00:00 Intro and defining longevity

Steve opens by noting this will be the most grown-up conversation they have had. They are not talking about AI or venture capital today. They are talking about longevity. Yash opens with a sharp clarification: longevity is not about stacking years. It is about quality. There is a physical age and a biological age, and there is a lot of data now showing that specific habits allow you to slow the biological aging process and live a genuinely great life.

Yash pushes back on the retire-at-65 model directly. He has seen too many people reach that retirement age and then not live much longer afterward. When you stop moving, you stop. His view: if you enjoy what you do, you want to keep doing it, whether or not it pays. That connection between energising work and longevity is well-documented in the research.

05:00 State management and the Tony Robbins story

Yash spent time on Tony Robbins’ private island in Fiji and describes jumping off a bridge into the water in the middle of the night with his business partner. The purpose was a leap of faith, floating down a river looking up at the stars. He is clear-eyed about why state management matters: it is not about trampolines and hype. It is about the ability to consciously shift your energy up or down, which compounds over decades. Athletes use it. Founders need to learn it.

The live demo is the highlight of this section. Yash has Steve stand up, chest up, shoulders back, and then on the count of three they both shout and throw a physical gesture. Steve is noticeably unsettled and then noticeably energised. The point is made: you can change your state in under 30 seconds with the right trigger.

12:00 Three pillars of performance

Yash’s framework: work, purpose, and health. You can perform brilliantly in your job and have no sense of why you are doing it, and that is a hollow version of success. Or you can have purpose and health but not execute, and nothing gets built. All three need to be operational. He works with founders individually to identify their three core words, what they want said at their funeral, and what values drive their daily choices.

“I feel stronger in my 50s than I did in my 20s and the numbers show that,” he says. That is not luck. It is the result of deliberate, consistent investment in all three pillars over many years.

19:00 The hospitalisation and what it taught him

For 20 years, Yash ran Spaarks while commuting between Australia, the UK, and Switzerland, regularly working UK and US time zones from Australia. The body accumulates that kind of debt. He was hospitalised. He does not linger on the details, but the experience was the inflection point that moved high performance from an interest to an obsession. His coaching business is a direct result of that wake-up call.

23:15 Parenting and the health gap

“People do what you do, not what you say.” Yash is direct about the modelling effect of parental health habits. If you want your kids to prioritise their health, they need to see you doing it. He also raises a point about the health gap growing alongside the wealth gap: there is increasingly a sharp divide between people who invest in their health and those who do not, and the gap compounds over time just like financial returns.

36:55 Wearable tech and AI in health

Yash wore a continuous glucose monitor for a period and found his blood sugar levels remarkably stable regardless of what he ate. His wife’s were volatile. The contrast was revealing and, he notes, explained a lot. He is measured on wearables. They are useful for data but the risk is optimising for the metric rather than for how you actually feel and function. AI in health is promising but the fundamentals, sleep, movement, real food, human connection, are not going to be disrupted.

46:50 Blue Zones and the Centenarian Olympics

Yash walks through what Blue Zones research actually shows. People who live the longest are not doing extreme fitness programs. They walk. They grow food. They carry heavy things. They eat fresh food that spoils quickly. They have strong social bonds and a clear sense of purpose. The Centenarian Olympics question: can you get off the floor without using your hands? That single test is a surprisingly good proxy for overall functional health at older ages.

50:40 Final advice

Move heavy things regularly. Eat food with a short shelf life. Protect your sleep. Connect with people who matter to you. Know your three core words. And stop waiting for the wake-up call that Yash had to get before taking health seriously. The earlier you start, the more it compounds.