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Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

EP 39 - Tim Shieff: The Dark Side of Veganism

Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

Paul Chek

Spirituality, Metaphysics, Alternative Health, Personal Development, Holistic Health, Paul Chek, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Philosophy, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Plant Medicine, Wellness, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 169 minutes

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Summary

How does the world react when a well-know vegan athlete — dubbed The Vegan Prince — decides his health is more important than an ism? Freerunner, American Ninja Warrior Champion and Founder of ETHCS Tim Shieff joins Paul this week to discuss his journey from media darling to controversial “traitor” for leaving the vegan world, and why coming away from it has helped him become a far healthier human being. Just for Living 4D listeners, Tim is offering a 50 percent discount on his Mindful Warrio...

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I was one of the go to vegan athletes in that community and I had a business which you know 95% of my customers or vegans

0:08.0

my whole life and identity was attached to this and I was asking for healing and the universe wanted me to sacrifice everything I built for my own health and and yeah I couldn't ignore it.

0:20.0

It made total sense to me that I was deeply like for healing it's about returning to

0:26.2

whole for me a return to whole and attachments sort of stop me from being whole attachments

0:30.9

to veganism attachments to anything really in this world, it's held me back.

0:36.3

And so I was deeply ingrained in veganism and veganism was clearly deeply ingrained to me because

0:41.7

when I came public that I was no

0:43.8

longer vegan for health reasons there was an almighty stir in that community.

0:51.2

Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Cheek. Today's guest is free-running athlete Tim Sheaf.

0:58.0

Tim was the 2009 world free-running champion and has won the Ninja Warrior UK competition twice.

1:05.0

He co-founded the vegan clothing company Ethics and then this poster boy for veganism

1:11.0

turned X vegan. Enjoy this episode as he shares his story and the reasons

1:17.0

leading to his decision to eat animal products with Paul. And stay tuned to the end of the

1:22.4

podcast for an amazing offer from Tim.

1:25.0

Welcome to Living ForwardD with Paul Check.

1:30.0

I am so excited today to share an amazing guest with you. Tim Sheaf,

1:35.0

Tim welcome to Living 4D with Paul Check.

1:38.0

Hey Paul, thank you so much for having me on man. I'm excited for this talk today.

1:42.0

Well, I was very, you know, to be honest with you, I don't watch television much, I'm not much of an internet

1:48.8

guy. I'm extremely focused on my work and any spare time I have I usually spend out creating rock

1:56.1

sculptures being with nature and doing my own spiritual practices and trying to stay out of the kind of the, you know, the trap of modern digital craze.

2:10.9

So it wasn't until my wife Penny who you were just speaking to briefly forwarded me a

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