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What if your future self stopped feeling like a stranger and became someone you could talk to, learn from, and feel responsible for?

Claudia speaks with Gazal Vakili, founder and CEO of Future Self, an AI-powered personal transformation platform that helps people connect with who they want to become.

With more than 15 years of experience across clinical research, biotech, digital health, virtual reality, cognitive science, and AI-enabled health technologies, Gazal explores how our beliefs and identity influence today's choices.

Discover how AI voice cloning, personalized meditations, visualization, and daily micro-actions can help bring your future identity into the present. Together, Claudia and Gazal explore purpose, intuition, self-worth, and learning to listen to yourself.

IN THIS EPISODE

• Imposter syndrome, identity, and the power of belief
• Silent meditation, intuition, and self-awareness
• Why we treat our future selves like strangers
• The psychology of future-self continuity
• Creating an emotionally meaningful future vision
• AI voice cloning and future-self conversations
• Personalized meditations and daily micro-actions
• Why worthiness cannot come from achievement

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction
04:33 Gazal’s journey into Future Self
05:27 Imposter syndrome
06:00 The placebo effect and belief
07:38 Identity and expectations
08:24 Childhood and self-belief
09:17 Reprogramming identity
11:34 The Future Self mission
12:36 Voice cloning and inner wisdom
14:21 Silent meditation
15:28 Sitting with your thoughts
17:27 Intuition vs the monkey mind
18:08 Observing your thoughts
18:58 Journaling for answers
21:08 Your future self as a stranger
23:38 Future-self continuity
24:56 Connecting with your future identity
26:50 Why identity is not fixed
27:24 How beliefs filter reality
29:16 Creating a bold future vision
30:24 Making your future feel real
31:00 Talking to your future self
32:50 Daily guidance and micro-actions
34:05 Multi-sensory visualization
35:31 Meditations in your own voice
36:29 Weekly future-self check-ins
38:03 Gazal’s transformation
39:08 An emotional future-self encounter
40:38 Becoming an entrepreneur
41:45 Gazal’s daily practice
44:09 Questioning your identity
45:17 Listening to yourself
45:56 What’s next for Future Self
46:58 Gazal’s final message

LEARN MORE ABOUT FUTURE SELF

Website: https://www.future-self.ai/

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What’s the point of living to 100 if you’re not truly enjoying your life?

In this special episode of The Longevity & Lifestyle Podcast, Claudia welcomes Sean Hoess, Founder and CEO of Eudēmonia, to explore why longevity is about more than living longer.

From corporate law to co-founding Wanderlust and creating Eudēmonia, Sean shares his journey and the importance of purpose, community, fulfillment, and evidence-based wellness.

They discuss the evolution of wellness, the power of human connection, navigating health information, self-experimentation, and what makes Eudēmonia a unique gathering for the longevity community.

IN THIS EPISODE

• Sean’s journey from corporate law to Wanderlust and Eudēmonia
• Why purpose and fulfillment are essential to longevity
• The evolution of evidence-based wellness
• How community and connection influence well-being
• Why failure and experimentation support growth
• Navigating health information and scientific integrity
• Peptides, self-experimentation, and safety
• What makes Eudēmonia different and what’s new this November

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction
01:13 Sean’s journey into entrepreneurship
05:24 Building Wanderlust and lessons learned
11:40 The inspiration behind Eudēmonia
13:15 Living well versus living longer
15:13 The evolution of wellness
17:48 Bridging wellness communities
20:55 Encouraging respectful debate
22:42 Why purpose matters for longevity
25:58 Finding purpose through experimentation
30:55 What makes Eudēmonia different
33:22 Scientific integrity and commercial influence
38:13 Peptides and self-experimentation
44:01 What’s new at Eudēmonia
46:15 Sean’s final message on purpose

ABOUT SEAN HOESS

Sean Hoess is the Founder and CEO of Eudēmonia and co-founder of Wanderlust. His work brings together longevity science, fitness, mindfulness, and community to help people make informed health decisions and live more fulfilling lives.

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What if brain health depends on the entire infrastructure that keeps neurons alive, fueled, and protected?

Claudia speaks with Martin Valovsky, co-founder of Axolt Brain, about the overlooked systems supporting long-term brain health, from glial cells and astrocytes to blood flow, the blood-brain barrier, the glymphatic system, and mitochondria.

They explore how brain damage can accumulate silently, how APOE4 influences risk, and why daily habits matter before symptoms appear.

Martin shares his experience with double-copy APOE4, why he stopped drinking alcohol, his concerns about sugar, and why he prioritizes movement. They also discuss Axolt’s formulation, polyphenols, bioavailability, and ingredient safety.

