It is impossible to not communicate. As Dr. Andrea regularly says, with every conversation – verbal, intentional, conscious or not – you pull others to you or you push them away. The challenge is staying conscious and intentional, at all times, in the presence of others. Most of us are only able to do so for brief periods before being interrupted by our inner speech. Today Dr. Andrea is joined by Andrew Newberg, MD, the primary neuroscientist behind her NeuroLeadership consulting and coaching practice. We'll discuss her favorite book of his, Words can change your brain: 12 conversational strategies to build trust, resolve conflict and increase intimacy. Newberg's brain imaging research provides dozens of evidence-based techniques that can be performed anywhere, in mere minutes, with powerful effects that positively change the brains' neurochemicals and structure, and create real connection and build trust in any relationship.

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Ever stop to consider you may be sabotaging your motivation, success or productivity? Today Dr. Andrea is joined by Dr. Kristin Neff, trailblazer, and expert in self-compassion. Its likely self-compassion is not what you think it is! We'll discuss the physiological problems of self-criticism that tap into the body's protect and defend system, releasing cortisol and adrenaline. Rather than a sabretooth tiger today's threats are a hit to our self-concept; and our body doesn't know the difference when we confuse our actual selves with our thoughts about ourselves. So, a negative work eval, snarkey comment from a friend, or self-criticism all threaten self-concept and drive us into protect and defend behaviors. We attack the problem, the problem being ourselves. We are both attacker and attacked. Hear from this pioneering expert how self-compassion can stop this behavior and make the difference in helping us thrive!

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Got anxiety or stress? In 2020, who doesn't?! Listen in as Dr. Andrea explains how we cause our own brains' anxiety by the way we speak! And wait until you hear the insights regarding what we do to our listener's brains! Today Dr. Andrea is joined by Dr. Chris Manning, a pioneer in the emerging discipline of NeuroLeadership. He helped move NeuroLeadership beyond theory by validating the strategies and techniques that take mere minutes to learn and practice, with executives and corporate leaders. We must be taught how to and practice a different way of thinking. You don't have to feel as if you're spinning or going nowhere like a mouse on a wheel. Together they will share the game changing, life altering results of NeuroLeadership needed for optimal functioning, in a way you didn't realize possible, for you and your team.

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All relationships have an emotional component. How many companies have we decided to stop doing business with after watching how they treat their employees and customers? Leaders face an urgent need for increased empathy and emotional understanding of their customers and employees, yet these concepts are often not emphasized or neglected. Our understanding and approach to emotions must be altered. Emotions are the drivers of everything we do, are necessary for making decisions, and important to understand because they are linked to stock price. Today, Dr. Andrea talks with Beth Aarons from the Dorchester Collection Academy. Listen for tips from how this company gets customer and employee care and service right, to lead rather than follow the competition.

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People keep telling me they feel they're reliving the same day over and over again. That's because in times of uncertainty we tend to fall back to the past and do what we've known. The question is, how do we stop going backward and switch gears to move forward, toward resilience and thriving, when everything around us feels so out of sorts? Today's guest, Dr. Srini Pillay is an expert in resilience and understanding how to work with our brain in ways that lead us toward the thriving we desire, while avoiding our habitual traps and backward slides. When we understand how to engage with our brain and keep it at optimal functioning, the opportunity to thrive is much more within our grasp.

We're living through challenging and uncertain times of a pandemic and civil unrest. Interestingly, we can learn to manage our anxiety and stress through play. Play is not frivolous or an after thought to squeeze in once our work is done. Today's guest, Dr. Ian Bogost, is an expert in play, game design and contemporary literature. Together he and Dr. Andrea will reimagine conversation through play. Play functions to build our social brain so we know how to interact positively with others. Play helps us maintain our social well-being. Playing is how we connect. Not playing has serious consequences. Play has even been discovered as an innate emotional process, necessary for social bonding and a way to understand when to approach or avoid, for survival.

Connection. Maslow overlooked the most important human need – more important than food or shelter. Being together is the most important aspect to health and thriving. It is only through others that we co-regulate our nervous system. Feeling anxious or stressed? The best way to calm is through connection with another. Today, Dr. Andrea reimagines conversation with Canadian kindred spirit and soul sister Kim Barthel. Together they provide insights into the underlying impacts of how conversation goes wrong and share tips for reimagining and recreating positive conversations, no matter how broken they may seem. Conversations heal - they calm our nervous system. In safe conversations our brains literally sync with one another, and brain-to-brain connection, you might call it telepathy - actually happens!

Conversation Reimagined through the game-changing discipline of NeuroCoach with Guest, Linda Cassell, NeuroLeadership Coach, Trainer, Facilitator

Have you ever thought about what you do with you voice? You talk, sing, express emotions like love, and surprise, and fear, and anger. You call for direction and you call for help. Think about the many different meanings and required emotional tone differences and levels of required response immediacy with the word "help". How different your tone is when requesting asking assistance on a project, versus needing to escape a flash flood or burning building. Same word, different meanings, multiple different reactions required of the tone at which it's expressed. My guest today is an expert on voice, what it does, and how it can be used to improve our lives. Dr. Vaughn Cook is the Founder and Chairman of ZYTO, a Utah based company, that develops technology using voice in a process called Perception Reframing. Though developing this technology for 25 years, it may be a cutting-edge idea you need to hear about, explore and investigate what it can do for you!

Why is it so we are so often cruel to the ones we love? I once heard, if you want to have a nice holiday dinner, invite a friend, as you'll never say to an acquaintance the nasty things, you'll say to a loved one? How do we learn to stop ourselves? Today's guest, Dr. Sue Johnson, creator of Emotional Focused Therapy, is continuing to build a science of intimate relationships and mapping how our conversations and actions reflect our deepest needs and fears and either build up or tear down our most precious connections. She speaks to this in couples therapy, and you'll hear her express that an intimate relationship is a unique and different bond. I agree! Listen in as you'll see her work parallels and is of relevance for any relationship or any conversation. Her book, Hold me tight, is THE BEST book on relationships I've ever read!