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Alisa Shownotes Startups are popping up all over the globe and, having been at one during my corporate days, I can attest to the fact that they are very exciting. Yet, as exciting as they are, they can be very ...

03.21.2023 #152 How the Best Practices of Startups Relate to Your Life \| Alisa Cohn Alisa Shownotes Startups are popping up all over the globe and, having been at one during my corporate days, I can attest to the fact that they are very exciting. Yet, as exciting as they are, they can be very ...
03.14.2023 #151 I Got There & Now I Help Others Get There Too \| Scribe Media CEO JeVon McCormick Once upon a time, there was a boy, the son of a pimp and whose mother who used to work for that pimp as a prostitute. Since he was born in 1971, his parents’ union would have been a crime ...
03.08.2023 #150 My Dad, an 83-Year-Old Retired Physician & Lifelong Learner \| Richard Dorsay, MD, PhD (HC) Suddenly, we are at episode 150 of the SuperPsyched Podcast. To celebrate this milestone, I thought I would interview the most influential man in my life. In fact, he was the guy who gave me the idea to start this ...
02.28.2023 #149 Two Therapists Geek Out to the Craft of Therapy \| Michael Alcee, Ph.D. You may have heard terms like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or psychoanalysis that describe different schools of thought or orientations for therapy. At last count, there are a few hundred validated orientations to psychotherapy. Which may cause you to ask, “With ...
02.21.2023 #148 Sleep is a Skill \| Mollie Eastman If I were to ask you what skill matters more to our physical and mental health than just about any skill out there, what would you say? Well, since you’ve seen the title to this episode, I imagine you know ...
02.14.2023 #147 Creativity & Ideaflow: A Huge Difference-Maker for Success in Everything \| Stanford School of Design's Jeremy Utley I think most of us have, at some point, wished we had certain information years ago that is available today. That’s certainly how I felt after I read the book my guest and I will discuss on this episode. But, ...
02.07.2023 #146 The Power of Awe in 15 Seconds \| Michael Amster, MD What if I told you that there was an exercise that anyone can do in just 15 seconds three times a day that, when researched, showed a decrease depression by as much as 35%, a decrease anxiety by up to ...
01.31.2023 #145 Getting Out of Your Way and Getting More Love By Knowing Your Parts \| Toni Herbine-Blank, MFT As you might imagine, the most talked about topic in my office is relationships. To paraphrase a great quote, relationships are one of life’s biggest predictors of our happiness… or misery. Yet, as we all know, relationships can be super ...
01.24.2023 #144 Why Donuts Have Holes & When Less Is More \| Leidy Klotz, Ph.D. Quick question—when you do math, what’s easier for you: addition or subtraction? For most of us, I’m guessing the answer is addition. While you may think it’s because we learn addition before subtraction, another part of the answer is less ...
01.17.2023 #143 The Case for Spiritually Intelligent Leadership (Regardless of Your Spiritual Beliefs) \| Yosi Amram, PhD I have the pleasure of working with many leaders in Silicon Valley. And among the things that are discussed in my office, the quality of leadership shows up a lot. Stories emerge when leaders are kind and inspirational. And, of ...
01.10.2023 #142 - The Secrets of Reading People \| Blake Eastman If you could have the magical power to read people, what they were thinking and feeling, would you want that ability? I imagine it’d be a mixed blessing. There are times when we really want to be able to read ...
01.03.2023 #141 Work, Parent, Thrive \| Yael Schonbrun, PhD There are no two ways about it. Parenting is hard. Add a full-time job to the mix and the pressures of modern life and, wow! It’s a miracle we can do it at all. How can we balance all of ...
