The Bla Bla Bunker

EP36 Carpets, Weight Loss and Free Diving - Lars Jyde Nielsen

Lars Jyde Nielsen is a certified Free Diving instructor, a father of seven children and has a long international career in management.

He was born in Denmark and his dream was to go into the military to be a diver but health issues prevented him from doing that.  So very randomly he started a career for a carpet retail chain that took him to Poland, Czech Republic and other locations. That career gave him a very different perspective on life in Scandinavia vs life in Central and Eastern Europe.

 

He told me his story, his weight loss journey(s), how his fathers attitude made him seek comfort in protocols and systematic approach that he then found out is essential in Free Diving which he now teaches to people in Prague in the Czech republic

 

Lars has a very interesting approach to life and he shared his views with me

 

more about Lars

https://www.loveliving.cz/

https://www.instagram.com/loveliving.cz/

 

The Bunker

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EP35 Dancing to the Olympics and beyond - Lenka Vagnerova

Lenka Vagnerová is an independent choreographer, dance teacher and dancer on the contemporary Czech and International dance scene. In 2012 she founded her dance group Lenka Vagnerová & Company which has since its inception won numerous awards both locally and internationally.  

Lenka visited my show and told me about her childhood under communist rule in Bratislava (Slovakia), how she started gymnastics and dancing at the age of 4, how she considered becoming a mathematician, how it is to run her own independent dance company, to teach and dance herself and all this while being a full time mom to two young children.  

 

Lenka is the first Olympian to visit my podcast, she danced at the London Olympics! 

 

 

https://www.lenka-vagnerova.cz/enhome

https://www.facebook.com/lenkavagnerovacompany

https://www.instagram.com/lenkavagnerovacompany/

https://www.youtube.com/user/lenkavagner

 

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EP34 Self-love, Sex and Feminism - Gabriella Ditt

Gabriela Dittrichova is the author of the upcoming book The (R)evolution of Love, a co-founder of the feminist magazine Vagina-Nomics and an operations manager at Femme Palette which helps women advance in their careers and professional development with a mentoring program.

 

She visited my Bunker and told me about her journey, how she as a very well behaved and successful teenager, decided that life was a bit too easy for her in her hometown of Brno in the Czech Republic, and went to England.  She had limited english skills which would later put her in some funny circumstances.  

 

She struggled but kept going and did a lot of self discovery on love, sex and feminism in which she blogged about in a very open way (check her page).  Later she founded Vagina- Nomics which is a feminist platform de-stigmatising pleasure through art and design. 

 

Gabi is about to release her book The (R)evolution of Love which is an interactive guide that invites you to take one or two steps back and reflect on your relationships.

 

She told me why she does this, how life would have been if she wouldn't have moved to England, status of feminism in the Czech Republic vs England and a lot more....

 

https://www.gabrielleditt.com/

 

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EP33 Inside the online gambling world - Emiliano Sanchez

The FBI helicopter was hovering over their building, then Emiliano knew something was off.....

 

Emiliano Sanchez was born and raised in Costa Rica where Pura Vida is the mantra that the Costa Ricans live by.

Today he is an recognised international expert in online gambling who has worked and consulted over 30 different Casinos, poker brands and sports betting companies. He currently has a base in Prague in the Czech Republic.

 

Emiliano told me about how Costa Rica is, how his teenage years were, being in bands, studying nuclear physics(!), being involved in student politics and how he eventually got into the gambling business.

 

The online gambling industry is booming and Covid has only helped the growth but there are also a lot of changes happening with regulation and such in order to clean up the industry.  Emiliano told me about how it all got started, how online poker blew up, we talked about money laundry, brick and mortar casinos, offshore gambling, sharks and whales in the Casino world and what happens when someone cheats.....

 

https://esanchez.eu/

https://www.instagram.com/satyrx/

 

The Bunker: How the hell did we end up here?

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EP32 The Guitar Hero - Geoff Tyson

Geoff Tyson has lived his life in the music industry since he was 15 years old.  Growing up in Berkeley California which was a hotspot for new rock and metal music in the early 80's. There he witnessed the rise of bands such as Metallica, Megadeth and Testament to name a few.  

From the age of 13 he was a private student of the legendary guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani and Joe later said that two guitarists had "graduated" from him, Geoff and Steve Vai (Whitesnake, David Lee Roth).

 

At 15 Geoff joined a band called T-Ride that was expected to be the next big thing, their album took over 5 years to make and they got played on MTV, toured around and all was heading for a glorious path of an up and coming band.

 

But then Nirvana happened and overnight the demand for T-Ride's music and Geoff's amazing guitar skills dropped faster than a brick in a swimming pool.  And as if that was not bad enough then he lost everything except his guitar in a fire in San Francisco.

 

Despite these setbacks Geoff has made a great career, living from what he loves, as he has toured with bands such as Filter, Nazareth, Queens of the Stone age and Duran Duran!

 

He told me his story, how the music industry has changed and a lot....lot more.

 

Geoff now lives in Prague, Czech Republic where the Geoff Tyson Band has hit the top of the radio charts, and has been playing festivals all over Europe.

