On this episode of The Dude Therapists, Dr. Michelle Segar shares her expertise in creating sustainable healthy lifestyles. She introduces a practical science-based system for breaking down all-or-nothing thinking and cultivating flexible decision-making that supports exercise, healthy eating, and self-care within the complexities of daily life. Join us to learn how to transform your mindset about exercise and self-care!

Join us on this episode of the podcast as we explore the power of consistent decision-making for sustainability. Learn about the four decision disruptors that trap us at choice points and how to overcome them. Discover the latest science and theories that can help you make better choices for a healthier lifestyle.

Since 1994, she has been designing and evaluating methods to help people transform their mindsets by flipping their internal scripts about exercise and self-care. Michelle’s combination of academic research with real-world health coaching permits her to create practical and engaging sustainable-change systems for digital health and individual coaching/counseling scaled to boost patient and population health, employee well-being, and gym membership retention. 

A sought-after speaker and trainer, Michelle is frequently interviewed about motivation and how to create sustainable change in major media outlets, including The New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Prevention, Real Simple, and TIME.

No Sweat!, her bestselling book showcasing methods to create lasting exercise motivation, is widely used to train individuals in health coaching, patient counseling, and fitness training across the university and professional contexts.

Her new book, The Joy Choice, was named one of the best health books experts read by 2022 in The Washington Post. It introduces a practical, science-based system for breaking down all-or-nothing thinking and cultivating flexible and tactical decision-making that supports sustaining exercise, healthy eating, and self-care within the complexities of daily life.

Michelle’s training and experience are uniquely comprehensive, including a doctorate in Psychology (PhD), a master’s degree in Health Behavior/Health Education (MPH), a master’s degree in Kinesiology (MS), and fellowships in translational research and health care policy from the University of Michigan. She ran with the Olympic Torch at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.