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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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120 What Does Meditation and Stress Management Have To Do With Performance? With Tom Klisiewicz Founder of Smart Health Wellness and Performance, Inc.

120 What Does Meditation and Stress Management Have To Do With Performance? With Tom Klisiewicz Founder of Smart Health Wellness and Performance, Inc.

Whether you’re a student, leader, musician, athlete, or parent, understanding your mind and body connection enhances performance both in your personal life and at work. Today’s guest shares with us why he’s on a mission to bring this knowledge to as many kids as possible.

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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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The Importance of Family and the Future of AI, with Asha Saxena

The Importance of Family and the Future of AI, with Asha Saxena

In this informative episode, Asha Saxena, author of the best selling book "The AI Factor", successful tech entrepreneur and founder of WLDA, Women Leaders in Data and AI, shares her insights on the profound influence of AI and how anyone can get started on getting familiar with AI.

This episode is packed with wisdom and inspiration from Asha's long career as a successful entrepreneur in tech consulting. Asha also shares a heartfelt story about her biggest supporter who was also a role model in entrepreneurship—her mom.

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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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82 McArthur Genius Recipient and Author of 'Grit' Angela Duckworth: Part I. On Parenting

82 McArthur Genius Recipient and Author of 'Grit' Angela Duckworth: Part I. On Parenting

You’ll be surprised to find out that according to research, two seemingly opposing components of parenting styles work best together. I'm so grateful to have Angela Duckworth as my guest on this podcast. You've probably heard her name before, because her TED Talk is one of the most watched TED talks of all time. She is also the author of the well known book on Grit, the power of passion and perseverance.

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