Dose - For Healthy Hedonists In Search Of Balance

Myles Hopper is the co-founder of Mindful Chef - the UK's No.1 recipe box that makes healthy eating easy and accessible to all. He's also a Personal Trainer, Nutritional Coach and Father to a two-year old.He talks to us about his journey to creating Mindful Chef along with school friends Giles and Rob, how he finds balance juggling an all-encompassing career with a young family, and about feeling good as a result of doing good through his charitable efforts with 'One Feeds Two'.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Esmee Gummer's energy is infectious. If you could only bottle the stuff and put it in your morning smoothies, the world would be a happier place. She always keeps our spirits high, whether at a water-logged fitness festival or in the studio. When you're training with Esmee nothing in the world can bring you down. She joins us to talk about how to avoid burnout and her tips for building grit and resilience. Prepare to feel inspired.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For our next episode, we are joined by four international Nike trainers - Luke Worthington, Courtney Fearon, Joslyn Thompson-Rule and Paleta CalmQuality. We talk to them about why they chose a career in fitness, how being active makes them feel mentally and physically and how they're enabling the younger generation to live happier, healthier lives.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Meet Tania Boler - founder and CEO of Elvie - a company that is leading the Femtech revolution, providing smarter technology for modern day women. Elvie is bringing women's technology out of the dark ages. They approach problems as women and solve them as engineers, scientists and designers, starting with a real need and innovating around it. Products include the pelvic floor trainer and the world's first silent wearable breast pump designed for multi tasking women. The company has just raised $42 million dollars in Series B funding - the largest Femtech investment to date. We talk to Tania about her journey to creating the brand and her reasons for tackling taboo women's health issues...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Have you always wanted to learn to surf or progress to the next level? Ride horses, scramble and charge up hills with the rising sun? Get sweaty with tailored beach workouts and have the adventure of a lifetime with a group of like-minded souls? This might be the retreat for you. We catch up with surf chick, journalist and all round girl boss Sophie Everard, the founder of Mad to Live retreats...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joining us for our next episode is Lauren Bath, founder of fitness festival LoveFit that’s all about losing yourself by night and finding your balance by day. Now in its third year, the festival which takes place this year on 19th – 21st July is a 3 day adventure of fitness, wellbeing, and magical forest parties located in a beautiful estate venue just outside of London. LoveFit aims to mix the elation that festivals evoke with the euphoria of a workout. It’s an escape from monotony, a taste of freedom, a place for people to explore new ways of living and moving.If there was an experience to sum up healthy hedonism this is it.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The world’s original cardio party SoulCycle has finally arrived in London! We caught up with the woman responsible for growing SoulCycle from 7 studios in New York to 90 studios in 18 markets across the U.S. and Canada - CEO, Melanie Whelan. She was is in town launching their first international studio in London’s Soho at 3-4 Great Marlborough Street. The studio will open in mid-June and it’s just the beginning...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tune in to an exclusive DOSE live event that we ran in partnership with ClassPass and KIND snacks, to celebrate International Women’s Day.Hosted by DOSE co-founder and spin instructor Shara Tochia, listen to multi-tasking females in the fitness and wellness industry discuss how they find balance in their everyday lives.Speakers include; Kim Ngo – a PT who quit her job in finance to start a food and fitness blog and became a trainer for Nike. Chloe Ross, VP International at ClassPass who juggles parenthood with a high powered career, living between London and Brighton. Gemma Clarkson, Global Brand Manager at KIND who left a soulless job in media to join a brand with purpose and Natalie Lee of ‘Style Me Sunday’ – a feminist influencer, who inspires mums to be the best they can be, while raising two girls.The event was recorded live at Ace Hotel in Shoreditch on Wednesday 6th March 2019.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Until very recently sobriety has had negative connotations. People automatically assume you must be a stiff, boring, fun sponge. I never forget going to a party where my reluctance to imbibe prompted an obnoxious guest to point an imaginary gun to his head. Granted it was a 21st birthday and this was back in 2011 but still. Flash forward to 2018 and guess what the biggest trend in drinking is? The non-alcoholic variety – and leading the pack is Seedlip – the world’s first non-alcoholic spirit designed to solve the what to drink when you’re not drinking dilemma. Seedlip’s founder Ben Branson talks to us about appealing to a new generation that doesn’t drink, where we’ll be partying in the future and how to tap into the hedonism in health.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Meditation has gone mainstream and mindfulness is everywhere as we’re learning that exercising our minds is as important as exercising our bodies. But with their religious origins and associations with “aligning chakras” and chanting with crystals, to the sceptically minded they can appear like just more self-help crazes. At the same time, we’re becoming aware that the technologies we love using may not be so great for how they make us feel. But could technology also become part of the solution for the Western world’s growing mental health issues? Niraj Shah is captivated by the role technology is playing in enabling human possibility. His “no crystals, no mumbo jumbo” project MIND: UNLOCKED - which takes a science-led, practical approach - is one of London’s leading meditation & mental wellbeing movements. Niraj is also the UK Country Lead for Silicon Valley’s Transformative Technology Academy, which is the largest global collective of entrepreneurs and innovators working on technologies to raise mental

According to the Global Wellness institute, the wellness industry is now valued at a whopping $4.2 trillion globally. We’re no longer dabbling with going to the gym or getting the occasional massage - a wellness mindset is starting to permeate the global consumer consciousness, affecting daily decision-making. Among the wellness markets analysed is wellness tourism. A $639 billion industry, which in a nutshell, is travel for the purpose of promoting health and well-being through physical, psychological, or spiritual activities. Like a yoga retreat. Someone who is a true veteran in this area is today’s guest Mercedes Sieff - one of the UK’s leading yoga teachers (you can find her at Triyoga in Camden and Chelsea) and co founder, alongside her husband Simon, of Yeotown - the award winning health retreat in Devon.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

At DOSE we are obsessed with finding our equilibrium by keeping our happy hormones in check - so we’ve been eagerly anticipating the launch of a new app designed to do just that. MoodyMonth aims to help women better understand their hormones, cycles and moods. The app allows you to log your mood, physical symptoms (such as bloating, cramps, or tiredness), and external pressures such as worries about work or friends and get monthly reports of your logs and memos helping you see patterns and changes. Think of it like “mood forecasting”: it will sync up with your calendar and pull in details such as the weather, as well as your hormonal cycle, in order to present a visual report that could offer clues to why you’re feeling down, to make you feel better. MoodyMonth is the brainchild of marketing genius Amy Thomson, who suffered adrenal fatigue after building a multi-million pound global marketing agency in her twenties, working with global brands such as Nike, Microsoft and RBS.  See acast.com/privacy f

The book, Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll – The Science of Hedonism and Hedonism of Science by Zoe Cormier, explores how hedonistic impulses inform our highest pursuits, and how the renegades of science have illuminated the secrets of our deepest impulses. I came across Zoe when I was exploring my happy hormones at Secret Garden Party – she used to run events celebrating scientific discovery at music festivals. This book blew my mind, especially the section on drugs that discusses how our relationship with narcotics helps us to identify many of our most powerful neurotransmitters such as dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins. She is a huge inspiration of mine, which is why I asked her to kick off our podcast series.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A podcast that explores what makes us feel good: from endorphin charged workouts and active adventures to healthy-ish cocktails and meditation. It's about doing what you love and experiencing life to the fullest, whilst nurturing your physical and emotional wellbeing.DOSE is an online magazine for healthy hedonists that promotes feel-good content and experiences. Launched in November 2016, DOSE has built a highly engaged 35K subscriber database and executed digital and offline partnerships with global brands.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.