UNTRAINED

 By popular demand, Dr. Amanda Blake is back as a guest on Untrained! We are so excited to continue our  conversation  from January and cover new ground.   We have something in common with Amanda – all three of us have backgrounds as elite athletes. Iris was a fencer, Whitney was a rower, and Mandy was a synchronized swimmer. In this episode, we talk about the relationship between our bodies, our...

PART 2 of 2  We are thrilled to invite Dr. Ellen Vora to the show today. Ellen is the author of,  The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response . Anxiety is often regarded as a “neck up” problem, but Ellen debunks this in her book and in our conversation.   Guest Bio:  Ellen Vora, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and yoga teacher, and she is the...

PART 1 of 2  We are thrilled to invite Dr. Ellen Vora to the show today. Ellen is the author of,  The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response . Anxiety is often regarded as a “neck up” problem, but Ellen debunks this in her book and in our conversation.   Guest Bio:  Ellen Vora, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and yoga teacher, and she is the...

Dr. Jim Hall has worked in continuing education for 20 years. He’s worked with students from ages 17 to 70 and every life stage in between. There have been countless changes in education innovation throughout his career, especially with the advent of EdTech, but one thing remains the same: you can make a change in your career, and there are plenty of resources to help. The key to navigating these...

Guest bio: Dr. Richard Orbé-Austin is a psychologist and a founding partner of Dynamic Transitions Psychological Consulting LLP, a career and executive coaching consultancy. Dr. Orbé-Austin has worked in the field of diversity, equity, & inclusion and executive coaching for over 15 years. He was the Founding Director of NYU’s Graduate Student Career Development Center. Prior to his tenure at N...

Dr. Tanya Raquel is a self-described “recovering joyful workaholic.” In this episode, Tanya discusses how she’s undone (and is currently undoing!) her scarcity mindset. The scarcity mindset can be tricky to identify. Oftentimes, it comes in pretty packaging and can look like success. The key difference is, this mindset results in burnout or chronically feeling a sense of, “not enough”. You rarely...

Brenda Mariah is the president for the National Resume Writers’ Association, the past president of the Resume Writers & Coaches Association, and is certified in Interview Coaching, Compensation Negotiation, Job Search Strategy, Resume Writing, Career Management, LinkedIn Profile Development, and Employment Law. She works with major brands to provide corporate outplacement services during layof...

Guest Bio: Dr. Amanda Blake is the author of the award-winning book Your Body Is Your Brain , and creator of the Body = Brain(TM) course on the neurobiology of experiential leadership learning. In addition to teaching about the art and science of embodiment, she works with leaders worldwide to help them become their best self, enjoy life more, and make a bigger contribution. Once an internationall...

Guest Bio: Chinazom Sunny Nwabueze is the founder and managing director at Dreamcatchers Performance LLC, a high performance coaching consulting company. Drawing from two decades of experience as a leadership coach and performance psychologist, he recently authored his first book " Real Talk: A New Approach To Men's Mental Fitness ,” an Amazon Best Seller. He also just launched a corresponding pod...

Guest Bio: Dr. Bonnie Zucker is a clinical psychologist located in Los Angeles, CA. She received a Ph. D. in Clinical Psychology at UCLA, where she developed a specialty in the research, prevention, and treatment of anxiety disorders. A teacher, researcher, and clinician, Bonnie brings 25 years of experience with anxiety disorders to her mission of giving people tools and skills to diminish the ne...

In this episode we talk about how to take ownership of the way we operate, and consequently what our ideal rhythms are in our days. We challenge you to be your own best teammate and advocate. Untraining: The idea that the ideal way to work is to throw ourselves into our day and try to cross as many things off the list as we can as fast as we can. Training: The idea that when we get clear on our na...

Dr. Julia A. West is a Clinical Psychologist, executive coach, and the Director of Science & Content at Limitless Minds. With over a decade in Clinical and Health Psychology, she's honed expertise in mental performance, resilience, and holistic well-being. She's adept in behavioral sleep medicine, cognitive therapies, and disordered eating treatments. Untraining: You have to hide your vulnerab...

