Coffee with a Neuroscientist

🚀 Elevate your performance with Julie Lowe, the high performance coach on the latest ☕️"Coffee with a Neuroscientist" podcast episode! 

🔎 Explore the power of habits and discover a few good habits that can transform your life in ways you never imagined. 🌟

Join Neuroscientist & host Shonté Jovan Taylor in a captivating conversation with Julie Lowe as they dive deep into her book "A Few Good Habits." Discover how these habits can reduce stress, increase energy, boost creativity, and improve relationships. 

Tune in to this mind-expanding episode and unlock the secrets to unlocking your full potential. Don't settle for average or burnout when you can achieve greatness!

Listen now to gain valuable insights and practical tips from Julie Lowe, the high performance coach who will guide you on the path to success. 🎯

Start building your habits arsenal today! 🚀

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About Julie

Julie Lowe is an Author, Speaker, and Certified High Performance Coach. Using neuroscience-backed practices, she teaches ambitious professionals how to prioritize their mindset, health, and relationships without sacrificing the quality of their work.

Julie's expertise has been featured on Good Morning Washington, The List, Huffington Post, and Yahoo! Life, to name just a few, and her first book, A Few Good Habits, debuts October 5th.

Grab your copy (or 5!) of "A Few Good Habits" on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/46xg02a

Are you a creative, healer, educator, leader or activist who is feeling the nudge to take the leap and start your own business? Today’s episode with my special guest is a call for you to listen to your intuition, that voice that is calm, still, non-judgmental and loving, inside of you. 

In 2010, Jen Shultz, Founder of The Non-Nine-to-Five™ found herself battling anxiety and depression. During this dark time, she received an intuitive persistent message urging her to create a business and generate an income on her own terms. That year, Jen went against all "safe norms", followed the call, and quit her full-time teaching job to become self-employed.

For over 9 years, Jen has been educating, training, and coaching conscientious high-level women who have a deep knowing they are not meant for the 9-5. She leads her clients (creatives, healers, educators, activists, leaders) into successful self-employment tapping into their unique skills and strengths so they can make a

Jen is a master coach and a highly intuitive educator as well as a workshop facilitator and keynote speaker who has spoken on stages across the nation including Google, Wix, The University of Texas. She holds a BA in Communication (University at Albany), MA in Special & General Education (New York University) and is a Certified Professional Coach through iPEC (Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching). 

In this episode, Jen reveals how to identify the intuitive nudges that you may be feeling and the ways to turn the nine-to-five mindset into what really lights you up. Let us know what inspired you the most from this powerful conversation that I had with Jen, and we  can’t wait to hear how today’s show resonates with you. 

Sign up for Shonte’s ‘OptiMind Blog’ to get neuroscience updates to optimize your expertise & life at ShonteJTaylor.com. 

Today’s special guest is first and foremost a teacher, and someone who has a big mission of bringing joy back into reading, education and the workplace. In this episode, Dr. Danny Brassell shares how the sooner we can get our kids loving words, reading them, writing them and performing them, the better it will be not only for their brains, but for society as a whole. 

A highly-sought after speaker, trainer and coach known as “Jim Carrey with a Ph.D.,” Dr. Danny Brassell has spoken to over 3,500 audiences worldwide and authored 16 books, including his latest, Leadership Begins with Motivation. He coaches business owners, entrepreneurs and executives how to increase their income, freedom and impact by creating engaging presentations.

I like that Danny makes things so understandable for everybody, and for his desire to create sustainable ways to make reading fun and enjoyable for everybody. There are so many powerful lessons in this one conversation, including tips and strategies for entrepreneurs looking to craft their own story to share with others. I really appreciate all the wisdom that Danny gives today, and I can’t wait for you to hear it! 

Sign up for Shonte’s ‘OptiMind Blog’ to get neuroscience updates to optimize your expertise & life at ShonteJTaylor.com. 

What if one little gnome and one tiny suitcase, as well as an app and other educational tools, could change your family? In this episode, you’re going to find out how this is possible and the way that one amazing entrepreneur is improving the brain health of people of all ages, by infusing a sense of adventure into their lives! 

Anne Armstrong is the Founder of My Gnome on the Roam ® educational toys which inspire a love of reading, writing and adventure for kids, families, students and educators across the globe.

After 20 years of teaching gifted and talented students, Anne took on the role of mom entrepreneur to share her formula of small pockets of time + a simple idea for an adventure = deeper family connections in as little as 30 minutes a week.

A published best-selling children’s author of the book “My Gnome on the Roam ®,” Anne strives to live by a phrase coined by her brilliant students who refer to her as the Field Trip Queen: ‘Make Your Life a Book Worth Reading.’

She holds a Master’s and Ed. Specialist degree in gifted education and has been featured on NPR, Huffington Post, Treehugger.com, and the New York Times.

