Why does your brain resist change? Discover how neuroscience, neuroplasticity, and simple creative habits can help you think differently, overcome fear, and unlock your creative potential with Kevin Chesters, author of The Creative Nudge.🔥 Join the npnHub community: 👉 https://npnhub.com/📕 Highlights🔹 Why your brain resists change and creativity🔹 Simple creative nudges to break old habits🔹 How fear, conformity, and loss aversion limit innovation🔹 Why creativity is essential for leadership and growth➡️ SummaryIn this episode of the npnHub Podcast, Kevin Chesters explores the neuroscience of creativity and why our brains prefer familiar routines. Drawing on his book The Creative Nudge, he explains how biology, social pressure, and cognitive biases can prevent us from embracing new ideas.Discover practical ways to challenge habitual thinking, encourage neuroplasticity, and overcome the fear of failure. Kevin also explores why leaders must create environments where experimentation and creative thinking can thrive.Whether you're a coach, entrepreneur, educator, or neuroscience enthusiast, learn why creativity isn't a luxury. It's a vital skill for innovation, personal growth, and navigating change.⏰ Timecodes:0:00 – Introduction1:20 – Why Creativity Matters3:21 – Why the Brain Resists Change5:35 – Fear of the Unknown7:20 – Creative Nudges8:48 – A Simple Creativity Exercise11:23 – Dare to Think Differently15:16 – Embracing Failure20:07 – Creativity and Risk24:19 – Building Creativity Fitness28:19 – Final Takeaways👉 Enjoyed this episode? Like, comment, and subscribe for more insights into applied neuroscience and neuroplasticity!🚀 Follow us on Social:🔹 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/npnhub/🔹 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/94119966/🔹 Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557660620392&_rdc=1&_rdr#📲 Explore the Practitioner Stack:https://npnhub.com/neuroplasticitynews/🔎 Browse our Directory:www.neuroplasticians.com🔥 Join the npnHub Community:👉 https://npnhub.com/ℹ️ About the npnHub Community:We unite experts and learners in applied neuroscience and acknowledge their expertise. We offer a vivid and fun, professional environment to share, shine and learn together for more impact and growth. Our advisory board sets the standards for the discipline of the npn Neuroplastician® and acknowledges experience and training in applied neuroscience.Disclaimer:https://npnhub.com/podcast-disclaimer/#NeuroscienceOfCreativity #Neuroplasticity #CreativeThinking #AppliedNeuroscience #Innovation #npnHub

Discover how neuroscience-based coaching, emotional regulation, and neuroplasticity can help you manage stress, improve communication, and build resilience. Join award-winning coach educator Susan Britton as she reveals how to move from fight-or-flight reactions toward greater curiosity, clarity, and emotional balance.🔥 Dive Deeper into Applied Neuroscience – Join the npnHub community: 👉 https://npnhub.com/📕 Highlights🔹 Discover why emotional regulation is easier said than done and how the brain's fight-or-flight response affects thinking, decision-making, and relationships.🔹 Learn practical micro and macro self-regulation strategies to move from the reactive "Red Zone" into the curious, compassionate "Blue Zone."🔹 Explore how neuroplasticity transforms coaching through novelty, emotional resonance, association, repetition, and psychological safety.🔹 Understand the essential foundations of brain health, including sleep, social connection, exercise, nutrition, curiosity, and goal-directed behavior.➡️ SummaryWhy is staying calm so difficult when emotions take over? In this episode of the npnHub Podcast, **Susan Britton**, ICF Coaching Impact Award Coach Educator of the Year and founder of The Academies for Neuroscience Coaching, explores the neuroscience of emotional regulation, fight-or-flight responses, and brain-based coaching. Discover why knowing how to regulate your emotions is very different from actually doing it when your brain is under pressure.Susan introduces the **Red Zone and Blue Zone** framework and explains how self-awareness, curiosity, self-compassion, and practical self-regulation strategies can support better communication and decision-making. She also shares how neuroscience informs professional coach education, highlighting the importance of psychological safety, repetition, emotional resonance, and experiential learning in developing new neural pathways.Whether you're a coach, leader, educator, therapist, or neuroscience enthusiast, this conversation offers valuable insights into **neuroplasticity, emotional intelligence, stress management, and sustainable behavior change**. Explore how sleep, social connection, movement, nutrition, and purposeful curiosity contribute to lifelong learning and resilience.