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High performers rarely crash from lack of discipline. More often, a nervous system stuck in overdrive has simply forgotten how to come down. This one is for anyone building something impressive while quietly running on empty.

Dr. Brian Paris draws on his own burnout and recovery to show how self-awareness, body signals, and psychological safety turn relentless output into sustainable success. His perspective, not medical advice.

About the Guest:

Dr. Brian Paris is a former chiropractor of twenty years, healthcare entrepreneur, executive coach, and speaker who helps high performers and teams grow beyond burnout.

Key Takeaways:

• Dysregulation shows up as short fuses, chronic fatigue, gut issues, and being physically present but checked out.
• A quick self-check: are you breathing high into your shoulders, or low into your belly?
• His path runs awareness, acceptance, alignment, starting with observing your thoughts and bodily signals.
• Achievement and fulfillment are not a trade-off; you can pursue both at once.
• Google's Project Aristotle found psychological safety, not talent, is what makes teams thrive.

Connect With the Guest:

• Website: drbrianparis.com (free discovery calls)
• Social: @drbrianparis on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] What Regulation Actually Means (approx.) Naming nervous system dysregulation in everyday terms

[07:00] The Body Keeps the Signal (approx.) How the vagus nerve and sensation inform the mind

[14:00] Building a Kingdom, Unraveling Inside (approx.) Brian's own burnout, divorce, and rebuild

[22:00] The Signs High Performers Miss (approx.) Fight, flight, freeze, and the telltale breath

[30:00] Awareness, Acceptance, Alignment (approx.) A practical path out of burnout

[38:00] Safety, Connection, and Better Teams (approx.) Why psychological safety outperforms talent

[44:00] Where to Learn More (approx.) Brian's coaching and discovery calls

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You started reading labels, and now everything feels suspect. You want to make cleaner choices for your home and your family, but the information contradicts itself, the marketing is louder than the truth, and the easiest thing to do is stop looking. If that's you, this episode is for you.

Amy Hartshorn has been living non-toxic for 34 years, since long before it was a trend. She makes the case that the confusion isn't your failure, and that you don't need to overhaul anything. You'll leave with two specific places to start, a way to spot food labels that mean nothing, and permission to move at your own pace.

About the Guest:

Amy Hartshorn is a 34-year veteran of green holistic living, an organic farmer, an upcoming TEDx speaker, and the technical editor of Green Living for Dummies. She hosts the Green Living Now Podcast and created the course The Non-Toxic Kitchen Reimagined, helping people cut through the confusion and know where to start.

Key Takeaways:

• Start with food. It's the one place Amy sends everyone first, because it's where confusion does the most damage and clarity pays back fastest.
• The overwhelm isn't your fault. Amy's view: confusion is a marketing strategy, not a personal failing.
• "Natural" on a label has no meaning behind it. "Certified organic" does, because there's an agency confirming it.
• The Environmental Working Group's Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 lists tell you which produce is worth buying organic and which isn't. Avocados and pineapple, for example, are fine conventional.
• Understand why, not just the swap. What you cook in, how heat changes things, what you store food in. A framework outlasts a list.
• Stay honest when the evidence shifts. Amy changed her own position on microwaves after newer research contradicted the old study she'd relied on for decades.

Connect With the Guest:

• Website: https://www.greenlivingnow.com
• Podcast: Green Living Now, on YouTube and all major audio platforms
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amytodisco

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] The Overwhelm Is Real: when reading labels makes everything feel wrong (approx.)

[03:00] What People Get Wrong at the Start: panic, then a swap you can't verify (approx.)

[07:00] Why the Confusion Isn't Your Fault: who benefits when you can't tell (approx.)

[11:00] The Book That Fell Off the Shelf: Amy's 1992 turning point (approx.)

[16:30] Staying Honest When the Science Changes: the microwave reversal (approx.)

[21:00] Where to Actually Start: Dirty Dozen, Clean 15, and labels that lie (approx.)

[26:00] Progress Over Perfection: one swap, at your own pace (approx.)

