little bit different and have the ambience of the float house. But those are real birds. They are real birds. They're not real birds. All right. Thank you. Andy. You right. So, Andy, thanks very much for being a part of the podcast, for the Insanthagos podcast.
1:59.9	We're really grateful to have you here.
2:02.8	And yeah, so just maybe start off by telling us what you do.
2:07.2	Well, thank you for having me on, first of all.
2:09.2	And thank you for having me at Mantox.
2:11.1	That was an amazing experience.
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