12.25.2022 #140 New Year's Aspirations with AJ Jacobs & Me All right, dear listeners, New Year’s is upon us and, if you’re like me, you may be thinking about your resolutions! And, if you’re like me, at some point you may have written out too many resolutions—or created too high ...
12.20.2022 #139 The Anatomy of Anxiety Made Simple \| Ellen Vora, M.D. To be human is to experience anxiety. To some extent, our survival requires it. Unfortunately, anxiety can more frequently impede our living more than it helps. Many times, we try to stuff it away, hoping to deny its existence, which ...
12.13.2022 #138 Sport Psychology Can Improve Your Life \| Dr. Jonathan Fader Even if you’re not an athlete, sport psychology can positively change your life. Years ago, when I came upon a textbook on sport psychology, my first thought was “Hey, this could be used in every area of life.” The fact ...
12.06.2022 #137 The Mind of a Cat \| Dr. Kristyn Vitale It will come as no surprise to my regular listeners that I love exploring the bond between pets and people. My life has been vastly improved by pets and I’ve seen the same effect of pets on countless people. Recently, ...
11.29.2022 #136 Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Find Their True North \| Dr. Stephen Rollnick Have you ever been given incredibly good advice, but didn’t follow it? I’m guessing that, for most of us, the answer is a big yes! It may have been because we weren’t ready to implement that advice. It may have ...
11.22.2022 #135 Gratitude Episode \| Adam Dorsay, Psy.D. Solo Well, dear listeners, Thanksgiving is upon us, and what better topic to dive into, than gratitude! Not so long ago, gratitude was kind of considered a “woo-woo” topic but, these days, hard, science and brain imaging shows otherwise. We now ...
11.15.2022 #134 Mastery Secrets: Tiny Tweaks that Get You from 94% to 97% \| Elliot Roe Many of us grew up with the idea that we’ve got to spend a lot of time improving on our areas of weakness. While that may be true, and certainly important at times, research indicates that we can get an ...
11.08.2022 #133 Understanding Stigma & How to Handle It \| Dr. Stephen Hinshaw Among the most painful of human experiences is feeling rejected. In fact, the brain can't tell the difference between social rejection and physical pain: MRI images show that rejection hits the same parts of our brains that physical pain hits. ...
11.01.2022 #132 Leveraging Intelligence from Our Animal Side \| Beth Anstandig, MFT There's a great quote from James Joyce: “Mr. Smith lived a short distance from his body.” As you'll hear in this interview, we have evolved over the centuries to distance ourselves from our bodies. That makes us very different from ...
10.25.2022 #131 Time Optimizing Tools & Strategies \| Nick Sonnenberg Regardless of who you are or where you live, one thing all 7+ billion of us on earth have in common is the restriction of time. None of us has more than 168 hours a week. And yet, how we ...
10.18.2022 #130 Beastie Boys: Their Profound Teachings \| Dr. Adam Dorsay Solo The Beastie Boys made a huge splash nearly 36 years ago with their breakthrough album, Licensed to Ill. It was a moment in time that served as something of a dividing point in music history; they showed the world what ...
10.11.2022 #129 Dr. Marion Nestle \| A Fascinating Life in Food Studies & Food Politics We literally cannot survive without food. And yet, until 1996, Food Studies as an academic discipline wasn’t even a thing until my guest, Dr. Marion Nestle (https://www.foodpolitics.com/), founded the department and program at New York University where she remains professor ...
10.04.2022 #128 Making Strangers Laugh \| Comedian Raj Sharma Many of us can make our friends and family laugh. But as comedian Billy Eichner recently noted, it is really hard to make a group of strangers laugh. And that is the task of every working comedian. They get up ...
