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We're not punchy, you're punchy. It was the day before the massive pre-holiday winter storm, and 4/5 of the Healwell Brain Trust got together to talk about what we learned this season and to -- once again -- talk about how excited we are for our February symposium. We have a couple of requests for emails in there, too. We are looking forward to hearing from you. We'll be back in mid-January for Season 10!

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Corey and Cal sit down with Harry Pickens to talk more about information from the perspective of a (mostly) regular human who has had to master finding and disseminating information in the service of their own health. It's about discernment, it's about knowing yourself, and most of all -- it's about love. 

About Our Guest: 
Harry Pickens is an award-winning musician, educator, author, composer, contemplative performing artist and meditation guide who helps people awaken to their true nature as Love. He is a recipient of the Kentucky Governor's Award in The Arts and is featured in an Emmy-nominated Kentucky Educational Television documentary, Harry Pickens And The Garden Of Music. Harry is currently engaged in research exploring applications of music and sound to support emotional healing and spiritual transformation. 

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Corey really wants to know -- why do researchers like research so much? Matt Hudson joins Corey and Kerry to explore this question and get into the details about what makes discovery delightful, exciting, challenging, and infuriating.*

About Our Guest: 
Dr. Matthew F. Hudson is the Director of Cancer Care Delivery Research (CCDR) at Prisma Health (Greenville, South Carolina). Dr. Hudson conducts and oversees research on interventions mediating patient, clinician, and organizational factors influencing cancer care outcomes and patient well-being. Hudson is the Vice Chair of a national community oncology research base’s CCDR Committee (NRG Oncology). He also serves Prisma Health as a Health Sciences Center Research Director facilitating embedded researchers’ induction and production within the health care environment. Hudson holds a faculty appointment at the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health, where he previously taught an introductory course in comparative effectiveness research. He also holds faculty appointments at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Clemson University School of Nursing, Clemson University School of Health Research, Clemson University’s Department of Public Health Sciences, and Wake Forest School of Medicine. Hudson also served as a member of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s (PCORI) Patient Engagement Advisory Panel. 

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Statistics are amazing! No, really -- we found a fun, brilliant human to talk to us about using statistics to engage with the world in a more informed way. Lauren Fowler (who is basically the same as Charlie from Top Gun) helps Cal and Corey shine light on the back of their knees and make it make sense.

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Books mentioned in this episode:
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Scale by Geoffrey West
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky
Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky
Hypercapitalism by Larry Gonick and Tim Kasser

About Our Guest:
Dr Fowler's research focuses on how we change (physiologically, cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally) in relation to our biological rhythms. As PI or Co-Investigator on several university, NSF, and NIH grants, and as a consultant for the Air Force Research Laboratories Human Effectiveness Directorate, she has established herself as a leader in the field of circadian desynchronization and fatigue, assessing how it affects our thoughts, our emotions, our perceptions, and our behavior. Much of her work has focused on physiological variables related to circadian desynchronization, however her recent research has expanded to include how fatigue affects healthcare worker cognition, empathy, burnout, and perceptions. This research aims to decrease the effects of shift work and clinical work on fatigue and the impacts of fatigue. In addition, she is currently studying sleep, fatigue and cognition in cancer survivors (breast and prostate), with the aim of improving cancer survivor sleep to minimize detrimental effects of sleep loss on cognition, pain perception, and quality of life.

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• Check Healwell’s live and online classes
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• Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"

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Catherine Ryan is back!!! Our favorite Canadian former co-host, fascia nerd, and research-positive massage therapist joins us to talk about bringing research into practice.

If you want to learn even more from Cathy (and really, who wouldn't?)
Check out her online on-demand fascia bundle
and her LIVE scar class

About Our Guest:
Catherine Ryan RMT: Cath is a nature lover with a penchant for hugging trees and kissing dogs – with their consent of course. She makes a living moving her hands around, primarily in the form of providing massage therapy, writing about massage therapy and while teaching massage therapy related content. Kindness is her favourite color. 

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• Find bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!
• Check Healwell’s live and online classes
• Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community
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• Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"

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Who runs the world? Librarians. Particularly pun-loving, loud librarians like this week's guest, Taylor Xiao. Corey and Cal enter the Matrix with Taylor to talk about the emotional labor-intense role of an academic librarian, the difference between information and knowledge, and how information is like Play-Doh.

