Episode #92 In this episode Terri shares her take aways from a great episode in which the guest shared reasons to support the power of positive psychology. She felt validated by the information he discussed…that choosing happiness and focusing positive thoughts can change our brain and our lives! Hopefully you will take away some quick and easy tips to help you make this shift in your life, focusing on happiness now vs happiness when you reach some level of expected success. This discussion is a...
Feb 21, 2022•28 min
Episode #91 We all know how good a hug feels when we are feeling down or have had a stressful day. Well, now you can harness that feel-good factor using a simple technique called ‘Self Havening’. Listen in as Daisy tells Terri all about it. https://www.havening.org YouTube Videos Easy 10 minute Self-Havening Technique to Reduce Stress & Anxiety https://youtu.be/ILhPOKTTkAY Self Havening Technique For Calming The Nervous System https://youtu.be/YRsVbCnfycw Worried? How to find calm and reduce...
Feb 14, 2022•18 min
Episode #90 This week Terri leans on the short episode format of Jim Kwik’s podcast that always packs a punch with concrete, applicable strategies. This episode is Jim’s own rundown of strategies to study for retention rather than what many of us learned to do to cram and regurgitate info that we then lost forever. If you or someone in your life needs support in making their learning skills more effective, this is a great place to build a firm base. Enjoy listening to Daisy and Terri discuss Kwi...
Feb 07, 2022•24 min
Episode #89 This week, Daisy revisits (again!) a discussion from one of her favourite podcasts - Feel Better, Live More - between Rangan Chatterjee and James Clear. As Terri says in the episode, “You can never have too much James Clear!” And it’s true - he really is great at giving us helpful tips on how to make habits stick. In this episode, he focuses on his 4 Laws of Behaviour Change and talks more about the importance of identity change as being the key to successfully adopting new habits. W...
Jan 31, 2022•26 min
Episode #88 This week Terri returns to one of our favorite podcasts to share some tips on helping us to relieve stress in a way that helps improve our quality of sleep. The podcast she shares provides some steps to put in place to help activate your rest and relax part of your nervous system, which can improve your ability to fall asleep and get better sleep. Join us in our discussion of Mindvalley Podcast: 5 Steps to Transform Stress for Deep and Restorative Sleep—Charlie Morley https://podcast...
Jan 24, 2022•31 min
Episode #87 In this week’s episode, Daisy shares a book she listened to recently that popped up in her Audible recommendations. Although it started with what seemed like a rather downbeat theme (the countdown to the protagonist’s demise), it turned into an enjoyable journey into the ‘What If?’ rabbit hole. You can find The Midnight Library by Matt Haig in all the usual places, but here is the link from his website: http://www.matthaig.com/books/midnight-library/ Here too is the podcast Daisy men...
Jan 17, 2022•19 min
Episode #86 In this week’s episode, Terri shares an episode from Jim Kwik’s podcast that she and Daisy enjoy for its focus on being brief and sharing applicable advice. The episode that Terri shares here is about Mel Robbins’ latest strategy and book. As discussed in an early episode, Robbins brought us the Five Second Rule to help us accomplish anything, and now she helps us to get started each day with confidence instead of listening to a negative inner critic. Join us in our discussion of Kwi...
Jan 10, 2022•18 min
Episode #85 One episode was not enough! Daisy is back with a bit more from the episode she shared before from The Huberman Lab podcast episode about time perception. This week she shares a snippet about cold water exposure (of course!) and then goes on to chat about an article she read about dopamine on the Next Big Idea Club website. The Huberman Lab podcast #46: Time Perception & Entrainment by Dopamine, Serotonin & Hormones https://hubermanlab.com/time-perception-and-entrainment-by-do...
Jan 03, 2022•24 min
Episode #84 This week, Terri and Daisy take a moment to reflect back on 2021 and look forward to 2022 with some chat about New Year’s resolutions and some ideas about alternative frameworks for looking ahead to the New Year. Please consider helping us make more episodes by supporting Daisy on Patreon. https://bit.ly/MondayMindsetPatreon If you have enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave us a review on iTunes or whichever platform you listen on. It really helps new people hear about the ...
Dec 27, 2021•18 min
Episode #83 In this week’s episode Terri turns to a podcast that is new to her and shares a discussion about how our inner critic voice encourages us to avoid behaviors and experiences by catching us in feelings of social anxiety. She talks about the difference between natural levels of social anxiety or fear vs those that become pathological and cause more significant limits in our lives. And Terri shares ways to navigate the fear of being judged through: prompts, embracing, replacing, and spot...
