The Nishant Garg Show

Ariel Garten is a neuroscientist, innovator, and entrepreneur whose driving purpose is to empower and help others overcome mental obstacles in order to live healthy, happy lives and reach their maximum potential. Garten is co-founder of  Muse: the brain sensing headband. Muse is the award-winning wearable technology that assists and trains meditation and mindfulness. Before founding Muse, Ariel was not only trained as a neuroscientist and psychotherapist but also started her own international clothing line while she worked in labs researching Parkinson’s disease and hippocampal neurogenesis.  Ariel’s fascination with the interconnections between science, neuroscience, emotion, and design, stems from her unique background in psychotherapy, neuroscience, design, and fashion. 

In this conversation, Ariel talks about her creative process, spirituality and consciousness, meditation practice, unconditional love from her mom, and much more. She also guides us through an inner critic exercise to cultivate more self-love and self-worth. Please enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with Ariel.

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Dr. Susan LaCombe is a closet-rebel psychologist working through her fears, trying to make an imprint on the world for something she believes is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.  She was once very troubled—her trauma history had caught up to her early two clinical depressions before age 30.  She turned to therapy for an answer. Turned out to be the wrong solution—well for about 14 times Until . . . . . . around her 4th decade on this planet she found the right kind of therapy . . . or was it the right type of therapist? Tricky question. The type of therapy her therapist used was a whole paradigm shift away from the others. It was a trauma-based somatic model. It not only made sense of her life, it suddenly became clear that the mental health field was approaching anxiety and depression with outdated methods. After a thousand clinical hours as a psychotherapist/psychologist and responding to hundreds of questions from people in therapy (on myShrink.com) and seeing needless suffering, she wonders if we’re going about it all wrong.   She believes that if we harness our energies to helping the unborn and later infant child, we’ll have far fewer issues with emotional dysregulation and with that, far lower rates of mental illness, anxiety, depression, and related issues of abandonment, transference, authority issues and the like. She asks if we did that, could we change the trajectory of our trauma pattern as nations. In this episode Dr. Susan talks about 2 types of talk therapy, why do we even therapy, managing emotions and dealing with trauma and its connection with the nervous system, and much more.

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Scarlett Lewis is the mother of Jesse Lewis who was killed in his first-grade classroom during the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012, along with 19 classmates and 6 teachers and administrators in one of the worst school shootings in US history. She founded The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation in honor of Jesse and to spread a message he left on their kitchen chalkboard shortly before he died, Nurturing Healing Love, the formula for choosing love, and to promote social and emotional education in schools as well as a consistent message of compassion in our communities. In this episode, Scarlett discusses her passion for mindful horse riding, sharing the details of the school shooting in 2012, how she was able to forgive the shooter, how to address the cause of the sufferings, cultivating social and emotional intelligence learning, Choose Love Formula of courage, gratitude, forgiveness, compassion in action, and much more. Please enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with Scarlett.

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Ruchika Sikri is the Head of Well Being Learning Programs and Strategy at Google. For over 20 years, her daily meditation and yoga practice is grounded in increasing clarity in mind, purity in heart and sincerity in action. She believes these skills are increasingly needed to uplift humanity, build genuine connections and increase respect for our planet. Her goal is to bring secular and science-based mindfulness and compassion learning to organizations and communities globally. Ruchika has successfully architected several well-being and mindfulness programs for over  120,000 employees at Google. Outside of Google, Ruchika is a board member and advisor to several nonprofits that are involved in empowering women in shelters. She is a mother of2 loving kids and lives with her wonderful husband in Bay Area California. Without further ado, please enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with Ruchika.

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Dr. Ron Siegel is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, part-time, at Harvard Medical School, where he has taught for over 35 years. He is a long-time student of mindfulness meditation and serves on the Board of Directors and faculty of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and the faculties of the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at the Cambridge Health Alliance and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches internationally about mind-body medicine and the application of mindfulness and compassion practices in psychotherapy and other fields. His clinical career has included working with low-income children and families, treating adults with chronic pain and other stress-related disorders, and providing mindfulness-oriented psychotherapy. In this episode, he talks about his experience with psychedelics, practices to deal with overwhelm and sadness, experience at a silent meditation retreat, and much much more. Without further ado, please enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with Ronald.