09.27.2022 #127 The Science of Stuck \| Britt Frank, MSW, LSCSW, SEP Among the least pleasant experiences in life is feeling stuck. That stuck feeling comes in multiple forms and we've all felt themes and variations of it. Even Dr. Seuss wrote about it in his book that is often given as ...
09.20.2022 #126 A Black Musician Who Helped Hundreds of Men Get Out of the KKK \| Daryl Davis In my last episode, I explored the topic of how minds change. In this episode, we take that theme from the abstract and academic to the real and extreme. Recently I learned about a modern hero. When I first heard ...
09.13.2022 #125 How Minds Change \| David McRaney We humans like to be right about things. As you’ll hear in this episode, our self-image and our perception of being trustworthy to others can feel threatened when our thinking is questioned. After all, within our own brains, our thought ...
09.06.2022 #124 Children & Trauma \| Melissa Goldberg Mintz, Ph.D. A struggle for any parent is seeing their child in pain. Even when the pain is small, we have an impulse to fix that pain. And when the child’s pain is extreme, that impulse can skyrocket. Yet, as any parent ...
08.29.2022 #123 Bringing Levity & Empathy to Serious Situations: Lessons from a Pediatric Oncology Nurse \| Marc Bader, RN We all know the cliché that laughter is the best medicine. In addition to laughter, research suggests that levity and empathy are also great medicines. One of the best testing grounds I can imagine for considering the value of levity ...
08.23.2022 #122 Girls & ADHD \| Dr. Stephen Hinshaw When I was a child, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder was a term that was hardly known by laypeople. Over the past few decades, the condition also known as ADHD, has garnered so much notice that it now appears to be ...
08.16.2022 #121 Sustainable Happiness at Work \| Dr. Emma Seppala As a Silicon Valley-based psychologist, I frequently hear from my clients about their work woes. These woes are often the result of companies who erroneously subscribe to harsh techniques in trying to bring out the best in their employees, which ...
08.09.2022 #120 Community: How & Why to Create It \| Jon Levy Anyone familiar with my work knows I care a lot about friendship and relationships. As it turns out, one of the biggest predictors of our health is the quality of our relationships and our sense of community. Sadly, for many ...
08.02.2022 #119 Bartender Wisdom \| Matthew "Zeke" Zeka Baseball legend Yogi Berra had some of the all-time best quotes. Although he has been gone for nearly a decade, Yogi-isms are plentiful and are still thrown around for their hilarity and brilliance. One of his quotes relates perfectly to ...
07.26.2022 #118 The Unselfie \| Michele Borba, EDD If I asked you what leads to success, what would you say? I imagine most of us think about schooling, work experience, and the quality of our social networks. But there are other things that really matter here. Research reveals ...
07.20.2022 #117 Winning with Underdogs: Hiring People with Disabilities \| Dr. Gil Winch A large percentage of the population is under-employed but wants to be a part of the workforce. I’m talking about people who have disabilities of all kinds. Although in some parts of the world there are discrimination laws aimed at ...
06.28.2022 #116 This Is Us & Summer Break \| Adam Solo Summer is here and Season Two of SuperPsyched is a rap! I will be taking a brief break and, in all likelihood, return in late July or early August. To cap season two, I thought I would give a tip ...
06.22.2022 #115 Be Here Now: Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni shares why he founded a company creating phone-free spaces A few months ago, my family and I plus about 20,000 other people went to see a live comedy event. What made it so unusual was that none of the 20,000 of us had our smart devices available. Instead, those ...