IN THIS EPISODE

• Glial cells, astrocytes, and the brain’s support systems
• The blood-brain barrier and glymphatic clearance
• Sleep, mitochondria, and brain energy
• APOE4 and Martin’s personal journey
• Movement, alcohol, sugar, and daily habits
• Polyphenols, bioavailability, and Axolt’s formulation
• Supplement safety and when to consult your doctor

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction
03:54 Why brain health matters
04:29 Brain health as an infrastructure problem
05:30 Blood-brain barrier and brain protection
06:30 The glymphatic system and brain cleaning
07:49 Why glial cells matter
08:55 Astrocytes: the brain’s “IT system”
10:00 Oligodendrocytes and brain signaling
11:37 Mitochondria and brain energy
12:13 How much control do we have over brain aging?
12:36 APOE4 and Martin’s personal motivation
14:26 Axolt Brain partner message
16:08 The fundamentals of brain longevity
16:23 Why Martin stopped drinking alcohol
17:00 Why he considers sugar a major culprit
17:30 Why movement comes first
18:30 Polyphenols and brain health
19:47 Building the Axolt formula
20:08 Three years of formulation work
21:00 Safety and ingredient selection
22:00 Bioavailability and the blood-brain barrier
23:30 Spearmint, memory, and brain nutrition
24:18 What users report
25:27 Who should speak to their doctor
25:50 Peptides and brain health
27:11 Martin’s final message

ABOUT MARTIN VALOVSKY

Martin Valovsky is the co-founder of Axolt Brain, a daily brain nutrition company focused on long-term cognitive performance and brain health.

After more than a decade in the high-pressure defense industry, Martin and his co-founder experienced burnout, brain fog, and poor sleep. This led them to explore the brain’s nutritional needs and develop Axolt with neurologists, researchers, and scientific advisors.

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What if the choices that feel hardest today are the very ones that make your life easier tomorrow?

In this episode of the Longevity & Lifestyle Podcast, Claudia speaks with Jerzy Gregorek, four-time weightlifting champion, poet, mentor, resilience teacher, and creator of The Happy Body

Jerzy’s life has been extraordinary. He survived alcoholism and suicidal thoughts as a teenager, became a political rebel in communist Poland, led a strike against the government, lived underground after the uprising was crushed, became a refugee, rebuilt his life from nothing, and went on to become a champion athlete and internationally respected mentor.

At the heart of his philosophy is a deceptively simple idea:

Hard choices, easy life.
Easy choices, hard life.

IN THIS EPISODE

• Jerzy’s battle with alcoholism and suicidal thoughts
• Surviving communist Poland and becoming a refugee
• The origin of “Hard Choices, Easy Life”
• The negative and positive voices inside us
• Jerzy’s 51% principle for changing your life
• Why transformation happens through micro-progressions
• The green tea story and learning to embrace discomfort
• Why your lifestyle compounds over decades
• Why exercise should be about joy, not weight loss
• Strength, flexibility, leanness, and longevity
• Meditation as part of physical performance
• Human potential and neurodiversity
• Why mentorship can change someone’s trajectory
• The importance of having a dream
• Why “deliver” may be one of the most important words in life

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction
00:34 Longevity in Silicon Valley
01:10 Jerzy’s extraordinary life journey
02:07 Alcoholism, suicidal thoughts, and rebuilding his life
03:30 Becoming a fireman and political resistance in Poland
04:29 The warning that saved Jerzy’s life
05:33 Darkness, angels, and resilience
07:14 Finding meaning inside difficult experiences
08:24 The origins of Jerzy’s work on self-talk
11:00 The fatalist and the master
13:16 The 51% tipping point
15:09 What “Hard Choices, Easy Life” really means
16:06 The green tea experiment
20:09 Training yourself to embrace discomfort
21:56 Why hard choices lead to improvement
22:25 The philosophy of The Happy Body
24:51 Strength, leanness, and preventing sarcopenia
29:32 Why meditation belongs in The Happy Body
30:37 Music as meditation
33:11 Human potential and neurodiversity
37:00 Aging, movement, and challenging the brain
39:00 Exercise, breathing, and joy
40:20 Why exercise is not for weight loss
42:37 Meditation, poetry, and mentorship
44:32 Living in the present moment
46:23 The story behind Stand and Deliver
49:26 Delivering goodness to yourself
51:55 Why every dream needs action
53:11 Where to find Jerzy
53:50 Darkness, light, and mental health

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What if one of the most powerful longevity interventions isn't another supplement, test, or biohack, but JOY?

In this episode of the Longevity & Lifestyle Podcast, Claudia speaks with Tina Woods, social entrepreneur, author, founder of Collider Health and Business for Health, and DJ Tina Technotic!

Together, they explore how we can shift from reactive sick care to prevention and why joy, purpose, connection, and our environment may be some of the most overlooked factors in healthy ageing.

