Episodes
Dec. 28, 2022
Listener Favorite Returns: Psychology of Money: Finessing Financial Security with Michelle Singletary & Scott Nations
These days, more often than not, financial market headlines include the terms ‘market crash’, ‘bubble bursting’, ‘inflation’, or ‘downturn’. What do these terms mean for long-term investors or for those who don’t invest but a...
Dec. 21, 2022
Listener Favorite Returns: Complicated Connections: Mind Games and Broken Bonds with Deborah Vinall PsyD & Kristina Sharp PhD
The widely-used adage ‘you can’t pick your family’ generally translates into making the best of what you have when you have no choice in the matter. People rarely have the option to choose who provides their mental and physic...
Dec. 10, 2022
Conflict Whispering: Collaborate, Communicate, and Negotiate Resolution with Douglas Noll JD & Jim Tamm JD
Think about all the times you felt angry today. Were you in traffic and someone using their phone cut you off? Did your teenager shout at you because you told them they couldn’t do something after school? How did you respond?...
Dec. 5, 2022
Advanced Mental Health and Alternatives to the Medication Merry-Go-Round with Gregory Scott Brown MD & David Feifel MD
A study by the National Institute of Health found an estimated 21 million adults in the United States had at least one major depressive episode in 2020. Beyond the sheer number of people affected, what makes these findings as...
Nov. 30, 2022
Mental Immunity: For the Passionately Ignorant and Willfully Disinformed with Andy Norman PhD & Renata Salecl PhD
What is true is not always what some choose to believe. There are some people who subscribe to the ignorance is bliss philosophy and others have difficulty discerning which information is born in conspiracy or in science. To ...
Nov. 23, 2022
Medical Journeys: Kinder Doctors and Resilient Patients with Adam Stern MD & David Richman
A staggering statistic of today’s medical care is that in the average doctor-patient interaction, the doctor interrupts the patient within 18 seconds. This quick interruption offers very little time for a connection to be for...
Nov. 16, 2022
Brain Boosting: The Art of Mental Muscle-Toning with Elaine Fox PhD, Amit Goswami PhD & Valentina R Onisor MD
There are many facets of the human experience we have yet to fully comprehend. While we have mapped out the systems and attributes of our physical bodies, very little is understood about the intuitive and spiritual aspects of...
Nov. 9, 2022
The Virtues of Love and Morality with Dr Stephen G. Post & Phil Zuckerman PhD
What navigates your internal moral compass? Do you subscribe to a religion or belief in supernatural power to guide you? Or do you allow innate love, compassion, and empathy to steer you toward a better earthly experience for...
Nov. 2, 2022
Our Field of Dreams: Reimagining the Future with Karen Cerulo, Janet Ruane & Michael Clinton
From the famous ‘I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King to referring to America as the land of dreams, society often guides us toward creating a dream, or aspiration, to attain. Studies show that those dreams may change...
Oct. 26, 2022
The Secrets of Good-Enoughness and The Good Life with Professors Andreas Elpidoru & Avram Alpert
There is a wide gap between feeling not enough and good enough. The secret to feeling good enough is using boredom and frustration to propel us forward toward achieving our goals. We become frustrated when we face obstacles t...
Oct. 20, 2022
Traumatic Legacies: Reconciling Our Emotional Baggage with Galit Atlas PhD & Elizabeth Rosner
Even though humans grasp the double-helix-shaped chain of our DNA strands, very little is understood about the information that is passed down from generation to generation. Physical attributes can be decisively attributed to...
Oct. 12, 2022
Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in Our Cities with Majora Carter & Molly Rose Kauffman
With many US cities falling into disrepair following the pandemic, business downturns, and brain drains, the term ‘Hometown Proud’ has become almost non-existent. Young talent looks elsewhere for opportunities to make their m...
Oct. 5, 2022
Meaning-Making: Loss, Love, and Life Lessons with Susan Lax & Barbara Becker
Most people in our society celebrate life once a year with lavish birthday parties, happy songs, and sweet gatherings. But, when it comes to bereavement, grief, death, and loss we tend to tiptoe around the subjects. If we fol...
Sept. 28, 2022
Psychological Fitness: Managing Our Minds with Dr Gregory S. Brown MD & Dr Joan Rosenberg PhD
Self-care has become a diluted term thrown about by many who only intend to sell beauty care products. But, true self-care is so much more than physical relaxation. Complete self-care encompasses mental and emotional health a...
Sept. 21, 2022
Voices Carry: Stories of Power, Equality, and Respect with Elizabeth Lesser & Donna Freitas PhD
Throughout human history, men have been the storytellers and the scribes. How might our cultures have changed if we also had versions of herstory to study and learn from? Who might we be today if matriarchy guided our dreams,...
Sept. 14, 2022
Age, Attitude, Image, and Our Health with Louann Brizendine MD & Becca Levy PhD
Our attitudes about our image and aging can directly affect our health and well-being. The over-publisized belief that we lose our value in society as we age can wildly diminish our quality of life. During a time of life that...
Sept. 7, 2022
Vote with Your Plate and Palate: The Future of Food with Roanne Van Voorst PhD & Joanne Molinaro
Factory-based farming and meat processing facilities have become part of the food chain for many developing nations but they are, in some circles, considered dirty little secrets. From birth to death, meat production sullies ...
Aug. 31, 2022
Competent Communication and Dealing with Difficult People with Jonathan Robinson & Sam Elliston
There are times in all of our lives when we wish we would have said something differently or changed the way we reacted to something or someone. But, truth be told, very few of us have acquired the communication skills to exp...
Aug. 24, 2022
Personal Agency and Positive Disruption with Paul Napper PsyD & Daniel Burrus
Overstimulation is affecting us all. Everywhere we turn screens, people, and devices are battling for our attention. Without the right tools, it becomes easy to get stuck in the mire or not advocate for ourselves in the best ...
Aug. 16, 2022
Rule Breakers and Shift Stirrers with Francesca Gino PhD and Aaron Dignan
Some people grimace when talking about their job in the corporate world. Common complaints are they must comply with orders, they feel their voice isn’t being heard, or they must conform to the status quo. And, then there are...
Aug. 10, 2022
Grow Wiser: Nourishing Conscious Hearts and Minds with Dilip Jeste MD & Lama Palden Drolma
During the 2000s, the number of people who say they are lonely has doubled and the number of suicides has gone up by 33% in the US. The recent COVID pandemic has only served to exacerbate these conditions. The one group that ...
Aug. 3, 2022
Cognitive Immunity: The Moral Mind of Critical Thinkers with Andy Norman PhD & Allen Buchanan PhD
Most people want to be happy. Yet, the moral fabric of society lays prey to degradation caused by our evolutionary need to tribalize. The reduction of our critical thinking abilities allows for mind parasites to take hold and...
July 27, 2022
Disinformation Defense: Responsible Thinking and Pragmatic Perspectives with John Cook & Simon Critchley
Throughout our existence, humans have dipped our proverbial toes into the how and the why of our thoughts and actions. But as curious as we are, there is still a wide gap in our understanding of what is fact and what is ficti...
July 20, 2022
The Power of Productivity with Lisa Feldman Barrett PhD & Chris Bailey
The quality of information we intake and the meaningful conversations we have directly equate to how productive and meaningful we consider our lives to be. When we add digital devices into the mix we add distractions that kee...