06.15.2022 #114 Exercises for Your Brain \| Susan Krauss Whitbourne, PhD, ABPP The human brain is the most complex structure known in the entire universe. Yet, despite its incredible power, its capacity declines with the passage of time. What can we do to keep our brains in tip-top shape as we age? ...
06.07.2022 #113 Terry Real, LCSW \| Building a Loving Relationship & Overriding Impulses that Interfere Research indicates that the biggest predictor of happiness—at least for most of us—is the quality of our relationships. And yet, so much of how we’re wired can get in the way of good relationships. Things like pride and stubbornness. When ...
06.01.2022 #112 Lori Gottlieb, MFT \| Part Two of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Have you ever had such a great conversation that you simply had to have more time? Silly question, I know! We've all had that. One of mine recently was with my guest Lori Gottlieb during her superb interview for episode ...
05.25.2022 #111 How to Fix a Broken Heart \| Guy Winch, Ph.D. Heartbreak is a painful part of life. When we’re in it, it can be all-consuming, exhausting, and overwhelming. And to be sure, the skill to attend to it is not typically taught in school. But what is heartbreak and how ...
05.18.2022 #110 Transcending Trauma \| Frank Anderson, MD Trauma sucks. And, to varying degrees, we’ve all experienced it. Research shows that its effects can impact and disturb developmental phases of life. Studies of transgenerational trauma show that trauma can even have negative consequences for future generations of people ...
05.11.2022 #109 The Science of Connecting & Playing Well with Others \| Eric Barker Sigmund Freud once said, “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.” Whether or not you agree, love and work are certainly a big deal. On any given day, much of what crosses our minds falls under the headings ...
05.04.2022 #108 A Teen Talks About Teens \| Zach Gottlieb Last September, I read a brilliant piece in TIME Magazine by an inspired high school sophomore. The title was It’s Time For Boys To Talk About Emotional Health. I read it with my teenage sons, and it resonated deeply. It ...
04.27.2022 #107 AJ Jacobs \| How Games, Puzzles, and Other Mind-Benders Improve Our Brains and Ourselves Puzzles have a long history and are loved by millions of people worldwide. The New York Times crossword alone attracts 20 million people daily. And puzzles come in multiple forms: jigsaws, mazes, manipulable objects like Rubik’s Cubes, and even puzzles ...
04.20.2022 #106 Sustainable Change in Exercise & Diet \| Michelle Segar, Ph.D. I'm going to guess that, like me, you have written out some resolutions or aspirations at some point. Perhaps it was New Year’s or a birthday and it related to exercise, diet, or some other area of importance to you. ...
04.13.2022 #105 Eco-Anxiety and One Green Thing You Can Do \| Heather White A common theme that shows up on SuperPsyched relates to the importance of naming things. When we don’t have a name for a stressor, it tends to be even more distressing. You may have even heard me say that you ...
04.06.2022 #104 Lori Gottlieb, MFT \| Part One of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone One way to ensure that we are living, and I mean truly living, during this lifetime, is to live an examined life. By that, I mean living consciously with the humility to examine what’s going on, how we’re living, the ...
03.30.2022 #103 Influence is Your Superpower \| Zoe Chance, Ph.D. From 1 to 10, how would you rate yourself as an influencer? Would you like to improve your strength in this area? And, imagine the people in your life who have been positive influencers. How do you hold them in ...

