David Reynolds has been immersed in education since 1982 (or 1966, if you want to go all the way back to first grade!). He is a husband, a dad, and a woodworker. David is also the creator and host of the Lead. Learn. Change. podcast, and the author of a book with the same title. David knows that teaching and learning opportunities are always present and he believes that we have a responsibility to make a positive difference in the lives of others. Resources : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...
Dec 15, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Jule Kucera is an author, podcaster, and educator who believes that stories have the power to make us smarter. She blogs at julekucera.com, podcasts at Hard Times & Hope, teaches part-time at the University of Cincinnati, and volunteers as board secretary for Homebase. After publishing her memoir, Sweet Baby Lover, Jule is at work on her first novel. Linda McLachlan is a former business executive turned writer, podcaster, professional coach, and business consultant. Over the past 25 years, s...
Dec 01, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Özlem is a high performing culturally diverse woman, based in Amsterdam. Born and raised in the Netherlands, she also has lived in Istanbul, Turkey and Aarhus, Denmark; and traveled across continents. Due to her multicultural identity she constantly moved between East and West, psychically but also in her heart and mind. She holds a Bachelor degree in Education, Master degree in Educational Sciences, and gained certificates in marketing, entrepreneurial sales, and coaching from institutions in t...
Nov 17, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 23
In this week’s episode, the subject is Spiritual Health, Reflection and Contemplation with journalist and host of the podcast, “Mortality Minded”, Thomas Gaudio. Thomas and I have a frank discussion about death. … and much more. Thomas Gaudio is a writer and podcaster based in New York City who’s diving deeper into his passion to learn and spark discussion about mortality, dying, death, and the possibility of an afterlife. He started down this path after serendipitously reading “The Death of Iva...
Nov 03, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Adam Ashton is one of the co-hosts of the What You Will Learn podcast. Along with his friend (also Adam), they read a book each week and share the best bits in a ~30 minute episode. Now approach 250 episodes, they were nominated for a 2019 Australian Podcast Award in the Business & Marketing category, and they've climbed as high as #6 on the Apple Podcast charts. Through the podcast, they've also been able to interview some of their favourite authors, such as Seth Godin, Robert Greene, Dan A...
Oct 13, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 21
NALIE NIXON, PhDis a creativity strategist, global keynote speaker and the president of Figure 8 Thinking. She helps leaders apply creativity and foresight to achieve transformative business results and amplify value.Natalie is the author of The Creativity Leap:Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation and Intuition at Work,a regular contributor to INC.and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.Learn more at figure8thinking.com and follow her @natwnixon. Resources : Social Media: @natwnixon on IG and TWT;...
Sep 29, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Long ago, a little girl afraid to make mistakes, dreamed of becoming a doctor. As a young woman, she struggled to manage her frustration. She would have shown herself a lot more compassion if Orlando Bishop had been around. But it's never too late to learn! Today, it is my pleasure to welcome Orlando, performance coach, founder of Align Performance and host of the podcast “Unstuck AF” back to the show. We talk about learning ways to work through frustration. He believes that success is on the ot...
Sep 15, 2021•38 min•Season 2Ep. 19
A few years ago, Rasha Aridi was studying to become a wildlife conservationist when she realized that she enjoyed nerding out about science with her friends and family more than she actually enjoyed being a scientist. Now as a science journalist, Rasha strives to engage broad audiences in the world of science and discovery by turning complex topics into fun, accessible, and relevant content. One of her guiding principles is "science is for everyone," so she strives to make science more transpare...
Sep 01, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Dr. Steffany Moonaz founded Yoga for Arthritis after 8 years at Johns Hopkins University where she studied the effects of yoga for people living with arthritis. She now serves as the Director of Clinical and Academic Research at the Maryland University of Integrative Health, which offers the nation's only Masters of Science in Yoga Therapy. She continues to conduct research on the effects of yoga for chronic pain and joint conditions, and mentors yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and emerging rese...
Aug 18, 2021•54 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Annie Gaudreault is a holistic nutritionist, speaker, wellness coach. As a healthy aging expert and nutritionist, Annie founded VEEV Health & Wellness to support smart and successful women at mid life lose weight, sleep better and get more of what they want. An endurance athlete with 12 marathons and 3 Ironman triathlons under her belt, Annie lives what she preaches. A prior 25+ year career as a brand consultant working with executives of Fortune 500 companies gave her a solid background to ...
