#300 Our Movie Release - Stronger by Stress Documentary Film with Andzei Director

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

The roots of the stress are in the culture.

SPEAKER_2 (0:05)

It's just go, go, go, go, go. And many of us get caught in that trap where we sort of want to out hustle or outperform. We have to be productive all the time.

Siim Land (0:14)

Welcome to the SIIM Land Podcast. I'm your host, Siim Land, and our guest today is Andzei Matsukevits. Andzei is a director and videographer with who I made a documentary movie called Stronger by Stress. Stronger by Stress is based on one of my books with the same name and talks about how to become more resilient and healthier through hormesis. This episode is brought to you by Blueblocks, my favorite light and sleep optimization companies. Artificial light at night exposure is associated with diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's. Blueblocks provides the highest quality blue blocking glasses that filter out the specific wavelengths that have been shown to suppress melatonin in studies. Melatonin is more than the sleep hormone. It's also vital for longevity, anti-aging and immunity.

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Siim Land (1:34)

Andy, welcome to the show.

Andzei Matsukevits (1:36)

Hey, Sime, how are you?

Siim Land (1:37)

I'm doing good. It's great to have you on the podcast. You're the mastermind behind the new movie that we're releasing together and where I'm also being casted.

So, yeah, I mean, maybe before we start to talk about the movie, let's maybe, you know, let's start with, you know, why did you approach me in terms of wanting to create a movie together? And yeah, let's start with that.

Andzei Matsukevits (2:08)

Yeah, well, I've been interested in health. I would even say it's like one of my hobbies. And so I would just like following all your podcasts and also other biographers' podcasts and stuff and reading books. And I just realized that pretty much everyone, everyone who is 30 or older usually is interested in health in some way or another.

But not everyone has a time to listen to, I don't know, four or five hours of podcasts per day.

But I had for some reason or I just, I was more interested into that. So there is the information is out there. Like even in this film, you won't learn anything new or exclusively new, you know, like you can get this information out there, but it just like takes a lot of time to find people you can trust. And so I thought like I could save a lot of time for a lot of people by putting all this wisdom into one and a half hours. You know, so that was my main motivation to do this film.

Siim Land (3:17)

Yeah, yeah. We actually like met first time maybe two years before starting the movie when you actually came one of one of my retreats.

And then we first met the first time and then you like approached me again in 2020 to make this movie. So and yeah, now it's been like almost a year and a half in the making or almost two years. And yeah, it's going to be released the first time on iTunes on March 8th.

And it's also going to be coming out on other platforms across the world. So Europe and North America and everywhere.

But maybe I'll just show the trailer.

SPEAKER_1 (3:59)

The roots of the stress are in the culture.

SPEAKER_2 (4:03)

It's just go, go, go, go, go. And many of us get caught in that trap where we sort of want to out hustle or outperform. We have to be productive all the time.

SPEAKER_1 (4:12)

Chronic stress, that's kind of like a disease or a plague.

Siim Land (4:17)

My mind made me sick.

SPEAKER_6 (4:19)

I pushed myself over my own limits.

Negative stress is something that breaks things down. While the beneficial stress that makes you grow challenges you enough so that you actually get your peak performance.

SPEAKER_1 (4:41)

You're not only seeking help when you get sick. You actually create your resilience to different kind of challenges that we are facing as humanity, but also in your personal life.