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If you love a young athlete, you have probably watched them push through pain and call it strength. This episode is for the parents, coaches and student athletes who are tired of that trade. It looks honestly at athlete burnout, injury recovery, and what happens to a young person's identity when their whole sense of self is tied to how they perform.

Dr. Kindra Ingram brings more than twenty years of sports chiropractic and whole-person recovery work to a simple reframe: recovery is not a pause on progress, it is part of it. You will leave with a clearer way to spot burnout before it breaks something, and a more compassionate way to support the athlete in your life.

About the Guest:

Dr. Kindra Ingram is a sports chiropractor, author and educator with over twenty years of work in athlete longevity and whole-person recovery. She is the founder of Align Spine Health Center and the creator of the R3 Performance system built around rest, recovery and rehab. She is also the author of the From Sidelines to Scholarships series and its companion journals for students, parents and coaches.

Key Takeaways:

• Recovery is not a setback. Build it into the daily schedule the same way training is, in season and off season.
• "No pain, no gain" is an old script. Fifteen to twenty minutes of warm-down and debrief after practice makes the next practice better.
• The pressure a young athlete carries usually comes from the system around them: coaches, parents, teammates, school. Healthy variables make a healthy athlete.
• Watch for burnout signs in ordinary days. A child with no day off, no peers outside the sport and no outlet is heading toward mental blocks, not medals.
• Conversation is the intervention. Ask the athlete what they think, and give them room to change their mind about a coach, a schedule or a season.
• Write the plan down. Intentional steps, shared across parent, coach and athlete, beat good intentions every time.

Connect With the Guest:

• Website: https://www.alignspinecenter.com
• Books: www.alignspinebooks.com (shared on the episode)
• Instagram: @info_alignspinecenter (shared on the episode)

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] The Weight We Hand Young Athletes: the pressure nobody names out loud (approx.)

[02:30] Recovery Is Not Weakness: the biggest thing adults get wrong (approx.)

[06:00] Letting Go of "No Pain, No Gain": why the old adage has to go (approx.)

[09:30] The Mindset Shift: making recovery part of the training plan (approx.)

[14:00] Coaches, Parents and Borrowed Expectations: whose pressure is it (approx.)

[19:00] Burnout Hiding in an Ordinary Day: the nine-year-old with no day off (approx.)

[24:00] Rest, Recover, Rehab: writing the plan down and living it (approx.)

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Male loneliness is not really about having no one around. It is about being taught, early and often, that needing support is weakness. This episode is for men carrying something quietly, and for anyone who loves one.

Jason Lange explains what a men's group actually is, why boys learn to leave their bodies, what embodiment means in plain language, and the one small step any man can take this week without joining anything.

About the Guest:

Jason Lange is a men's embodiment coach, group facilitator, and evolutionary guide, and the founder of Evolutionary Men. He helps men find deeper clarity in their purpose and relationships, and believes every man should be in a men's group.

Key Takeaways:

• Most men connect through triangulation, attention on a third thing. Real connection means turning toward each other.
• You can start this week without a group. Reach out to one man, go first, and say what is actually happening inside you.
• The man box teaches boys that being a man means never showing weakness. That training starts young and costs a lifetime.
• Emotions begin as sensations in the body. If you are not in your body, you cannot feel or name them.
• Embodiment is not softness. Jason notes most of the traffic between body and brain runs upward, so leaving your body means losing information.
• Men long for two things: purpose and belonging. A men's group can offer both.

Connect With the Guest:

• Website: https://evolutionary.men
• Free quiz: https://evolutionary.men/quiz
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmlange
• Podcast: Evolutionary Men

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] The Quiet Epidemic Nobody Names (approx.)

[03:30] What a Men's Group Actually Is, and What It Isn't (approx.)

[07:00] I Don't Have to Do This Alone (approx.)

[11:00] Triangulation, and How to Go First (approx.)

[15:30] The Man Box: Where the Training Begins (approx.)

[21:00] From 3% to 15%: The Friendship Recession (approx.)

[25:30] Embodiment in Plain Language (approx.)

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You did everything right. The surgeries, the specialists, the money. The pain came back anyway. This episode is for anyone who has quietly run out of hope.