⏰ Timecodes:0:00 – Meet Susan Britton: Neuroscience and Emotional Regulation0:48 – Why Emotional Regulation Is Easier Said Than Done1:17 – Red Zone vs. Blue Zone: Fight-or-Flight and Flow2:13 – Managing Emotional Reactions in Everyday Life3:24 – Self-Regulation and the Neuroscience of Coaching4:34 – Micro and Macro Strategies for Emotional Regulation5:45 – Using Curiosity to Navigate Conflict and Disagreement6:36 – Self-Compassion and Breaking Emotional Reaction Cycles7:45 – Susan's ICF Coaching Impact Award8:21 – Inside The Academies for Neuroscience Coaching10:32 – Applying Neuroplasticity in Coach Education10:50 – The NEAR Framework for Brain-Based Learning12:04 – Repetition, Psychological Safety, and Learning Through Mistakes13:45 – The Holistic Approach to Brain Health and Learning15:10 – Sleep, Social Connection, Exercise, Nutrition, and Awe17:26 – Curiosity, Goal-Seeking Behavior, and Neuroplasticity18:40 – Bringing Neuroscience into the npnHub Community19:27 – Final Reflections and What's Next👉 Did you like this video? Please give us a thumbs up, share your thoughts in the comments, and subscribe to our channel for more insights into neuroplasticity, emotional intelligence, and applied neuroscience!🚀 Follow us on Social:🔹 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/npnhub/🔹 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/94119966/🔹 Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557660620392&_rdc=1&_rdr#📲 Explore the Practitioner Stack:https://npnhub.com/neuroplasticitynews/🔎 Browse our Directory:www.neuroplasticians.com🔥 Join the npnHub Community:Connect with experts and learners passionate about applied neuroscience, neuroplasticity, and human potential.👉 https://npnhub.com/ℹ️ About the npnHub Community:We unite experts and learners in applied neuroscience and acknowledge their expertise. We offer a vivid and fun, professional environment to share, shine and learn together for more impact and growth. Our advisory board sets the standards for the discipline of the npn Neuroplastician® and acknowledges experience and training in applied neuroscience.Disclaimer: This episode is for educational purposes and does not replace professional medical or mental health advice.https://npnhub.com/podcast-disclaimer/#Neuroplasticity #AppliedNeuroscience #EmotionalRegulation #NeuroscienceCoaching #EmotionalIntelligence #BrainBasedCoaching #Neuroplastician #npnHub

Why do capable, experienced people sometimes struggle to think clearly when the pressure is on?
In this conversation, Shelley Goldstein explores how neuroscience-based preparation can help us communicate with greater clarity, confidence and authenticity during high-stakes moments. She explains why preparing the message alone may not be enough and why we also need to train for the pressure surrounding it.
From reframing stress and using if/then planning to practising under pressure, Shelley shares practical ways to build more useful responses. She also explores storytelling, body language and how creating a personal “story bank” can give us something familiar and authentic to draw on when nerves take over.
In this conversation, you’ll discover:
🔹 Why we should train for pressure rather than only preparing the message
🔹 How if/then planning can help when something unexpectedly goes wrong
🔹 Why building a story bank can improve confidence and clarity
🔹 How repeated practice can create more useful neural pathways
🔹 Why authentic connection often matters more than trying to perform perfectly
A practical conversation about preparing deeply, building confidence and communicating naturally when the moment matters most.
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Can you train your brain to make healthy habits easier and more sustainable?
In this conversation, Andrea Marcellus brings 35 years of experience in fitness and wellbeing to an exploration of neuroplasticity, metabolism and long-term behaviour change. She explains why restrictive approaches can be difficult to maintain and why small, repeatable and rewarding habits are central to her approach.
The conversation explores GLP-1 medications, stress, the gut-brain connection and practical approaches to eating. Andrea also discusses the social role of food and why sustainable wellbeing needs to make room for meals, celebrations, enjoyment and human connection.