Tina introduces the human exposome, the environmental, lifestyle, social, and psychological influences that shape our health throughout life. She also shares her inspiring journey of becoming a DJ at 60 and launching the Joy Score experiment, exploring whether music, dancing, belonging, and positive experiences can produce measurable biological and neurological changes.

From AI and preventative healthcare to loneliness, biomarkers, and the limitations of obsessive self-optimization, this conversation challenges us to rethink what it truly means to live longer and better.

IN THIS EPISODE

• Moving healthcare from sick care to prevention • How AI could transform healthy longevity • The human exposome and its impact on ageing • Why loneliness, stress, and belonging matter • How our environments influence lifelong health • Tina's journey to becoming a DJ at 60 • Dancing, music, and the science of joy • The Joy Score experiment and what it measures • The biological impact of human connection • Why obsessive health tracking has limitations • The role of business, cities, and policy in prevention • Protecting human connection in the age of AI

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction
03:42 Tina’s journey into longevity and system change
06:00 Moving healthcare from sick care to prevention
12:17 How to create change inside resistant systems
14:35 Why healthcare solutions must extend beyond the NHS
17:32 AI, health data, and prevention
23:52 Why longevity is shifting from lifespan to healthspan
24:46 What is the human exposome?
26:04 Loneliness, stress, and the psychosocial exposome
28:19 Why our environments matter for longevity
30:21 The origins of the Joy Score
31:30 Tina’s rediscovery of dancing and joy
34:00 Becoming DJ Tina Technotic at 60
36:02 Launching the Joy Score experiment
39:42 What the Joy Score actually measures
43:13 Measuring biomarkers, brain health, and emotional wellbeing
47:20 Why joy matters for longevity
49:00 The limits of self-optimization
52:29 Burning Man, AI, and protecting what makes us human
55:42 Tina’s final message

CONNECT WITH TINA

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinamariewoods/

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What if cognitive decline is not an inevitable part of getting older?

In this episode of the Longevity & Lifestyle Podcast, Claudia speaks with Dr. Tommy Wood, neuroscientist, physician, researcher, performance consultant, and author of The Stimulated Mind.

Tommy explains why dementia begins developing decades before diagnosis, why genetics such as ApoE4 are not destiny, and how much power we may have to change the trajectory of our brain health through lifestyle, environment, and targeted stimulation.

IN THIS EPISODE

• Why dementia may begin decades before diagnosis
• How early-life environment shapes lifelong brain health
• Neurogenesis vs neuroplasticity
• Why the adult brain can still change
• How Formula One drivers train for cognitive performance
• Sleep, nutrition, exercise, HRV, and recovery
• The Yerkes-Dodson arousal curve
• Breathwork, caffeine, music, and visualization
• Tommy’s “green, amber, red” health system
• Why cognitive decline should not be considered inevitable
• How much dementia may be preventable
• ApoE4, genetics, and environmental risk
• Why lifestyle can offset genetic risk
• Exosomes, peptides, GLP-1s, and Cerebrolysin
• Psychedelics and neuroplasticity
• Transcranial magnetic stimulation and brain stimulation
• Why stimulating the brain is only half the equation
• Cognitive training and processing speed
• How to future-proof your brain

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction
01:51 Why brain health became personal for Claudia
02:40 Tommy’s journey into neuroscience
05:35 Why dementia starts decades before diagnosis
06:47 Brain development and the power of environment
09:45 Neurogenesis vs neuroplasticity
12:48 Why adults can still learn and change
14:52 Lessons from Formula One drivers
16:32 The foundations of elite cognitive performance
18:10 Blood tests, nutrition, and recovery
18:55 The Yerkes-Dodson arousal curve
21:19 Tommy’s personal brain-health routine
25:24 The green, amber, red health system
29:20 Visualization and neuroplasticity
33:51 Why dementia is not inevitable
36:08 Maintaining cognition into your 80s
36:55 How much dementia may be preventable
38:44 ApoE4 and genetic risk
40:35 Why genetics interact with lifestyle
43:32 Exosomes, peptides, and emerging therapies
45:30 GLP-1s, Cerebrolysin, and brain health
46:30 Psychedelics and neuroplasticity
47:25 Brain stimulation technologies
48:30 Transcranial magnetic stimulation explained
50:44 Why integration matters after neuroplasticity
52:33 Brain training and processing speed
54:03 The Stimulated Mind
55:07 The future of cognitive longevity
57:07 Tommy’s final message

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What happens when the brain temporarily lets go of the identity, memories, and personal story that make you feel like “you”?

In this episode of the Longevity & Lifestyle Podcast, Claudia speaks with Tommaso Barba, psychedelic researcher at Imperial College London, whose work explores consciousness, ego dissolution, 5-MeO-DMT, mental health, relationships, and the nature of the self.

