Podcast
Welcome to the podcast! These episodes share advice on mental and physical health and how there is a connection between them. The guests lead their fields, whether they are scientists, psychologists, movement specialists, or other professionals, and they are all ready to enhance lives, one at a time.
Unwiring Mental Health: Managing Trauma with EMDR
May 20th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 20
About 70% of the population will experience a traumatic event at some point in their life. Therefore, it’s important to have the right tools to manage trauma. Laurel Roberts-Meese, an EMDR specialist and therapist, explains how EMDR can help people manage trauma. She also shares tools that people can do from home that incorporate EMDR techniques. This 19-minute episode helps improve lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to laureltherapy.net
Unwiring Habits: Unlocking Brain Health
May 12th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 19
Have you ever heard of techniques to make you happier or more successful? While you may have heard tips and tricks, you probably haven’t heard of tools that you can implement in small steps this moment. Rand Selig, an author, entrepreneur, former league coach, and scoutmaster, explains the lessons he has learned throughout life that he culminated into Thriving!. This episode dives into seven tools you can start using today to improve your everyday life. This 18-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to www.randselig.com
Unwiring Life: The 7 Tools
May 5th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 18
Have you ever heard of techniques to make you happier or more successful? While you may have heard tips and tricks, you probably haven’t heard of tools that you can implement in small steps this moment. Rand Selig, an author, entrepreneur, former league coach, and scoutmaster, explains the lessons he has learned throughout life that he culminated into Thriving!. This episode dives into seven tools you can start using today to improve your everyday life. This 18-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to www.randselig.com
Unwiring Habits: Mastering Your Middle Ground
April 28th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 17
Do you have a habit where you either overindulge or deprive yourself of something? How about if you start reaching a middle ground? Dr. Jessie Hehmeyer, physician founder of Well Empowered and data-driven functional medicine specialist, explains how you can reach a middle ground in your current habits, and why you should be doing it. She also discusses the role of neuroplasticity in formation of habits, and how we can improve our neuroplasticity through nutrition. This 16-minute episode helps enhance lives one at a time. For more information, head over to her website wellempowered.com
Unwiring Habits: The Road to Happiness and Resilience
April 21st, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 16
Have you ever met an incredibly happy person who has gone through a tremendous life event? Andrew Matthews, an author of over 8 million books, explains how happiness is a decision and how to encourage resilience in hard situations. His perspective helps you understand how to take a hard situation and turn it into a wonderful life change. This 17-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to andrewmatthews.com
Unwiring Life: Communicating with Children
April 14th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 15
Have you ever encountered a mother whose child babbles and starts saying “he wants to eat”? It seems as though their mother is the medium between the child and those that surround them. Jeaneen Tang, speech-language pathologist, mother of a child with special needs, and author, explains the importance of communication with children, and what we can learn and apply to all forms of communication. This 19-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to playdumbandsabotage.com
Unwiring Habits: Giving and Receiving Help
April 7th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 14
Has a friend ever reached out to you for help on a project or a task? If you provided help, you were a mentor. Deborah Heiser, founder of the Mentor Project and author, describes the misconceptions regarding mentorship, and how we should approach a lateral mentorship model that allows us to learn from others, while helping those around us, too. This 17-minute episode helps enhance lives one at a time. For more information, head over to mentorproject.org or deborahheiser.com.
Unwiring Life: The Power of Forgiveness
March 31st, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 13
Can you think of a situation or person that makes you or has made you angry? Do you find that situation forgivable? Maybe not! Katharine Giovanni, author and forgiveness coach, explains a unique technique she developed to help people with their path to forgiveness. This 15-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to her website katharinegiovanni.com
Unwiring Mental Health: Is that Your Self-Critic or Your Self-Cynic?