In this conversation, you’ll discover:
🔹 How neuroplasticity and brain training can support sustainable habits
🔹 Why small, rewarding habits may be easier to maintain over time
🔹 The relationship between stress, food, metabolism and the gut-brain connection
🔹 Andrea’s perspective on GLP-1s, fasting and artificial sweeteners
🔹 Why social connection and enjoying food can support a sustainable lifestyle
A practical conversation about creating healthy habits that work with your brain, body and real life.
Learn more and join the npnHub community:https://npnhub.com/
Disclaimer:
This podcast is provided for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as medical, nutritional or therapeutic advice. Always consult an appropriately qualified healthcare professional before making decisions about medication, fasting, diet or weight management.
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What happens when neuroplasticity moves beyond theory and becomes something you live every day?
In this conversation, Neuroplastician Donnie Hill shares how neuroplasticity, interoception and nervous-system practices have become part of his personal life and professional work. He explores how movement and emotional awareness are helping him recognise resistance, express difficult emotions and move through familiar patterns.
Donnie also introduces his approach to positive leadership: intentionally noticing strengths, possibilities and what is already working instead of constantly searching for problems. The conversation closes with thoughtful reflections on caregiving, self-care, compassion and love as a form of leadership.
In this conversation, you’ll discover:
🔹 How Donnie applies neuroplasticity in his life and client work
🔹 Why interoception can help us reconnect with emotions and physical sensations
🔹 How emotional awareness and movement can support change
🔹 Why positive leadership focuses attention on strengths and possibilities
🔹 How caregiving, self-care, compassion and love connect with leadership
A thoughtful and practical conversation about bringing neuroplasticity into everyday life, leadership and relationships.
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What if lasting change isn’t about willpower, but about training your brain to become someone new? Dr. Judith Wright explores how neuroplasticity can help us move beyond insight into real transformation.Discover the neuroscience of changing habits, emotional awareness, soft addictions, craving versus yearning, and why deeply satisfying experiences may be the key to lasting behavior change.🔥 Dive Deeper into the subject — Join the npnHub community: 👉 https://npnhub.com/📕 Highlights🔹 Discover the difference between learning, growing, and true transformation — and how neuroplasticity supports each stage.🔹 Learn how repeated practice, novelty, intention, and stretching beyond your comfort zone can help build new neural pathways.🔹 Explore Dr. Judith Wright’s concept of “soft addictions” and why simply trying to stop an unwanted habit may not be enough.🔹 Discover the powerful shift from craving to yearning — and how adding genuinely nourishing experiences to your life can support lasting change.➡️ SummaryIn this fascinating conversation, Dr. Judith Wright explores one of life’s biggest questions: how can we reach our potential and live a deeply fulfilling life? Drawing on decades of work across psychology, coaching, transformational leadership, emotional intelligence, and neuroscience, she explains how neuroplasticity can help us build new beliefs, behaviors, and ways of being.Dr. Wright introduces a powerful distinction between learning, growing, and transforming. Learning is knowing something you didn’t know before. Growing is doing something you wouldn’t have done before. Transformation goes further — becoming someone you wouldn’t have become before. She explains how repeated real-life practice can help strengthen new neural pathways until change becomes part of who we are.The conversation then turns to soft addictions, emotional awareness, cravings, and what Dr. Wright calls the “math of more.” Instead of focusing only on removing unwanted habits, she explores what happens when we add experiences that genuinely nourish and satisfy us. From food and scrolling to emotional avoidance, Dr. Wright reveals why pausing, becoming aware of what we truly feel, and moving from craving toward deeper yearning may help create meaningful and lasting transformation.⏰ Timecodes0:00 - Meet Dr. Judith Wright0:38 - Neuroplasticity and living a fulfilling life2:55 - Applying neuroscience to transformation4:10 - Learning, growing and transforming6:00 - How transformation changes identity7:20 - Emotional awareness in everyday life10:10 - Understanding soft addictions11:00 - Craving vs deeper satisfaction12:25 - What are you really hungry for?13:50 - Moving from craving to yearning16:40 - What happens when temptation strikes18:00 - The power of pausing and savoring19:15 - Craving, yearning and what comes next👉 Did you like this video? Please give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more insights.