The Art and Science of Thriving

Are you striving for success in your career and personal life but constantly battling exhaustion, overwhelm, or a sense of misalignment? This episode of the Achieve More podcast is your roadmap to thriving—not just surviving. I unpack five transformative, evidence-based strategies to help you perform at your best while staying balanced, fulfilled, and aligned with your purpose. Drawing on neurosci...

In this episode of the "Achieve More" podcast, I dive into a critical but often overlooked strategy for creating high-performing teams: improving well-being. Many leaders focus on performance, collaboration, or retention in isolation—but the secret to truly excelling in all three areas lies in prioritizing your team's well-being. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and high-perfo...

In this episode, I am diving into a topic near and dear to me: your optimal exercise protocol to help you improve performance in all areas of your life, achieve well-being, and healthy aging.   We all know that staying active is essential for improving performance, maintaining well-being, and aging healthily. But with so many exercise types, it can feel overwhelming to figure out where to start or...

Did you know that 65% of employees say they'd be more productive in a company with a strong culture fit?  Yet, one in four feels they don't belong in their workplace. This sense of misfit can lead to disengagement, decreased productivity, and higher turnover rates, which are detrimental to any organization's success.  If you're a leader facing the challenge of an employee who d...

 In this podcast, we're diving into a crucial topic: how to successfully unplug, detach, and switch off from work.  According to evidence-based research and global surveys, anywhere from 60% to 77% of people continue to do work while they are supposed to be on vacation, on a break, or away and unplugged from work. It can have disastrous impacts on your performance, the quality of your work, y...

There are a lot of fads, gimmicks, and just plain wrong ideas out there about how to achieve High Performance or mastery in something. You can't just "flow" all the time on command to perfection, or use gummies, and the "10,000 hours" concept is a gross misunderstanding (although it is a helluva lot closer than gummies!). I have studied high performance across many modalit...

In this podcast,  I am going to talk about how to maximize your employee's potential. This means creating an environment and providing resources that enable your staff to perform at their best, develop their skills, and reach their full professional potential. While the podcast is focused on maximizing your staff potential, I think you can use it for yourself too! Although there are undoubted...

In this podcast, I am focusing on a topic that impacts anyone in their 30s and 40s and older. I  am looking at how we can age successfully.  “Successful Aging” refers to the process of maintaining a high quality of life as we grow older, characterized by physical health, mental sharpness, emotional well-being, and social engagement. Why is this important to look at? Numerous reputable well-done ev...

In this podcast, I am diving into the empirical evidence behind the impact of a virtual setting on employee performance and productivity. Post-pandemic, many companies are struggling with whether and how to bring employees back into office settings.  There are what turn out to be unfounded preconceptions and myths about how employees perform at home or virtually versus in the office. In this podca...

It is safe to say that many people feel stressed, overwhelmed and even burned out. Up to  85% of us feel overwhelmed at times in our lives, and 76% of employees feel burned out at least sometimes in a given year.  And international surveys show it is getting worse each year. These results persist across age, gender, socioeconomic and geographic differences.  In this episode, I show you how 3 parti...

 "Thriving at work" refers to an individual's ability to not only perform their job duties effectively but also to experience a high level of satisfaction, engagement, and well-being in the workplace.  It goes beyond mere job satisfaction or meeting basic job requirements and encompasses factors such as personal growth, meaningful contribution, positive relationships with colleagues...

Today I am diving into a topic that almost all of my coaching clients struggle with, and I am betting you do to. And that is how to have energy all day. How do you have energy at the end of the day? How do you bring your “A” game with energy and engagement to your evening activities? Come back to your spouse, partner, friends, family, whoever with a full battery and energy to spare? My coaching cl...

Today’s topic should be useful to you if you lead a team, or are part of a team at work. And many of the concepts I mention are useful for organizational units too. So, really, if you work with people at work, this one is for you. Today I answer the question “How do I help my team thrive?”, or another way to look at it “How can my team perform better, without burning out?”.  This topic comes up of...

This podcast is super important if you are managing a team, or are part of a team at work. In this podcast I introduce a simple but powerful model based on significant neuroscience research that will help you and your team improve your collaboration at work. I  show you how the brain works in ways to support collaboration, how to take advantage of that, and introduce a simple model to help you imp...

In this episode, I delve into the simple but powerful science behind effectively planning your best year using evidence-based principles and a comprehensive 4-step protocol.  I stress the significance of personal reflection in defining what a "best year" entails for each of us individually. Instead of a universal definition, I introduce six principles that tap into positive psychology, o...

In this podcast, I explore the crucial aspects of organizational safety and trust that underpin collaboration, creativity, and overall performance.   Drawing on my experience with community sector organizations, I'll discuss common workplace challenges, and how and why they occur. I will give you some principles -based on research and experience – to help you tackle this in your team or organ...

In this podcast, I am focusing on giving you some simple but powerful tools to help you assess and address feeling overwhelmed.  I am focusing on providing you with the protocols, tools, and approaches that you can use right away. You know I love neuroscience and psychology background data to help you understand things. But I have already done soooo many podcasts on different aspects of overwhelm...

 In this podcast, I take a coaching approach to help you create a more balanced life.  Many people may like the idea of achieving a balanced life, but it's common for many of us to feel that achieving balance is an outrageously difficult task, especially when our lives are already full of various roles and responsibilities. We might be tired, stuck, or feel like we're overwhelmed, making...

Today we're diving deep into the topic of reaching our full potential. In this podcast we give you psychology, neuroscience, and high performance research-backed evidence to understand that it's not only possible, but absolutely worth striving for.  We talk about how reaching your full potential is something you can do in a very focused way ( a paticular skill), for a particular part of...

This podcast is about one of the most important things you can do to set yourself up for success with improving performance, your mental health, or achieving well-being. And chances are you have never heard of this. Until my first applied neuroscience course, I hadn't either. But it turns out to be monumentally important for your health and cognitive capabilities. Today we are talking about H...

In this podcast, we are looking at the science behind how to choose what goals to focus on, how to most effectively plan them, and how to achieve them. I focus on helping people and teams overcome challenges, improve, transform and achieve their life (or their team's) goals.  A large part of that is figuring out goals you want to achieve, and then working towards achieving them. But a whole l...

I have spent over 23 years helping people and teams improve: their skills, their wellbeing, their organization's services, their organization's structure and workflow, their teamwork...you name it, I have helped them improve it. Through all of those hundreds of projects and coaching clients, I realized I have consistently relied on some tools that seem to help each and every time I help...

Today we are diving into something that most people disregard at least once a day, don't think much about, and don't understand how much impact it has on their performance, health and well-being. In this insightful podcast, we dive into the compelling reasons behind the crucial need for people to incorporate regular breaks into their work days.  Based on surveys, and oodles of articles y...

In this podcast we dive into the research-rich world of creating well-being at work.  Well-being at work refers to the overall state of an individual's physical, mental, and emotional health and satisfaction within the context of their work environment.  It is a topic that some might consider "soft" or "fluffy", but there is so much research out there that shows how benefi...

Drawing on neuroscience, positive psychology, and the longest-running survey on wellbeing, today we touch on how you can build well-being in your life. As the statistics will show, fairly consistently over the last 30 years about 60% of the population is struggling with achieving wellbeing in their lives. And yet, it has so many benefits for our mental, physical, and social lives. Today we: Define...