Heather Yoshimura, who lived this herself, explains why pain can persist after successful surgery, what central sensitization actually means, and why that understanding is a reason for hope rather than blame.

About the Guest:

Heather Yoshimura is a UCSF-trained nurse practitioner, founder of the telehealth practice Luteal Health, and author of The Endo Dilemma. She specializes in endometriosis and complex pelvic pain, and is a patient herself.

Key Takeaways:

• All pain is real. Saying the brain generates pain is not saying it is imagined, or anyone's fault.
• Lesion count does not reliably predict pain. Successful surgery and continued pain can coexist.
• What the brain has learned, it can unlearn. That is where the hope lives.
• Endometriosis is a whole body condition, not just a pelvic one. Sleep, stress, gut, and hormones move the dial.
• Track progress, not pain scores. A five minute walk after two weeks indoors is a win.

Connect With the Guest:

Website: luteal.health | Email: [email protected] | Book: The Endo Dilemma

Episode Chapters: (approx.)

[00:00] Maybe This Is Just My Life Now: the thought that arrives when nothing has worked

[03:30] What Medicine Hasn't Caught Up To: pain as an experience the brain generates

[08:00] Real, Not Imagined: why understanding the mechanism removes blame instead of adding it

[12:30] Two Surgeries and $100,000: Heather's own decade of being unable to get an answer

[18:00] The Self-Perpetuating Cycle: sleep, isolation, inflammation, and losing yourself to the pain

[23:00] Treating the Whole System: why endometriosis was never only a pelvic condition

[27:30] Flares Are Expected: staying with the work when the pain comes back

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There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from trying everything, therapy, medication, every piece of advice, and still not finding relief. This episode of The Healing Mindset speaks directly to that exhaustion. Host Nazish talks with Dr. Aubrey Verdun, a double board-certified anesthesiologist and founder of Freedom Ketamine Treatment Centers, about ketamine therapy for treatment-resistant depression and PTSD, and what the safety and process actually look like under proper medical care.

Dr. Verdun addresses the stigma around ketamine directly, explains how it works differently from traditional antidepressants, and walks through what a supervised treatment series actually involves, including the ongoing therapy support that makes it more durable. This conversation offers grounded, medically informed hope for people who feel like they've run out of options.

About the Guest:

Dr. Aubrey Verdun is a double board-certified anesthesiologist and pain management physician with over 20 years of experience. He is the founder and medical director of Freedom Ketamine Treatment Centers, a practice offering evidence-based ketamine infusion therapy for treatment-resistant depression, PTSD, and related conditions.

Key Takeaways:

• Ketamine, when administered by trained medical professionals in a clinical setting, has a strong safety profile, distinct from its reputation tied to unregulated recreational use.
• Ketamine works through a different pathway than traditional antidepressants, targeting glutamate transmission rather than serotonin or norepinephrine reuptake, which is part of why it can help when other treatments haven't.
• A typical treatment series involves multiple infusions over several weeks, followed by occasional maintenance sessions, rather than a single one-time fix.
• Pairing ketamine treatment with ongoing talk therapy tends to produce more durable results than the infusions alone.
• If a full series is recommended, completing it matters. Stopping partway through, similar to not finishing a course of antibiotics, may limit how effective the treatment can be.

Connect With the Guest:

Website: https://www.freedomketaminecenters.com

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Welcome to The Healing Mindset — meeting Dr. Aubrey Verdun (approx.)

[03:00] Common misconceptions about ketamine and where they come from (approx.)

[08:00] Why ketamine works through a different pathway than traditional antidepressants (approx.)

[14:00] What it looks like when someone first considers this treatment (approx.)

[19:00] Walking through an actual infusion session (approx.)

[24:00] Why pairing treatment with therapy matters for lasting results (approx.)

[28:00] What to do if progress feels uncertain partway through (approx.)

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There's a particular kind of tiredness that doesn't show up on any chart. It belongs to the people who spend their lives holding others, the nurses, the caregivers, the ones who stay steady for everyone else while quietly unraveling on the drive home. This episode of The Healing Mindset turns the care around. Host Nazish talks with registered nurse Joel Polley about what it actually takes for caregivers to stop pouring from an empty well.

