Made to Thrive is as much about inspiration, as it is about giving you the knowledge to take action.
Our mission is to:
Encourage a belief that you were born to thrive. Life is about far more than just getting through every day. It’s about achieving contentment and finding significance in all aspects of your being.
Our commitment is to embolden you to live an abundant life and to equip you with the tools to transcend society’s stressors.
We aim to empower you to take action; to embark on a path that will positively transform your relationships with your partner, your family and your community.
The 7 Pillars
Humans are complex, multi-faceted beings, and consequently there is no simple, straightforward path to reaching our full potential. The path to true thriving requires an integrative approach to achieve connection, knowledge, commitment and growth. The result is long-lasting contentment and personal fulfilment.
Many people make the mistake of handing over full responsibility for their health and contentment to the medical professions. By undertaking the 7 Pillars journey, you can claim back that responsibility by uncovering which areas (pillars) need more work to achieve a life of thriving. It is a guided holistic approach in which you will be able to apply the pillars in your own personal life.

Purpose
Made To Thrive helps you to define your purpose. By understanding your purpose, you can align your goals and values to create a life of significance for yourself and the community you are part of.
Purpose
“If we want to feel an undying passion for our work [or our being, life, wellness], if we want to feel we are contributing to something bigger than ourselves, we all need to know our WHY.”
― Simon Sinek, Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
Made To Thrive helps you to define your purpose. Once you understand your WHY, the how and what will follow. By understanding your purpose, you can align your goals and values to create a life of significance for yourself and the community you are part of. By knowing your WHY, and respecting the WHY in others, you can shift your thinking from “TGIF, to thank God it’s Monday.”
- What’s your why?
- Do you base your life’s most important decisions on this why?
Interested in letting Made To Thrive help you find your WHY? Click Here to find out how Steve Stavs, Professional Biohacker & Founder of Made To Thrive can help you.
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Community
A community comprises people who will celebrate your highlights, journey with you in your grief and share life’s special moments.
Community
Research shows that people who are part of a community with strong personal networks are more content and have a longer health-span. People who feel isolated, however, often suffer from feelings of irritability, depression, and despair. A community comprises people who will celebrate your highlights, journey with you in your grief and share life’s special moments.
Made To Thrive asks exploratory questions like:
- Why should you belong to a community?
- What does community mean to you?
- Who is your community?
- How do you form a community and how do you reap and share the benefits of belonging to multiple communities?
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Movement
Made To Thrive will show you how you can improve your sex life, boost your health, and enhance your mood through appropriate physical activity for where you are right now. Are you ready to get moving?
Movement
Movement makes you happy by increasing the release of serotonin and other mood-boosting hormones to your brain. Different exercise types and intensities have a range of benefits, but even moderate physical activity has been shown to be incredibly beneficial for your brain in order to enhance memory and protect it against neurogenic diseases like Alzheimer’s. Made To Thrive will show you how you can improve your sex life, boost your health, and enhance your mood through appropriate physical activity for where you are right now. Are you ready to get moving?
Important aspects of moving you may not have considered:
- Did you know that specific breath work techniques can decrease stress and levels of cortisol?
- What it is about meditation and mindfulness practices that increase and aid our performance?
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Nutrition
Understanding what good nutrition is goes beyond diets and culinary fads – it is a lifelong commitment to eating in a way that promotes mental, physical and emotional wellbeing.
Nutrition
Understanding what good nutrition is goes beyond diets and culinary fads – it is a lifelong commitment to eating in a way that promotes mental, physical and emotional wellbeing. Nourishing, natural foods that are whole, clean and seasonally available not only taste appetising, but more importantly they help to boost mood, energy and performance. The most important thing to realise is that we are all biologically and biochemically individual, and there is no one way to eat that benefits everyone. Made To Thrive explores Ancestral Eating Patterns together with holistic food practices, before taking you on a journey into individual personal nutritional management using latest scientific research.
Some things to think about regarding nutrition:
- Did you know that intermittent fasting is one of the healthiest practices you can undertake?
- What does it mean when we say that food is ‘more information than energy’ to the body?
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Sleep
Sleep is as essential to your health as proper nutrition and regular exercise. Made To Thrive explores the factors that may be keeping you awake and offers advice and tools to a better night’s sleep.
Sleep
Sleep is as essential to your health as proper nutrition and regular exercise. Studies show that a good night’s sleep can improve brain function as well as business performance, and allow you to train harder and achieve your physical goals. Obesity, depression, the risk of stroke and heart disease are just some of the unfavourable conditions linked to poor sleep. Made To Thrive explores the factors that may be keeping you awake and offers advice and tools to a better night’s sleep.
We encourage you to take a look at your own sleep patterns:
- Do you know what the significance is of adequate Rapid-Eye Movement (REM) sleep as well as Deep Sleep?
- What does good sleep hygiene mean?
- How ready are you to face the day based on your previous night’s sleep?
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Self-Quantification
Self-quantification provides an audit into your personal health, fitness and mental markers, so that you can get an expert external view of key health data points.
Self-Quantification
Self-quantification provides an audit into your personal health, fitness and mental markers, so that you can get an expert external view of key health data points.
From a self-leadership perspective, Made To Thrive makes use of 360-degree assessments in order to objectively assess your characteristics, behaviours and attitudes. The combined data from independent health, physical, mental and leadership evaluations will give you crucial insights into your current state of being, and also empower you to take action. Importantly, this also gives you a benchmark for improvement along your journey.
Can you quantify the answers to the following:
- What are the most important blood test results that you need to know on a regular basis?
- What percentage of lean muscle mass is optimal?
- Do you know what your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) means to you?
- What it is about meditation and mindfulness practices that increase and aid our performance?
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Environment
Made To Thrive is committed to educating our network about the potential effects your environment can have on your overall performance and wellness.
Environment
The importance, and impact, of the quality of the physical environment that surrounds you cannot be understated. Made To Thrive is committed to educating our network about the potential effects your environment can have on your overall performance and wellness. For example, natural lighting, humidity, air quality and even your proximity to the equator are all factors that have profound effects on your mind and body.
Some environmental aspects to consider:
- Do you know how much cellphone radiation you are exposed to daily?
- When last did you watch a sunrise or sunset?
- What effect does prolonged exposure to wifi have on your children’s sleep and wellbeing?
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