The Dr. Greg Wells Podcast

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This week I’m super excited to share my recent interview with mental health and resiliency expert Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe.

Robyne is a multi-award-winning psychology and education instructor who specializes in navigating stress and change, leadership, and personal wellness. She has very practical strategies that are grounded in research and case studies.

Robyne’s been on the show before but I love chatting with her as she provokes my thinking every time we speak. In this conversation we do a deep dive into mental health, resiliency, and bouncing back. We also discuss her new book Calm Within the Storm: A Pathway to Everyday Resiliency.

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This week I’m super excited to share my interview with gratitude researcher and practitioner Steve Foran.

Steve’s dream is one billion happier people. He began exploring the relationship between gratitude and philanthropic giving during his MBA, and received the Gold Medal for highest academic standing. Since then, he’s been writing and conducting practice-based gratitude research and teaching the habits of gratefulness for close to fifteen years. What’s emerged is his science-based program, Gratitude At Work, which uses gratitude to improve leadership and drive business growth.

You can learn more about his work at his website Gratitude At Work.

In this conversation, we explore what it really means to be grateful and how we can practice gratitude every day to amplify our lives.

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This week I’m really excited to share my interview with author and keynote speaker Todd Henry. Todd has helped hundreds of thousands of people around the world do the best work of their lives by helping them unleash their creativity, be more productive, and generate brilliant ideas.

His latest book, The Motivation Code, unlocks the secrets to deep engagement, satisfaction, and productivity.

This is an episode from my original podcast but I wanted to rebroadcast it as his ideas apply to all of us as we try to reimagine the future during this strange time.

You can learn more about his work, including his books and podcast, at his website toddhenry.com.

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This week I’m super excited to share my interview with Riaz Meghji.

Riaz is a human connection keynote speaker and author of the book “Every Conversation Counts: The 5 Habits of Human Connection That Build Extraordinary Relationships”.

He is also an accomplished broadcaster with 17 years of television hosting experience; he has interviewed experts on current affairs, sports, entertainment, politics, and business. His on-camera experience not only taught him the power of a candid conversation, but also how to put it into practice.

Riaz has hosted for Citytv’s Breakfast Television, MTV Canada, TEDxVancouver, CTV News, and the Toronto International Film Festival. He is a natural storyteller with a proven ability to conduct engaging, in-depth conversations across various disciplines.

Off camera, Riaz dedicates himself to philanthropy and causes he cares about including Canuck Place Children’s Hospice and Covenant House. He holds a degree in business from Simon Fraser University and studied leadership communication at Harvard Extension School and the Canadian Management Centre.

In this amazing conversation we talk about mental health, connection, gratitude, and a whole bunch of other topics that keep coming up on this show.

Please enjoy this conversation with human connection and gratitude specialist Riaz Meghji!

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Every couple of months we like to do a Q&A episode.

I’ve been doing a lot of online talks recently and I’ve received so many amazing questions from the participants. So this week I’d like to share a bunch of the common questions that I’ve received and answer them as best I can.

There’s a lot of great content and nuggets you can take away from this, and hopefully you find this type of episode really valuable.

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This week I’m super excited to share my interview with Elli Weisbaum. Elli is a Toronto-based mindfulness practitioner and teacher who is passionate about the translation of mindfulness practice into everyday life.

She is currently based at the University of Toronto as an instructor for the Applied Mindfulness and Meditation Certificate Program and is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Medicine. Her thesis is on the application of mindfulness to address physician wellbeing.

After completing a masters degree focused on integrating mindfulness into education, Elli spent a year as the international program coordinator for Wake Up Schools, a global initiative to cultivate mindfulness in education.

She is also a certified teacher in the Search Inside Yourself (SIY) program which was developed at Google Headquarters and brings together mindfulness, emotional intelligence and neuroscience. Since 2015 she has been a member of the Mindfulness Project Team at The Hospital for Sick Children, which acts as a hub for mindfulness initiatives across the hospital.

In this conversation, we do a deep dive into mindfulness and meditation and how we can integrate these practices into our daily lives.

You can check out her blog Mindfulness for Life: Navigating a PhD with curiosity, kindness & joy here.

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This week I’m really excited to share my interview with Dr. Milena Braticevic.

Milena has a Ph.D. in Integral Health from the California Institute for Human Science.

She focuses on prevention-oriented methodologies for mental health sustainability and wellbeing. Her research on the effects of increasing awareness of non-dual consciousness and the natural state in young adults showed significant reductions in symptoms of depression and anxiety and increases in critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration.

She currently teaches her experiential mental resilience program at corporations and educational institutions including the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. Her mental health literacy programs have helped individuals build resilient minds and have contributed to the reduction in common mental disorders and stigma.

You can learn more about her and her work at www.nondualperspectives.com.

Enjoy this deep dive into mindfulness, mental health, and mental resilience!

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Today I’m really excited to share an interview with Dr. Scott Farrow. Scott is the Director of Biological Discovery at Noblegen Inc., a company that aims to use natural ingredients to make nutrient-rich products that are healthy, sustainable, cost-effective, and renewable to help restore balance to the planet and people.

He is an experienced scientist and researcher who specializes in plant biochemistry and natural product biochemical pathway elucidation. This basically means he researches how compounds in plants affect our biology and how they can help us. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Calgary and is now an Adjunct Professor at Trent University.

In this conversation, we discuss how plants can be used to enhance health and wellbeing, treat pain, and the idea of using plants as medicine.

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This week I’m really excited to bring back Dr. Ivan Joseph.

Dr. Joseph is currently the Vice-President, Student Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University where he leads the university’s efforts to promote interconnectedness and belonging amongst a diverse student body. Dr Joseph served in similar capacity as Vice Provost, Student Affairs at Dalhousie University. Prior to that, he was Director of Athletics at Ryerson University where he led the Ryerson Rams to first-time national championship twice and first-time provincial championship several times.

Ivan is also a keynote speaker, award-winning performance coach, author and recognized educator and mentor. His TED talk on self-confidence has been viewed over 20 millions times, and Forbes has named it one of the best 10 TED talks for Graduates on the Meaning of Life. Dr. Joseph is also the author of You Got This: Mastering The Skill of Self-Confidence, which made Amazon's Top 10 Most Gifted Books in Business Mentoring & Coaching category in 2018.

In this conversation, we dive deep into his expertise around self-confidence, cultural transformation, and living a high performance life.

To learn more about him and find out more about his new course The Skill of Self-Confidence, you can follow him on social @drivanjoseph or send him an email hello@drivanjoseph. 

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This week I’m really excited to share my interview with Olympic Swimmer Martha McCabe. Martha is a two-time Olympian and was captain of the Olympic Swim Team in 2016. Since retiring, she has founded Head to Head, an Olympic-led mentorship program. This organization connects athletes with youth across the country, creating opportunities for kids to learn from some of the best athletes in the world. The programs teaches resilience, inspires confidence, and empowers youth to be the best they can be in sport and in life.

In this conversation, we discuss the successes and setbacks of her Olympic journey, and how she’s used her personal experiences in sport to help youth overcome challenges, especially during these times.

You can learn more about Head to Head at their website headtohead.ca and you can follow them on twitter and instagram @_headtohead.

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