 

A small sample of Geoff's music can be heard on my episode but check out more about him and his albums on these links here.

 

https://geofftyson.bandcamp.com/

https://www.geofftyson.com/

https://www.youtube.com/GeoffTyson

https://www.facebook.com/TheGeoffTysonBand

https://www.instagram.com/geofftyson/

 

The Bunker: How the hell did we end up here?

 

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EP31 From boys to girls to fetish - confessions of Lucie the yoga girl

Soon after the fall of the Iron Curtain a young Lucie Rosecka left her home in the Czech Republic to spend a year in the UK as an au pair....she stayed away for 17 years.

During that time she lived in Brighton, Mallorca Ibiza, Greece and basically went wherever life took her. She went from boys to girls both, danced at some of Europe's biggest nightclubs and had serious medical issues that are bound to change every woman's life forever.

 

She told me her story, why she left, what she learned, her relationships with men and women as well as how it is to be a twin, that special connection that is there that us non-twins don't know how works.

 

Today Lucie is an art therapist and a yogi but I am sure that in a few months she will be something else as well.

 

https://www.instagram.com/missminniesglitterheels/

 

The Bunker: How the hell did we end up here?

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EP30 Becoming Bad Jeff - Jeff Cohen

"Bad" Jeff Cohen is the owner of one of Prague's most popular restaurants, Bad Jeff's Barbeque.

Raised in Florida in the US, Jeff has been in gastro since an early age and has cooked in over 100 restaurants and for some of the world's biggest celebrities and politicians.

 

Jeff told me his story, the story of gastro in his family, his troubles in school, how his mom taught him all there is to know about drugs when she busted him getting stoned on her weed when he was 11 and how he very randomly ended up in Prague.  

 

He also explained how he wants his business to run, what is important to him, what he eats and cooks for himself and how Covid has affected his restaurant and what he has done to react to that new reality.

 

https://badjeffs.cz/

https://www.facebook.com/badjeffsbbq

https://www.instagram.com/chefbadjeff/

 

The Bunker: How the hell did we end up here?

 

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EP29 Twerking away my weaknesses - Paula Arendasova

Paula Arendasova is a certified Twerk coach and a master student in psychology.

She was born in Nitra, a small town in Slovakia and her parents supported her in whatever she wanted to try and achieve.  

 

However whenever she achieved something that raised attention to her, her schoolmates bullied her because of the size of her butt.  So over time she started associating success with doubt.  Later on her parents divorced and Paula somehow got caught up in between them.

 

She decided to move to Prague and  study psychology, it was not a smooth ride and she needed four attempts to be accepted into the university.  

 

At the same time Paula started Twerking and along with her psychology studies is now a certified Twerk technician who teaches both groups and individuals. 

 

She told me her story, the history of Twerking, about how Twerking made her turn a weakness into a strength, how Twerking makes you feel and can help with body acceptance, femininity and mental health.

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/paula.arendasova/

https://www.instagram.com/paulaateam/

 

 

The Bunker: How the hell did we end up here?

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EP28 Raised to be a hockey star - Andrej Nestrasil

Andrej Nestrasil is a professional Ice Hockey player, he has captained the Czech national team in hockey, played for teams in the NHL in the US, in Russia and now just signed a contract with a top Czech team.  

 

Most of his major achievements have come after a spine injury that would have ended most people's career.  But Andrej is cut from a different cloth, he was raised to push harder, he competed against his older brother in everything and his father gave him a lot of tough love, very much a lot of tough love!

 

Andrej told me about the effort it took to get into pro hockey, how he dealt with that career threatening injury, how the hockey world works, the difference between US and Russia and what life will be like after the career ends.

 

Andrej's IG

https://www.instagram.com/anesty11/

 

The Bunker:How the hell did we end up here?

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EP27 By being nothing you can be everything - Dashi Stardust

Dashi Stardust is a musician, actress, podcaster, dancer, model and she also does web designs from time to time.  

 

She visited my bunker and told me her story that started in a small town in Slovakia just after communism ended.  Things were a bit more old fashioned than what we are used to nowadays so when her brother came out as gay back in the early 2000's it was something that impacted her view on life going forward.

 

Dashi was always into dancing and had her mind set on becoming a ballerina but later on, with some very random twists and turns (including Patti Smiths and Suzanne Vega's percussionist) got more and more into music.  

 

She told me how that transition was and about her new album that she is currently working on.  

 

Dashi's music can be heard on the episode and you can also find her on the following links:

 

https://dashistardust.bandcamp.com/

 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7akjaJAuxAjifTUFm3Yf2M?si=tOh_Gys1SnK1Q7jBbHm5HQ&dl_branch=1

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdQKBVfil_qy4MRnd2X4E6g

 

https://www.instagram.com/dashistardust/

 

https://www.facebook.com/dashistardust

 

The Bunker: How the hell did we end up here?

 

https://www.instagram.com/thebunkerprague/

 

https://www.facebook.com/bunkerprague

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM63nbcoT1v4M-C0p8REySA