MindBodySpace

By Dr. Juna BobbyParenting Kids & Family

MindBodySpace episodes

January 12, 2024 What Does Meditation and Stress Management Have To Do With Performance? With Tom Klisiewicz Founder of Smart Health Wellness and Performance
Whether you’re a student, leader, musician, athlete, or parent, understanding your mind and body connection enhances performance both in your personal life and at work. My guest today is Tom Klisiewicz, CPTD, an educator and colleague, who has dedicated his career to teaching youth how to be resilient and perform at their best so that when inevitable downturns happen in life, they’ll have the tools to fall back on.
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Guest, Tom Klisiewicz is the founder and president of Smart Health & Wellness Performance. He has dedicated his career to teaching youth practices that build resilience, strengthen mental health, and help achieve success. Tom hosts a podcast called "Raising Resilient Kids."
Host, Dr. Juna is a mom and physician passionate about sharing evidence-based wellness tips and fascinating topics like neuroscience and meditation.
In this episode of the MindBodySpace podcast, Dr. Juna interviews her friend and colleague Tom Klisiewicz about teaching mindfulness and meditation to youth. Listeners will learn how Tom first became interested in meditation, his personal meditation practice, and how mindfulness helps with resilience and performance. We also discuss Tom's new podcast focused on raising resilient kids as well as a large grant Tom recently secured to teach mindfulness in Illinois public schools.
Main Discussion Points:
- How Tom first learned about meditation from studying successful athletes and business leaders (6:00)
- The benefits Tom experienced from having a regular meditation practice (14:38)
- Using performance as a "hook" to get kids interested in meditation (22:24)
- How meditation changed Tom as a parent - helping him become more patient (24:03)
- Overview of a grant Tom secured to train teachers to teach mindfulness practices to 25,000 students in Illinois public schools (26:01)
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28 min
January 05, 2024 Why Healthy Habits Need To Start As Young As Possible: Primordial Prevention
Welcome to MindBodySpace Podcast 2024!
In this week's episode, Dr. Juna discusses the different types of disease prevention - tertiary, secondary, primary, and primordial. She explains what each type means, focusing especially on primordial prevention and the importance of establishing healthy habits from a very young age.
Main discussion points:
- Definitions of tertiary, secondary, primary, and primordial prevention
- Starting healthy lifestyle habits early, especially in childhood, can have lifelong benefits
- Healthy habits positively impact wellness, performance, energy levels, and happiness
Next week’s guest is Tom Klisiewicz, CPTD, founder and president of Smart Health, Wellness and Performance. He is passionate about teaching kids tools for resilience and he's championing mind-body resilience programs for youth in Illinois!
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10 min
November 17, 2023 The Importance of Family and the Future of AI, with Asha Saxena
In this informative episode, Asha Saxena, author of the best selling book "The AI Factor", successful tech entrepreneur and founder of WLDA, Women Leaders in Data and AI, shares her insights on the profound influence of AI and how anyone can get started on getting familiar with AI.
This episode is packed with wisdom and inspiration from Asha's long career as a successful entrepreneur in tech consulting. Asha also shares a heartfelt story about her biggest supporter who was also a role model in entrepreneurship—her mom.
"Always be curious. And always be learning. If you are curious and ask good questions and be open to playing and engaging with technology, you will continue growing." — Asha Saxena: Click for Asha's Website
MORE ABOUT ASHA:
FOUNDER & CEO WLDA, BOARD MEMBER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, & BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE AI FACTOR.
Asha Saxena is a strategic and innovative leader with a track record
of building successful technology companies over the past 30 years. She is the author of the bestselling book “The AI Factor – How to Apply Artificial Intelligence and Use Big Data to Grow Your Business Exponentially” and the Founder and CEO of Women Leaders in Data and AI, a global leadership organization bringing senior leaders together to create a fair digital world with parity and equity.
Asha is a partner at CEO Coaching International, a company focused on founding, building, turning around, and selling successful businesses. She is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University, teaching graduate classes on Management Consulting,
Entrepreneurship and Big Data Analytics, and served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Columbia Business School.
In the past, Asha served as the CEO of Aculyst, a healthcare data
analytics company, built an e-commerce platform for 3,000 dealers
nationwide, and was the President and CEO of Future Technologies.
This company provided data analytics solutions to Fortune 1000
companies and was recognized at the World Economic Forum as a
“Global Growth Company for 2007”.
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42 min
October 27, 2023Highest Potential: How to Stop Overreacting
Ever overreact? If you're like me, you've had your fair share of regrets. We all have times when we overreact, and most of the time, it's not in our best interest. So how do we slow down and get more control over our own reactions?
In this episode, my awesome friend Fiona Murden joins me to discuss the reactionary brain and what steps we can take to decrease overreacting. We're going to talk about evidence-based exercises that we can do to train ourselves to gain control over our habitual reactions to situations and people.
Fiona Murden is a great friend, awesome mom, award-winning author, and host of Dot to Dot Behind the Person Podcast. We discuss the science and real-life applications of topics that help us perform under pressure and achieve our highest potential without burning out.
Fi and I hit it off immediately! We are both passionate about teaching the science of resilience, and as parents, we both have a special interest in teaching kids how they can positively influence their brains. We are on a mission to widely share practical cognitive and motivational research tools with curious people who want to fulfill their potential and ultimately lead happier lives. Fiona is a Chartered UK Organizational Psychologist who coaches top performers and C-suite individuals to achieve optimal performance. Juna teaches high-achieving students of all ages at the Juilliard School and has taught at NYU, Columbia, Barnard, Achievement First, and at many other organizations.
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17 min
October 06, 2023 Four Basic Tools for Learning How to Fail Well According to Amy Edmondson, Author of "Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well"
In episode 115, I spoke with Amy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School and author of "Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well".
In this follow up episode, I wanted to highlight for you, the four basic tools we can master, in order to learn how to fail well.
Grab a pen and paper and let's start practicing together!
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8 min
September 28, 2023 Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well with Dr. Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School
If you're human, then you've felt the disappointment of failure. Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, helps us reframe the concept of failure, both in our personal and professional lives by sharing her research backed insights.
Whoever you are in the world, this episode will help you discover intelligent failure so that you can limit preventable failures, stress and thrive.
Amy Edmondson's Website: https://amycedmondson.com/
“Amy Edmondson, one of our finest business minds, offers a bold new perspective on human fallibility. With a graceful mix of scientific research and practical advice, she shows how to transform failure from an obstacle to a stepping stone — from a weight that holds us back to a wind that propels us forward.
RIGHT KIND OF WRONG is a guidebook for our times.”
—Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE POWER OF REGRET and DRIVE
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, renowned for her research on psychological safety over twenty years. Her award-winning work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Psychology Today, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and more. Named by Thinkers50 in 2021 as the #1 Management Thinker in the world, Edmondson’s TED Talk “How to Turn a Group of Strangers into a Team” has been viewed over three million times. She received her PhD, AM, and AB from Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the author of Right Kind of Wrong, The Fearless Organization, and Teaming.