This episode is packed with rich nuggets about how to bring out the brand of you. We laughed, we cried, and Andrea let her hair down, literally. The topic of branding leads to conversations around fear, self trust, showing up, and getting uncomfortable to become more of what you want to be. Andrea Holland is an executive coach and founder at Holland Communications, LLC, a consulting and coaching c...

We have had hundreds of conversations with women about finding their voice professionally. Dr. https://www.linkedin.com/in/AC... , professor, Performance Consultant and Coach joined us for a conversation to discuss the challenges and solutions regarding females getting heard in the corporate space. We discuss the habitual ways people who identify as female show up in meetings, and the untraining s...

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of UNTRAINED! We are back and better than ever! This season, we are starting off the episodes with the mindsets and beliefs we are UNTRAINING and what new mindsets and beliefs are we TRAINING! In this episode of Untrained, we interview Dr. Ruth Gotian who is the Chief Learning Officer at Weill Cornell Medicine and frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Psyc...

This is the final episode of Season 1 of Untrained. Iris and Whitney dive into a topic we each care greatly about; embodiment. We share how we practice embodiment in our own lives and what patterns of ours keep pulling us of course. We explore the idea of listening to the body as an indicator light that can give us valuable information about how we are doing and what is going on for us. Here are s...

We were thrilled to speak with Dina Bell La Roche, who among many other things is a grief and loss literacy expert. Dina has held several senior leadership positions through her three decades in Canada’s high performance sport sector including the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, the Canadian Olympic Committee and since 2010, as a Partner with Sport Law, a company devoted to elevating sport. D...

In this episode we interview Henna Pryor, PCC, a colleague of Iris’s through Limitless Minds and of Whitney’s through Chief. Henna is a highly sought after Workplace Performance Expert, an award-winning 2x TEDx, global keynote speaker and coach. She shares the research behind the value of our awkward and unsure moments. It is such good news that the moments we often try to avoid are actually of gr...

Iris and I sat down in a milestone episode to have a conversation with Dr. Lisa Or be Austin. Lisa is not only a world renowned expert on imposter syndrome, but also Iris’s coach! Lisa herself struggled with imposter syndrome and she shares with us her powerful story of struggle and suffering, and how she created a pathway out. Lisa is one of those powerful and generous souls who has made her life...

Iris and I sat down in a milestone episode to have a conversation with Dr. Lisa Or be Austin. Lisa is not only a world renowned expert on imposter syndrome, but also Iris’s coach! Lisa herself struggled with imposter syndrome and she shares with us her powerful story of struggle and suffering, and how she created a pathway out. Lisa is one of those powerful and generous souls who has made her life...

This story is so compelling we cleared the decks on our scheduled podcast to record it. In this episode we interview Kelly Owens on her last day of a 5-month intentional break she took from corporate leadership and hustle. In our last episode with Caryn Davies, we talked about how uncomfortable it can be to feel untethered from a clear goal or a busy life. This conversation can serve as a beautifu...

Discussion points of Part 2 with Caryn Davies: How do you untrain from the “this achievement will bring me peace and happiness” mindset. How to manage anxiety, not enoughness, desire for belonging, when you feel untethered? For many of us the thought, “right now is enough,” is disarming and can leave us feeling lost at times. It feels like grief to let go of the old mindsets that kept you company...

Caryn is a former colleague of ours, friend (of Whitney’s for the past 25 years) and the most successful athlete we know. At one point ranked the 4th most successful female rower in the world, Caryn knows a thing or two about success. But what she has to say might surprise you. Our conversation was so rich that it lasted an hour. We divided it into two parts. Here is a glimpse of what we discussed...

Boundaries have been getting alot of airtime lately in our culture, and for good reason. We need them to survive given all the demands of modern life. We all have them whether we are aware of them or not. Our boundaries reflect our beliefs about the safest, most productive way to move through the world. But what if we can upgrade our beliefs? The cool thing about our boundaries is that like our di...

In this Episode we welcome our first Guest, Dr. Michael Otto, Professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University and author of Exercise for Mood and Anxiety. Michael is best known for....being Whitney's husband! There are many aspects of our relationship with exercise that we have had to Untrain (ex: not letting our body have a say in how or when or how much we exercise), AND the h...