Wisdom from Within

Motherhood doesn’t have to feel like survival mode. In this powerful conversation, Brooke Harmer shares her journey from resentment, exhaustion, and an eating disorder to becoming a trusted voice in maternal health and nutrition. Brooke explains why so many moms feel depleted, how nourishment impacts everything from mood to spiritual connection, and why taking care of yourself is one of the greatest gifts you can give your family. This episode is a heartfelt reminder that thriving motherhood starts with nourishing yourself first.

Quote: “It’s my job to determine the feeling in our home.”

Chapters

 05:00 – From Resentment to Responsibility
 09:00 – Listening to God and Trusting Your Inner Wisdom
 24:00 – Feeling Seen
 30:00 – Why Moms Need to Eat More, Not Less
 34:00 – Nourishment, Motherhood & Leading Your Family Well

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✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.

What if the biggest thing holding you back is something you can’t even see? In this powerful conversation, shadow work expert Junie Moon shares how she transformed decades of self-doubt, body shame, people-pleasing, and unhealthy relationship patterns into a life filled with confidence, purpose, love, and freedom. Discover how hidden beliefs shape our decisions, how to recognize the patterns running your life, and why healing your shadow can unlock the future you’ve been searching for.

Quote: “We all have something to offer. It’s about having the courage to listen and take action.”

Chapters
 04:15 – The Marriage That Changed Everything
 08:12 – How Hidden Patterns Control Our Lives
 12:00 – Finding Love After Healing Yourself
 18:00 – Why It’s More Painful to Avoid Your Shadows
 23:15 – The Documentary That Changed Thousands of Lives
 28:00 – Turning Your Pain Into Purpose

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Sara Elaz shares her incredible journey from competitive dancer and physics student to breakout bassist and live performer. In this deeply inspiring conversation, she opens up about identity, intuition, authenticity, creativity, and learning how to trust the wisdom within. From navigating rigid academic spaces to discovering freedom through movement and music, Sara explains how following energy, instinct, and embodiment completely transformed her life and career.

Chapters

 05:30 – Physics, Movement & The Study of Existence
 10:00 – Leaving Dance & Finding Herself Through Music
 21:30 – Riding the Waves of Life & Trusting Intuition
 24:00 – The Pandemic & Teaching Herself Bass
 30:00 – Dance, Groove & Somatic Intelligence
 36:00 – Why Authenticity Creates Real Freedom
 40:00 – Creativity, Flow State & Following the Energy

Quote: “If you’re thinking, you’re not playing.”

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✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.

Leadership strategist and coach Lolita Walker shares a powerful conversation on embodied leadership, self-awareness, and trusting who you are beyond your titles. From navigating major life transitions to helping leaders and organizations reconnect with confidence, integrity, and purpose, Lolita explains why true leadership begins within. This episode is an inspiring reminder that the strongest leaders are the ones grounded in self-trust, faith, and authenticity.

Chapters
 05:00 – Why Leadership Starts with Knowing Who You Are
 08:00 – Confidence, Self-Awareness & Emotional Intelligence
 16:00 – Helping Young Leaders Find Their Voice
 20:00 – Major Life Changes That Sparked Transformation
 24:00 – Following the “Bubbling Up” Feeling Within
 32:00 – Innovation & Leading Inside Organizations

Quote: “You gotta follow that bubbling up feeling and just go with it.”

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✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.

Renee Walker shares a deeply grounding conversation on intuition, body wisdom, and reconnecting to the soul. From her journey as a world-class gymnast to discovering spiritual alignment and emotional presence, Renee explains how our bodies constantly communicate with us, and why slowing down is the key to hearing that guidance. This episode is a powerful reminder that the answers we seek are already within us.

Quote: “How can you turn up the volume on your intuition and turn down the noise of fear?”

Chapters:

 08:00 – Learning to Trust Intuition & Inner Knowing
 12:00 – Why There’s No “Wrong Path” in Life
 18:00 – What Do You Really Want?
 23:00 – Turning Down Fear & Listening to Your Soul
 27:00 – Opening Yourself to Possibility
 31:00 – Mindset, Bodyset & Soulset Explained
 35:00 – Meditation, Presence & Reconnecting to Yourself
 36:00 – Leadership, Parenting & Choosing How You Show Up

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✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.

