"I know this." Andrew May hears it from some of the smartest people in the country, right before they admit they are doing none of it.

The gap between what we know and what we do is not a willpower problem or a time problem, and treating it like one is exactly why nothing changes.

He breaks down the difference between self-awareness and self-regulation, and the small, almost embarrassing first step that actually closes it.

This episode was originally published on the Healthed podcast with Dr David Lim. You can find the original interview here.
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What do people say about you when you're not in the room?

How are they introducing you, summing up your work, your professionalism, your brand? Now imagine you had control over that.

Because here's the reality: you already have a brand. You're building it whether you like it or not, and right now it's either working for you or quietly costing you.

Maz Farrelly has spent 30 years creating and articulating some of the biggest names and biggest shows on television. The producer behind Big Brother, The X Factor, Celebrity Apprentice, Q&A: Maz is back on the podcast to hand you the exact strategies she's used to make the most famous brands and people unforgettable.

You could leave your brand to chance and risk being misunderstood. Or, you could take control and build a brand people buy.

00:00 The sentence people say when you're not in the room
02:50 Maz's brand framework: know who you are, know what they want
03:34 Stop selling, start being bought
06:08 The man who wore white every day
07:31 Say it until other people say it for you
09:53 What's your "white coat"?
10:28 Your one line is harder than your wedding vows
13:02 The room full of CEOs who wrote her off
14:52 The reframe: your brand is about them, not you
18:14 Speak backwards: how to find your oddity
22:44 Inside the room with the most famous people on earth
24:09 Why Trump didn't waste energy on her, and why it's smart
26:32 How to work with Maz

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Women achieve the same cardiovascular health benefits as men at roughly half the exercise volume. Yet the standard exercise guidelines prescribe identical amounts for both.

Dr Paul Batman argues this is one example of a deeper problem: a fitness model built on incomplete data, applied to populations it was never designed to reach. Only 16 percent of people follow the conventional guidelines. The question is not how to motivate the other 84 percent to do more. It is whether we are asking them to do the right thing at all.

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