Experience activators are mindsets that all individuals have — which generate energy and expand our capacity to improve overall experiences and quality of life. They can be strengthened through both personal action and organizational support and include: resilience, mindfulness, optimism, openness, purpose, gratitude, self-efficacy, and emotional regulation. People with high levels of experience activators have low levels of stress, high levels of well-being, engagement, and productivity, compar...
Jul 16, 2021•35 min•Ep. 139
Lindsay Lagreid is the Senior Advisor of the Limeade Institute. In her Senior Advisor role, Lindsay is responsible for providing strategic and operational guidance to Limeade customers, prospects and internal stakeholders. Lindsay shares key industry research with the employee experience market and provides innovative direction to the Limeade product team. With nearly 10 years of customer account management and B2B software sales leadership experience, she is deeply knowledgeable and interested ...
Jul 09, 2021•31 min•Ep. 138
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., received his B.A. from Yale University and his M.D. from Western Reserve University. In 1956, pulling the No. 6 oar as a member of the victorious United States rowing team, he was awarded a gold medal at the Olympic Games. He was trained as a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic and at St. George’s Hospital in London. In 1968, as an Army surgeon in Vietnam, he was awarded the Bronze Star. Dr. Esselstyn has been associated with the Cleveland Clinic since 1968. During that t...
Jul 02, 2021•40 min•Ep. 137
Brittany Verras is a clinical dietitian who is board certified in lifestyle medicine. She specializes in plant-based nutrition and diabetes related care. Brittany earned a master's of public health before pursuing a nutrition program through Kansas State University. She completed her clinical training at Emory University Hospital and now works in clinic at Emory Student Health and provides counseling through a small private practice. She is proud to have helped establish The Lifestyle Clinic tha...
Jun 10, 2021•35 min•Ep. 136
Amit Shah, MD, MSCR is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology with an adjunct appointment in Medicine (Cardiology) at Emory University. He is also Chief of Preventive Cardiology and Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at the Atlanta VA Healthcare System. Dr. Shah completed his undergraduate degree in physics, and certificate in biophysics, at Princeton University, and his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. He completed residency in Social Internal Medicine at Albert Einstei...
May 20, 2021•34 min•Ep. 135
Staci Rieder is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health and Wellness Coach through The Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She has been on a life long journey of learning and sharing natural modalities to improve the quality of life and to live from the heart. She is passionate about food, plants, cooking, yoga, meditation, hiking, gardening and her 19 year old daughter who lives in Colorado. Becoming a mother was even more of an impetus for Staci to better care for herself and her daughter wit...
May 06, 2021•34 min•Ep. 134
Anthea is a registered dietitian at the private practice Culina Health and a freelance health reporter based in New York City. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Emory University and is one month away from completing her Master’s in Clinical Nutrition at New York University. She completed her clinical training at NYU Langone Health. Anthea believes that how and what we eat drives the way we feel, think, and live. She learned this firsthand during her time as a writer for Health ...
Apr 22, 2021•34 min•Ep. 133
Margaret Moore , MBA, is an executive coach and founder and CEO of Wellcoaches Corporation, a coaching school for health professionals, which has trained more than 13,000 coaches in 50 countries since 2000.Prior to Wellcoaches, Margaret was an executive in the biotechnology industry in the US, UK, Canada, France for 17 years, including serving as CEO and COO of two biotech companies. Margaret is co-founder (2009) and chair of the Institute of Coaching at McLean, a Harvard Medical School affiliat...
Apr 15, 2021•35 min•Ep. 132
Asata Reid MPH, MS Ed., is a professional chef and community health educator, and the founder of Life Chef LLC - a culinary education service focused on healthy cooking and nutrition for all of life’s stages. As a partner of Small Bites Adventure Club, Chef Asata helps to develop recipes and activities for Farm to Home Explorer Kits and the Taste Test Boxes that are sent to classrooms and organizations. These turnkey activities help children discover, love and eat fruits and vegetables. Asata h...