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03.21.2023 #152 How the Best Practices of Startups Relate to Your Life \| Alisa Cohn Alisa Shownotes Startups are popping up all over the globe and, having been at one during my corporate days, I can attest to the fact that they are very exciting. Yet, as exciting as they are, they can be very ...
03.14.2023 #151 I Got There & Now I Help Others Get There Too \| Scribe Media CEO JeVon McCormick Once upon a time, there was a boy, the son of a pimp and whose mother who used to work for that pimp as a prostitute. Since he was born in 1971, his parents’ union would have been a crime ...
03.08.2023 #150 My Dad, an 83-Year-Old Retired Physician & Lifelong Learner \| Richard Dorsay, MD, PhD (HC) Suddenly, we are at episode 150 of the SuperPsyched Podcast. To celebrate this milestone, I thought I would interview the most influential man in my life. In fact, he was the guy who gave me the idea to start this ...
02.28.2023 #149 Two Therapists Geek Out to the Craft of Therapy \| Michael Alcee, Ph.D. You may have heard terms like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or psychoanalysis that describe different schools of thought or orientations for therapy. At last count, there are a few hundred validated orientations to psychotherapy. Which may cause you to ask, “With ...
02.21.2023 #148 Sleep is a Skill \| Mollie Eastman If I were to ask you what skill matters more to our physical and mental health than just about any skill out there, what would you say? Well, since you’ve seen the title to this episode, I imagine you know ...
02.14.2023 #147 Creativity & Ideaflow: A Huge Difference-Maker for Success in Everything \| Stanford School of Design's Jeremy Utley I think most of us have, at some point, wished we had certain information years ago that is available today. That’s certainly how I felt after I read the book my guest and I will discuss on this episode. But, ...
02.07.2023 #146 The Power of Awe in 15 Seconds \| Michael Amster, MD What if I told you that there was an exercise that anyone can do in just 15 seconds three times a day that, when researched, showed a decrease depression by as much as 35%, a decrease anxiety by up to ...
01.31.2023 #145 Getting Out of Your Way and Getting More Love By Knowing Your Parts \| Toni Herbine-Blank, MFT As you might imagine, the most talked about topic in my office is relationships. To paraphrase a great quote, relationships are one of life’s biggest predictors of our happiness… or misery. Yet, as we all know, relationships can be super ...
01.24.2023 #144 Why Donuts Have Holes & When Less Is More \| Leidy Klotz, Ph.D. Quick question—when you do math, what’s easier for you: addition or subtraction? For most of us, I’m guessing the answer is addition. While you may think it’s because we learn addition before subtraction, another part of the answer is less ...
01.17.2023 #143 The Case for Spiritually Intelligent Leadership (Regardless of Your Spiritual Beliefs) \| Yosi Amram, PhD I have the pleasure of working with many leaders in Silicon Valley. And among the things that are discussed in my office, the quality of leadership shows up a lot. Stories emerge when leaders are kind and inspirational. And, of ...
01.10.2023 #142 - The Secrets of Reading People \| Blake Eastman If you could have the magical power to read people, what they were thinking and feeling, would you want that ability? I imagine it’d be a mixed blessing. There are times when we really want to be able to read ...
01.03.2023 #141 Work, Parent, Thrive \| Yael Schonbrun, PhD There are no two ways about it. Parenting is hard. Add a full-time job to the mix and the pressures of modern life and, wow! It’s a miracle we can do it at all. How can we balance all of ...
12.25.2022 #140 New Year's Aspirations with AJ Jacobs & Me All right, dear listeners, New Year’s is upon us and, if you’re like me, you may be thinking about your resolutions! And, if you’re like me, at some point you may have written out too many resolutions—or created too high ...
12.20.2022 #139 The Anatomy of Anxiety Made Simple \| Ellen Vora, M.D. To be human is to experience anxiety. To some extent, our survival requires it. Unfortunately, anxiety can more frequently impede our living more than it helps. Many times, we try to stuff it away, hoping to deny its existence, which ...
12.13.2022 #138 Sport Psychology Can Improve Your Life \| Dr. Jonathan Fader Even if you’re not an athlete, sport psychology can positively change your life. Years ago, when I came upon a textbook on sport psychology, my first thought was “Hey, this could be used in every area of life.” The fact ...
12.06.2022 #137 The Mind of a Cat \| Dr. Kristyn Vitale It will come as no surprise to my regular listeners that I love exploring the bond between pets and people. My life has been vastly improved by pets and I’ve seen the same effect of pets on countless people. Recently, ...
11.29.2022 #136 Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Find Their True North \| Dr. Stephen Rollnick Have you ever been given incredibly good advice, but didn’t follow it? I’m guessing that, for most of us, the answer is a big yes! It may have been because we weren’t ready to implement that advice. It may have ...