🚀 Follow us on Social:🔹 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/npnhub/🔹 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/94119966/🔹 Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557660620392&_rdc=1&_rdr#📲 Explore the Practitioner Stack:https://npnhub.com/neuroplasticitynews/🔎 Browse our Directory:[www.neuroplasticians.com](http://www.neuroplasticians.com)🔥 Join the npnHub community: 👉 https://npnhub.comℹ️ About the npnHub Community:We unite experts and learners in applied neuroscience and acknowledge their expertise. We offer a vivid and fun, professional environment to share, shine and learn together for more impact and growth. Our advisory board sets the standards for the discipline of the npn Neuroplastician® and acknowledges experience and training in applied neuroscience.#Neuroplasticity #BehaviorChange #AppliedNeuroscience #PersonalTransformation #EmotionalIntelligence #Habits #Neuroscience #DrJudithWright #npnHub

What if being highly sensitive isn’t a weakness, but a powerful advantage for leadership, relationships, and performance? In this episode, Sira Laurel explores the neuroscience of sensory processing sensitivity and how understanding your nervous system can transform the way you work, lead, and connect.Discover why highly sensitive people process their environment differently, what causes sensory overload, and how sensitivity can become a powerful strength.🔥 Dive Deeper into the subject — Join the npnHub community: 👉 https://npnhub.com/📕 Highlights🔹 Discover what sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is and how it influences sensory, emotional, and social information.🔹 Explore the six dimensions of sensitivity, including attention to detail, emotional responsiveness, depth of processing, and sensory overload.🔹 Learn why highly sensitive leaders can thrive when they stop trying to lead with someone else’s nervous system.🔹 Understand the connections and differences between high sensitivity, ADHD, autism, neurodivergence, and nervous system regulation.➡️ SummaryIn this fascinating conversation, Sira Laurel explores sensory processing sensitivity — a biologically rooted trait associated with deeper processing of sensory and emotional information, greater responsiveness to environmental conditions, and heightened awareness of subtle social and contextual cues. She also explores why these characteristics can become valuable strengths in leadership.Sira breaks down the different dimensions of sensitivity and explains why highly sensitive people can notice details, emotions, opportunities, and social cues that others may miss. But taking in more information can also create sensory overload. Through personal experiences and examples from her work with high-performing leaders, she shows why changing the conditions around a person can sometimes be more powerful than trying to change the person.The conversation also explores practical nervous system regulation, including breathing and awareness of hyperarousal and hypoarousal. Sira discusses connections with neurodivergence, ADHD, and autism while emphasizing an important distinction: sensory processing sensitivity is a trait, not a diagnosis or disorder.⏰ Timecodes0:00 - Meet Sira Laurel & the npnHub community1:40 - What is sensory processing sensitivity?3:05 - The neuroscience of sensitivity4:10 - Sensitivity as a leadership strength6:30 - The six dimensions of sensitivity9:05 - Understanding sensory overload11:10 - Sira’s experience with high sensitivity14:15 - Nervous system regulation16:25 - Sensitivity, ADHD & neurodivergence18:00 - Sensitivity is a trait, not a disorder👉 Did you like this video? Please give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more insights.🚀 Follow us on Social:🔹 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/npnhub/🔹 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/94119966/🔹 Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557660620392&_rdc=1&_rdr#📲 Explore the Practitioner Stack:https://npnhub.com/neuroplasticitynews/🔎 Browse our Directory:[www.neuroplasticians.com](http://www.neuroplasticians.com)🔥 Join the npnHub community: 👉 https://npnhub.comℹ️ About the npnHub Community:We unite experts and learners in applied neuroscience and acknowledge their expertise. We offer a vivid and fun, professional environment to share, shine and learn together for more impact and growth. Our advisory board sets the standards for the discipline of the npn Neuroplastician® and acknowledges experience and training in applied neuroscience.#SensoryProcessingSensitivity #HighlySensitivePerson #Neuroplasticity #AppliedNeuroscience #Neurodivergence #Leadership #NervousSystemRegulation #npnHub

How can functional medicine, neuroscience, mindfulness and behaviour change work together to support wellbeing?
In this episode, Dr. Ashika Pillay shares how her background in medicine, functional medicine, coaching and mindfulness shapes her holistic approach to health and wellbeing. She explains how looking beyond individual symptoms can reveal important connections between biology, lifestyle, behaviour and future health.
