Welcome to Kwik Brain Challenge #3! The Kwik Challenge is for people who want to create positive change in their lives—to take knowledge and turn it into power. Change doesn’t have to be difficult. All habit change starts with simple tiny steps, and before you know it you’ll be heading toward a new destination—the little things will add up to something much bigger! In today’s episode, I’ll be explaining how this challenge will help you to have better focus and memory. By doing this challenge, yo...
Apr 08, 2019•8 min
How do you add more fascination and wonder into learning and life? You heard me say many times that all learning is state dependent. The state you’re in while learning is so important because that information combined with emotion is what helps you to remember what you learned. We have an extraordinary guest, Danica McKellar. She’s best known for her roles on The Wonder Years and The West Wing, as well as a three-time New York Times bestselling author, internationally-recognized mathematician, a...
Apr 04, 2019•16 min
Welcome to Kwik Challenge #2! The purpose of these challenges is to take knowledge into action. There’s so much information around us, but knowledge doesn’t become power until we apply what we learn. So during this challenge, we’re going to take a little step each day to build long-lasting habits and results. Today’s challenge helps to reduce inflammation in your brain & body, build grit, and do the difficult thing. In this episode, I’ll explain how you can do this each day in baby steps to ...
Apr 01, 2019•10 min
Our bodies absorb light and use it as fuel for our bodies, but few of us have been taught about how to harness the power of light to boost our health and happiness. Our natural environment deeply affects our bodies—our circadian rhythms are affected by sunlight and increasingly, negatively affected by the blue light so many of us spend hours looking at in the form of laptops and phones. This is problematic because of circadian rhythms regulate our body—telling us when to eat, sleep and produce h...
Mar 28, 2019•18 min
Welcome to the FIRST Kwik Brain Challenge! The Kwik Challenge is for people who want to create positive change in their lives—to take knowledge and turn it into power. Change doesn’t have to be difficult. All habit change starts with simple tiny steps, and before you know it you’ll be heading toward a new destination—the little things will add up to something much bigger! In today’s episode, I’ll be explaining how this challenge will help you to build a happier brain and a brighter life. By doin...
Mar 25, 2019•12 min
Today, we're going to exercise your memory! To teach you this 2500-year-old memory technique, I'm going to use 10 Sparketypes from our episode #99 "Finding Work that Lights You Up with Jonathan Fields." If you haven’t already listened to that episode, I recommend you go back and check it out. In this episode, I'll teach you how you can use visual, auditory, kinesthetic and creative imagination to ignite your memory and remember the list of things you need to recall in your day. ** Do you want to...
Mar 21, 2019•17 min
How do you create change that lasts? If you want a new result in your life, you have to do a new behavior. To change that behavior, you need a set of capacities, capabilities, and beliefs. If you want something you’ve never had, then you’ve got to do something you’ve never done. They say an average person has about 60,000-70,000 thoughts a day, but the problem is that 90-95% of those thoughts are the same thoughts they had yesterday and the day before that. In other words, if you want to do some...
Mar 18, 2019•18 min
We did it! Episode 100 - where I’ll be sharing my top 10 takeaways from all our previous episodes! As you know, this show began with our mission of building better & brighter brains. Kwik Brain is not only interviews and information but a masterclass. We design every conversation to be practical, so you can apply what you learned that day. If you haven’t listened to every episode, then I highly recommend you do so because there are real gems in all of them. In today’s episode, I’ll give you ...
Mar 14, 2019•21 min
How do you find work that lights you up? We’re back today with our friend, Jonathan Fields. If you haven’t listened to the previous episode where he talks about how you can discover your passion and purpose, I highly recommend you do so. Jonathan is a national bestselling author and the founder of Good Life Project®, one of the top-ranked podcasts in the world with a giant global, mission-driven community. The Wall Street Journal hailed Good Life Project as one of the top self-development podcas...
Mar 13, 2019•20 min
How do you find your passion and purpose? This is probably one of the most asked questions in our Kwik Brain community. To talk about this topic, I have my dear friend, Jonathan Fields, with us today. Jonathan is a national bestselling author and the founder of Good Life Project®, one of the top-ranked podcasts in the world with a giant global, mission-driven community. The Wall Street Journal hailed Good Life Project as one of the top self-development podcasts, and Apple recently featured it on...