11.22.2022 #135 Gratitude Episode \| Adam Dorsay, Psy.D. Solo Well, dear listeners, Thanksgiving is upon us, and what better topic to dive into, than gratitude! Not so long ago, gratitude was kind of considered a “woo-woo” topic but, these days, hard, science and brain imaging shows otherwise. We now ...
11.15.2022 #134 Mastery Secrets: Tiny Tweaks that Get You from 94% to 97% \| Elliot Roe Many of us grew up with the idea that we’ve got to spend a lot of time improving on our areas of weakness. While that may be true, and certainly important at times, research indicates that we can get an ...
11.08.2022 #133 Understanding Stigma & How to Handle It \| Dr. Stephen Hinshaw Among the most painful of human experiences is feeling rejected. In fact, the brain can't tell the difference between social rejection and physical pain: MRI images show that rejection hits the same parts of our brains that physical pain hits. ...
11.01.2022 #132 Leveraging Intelligence from Our Animal Side \| Beth Anstandig, MFT There's a great quote from James Joyce: “Mr. Smith lived a short distance from his body.” As you'll hear in this interview, we have evolved over the centuries to distance ourselves from our bodies. That makes us very different from ...
10.25.2022 #131 Time Optimizing Tools & Strategies \| Nick Sonnenberg Regardless of who you are or where you live, one thing all 7+ billion of us on earth have in common is the restriction of time. None of us has more than 168 hours a week. And yet, how we ...
10.18.2022 #130 Beastie Boys: Their Profound Teachings \| Dr. Adam Dorsay Solo The Beastie Boys made a huge splash nearly 36 years ago with their breakthrough album, Licensed to Ill. It was a moment in time that served as something of a dividing point in music history; they showed the world what ...
10.11.2022 #129 Dr. Marion Nestle \| A Fascinating Life in Food Studies & Food Politics We literally cannot survive without food. And yet, until 1996, Food Studies as an academic discipline wasn’t even a thing until my guest, Dr. Marion Nestle (https://www.foodpolitics.com/), founded the department and program at New York University where she remains professor ...
10.04.2022 #128 Making Strangers Laugh \| Comedian Raj Sharma Many of us can make our friends and family laugh. But as comedian Billy Eichner recently noted, it is really hard to make a group of strangers laugh. And that is the task of every working comedian. They get up ...
09.27.2022 #127 The Science of Stuck \| Britt Frank, MSW, LSCSW, SEP Among the least pleasant experiences in life is feeling stuck. That stuck feeling comes in multiple forms and we've all felt themes and variations of it. Even Dr. Seuss wrote about it in his book that is often given as ...
09.20.2022 #126 A Black Musician Who Helped Hundreds of Men Get Out of the KKK \| Daryl Davis In my last episode, I explored the topic of how minds change. In this episode, we take that theme from the abstract and academic to the real and extreme. Recently I learned about a modern hero. When I first heard ...
09.13.2022 #125 How Minds Change \| David McRaney We humans like to be right about things. As you’ll hear in this episode, our self-image and our perception of being trustworthy to others can feel threatened when our thinking is questioned. After all, within our own brains, our thought ...
09.06.2022 #124 Children & Trauma \| Melissa Goldberg Mintz, Ph.D. A struggle for any parent is seeing their child in pain. Even when the pain is small, we have an impulse to fix that pain. And when the child’s pain is extreme, that impulse can skyrocket. Yet, as any parent ...
08.29.2022 #123 Bringing Levity & Empathy to Serious Situations: Lessons from a Pediatric Oncology Nurse \| Marc Bader, RN We all know the cliché that laughter is the best medicine. In addition to laughter, research suggests that levity and empathy are also great medicines. One of the best testing grounds I can imagine for considering the value of levity ...
08.23.2022 #122 Girls & ADHD \| Dr. Stephen Hinshaw When I was a child, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder was a term that was hardly known by laypeople. Over the past few decades, the condition also known as ADHD, has garnered so much notice that it now appears to be ...
08.16.2022 #121 Sustainable Happiness at Work \| Dr. Emma Seppala As a Silicon Valley-based psychologist, I frequently hear from my clients about their work woes. These woes are often the result of companies who erroneously subscribe to harsh techniques in trying to bring out the best in their employees, which ...
08.09.2022 #120 Community: How & Why to Create It \| Jon Levy Anyone familiar with my work knows I care a lot about friendship and relationships. As it turns out, one of the biggest predictors of our health is the quality of our relationships and our sense of community. Sadly, for many ...