The conversation explores menopause as a whole-body transition and examines why biological, emotional and mental capacity may change during perimenopause. Ashika also discusses how HRV, breathing, mindfulness and nervous system regulation can help people develop greater awareness and support sustainable change.
In this conversation, you’ll discover:
🔹 How functional medicine considers the whole person, biomarkers and potential root causes
🔹 Why menopause can affect biological, emotional and mental capacity
🔹 How HRV can provide insight into stress and nervous system regulation
🔹 How breathing, mindfulness and silence can support greater awareness
🔹 Why small, consistent behaviour changes are often more sustainable
🔹 How neuroplasticity connects awareness with meaningful action
Discover how Ashika’s “wellbeing from the inside out” approach can help people reconnect with themselves and their potential.
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Disclaimer:This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. Please read our full disclaimer at:https://npnhub.com/podcast-disclaimer/

Why do people sometimes act incapable - even when they are perfectly capable? Dr. Loretta Breuning and Christen Schweizer explore weaponized incompetence, status, learned helplessness, parenting, leadership, and the mammal brain to reveal what may be happening beneath everyday behaviour.🔥Dive Deeper into the subject - Join the npnHub community: 👉 https://npnhub.com/📕HighlightsDiscover weaponized incompetence and why helplessness can sometimes become a learned strategy.Explore how status-seeking and the mammal brain influence behaviour in humans, children, horses, and other animals.Learn why constantly stepping in to help can unintentionally reinforce dependency rather than capability.Explore how co-regulation, courage, empathy, and clear boundaries can help people develop greater independence.➡️SummaryDr. Loretta Breuning and Christen Schweizer explore weaponized incompetence through the lens of the mammal brain. From horses competing for resources to children avoiding tasks and adults navigating relationships, they examine how status, protection, attention, and learned behaviour can shape the ways we interact with one another.The conversation moves beyond simply labelling someone as “incompetent.” Instead, it asks what behaviours are being reinforced. Christen shares examples from parenting and the workplace to show why doing everything for someone can sometimes strengthen helplessness - and why believing in another person’s ability can be a powerful form of support.They also explore co-regulation, empathy, courage, nervous system responses, and neuroplasticity, using lessons from horse training to illustrate how acknowledging fear does not mean surrendering to it. The result is a fascinating conversation about helping ourselves and others build the capacity to act independently.⏰ Timecodes:0:00 - The mammal brain, horses & human behaviour3:05 - Why status matters more than we think6:20 - What is weaponized incompetence?9:06 - Why children learn helpless behaviours11:28 - Criticism, giving up & learned patterns13:09 - Parenting, attention & emotional behaviour18:00 - Weaponized incompetence in the workplace20:35 - Why helping too much can reinforce helplessness22:24 - The Centaur model: connection, courage & co-regulation24:45 - Empathy does not mean agreement27:26 - Rewarding calm instead of fear29:12 - I, Centaur and developing independence32:58 - What horses teach us about boundaries34:16 - Practice, the mammal brain & lasting change👉 Did you like this video? Please give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more insights🚀 Follow us on Social:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/npnhub/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/94119966/Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557660620392&_rdc=1&_rdr#📲 Explore the Practitioner Stack:https://npnhub.com/neuroplasticitynews/🔎 Browse our Directorywww.neuroplasticians.com🔥Join the npnHub community: 👉 https://npnhub.comℹ️ About the npnHub Community:We unite experts and learners in applied neuroscience and acknowledge their expertise. We offer a vivid and fun, professional environment to share, shine and learn together for more impact and growth. Our advisory board sets the standards for the discipline of the npn Neuroplastician® and acknowledges experience and training in applied neuroscience.#WeaponizedIncompetence #Neuroplasticity #MammalBrain #AppliedNeuroscience #LearnedHelplessness

What if better leadership isn’t simply about learning more skills, but developing the nervous system behind how you lead?
In this episode, Dr. Ryan Gottfredson explores why traditional leadership development can miss an important part of the puzzle: how leaders think, feel, regulate and respond. He explains the difference between the “doing” side of leadership, which includes knowledge, skills and abilities, and the “being” side, which reflects the quality of a leader’s inner operating system.
