MindBodySpace

What Does Meditation and Stress Management Have To Do With Performance? With Tom Klisiewicz Founder of Smart Health Wellness and Performance


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Whether you’re a student, leader, musician, athlete, or parent, understanding your mind and body connection enhances performance both in your personal life and at work. My guest today is Tom Klisiewicz, CPTD, an educator and colleague, who has dedicated his career to teaching youth how to be resilient and perform at their best so that when inevitable downturns happen in life, they’ll have the tools to fall back on.

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Find out more about Tom: https://www.smarthwp.com/⁠

Guest, Tom Klisiewicz is the founder and president of Smart Health & Wellness Performance. He has dedicated his career to teaching youth practices that build resilience, strengthen mental health, and help achieve success. Tom hosts a podcast called "Raising Resilient Kids."

Host, Dr. Juna is a mom and physician passionate about sharing evidence-based wellness tips and fascinating topics like neuroscience and meditation.

In this episode of the MindBodySpace podcast, Dr. Juna interviews her friend and colleague Tom Klisiewicz about teaching mindfulness and meditation to youth. Listeners will learn how Tom first became interested in meditation, his personal meditation practice, and how mindfulness helps with resilience and performance. We also discuss Tom's new podcast focused on raising resilient kids as well as a large grant Tom recently secured to teach mindfulness in Illinois public schools.

Main Discussion Points:

- How Tom first learned about meditation from studying successful athletes and business leaders (6:00)

- The benefits Tom experienced from having a regular meditation practice (14:38)

- Using performance as a "hook" to get kids interested in meditation (22:24)

- How meditation changed Tom as a parent - helping him become more patient (24:03)

- Overview of a grant Tom secured to train teachers to teach mindfulness practices to 25,000 students in Illinois public schools (26:01)

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