March 24th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 12
Have you ever heard that little voice inside your head that seems to want to sabotage the plans you were making? Or that make you doubt every step you are taking? Christiaan Hofman, a man with several passions, explains how to differentiate between our self-critic and our self-cynic, as well as the role of ego in self-identity. This 16-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to sportnaturel.com
Unwiring Life: Always on Our Path
March 17th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 11
Have you ever been told you have to graduate high school, go to college, go to graduate school or do a high-end job? Brian Hiat, an author, father, psychologist, and motivational coach, explains how you are always on your path, regardless of whether you follow the traditional path or change careers ten times in your life. He also explains how a “high-pressure environment” is truly just a situation you perceive as high-pressure, changing that perception turns into just an environment. This 19-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to brianhiteglobal.com/
Unwiring Habits: Your Happiness Equation
March 10th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 10
Have you ever wondered how to make your life happier? Or why whenever you achieve your next goal, your excitement only lasts for a short amount of time? Leighton Campbell, the author of Your Happiness Equation, explains what happiness is, how to manage happiness, and how to perceive happiness. This 15-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to his website yourhappinesseq.com
Unwiring Life: Going Through Changes
March 3rd, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 9
Everyone goes through phases in life that are full of change. One that many can relate to is transitioning from high school to college, the workforce, or the military, a change that leads to at least some degree of independence. Susan Miller, a psychologist and author, explains how her books have given her a unique perspective on these changes in life and the challenges and beauty that accompany them. This 15-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to her website susanbethmiller.com
Unwiring Life: Becoming Your Happiest Self
February 24th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 8
Have you ever been told that comparison is the thief of joy? Or that personal development means eliminating those bad habits that you keep including in your day to day life? John Cousins, an entrepreneur, investor, tech founder, and author of more than 60 books, is here to tell us why. Why do we want to lead a happy and fulfilling life? And how do we get there? This 18-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to mba-asap.com
Unwiring Mental Health: ER Perspective
February 17th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 7
*TW: Suicide* Did you know that suicide rates have increased by 37% from 2000 to 2018? And that 17% of adolescents self-injure? Jenn Johnson, ER nurse, author, mother, and wife, explains her perspectives on the mental health crisis in the United States. She also gives insight into her best advise for youth transitioning from high school to college and into the workforce. This 18-minute episode help enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, go to rxforgrowth.com.
Unwiring Life: Overcoming Grief
February 10th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 6
Have you ever lost someone in your life? Denise Dielwart, a grief trauma specialist, explains the FLOW (feel, let go, overcome, and become whole) grieving method. She emphasizes the core elements of grief, to feel the emotions that come in waves, to understand their meaning, and to transition through them by acknowledging that you are not your emotions. This 16-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to flowgriefacademy.com.
Unwiring Habits: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Want You To Know About Nutrition
February 3, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 5
You’ve heard this once or twice: you are what you eat. But, what if we have been fed lies about the minerals and vitamins we should consume? Dr. Robert Thompson, a physician who helps educate the world on the importance of nutrition, explains the lies behind the supplements we consume. This 23-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to his website aurorahealthandnutrition.com
Unwiring Life: Defining “Minds”
January 27th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 4
Have you ever tried to define what the mind is? Have you ever sat down to think that you may have more than one mind? Dean Graves, an author, podcaster, mental health counselor, researcher, and meditation and mindfulness instructor, explains his perspective on the perception of self and the definition of mind. This 15-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to ddeangraves.org or read his book “The Engima of Consciousness”.
Unwiring Life: Work and Passion
January 20th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 3
Have you ever been told that if you were passionate about your work, you wouldn’t work a day in your life? Damian Yearwood, a former educator and soccer coach, and now an academic and professional advisor, explains the truths and lies behind this concept through the connection between work, hobbies, and passion. This 17-minute episode helps enhance lives, one a time. For more information, head over to his LinkedIn.
Unwiring Life: Magnetic Confidence
January 13th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 2
Have you ever thought about the value of confidence in your life? Magnetic confidence takes many forms, and its value is incredible. Gao Motsemme, a freedom illuminator based in Germany, explains how we can see magnetic confidence in our lives, and why people should start building this skill to its maximum potential. This 17-minute episode helps enhance lives one at a time. For more information, head over to gaomotsemme.com
Unwiring Life: The Two Truths
January 6th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 1
Have you ever thought about how the kid you were at 12 years old impacts who you are at 20, 40, or 60 years old? Marcus Aurelius Higgs, a communication coach for parents of preteens, explains the lessons that can be learned from preteens. At that young age, we believe that our version of a story or our knowledge is the absolute truth, but what if we start believing that there are two truths? At any age, ego, and pride can take over who we are, and understanding that we aren’t always right can make a significant impact on our relationships with people. This 16-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to his website marcushiggs.com, and access his workshops workshops.marcushiggs.com.