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Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

About Our Guest:
Taylor Xiao is Instruction & Assessment Librarian at the Mary & John Gray Library of Lamar University 

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Cal and Corey sit down with Adrienne Asta, Board President of the Massage Therapy Foundation, fierce advocate for massage therapists, and all around wonderful human. After an unprecedented three-pun opening, they talk about what's next for MTF and how this organization is going to serve and support you in the coming months.

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You can get CEs through Continuing Education Institute of Illinois for $25!

About Our Guest:
Adrienne F. Asta has been practicing massage since 2001 and holds certifications in neuromuscular therapy and prenatal massage. Her clients range from permanently disabled to Big Ten collegiate athletes, all of whom teach her something new every session. She is privileged to serve as the chairperson for the Community Service Grants Proposal Review Committee for the Foundation. Additionally, Adrienne has volunteered with the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) on a local and national level for well over a decade. She has been deeply involved in the education arm of the massage industry including positions of instructor, Director of Education, and National Program Director among others and is a member of the Alliance for Massage Therapy Education. She has developed ancillary materials for textbooks widely used in massage therapy programs and has trained all levels of practicing massage therapists and educators. It is a joy for her to volunteer alongside such an inspiring and dedicated group of people. Adrienne is proud to donate 1% of the proceeds of her practice to this honorable organization.Contact Adrienne (No really! She wants to hear from you!) at [email protected] or [email protected] 

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Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy

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Other ways to help and join in:

• Leave us a review on  Apple Podcasts
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• Check Healwell’s live and online classes
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Corey and Cal talk with Whitney Lowe about the gigantic pot of gold that is information, and the most important skill that is also the most difficult to teach. (Hint: It's clinical reasoning.)

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About Our Guest:
Whitney Lowe, who coined the phrase orthopedic massage, is a recognized authority on pain and injury treatment with massage therapy. In 2015 he was presented the 2015 Performance Health / Massage Therapy Foundation Humanitarian Award by the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), and was the recipient of the ONE Concept Educator of the Year Award for 2013.Lowe began his research into the complexity of chronic pain conditions and injuries over two decades ago. He is currently the education section editor for the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies, and has been a regular featured author in publications such as Massage & Bodywork, Massage Magazine, Massage Today and the Journal of Soft-Tissue Manipulation. He is the author of the books, Orthopedic Assessment in Massage Therapy and Orthopedic Massage: Theory and Technique, which are used in training programs and schools nationally and internationally. 

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Corey and Cal get into the weeds with Niki Munk and a conversation about the state of massage research -- including reflections on the high number of massage therapists who also have a theater degree.

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Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science

About Our Guest:
Niki Munk, Ph.D., LMT, is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Indiana University. Munk is a clinically trained and licensed massage therapist and completed her doctoral training in gerontology at the University of Kentucky. Munk is one of 13 international Fellows in the International Complementary Medicine Research Leadership Program at University Technology Sydney (UTS): Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM). In addition, Munk is a Massage Therapy Foundation Trustee and co-investigator on the VA funded TOMCATT study, which examines care-ally assisted and therapist provided massage for Veterans with chronic neck pain. Prior to beginning her appointment as faculty at the School of Health & Human Sciences, Munk worked in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Kentucky on the KYPROS study which examined real-world massage therapy for primary care patients with chronic low back pain. Before her research career, Munk was the associate then program director for the Lexington Healing Arts Academy in Lexington, Kentucky and president of In Touch Inc. which provided massage therapy for older adults in their homes, care centers, or in professional therapeutic space. 

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• Check Healwell’s live and online classes
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• Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"

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Welcome to Season 9! This season, Corey Rivera will take us on a journey through the wild world of information and research literacy. What do we know? How do we know it? What do we do with information? How does all of this relate to how we are with other humans? We have a whole season to talk about it, starting with the Healwell Brain Trust taking on left-handed cats, prisms, state songs, and alligators.

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The Oatmeal cartoon about The Backfire Effect
Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

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• Leave us a review on  Apple Podcasts
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• Find bonus content from Interdisciplinary and early release episodes for our current show: "The Rub" on Patreon!
• Check Healwell’s live and online classes
• Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community
• Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here
• Find a copy of Rebecca Sturgeon's book: "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care"