Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. What can we learned from "failed" relationships that can help us succeed next time? Couples therapist Susan Orenstein talks about her work helping people move on and grow after a first marriage. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Can we use the principles and practices of improvisation to make healthy choices? In this episode, improvisation teacher Stephen Nachmanovitch shares what a 639-year-long musical performance can teach us about being present while thinking of the future, and how steering a car can guide us to self-correct our mistakes in real time. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Tired of the nutrition debates? Confused about what YOU should be eating? Dr Casey Means of Levels Health shares the power of closed-loop data to change our lives - and health destinies - for the better. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. What are the best house plants for healthy indoor air? Which ones are easiest for beginners? What are the benefits to indoor plants? And how can we become more connected, calmer, and happier people through our co-nurturing relationships with these plants? Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Christin Bummer used to lavish care on dogs via her Canine Kingdom business. Now she coaches humans to give similar consideration to themselves. In our conversation, we explore the fruitful and scary landscape of operating intuitively rather than adhering to preordained rules. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Josh LaJaunie returns to talk about his strategies for staying sane, strong, and fit during the pandemic. How to resist junk food and junk information, and how to talk to ourselves for the long haul. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Author, academic, and artist Tyson Yunkaporta offers an Indigenous perspective on some of the core beliefs that have guided my life. Some, like veganism, survive in a different form. Others, like the Hero's Journey, lie in tatters. And some, like exercise, get transformed and deepened. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Tada Hozumi is a somatics practitioner, and one of the leaders of a movement known as cultural somatics.Basically, cultural somatics explores how our culture influences our bodies - how we move, how we interpret reality through our senses, how we think about the relationship between mind and body. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Glen Merzer has possibly created a new genre, the comedic plant-based memoir. Join me, Glen, and recipe contributor Chef AJ to talk about their new book, Own Your Health. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Tyson Yunkaporta is an Australian Aboriginal artist, philosopher, and researcher who lectures on Indigenous Knowledge at Deakin University in Melbourne. He's also the author of Sand Talk, a book that has influenced my thinking more profoundly than any other.Yunkaporta turns the lens of anthropology around and puts Western civilization under the microscope, showing us how insane and unsustainable the entire project is. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Master...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Danielle Roberts is a visual artist, technologist, and meditator. She's the creator of MeditationLab, whose mission is to support spirituality through technology, and AwarenessLab, which develops tools for awareness from a technological, artistic, and experiential perspective. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Glenn Murphy returns to talk about the importance of embracing physical discomfort, even when we're already stressed out mentally and emotionally. He offers some tips about how to do so without burning out, and shares a 10-minute guided visualization exercise to help us get back in touch with our bodies and spirits. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Perry Marshall is one of the organizers of Cancer & Evolution Symposium, and a "pantomath" of the highest order. An engineer, marketer, writer, and science enthusiast, he has devoted much of the past 10 years to cracking the evolutionary code. Mainstream Darwinism simply can't answer some of our biggest questions, or account for much of the fossil record, according to Marshall. And given that creationists and intelligent design advocates are the main opp...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, Healthy at Last. Part family memoir, part political mission statement, part science review, part self-help book, and part cookbook, this is a celebration of the possibilities of health for the American people in general, and the Black community in particular. We talk about the title - from Etta James, and not Martin Luther King, Jr's "I have a dream" speech, as I first a...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Today's guest, Barbara Tversky, has spent her professional life questioning the primacy of the mind over the body.Her incredible book, Mind in Motion, argues that our abilities to think and perceive originate in our bodies. And more specifically, in the process of movement and feedback from the environment.Which means that physical activity is far from optional exercise. Moving our bodies in multiple ways, frequently, is the core of who we are as homo sapien...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Today's guest, Jovita Lee, is co-founder and vice president of Democracy Green, a North Carolina-based non-profit dedicated to environmental justice. The environmental movement has a long and shameful history of privileging certain parts of the environment over others. Specifically, it's focused on preserving spaces enjoyed by the rich, and where the rich live. The result is a nation in which environmental racism condemns poor people and people of color - re...