Apr 08, 2021•30 min•Ep. 131
Dr. Joe Nocera completed his undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed his graduate training at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and The University of Georgia. Following his graduate studies, Dr. Nocera completed post-doctoral training in the Departments of Neurology and Aging at the University of Florida. In 2009, while at UF he transitioned into the faculty ranks in the Department of Aging and Geriatric Research and concurrently became a Health Science Special...
Mar 31, 2021•29 min•Ep. 130
Wendy Baer, MD, is Assistant Professor holding joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Baer serves as Director of Psychiatric Oncology at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, and also serves as Vice Chair for Wellness in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology. In her work at Winship Cancer Institute, Dr. Baer helps patients and their families ...
Mar 19, 2021•37 min•Ep. 129
Dr. Jud is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University, as well as a research affiliate at MIT. Before that, he held research and teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts’ Center for Mindfulness. Read more about his research here. He is passionate about understanding how our brains work, and how to use that knowledge to help people make deep, permanent change...
Mar 11, 2021•33 min•Ep. 128
Dr. Monica Parker, is a graduate of Fisk University and The University of Nebraska Medical Center. She joined the Emory School of Medicine faculty in 1995. She has transitioned roles as a geriatric, primary care provider to that of clinical research investigator. She now leads the Minority Engagement Core (MEC), one of six cores of the Emory Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center . Dr. Parker serves as Co-investigator on several NIH-funded projects. One of Atlanta’s top dementia care exper...
Mar 09, 2021•36 min•Ep. 127
In honor of February, Heart Health Month, we are recasting our favorite conversations with heart health experts! In this episode Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC talks about prevention of heart disease. Dr. Sperling covers a range of topics related to cardiovascular disease and its prevention. What is preventive cardiology? How can we prevent heart disease in individuals and populations? What are the risk factors for heart disease? Dr. Sperling discusses the opportunities in h...
Feb 11, 2021•37 min•Ep. 126
Dr. Reddy is the director of interventional cardiology at the James A Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, FL. He completed his general and interventional cardiology fellowship training at Winthrop University Hospital in Long Island, NY. After practicing interventional cardiology for ten years, he changed his focus towards cardiovascular health promotion and disease prevention, using lifestyle and nutrition based strategies. He is a member of American College of Cardiology’s working group on nutrit...
Feb 08, 2021•35 min•Ep. 125
Daniel Parson is in his twenty-third season of organic growing. He started in 1998 at wildflower organics in Dawsonville, GA, where he worked four years. Next, he managed the Clemson University student organic farm for two years, and operated Gaia Gardens in Decatur, GA for five. In 2009, he started a new venture, Parson Produce, supplying a CSA, local restaurants, and farmers markets in Clinton, SC. In 2014, Daniel moved to Oxford, GA to start a campus farm for Oxford College of Emory Universit...
Jan 28, 2021•34 min•Ep. 124
Jenny Bilko, MS, RDN, LD is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist at the Emory Executive Health Clinic, the Paul W. Seavey Comprehensive Internal Medicine Clinic, and the Emory Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness Center. She received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Dietetics from the University of Georgia. She completed Dietetic Internship and received Master’s degree in Nutrition Science at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Jenny also has a Certificate in Training for Vegetarian Nutrition. Jenny...
Jan 19, 2021•31 min•Ep. 123
In this episode, we talk to Catherine Mitchell Jaxon, a food allergy parent and one of the founders of Mission MightyMe. Mission MightyMe is a revolutionary food company on a mission to end the food allergy epidemic, by making it deliciously simple for parents to follow new pediatric guidelines for including peanuts and other common food allergens in infant diets. The company was co-founded by world-renowned pediatric allergist Dr. Gideon Lack, whose groundbreaking research proved that most pean...
Dec 29, 2020•35 min•Ep. 122
Tim Cunningham never thought he would become a nurse. His first passion was in the performing arts—theatre, clown, dance and acrobatics. He worked as an actor for nearly a decade in various regional theatres in the U.S. and internationally. It was through those experiences that he began work with Clowns Without Borders in 2003. A small non-profit, Clowns Without Borders sends professional artists into war zones, refugee camps and other zones of crisis with the simple mission of catalyzing laught...
