Welcoming Jane Hilliard to our Flow Seekers podcast!

Jane is the Founder/Director and Head Desinger at Designful.  Designful is a group of down to earth Building Designers who share a passion for making great design available to more people, to support them in leading a healthy, sustainable and meaningful lifestyle. As Designfuls Founder, clearly Jane embodies these vales in every way. She cares deeply for the environment, natural and built. 

This conversations focuses on the below topics:

• How design can enhance and detract from the feeling of flow state
• The importance of the natural environment being part of building design
• Why Jane has an allergic reaction to indoor garages (we agree!)

Thank you Jane for your time and wisdom.

Enjoy!
Tara, Steve and The Pods Ride Crew

Welcoming Alice Hansen to our Flow Seeker's podcast, and what a wonderful conversation this was!

Alice's career has had many successful facets, including being a travel writer and publishing 9 books. Her books span from children's to her highly successful 'Tailored Tasmania'. Tailored Tasmania and its sister website has become a trusted Tasmanian voice, packed with secrets on the best places to eat, play, shop and stay.

Our conversation covers topics like:

• Alice's story, including many little unique personal stories within this
• The process Alice take to writing
• How Alice finds flow (or doesn't!) when writing

As always, enjoy!
Tara, Steve and The Pods Ride Crew

Welcome to our third season of the Flow Seekers podcast! We're delighted to bring you the first episode of season three which is a conversation with Hugh van Cuylenburg.

If you don't know Hugh, here are a couple of achievements to his name:

• Founder of The Resilience Project
• Author of two books 'The Resilience Project - Finding Happiness' and 'Let Go'
• Imperfects Podcast Co-host
• ABC Radio National Presenter

My conversation with Hugh delves into the following topics:

• Hugh's first experience of flow state
• How finding moments of flow during the Covid-19 Pandemic helped him survive Melbourne lockdowns
• The link between excessive social media use a reduced ability to find flow state

Thank you for joining us Hugh!
Enjoy,
Tara, Steve and The Pods Ride Crew

This episode of our ‘Flow Seekers’ podcast is with Dr Richard (Rick) Buning PhD. Rick is a senior lecturer in Tourism and Event Management based at The University of Queensland. 

Dr. Buning's research interests reside at the intersection of physical activity, travel, and events. Within this area, his research agenda is focused on how tourists are physically active as both a driver of tourism behaviour (i.e., active lifestyle sports) and during visitation (i.e., active transport). His research on active lifestyle sports closely mirrors his passion for active sport tourism in mountain biking, cycling, running, rock climbing, hiking, and more.  

In reference to mountain biking, I first attended one of Rick’s presentations on the economic impact of the mountain biking sector at an event hosted by the University of Tasmania. From there we have continued to work with Rick on a number of different projects, including a research project which demonstrates how we create flow state in our business (more on this soon!). 

Listen to this podcast to: 

• Learn about the economic impact mountain biking can have on communities 
• Learn about the maturity of the mountain biking market in AUS 
• Hear Dr Buning’s perspective on whether the mountain biking market will keep growing 
• Learn about the lifecycle of mountain bikers 
• Hear about the importance of mentors in your mountain biking journey 
• Learn about the link between flow state and the lifecycle of mountain bikers 
• Learn about clutch state and mountain biking 

Enjoy! 
Tara, Steve and The Pods Ride Crew

Hello and welcome back to our Flow Seekers podcast!

Today's guests is Olivia Morrison. Olivia is the founder and owner of Bread + Butter. Bread + Butter is a unique amalgamation of a small batch butter factory - Tasmanian Butter Company, wholesale/retail bakers, onsite eatery and coffee bar. Their mission is to deliver delicious and exceptional bread, pastries, coffee and breakfast for our community every single day of the year.

We are also very fortunate to work with Olivia and her team from Bread + Butter at Blue Derby Pods Ride where they supply a large portion of our delicious gourmet Tasmanian food.

Listen to this podcast to:

• Hear the story of how Bread + Butter came to be
• Hear about Bread + Butter's company ethos
• Learn about how the rhythm of making bread and butter can (maybe!) be applied to the idea of flow state
• Hear about how Olivia believe the best results come from hard work

Enjoy!

Tara, Steve and The Pods Ride Crew

Welcome to our next podcast guest... Matthew Evans!

Matthew is a chef and food critic turned farmer-food activist. He lives on a mixed farm that occupies a one-time apple orchard in the Huon Valley outside Hobart with his partner Sadie Chrestman and son Hedley. He is best known nationally for his long-running SBS series Gourmet Farmer, set on Fat Pig Farm's 70 acres. He has authored or co-authored 13 books, his most recent 'Soil' being the focus of our conversation today.

We are fortunate enough to collaborate with Matthew and Sadie on an annual basis for one special 'Fat Pig Farm' experience where Matthew and Sadie join our guests for a night to cook them an incredibly delicious dinner. We chat about this collaboration very briefly in the podcast interview.

Listen to this podcast to:

• Hear how Matthew finds so much joy through food
• Learn about he importance of why choosing food that cares for the environment is so important
• Learn why soil is so great!
• Learn about a potential link between soil nutrients and achieving flow state
• Hear how Matthew explains the importance of soil health being part of the solution to climate change.

Enjoy!
Tara, Steve and The Pods Ride Crew

Welcome back to our next episode of Flow Seekers.

Today's guests is one that many in the mountain bike community will be very aware of, Glen Jacobs. Mountain biking has been in Glen's world since he first rode a bike. From there, he worked worked to build a wonderful career around this industry and is currently the Director of World Trail, one of the largest mountain bike trail building businesses in the world. Glen was also the first and only Australian to inducted int the International Mountain Biking Hall of Fame and has, through his business World Trail, designed and constructed every World Cup, World Championship, Olympic and Enduro World Series course in Australia.

Listen to this podcast to:

• Hear Glen's perspective on the evolution of the mountain biking industry in Australia
• Understand the creativity that is required to design and build a mountain biking trail
• Learn how ego can not be part of trail building
• Hear how Glen finds joy in up-skilling others
• Hear how mountain biking is the new golf!

Enjoy,
Tara, Steve and The Pods Ride Crew

Introducing our next episode interview with the highly respected and influential Sarah Wilson.

For those of you who don't recognise Sarah's name, Sarah has an acclaimed career, much of which has been in the light of the media around the world. She is a multi New York Times & Amazon best selling author, founder of the International I Quit Sugar movement and has authored 11 cookbooks which sell in over 52 countries, to name a few of her achievements. In addition she is a podcaster, thought leader, minimalist, philanthropist, and a climate activist.

Our conversation with Sarah today covers three main topics, all of which could be a podcast in themselves. More specifically, the three topics include:

• Flow in every day life in relation to Sarah's book Simplicious Flow
• Anxiety and Flow State
• Climate Activism

Listen to this podcast to:

• Find solutions to make every day life more efficient
• Learn more about different approach to cooking
• Learn how embracing anxiety leads to a more fulfilling life and ability to find flow state
• Hear how Sarah chooses to live life on the edge

Enjoy!
Tara, Steve and The Pods Ride Crew

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