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Meryl Fury is a registered nurse and CEO of the Plant-based Nutrition Movement. And she's a fierce advocate for justice and sanity in a world lacking both. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Rajani Katta, MD, is a dermatologist and professor at the Baylor College of Medicine, and the author of Glow: The Dermatologist's Guide to a Whole Foods Younger Skin Diet. On today's podcast, we talk about the evidence connecting diet and lifestyle to radiant, healthy skin. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Gregg Clunis learned most of what he knows about persistence, strategy, personal development, and success from watching his immigrant parents struggle to achieve their dreams. Originally from Jamaica, Gregg and his family followed his father, who had been a professor and police officer in their native country, and worked as a migrant farm laborer in their new home.Gregg was attracted to the self-help world, and quickly discovered that the tactics and message...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Judy Brangman, MD, aka The Plant-Based MD, visits the podcast to talk about her labor of love, the Reclaim Your Health Summit.The summit is the first one featuring exclusively people of color in the plant-based healthcare space. Eighteen doctors, a dietitian, and a fitness expert all share their wisdom and action plans with Dr Brangman, and with everyone who signs up for this free event. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Steven C Hayes is the originator of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or Acceptance and Commitment Training, take your pick), one of the most important psychological approaches of the past 100 years. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. A key role of medical professionals whose job it is to help their patients and clients change, is to frame messages to maximize the odds of desired behaviors. Unfortunately, most medical professionals have been trained to communicate in ways that actually reduce patient self-efficacy by challenging their autonomy and undermining confidence in their competence.On today's podcast you'll discover how to talk so patients will not only listen, but adopt positive ...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Michael Rothberg, MD, returns to Plant Yourself to share the latest actual scientific understanding of COVID-19. We spoke first in mid-March, when we didn't know much. Fast forward five months, and we now know a lot, but in the US at least, we're ignoring most of the science and suffering for it.I've been as confused as anyone else, daunted by epidemiological models I can't evaluate for accuracy, overwhelmed by social media fights about masks and free speech...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Ryan Robinson, DDS, is a unicorn in the medical world: a dentist who helps people open up their airways and learn how to breathe properly. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. If you're fortunate enough to have savings, you've probably thought about how to invest them responsibly. The standard answer is to stick your money into no-load mutual funds that track the market and leave it there for as long as possible. Low risk because of the diversification. Low fee because there's no genius managing your money, just an algorithm. And high return because over the long term, it's almost impossible to beat the market.What could possibly ...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. The COVID-19 pandemic is not a great time to be pregnant, according to my guests, Jeanne Schumacher and Debra Shapiro of The Pregnancy Advantage. It is, on the other hand, a terrific time to prepare to get pregnant.How does a woman do that, other than paint the nursery, give up booze, and buy a copy of What to Expect When You're Expecting? Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. I reached out to Bianca and Michael because I was turning into an asshole.Specifically, I was full of rage and outrage and judgment at all the racists out there. And the fact that I was right, and on the side of right, and standing shoulder to shoulder with people of color, and fighting against systemic oppression that has been going on far too long - just made me more of an asshole, to be honest. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the s...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. For the last 7 years, I've worked to improve human health and wellbeing by focusing on better nutrition, vigorous physical activity, sleep hygiene, and stress management.Turns out I may have been missing the most important determinants of health - the social ones.Marta Zaraska has written a book that is fun, fascinating, scientifically sound, and socially revolutionary. In Growing Young, she argues that eating well and exercising are all well and good, but s...
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Lisa A Smith is a serial entrepreneur who's made it her life's work to empower the Black community with information, skills, and philosophies that support health, peace of mind, and mutual support. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo. Support the show
Thoughts on the episode? Let us know. Glenn Murphy returns to Plant Yourself to talk about how we can self-regulate our emotions and actions during a time of great societal upheaval and division.We talk about our own impulses to "fight" with others, and where there's a messy intertwining of good intentions and unresolved psychological issues.We discuss the physiology of the stress response, particularly as it relates to the shame and guilt that accompanies some of our attempts to right wrongs an...
