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#188 The Power of a Name | ...

11.28.2023

What's in a name? Turns out a lot! Whether you are naming a company, a project, a meeting room, a team, or a baby, names are deeply meaningful. In fact, some businesses may have failed because their name is so ...

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11.28.2023 #188 The Power of a Name \| Alexandra Watkins What's in a name? Turns out a lot! Whether you are naming a company, a project, a meeting room, a team, or a baby, names are deeply meaningful. In fact, some businesses may have failed because their name is so ...
11.21.2023 #187 How Our Expectations Can Influence Outcomes: The Science Called The Expectation Effect \| David Robson Expectation Effect Shownotes Do our expectations affect outcomes? Are there things we can do to increase the likelihood of getting outcomes we want? Are there thoughts that may interfere with these positive outcomes as well?There has been a lot of ...
11.14.2023 #186 Listening to Our Bodies \| Rachel Fleischman, LCSW It wasn’t long ago that the notion of the mind-body connection was considered New Agey. It was as if the mind and the body were two totally separate systems that had very little to do with each other. Now, with ...
11.07.2023 #185 The Autistic Advantage \| Olivia Fox Cabane Autism has been rightfully getting lots of media airtime lately. Indeed, it is a deeply misunderstood condition and, sadly, 85% of autistic adults are unemployed. As you’ll hear in this episode and in my 2020 episode with Dr. Temple Grandin, ...
10.31.2023 #184 Raising Children Who Aren't A#@holes \| Melinda Wenner Moyer Parents overwhelmingly want to raise kind children. Yet many concerning trends are on the rise including narcissism and bullying, leaving many parents to worry: how can I improve the likelihood of raising a kind child? And that’s why I was ...
10.24.2023 #183 Harvard Business Review CHRO, Angela Cheng-Cimini \| Working Remote vs In-Person Remember when work was a place we went? And, remember when zoom only meant going fast or, if you are from my generation, a goofy PBS children's TV show? For many of us, working virtually is the new normal. For ...
10.17.2023 #182 Imposter No More \| Dr. Jill Stoddard Since you've seen the title of this episode, I'm guessing that you have experienced some level a phenomenon called imposterism. It is usually referred to as imposter syndrome and, as you'll hear in this episode, my guest will be defining ...
10.10.2023 #181 Civility: What It Is, How To Rock It & Why We Need it More than Ever \| Alexandra Hudson What is civility? What are the consequences of its absence? And why is it so important? Many people may inadvertently believe the words “polite” and “civil” are interchangeable. But as you hear and think about these words, you're probably recognizing ...
10.03.2023 #180 Second City's Kelly Leonard \| Improv & The Power of "Yes And" Improv isn’t just for comedy. If there are superfoods like blueberries that are good for your health, improv may just be a super-skill that has implications and applications that are also good for your health. No joke. And the skills ...
09.26.2023 #179 Charity: How We Get So Much More than We Give, When We Give \| Mark Gerson We humans tend to be empathic, and our brains reward us with hits of dopamine when we help our fellow beings. So, it is no surprise that when we do good by providing charity or means for our fellow humans ...
09.19.2023 #178 Community: Why We Need It & How to Create It \| Charles Vogl The Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, has recently warned of a loneliness epidemic in the United States and has cited research suggesting that loneliness can be as toxic to our health as 15 cigarettes per day. Unfortunately, societal trends do ...
09.12.2023 #177 Smash Mouth Guitarist Greg Camp Remembering Steve Harwell On Labor Day, Steve Harwell, the front man of Smash Mouth, died at the age of 56. Like many people, I’m a big fan of the band and I’m really sad about this. Smash Mouth’s lead guitarist and songwriter was ...
09.05.2023 #176 The Future of Jobs \| Jeff Wald These days there is understandably a lot of talk and a lot of fear about the future of jobs. Speculations are plentiful and some are downright grim. The questions abound: what will the future bring as it relates to employment? ...
08.29.2023 #175 We Must Talk About Ramen! \| Rory Dent I’ve covered many important topics on this podcast, but this one is arguably the most important: it’s about ramen. OK, I jest. But if you are a listener of this podcast, you have likely noticed I cover lots of important ...
08.22.2023 #174 Japanese Psychology Lessons: How Do You Want to Use Your 30,000 Days? \| Gregg Krech Many of you know that I’m kind of in love with Japan. I lived there in my 20’s for nearly three years, I studied the language intensely, and because it offered such a different point of view from what I ...
08.15.2023 #173 Career Hacks: Secrets They Never Taught You in School \| Mark Herschberg Like most of us, I have wished many things were taught to me at school that were not on the curriculum. While so much of what we need to learn can only be taught through experience, many skills that could ...
08.08.2023 #172 The Psychologist to Comedians \| Ildiko Tabori, Ph.D. Comedians use their genius to give us joy, laughter, and even to help us think about things differently. And yet, those same people who bring so much pleasure often are people who experience deep levels of depression, anxiety, and histories ...
08.01.2023 #171 The Shadow of The Wind - Adam Dorsay, Psy.D. It’s summer as I write this and, for many of us, it’s high season for leisure reading.It causes me to think of my all-time favorite novel… the one I couldn’t put down and the one I keep re-reading over the ...