Dec 20, 2021•33 min
Episode #82 This week, Daisy shares an episode from Andrew Huberman’s podcast - The Huberman Lab - which inspired her to change her work habits the very next day! Find out how important it is to entrain (match) our internal rhythms with external ones and how we can make the most of our daily rhythms and varying levels of dopamine and serotonin. The Huberman Lab podcast #46: Time Perception & Entrainment by Dopamine, Serotonin & Hormones. https://hubermanlab.com/time-perception-and-entrai...
Dec 13, 2021•30 min
Episode #81 In this week’s episode Terri goes back to one of her favorites, the Being Well Podcast, and shares a discussion between the hosts of the episode as they delve into avoidant behaviors and how we can reframe them. She shares some of the ways to rethink and change your avoidant behaviors presented in Avoidant Behavior: Why We Do It, Forms It Takes, and What to Do About It. https://www.rickhanson.net/being-well-podcast-avoidant-behavior-why-we-do-it-forms-it-takes-and-what-to-do-about-it...
Dec 06, 2021•30 min
Episode #80 So many of us spend most of our days sat on our bums! Maybe we try to compensate for this by doing regular exercise but is it enough to counteract the negative health impacts of sitting down for most of the day? This week, Daisy shares another episode of Michel Mosleys’ podcast - Just One Thing - which she has to admit got her thinking. A lot! It was one of those episodes that was a bit depressing but not without offering something to do about it so tune in to find out why you really...
Nov 29, 2021•19 min
Episode #79 In this week’s episode, Terri shares from an author whose book about habits has been helpful in her life and career - Charles Duhigg. The interview she shares here is about his newest book about how to improve or increase our effectiveness by learning more about how to think rather than what to think. She encourages you to learn from the key points of his explanation provided in The Jordan Harbinger Show 561: Charles Duhigg I The Secrets of Being Smarter Better Faster. https://www.jo...
Nov 22, 2021•30 min
Episode #78 Do you let your inner voice guide you or are you too easily distracted by external voices? Do you appreciate feedback or does it make you defensive? Maybe you need to reframe that feedback, or maybe you need to reassess where, and from whom, you are getting that feedback! This week, Daisy shares some snippets of an episode from Elizabeth Day’s podcast, How to Fail, where Elizabeth chats to author Glennon Doyle. https://howtofail.podbean.com/e/how-to-fail-glennon-doyle/ Please conside...
Nov 12, 2021•24 min
Episode #77 This week Daisy and Terri take a time out to reflect on the last few months and what impact some of the things they have learned and shared with each other have had on them. Please consider helping us make more episodes by supporting Daisy on Patreon. https://bit.ly/MondayMindsetPatreon If you have enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave us a review on iTunes or whichever platform you listen on. It really helps new people hear about the podcast. Connect with and follow us on ...
Nov 08, 2021•24 min
Episode #76 This week Terri shares a brief but hopefully useful way to look at how your thoughts can help you influence your hunger hormone, ghrelin. She shares an example of a study demonstrating how what people thought about a milkshake they drank affected their hunger levels afterward. You can listen to what she took away from Jim Kwik’s podcast Kwik Brain, episode 248 I Mind Over Body with Shawn Stevenson: https://www.jimkwik.com/podcast/kwik-brain-248-mind-over-body-with-shawn-stevenson Ple...
Nov 01, 2021•18 min
Episode #75 Are you easily distracted? Do you struggle to focus on tasks? How’s your time management? In this week’s episode, Daisy shares an episode from Andrew Huberman’s podcast Huberman Lab - ADHD and How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus - and talks about possible ways to help improve these things. https://hubermanlab.com/adhd-and-how-anyone-can-improve-their-focus/ Please consider helping us make more episodes by supporting Daisy on Patreon. https://bit.ly/MondayMindsetPatreon If you have enj...
Oct 25, 2021•31 min
Episode #74 In this week’s episode, Terri shares some insights from one of her geek-crushes, Andrew Huberman. She clarifies how we can help increase our dopamine responses without overdoing it from what she learned listening to the episode: Change Your BRAIN By Using These Hacks to Increase Your Dopamine l Dr. Andrew Huberman from one of her favorite podcasts, Impact Theory. https://impacttheory.libsyn.com/change-your-brain-by-using-these-hacks-to-increase-your-dopamine-dr-andrew-huberman Please...
Oct 18, 2021•39 min
Episode #73 We all know that snacking is not great for our health but wait… what if it is? It depends on the snack! This episode is all about exercise snacking - a great way to boost your health in handy little chunks of time that you can squeeze in during your day. Not only is it easier to fit into your day but it might even be better for you than doing your exercise all in one go. What’s not to like?! This week, Daisy is sharing what she learned from Michael Mosley’s podcast: Just One Thing - ...
