Welcome to the universe of Corrective Culture. Join your hosts Jake & Callan as they dive into the realms of health, wellness and life's truth with honesty & humour. Tune in every Monday at 5am for a brand new episode with the future of holistic health.
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Callan Krause, Jake Stone
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health & fitness · religion & spirituality · society & culture
Why You Can’t Switch Off: Meditation, Ego & Inner Peace with Mitch Hunter
Do you feel like you always need to be doing something, even when there’s nothing urgent to do?
Mitch Hunter returns to the Corrective Culture Podcast for an honest conversation with Jake and Callan about meditation, ego, fear and finding peace when life feels anything but peaceful.
Jake shares his experience of confronting intense fear during guided meditation with Mitch. We explore the pressure of money and responsibility, why the same patterns keep showing up, and what it means to follow your own path.
We also get into the hero’s journey, spiritual bypassing, social media overwhelm and whether chasing enlightenment can become another ego project. Along the way, Mitch guides Callan through a short awareness exercise and shares the story behind his upcoming book.
An open conversation about being human, letting go and learning to feel more at home in yourself.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Welcome back, Mitch Hunter
02:34 Jake’s meditation experience: confronting fear and ego
07:39 Why we feel constantly busy and rushed
11:58 Money stress, uncertainty and letting go
17:30 Finding stability when life keeps changing
19:52 Following your truth and recognising repeating patterns
23:48 When the things you used to love feel different
30:00 Storytelling, learning and the power of myth
36:10 The hero’s journey explained
41:08 Coffee, diet and meditation
42:48 Parenthood, spiritual experiences and fear of death
49:05 Can enlightenment become an ego project?
52:45 Humility and being able to say “I don’t know”
54:18 Authenticity and social media overwhelm
59:29 A conversation about living authentically
01:03:35 Can self development become self rejection?
01:07:10 A short guided awareness exercise with Mitch
01:10:55 Why doing nothing takes practice
01:12:44 Open awareness and learning not to react
01:15:23 Mitch’s upcoming book and where to find him
CONNECT WITH MITCH
Instagram: @_mitchhunter
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29 Sept 2026
Fascia, Food & Finding Your Purpose
With Callan flying out to Europe for four weeks, we got one last episode in before he goes. We start with food: why cutting one thing at a time is the easiest way to fix your gut, how to get slow cooks right (let it set and pull the fat off), and why homemade collagen gummies show up in your skin within days. We also get into why fruit, veg and fiber still matter, even if you lean carnivore.
Then we go deep on hands-on tissue work. Callan shares a client who got his neck range back six and a half years after throat cancer surgery, and a rower who couldn't get her arms overhead. Her real problem turned out to be low back pain, and a few tight muscles were the cause. We break down simple clinical reasoning (think joint actions, not individual muscles), rib and intercostal release, and why good and bad exercise depends on the person.
We finish on the bigger stuff: identity after sport, why chasing highs is as hard on your nervous system as the lows, and listener questions on feeling lost in your 20s and learning to hear your own truth.
25 Jun 2026
The Truth About Posture, Pain & Movement
We discuss why context matters more than rigid systems, the limitations of research, how posture should be interpreted, injury prevention, hamstring stiffness, lumbar spine mechanics, neutral movement, shoulder rehabilitation and the importance of understanding the person in front of you rather than following dogma.
Whether you're a therapist, coach or someone passionate about movement, this episode challenges conventional thinking and encourages a more adaptable, evidence-informed approach.
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Episode Highlights
Walden returns to the podcast
Consciousness, DMT and altered states
Finding meaning and purpose
The dangers of dogmatic thinking
Paul Chek and different schools of movement
Posture: when it matters—and when it doesn't
Hamstring stiffness and injury research
Lumbar posture and back pain
Why context is everything in rehabilitation
Neutral spine vs movement variability
Baker's cysts and clinical reasoning
Muscle testing, motor control and rehabilitation principles
00:00 – Welcome back, Walden
04:40 – Singing, wellbeing and daily habits
09:40 – The meaning of life and consciousness
11:00 – DMT, ayahuasca and altered states
15:00 – Salvia experiences and perception
20:00 – Paul Chek, criticism and open-mindedness
25:00 – Tonic vs phasic muscles and posture cues
30:00 – Why no movement system has all the answers
35:00 – Dogma in rehabilitation and movement education
40:00 – Contact sports, tissue adaptation and resilience
45:00 – Clinical cases and shoulder rehabilitation
50:00 – Barefoot running and Achilles adaptation
53:00 – Research, lumbar posture and disc injuries
57:00 – Why posture isn't inherently good or bad
1:00:00 – Neutral spine and movement options
1:05:00 – Baker's cysts and assessment strategies
1:10:00 – Hip flexors, TFL and motor control
1:15:00 – Challenging common rehabilitation beliefs
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[…] And then I also had psoriasis that occurred when I was about, and then 10 or 11 when I started, because I was born in Eastern Europe. And so when I came to Australia, I should didn't know one word of English. And as you can imagine, in our culture, we don't necessarily celebrate differences in this country where it would kind of like, things to be, you know, how we like it, which is, you know, and I say we because I've lived here for so long now. But essentially, when I was here, Eastern Europe was like the worst place you could ever come from. And so I got really bullied. And I think it was challenging for me because I felt quite, like, I was quite an extrovert. […]
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