How to Change Other People Without Being an A-hole: Glenn Murphy and Howie Jacobson on PYP 453
Do ever have the urge to tell other people what they’re doing wrong? How can you help other people change without coming across as an a-hole?
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I Guess You Had to Be There
Are you sitting down? Because I have a shocker for you: sometimes, according to my wife, I can be exasperating.
The main thing is, I get on these health bandwagons, impulsively turn our world upside down, and then totally forget about it.
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360 Degrees of Pain
I can teach you how to ride a unicycle.
I tell you this not to brag, but to – aw, hell, who am I kidding? I tell you this to brag.
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Launching Your Next Chapter with Sanyin Siang: PYP 295
Sanyin Siang is a CEO Coach, Author, and the Executive Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) at Duke University. In other words, quite a big deal.
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Harnessing Positive Emotions to Defeat Bad Habits with David DeSteno: PYP 292
Why do 92% of New Years’ Resolutions fail, one year on? Why has the current cultural obsession with grit and willpower failed to move the needle on our behaviors? And why do long-time Buddhist monks demonstrate more self-control than the rest of us?
Today’s guest, David DeSteno, PhD, has been studying these and related issues for a long time. David is a psychology superstar, and I was amazed when he agreed to take time out of his busy schedule to chat. He’s a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where he directs the Social Emotions Group.
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Healing through Hypnosis with Grace Smith: PYP 290
When Grace Smith resolved to quit smoking in 2011, she began with the most common approaches: nicotine gum, the patch, going cold turkey (is there a vegan equivalent to that phrase?).
When a single hypnotherapy session led her to quit that same day, she turned from a skeptic into a avid promoter.
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How to Engineer an Epic Transformation with Adam Sud, Joseph Alexander, Ken Lander, and Josh LaJaunie: PYP 285
I had the great privilege of moderating a panel discussion at Engine 2’s Plant-Stock event, held this year in Black Mountain, NC, over a weekend in August. The topic was, “Transformation and Recovery from Addiction.”
Read MoreHow to Create Environmental Cues to Change Eating Habits
This video answers a question posed by a podcast listener: How can we set up cues in our environments that can reliably remind us to eat healthy?
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The Counterintuitive Science of Wise Interventions with Gregory Walton, PhD: PYP 267
Gregory Walton has done some of the most groundbreaking social science research of the past decade. His “Wise Interventions” model utilizes brief, targeted experiences to permanently alter a mindset and create a cascading series of life events.
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Transforming the System of Medical Care with David Donohue, MD: PYP 255
David Donohue is a primary care physician in Wilmington, Delaware, and one of only 280 board-certified lifestyle medicine specialists in the United States. As David points out in our conversation, that’s fewer than one for every million Americans.
I wanted to talk with David about the successful and innovative Cure Diabetes program that he’s run over the past year, but we quickly started egging each other on to describe our pet peeves about the current medical system.
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