Joel shares what years of night nursing cost his own health, and why protecting your own wellbeing isn't selfish, it's what makes your care for others sustainable in the first place. This conversation offers real permission for caregivers to stop treating guilt as the price of doing their job well.

About the Guest:

Joel Polley is a registered nurse with 20 years of experience in ICU and emergency medicine, and the founder of BraveWorks RN. He teaches caregivers and health-conscious individuals how to recognize the warning signs of burnout and prioritize sustainable self-care.

Key Takeaways:

• If a caregiver's own health fails, the people depending on them lose their support entirely. Protecting your own wellbeing is what keeps you available for the people who need you.
• Stress that goes unacknowledged for too long often shows up physically, in elevated blood pressure or cortisol, even when it isn't consciously on your mind.
• Self-care doesn't require grand gestures. A scheduled sleep routine, a short walk, or a few minutes of deep breathing can meaningfully protect your health.
• Mental exhaustion tends to show up in the body eventually if it isn't addressed early. The two are rarely as separate as they seem.
• Guilt is often the biggest barrier keeping caregivers depleted. Reframing self-care as what makes your care sustainable, rather than selfish, can shift that guilt.

Connect With the Guest:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/braveworksrn

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@braveworks_

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Welcome to The Healing Mindset — meeting Joel Polley (approx.)

[03:00] What years of night nursing cost his own health (approx.)

[08:00] What sits underneath the instinct to endlessly give (approx.)

[14:00] Calculating the real cost of caregiving without enough rest (approx.)

[19:00] Simple, low-cost ways to protect your energy (approx.)

[24:00] Finding your way back on the days there's nothing left (approx.)

[27:00] Addressing the guilt that keeps caregivers depleted (approx.)

[29:00] One thing to hold onto if you're running on empty tonight (approx.)

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Listen to the voice in your head for a single honest day, the one that would never speak to a friend the way it speaks to you. This episode of The Healing Mindset sits with that voice directly. Host Shriya talks with psychologist and self-compassion teacher Dr. Ellen Albertson about the quietly radical idea that healing doesn't begin with fixing yourself. It begins with finally being kind to yourself.

Ellen shares her own path from harsh self-criticism, shaped by a difficult marriage and years of believing a "perfect body" would bring self-love, to discovering self-compassion research that changed her relationship with herself completely. This conversation offers real, practical tools for softening the inner critic without losing your motivation to grow.

About the Guest:

Dr. Ellen Albertson, known as The Midlife Whisperer™, is a psychologist, registered dietitian, board-certified health and wellness coach, and mindful self-compassion teacher. She is the bestselling author of "Rock Your Midlife" and host of the Rock Your Midlife podcast, helping women navigate midlife with greater confidence and self-compassion.

Key Takeaways:

• The inner critic usually began as a frightened attempt to stay safe and loved, often an internalized voice from early caregivers, not a tool for genuine improvement.
• Self-compassion has three parts: self-kindness instead of self-judgment, recognizing shared humanity in struggle, and mindfulness of what you're actually feeling in the moment.
• Leaning into self-criticism tends to undermine motivation rather than strengthen it, despite how normal it feels.
• A simple self-compassion break, noticing "this is a moment of suffering" and asking what you genuinely need, can shift a stressful moment before it spirals.
• Thinking about what your future self will thank you for can make small, kind choices easier in the present.

Connect With the Guest:

Website: https://themidlifewhisperer.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themidlifewhisperer

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Welcome to The Healing Mindset — meeting Ellen Albertson (approx.)

[03:00] How Ellen's harsh inner voice took hold, and what woke her up to it (approx.)

[09:00] The three parts of self-compassion (approx.)

[15:00] What the harsh inner voice is actually trying to protect (approx.)

[20:00] What self-kindness looks like on an ordinary, imperfect day (approx.)

[26:00] A simple mirror practice and the self-compassion break (approx.)

[29:00] Thinking about your future self as an act of self-compassion (approx.)

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We pour ourselves into what we build, hoping the achievement will finally heal something underneath. But success rarely reaches the ache it's meant to fix, and we keep building on ground that never feels solid. This episode is for anyone who has ever hit a goal and wondered why it didn't feel like enough.

