Heights Founder: How to Optimise Your Brain - Dan Murray

What if the real lever for change is not doing more, but becoming intentional about what shapes your brain, habits, and daily environment?

In this episode of We Have A Meeting Podcast, Dan Murray, entrepreneur and founder of Heights, shares a deeply honest conversation about mental health, brain health, and the hidden forces that quietly shape how we think, feel, and live.

Dan opens up about grief, depression, anxiety, chronic insomnia, and the search for long term solutions beyond quick fixes. He explains how nutritional imbalances can impact mood, focus, motivation, and sleep, why brain health is often misunderstood, and how neuroplasticity allows us to actively reshape who we become over time.

The conversation also explores entrepreneurship through the lens of integrity and values. Dan reflects on building Heights from personal necessity, designing habits instead of relying on willpower, and the difficult decision to walk away from a successful podcast business to protect his family life and sense of alignment.

Blending neuroscience, lived experience, simplicity in health, and intentional living, this episode is a grounded reminder that progress comes from small, consistent changes and conscious inputs, not perfection.

You are not stuck with the brain, habits, or life you have today.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 One Hour of Nutrition: What Doctors Don't Learn
05:07 Whiskey, Weed, and Panic Attacks: Rock Bottom
11:53 Your Brain Is On Fire: The Dietician Who Changed Everything
14:18 £120 for Three Supplements: The Planet Organic Revelation
15:30 Sleeping Again: When Nutrition Beats Pharmaceuticals
18:58 The Imposter Syndrome Solution: 400 Newsletters and Counting
27:00 The Mum Test: Interviewing 100 High Performers
29:30 Stephen Fry's Magic Beans: The First Customer Email
34:07 Spencer Matthews: From Hard Skeptic to True Believer
37:06 92% Retention: The Habit-Forming Business Model

47:10 Progress Over Perfection: Heights vs Bryan Johnson

48:42 The Cabin in the Woods: Why Dan Quit His Podcast

56:04 What Happens If I Succeed? The Question Nobody Asks

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