I’m so excited to introduce you to Anne, who is someone that is tapping into her own strength and talents while making the world a much better place. I encourage you to visit her site at https://mygnomeontheroam.com/, and let us both know which adventures you and your family embark on next! 

I’m hosting a workshop called Beyond Vision Boards, which goes even deeper into this topic. In this workshop, you’ll get to see how I balance neuroscience with reality, and I’ll give you something that is applicable and understandable so that you can get to the next level of your potential. To reserve your spot now, go to https://shontejtaylor.lpages.co/beyond-the-vision-board-list/! 

To apply and schedule a brainstorming session with Shonté, you can visit   https://shontejtaylor.lpages.co/apply/ now!

Since I like acronyms, and the brain likes acronyms, I want to share with you the acronym “F.O.C.U.S.”

In this episode, I cover the importance of fueling your brain and how this can optimize its performance, the role that oxygen plays and how to get more of it to your brain, and a process for creating block time in order to reduce the many distractions that we all face. You’ll learn how to understand your “rocks” and plan for optimal brain power, and you’ll hear why sleep is vital. In addition, I reveal the ways to set and manage your expectations, and what it means to “decide like a CEO” and how doing this will significantly increase your brain’s performance.

I want this episode to provide you a framework for having a super brain and a super mind, because this is where it all starts in life and business! 

I’m hosting a workshop called Beyond Vision Boards, which goes even deeper into this topic. In this workshop, you’ll get to see how I balance neuroscience with reality, and I’ll give you something that is applicable and understandable so that you can get to the next level of your potential. To reserve your spot now, go to https://shontejtaylor.lpages.co/beyond-the-vision-board-list/! 

To apply and schedule a brainstorming session with Shonté, you can visit    https://shontejtaylor.lpages.co/apply/ now!

Do you think optimism is a bunch of B.S? I’m not talking about that kind of B.S, but I’m talking about brain science! In this episode, I answer this question from the lens of neuroscience, or what I like to call neuro-perspectives, and after listening to what I reveal today, you’ll see that optimism is indeed B.S. - but in a good way! 

I’m hosting a workshop called Beyond Vision Boards, which goes even deeper into this topic. In this workshop, you’ll get to see how I balance neuroscience with reality, and I’ll give you something that is applicable and understandable so that you can get to the next level of your potential. To reserve your spot now, go to https://shontejtaylor.lpages.co/beyond-the-vision-board-list/! 

To apply and schedule a brainstorming session with Shonté, you can visit  https://shontejtaylor.lpages.co/apply/ now!

Do you create vision boards each year? Creating vision boards is a common practice that is powerful, even spiritual, but what is happening in our brains that makes this visual tool so effective for manifesting.

In this episode, I reveal the brain science behind vision boards, why having a vision board is so important for everyone to use, and the reasons that using images as a tool is so much faster than just saying words for manifesting what it is that you really want! 

I’m hosting a workshop called Beyond Vision Boards, which goes even deeper into this topic. In this workshop, you’ll get to see how I balance neuroscience with reality, and I’ll give you something that is applicable and understandable so that you can get to the next level of your potential. To reserve your spot now, go to https://shontejtaylor.lpages.co/beyond-the-vision-board-list/! 

In the busy times that we live in, it’s easy to feel like we’re drowning in all the things that we feel we have to get done each day. In what areas of your life are you feeling this way, and you don’t even know it? 

Today I want to throw you the lifesaver so that you don’t drown. I’m giving you permission to do what I did, by taking time off intentionally and not feeling guilty about it. 

You are in control of your calendar and how you show up each day, and I want you to be your best self, operating at the highest level of your mental potential! 

To apply and schedule a brainstorming session with Shonté, you can visit    https://shontejtaylor.lpages.co/apply/ now! 

Today I’m welcoming a very special guest to the podcast, our own OptiMind graduate, Paddy Moran. 

Paddy is a NeuroCulture Coach and NeuroLeader whose passion is people development, and he specializes in team development, leadership development, company culture, and organizational change, bringing out the best in the teams he works with. Of course, he’s using neuroscience to do this! 

Would you like to gain exclusive access to the most advanced brain-based personal and professional development strategies on the planet? Shonté’s signature program, Optimind, starts February 22nd, 2022!  OptiMind is an ICF accredited program designed specifically for novice or reputable coaches, trainers and leaders to show you how to effectively utilize the principles of neuroscience to help your clients, your profession and your business reach the highest levels of their human potential. To enroll now and to learn more about this exciting opportunity, go to http://optimindtraining.com. Hurry, the final day for enrollment is February 27th, 2022!  To apply and schedule a brainstorming session with Shonté, you can visit   https://shontejtaylor.lpages.co/apply/ now!