Brain Wellness - the Podcast

The artistic entrepreneur known as Marlena “Zen Ase” Johns has lived an adventurous life, raising twin sons, and teaching high school for twenty-six years in the inner city. She was Teacher of the Year for AHS in 2011-2012 and 2017-2018, a Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction and a University of Chicago Distinguished Educator. One of her plays was performed at a local community center. She won a pr...

Caroline Thomason is a media dietitian in the greater Washington, DC area. She writes as a freelance nutrition expert, partners with brands, and runs a nutrition private practice. She works with women who want to stop dieting and find confidence with food. She has completed and written hundreds of media interviews and freelance articles for top-tier media outlets. Find Caroline at https://caroline...

Anna Rodin is an author, a yoga teacher, and a college student. At just 21 years old, she has taken a nontraditional approach to life between going abroad at 18 to Italy, taking a semester off later on to get her yoga teacher certification, transferring schools, and now writing and publishing a book. Mental health has played an enormous role in her life and self-love journey. Uncovering old wounds...

Laura Lindekugel, MS, MS, LMFT, SEP is a licensed therapist in private practice in Edina, Minnesota.  She specializes in the gentle renegotiation of trauma and posttraumatic stress and in working with people with sensory processing sensitivity (Highly Sensitive Persons).  She has extensive training and is a Clinical Fellow of the AAMFT, AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and Minnesota Board Appr...

LeNae and Trip Goolsby, MD are the founders of Infinite Health Integrative Medicine Center , a precision-medicine practice with a niche focus on health optimization, age-reversal, and regenerative medicine. LeNae and Dr. Goolsby are also best-selling authors and speakers.  They have been featured experts in various internationally recognized podcasts and magazine publications, such as Brainz...

As a personal development coach, author, and personal trainer, Chris has a unique ability to engage with an audience, connect with them emotionally, and motivate them to take action towards their desired goals. He strongly believes that every person on this earth was created with a gift and a purpose to do great things. It is his heart’s desire to bring out the best in others so they can live out...

Jesse Corry is a neurologist with interest in consciousness and cognition.  A childhood watching movies like "The Empire Strikes Back," and "The Serpent and the Rainbow" lead to a fasciation of how to start/stop consciousness.  Jesse started his education at Lawrence University with a degree in biology.  Medical School and residency were at the Medical College of Wisconsin.  Fe...

Dr. Eric Zeiszler has been freeing people from pain since 2006 in his award-winning clinic in Apple Valley, Minnesota. Dr. Zeiszler’s Chiropractic Clinic has been awarded Best of St. Paul Chiropractic for numerous consecutive years; it is designated as a Therapeutic Center of Excellence by Metagenics, and has been awarded the prestigious Five Star Award for Customer Service from Integrity Manageme...

Drawing on her 19 years in recovery coupled with her years of teaching experience and leading workshops on social emotional learning, Gina helps abuse survivors overcome the life altering impacts of abuse and discover hope and joy by teaching them how to nurture a relationship with God and themselves. Gina helps her clients feel safe, seen and supported while teaching them life skills to breakthro...

Jim is an Amen Clinics Inc, Certified Brain Health Professional, whose mission is to empower parents to give their children every chance to flourish throughout their lifetime and correct problems, some before they start.  His passion comes from depression that began in childhood after two brain injuries.  Jim has also been a psychotherapist, laser engineer and manager. Find more at www.l...

Melissa Hergert is Board Certified in neurofeedback. She has a Masters In Addiction Counseling and is an Amen Clinic Brain Health Coach.  She started her business in 2013 in Marietta, Georgia and now has offices across the country and growing to more states each year. She has a passion for natural ways to improve health and shares about neurofeedback any chance she gets. She believes the...

Paula Yolles is the owner of Body-Mind-Food Freedom, a Body-Mind-Food Freedom Coach, and the founder of the End Emotional Eating with Ease Method. Paula empowers women to end emotional eating. The women she works with know that it’s not really about the food, and they are ready to do some deeper soulful work so they can step out of this exhausting struggle and step into deeper self-love while feel...

Tami is a Functional Wellness Practitioner who believes that everyone is meant to feel amazing! People can overcome illness and chronic health conditions because when the human body is taken care of it can heal. By taking a natural approach with an individualized care plan that includes testing, use of herbs and supplements, and educating on lifestyle, Tami is able to help her clients improve thei...

Meet Daisy Paige, author of Unexpected Moments with a forward by Kirk Cameron. Daisy was sexually, physically and emotionally abused from a young child until adult years, and learned her father was possibly murdered when she was 20 years old. After finally being happily married for 12 years, she was diagnosed with a rare terminal neurological condition known as MSA, or multi system atrophy. She is...

Host Mandi, NP shares a discussion on brain injury & stroke previously presented at MN Brain Injury Alliance Conference and Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center Stroke Conference back in 2019, entitled "Adding insult to injury: When stroke and other brain injury occur together.  References include: 1.Albrecht, JS, Liu, X, Smith, GS, Baumgarten, M, Rattinger, GB, Gambert, SR, Langenberg, P, Z...

Laurel Livingston lives in Coon Rapids, MN and is married with 5 kids ranging in age from 10-22. Laurel got started as a Pure Romance Consultant 13 years ago while working a full time retail management job. After 1 year of doing Pure Romance she knew she had found her niche and quit her job in retail to be a full time Sexual Health Educator. She is currently serving her 11th year on the Board...

Ashley is a success and life coach for women entrepreneurs growing personal brands on social media. She is a master NLP practitioner and clinical hypnotherapist. She has been building a personal brand on social media since 2011 and loves helping other women confidently and consistently create contagious content. Find Ashley at: ashleybeemancoaching@gmail.com  Facebook - https:/...

Have you ever wished you could rewire your brain? Gotten stuck on a negative mindset habit you just couldn’t break? Meet Amanda Ewers, a certified mindfulness and life empowerment coach, a Masters in Teaching, a self published journal author, and the CEO of Project YOU. With over a decade of teaching in multiple disciplines Amanda has helped thousands of women to untangle their mindset traps and a...

Meet OT Shelley. With more than 20 years’ experience as an Occupational Therapist in neurology, she has spent the past 10 years growing her own private practice, adding yoga certification and nature therapy to her toolkit. Shelley lives an active outdoorsy lifestyle in beautiful British Columbia on the west coast of Canada, hiking, swimming, cycling and spending time in nature. After her own concu...

Introduction to Brain Wellness - the Podcast. Briefly introduces the host, Mandi NP, and the purpose of the podcast!