Flow Unleashed

About Flow Unleashed

Interested in HUMAN performance? Want to be kept up-to-date with the latest science and practice? Join Cameron Norsworthy, scientist and coach to multiple world champions, as he unpacks key topics to peak performance, deep engagement, and life satisfaction. After a career-ending injury as an athlete, I became fascinated by human experience; why in one moment, we can be feeling and acting our very best, only to struggle and stress moments later. I studied sports and performance psychology, neuroscience, coaching, and life-hacking, and did my PhD in advancing our understanding and application of flow. I became a scientist, an entrepreneur, and a coach, and found my life’s purpose in helping some of the world’s best athletes, entrepreneurs, and professionals find their flow. My drive to keep learning and growing genesis an organisation to innovate human performance and set the standards for performance coaching. In this podcast, I share everything that I am working on, giving you a window into the skills, insights, research, and practices that I use every day working with elite professionals. Meet experts from around the world and famous performers with unique stories as we unpack specific topics to help you evolve, raise your game when it matters, and help others to find success.

Publisher

Cameron Norsworthy

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Oct 2024

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

57 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   S6 E1: Breathwork and Flow: Christopher Gladwell on Returning to Functional Breathing

   Cameron interviews breathwork teacher and author Christopher Gladwell about how breathing links thought, physiology, perception, and performance, arguing pain is natural but suffering is optional and rooted in the stories we tell. Gladwell describes his path from a traumatic childhood to running, martial arts, injury recovery, and deep study of yoga and meditation, and critiques formulaic breathwork that adds mental control rather than responding to physiology. He explains breathing’s cellular purpose (oxygen enabling ATP production), how stress thinking shifts breathing, carbon dioxide, and oxygen delivery, and how nasal, low, slow, abdominal breathing can rapidly shift emotional state via the limbic system and vagal pathways. They discuss cultivating embodied intelligence through feeling, movement, and awareness, reframing “flow” as our natural state, addressing attention conditioning, and viewing ADHD/neurodiversity as attentional variability that can be trained through rhythmic attention cycling. Gladwell’s practical takeaway is awareness of breathing and restoring functional nasal breathing before advanced practices. 00:00 Pain Versus Suffering 00:41 Meet Christopher Gladwell 02:28 Names And Identity 05:03 Origins And Childhood 06:59 Running Breath And Yoga 09:39 Daily Practice And Work 11:02 Breathwork Myths Today 11:55 Why Humans Breathe Wrong 15:18 Why We Breathe At All 16:28 Thought Addiction And Breath 19:25 CO2 Oxygen And Spiral 22:15 Nasal Breathing Benefits 27:22 Limbic System Explained 30:02 Breath Calms Emotions 31:08 Gut Brain Vagus Pathway 32:18 Body Intelligence Wonder 38:30 Flow Awareness Attention 41:39 Pain Versus Suffering 44:58 Breath Awareness Practice 48:04 ADHD As Superpower 53:22 Functional Breathing Basics 55:14 Books Films Longevity 57:37 Being Flow Art 01:00:52 Final Takeaways Wrap

2. 

   12 May 2026

   S5 E9: Why Hope Matters: Action, Resilience, and the Hope Barometer with Dr Andreas Krafft

   In a conversation with Cameron, Andreas Krafft explains why hope is an existential human phenomenon needed to survive, flourish, and act, especially amid environmental, political, and societal crises. He describes hope as an emergent property with three necessary elements: a meaningful wish, belief that it is possible, and trust in personal and external resources to cope with setbacks. They discuss how young people have faced helplessness and a lack of positive prospects since the pandemic, and how negativity bias can fuel spirals of despair, countered by attention to positive experiences, strengths, solidarity, and success. Andres emphasises relationships—warning loneliness is a “hope killer”—and notes fear of disappointment often blocks hope, though disappointment is part of it. He outlines the Hope Barometer, a 15-year multinational survey mapping cultural patterns of hope and its links to wellbeing, resilience, values, and beliefs, and argues for new positive narratives to reduce polarisation and motivate shared societal goals. 00:00 Why Hope Matters 02:42 Hope Fuels Action 05:20 Three Elements of Hope 12:43 Hope in Hard Times 20:20 Negativity Bias Trap 25:15 Rebuilding Hope Daily 28:56 Belief and Disappointment 32:22 Hope Needs Connection 34:04 Love as a Metaphor 35:12 Rebuilding Hope Together 35:47 Hope Barometer Origins 38:26 Hope Across Cultures 40:33 Hope Links to Resilience 43:53 Crisis Focus Fuels Polarization 49:25 Young People and Lost Prospects 52:18 New Narratives for the Future 58:14 Practical Ways to Foster Hope 01:01:27 Books That Shaped Him 01:02:57 Hope Beyond the Self 01:08:51 Sharing the Candle of Hope 01:09:43 Final Thanks and Farewell For shownotes see: https://www.cameronnorsworthy.com/flow-unleashed To purchase the book ‘How to Find Flow’, visit https://geni.us/HowToFindFlow

3. 

   5 May 2026

   S5 E8: How to improve your memory and cognitive ability with World Record Holder Dave Farrow

   Dave Faro discusses how childhood diagnoses of ADHD and dyslexia led him to develop brain training methods aimed at practical learning rather than “memory athlete” competition, including inventing five techniques and a “memory modes” syllabus tested in a double-blind study at McGill University. He explains that mnemonics work by making information feel novel, and argues people differ in what triggers novelty (action, exaggeration, personalisation, oddity, fantastical), with “teacher bias” causing mismatches. Faro recounts his Guinness records memorising 59 shuffled decks (3,068 cards) using compression and training. He teaches a names-and-faces “costume party” method using the first visualizable association, plus recall “shadow memory” tactics (look up/slow breathing; question technique; journaling questions before sleep). He covers stress effects (cortisol), meditation, ADHD as risk-oriented wiring, “focus bursts” timed study intervals, his multi-business experience during COVID, his PR agency’s trend-and-demographic publicity formula, and basics of sight-based speed reading. 00:00 Meet Dave Pharaoh 01:09 Why Memory Training 03:10 Memory Modes Breakthrough 04:24 Guinness Card Record 06:50 How Mnemonics Work 10:02 Finding Your Style 13:47 Names and Faces Trick 17:14 Trusting Your Memory 25:44 Recall and Shadow Methods 31:50 Staying Calm Under Pressure 38:27 Mindfulness Over Panic 39:36 ADHD Rise and Stimulation 42:16 Risk Trait Theory 46:43 Focus Bursts Method 51:57 Managing Many Projects 55:53 PR Formula That Works 01:02:44 Speed Reading Basics 01:08:47 Books Films and Purpose 01:15:07 Dharma and Final Wrap For show notes see: https://www.cameronnorsworthy.com/flow-unleashed To purchase the book ‘How to Find Flow’, visit https://geni.us/HowToFindFlow

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• Dr Cameron Norsworthy
• Martin Oetting
• Jared Weintraub
• Helena Agueda Marujo
• Ed Sobey

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