07.25.2023 #170 The Ted Lasso Effect \| Adam Dorsay, Psy.D. With the Ted Lasso series finale in our rearview mirrors, I felt the need to record a solo episode tribute to the brilliant creator, Bill Lawrence, and to this incredible show. As a psychologist, I have seen a few shows ...
07.18.2023 #169 Lesser-Known Sex Stuff \| Ross Benes Without sex, pretty much none of us would be here. And yet, merely talking about the thing that brought us here makes many of us squirm with discomfort. We’re told it’s not polite to talk about it. It’s taboo. And ...
07.11.2023 #168 Helping Kids with Feelings & Friendships \| Dr. Eileen Kennedy Moore We all know that when we invest a dollar well, over time with compounding interest, the dollar blossoms in value. Yet, the same can be said for our habits and behaviors. When we cultivate good habits and behaviors, over time ...
07.04.2023 #167 Being on the Frontlines for Food Policy \| Dr. Michael Jacobson We all know the expression that we are what we eat. Yet few have devoted their lives to the science behind this idea more than the guest of this episode.Dr. Michael Jacobson earned a Ph.D. in microbiology from MIT and, ...
06.27.2023 #166 When Your Career Becomes Your Whole Identity \| Janna Koretz, Psy.D. Have you ever had with the belief that you were only as good as your results at work? Perhaps, if this is the case, you can identify with your work so much that if you aren’t crushing it, you believe ...
06.20.2023 #165 How Storytelling Helps Business \| Donna Griffit Perhaps the most magical and hypnotic words ever uttered in sequence are, “Once Upon a time.” Don’t believe me? Let’s look at one of the most successful movies ever, Star Wars. While it’s not “once upon a time” verbatim, it’s ...
06.13.2023 #164 Dating, Intimacy & Sex Later in Life \| Carol Kramer, LCSW Dating is one of the most talked about topics in my office. And for good reason: Romantic love plays such a big part of happiness for so many of us and, if life were a pie chart, the love component ...
06.06.2023 #163 Behind the Scenes of College Admissions and Beyond \| Dr. Irena Smith Very frequently in my office I hear from parents struggling with their child's college application process. The range of their emotions can be anywhere from anxious to utter heartbreak.Yet, does getting the golden ticket to the top university mean a ...
05.30.2023 #162 Leaning into LIfe Enhancing Anxiety \| Kirk Schneider, Ph.D. Anxiety is generally thought of something to avoid—especially when we catastrophize—you know that thing our brain does when we imagine worst-case scenarios. For most of us, these scenarios generally have no real value and the images rendered in our minds ...
05.23.2023 #161 Psychedelics & Microdosing \| Paul Austin When I was growing up, psychedelics like LSD and mushrooms were considered quite taboo. Sure, they were talked about in stoner circles but pretty much nowhere else. These days, things have changed dramatically. Psychedelics, while still illegal in most places, ...
05.16.2023 #160 Why We Need to Be In Each Other's Care & How to Do It \| Stan Tatkin, Psy.D. Simply put, our primary relationships play a big part in how happy we are. Yet our brains are not really designed to be good at relationships; instead, our brains are designed for our survival and energy conservation. So, although our ...
05.09.2023 #159 Real-World Negotiation \| Harvard Negotiation Project's Joshua Weiss, Ph.D. There are oh, so many myths around the topic of negotiation and conflict. Some of us believe that we have to be hard, shrewd, and that it’s a zero-sum game with a winner and a loser. Some of us even ...
05.02.2023 #158 Big Talk: The Antidote for Small Talk \| Kalina Silverman Have you ever left a social event and, after talking all night to various people, felt like nothing real was said? Sure, if a transcriptionist followed you, there was lots of dialogue. But as you considered the meaning of the ...
04.24.2023 #157 An Actor Who Became 224 Different People on TV & Film \| Spencer Garrett, Actor & Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Member Many people fantasize about what it would be like to be an actor. And what many of us don't know is just how long the long game is in pursuing that dream. And we have ideas about what that life ...
04.18.2023 #156 Maroon 5: Before, During & After \| Maroon 5 Founding Drummer, Ryan Dusick, AMFT Like many people in my generation, I was rock music-obsessed when I was growing up. My wall was covered in posters of Zeppelin, Rush, Van Halen, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, and others. And I constantly fantasized about becoming a rockstar. ...
04.10.2023 #155 The Long Game \| Duke University's School of Business, Dorie Clark Ok, tell the truth—there’s gotta be a project you started but didn’t finish. For me, I’ll admit, there are lots of those. Sometimes, I realized the need to quit, which may have been legit. But in other cases, it was ...
04.05.2023 #154 Fake News & Disinformation: Why It's Here & What Can We Do About It? \| Eric Schurenberg, Former CEO of Inc. & Fast Company I’m guessing that in grade school at some point you played the game of Telephone. You know, that game where you and your classmates or friends get in a circle, and one person whispers a statement to the next person ...
03.28.2023 #153 Children & Grief \| Korie Leigh, PhD Talking about death and grief is not easy, and it’s especially challenging to talk with children about them. Given social conventions, we tend to speak about these two heavy topics euphemistically or indirectly, if at all. Turns out that, for ...
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 ...

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