Mere Mortals Conversations

You smell that ....... it smells like it's goal time.Do you set yourself monthly goals and if so, how many do you set? Juan and I on the first week of every month go over our progress from the previous month and where we are heading for the next. Emphasis as always is on the shortcomings; what we didn't achieve in the previous monthly goals and how we will fix that for the month that comes. We hope you get some value from this series, showcasing our own methodology. What do you do differently and why?As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Juan's April Recap(1:50) - My April Recap(4:10) - My May Goals: 1st Half(8:47) - Juan's May Goals(12:07) - My May Goals: 2nd Half(15:12) - Fitness Challenge(17:58) - V4VConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Would the negatives of teacher dependency and substandard knowledge be countered by the increased motivation of having awesome teachers who know how to teach you more directly?In Episode #293 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: a nice quote from Marcel Proust, the hypothetical of only having 1 teacher throughout your schooling career, what we would consider useful knowledge, Juan's obsession with certain online games and why I might need to think about presenting my status in life.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Meander me all night long(0:39) - Marcel Proust: In Search Of Lost Time(2:54) - One teacher for life(7:27) - Teaching multiple subjects(13;54) - 5 pieces of fundamental knowledge(17:44) - The structure of languages(23:49) - Teaching your kids another language(26:43) - Agar.io, Dapper Dinos & Smash Karts(30:19) - Evolutionary knowledge is useful(35:36) - The Red Queen(40:23) - Juan has status boi!(44:41) - V4VConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Mini Convo #3 is a quick burst of questions I got to pose to Lisa Campbell. This session focuses in on the results of the recent crossfit open workouts and the next steps.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Connect with Lisa:https://www.instagram.com/lisa_campbell_7/?hl=enConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Apparently I'm not super friendly because I refused to chat with the drug addled crazy person.In Episode #292 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: can you be too friendly and the downsides to overt friendliness, where we rank on a scale of nicety, practical steps I have taken to make more international friends, why reciprocity could set standards that are hard to meet and how society could be shaped to be more friendly.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Why this topic?(2:00) - My unfriendly adventure(8:36) - Being too friendly(13:30) - Our friendliness levels(20:27) - You can still be assertive and friendly(22:40) - Boostagram Lounge(28:15) - How to win friends and influence people(32:32) - My goals to make friends(40:10) - Unrealistic expectations of reciprocal friendliness(44:41) - Making society more friendly(49:49) - Value for valueConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Food, alcohol and sugar are all in the firing line for this convo.In Episode #291 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: our request for some feedback on our podcast, Kevin Rose and his latest NFT project, whether we can actually spot crypto scams, how Good Friday is a form of stoicism, what would happen if we enforced an arbitrary restriction on a whole country, the Mamut cookie in Mexico, the beauty of collaborative online art found on reddit, some cool tech goodies, why you SHOULDN'T listen to our opinion on hot gossip and our V4V pitch.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Marketing feedback(1:19) - Sir Spencer poster(1:48) - Moonbirds(5:12) - NFT monies(9:12) - Crypto scams(12:12) - Self restriction on Good Friday(17:27) - No food and no alcohol(22:40) - How to cut out sugar(28:53) - r/place(32:40) - Animated QR codes and inchain crypto games(36:24) - Our thoughts on the Chris Rock slap(40:13) - Value for value Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Dr Jonathon Weakley (https://twitter.com/JonathonWeakle1) is a Lecturer at the Australian Catholic University (ACU), was a Research Associate @ Leeds Beckett University and is trying to make strength & conditioning easier for coaches.In this conversation I got the chance to ask him a bunch of questions that centred around velocity based training (VBT), the definition of overtraining, why he ventured down this pathway professionally and what has him excited in the next few years.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Intro(4:00) - Having conversations that are applicable to everyone(8:00) - Explaining Velocity Based Training(13:10) - Sticking to weight/% over velocity?(16:15) - Intent(20:20) - Autoregulatory prescription(24:10) - Personal Experience(32:15) - Challenges in education(40:00) - Overtraining defined(49:10) - Excitement in the futureConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Want to know how to get jacked like Juan or not jacked like me? Well we're talking about our fitness progression and mindset over the years!In Episode #290 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: playing varied sports in our youth, the mindset and approach we take whilst exercising, Juan's huge weight gain and my relatively meagre body changes, pics of Juan's boobies, why Juan is super experimental and why I'm quite conservative and how we see our future fitness progression.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - The premise(2:43) - Juan's fitness background(4:57) - My fitness background(8:29) - My training philosophy(11:37) - Juan's training philosophy(19:51) - Body changes over time(28:32) - Juan's progression pics(30:45) - Boostagram Lounge(34:32) - Style of training(36:39) - Style of training 2(46:45) - Random comments(53:08) - Future concerns(58:49) - Value for valueConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Considering how much advice I tell myself and don't follow I wouldn't recommend listening to our advice (although thankfully I rarely give out any)!In Episode #289 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: the pride in his hard work editing a CrossFit video, meeting a younger version of myself, why I generally dislike unsolicited advice, mentors and helping younger people, why the resulting action is more important than the intent of the advice and a whole lot of bitching about domain names.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Misc intro(0:52) - Juan's CrossFit video(3:47) - Leaving the camera in the gym(4:08) - A lotta editing hours(9:59) - Fuck growing your podcast(11:55) - Why do things?(14:11) - Ben = Young Kyrin(15:33) - Unwarranted advice(18:45) - Helping the youth(22:49) - Mentor vs Supporter(26:22) - The source of advice(31:43) - Incompetent evil(33:36) - Chesterton's Fence(35:22) - Domain Names(38:51) - ICANN(42:36) - Spaceship on the footpath(43:35) - Lotta bitching hoursConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

We've whined about being shit marketers for too long so now it's time to do something about it.In Episode #288 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: our general thoughts on self-promotion, some unique ways that we could get in front of more eyeballs, the phases that are sometimes necessary to put in a big effort, using the attention generated by my handstands to showcase the podcast and a request for user feedback on what makes us special.A big thanks to Petar, Dave Jones, Ana Thomas (Apple For The Teacher) and Anthony (Signs Of New Growth) for all helping to support. You're bloody legends!As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Why marketing?(3:05) - My initial ideas(10:00) - The 4P's of marketing(16:46) - Numbers don't mean shit(22:53) - How spammy is too spammy(25:55) - YT comments(30:24) - Boostagram Lounge(32:41) - I got fooled ..... again!(36:30) - Signs of New Growth intro(38:35) - What are we marketing for?(46:24) - We want your juicy eyeballs(47:41) - Promotion ideas(53:28) - The sum up from this episode(57:37) - Responding to MM comments(59:22) - Our request for feedbackConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Juan had a topsy turvy week. He was absolutely disgusted by the VeeFriend's apparel but made up for it by reading a fantastic book.In Episode #287 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: the boring crap that NFT projects create as merch, Juan's business idea #386, the ethics of designing your own clothes, my trilingual Zoom event, why I am cutting Duolingo some slack, the excellent books of 'Homo Deus' & 'The Idiot', my mum's sad story of bluey, the reason I hate waste and why we need your ideas/feedback to help market ourselves.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Shitty NFT apparel(3:37) - Fast fashion ethics(6:26) - Duolingo events(11:03) - Changing my tune(16:23) - Finding a good book(22:31) - Why my car was doomed from Day 1(29:06) - Buy something to last(31:09) - Help us market ourselves!Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show