08.02.2022 #119 Bartender Wisdom \| Matthew "Zeke" Zeka Baseball legend Yogi Berra had some of the all-time best quotes. Although he has been gone for nearly a decade, Yogi-isms are plentiful and are still thrown around for their hilarity and brilliance. One of his quotes relates perfectly to ...
07.26.2022 #118 The Unselfie \| Michele Borba, EDD If I asked you what leads to success, what would you say? I imagine most of us think about schooling, work experience, and the quality of our social networks. But there are other things that really matter here. Research reveals ...
07.20.2022 #117 Winning with Underdogs: Hiring People with Disabilities \| Dr. Gil Winch A large percentage of the population is under-employed but wants to be a part of the workforce. I’m talking about people who have disabilities of all kinds. Although in some parts of the world there are discrimination laws aimed at ...
06.28.2022 #116 This Is Us & Summer Break \| Adam Solo Summer is here and Season Two of SuperPsyched is a rap! I will be taking a brief break and, in all likelihood, return in late July or early August. To cap season two, I thought I would give a tip ...
06.22.2022 #115 Be Here Now: Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni shares why he founded a company creating phone-free spaces A few months ago, my family and I plus about 20,000 other people went to see a live comedy event. What made it so unusual was that none of the 20,000 of us had our smart devices available. Instead, those ...
06.15.2022 #114 Exercises for Your Brain \| Susan Krauss Whitbourne, PhD, ABPP The human brain is the most complex structure known in the entire universe. Yet, despite its incredible power, its capacity declines with the passage of time. What can we do to keep our brains in tip-top shape as we age? ...
06.07.2022 #113 Terry Real, LCSW \| Building a Loving Relationship & Overriding Impulses that Interfere Research indicates that the biggest predictor of happiness—at least for most of us—is the quality of our relationships. And yet, so much of how we’re wired can get in the way of good relationships. Things like pride and stubbornness. When ...
06.01.2022 #112 Lori Gottlieb, MFT \| Part Two of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Have you ever had such a great conversation that you simply had to have more time? Silly question, I know! We've all had that. One of mine recently was with my guest Lori Gottlieb during her superb interview for episode ...
05.25.2022 #111 How to Fix a Broken Heart \| Guy Winch, Ph.D. Heartbreak is a painful part of life. When we’re in it, it can be all-consuming, exhausting, and overwhelming. And to be sure, the skill to attend to it is not typically taught in school. But what is heartbreak and how ...
05.18.2022 #110 Transcending Trauma \| Frank Anderson, MD Trauma sucks. And, to varying degrees, we’ve all experienced it. Research shows that its effects can impact and disturb developmental phases of life. Studies of transgenerational trauma show that trauma can even have negative consequences for future generations of people ...
05.11.2022 #109 The Science of Connecting & Playing Well with Others \| Eric Barker Sigmund Freud once said, “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.” Whether or not you agree, love and work are certainly a big deal. On any given day, much of what crosses our minds falls under the headings ...
05.04.2022 #108 A Teen Talks About Teens \| Zach Gottlieb Last September, I read a brilliant piece in TIME Magazine by an inspired high school sophomore. The title was It’s Time For Boys To Talk About Emotional Health. I read it with my teenage sons, and it resonated deeply. It ...
04.27.2022 #107 AJ Jacobs \| How Games, Puzzles, and Other Mind-Benders Improve Our Brains and Ourselves Puzzles have a long history and are loved by millions of people worldwide. The New York Times crossword alone attracts 20 million people daily. And puzzles come in multiple forms: jigsaws, mazes, manipulable objects like Rubik’s Cubes, and even puzzles ...
04.20.2022 #106 Sustainable Change in Exercise & Diet \| Michelle Segar, Ph.D. I'm going to guess that, like me, you have written out some resolutions or aspirations at some point. Perhaps it was New Year’s or a birthday and it related to exercise, diet, or some other area of importance to you. ...
04.13.2022 #105 Eco-Anxiety and One Green Thing You Can Do \| Heather White A common theme that shows up on SuperPsyched relates to the importance of naming things. When we don’t have a name for a stressor, it tends to be even more distressing. You may have even heard me say that you ...
04.06.2022 #104 Lori Gottlieb, MFT \| Part One of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone One way to ensure that we are living, and I mean truly living, during this lifetime, is to live an examined life. By that, I mean living consciously with the humility to examine what’s going on, how we’re living, the ...
03.30.2022 #103 Influence is Your Superpower \| Zoe Chance, Ph.D. From 1 to 10, how would you rate yourself as an influencer? Would you like to improve your strength in this area? And, imagine the people in your life who have been positive influencers. How do you hold them in ...

