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121 Why High Performers Meditate, How They Do It, And How You Can Too: Visualization Mental Practice And Quiz Inside This Episode

121 Why High Performers Meditate, How They Do It, And How You Can Too: Visualization Mental Practice And Quiz Inside This Episode

Visualization Mental Practice And Quiz Inside This Episode. In this episode, we explore the research behind why meditation helps high-performing athletes and performers boost their skills. We’ll cover different types of meditation and mental training techniques that can be used right before competition or performance to alleviate anxiety and negative thoughts. THERE’S also a quiz inside to see how good you are at mentally visualization practices, a technique used by high performers.

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119 Why Healthy Habits Need To Start As Young As Possible: Primordial Prevention

119 Why Healthy Habits Need To Start As Young As Possible: Primordial Prevention

In this week's episode, Dr. Juna discusses the different types of disease prevention - tertiary, secondary, primary, and primordial. She explains what each type means, focusing especially on primordial prevention and the importance of establishing healthy habits from a very young age. Main discussion points: - Definitions of tertiary, secondary, primary, and primordial prevention - Starting healthy lifestyle habits early, especially in childhood, can have lifelong benefits - Healthy habits positively impact wellness, performance, energy levels, and happiness

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122 Replay of How to Shift Mindsets to Motivate Healthy Behaviors with Dr. Beth Frates, President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Award Winning Teacher at Harvard Medical School
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122 Replay of How to Shift Mindsets to Motivate Healthy Behaviors with Dr. Beth Frates, President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Award Winning Teacher at Harvard Medical School

We all have a tendency to regress to unhealthy behaviors, especially when we're under stress. In this episode Dr. Beth Frates, President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, advises us on how to practice self-awareness so that our moment to moment decisions and behaviors align with our best selves.

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117 Highest Potential: How to Stop Overreacting

117 Highest Potential: How to Stop Overreacting

Ever overreact? If you're like me, you've had your fair share of regrets. We all have times when we overreact, and most of the time, it's not in our best interest. So how do we slow down and get more control over our own reactions? 

In this episode, my awesome friend Fiona Murden joins me to discuss the reactionary brain and what steps we can take to decrease overreacting. We're going to talk about evidence-based exercises that we can do to train ourselves to gain control over our habitual reactions to situations and people. 

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115 Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well with Dr. Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School
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115 Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well with Dr. Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School

If you're human, then you've felt the disappointment of failure. Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, helps us reframe the concept of failure, both in our personal and professional lives by sharing her research backed insights.

Whoever you are in the world, this episode will help you discover intelligent failure so that you can limit preventable failures, stress and thrive.

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112 How to Decrease Anxiety and Get Focused in a Hyper Texting Digital World with Caitlin Begg

112 How to Decrease Anxiety and Get Focused in a Hyper Texting Digital World with Caitlin Begg

In today's digital age, where texting and emailing have become the norms of communication, it's important to consider the effects of asynchronous communication.. Caitlin (Caity) Begg, the founder of Authentic Social, shares her unique perspective on how to stay focused in a hyperconnected world.

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