On episode 90 of Welcome To The Winners Circle, Derek Pang interviews Riley Cote (www.rileycote.com; IG: @rileycote32) a creative entrepreneur, Yoga teacher & mindfulness coach who’s played 8 years of professional hockey, including 4 years as an NHL enforcer with the Philadelphia Flyers. He’s a co-founder of Bodychek Wellness (IG: @bodychekwellness), who specialize in organically grown hemp-derived CBD extracts and functional mushroom blends. He’s also the co-host of the Nasty Knuckles Podcast (IG: @nastyknucklespod) and founder of Cote Culture where he incorporates Yoga, plant medicine & mindfulness to help others optimize their self-care and heal. Lastly, he’s involved with WAKE (IG: @wake.well), a global leader in psilocybin and medicinal mushroom supplements and research and Athletes For Care a non-Profit for athletes, by athletes (IG: @athletes4care).
Here are some of the subjects we touched on:
- What he loves about his world right now.
- The mission that guides him in all that he does.
- Attending to one’s mental health.
- Spiritual wellness.
- Human optimization.
- The foundational pieces that keep him well mentally, spiritually and physically.
- The importance of Yoga in this healing journey.
- What opened his eyes to Yoga and the Yoga philosophy.
- Overcoming addiction.
- What life means to him today.
- How he overcomes resistance.
- The medicinal properties of plant medicine.
- A discussion of Body Check Wellness’ organically grown Hemp-derived CBD l and functional mushroom blends.
- Cannabis.
- What cannabinoids can do for brain - promote neurogenesis.
- Psilocybin mushrooms.
- How he helps athletes with his non-profit Athletes 4 Care.
- The biggest life lesson he has learnt on his path thus far.
- Embracing the beauty this life experience, if we choose.
I hope you guys enjoy this podcast as much as we did. We are all on the same path, The Hero’s Journey, just at different points along the way. Thank you so much for listening!
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