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46 min
September 17, 2023How To Create New Habits To Change Anything In Your Life With Leo Babauta Of Zen Habits
Want to change your habits and create massive transformations in your personal health, wealth, and relationships?
In this episode of the MindBodySpace Podcast, host Dr. Juna interviews Leo Babauta, creator of the blog Zen Habits, which has millions of readers. Leo shares his amazing personal story of overcoming smoking, debt, unhealthy habits, and more in 2005 by slowly but surely making small changes.
He gives actionable tips on how to create lasting change in your life by understanding your urges and resistance, creating accountability through your community, and finding a deeper reason why the change matters.
Listeners will be inspired by Leo's journey and gain practical frameworks to transform any area of their life.
Go to MindBodySpace.com/episode/create-new-habits-to-change-your-life-with-leo-babauta
Check out Leo's retreat coming up soon!
If you could truly let go, what would you create?
The Art of Letting Go Retreat — with Leo Babauta from Zen Habits
North Carolina, October 2023
Oct 2023 retreat:Fearless Intensive experience at the Art of Living Center in Boone, NC, October 19th - 21, 2023:
Learn why and how we cling to old identities

Get present to the impact of this clinging

Staying and finding love in the unknown

Sacred ritual for uncertainty and focus

Connection with an incredible group of people, all dedicated to creating change in the world, just like you.

Training with Leo — a world-class expert in mindful fearlessness and shifting our ingrained patterns.
https://ignite.zenhabits.net/art-of-letting-go
49 min
September 08, 2023 Two Simple Steps To Ditch Your Phone From Your Morning Routine So That You Can Focus and Be Happier
In the last episode, we spoke to sociological researcher Caity Begg, Founder of Authentic Social about how removing our smartphones and tech from early morning routines can change our ability to focus for the rest of the day. For Caity and for many of us, checking our phones first thing in the morning can lead to immediate overwhelm as we drink from a firehose of information from the news, emails, texts, and social media.
Listen for evidence backed two simple steps that you can take to ditch your phone from your morning routine so that you can do what matters most to you!
Let me know how it goes for you! Email questions, comments, and feedback at [email protected]
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12 min
September 01, 2023How to Decrease Anxiety and Get Focused in a Hyper Texting Digital World with Caitlin Begg
In this episode of the MindBodySpace Podcast, Dr. Juna speaks with sociological researcher and Authentic Social founder Caitlin “Caity” Begg about the effects of digital communication and hyper-communication on human relationships and interactions. They discuss how the rise of texting, social media, and constant connectivity has impacted the way we converse, date, work, and even think. Caity provides insights from her research on improving communication and promoting more presence despite our tech-driven world.
Main Discussion Points:
How asynchronous communication (non real-time like texts) and hyper-communication (excess texts/notifications) causes anxiety and misinterpretations

The importance of establishing communication norms, especially when dating or starting new relationships

How starting the day reading physical books helps focus, productivity, creativity

Caity's “progression to analog” tips like phone-free mornings, taking film photos, and being present with people

Effects of digital communication on social skills and mental health

Advice for parents on limiting screen media for kids and having open discussions
Caitlin “Caity” Begg studied sociology at Harvard and wrote her thesis on digital communication and relationships. She founded her company Authentic Social in 2016 to improve workplace communications. Caity speaks globally on making human connections in a tech-driven world.
Authentic Social provides business and communication strategies for companies, with a focus on optimizing technology's role in human interaction. Their research is aimed at facilitating effective and less alienating communication in a digital age.
https://caitybegg.com/
https://authsocial.com
http://linkedin.com/in/caitlinbegg
http://instagram.com/caityb
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50 min
August 25, 2023 How Can We Find Joy When Awful Things Are Happening?
Tanmeet is a mother, physician and author of "Joy is my Justice". Listen in on our conversation as she talks about how a devastating diagnosis changed her life, making her stronger and a thought leader in helping others find joy in the most difficult times.
Dr. Tanmeet Sethi is a board-certified Integrative Family Medicine physician and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She works on the frontlines of the most marginalized communities, as well as globally with victims of school shootings, survivors of hurricanes, citizens impacted by police violence, and psychologists in Ukraine under attack. Her expertise is recognized nationally and she is the author of multiple articles and textbook chapters in Integrative medicine. Dr. Sethi is always on the cutting edge of medicine including clinical research on psilocybin, the first psychedelic research of its kind at the University of Washington.
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43 min