This week I chat with Tahlia Wall from Physio Smart in Adelaide which was the location for our seminar when we were down there last in 2021. While we were down there I had a great chat with Matt who is the owner of Physio Smart, which would pair really well with this episode, so if you’re keen to listen to that one as well, it’s called 'A Smart Approach to Rehab' and it’s in season 1 of the podcast. When we were down in Adelaide, Matt and Tahlia were at the very start of their journey with their movement training community, called Motum which has gone through a lot of growth and evolution since. In this episode I was super stoked to get to talk through that in detail with Tahlia along with her own journey with physiotherapy and movement, some of the main problems with the traditional approach to healthcare and Physio and the immense value of connection and community for improving outcomes in rehab and overall health. Learn more about becoming a TFC Explorer here. Or join our new TFC Community here, its free and Inside you’ll get access to: · The Foot Freedom Map (our step-by-step guide to building healthy feet) · Education about common conditions · Expert support from our guides · Foot & balance Training Systems · Weekly movement challenges · Monthly live Q&A calls See you there! Ready to find your SoleMate - you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week I’m back with Tom from Breath Performance to explore the concept of Shin Splints - what they are, how they happen and what you can do about them based on the current research as well as our experience with our physiotherapy clients. If you’re struggling to make progress in your rehab, please feel free to reach out as we can either help you directly with our online consultations or can point you in the right direction of other practitioners or resources that can help you. Learn more about becoming a TFC Explorer here. Or join our new TFC Community here, its free and Inside you’ll get access to: · The Foot Freedom Map (our step-by-step guide to building healthy feet) · Education about common conditions · Expert support from our guides · Foot & balance Training Systems · Weekly movement challenges · Monthly live Q&A calls See you there! Ready to find your SoleMate - you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week we’re bringing you our first Live Fireside. On the first Friday of every month we host a live monthly catch up around the virtual campfire inside our community. It’s a warm welcoming space where our members can come together face to face to share stories and ask those burning questions to help them on their journey. This Live Fireside was all about our brand new Explorer Membership. It’s essentially our ultimate digital tool and experience designed to help humans get out of pain and find foot freedom. In this chat we are joined by TFC leaders and community members from around the world and layout our vision for this exciting new chapter in the TFC story. Learn more about becoming a TFC Explorer here. Or join our new TFC Community here, its free and Inside you’ll get access to: · The Foot Freedom Map (our step-by-step guide to building healthy feet) · Education about common conditions · Expert support from our guides · Foot & balance Training Systems · Weekly movement challenges · Monthly live Q&A calls See you there! Ready to find your SoleMate - you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week I chat with Marty and Ange from The A Life - throughout the episode we explore their journey with movement and health, including how and why they transitioned from owning a physical osteopathy practice to a now thriving online movement community. We also delve into their experience with pregnancy so far and discuss the value of mindset and movement practices in preparation for birth and the post-partum period, which is a topic that is very close to home for me at the moment as well, being a new dad myself. I really enjoyed this conversation with Marty and Ange and highly recommend checking out their Instagram page and website for plenty of awesome movement tips and training programs! Join our new TFC Community and receive our free Foot Freedom Map - learn more here. Ready to find your SoleMate - you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week I’m back again with Tom from Breath Performance Physio to explore the concept of Morton’s Neuroma - what it is, why it happens and what you can do about it based on the current research and our experience with our physio clients. If you’re struggling to make progress in your rehab, please feel free to reach out as we can either help you directly with our online consultations or can point you in the right direction of other practitioners or resources that can help you. Join our new TFC Community and receive our free Foot Freedom Map - learn more here. Ready to find your SoleMate - you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