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#152 How the Best Practices of Startups Relate to Your Life | Alisa Cohn

#151 I Got There & Now I Help Others Get There Too | Scribe Media CEO JeVon McCormick

#150 My Dad, an 83-Year-Old Retired Physician & Lifelong Learner | Richard Dorsay, MD, PhD (HC)

#149 Two Therapists Geek Out to the Craft of Therapy | Michael Alcee, Ph.D.

#148 Sleep is a Skill | Mollie Eastman

#147 Creativity & Ideaflow: A Huge Difference-Maker for Success in Everything | Stanford School of Design's Jeremy Utley

#146 The Power of Awe in 15 Seconds | Michael Amster, MD

#145 Getting Out of Your Way and Getting More Love By Knowing Your Parts | Toni Herbine-Blank, MFT

#144 Why Donuts Have Holes & When Less Is More | Leidy Klotz, Ph.D.

#143 The Case for Spiritually Intelligent Leadership (Regardless of Your Spiritual Beliefs) | Yosi Amram, PhD

#142 - The Secrets of Reading People | Blake Eastman

#141 Work, Parent, Thrive | Yael Schonbrun, PhD

#140 New Year's Aspirations with AJ Jacobs & Me

#139 The Anatomy of Anxiety Made Simple | Ellen Vora, M.D.

#138 Sport Psychology Can Improve Your Life | Dr. Jonathan Fader

#137 The Mind of a Cat | Dr. Kristyn Vitale

#136 Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Find Their True North | Dr. Stephen Rollnick

#135 Gratitude Episode | Adam Dorsay, Psy.D. Solo

#134 Mastery Secrets: Tiny Tweaks that Get You from 94% to 97% | Elliot Roe

#133 Understanding Stigma & How to Handle It | Dr. Stephen Hinshaw

#132 Leveraging Intelligence from Our Animal Side | Beth Anstandig, MFT

#131 Time Optimizing Tools & Strategies | Nick Sonnenberg

#130 Beastie Boys: Their Profound Teachings | Dr. Adam Dorsay Solo

#129 Dr. Marion Nestle | A Fascinating Life in Food Studies & Food Politics

#128 Making Strangers Laugh | Comedian Raj Sharma

#127 The Science of Stuck | Britt Frank, MSW, LSCSW, SEP

#126 A Black Musician Who Helped Hundreds of Men Get Out of the KKK | Daryl Davis

#125 How Minds Change | David McRaney

#124 Children & Trauma | Melissa Goldberg Mintz, Ph.D.

#123 Bringing Levity & Empathy to Serious Situations: Lessons from a Pediatric Oncology Nurse | Marc Bader, RN

#122 Girls & ADHD | Dr. Stephen Hinshaw

#121 Sustainable Happiness at Work | Dr. Emma Seppala

#120 Community: How & Why to Create It | Jon Levy

#119 Bartender Wisdom | Matthew "Zeke" Zeka

#118 The Unselfie | Michele Borba, EDD

#117 Winning with Underdogs: Hiring People with Disabilities | Dr. Gil Winch

#116 This Is Us & Summer Break | Adam Solo

#115 Be Here Now: Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni shares why he founded a company creating phone-free spaces

#114 Exercises for Your Brain | Susan Krauss Whitbourne, PhD, ABPP

#113 Terry Real, LCSW | Building a Loving Relationship & Overriding Impulses that Interfere

#112 Lori Gottlieb, MFT | Part Two of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

#111 How to Fix a Broken Heart | Guy Winch, Ph.D.

#110 Transcending Trauma | Frank Anderson, MD

#109 The Science of Connecting & Playing Well with Others | Eric Barker

#108 A Teen Talks About Teens | Zach Gottlieb

#107 AJ Jacobs | How Games, Puzzles, and Other Mind-Benders Improve Our Brains and Ourselves

#106 Sustainable Change in Exercise & Diet | Michelle Segar, Ph.D.

#105 Eco-Anxiety and One Green Thing You Can Do | Heather White

#104 Lori Gottlieb, MFT | Part One of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

#103 Influence is Your Superpower | Zoe Chance, Ph.D.