Aug 04, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Dr. Cara Ooi is a sleep physician and psychiatrist. She works with teens with insomnia, delivering a modified version of cognitive-behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I). She is also the host of the new podcast, Find the Eight, a Sleep Podcast for Teens which breaks down key sleep concepts and strategies into episodes of 10 minutes or less. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario then completed her residency and subspecialty training in General Psychiatry and Chi...
Jul 21, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Bayano Kamani is a former 2-time Olympian hurdler (2004 Greece where he placed 5th in the finals, and 2008 Beijing where he placed in the semi-finals). His specialty is in the 400 meter hurdles, where he holds the South American record and he ran the second fastest time in the world of 47.84 in 2005. He was raised in Houston and represented Panama in the Olympics. Prior to the Olympics, he was a 4 time NCAA Champion and 12 time NCAA All-American while representing Baylor. He earned a degree from...
Jul 07, 2021•41 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Do you want to have a full and more vibrant life? Then, don’t neglect a single part of your health. Taking care of yourself responsibly means balancing your social, emotional, mental, physical, intellectual, and spiritual health. It’s a multidimensional, more comprehensive, and more rewarding approach. I hope you have enjoyed and learned ways to improve your social, emotional, and mental health so far. Now it’s time to nurture our physical health! All of my guests compel you to care for your bod...
Jun 30, 2021•3 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Dr. Andrea is the Founder & Chief Talker at Talk About Talk, a learning platform focused on communication skills. She has an insatiable desire to learn. She managed a toy store, marketed cheese, earned a black belt, painted seascapes, started a book club, and taught MBA students. Andrea earned her Doctorate in Business Administration (Marketing) from Harvard Business School, where her dissertation focused on consumer psychology and word-of-mouth. (She is still obsessed with understanding why...
Jun 16, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 12
When walking 200 feet from the parking to her office left her breathless, Dawn knew something was wrong. In 2009, she was diagnosed with a rare chronic lung disease that doctors told her would get worse over time. With no treatments and no cure, she ignored the diagnosis until her disease suddenly worsened in 2018. Over the course of six months, she went from running 10 miles a week to barely able to climb a flight of stairs. She learned to manage the physical aspects, but the mental and emotion...
Jun 02, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 11
What does being the most annoying flight attendant have to do with your health? How does knowing what you want and who you are make a productive life more effortless? And why am I obsessed with my Jeanne joggers? My guest today is designer and founder of BEMO designs. She's a yoga instructor, mom of three boys. She's Becky Mocarski. And she is here to answer these questions and more. You can find her at - Instagram @bemodesigns Facebook @bemodesignsandhats Website www.bemodesigns.com Mindful Min...
May 19, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Lisa Lackey is an esteemed therapy practitioner and dynamic trauma expert who is driven by a passion to support people as they journey towards resolution from the inside out. Lisa holds two Master’s Degrees, one in Education from the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University and one in Counseling from National-Louis University. She is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) Certified Multiple Addictions Therapist (CMAT), and a Level II EMDR therapist with training in...
May 05, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Don't miss four episodes in May and June of 2021, focusing on mental health - "Manage Stress - The Strong Black Woman Syndrome, with Lisa Lackey and Daphne Bishop", "Work Productively with Becky Mocarski", "Realize Your Potential with Dawn Repola", and "Foster Confidence with Dr. Andrea Wojnicki"
May 03, 2021•3 min
THE STORY - by Erika We go together This isn’t another story about a misogynistic sociopath. There are far too many stories about individuals with that particular affliction circulating in the world right now. Although one of the characters technically fits the description of one, he is merely a preface, a context setter for the real love story. So let’s get that part of the story out of the way. I fell in love with and entered an exclusive committed long-distance relationship with a man I met i...
Apr 21, 2021•49 min•Season 2Ep. 8
This week, on The YOGI MD Podcast, we talk Emotional Health: Experiencing Grief with my daughter Lizzi Kelly. In March of 2020, in her sophomore year at Grinnell College, spring break began two weeks early, as the students evacuated campus as a result of the pandemic. On this episode, Lizzi talks shares her lifelong struggle to fit in at school, thriving in her college community, grieving the abrupt disruption of her college experience, and finally, by taking a semester off, confronting years of...