Entrepreneur Tomide Akinola joins the show to talk about the difference between fulfillment and achievement, why the drive to build can quietly become its own kind of hiding, and how self-forgiveness matters more than perfection when old patterns resurface.

ABOUT THE GUEST:

Tomide Akinola is an entrepreneur who has spent over a decade building startups, including a reverse auction platform early in his career. He now brings a grounded, reflective lens to the inner beliefs and mindset behind building, and is working on a pre-launch app focused on helping people center themselves.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Achievement and fulfillment are not the same thing. Reaching the top of one mountain only reveals another one to climb.
• The restlessness to build can become its own purpose, separate from whether what's built is ever sustainable.
• A constant low-level discontent, even amid comfort and safety, is often a sign that something within hasn't been acknowledged.
• The inability to rest is one of the most socially rewarded wounds. Hustle and dedication can quietly cover for avoidance.
• Slipping back into old patterns under pressure doesn't erase progress. Self-forgiveness matters more than perfection.
• Judging yourself only by your last achievement, or your last failure, risks turning a moment into a lasting wound.

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Pre-launch page (as shared by the guest): https://launch.reviel.app/

Instagram

Twitter | TikTok

EPISODE CHAPTERS:

[00:00] Building on Ground That Never Feels Solid — the story we tell ourselves about achievement

[03:00] (approx.) Tomide's Journey — from a structured path to an unshakable urge to build

[08:00] (approx.) Societal Expectations vs Inner Yearning — the tension of the well-marked path

[13:00] (approx.) Why Achievement Never Fills the Hole — outer success and the ache underneath

[18:00] (approx.) Fulfillment vs Achievement — a distinction worth sitting with

[22:00] (approx.) The Wound Behind the Hustle — why rest feels unearned

[26:00] (approx.) When Old Patterns Resurface — self-forgiveness over self-punishment

[29:00] (approx.) Not Judging Yourself by Your Last Win or Loss — a closing reflection

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Some of the beliefs shaping our lives were never ours to begin with. They were absorbed, not chosen, and we carry them as fact long after they stop serving us. This episode is for anyone who senses a ceiling on their life but can't quite name where it came from.

Navy chaplain and author Dr. Larry Brant joins the show to talk about the beliefs we inherit without noticing, why we cling to familiar pain over unfamiliar change, and how real healing often means going through the hardest part rather than around it.

ABOUT THE GUEST:

Dr. Larry Brant is a U.S. Navy chaplain with over two decades of service, following 25 years as a civilian pastor. He is the author of "Restoring the Broken," a guide to understanding and healing moral injury, drawn from his work with service members and their families.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• A belief can feel like a solid truth when it's really an old limit in disguise, formed by what others projected onto us.
• Verbal abuse and low self-worth often plant limiting beliefs long before we're aware they've taken root.
• We hold onto painful, familiar beliefs because the unknown alternative feels riskier than staying stuck.
• Limiting beliefs show up in small daily choices, like avoiding a hard conversation or sending an email instead of showing up in person.
• Reframing failure as a teacher, rather than proof of unworthiness, is often what allows real change to stick.
• A strong support network matters most when an old belief resurfaces under stress. Healing isn't undone just because it gets tested again.

CONNECT WITH THE GUEST:

Website: https://restoring-the-broken.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larry-brant-09394544/

EPISODE CHAPTERS:

[00:00] The Ceiling We Never Agreed To — quiet beliefs and where they come from

[03:30] (approx.) Larry's Turning Point — clinical pastoral education and seeing himself through others' eyes

[08:00] (approx.) When Someone Else's Pain Becomes Your Belief — the hospital room story

[13:00] (approx.) How Limiting Beliefs Get Formed — verbal abuse, self-worth, and inherited stories

[17:30] (approx.) Why We Cling to What Hurts — fear of the unknown versus fear of change

[21:00] (approx.) Small Daily Choices — how limiting beliefs quietly run our lives

[26:00] (approx.) When Old Beliefs Resurface — the role of support and staying the course

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