We’re back with our first 'Story From The Sole' of 2023, where we talk to real people with real life experiences to understand how they’ve navigated their foot health journey. This week I chat to Alison Alder a 42 year old nurse and mother from Brisbane who’s had a really remarkable ride. It was a podcast just like this that first opened here eyes to the barefoot world before an ankle injury struck her down. Alison was in severe pain. Health professionals insisted she would have to ditch her natural footwear for good and rely on supportive shoes and technologies for the rest of her life. Alison wasn’t having it and her journey back from surgery is an inspiring example of what can be achieved with the right mindset and the support of practitioners who empower you along the way. Join our new TFC Community and receive our free Foot Freedom Map - learn more here. Ready to find your SoleMate - you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week we’re back with a brand new episode on the 'Restore To Explore' podcast. I’m joined by Chloe-May Bennett from Functional Soles, which is a podiatry clinic here in Brisbane that she runs with her partner Travis. Throughout the episode we explore Chloe-May’s journey with podiatry and how her approach has evolved over time, we discuss the role of orthotics in a holistic model of care, the misconceptions around flat feet especially in young children as well as some key strategies for the prevention of foot health issues throughout the lifespan. Join our new TFC Community and receive our free Foot Freedom Map - learn more here. Ready to find your SoleMate - you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

It’s flashback Friday where we bring you the greatest hits from the TFC Audio Project hosted by The Foot Collective’s Canadian founder Nick St Louis. On this episode from 2019 Nick has a conversation with Tony Riddle. Also known as The Natural Lifestylist. Tony Riddle is a natural lifestyle coach, father, husband, best-selling author of ‘Be More Human’ and record-breaking barefoot endurance athlete. In this chat they cover the topics of rewiring behaviours, defining spirituality, having your physical/social/spiritual needs met, and living a natural lifestyle in our modern unnatural world. He's got some great knowledge on raising kids and spent some time talking about creating better templates for the next generation of humans. Join our new TFC Community and receive our free Foot Freedom Map - learn more here. Ready to find your SoleMate - you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

It’s flashback Friday where we bring you the greatest hits from the TFC Audio Project hosted by The Foot Collective’s Canadian founder Nick St Louis. In this episode from 2020 Nick chats to Brian Mackenzie an innovator in human performance and stress adaptation. They discuss breathing, how he got into breath, and the physiology of respiration. They also touch a bit on mental health and they finish by talking about what it means to be a health storyteller. Join our new TFC Community and receive our free Foot Freedom Map - learn more here. Ready to find your SoleMate - you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week we’re back with another flashback Friday episode. This time it’s our founder Nick and fellow TFC O-G Mike who are the guests. They chatted to Dr. Rangan Cheterjee on the Feel Better, Live More podcast back in 2018. The trio discuss orthotics and the damaging effects of wearing narrow shoes which squash our feet and talk about how we can help restore our feet to their natural state. Nick and Mike also explain how there are many ailments that a lot of us just write off as something that we just have, or that we’ve inherited, when in actual fact, there may be something we can do to improve these conditions. The truth is, that while we might have a genetic susceptibility, our environment and our lifestyles also determine what happens to our bodies. Join our new TFC Community and receive our free Foot Freedom Map - learn more here. Ready to find your SoleMate - you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week we’re kicking off our first flashback Friday where we bring you the greatest hits from the TFC Audio Project hosted by The Foot Collective’s Canadian founder Nick St Louis. In this episode Nick chats with Ben Patrick better known as Knees Over Toes Guy. They discuss Ben’s story, solving knee problems, the importance of feet and how they think of money. Join our new TFC Community and receive our free Foot Freedom Map - learn more here. Ready to find your SoleMate - you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

To kick off the R2E podcast for 2023 we have a special episode with our founder Nick St Louis. Nick was over from Canada at the end of last year for a few weeks and it gave our team a chance to get some great clarity on the vision for TFC and also just to play and connect in person after a few years apart. One of the biggest take aways for us from the trip was the power of story and how crafting a new story for yourself is one of the major keys to having long-term sustainable change with your health and how collective stories are the driver of changes throughout culture. And so what we want to do with TFC is really help people shift their story around their foot health, from being a victim of their genetics or circumstances to being an active participant on a journey towards foot freedom. In this episode we explore this concept and give guidance on how to navigate that journey - this is a narrative that we will continue to build on throughout the year and we’d love to hear your feedback on how it resonates with you. This week’s episode is brought to you by our brand new TFC Community. It’s a completely free online space that we like to think of as private community hall for humans to learn, connect, share, inspire and support one another on the journey to foot freedom. To learn more or join the community, just click here.  By signing up you'll be the first through the doors for when The Foot Collective Community opens on February 1! Ready to find your SoleMate - you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week we have special episode to celebrate our 10,000th tree planted with Reforest Now. For the past couple of years we’ve been donating a percentage of our profits to the Byron Bay based charity. $5 equals one rainforest tree planted, which means with your help we’ve been able to donate more than $50,000 so far. In this episode we chat to Reforest Now’s founder Maximo Bottaro. He’s a passionate environmentalist with a big vision for restoring rainforests here in Australia and eventually abroad. His grassroots not-for-profit is made up a team of hard-working scientists, bush regenerators and nursery people who source seeds of native trees, grow and plant them in a strategic way that gives our endangered rainforests the best chance of flourishing once again. Ready to find your SoleMate - you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

