The Nik Hawks Show
Conversations in pursuit of excellence. Go to nikhawks.com for more. Formerly the Paleo Treats Podcast.
Episodes
"For as long as I can remember, I've made things." Dave Schipper joins us to re-start the pod after I've taken a 5 year hiatus. Dave is a generally rad dude hailing from Moab, Utah, and if you've ever done anything even half-way hardcore in the great outdoors it's reasonably likely you've used a piece of gear he designed.
We talk about the paraglider bag we worked on together as well as his experience as a designer & developer t...
Principle Investigator at the Anne Andrews Research Group at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
Psychiatry is the study and treatment of mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal behavior
Leads research on anxiety & depression
Trying to understand how neurotransmitters are used in chemical commun...
From abalone hunter to national park service law enforcement to viral video cat rescuing star, Shannon Jay is the kind of guy you just love to sit down and listen to. A fantastic story teller, he is one of my favorite people to catch up with.
In the podcast he talks about hunting giant red abalone on the Lost Coast, what he learned in 31 years ...
Stan Graham sticks out in any crowd. At 6'5" with a shock of white hair, he's a physical presence.
He can also move that mass pretty quickly. In October of 2019 he's aiming for a world record for the 50 and over crowd.
We talked about running a bit in the show, but went more deeply into his beliefs, how he got into running, and why he started Elements meals.
A rad human with a story worth sharing. Enjoy!
Scott Mann shares his journey from revenge-driven Green Beret "putting scalps on the barn" in Afghanistan to creative storyteller helping guide other veterans through the process of transitioning from the military to civilian life.
Scott takes us through his career including why he turned down a military command opportunity 3 times: "I joined to be a Green Beret, not a Colonel".
He tells us about his journey out of the military, h...
Been working on this piece of writing for a while, thought I'd share one of the first drafts with you. As you'll hear, this comes from my experiences riding earth energy, would love to get your feedback on it. Rock on!
For more info go to nikhawks.com
-NFH
This is classic podcast material: A dive into a fascinating topic that you wouldn't normally hear about.
Jeff Shapiro is a well known climber, base jumper, wingsuit pilot, hang glider, and paraglider but for this show we focused on his passion for falconry.
Jeff is a Master falconer and has been working with raptors since becoming an Apprentice 2000.
We talk about how you get birds, how to train them, and about some of the peak ex...
This episode with Massimiliano (Max) de Zambotti came about when I found his paper on comparing the Oura ring against the gold standard of sleep assessment, polysomnography.
Being the curious type, I clicked his name on the Pubmed link and found a whole list of papers he's worked on. As it turns out, he studies insomnia up at SRI and is deeply and narrowly focused on understanding mechanisms of insomnia.
We cover wearable sleep ...
This one covers one of my favorite stories, Ralph A. telling us about the opportunity of a lifetime. Enjoy the wanderings, for how often to lift weights on a maintenance plan to the latest hobby and books I'm reading. I finish off with a reading of the Letter to Jake. Yaww!
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Random thoughts, recent news, and books I'm reading. Capacity for luck, creating a long term high, towels vs toilet paper and what happens when you're not prepared for the best day ever. Let's do this!
This show with Roy Harris skips most of his (DEEP!) martial arts history and jumps into two things he's passionate about and equally stoked on: Teaching and Human Movement.
Roy has the kind of resume you might build if you were writing a character for Hollywood that needed to be able to fight anybody, anywhere, with anything, but never needed to.
He's known for his Jiu Jitsu courses, so we jump way into how he came up with his te...
Thanks for the push, Jamie A! This one's for you. For the rest of ya...
I had a rad guest lined up who got themselves in a spot of trouble stealing deer stands in Utah. Suffice to say there's more to the story than has been generally reported, but since he's gotten death threats I figured adding information to the internet about him probably wasn't going to help him & his family. So that one's gone.
In the meantime I've gotten ...
Charlie is my kind of adventurer. Father, husband, pilot, sailor, and general fixer of anything broken, Charlie's been a mentor and example to me for a long time. Listen in to hear how a regular guy has lived the life you probably dream about. More at nikhawks.com
This is a short spoken word piece, less than 5 minutes. It came to me the other day in my truck and I recorded the initial effort. Over the following few days I wrote it all down, refined it, pruned it, made it closer to what I was hoping it would be.
It ended up (as of 26Sep2018) in this format.
Enjoy!
-NFH
In this episode I interview Barb & Doug Garrott, owners of Orphan Espresso.
B & D first attracted my interest when I went down the coffee rabbithole and discovered the importance of grinding coffee to A) the correct size and B) making sure ALL the grinds were the same size, and not having some large, some small.
Their Pharos has become a part of my morning coffee ritual, in large part because of the feel of the thing; it's like h...
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