Jim Morris shares a deeply personal journey of learning to love himself, and how that single shift transformed his relationships, leadership, and impact. From anxiety and self-doubt to building powerful human connections, Jim breaks down the importance of emotional intelligence, presence, and compassionate curiosity. This episode is a powerful reminder that true leadership starts within, and that asking for help can change everything.

Chapters

07:00 – Anxiety, Control & Not Trusting Yourself

10:30 – The Moment Everything Changed

15:00 – Choosing to Love Yourself & Letting Go of Old Habits

19:00 – The Mind-Body Shift (Anxiety & Physical Healing)

26:00 – Why You Need a Support System

30:00 – The Power of Asking for Help

34:00 – Final Message: Lead with Humanity & Presence

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My Book: Your Body is Speaking

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✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.

Julie Dermer shares a powerful story of reinvention, how one moment of connection on a bike at 40 changed the trajectory of her life. From building a 15-year career at SoulCycle to launching the Reinvention Project, Julie opens up about following intuition, embracing vulnerability, and evolving at every stage of life. This episode is an inspiring reminder that it’s never too late to rediscover yourself, and that reinvention is a daily practice.

Chapters
 04:30 – Trusting the Pull (Even When It’s Scary)
 08:30 – Music, Confidence & Finding Your Voice
 11:00 – Building Something of Her Own During COVID
 15:00 – Reinvention Isn’t Starting Over
 18:00 – Overcoming Fear of Judgment & Being Seen
 23:00 – Why Curiosity is the Key to Growth
 27:30 – The Reinvention Project: Awakening Your Potential
 31:00 – Leadership, Motherhood & Leading by Example
 34:00 – Final Message: Keep Evolving, Keep Becoming

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✨ If this episode made you see your body and your brain in a new way, share it with someone who needs the science behind the wisdom. Sometimes that’s the permission people are waiting for.

Dr. Anna Marie shares the powerful moment her body forced her to walk away from medication, and how that awakening led her to rewire her brain, reclaim her health, and transform her life. This episode dives into body intelligence, nervous system healing, and how to listen when your body is screaming for change. If you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or out of alignment, this conversation will show you how to reconnect and take your power back.

Chapters

04:30 – Breaking Free from Medication

07:30 – Why We Ignore Our Body’s Signals

10:00 – Rewiring the Brain & Asking Better Questions

13:30 – Becoming the “Actor” of Your Own Life

17:00 – Rewriting Your Past to Empower Your Future

21:00 – Healing the Nervous System & Emotional Release

27:30 – When Success No Longer Feels Aligned

30:00 – The Hard Decision That Changed Everything

34:00 – What to Do When Fear Takes Over

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About the Guest

Madison Malloy is a best-selling author, mindset coach, speaker, and podcast host of Next to Madison — a show about confidence, identity, and reinvention. She started her career as a mortgage bond trader on Wall Street, survived the 2008 financial crisis, ran her own company, performed stand-up comedy for 13 years (including with the Red Hot Chili Peppers), and ultimately followed her gut to Nashville, where she now creates content and coaches others on how to stop overcomplicating life and start living authentically. She is the author of Time to Light the F**k Up and can be found at madisonmalloy.com and @realmadisonmalloy on Instagram and TikTok.

Episode Summary

In this wildly entertaining and surprisingly deep conversation, Jen Aks sits down with mindset coach, comedian, and multi-pivot queen Madison Malloy for a conversation about what happens when you spend decades ignoring your gut — and what opens up when you finally stop. Madison traces her path from a 16-year-old who decided she’d be an investment banker, to a mortgage bond trader living through the 2008 crash, to stand-up comedian, to author, to Nashville transplant who finally — after 37 years — feels genuinely calm. Along the way: rock bottom, antidepressants, scarcity mindset, a nudist colony in Jamaica, the ‘reject’ technique, mortality as a mindset hack, and why your gut was always right. This episode is as funny as it is profound — and it will make you want to follow your gut immediately.

