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Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Dr. Anna Lembke is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop (Johns Hopkins University Press), which w...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. ​​Amy Sandler is the chief content officer at Radical Candor , where she is also a Candor Coach and host of the Radical Candor podcast . She’s trained tens of thousands of people across a spectrum of roles, including CEOs and leadership teams, mid-level and new managers, and individual contributors just starting on their career path...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. One of the most important communication skills any of us can learn is how to give feedbac k. If done well it promotes learning, development, and confidence. If done poorly it can have the opposite impact. Learning to give feedback is like any other skill. We grow more adept at something the more we practice. RELATED EPISODES: S1 E12...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroscientist. Her memoir, My Stroke of Insight , documenting her experience with stroke and eight-year recovery, spent 63 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list. In 2008 she gave the first TED talk to ever go viral and was chosen as one of Time Magazine'...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. As part of the ongoing series on building resilience from the perspective of business owners, entrepreneurs and business leaders, I am very pleased to have interviewed Knut-Magnar Aanestad . One of Knut-Magnar's  main objectives for this episode is to share learning points and enhancers from personal stories that can be adopted...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Kathrine Aspaas is a Norwegian freelance writer, journalist, and commentator. She is a graduate economist and has worked for Aftenposten’s business editorial for 13 years. She currently works as an author, speaker, and presenter. She has written 3 bestselling books: The Age of Generosity , Pink is the New Punk , and The Emotion Revo...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Katie Silcox , M.A. is the New York Times Best-Selling author of the book Healthy, Happy, Sexy - Ayurveda Wisdom for Modern Women . She is the founder of The Shakti School , a premier online certification school for women-centered holistic wellness. Her business focuses on the convergence of ancient holistic medicine, modern science...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. It can be tempting to view our gut instincts as a kind of mysterious ‘sixth sense’. . In the past two decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have made enormous strides in identifying the sources of our gut instincts, and their essential role in our lives. Along the way, their research has identified the specific situations in wh...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Tero Isokauppila is the founder and CEO of Four Sigmatic , a functional foods company that wants to make the world’s most studied and nutrient-dense foods more delicious  and  easier  to consume to bring healthy upgrades into America’s daily routine. Tero’s roots (or mycelium, if you will) are in Finland, where he grew up growing an...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Karina Hollekim   is a Norwegian free skier and BASE jumper . She is the first female athlete to complete a ski BASE.  In August 2006 she had a near-fatal crash after her parachute failed during a routine parachuting jump. She hit the ground at over 100 km/h (60 mph), and her legs were fractured in 21 places.  Although doctors said...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Karina Hollekim   is a Norwegian free skier and BASE jumper . She is the first female athlete to complete a ski BASE.  In August 2006 she had a near-fatal crash after her parachute failed during a routine parachuting jump. She hit the ground at over 100 km/h (60 mph), and her legs were fractured in 21 places.  Although doctors said...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Research has shown that gratitude can improve general well-being, increase resilience, strengthen social relationships, and reduce stress, anxiety and depression . The more grateful people are, the greater their overall well-being and life satisfaction. In this episode, we explore the  underpinnings of gratitude: How do memories for...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Kristin Omreng , the global HR director of PGS, a leading provider of seismic data for the energy sector. In our conversation, Kristin shares her personal journey of balancing the demands of work and motherhood, and the three tools and practices she uses to stay grounded and pres...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Lucy Brazier OBE is one of the world’s leading authorities on the administrative profession. As CEO of Marcham Publishing , specialist publishers of Executive Support Magazine , Lucy’s passion is for the Assistant role to be truly recognised as a career and not just a job. With access to the most forward-thinking, passionate and kno...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. In this extended episode, I am joined by Jimmy Westerheim , founder and director of The Human Aspect . At the age of 13, Jimmy sat in a tree and planned how he would take his own life. From that moment on, his challenges became both his burden and his superpower. His life took him on a journey around the world via sports, Coast guar...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. As part of an ongoing series focusing on business leaders, business owners and entrepreneurs and how they face adversity and build resilience with themselves and their  organisation, Markus Gjelseth joins me this week. He is a  restaurateur who owns and operates, alongside his brother Joppe Gjelseth , three of Oslo's most known...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Where we choose to place our focus dictates how we invest our cognitive energy. The big challenge is that we are not always conscious where we put the spotlight of our attention. When we feel crushed by pressure or uncertainty, our focus tends to favour pessimism and negativity. From my experience, when we are under pressure, we nee...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Dr. Ann Kaplan is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, television host and former star of The Real Housewives of Toronto. Being corporate herself, she embodies the “unhousewife-housewife” – displaying her humorous antics and lack of tolerance for the intolerable weekly on SliceTv. In her “real” life, Ann Kaplan is the Founder of i...

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Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Mark Henick’s hit viral TEDx talk about the stranger who saved his life has been viewed and shared millions of times. Over the last two decades, he has appeared in hundreds of television, radio, print and online features about mental health. His bylines include CNN, CNBC, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, and many others. PEOPLE Magaz...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Welcome to Season 2! This episode we explore the psychology and neuroscience of forging psychological. safety. Anytime people work together there is a tendency for natural dysfunctions to creep into the relationship. An investment in time and effort is required  to overcome these inherent challenges to relationships and to create st...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Well here we are at the end of the first season. This short episode is a thank you for your listenership. Many have you have spread the word and the reach of this podcast has grown organically. It's showing up in small towns and big cities on every continent, So a big thanks for that. When I first started this sojourn back in J...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Roar is a facilitator, advisor, and mediator, and he founded Waegger Negotiation Institute (WNI) in 2017. Up to 2017 has Roar been working as a lawyer with employment and labor law, and he has previously worked as a tax-lawyer. With his experience and training from Harvard PON's and Pepperdine’s Straus' Institute in negoti...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Camile Costa is a Brazilian lawyer and mediator, with experience in intellectual property, international and contractual law, business management and alternative dispute resolution. With an LLM in International Commercial Law and Dispute Resolution at the Swiss International Law School and Negotiation training in Harvard, organises...

Get in touch with us! We’d appreciate your feedback and comments. Aloysius Goh is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Sage Mediation. Certified as an international mediator, Aloysius has a strong track record of achieving practical solutions to complex commercial disputes. His mediation clients include listed companies, as well as charities, non-government organisations, and public sector e...