In this week’s Story From The Sole I chat to Shelby Tatum. The young mother from Sydney has been a hairdresser for 15 years so she’s always on her feet. When the 32-year-old returned to work after maternity leave last year she started suffering from plantar fasciitis. The pain got worse as the year went on but just a few months after finding her SoleMate she’s making incredible progress. Ready to find your SoleMate? You can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week I’m back with Tom Williams from Breath Performance to explore the concept of achilles tendinopathy - what it is, how it happens and what you can do about it based on the current research as well as our experience with our physiotherapy clients. If you’re struggling to make progress in your rehab, please feel free to reach out as we can either help you directly with our online consultations or can point you in the right direction of other practitioners or resources that can help you. If you’re ready to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week I’m joined by Richard Game, who is a physiotherapist, performance coach and functional medicine practitioner based here in Brisbane. Throughout the episode we explore the differences between conventional or allopathic medicine and functional medicine, the concept of an evolutionary approach to health and how it relates to things like nutrition, movement and sunlight exposure, we also discuss the role of environmental and cultural changes for promoting public health along with the importance of individuals making educated and empowered choices.  If you’re ready to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week’s Story From The Sole comes from Chenoa McDonnell. Chenoa is proof that it’s never too late to put your feet first, no matter how crippling your pain may be. Just walking used to leave Chenoa in agony but with the right tools and a play-based approach to her rehab she has made huge strides towards foot freedom. I was truely truely inspired when Chenoa first shared her story with us and I hope you will be too! If you’re ready to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week I’m back with Tom Williams from Breath Performance to explore the concept of bunions - what they are, how they happen and what you can do about them based on the current research as well as our experience with our physiotherapy clients. If you’re struggling to make progress in your rehab, please feel free to reach out as we can either help you directly with our online consultations or can point you in the right direction of other practitioners or resources that can help you.  If you’re ready to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

We’re back with another Story From The Sole. This week I chat to Josh Slater, a landscaper and father-of-two who’s been on an incredible barefoot journey. He first started getting foot pain as a teenager which lead to debilitating back and lower body issues for the next two decades.But after a chance connection lead him down a barefoot rabbit hole Josh is now pain-free and is now training to run shoe-free - a goal that would have seemed unimaginable just a couple of years ago. Ready to find your SoleMate -you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh

This week I’m joined by Jeff Goff from Natur Athletics, which is a family-run startup based in the US that is developing a solution to the problem of athletic footwear. Throughout the episode we discuss the issues with conventional sports footwear and how these came about, the different dangers of our modern sporting culture, the power of movement variability and play for injury prevention and the importance of instilling these strategies in athletes as early as possible. Follow Natur Athletics on instagram or click here to support their Kickstarter. Ready to find your SoleMate -you can check out our all-in-one foot restoration, balance and mobility tool here and get free shipping Australia-wide on all SoleMate Kits. If you’re keen to restore and explore your own natural function you can check out our range of physical and digital tools at our shop. Use the code R2E10 to save 10%. Follow us on: Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook Sign up to our TFC Tribe for weekly movement snacks and education straight to your inbox or join our Private TFC Community Group to share your barefoot journey with fellow like-minded SoleMates. Audio: Quote - Allan Watts Music: Dream Chaser - Lunareh Written By - Wiriyapa Chansuwong Performed & Produced By - Lunareh