Emonthebrain

Emonthebrain

By Emily McDonaldScience
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  • 10 ways to build extreme confidence using neuroscience

    Research shows belief in yourself gets you closer to your goals. This is how to build it. 

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    25 min
  • Neuroscience shows: taking everything too seriously is making you dumber | how to fix it

    Taking life too seriously is not ambition. According to neuroscience, it is actually making you worse at everything.

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    15 min
  • Neuroscience of Manifestation: 4 Step Science-Backed Formula

    Most people are missing one step in their manifestation practice, and it is the exact step that is quietly blocking everything else.

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    16 min
  • Neuroscience shows: Desperately wanting something blocks you from getting it | What to do instead

    Neuroscience shows that desperately wanting something actually blocks you from getting it. Here are the 3 solutions.

    Reference: Fredrickson, B.L. & Branigan, C. (2005). Positive emotions broaden the scope of attention and thought-action repertoires. Cognition and Emotion, 19(3), 313–332.

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    16 min
  • A Dysregulated Nervous System Makes You Dumber - Here’s How to Fix It

    In this episode, Emily breaks down the neuroscience of nervous system dysregulation and why a stressed, overwhelmed brain literally reduces intelligence in real time. She explains what happens when the amygdala becomes overactive and prefrontal cortex activity drops, which leads to poor focus, impulsive decisions, worse memory, and an inability to show up as the best version of yourself.

    Emily covers the difference between reacting and responding, and why every reaction is just an old automated program running from a past version of you. She also explains why stress distorts perception, why your brain scans for threats when you are dysregulated, and how that makes it nearly impossible to create a new future from that state.

    She then shares a set of practical tools to regulate the nervous system, including slowing down and stopping the habit of constant rushing, saying no to protect your energy, humming to tone the vagus nerve, practicing presence before you need it, and doing things purely for the joy of it with no outcome attached.

    26 min
  • How To Get Anything Done With an ADHD Brain

    In this episode of Planet Em, Emily breaks down how to get anything done using the neuroscience of the ADHD brain. She shares how she wrote an entire book while managing ADHD, working for seven hours straight without medication, and the exact systems she used to make that possible.

    Emily explains a concept called effort discounting, which is what happens when the brain perceives the effort of a task as greater than the reward at the end. She walks through three practical ways to overcome it. The first is making the hill smaller by lowering the barrier to entry and starting with just ten minutes. The second is making the task more fun by adding body doubling, aesthetic setups, music, or anything that creates a more enjoyable environment. The third is making the reward at the top bigger and more compelling so the brain has a reason to climb.

    She also covers why focus is not just a productivity skill but a nervous system state, why dopamine does not arrive before you start, and how to stack these three strategies together to stop avoiding the thing that keeps getting pushed to tomorrow.

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    28 min
  • Don’t React, Regulate: How to Stop Overthinking While You Wait

    In this episode of Planet Em, Emily speaks to anyone in a waiting season who feels anxious, overwhelmed, or tempted to spiral. She shares a story about a friend who was anxious while dating someone new, even though nothing was going wrong, and connects it to her own experience in the early stages of her relationship with her fiancé.

    Emily explains why waiting can activate fight or flight, making the brain scan for potential threats and pull up past experiences as evidence. She breaks down why perception is not accurate in a stressed state and why decisions made from a reactive place often repeat old programming. Her core practice is simple: do not react, regulate, then respond.

    The episode also covers trust and surrender, detachment from how and when, and how to become so grounded and self loving that the outcome does not control someone’s peace. Emily closes by sharing how to calm the nervous system, return to what fills the cup, and move forward as the best self rather than a reactive version.

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    31 min

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Emonthebrain Podcast is where science meets spirit. Hosted by neuroscientist-turned-mindset coach Emily McDonald, each episode explores how your brain, body, and beliefs shape the…

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