Dec 18, 2020•33 min•Ep. 121
Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, among countless other symposia and institutions; testified before Congress; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show; and was invited as an expert witness in def...
Dec 10, 2020•29 min•Ep. 120
Kate Galli is a vegan health coach, animal rights activist and creator of strongbodygreenplanet.com. Kate is relentlessly focused on creating a fit, strong, healthy, happy, Compassionate Vegan World. She will help you create the Mindset that makes your best #plantstrong eating and exercising choices simple and sustainable. Kate got into fitness as a way to transform her body and confidence. She made a career of it 15 years ago and over the past 4-5 years has focused on Vegan Health Coaching as o...
Dec 03, 2020•32 min•Ep. 119
Ijeoma Isiadinso, MD MPH FACC FASNC is a Board Certified Cardiologist at the Emory Heart and Vascular Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Isiadinso earned a dual degree in Medicine and Public Health during medical school. She joined the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine in 2010 after completing her Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiology Fellowship at Temple University Hospital. She is Board Certified in General Card...
Nov 20, 2020•30 min•Ep. 118
Timothy Harrison , Associate Director for CBCT® at the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics at Emory University, oversees the center’s programs, including the teacher certification process and implementation of CBCT for research purposes. As a Senior Instructor, Tim has taught clinicians at the Cleveland Clinic and the Cambridge Health Alliance, as well as nurses through the Emory Nursing Professional Development Center. He has taught CBCT to teens in foster care, incarce...
Nov 12, 2020•36 min•Ep. 117
Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, among countless other symposia and institutions; testified before Congress; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show; and was invited as an expert witness in def...
Nov 05, 2020•24 min•Ep. 116
Dr. Jud is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University, as well as a research affiliate at MIT. Before that, he held research and teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts’ Center for Mindfulness. Read more about his research here. He is passionate about understanding how our brains work, and how to use that knowledge to help people make deep, permanent change...
Oct 29, 2020•35 min•Ep. 115
Ellen Idler, PhD is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology, and Director of Emory’s Religion and Public Health Collaborative, with additional Emory appointments at the Rollins School of Public Health, the Center for Ethics, and the Graduate Division of Religion. She earned her PhD from Yale University and held a fellowship at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Dr. Idler is a Fellow and past Chair of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America...
Oct 24, 2020•34 min•Ep. 114
Robby Barbaro, MPH graduated from the University of Florida and is the cofounder of Mastering Diabetes and Amla Green. He worked at Forks Over Knives for six years before turning his attention in 2016 to coaching people with diabetes full time. Robby was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 12 and has been living this lifestyle since 2006. In that time, while eating pounds of fruit every day, his HbA1c value has never exceeded 6.4%, and his blood glucose has been stable and easy to manag...
Oct 16, 2020•31 min•Ep. 113
Jeremy Beckworth, MD is a physician who has worked at Emory since 2007. He is a Physical Medicine and Rehab physician but also is boarded in Pain Medicine and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. He is the co-director of the Emory Spine Center and the associate residency program director for Rehab Medicine. He has developed a keen interest in lifestyle medicine and specifically the impact of lifestyle medicine on pain. He has led local community health programs like CHIP (Complete Health Improvement Prog...
Oct 09, 2020•34 min•Ep. 112
Authors Reshma Shah, MD, a plant-based pediatrician and affiliate clinical instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Brenda Davis, RD, a world-renowned expert and pioneer in plant-based nutrition, are passionate about empowering parents to become the experts of nourishing their families. They talk about what how to feed your family for optimal health and wellness: how a diet centered around plants can optimize health, prevent chronic disease, care for our planet, and be an act of...
Sep 28, 2020•35 min•Ep. 111
Dr. A. Cecile J.W. Janssens is professor of Epidemiology in the department of Epidemiology of the Rollins School of Public Health. Her research concerns the translation of genomics research to applications in clinical and public health practice, and focuses on the polygenic prediction of multifactorial diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. She is best known for her theoretical and methodological studies that outline the future predictive ability and utility of genetic te...
Sep 21, 2020•30 min•Ep. 110