The conversation examines how fear and insecurity can surface in the workplace as micromanagement, over-control, poor delegation and reactive leadership. Through the story of an overwhelmed CEO, Ryan demonstrates how a leader’s internal patterns can affect an entire organisation and potentially turn that leader into its biggest bottleneck.
In this conversation, you’ll discover:
🔹 The difference between the “doing” and “being” sides of leadership
🔹 Why mindset and metacognition matter for leadership development
🔹 How emotional and nervous system regulation influence leadership behaviour
🔹 Why fear and insecurity can lead to micromanagement and over-control
🔹 How developing the mind, body and heart can support meaningful change
🔹 Why neuroscience could shape the future of leadership development
Discover how transforming a leader’s inner operating system could transform the entire organisation.
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What if learning to sense what’s happening inside your body could help you reclaim your attention and make more conscious choices?
In this episode, Dr. Leonard Khirug explores the relationship between interoception, neuroplasticity, attention and behaviour. Drawing on decades of neuroscience experience and his personal journey through burnout, he explains how noticing internal signals such as changes in breathing, heart rate, tension and posture can deepen our awareness of how we respond to the world.
The conversation examines how automatic protective loops develop and influence behaviours such as people-pleasing, perfectionism and procrastination. Leonard also introduces his concept of “attentons” and the feel–think–move model, demonstrating how greater interoceptive awareness can create space between an automatic response and a more conscious decision.
In this conversation, you’ll discover:
🔹 What interoception is and why inner sensing matters
🔹 How attention connects with neuroplasticity, behaviour and decision-making
🔹 Why fragmented attention is particularly relevant in today’s world
🔹 How automatic protective loops can become mistaken for personality traits
🔹 What the feel–think–move model reveals about human behaviour
🔹 How bodily awareness can create space for more conscious choices
Discover why learning to notice the body’s signals before automatic thought patterns take over could be an important skill for navigating our attention-driven world.
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Discover how mindful toughness can help children, teens, athletes, and adults build resilience, manage pressure, and move through adversity. Dr. Christine Silverstein shares practical tools and powerful real-life stories that reveal how the way we think, feel, communicate, and respond to challenges can shape performance and well-being.🔥Dive Deeper into the subject - Join the npnHub community: 👉 https://npnhub.com/📕HighlightsDiscover mindful toughness techniques for building resilience and navigating adversity.Learn how parents and coaches can support young athletes without turning encouragement into pressure.Explore breathing, positive self-talk, self-hypnosis, imagery, and emotional awareness as tools for change.Hear powerful stories showing how childhood experiences and relationships can influence confidence, performance, and well-being.➡️SummaryDr. Christine Silverstein shares how mindful toughness, resilience, and supportive relationships can help children, teens, athletes, and adults navigate adversity. Drawing from her book Wrestling Through Adversity, she explains how pressure, criticism, and past experiences can shape confidence, performance, and well-being.Through powerful real-life examples, Christine explores tools such as breathing, positive self-talk, self-hypnosis, imagery, and emotional awareness. She shows how these approaches can help people move beyond limiting beliefs, manage stress, and develop stronger coping skills.For parents, coaches, and neuroplasticians, this episode offers practical insights into supporting the whole person - mind, body, emotions, and experience - so resilience can grow and meaningful change can happen.⏰ Timecodes:0:00 - Meet Dr. Christine Silverstein & Wrestling Through Adversity1:44 - Bringing Wrestling Through Adversity to Arabic-speaking communities3:38 - Mindful toughness: practical tools for resilience5:25 - Supporting children’s mental well-being through sport6:31 - A young wrestler struggling with competition pressure7:03 - Breathing, self-hypnosis & positive self-talk7:48 - When criticism takes the joy out of sport8:51 - Building resilience through challenges9:21 - Why resilience needs to be developed10:46 - Tools for well-being and behavioural change11:38 - How childhood experiences can affect adult performance13:29 - Relationships, self-worth & the pressure to win15:31 - Sports, performance & well-being16:12 - Advice for neuroplasticians and practitioners16:42 - Working with athletes on a feeling level17:42 - Mind, body, emotion & the subconscious18:04 - Taking the conversation deeper inside npnHub18:49 - Building resilience starts with the basics19:17 - Why practitioners need to know themselves👉 Did you like this video? Please give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more insights🚀 Follow us on Social:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/npnhub/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/94119966/Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557660620392&_rdc=1&_rdr#📲 Explore the Practitioner Stack:https://npnhub.com/neuroplasticitynews/🔎 Browse our Directorywww.neuroplasticians.com🔥Join the npnHub community: 👉 https://npnhub.comℹ️ About the npnHub Community:We unite experts and learners in applied neuroscience and acknowledge their expertise. We offer a vivid and fun, professional environment to share, shine and learn together for more impact and growth. Our advisory board sets the standards for the discipline of the npn Neuroplastician® and acknowledges experience and training in applied neuroscience.#neuroplastician #neuroplasticity #appliedneuroscience #resilience #mindfultoughness

Can love transform leadership, coaching and organisational performance?
