Ratio Podcast
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Most people think healthy eating means following stricter rules: fewer carbs, fewer calories, fewer “bad” foods. But strict rules often create the exact behaviour they’re meant to prevent. Eat one cookie, feel guilty, decide the day is ruined, then eat three more. In this episode, I speak with registered dietitian Tony Marinucci about how to build a healthier relationship with food—without obsession, punishment, or another fad diet. We explore why extreme restriction backfires, how “good” and “bad” food labels damage your mindset, and why focusing on energy, confidence, and long-term habits beats chasing a number on the scales. Tony also shares practical ways to handle comments about your body, set boundaries around diet talk, and make nutrition simpler rather than more complicated. Notice when you label food as “good” or “bad” and ask what belief is behind it. Choose one small, repeatable habit that improves how you feel—not just how you look. Set a calm boundary when someone comments on your body or eating…
Most people think healthy eating means following stricter rules: fewer carbs, fewer calories, fewer “bad” foods. But strict rules often create the exact behaviour they’re meant to prevent. Eat one cookie, feel guilty, decide the day is ruined, then eat three more. In this episode, I speak with registered dietitian Tony Marinucci about how to build a healthier relationship with food—without obsession, punishment, or another fad diet. We explore why extreme restriction backfires, how “good” and “bad” food labels damage your mindset, and why focusing on energy, confidence, and long-term habits beats chasing a number on the scales. Tony also shares practical ways to handle comments about your body, set boundaries around diet talk, and make nutrition simpler rather than more complicated. Notice when you label food as “good” or “bad” and ask what belief is behind it. Choose one small, repeatable habit that improves how you feel—not just how you look. Set a calm boundary when someone comments on your body or eating…
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What Your Relationship With Food Is Trying to Tell You - w/ Toni Maranucci
СлушаноMost people think healthy eating means following stricter rules: fewer carbs, fewer calories, fewer “bad” foods. But strict rules often create the exact behaviour they’re meant to prevent. Eat one cookie, feel guilty, decide the day is ruined, then eat three more. In this episode, I speak with registered dietitian Tony Marinucci about how to build a healthier relationship with food—without obsession, punishment, or another fad diet. We explore why extreme restriction backfires, how “good” and “bad” food labels damage your mindset, and why focusing on energy, confidence, and long-term habits beats chasing a number on the scales. Tony also shares practical ways to handle comments about your body, set boundaries around diet talk, and make nutrition simpler rather than more complicated. Notice when you label food as “good” or “bad” and ask what belief is behind it. Choose one small, repeatable habit that improves how you feel—not just how you look. Set a calm boundary when someone comments on your body or eating…
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AMA: Accountability and Procrastination, Lasting Enthusiasm and Auditory Processing Issues
СлушаноWhy we procrastinate, lose enthusiasm and struggle to process spoken information—and what actually helps. In this listener AMA, I answer three questions: how auditory processing difficulties affect a child’s willingness to learn, why enthusiasm disappears even when nothing is objectively wrong, and how to stop procrastinating on projects that matter. I share my own experience of struggling with spoken instructions, language learning and getting a podcast off the ground. We look at why “just try harder” usually fails, why accountability often works better than willpower, and how to make difficult tasks feel less punishing. Separate low enthusiasm from negativity bias before deciding whether to quit. Turn one intimidating project into visible, small next actions. Use deadlines, other people and reduced friction to make follow-through easier. If this gave you a useful idea, send it to someone who needs permission to start imperfectly. SPONSORS ☺️ NOCD Struggling with OCD or unrelenting intrusive…
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How to Make Your Ideas Survive a Changing World
СлушаноA life is brief. An idea can travel further than its inventor ever will. What determines which ones last? We follow life’s story from the first organisms to the systems we build today, using three laws of biology as a lens: competition, selection and reproduction. These aren’t just rules for animals in a nature documentary. They also help us think about innovation, businesses, beliefs and the ambitions that shape our own lives. Seen this way, success isn’t simply being clever or working harder. An idea must meet a real need, adapt when its environment changes, and find a way to continue beyond its creator. That doesn’t make the future predictable. It makes it more open: if survival depends partly on fit, then changing the idea—or the conditions around it—can change what becomes possible. Notice which assumptions your environment is rewarding—and which it is quietly discarding. Make room for variation before committing everything to one solution. Ask how your idea can remain useful when you are no longer…
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How to Catch Your Brain Lying to You: A Practical Guide to Self-Awareness Over Ego
СлушаноIt's easy to spend our lives defending a story about who we are, instead of finding out who we could become. This episode is an invitation to stop protecting your ego and start practising self-awareness as a craft. We look at how high intelligence can turn into a sophisticated self-deception machine, and how the stories we tell ourselves—“I’m the rational one”, “I learn from feedback”, “I’m different from those stubborn people”—are often the very things that keep us stuck. Through real examples from science, travel, and building (and misbuilding) companies, you’ll see how ego hides in certainty, and how growth begins the moment you allow yourself to be wrong on purpose. This is about a shift in identity, from someone who must be right to someone who is willing to see. Identify three recurring patterns where your ego resists uncomfortable truths. Create a regular “ego audit” ritual: write, reflect, and invite honest feedback. Choose relationships and environments that reward curiosity over confidence. Hit…
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Faster Than Normal - Living well with ADHD
СлушаноThe peculiar thing about attention deficit is that everybody seems to have it these days, whether they've earned it through proper diagnosis or simply absorbed it from an enthusiastic TikTok video filmed in someone's bathroom. What I've learned, from my own escapades, and partly through reading Peter Shankman's excellent book Faster Than Normal, is that whatever your brain does, you need to learn how to drive it. This conversation covers the four rules Shankman uses to turn a supposedly defective brain into rather useful equipment, none of which involve medication or particularly virtuous behaviour. Structure your environment so willpower becomes optional Eliminate choice wherever possible — routine isn't boring, it's protective Exercise before you need focus, not after you've lost it Work with your strengths, delegate the rest SPONSORS ☺️ MOD.com Prescription Modafinil for energy and focus. Free consultation, free shipping and 10% off Promo code PSYCHOLOGY at MOD.com 🌎 Planet…