Oct 11, 2021•23 min
Episode #72 In this week’s episode Terri shares some of her take aways from listening to Shawn Stevenson and his guest discuss how we can focus less on anxiety as a negative we must eliminate and instead see how to increase our resilience to it and see how it helps us to learn and grow. She invites you to explore this concept as she shares from The Model Health Show 509: The Surprising Science Of Anxiety & Making Good Anxiety Work For You – With Guest Dr. Wendy Suzuki. https://themodelhealth...
Oct 04, 2021•32 min
What is the Key to Happiness? Episode #71 Are you happy? What would make you happy? What happens when you get there and how does it feel on the way? Are we missing out on the opportunity provided in the smaller steps provided by seeking to be happier rather than happy? This week Daisy wrestles with the rather elusive concept of happiness that was discussed between Rangan and Gretchen in episode #181 from Rangan Chatterjee’s podcast Feel Better, Live More: How Understanding Your Personality Will ...
Sep 27, 2021•23 min
Episode #70 This week Daisy and Terri chat about their experience of podcasting together so far and some of the funny things that go on behind the scenes! Please consider helping us make more episodes by supporting Daisy on Patreon. https://bit.ly/MondayMindsetPatreon If you have enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave us a review on iTunes or whichever platform you listen on. It really helps new people hear about the podcast. Connect with and follow us on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube...
Sep 20, 2021•28 min
Episode #69 One of Terri’s favorite folks in the health sphere is Max Lugavere and, in this week’s episode, she shares some interesting things she learned while listening to his podcast interview with a naturopathic doctor about the role of serotonin related to mood, sleep, and even sugar cravings. She learned of a supplement that many find effective in increasing their production of serotonin in The Genius Life 120: How to Boost Serotonin for Better Mood, Deeper Sleep, and Fewer Sugar Cravings ...
Sep 13, 2021•25 min
Episode #68 This week Daisy shares an episode from Jim Kwik’s podcast Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik in which Jim talks to guest David Rabin about 4 key ways to manage stress. Four Pillars of Stress Management with Dr. David Rabin & Jim Kwik https://youtu.be/0VSx6Rt6Ii0 Please consider helping us make more episodes by supporting Daisy on Patreon. https://bit.ly/MondayMindsetPatreon If you have enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave us a review on iTunes or whichever platform you listen on...
Sep 06, 2021•20 min
Episode #67 One researcher and health psychologist who both Daisy and Terri really respect and enjoy is Kelly McGonigal. In this week’s episode, Terri shares some thoughts about how we can see stress as a useful process rather than something that is detrimental and must be avoided. From Michelle McQuaid’s podcast Making Positive Psychology Work (#153) Can You Flex Your Stress Mindset? with Kelly McGonigal https://www.michellemcquaid.com/podcast/can-flex-stress-mindset-podcast-kelly-mcgonigal/ An...
Aug 30, 2021•29 min
Episode #66 This week Daisy shares an episode from Rangan Chatterjee’s podcast Feel Better, Live More which sees the return of a popular guest - James Nestor. Daisy shared the first episode he was on when he talked about the importance of nasal breathing and chewing. In the latest episode, James covers some old ground but he and Rangan also delve a bit deeper into some topics and really go into why nasal breathing is key to good health. FBLM #197: How to Transform Your Health Through Your Breath...
Aug 23, 2021•29 min
Episode #65 Many entrepreneurs, health experts, and spiritual gurus place a significant emphasis on our morning routine as key to our success and well-being. In this week’s episode Terri shares a simplified version of how to create a morning routine that can help you start out in a health space that carries you throughout the day. She listened to one of her favorite podcasters, Lewis Howes, and his podcast The School of Greatness. How to Create The PERFECT MORNING Routine For SUCCESS! (In-Depth ...
Aug 16, 2021•26 min
Episode #64 Are you an over thinker? Do you ever find yourself solving other people’s problems as well as your own? This week Daisy shares an article from The Guardian that caught her eye when it popped up in her Facebook newsfeed because she identifies as an over thinker herself! Why I’m glad that I’m an ‘overthinker’ by Annalisa Barbieri https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/04/annalisa-barbieri-it-can-be-exhausing-but-i-am-glad-that-i-am-an-overthinker Please consider helping us m...
Aug 09, 2021•22 min
Episode #63 In this week’s episode, Terri shares one author’s take on an approach to stop overthinking from interfering with making progress or feeling good. She enjoyed learning about Jon Acuff’s approach to curating a new soundtrack playing in your mind to stop the replaying of broken soundtracks on The Jordan Harbinger Show. 495: Jon Acuff | The Surprising Solution to Overthinking: https://www.jordanharbinger.com/jon-acuff-the-surprising-solution-to-overthinking/ Please consider helping us ma...
Aug 02, 2021•34 min
