Float Conference Podcast

Zerin Beattie is the founder of XPAND and host of The XPAND Podcast, which focuses on helping push the evolution of consciousness forward. His field of study involves over a decade of meditation, 250+ float sessions, plant medicine ceremonies around the world and an extensive knowledge base in movement, mind-body integration and martial arts. Sharing […] The post 146: Zerin Beattie shares his extensive floating and meditation experiences appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

We talk with Mike Ruskow and Andreas Kraemer from Just Float, which is currently the world’s largest float center over in Pasadena, California. Mike, one of the founders, began working on the concept of Just Float over 6 years ago and is currently working closely with his Executive Director, Andreas, to continue the shift of […] The post 145: Business concepts from the World’s Largest Float Center – Mike Ruskow and Andreas Kraemer appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

Returning speaker and podcast guest, Dr. Roy Vore speaks to us about his upcoming presentation that continues the informative conversation of germs and float tank solution, specifically in what we can do as float center owners. He also shares more about his background and how he got started down his long-standing career. Roy is a […] The post 144: Roy Vore informs us about microbiology and its relation to Float Tanks appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

In this episode we’re talking with Dan Price, who founded Gravity Payments when he was just 19 years old and has worked hard to maintain his mission of helping hard-working small business owners stay competitive against larger corporations by making credit card processing transparent, fair, and easy. Today, nearly 20,000 independent businesses across all 50 […] The post 143: Leadership and mindfulness with Dan Price, nationally recognized entrepreneur appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

On this episode, we have Dr. Matt Driller, who is an academic staff member in Health, Sport and Human Performance at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and has published over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles with a focus on fatigue, recovery and sleep in elite athletes. We chat about how he got started down […] The post 142: Dr. Matt Driller discusses exercise physiology and Float-REST for Athletes appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

On this episode, we’re chatting with Michael Zev, from Dreampod, one of this year’s amazing Float Conference sponsors. He opened one of Asia’s first commercial float centers back in the late 2000’s and has been manufacturing float pods for almost 5 years now. We were fortunate enough to get Mike to share his story of […] The post 141: Mike Zev shares thoughts on international Float trends- Dreampod, 2019 Sponsor appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

Back again with another stellar presentation and slideshow for this year’s conference, Flux shares his amazing story-telling ability in how he was able to combine his passion for art and science into his career and education, along with summarizing the great talk he did last year on Floating and the Immune System. Flux is working […] The post 140: Flux – Boulder, CO-based Researcher – shares his passion for art and science appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

The Float Conference Podcast is back, starting with an interview with a new-to-Float-Con speaker, Dr. Jerry Walker. Jerry is a licensed, board-certified clinical psychologist who currently holds the position of Psychology Services Manager for Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. We talk about his passion for learning why people do what they do, how he got […] The post 139: Psychologist, Dr. Jerry Walker on Stress Reduction in the Military appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

During the Friday Activities at the 2018 Float Conference, marketing professionals from within this industry joined forces to share their best practices on specific areas of marketing for the second ever, Float Center Marketing Forum. In this episode, you’ll hear a group presentation on Facebook Ad Strategies. We’d like to give a special thank you […] The post 138: Marketing Forum – Facebook Ad Strategies appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

During the Friday Activities at the 2018 Float Conference, marketing professionals from within this industry joined forces to share their best practices on specific areas of marketing for the second ever, Float Center Marketing Forum. In this episode, you’ll hear a group presentation on membership growth. We’d like to give a special thank you to […] The post 137: Marketing Forum – Membership Growth appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

This episode is a rerun of an interview conducted with Stephen Johnson for the 2014 Float Conference. Stephen Johnson has been a long time Float Conference favorite, giving talks about the spirit of the float experience. In this interview, Stephen discusses his rich and eclectic past, ranging from poetry to boxing to human anatomy. The post 136: Stephen Johnson – Revisited appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

John Turner worked with Tom Fine back in 1979 as the first two people to actually conduct research on floatation tanks. John chats with Ashkahn about how that early float research got started, what sort of research questions they investigated, and how it evolved over the years. The post 135: Interview with Researcher, John Turner appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

This episode is a rerun of an interview conducted with Tom Fine for the 2015 Float Conference. Tom Fine is one of the first people to conduct research using floatation tanks. He’s responsible for some of the most foundational research studies, such as studying cortisol levels in people while floating to deduce reductions in stress. […] The post 134: Tom Fine – Revisited appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

Justin Feinstein runs a float research lab out of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. He’s been conducting float research for some years now and is currently working towards a project called the Float Research Collective, an organization with the goal of creating an infrastructure for float research to be conducted in actual commercial float […] The post 133: Dr. Justin Feinstein – LIBR appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

On this episode we hear from Dr. Peicheng Hu, a professor and clinical doctor in the Medical Psychology Department of Peking University in China, and the President of the newly formed Flotation Therapy Association of China. Professor Hu speaks about his own history with floating, which goes back many years, and about what’s currently happening […] The post 132: Dr. Peicheng Hu – FTA of China appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

Flux is a Ph.D. candidate and the University of Colorado, Boulder, that has been actively working with the Laureate Institute for Brain Research to research the possible link between floating and the immune system. He joins Ashkahn to discuss his educational background that has lead him to work on this project, and the implications the […] The post 131: Flux – Researcher appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

This episode is a look back at an interview conducted with Sahib Khalsa from the 2017 Float Conference. Sahib is a researcher at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research and has been working for the past few years on studying the effects of floating on patients with anorexia nervosa. Sahib joined the podcast to discuss the […] The post 130: Sahib Khalsa – Revisited appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

James Nestor is a science-adventure journalist who has written for Scientific American, Outside Magazine, The New York Times, and more. As a past conference speaker (2014 & 2015), James will be joining us at the 2018 Float Conference to discuss new research on his forthcoming book on the lost art and science of breathing… and […] The post 129: James Nestor – Author appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

Gloria Morris is the owner of Float Sixty with two locations across Chicago and NW Indiana. She’s also close to opening her third float center with the next couple of months. Did we mention all of these locations only took 2.5 years to open? In this episode, Gloria talks about her background in marketing and […] The post 128: Gloria Morris – Float Sixty appeared first on Float Conference 2019.

Jake Marty is one of the other founders of Float On and organizers of the Float Conference. He’ll be teaching the CPO Certification class that takes place the day after the Float Conference. Mr. Marty joins Ashkahn on the podcast to discuss what the CPO class is, and give more details on how it’s relevant […] The post 127: Jake Marty – Certified Pool Operator Training appeared first on Float Conference 2019.