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What if everything you’ve been told about foot pain, footwear, and insoles is wrong?
In this episode of The True Form Podcast, Jack sits down with podiatrist and biomechanics specialist Thien Trinh to unpack the messy truth about foot pain, plantar fasciitis, barefoot shoes, and why the footwear and medical industries keep getting it wrong.

Thien is not your typical podiatrist. From growing up in a refugee family to appearing on Shark Tank, he’s built a mission-driven business around one core idea: if you fix the foundation, you change the whole system. That means rethinking the way we walk, the shoes we wear, the insoles we’re sold, and how chronic foot pain is treated across the board.

We cover everything from gait retraining and chronic pain to integrity in business, copycat products, and why he’s betting everything on designing a new kind of shoe for the modern world.

If you care about long-term health, movement, and actually being able to walk pain-free as you age, this episode will change the way you think about your feet.

In This Episode, We Discuss:
- Why feet are the most neglected part of modern health
- How walking is a skill most of us were never taught
- Why the “soft cushioning fixes pain” story is deeply flawed
- The truth about plantar fasciitis and chronic foot pain
- Barefoot vs cushioning: what the barefoot movement gets right (and wrong)
- Why most orthotics are over-rigid, expensive, and misused
- How cork-based insoles can support natural mechanics instead of splinting the foot
- Thien’s family story: refugee roots, integrity, and entrepreneurship
- What Shark Tank changed about his life, confidence, and mission
- The problem with copycat products and surface-level marketing
- Why he doesn’t charge for follow-ups and still reads every review

His upcoming footwear line and how he’s designing shoes for real human movement on modern surfaces

About Thien Trinh

Thien Trinh is an Australian podiatrist and biomechanics specialist who has spent almost two decades treating chronic foot pain in-clinic. Frustrated by the failure of conventional orthotics and footwear to address root causes, he began hand-building his own cork-based insoles and ultimately took his solution to Shark Tank. Today, he creates education, products, and soon footwear, all built around one aim: helping people walk, move, and live without being controlled by foot pain.

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Why do so many high performers hit their goals yet still feel empty?
In this powerful episode, Inner Transformational Coach Eddie Truong breaks down the truth behind achievement, burnout, and the constant chase for “more.”

Eddie shares his journey from leaving Vietnam at 18 on a full-ride scholarship, to battling depression and isolation in the U.S., to discovering the deep inner work that transformed his life. Today, he coaches executives, founders, and high achievers using his ERA Framework: Empowerment, Rediscovery, and Awakening.

We dive into:
• Why success doesn’t create happiness
• How to stop attaching your identity to goals
• The surprising power of acknowledgment over compliments
• Why transformation starts within, not in external achievements
• How to reconnect with your “highest self”
• Daily practices for emotional clarity and mental resilience
• Why gratitude is one of the strongest tools for inner peace

If you’ve ever hit a milestone and wondered, “Why doesn’t this feel the way I thought it would?” this episode will change the way you see success forever.

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If you’ve ever felt like your health habits aren’t quite clicking, this is for you.
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The True Form Wellbeing Assessment is a 26-question self-check that helps you measure key areas of your health: sleep, movement, nutrition, stress, and mindset, and understand what’s working and what needs attention.

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Why is modern healthcare still failing millions of people, and what can we do about it? With Daniel Rudyak from ReadyXR
In this episode, Daniel Rudyak (investor, operator, and co-founder of ReadyRx) joins Jack to break down the real drivers of longevity and why preventative health matters more than ever.

Daniel shares his powerful personal story: supporting his father through MS and cancer, navigating his fiancée’s misdiagnosis, and witnessing firsthand the limits of a reactive healthcare system. This experience inspired him to build ReadyRx, a national longevity platform focused on peptides, GLP-1s, NAD+ therapy, personalised supplementation, and data-driven health insights.

You’ll learn:

• Why our healthcare system keeps missing early warning signs
• The truth about GLP-1s (who should use them, common mistakes, and long-term consequences)
• How peptides and NAD+ therapy fit into longevity
• Why stress is silently destroying people’s health
• What Blue Zones get right about community, diet, and healthy ageing
• How to use data, wearables, and tracking to prevent disease before it starts
• The future of personalised health and AI-driven medicine

Whether you’re interested in longevity, biohacking, GLP-1s, or simply improving your quality of life, this conversation will give you practical, clear, evidence-informed insights you can apply today.

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Read the blog post for a full breakdown of the episode. https://podcast.trueformpodcast.com/blog

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If you’ve ever felt like your health habits aren’t quite clicking, this is for you.
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The True Form Wellbeing Assessment is a 26-question self-check that helps you measure key areas of your health: sleep, movement, nutrition, stress, and mindset, and understand what’s working and what needs attention.

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