Mar 07, 2019•19 min
How do you do a digital detox in a world where we’re so connected to our smart devices? For most of us, it’s the first thing we look at in the morning and the last thing we look at in the night. So how do you disconnect to reconnect when you’re bombarded with emails and texts throughout the day? To go over this topic, we’re so excited to have our dear superhero friend, Jay Shetty with us today. Jay is an award-winning host, storyteller, and creator. He was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 for bei...
Feb 28, 2019•10 min
This is a topic that a lot of us are struggling with. A lot of us feel the need to be always busy to feel like we’re accomplishing through the day. But is that the case? In this episode, we have Emily Fletcher with us to talk about what stress is and some simple, yet powerful tips on how to reduce stress so you can accomplish your goals. Emily is the founder of Ziva, the creator of The Ziva Technique and regarded as the leading expert in meditation for high performance. The New York Times, The T...
Feb 21, 2019•21 min
How do you get out of your own way so you can accomplish your goals and make your dreams come true? I’m excited to bring this conversation to you today because Todd Herman is a real high-performance coach. He’s a game-changing expert, a strategist, and works with some of the elite individuals from corporate America and athletes. His new book, Alter Ego Effect, talks about a phenomenon of using your imagination to try on new characters to get you in different emotions and mental states that will ...
Feb 18, 2019•21 min
How do you love learning? In this special “happy valentine’s day” episode, I’m going to share with you 3 strategies you can apply to fall in love with learning. Whether you already love learning or looking for ways to integrate more learning in your life, these 3 keys will help you to achieve the desired outcome with learning. Enjoy! ** Do you want to stay up to date with every new episode and get my brand new Kwik Brain Accelerator Program? Go to www.KwikBrain.com/podcast to get instant access....
Feb 14, 2019•21 min
Have you noticed the difference when communicating with women and men? Are men really from Mars and women are from Venus? In this episode, we’re coming to you live with Dr. Stephanie Estima, who’s back with us to decode women’s brain. Dr. Stephanie is a big-hearted, energetic, and compassionate healer dedicated to changing lives through evidence-based health strategies like chiropractic, nutrition, fitness, and mindset. She is the owner and clinic director of The Health Loft, a chiropractic clin...
Jan 10, 2019•21 min
Today’s business climate has been marked by the rise of organizations built on the principles of exponential thinking—think Github, Airbnb, and Uber. Companies stuck in old linear thinking patterns, like Kodak, have gone out of business. We can no longer rely on repetitiveness and old ideas to get us through—to achieve success in such a competitive climate, we need to be thinking bigger, and constantly changing and developing. In this episode, we welcome back special guest Salim Ismail! If you h...
Jan 03, 2019•20 min
In this episode, we’re continuing our conversation with Dr. Greg Wells from the last segment about how to sleep, eat, move, and think better. He’s sharing more tips on how to create micro wins throughout your day to start healthy habits for your brain. Sleep better, and you’ll eat better. Eat better, and you’ll move more. And if you move more, you’ll sleep better and ultimately think and feel better. This is the ripple effect of good health and high performance. And it’s also why you don’t have ...
Dec 31, 2018•20 min
How do you create a ripple effect of learning and living better? We’re excited to have Dr. Greg Wells with us today. He’s the author of a new book called, Ripple Effect, how to optimize our lives for high performance. Sleep better, and you’ll eat better. Eat better, and you’ll move more. And if you move more, you’ll sleep better and ultimately think and feel better. This is the ripple effect of good health and high performance. And it’s also why you don’t have to make major changes or sacrifices...
Dec 27, 2018•21 min
Your life is a reflection of your thinking. So how do you become an exponential thinker? Our guest today, Salim Ismail, is an expert exponential thinker, and he’s here with us to talk about how to 10X your mental performance at work and life. Salim is the founding executive director of Singularity University, and its current global ambassador. He travels around the world sharing a global perspective on the impact of breakthrough technologies and how organizations can leverage these disruptions t...
Dec 20, 2018•21 min
How do you have better focus? How do you improve your memory? How do you improve your thinking ability? What are the best foods for your brain? What you eat matters, especially for your gray matter. And who better to have this discussion with than Dr. Lisa Mosconi? She’s the author of an incredible book called, Brain Food, a must-read for anyone interested in having a healthy and powerful brain. Dr. Mosconi holds a Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience and Nuclear Medicine and is a certified Integrative ...