Tommaso explains why psychedelics are returning to mainstream science after decades of prohibition, how psilocybin, LSD, DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, MDMA, ketamine, and ibogaine differ, and why pharmaceutical companies are now investing heavily in psychedelic medicine.

They examine the limitations of conventional psychiatric treatment, including the idea that depression is simply a chemical imbalance, and explore why psychedelic experiences may reach psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions that existing medications often do not address.

Tommaso also shares his personal high-dose psilocybin experience, describing the dissolution of his identity, a sense of boundless awareness, and the challenge of returning to ordinary life after experiencing profound presence and connection.

This conversation does not present psychedelics as casual shortcuts. It explores the importance of preparation, set and setting, skilled facilitation, integration, contraindications, and the cultural structures needed to support these powerful experiences safely.

IN THIS EPISODE

• Why psychedelics are entering mainstream medicine
• How psychedelic research was halted for decades
• Psilocybin, LSD, DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, MDMA, ketamine, and ibogaine
• Why depression is more complex than a chemical imbalance
• How set, setting, and integration shape outcomes
• Why unsupported psychedelic use can become destabilizing
• How 5-MeO-DMT is being used to study consciousness
• What ego dissolution can feel like
• Neuroplasticity, psychological flexibility, and mental health
• Who may not be suitable for psychedelic treatment
• Psychedelics, intimacy, sexuality, and relationships
• The future of psychedelic medicine and psychiatry

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction
02:28 Psychedelics enter the pharmaceutical mainstream
05:27 Why psychedelic research was banned
10:12 The major psychedelic compounds explained
12:46 Why modern psychiatry needs new approaches
15:34 Set, setting, and altered states
18:56 Why support and integration matter
20:23 Tommaso’s path into psychedelic research
22:41 Psychedelics, religion, and The Immortality Key
24:46 Using 5-MeO-DMT to study consciousness
26:37 What happens when the self dissolves?
27:49 Depression, neuroplasticity, and 5-MeO-DMT
30:47 Psychedelics for depression, PTSD, and addiction
32:39 Why psychedelics are not for everyone
34:02 Tommaso’s experience of ego dissolution
39:12 Psychedelics, intimacy, and relationships
42:35 The future of psychedelic medicine
44:16 Final message: stay curious

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What if the constant pressure to improve yourself is reinforcing the anxiety you are trying to escape?

In this episode of the Longevity & Lifestyle Podcast, Claudia welcomes Jamie Clements, breathwork facilitator, speaker, educator, and founder of The Breath Space.

Jamie shares how anxiety, depression, and panic attacks led him away from a high-performing career in finance and technology and toward a deeper exploration of breath, nervous system health, consciousness, and human potential.

He explains how breathing influences the autonomic nervous system, why dysfunctional breathing can reinforce stress and anxiety, and how simple changes in breathing speed, depth, and rhythm can shift how we feel and perform.

They also explore carbon dioxide tolerance, nasal breathing, breath holding, sleep apnea, altered states of consciousness, trauma-aware breathwork, and the risks of practicing deeper techniques without the right preparation or facilitator.

This conversation also challenges the modern obsession with optimization. Jamie explains why high performers often find rest uncomfortable, how achievement can become tied to self-worth, and why slowing down may be one of the most powerful ways to improve creativity, energy, and performance.

IN THIS EPISODE

• How anxiety and panic attacks led Jamie to breathwork
• Why the breath directly influences the nervous system
• Signs that you may be breathing dysfunctionally
• Why carbon dioxide is essential for oxygen delivery
• Nasal breathing, mouth breathing, and cognitive health
• Box breathing, extended exhales, and the physiological sigh
• How breathwork can create altered states of consciousness
• Trauma, emotional release, and breathwork safety
• Why high performers struggle to rest
• The link between achievement and self-worth
• How slowing down can improve productivity

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction
03:44 Jamie’s experience with anxiety and panic attacks
06:15 Losing his job and discovering a different path
09:26 Why we underestimate the power of breathing
12:15 Ancient breathwork traditions
15:43 How breathing controls the nervous system
18:06 Using breath to change your internal state
19:33 CO2 tolerance and stress resilience
24:58 Signs you may be breathing incorrectly
27:39 The three levels of breathwork
31:13 Trauma release and breathwork safety
33:54 What an altered-state breathwork session feels like
38:29 Why high performers struggle to slow down
41:43 Purpose, ambition, and self-worth
43:24 Creating work-life harmony
48:57 The Breath Space
50:33 Why you do not need fixing

ABOUT JAMIE CLEMENTS

Jamie Clements is a breathwork facilitator, speaker, educator, and founder of The Breath Space. His work brings together functional breathing, neuroscience, psychology, trauma-aware practice, ancient wisdom, and nervous system regulation.

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