What You’ll Learn

• How Madison decided to go to Wall Street at age 16 — and how little it had to do with passion

• What the 2008 financial crisis looked like from the inside — and why it became Madison’s exit sign

• Why living in fight-or-flight felt completely normal — and how she didn’t realize it until she moved out of New York City six weeks before this recording

• How to know when your gut is right: build a track record and use the proof

• Why you can manifest what you don’t want just as easily as what you do — and how to stop

• The ‘reject’ technique: a simple mental tool to stop other people’s scarcity from imprinting on your subconscious

• How Madison hit rock bottom — including her lowest moment — and how gratitude started to change everything

• Why she went on a mild antidepressant, and why she’s not ashamed of it

• How 13 years of stand-up comedy and a nudist colony in Jamaica taught her not to judge and to stop taking herself so seriously

• Why thinking about mortality makes you braver, more honest, and less afraid of rejection

• The video game mindset: stop, reset, go through — and enjoy it while it lasts

Key Concepts Introduced

• The Gut Track Record — Madison’s method for building trust in her intuition: when the feeling came up and she was later proven right, she used that as evidence to start listening

• Manifesting What You Don’t Want — the warning that fear-based thinking and constant scarcity can pull unwanted outcomes toward you just as powerfully as desire-based thinking pulls good ones

• The Reject Technique — mentally saying ‘reject’ while listening to someone else’s negativity or scarcity so it doesn’t imprint on your subconscious

• The Video Game Mindset — treating life as a game: stop, reset, move forward; nothing is permanent, and the whole thing is shorter than you think

• Mortality as a Mindset Hack — keeping the reality of impermanence in conscious view as a way to dissolve rejection fears, increase vulnerability, and stop sweating the small stuff

• Bodyset vs. Mindset — Jen’s framework applied throughout: Madison listened to her body for decades without having a name for it; this episode names it

• Life Is Happening For Me —

About the Guest

Ryan Williamson is a board-certified neurologist, proud Navy veteran, and the owner and founder of Transcend Health. He empowers leaders and individuals to optimize their cognitive performance through evidence-based strategies that address brain fog, improve memory, and overcome cognitive overload. He is the author of The Incredible Brain — a bestselling guide to living a longer, healthier, more impactful life through neuroscience. Ryan also hosts a free Brain Foundation course through his private Facebook community. Find him at transcendhealthgroup.com.

Episode Summary

In this science-rich and surprisingly personal conversation, Jen Aks sits down with board-certified neurologist Ryan Williamson to explore what is actually happening in the brain when we access — or suppress — our inner wisdom. Ryan opens with a Cold Open confession: he spent years pursuing degree after degree, certification after certification, trying to fix a deep-rooted belief that he was never good enough — only to discover through a failing marriage and couples therapy that happiness comes from within. He then breaks down the neuroscience behind explicit and implicit memory, the limbic system, neuroplasticity, the basal ganglia, the cerebellum, and EMDR — and explains precisely why practices like meditation, breath work, resistance training, and the power of gesture are not woo-woo but scientifically essential. This is the episode where bodyset gets a brain scan.

What You’ll Learn

• The two main types of memory — explicit (conscious) and implicit (unconscious) — and why most of us only know how to access one of them

• Why Ryan spent years collecting degrees, certifications, and awards to fix a limiting belief that none of them could touch

• What happened in couples therapy that flipped his entire worldview: ‘Guess what, Ryan? You’re the problem.’

• How unprocessed stress and trauma physically raise your blood pressure and disrupt your sleep — even when you don’t feel stressed

• Why the modern world is not congruent with our biology — and what the 50% and 75% chronic stress statistics actually mean

• What the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex does in plain English — and why activating it is the antidote to constant reactivity

• Why the power of gesture connects unconscious emotional memories to conscious ones — validated by a neurologist in real time

• What EMDR is, how it works, and why it may share the same brain networks as gesture-based healing

• The bidirectional relationship between mindset and bodyset — and the neuroanatomy that proves it

• Why memories are stored in the cerebellum — and why that was not taught in medical school even a decade ago

• What myokines are, how resistance training sends chemical signals to the brain, and why movement is medicine for neuroplasticity

• What the BRAIN protocol acronym stands for — and how to access it for free

Key Concepts Introduced

• Explicit Memory (Conscious) — facts, education, learned knowledge stored in the cortex; what we commonly think of as ‘knowing’

• Implicit Memory (Unconscious) — emotional and motor memories stored in the limbic system, basal ganglia, and cerebellum; where the body’s wisdom lives

• The Limbic System — the emotional brain; home of deeper unconscious memories and fear centers that can hijack our responses

• Neuroplasticity — the brain’s ability to rewire and change its structure in response to what we practice, consume, and experience

• Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex — the higher-order brain region behind the forehead; activated by meditation, breath work, and exercise to maintain control under stress

• The Basal Ganglia & Cerebellum — deep brain structures storing movement-related memories; the neurological basis for why bodily practices create lasting change

• Myokines — sign