Apr 07, 2021•38 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Marie Skelton is an Australian author, speaker and podcaster. She is on a mission to learn how to cope with change, build resilience and maintain mental wellness. Marie is the voice behind the Happiness for Cynics blog, and she co-hosts the weekly Happiness for Cynics podcast. She is the co-author of the book Self-care is church for non-believers: A little book of happiness. She is currently writing a non-fiction book, researching change and the global rise in stress and burnout and looking into...
Mar 17, 2021•55 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Joyce Marter has been a licensed psychotherapist for over twenty years and is the Founder of Urban Balance, an insurance-friendly counseling practice that currently has over 160 therapists working from seventeen locations in six states. She is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University and a Past-Chair of the Midwest Region of the American Counseling Association. Joyce is routinely consulted as a mental health expert in the media, featured in such outlets as The Wall Street Journal, CNN and...
Mar 03, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Do you want to have a full and more vibrant life? Then, don’t neglect a single part of your health. Taking care of yourself responsibly means balancing your social, emotional, mental, physical, intellectual, and spiritual health. It’s a multidimensional, more comprehensive, and more rewarding approach. I hope you have enjoyed and learned ways to improve your social health so far - Contributing to Community with Seth Godin, Effective Communication with Bernadette Jiwa, Fulfilling Family Responsib...
Feb 24, 2021•3 min
Cherise Fisher began her career in publishing as the assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of Dell Publishing a month after graduating from Yale University. Over the course of her twenty-five year career as an acquiring editor at Simon & Schuster and the Editor in Chief of Plume (an imprint of Penguin Random House), she has edited and published several national bestselling and award winning authors, including George Lopez, Nelson George, Victoria Christopher Murray, Bil Wright, Sadeqa Johnson, an...
Feb 17, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 4
This is my parents’ story. In 1968, after they were married, my dad left Haiti to start a new life in Chicago. My mother joined him a year later. They had a dream to have a family. Because of their sacrifices, they not only fulfilled their family responsibilities, but they made it possible for our family to thrive, not just survive. I want to thank my parents for this special opportunity to document an important story for my family, using this powerful platform I love, podcasting. In this episod...
Feb 03, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Bernadette Jiwa is a writer, creator of The Story Skills workshop and founder of the Right Company business community. Her bestselling books are modern classics on mastering the art of storytelling for impact. She helps people to become their most influential and inspiring selves and use their stories for good. In this episode, the subject is Social Health - Effective Communication. Bernadette has been helping thousands of people communicate by becoming skilled storytellers for over a decade. In...
Jan 20, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 2
SETH GODIN is the author of 19 books that have been bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 35 languages. He’s also the founder of the altMBA and The Akimbo Workshops, online seminars that have transformed the work of thousands of people. He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything. You might be familiar with his books Linchpin, Tribes, The Dip and Purple Cow. His latest bo...
Jan 06, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 1
The YOGI MD Podcast has a new look and sound! In 2021, we will take a close look at six dimensions of health - social, mental, emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual. Social health kicks off 2021, with four episodes from January through February. My guests are Seth Godin, on Contributing to Community, Bernadette Jiwa, on Effective Communication, My Parents, on Fulfilling Family Responsibilities, and Cherise Fisher, on Caring for Others. Original Podcast Theme Music is by Maya Bishop on...
Jan 01, 2021•3 min
The YOGI MD Podcast! has some exciting updates! I take your health and the wellbeing of this community of listeners very seriously! So in 2021, I am bringing you a new and improved format. We will look at the Multidimensional Model of Health, a holistic model consisting of the following domains - Social, Emotional, Mental, Physical, Intellectual, and Spiritual Health. We will focus on one domain at a time, learning from very special guests about how to make each day healthier than the last. We a...
Oct 07, 2020•1 min
This is the fourth and last episode of the four part Art of Storytelling Series. Artist and writer, Arlette Manasseh, talks about storytelling through art. Arlette Manasseh is completing an MLitt (Master of Letters) degree in Literature of Highlands & Islands at University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland (June 2020). Her thesis is focusing on the characteristics of Literature produced in the Highlands and Islands in terms of a ‘Sense of Place’ and ‘dialectical Gaelic English’ She has ...
Sep 23, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 145