In this episode, executive coach and author Corrie Block challenges conventional leadership thinking and explains why love may be one of the most overlooked competitive advantages in business.
Drawing on his experience coaching global CEOs, Corrie explains why high-performance leaders need more than traditional coaching techniques. When their decisions affect thousands of employees and billions of dollars, they need evidence-based, advisory coaching that helps them think more clearly and make better decisions.
The conversation then explores the surprising connection between love, trust, psychological safety, empathy and belonging. Corrie examines why organisations often avoid discussing love, how our understanding of it has become confused and why genuine care could improve both human connection and organisational performance.
In this conversation, you’ll discover:
🔹 Why executive coaching should be approached like an Olympic sport
🔹 Why the world’s top leaders need evidence-based coaching, not only great questions
🔹 How love connects with trust, empathy and psychological safety
🔹 Why genuine care can support healthier, higher-performing organisations
🔹 How leadership can positively influence another person’s life
🔹 Why love could be the highest expression of leadership
Discover how bringing genuine care into the workplace could create better leaders, healthier organisations and more meaningful work.
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What does neuroscience really say about neuro-linguistic programming?
In this episode, neuroscientist and NLP expert Josh Davis, PhD, explores where NLP is supported by research, where popular claims become overstated and how practitioners can use these tools more responsibly.
Introducing ideas from his book, The Difference That Makes the Difference, Josh explains how neuroscience and psychology can make NLP easier to understand while adding useful boundaries and refinements to familiar techniques.
The conversation examines the science of rapport, non-verbal synchrony, mirror neurons, neural reuse and perspective-taking. Josh explains why mirror neurons alone cannot account for rapport and why psychological evidence remains essential when evaluating behaviour-change tools.
In this conversation, you’ll discover:
🔹 What NLP is and how it connects with neuroscience and psychology
🔹 What research reveals about rapport and non-verbal synchrony
🔹 Why mirror neurons don’t explain rapport on their own
🔹 How adopting a third-person perspective may support lasting change
🔹 Why practitioners should distinguish between evidence, speculation and myth
🔹 How research can improve the responsible teaching and application of NLP
Discover how a more evidence-informed approach can help practitioners apply NLP tools with greater clarity, credibility and care.
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How is artificial intelligence transforming neuromarketing, persuasion and human decision-making?
In this episode, Roger Dooley introduces the ideas behind his book, The Persuasion Engine, and explains how Neuromarketing 2.0 is making advanced behavioural science faster, smarter and more accessible.
Roger shares practical ways coaches, practitioners, entrepreneurs and marketers can use AI for empathy audits, behavioural insights, marketing strategy, personal branding and customer communication. He also explores how to create an AI “dream team” modelled on leading experts and use it to approach challenges from multiple perspectives.
Throughout the conversation, Roger emphasises that AI should enhance human expertise rather than replace it. While these tools can uncover insights and improve communication, human judgement remains essential for interpreting their suggestions, maintaining authenticity and avoiding costly mistakes.
In this conversation, you’ll discover:
🔹 How AI is changing the way we apply neuromarketing and behavioural science
🔹 How to perform an AI-powered empathy audit before publishing content
🔹 How an AI “dream team” can bring different expert perspectives to a challenge
🔹 Why effective prompting involves acting as the conductor of AI
🔹 How coaches and practitioners can use AI to strengthen their marketing
🔹 Why human judgement and connection remain essential
Discover how Neuromarketing 2.0 can help you communicate more effectively while keeping genuine human connection at the centre.
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