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Dr. Dan Tomasulo's passion is positive psychology. He is known as one of the top ten online influencers on the issue of depression. Heis the Academic Director of Columbia University's Spirituality Mind Body Institute (SMBI) and an assistant instructor to the founder of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, at the University of Pennsylvania's Masters in Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) program. A licensed counseling psychologist with over 25 years as an experienced clinician, he is the creator of Interactive-Behavioral Therapy, the most widely used form of group therapy for people with intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. His most recent book, Learned Hopefulness, The Power of Positivity To Overcome Depression, is hailed as: “…the perfect recipe for fulfillment, joy, peace, and expansion of awareness.”  by Deepak Chopra, Dan is also the author of several books, including American Snake Pit and Confessions of a Former Child: A Therapist's Memoir.

In this episode, Dan discusses in length cultivating hope in the moments of despair, his own depression, cherishing relationships, mindfulness meditation, the art of storytelling writing, the story of man Richie, and much much more. Without further ado, please enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Dan.

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Kristi Roe: A visionary, seasoned Healthcare Experience Strategy Leader with demonstrated success in developing and working on quality, service improvement, and organizational resilience programs covering the hierarchy from top to bottom in an ever-changing clinical and HR environment.  Skilled in collaborating and influencing cross-functional teams, interacting with executives and serving people from all layers of society professionally, and fostering teams that support the transformation in an organization’s experience strategy. Roe holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Minnesota and a master’s degree in applied psychology from New York University. Without further ado, please enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with Kristi.

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Maria is a master teacher, facilitator, and author. She is devoted to the science of well-being and the art of crafting a life and a work that embodies health, passion and success. As a positive psychologist (Psy.D.) and consultant, she focuses on the resilience of the human spirit particularly when under chronic stress, during significant transitions, and/or feeling the shock of wholesale change. Known for her wisdom, authenticity and rampant humor, she brings a wealth of perspective from decades of study in the mind/body medicine and resilience disciplines. Maria is the author of two books: A Short Course in Happiness After Loss (And Other Dark, Difficult Times) and Every Day Counts. Her home is in the Berkshire Mountains where she attempts on a daily basis to love her children well enough so that they too find a way to embrace the world with a grounded optimism and a sense of their own strengths. And on most days, she remembers to feed the cat. In this episode, Maria talks about Happiness After Losing, Happiness in the Darkest Times, Meditation on loss and resilience, Grounded Optimism, Graceful Transition, Overcoming victim mentality, Everyday Resilience, find meaning in the suffering, loss, and grief, lessons from hospice facility, The art of losing,  accepting paradox that enables us to grow, and much more. Please enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with Maria.

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Judi Miller started her career as a Certified Public Accountant and went on to excel in the world of corporate finance for some of the largest companies in the world. As a graduate of the Harvard Executive Leadership Program, she has been dedicated to personal development and helping others excel in a constantly changing environment. Judi has worked with some of the world’s most spiritual visionaries and is trained in energy and ancestral clearing and is certified in The Energy Codes, Happy for No Reason, and The Passion Test. She lived in terror of the night and the possibility of sexual assault. Happily married with children, her fears made life a modern-day nightmare, but worse—she had no idea why? In her new book Perfect: A Path to Love, Forgiveness and Transformation, she relates the extraordinary path she took to discover the root of those fears. 

Today you’ll hear from her about the spiritual journey that unfolded which opened her heart, enabled forgiveness across multiple generations, and showed her the perfection of all that we are. 

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ALAIN HUNKINS helps high achieving people become high achieving leaders.  Over his twenty-year career, Alain has worked with over 2,000 groups of leaders in 25 countries. Clients include Wal-Mart, Pfizer, Citigroup, General Electric, State Farm Insurance, IBM, General Motors, and Microsoft. In addition to being a leadership speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach, Alain is the author of CRACKING THE LEADERSHIP CODE: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders (Wiley, March 2020), which was endorsed by leadership luminaries Jim Kouzes, Barry Posner, and Marshall Goldsmith. A faculty member of Duke Corporate Education, Alain’s writing has been featured in Fast Company, Inc., Forbes, Chief Executive, Chief Learning Officer, and Business Insider.

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