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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 Habits: Reaching Your Hypnotic State
November 24th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 32
Did you know that before you go to sleep, you are in a hypnotic state? Or whenever you are daydreaming? Deane Benninghoven, a certified hypnotherapist, explains not only what hypnosis is, and why it can help reduce anxiety, stressors, and PTSD, but also guides us through a short session of hypnotherapy. This 22-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to summithypnosisnw.com
Unwiring Health: The Impact of Meditation
September 22nd, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 31
You have likely heard that meditation is a practice that many would benefit from. However, many people don’t sit and wonder why it can be beneficial, or why it can help them specifically. Jeff Patterson, a meditation expert, helps provide guiding questions that can drive you towards the meditation practice effectively. This 15-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to theyieldingwarrior.com and for a free copy of the book, go to book.theyieldingwarrior.com/new-free-plus-shipping
Unwiring Life: Why Stop Caffeine
September 15th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 30
Everyone goes through a stage in life where their relationship with food isn’t the strongest. Whether it is about under- or overconsumption, or an estranged relationship with our nutrition. Jessica Setnick, a dietician, explains why it is so important to understand our eating behaviors and how we can start changing our eating habits. This 15-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to jessicasetnick.com and healingyourinnereater.com.
Unwiring Habits: Eating Behaviors
September 8th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 29
Everyone goes through a stage in life where their relationship with food isn’t the strongest. Whether it is about under- or overconsumption, or an estranged relationship with our nutrition. Jessica Setnick, a dietician, explains why it is so important to understand our eating behaviors and how we can start changing our eating habits. This 15-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to jessicasetnick.com and healingyourinnereater.com.
Unwiring Life: Gain Quality of Life with Tapping
September 1st, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 28
We all have gone through some form of trauma throughout our lives, whether that is big T trauma, complex trauma, or acute trauma. Amy Vincze, EFT Expert and Founder of Soar with Tapping, explains how EFT serves as a practice that can improve the quality of life of anyone who has undergone any form of trauma. Her knowledge brings insight into the world of tapping and how we can all incorporate it into our lives and get rid of the root cause of our traumas. This 16-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to soarwithtapping.com/podcast-special/
Unwiring Business: Neurodiversity in Action
August 25th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 27
Have you ever had a person who underperforms at work, and upon a short conversation, you were able to get them to bring twice the revenue every year? People with neurodiversities are 40% of the workforce, yet they are rarely accounted for in the workplace. Dr. Ravi Iyer and Madeeha Naqvi, co-authors of Squirrels in My Brain, explain how companies can reshape their strategies and empower teams by accounting for neurodiversity in their employees. This 17-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to https://a.co/d/bquWmsI .
Unwiring Habits: Tapping Proactively and Reactively
June 30th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 26
Have you ever been in a situation where you struggled with anxiety, stress, trauma, or even feeling overwhelmed? Lauren Fonvielle, an EFT Trainer and Coach, explains the benefits of tapping proactively and reactively to help with situations that you may be encountering. This 15-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to mindshiftwithlauren.com/masterclass.
Unwiring Life: Shifting to Positive Thinking
June 23rd, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 25
Have you ever been in a situation where life just seemed to get in the way? Maybe you got a flat tire on the day of an important meeting or exam. While this may seem like a negative event at first sight, it also has a positive side to it. Cole Grace, a disabled veteran and author, explains how we can shift towards positive thinking, the benefits it will add to your life, and the motivation behind employing this change. This 15-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to https://a.co/d/emLZCfz.
Unwiring Life: Building Trust and Building the World
June 16th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 24
Everyone places trust in someone else, whether it’s through personal and romantic relationships, or on a co-worker when giving them a task to take over. Trust plays an essential role in your life, yet we don’t usually see trust as something fluid. When you change the way you build trust, you change the way you build the world. Clay Moffat, author of The Trust Trap, explains how to shift the way we view trust and how that has an effect on us and the world around us. This 18-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to trusttrapbook.com
Unwiring Life: Nervous System Regulation and Emotional Intelligence
June 9th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 23
Have you ever been in a situation where stress was taking over? Did you think that despite all your effort, you couldn’t change the outcome? Asher Lester, a Krav Maga expert and Meditation Coach, explains how we can regulate our nervous system to resolve the problems that we encounter in life. He also explains how emotional intelligence plays a critical role in every aspect of our lives. This 20-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to www.nervousapes.com and unifiedmindfulness.com.
Unwiring Habits: Stopping the Binge
June 2nd, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 22
Have you ever been in a situation where, between meals, you step into your kitchen and eat not one or two cookies, but the whole box? Amber Abila, a binge eating expert, explains her story, how to develop a strong relationship with food, and how to change your perspective on binge eating. This 15-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to theconfidenteater.org, and if you identify a binge urge, head over to theconfidenteater.org/urge.
Unwiring Habits: Moving Away From Self-Sabotage
May 26th, 2025 | Season 4 – Episode 21
Have you ever been in a situation where you have sabotaged yourself? Maybe this led to you not succeeding in that situation. It may be hard to identify that you are self-sabotaging, but it isn’t impossible. Dr. Albert Bramante explains that there are techniques to stay away from the negative self-image that you may have developed. This 15-minute episode helps enhance lives, one at a time. For more information, head over to albertbramante.com
Unwiring Mental Health: Managing Trauma with EMDR
May 19th, 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.