Dec 13, 2018•21 min
What are the invisible super-villains that are wreaking havoc on your brain? This topic is near and dear to my heart. Through this podcast series, I love sharing with you the things we can do to level up our brains, and while it’s important to talk about what to do, it’s also important to cover the obstacles, the invisible forces that are taking you away and holding you back. To discuss this topic, we have Ben Greenfield, NYT Bestselling Author of “Beyond Training.” Ben is a professional obstacl...
Dec 06, 2018•21 min
How do you conquer your mind for greater happiness, strength, and health? We have a very special guest today, Wim Hof. Wim got his nickname “The Iceman” after he broke many records with regards to resisting cold. Some of his feats include climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in shorts, running a half marathon above the Arctic Circle on his bare feet, and standing in a container while covered with ice cubes for more than 112 minutes. Wim is convinced that our bodies are capable of doing the same exceptiona...
Nov 29, 2018•20 min
How do you become a multi-sensory learner? You may be asking, “what is a multi-sensory learner? Is it going to help me with my focus? Is it going to help me retain information better? Is it going to make me a creative thinker?” And my answer is astounding, YES. Multi-sensory learning is the idea that individuals learn better if you were taught using more than one of your senses. When it comes to learning, the more senses you stimulate, the more you’re able to learn and attain new knowledge. In t...
Nov 26, 2018•20 min•Ep. 91
How do we release happy brain chemicals and not feel loneliness? More studies indicate that loneliness leads to Alzheimers, dementia, and other mental challenges. Even though we’re more connected than ever before via social media, the level of loneliness people feel have been rising. To dive deeper into this topic, I have my good friend, Radha Agrawal, in the studio today. Radha is a community force, successful entrepreneur (Co-Founder THINX, LiveItUp), author, globe-trotting speaker, DJ, invent...
Nov 22, 2018•21 min•Ep. 74
I wanted to make this special episode to tribute to our superhero friend, Stan Lee. I’m bringing this episode to you from New York City, where he co-created some of my very favorite superheroes of all time. In this episode, I’m going to share with you FOUR superpowers, mental/mindset superpowers, that I learned from the legend himself. ** Do you want to stay up to date with every new episode and get my brand new Kwik Brain Accelerator Program? Go to www.KwikBrain.com/podcast to get instant acces...
Nov 19, 2018•19 min•Ep. 77
So many of us work on our physical health—whether that means going to the gym or for a run—without being aware of the brain health benefits we’re receiving. I’m excited to welcome back today’s guest, health expert Shawn Stevenson, to tell us how we can boost our brain potential through quick and simple physical exercises. He's the founder of the Model Health Show Podcast. Physical training is a powerful way to boost your brainpower and creativity. Simple exercises like push-ups, squats, daily wa...
Nov 15, 2018•21 min•Ep. 76
Welcome back, Kwik Brain! In this episode, I’m going share with the secrets to mastering and remembering numbers. Numbers are everywhere. It’s like a universal language. Telephone numbers, credit cards numbers, zip codes, PINs, passcodes, birthdays, it’s everywhere. But here’s the challenge. A lot of people have difficulty remembering numbers. Think about something simple like phone numbers and how many phone number you used to be able to remember like 10-15 years ago before we had smartphones. ...
Nov 12, 2018•20 min•Ep. 71
Meditation is a simple path to a healthier, more productive life. I’m excited about today’s conversation with guest Ariel Garten—founder of MUSE, scientist, and expert on mindfulness and entrepreneurship—who is here to tell us how meditating for just a few minutes a day can change our relationship with our brain. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, an office worker or a parent, learning to be present is how you’ll get the most from your day. By learning how to meditate, you’ll be able to increase th...
Nov 08, 2018•18 min•Ep. 84
Today’s podcast is all about the power of imagination—and we welcome special guest Beth Comstock! As the pace of change increases exponentially, we’re all going to be searching for ways to solve problems we’ve never had before. Today’s guest Beth Comstock—one of America’s most successful businesswomen, author, and a previous leader of innovative change in her role as Vice Chair at GE—is here to tell us why our imagination and creativity are powerful and essential tools to build a new future for ...
Nov 05, 2018•18 min•Ep. 82
This week’s podcast is all about building a healthy brain—and we welcome special guest Dr. Daniel Amen! This is the final part of a special three-part Kwik Brain series with Daniel, where we’ll be walking you through his seven steps to a healthy brain. Many of us struggle with focus, mental fatigue, brain fog, and memory loss, and today’s guest Dr. Amen—one of America’s leading psychiatrists who has helped millions of people change their lives and is a ten-time New York Times bestselling author—...
Nov 02, 2018•18 min•Ep. 66