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Honoring Tradition While Charting a New Course with Ramona and Dustin Lajaunie: PYP 325

June 4, 2019
Ramona and Dustin LaJaunie are part of a family that has lost over a thousand pounds through plants and running. The mother and brother, respectively, of Josh LaJaunie, Mona and Dustin are now the cooks in the family.  And one of their biggest challenges was abandoning all the classic southern recipes that they loved and… Read More

Brian Wansink on Tricking Ourselves into Eating Better: PYP 288

September 18, 2018
Brian Wansink is hiding behind a tiny plate for a very good reason. He’s the researcher behind some of the most surprising findings in recent behavioral science, the most famous of these involving the interaction between plates and bowls and eating behavior. Read More

The Neuroscience of Changing Other People’s Minds with Tali Sharot: PYP 253

February 6, 2018
Tali Sharot is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, and director of the Affective Brain Lab. Affective, as in emotions and motivation. Brain, as in processing and decisions. Drawing on recent groundbreaking work in behavioral economics and neuroscience, Sharot shows us how to navigate the intricacies and predictable biases of minds; our own… Read More

Giving Ourselves the Gift of Health with Kassi and Derick Harrington: PYP 252

January 30, 2018
Kassi and Derick Harrington grew up in Thibodaux, Louisiana, where they grew obese and ill and miserable on the Standard Cajun Diet. Derick’s life revolved around food: hunting and fishing and then frying whatever he caught. Kassi was overweight her whole life, as was her entire family. Derick suffered from hypertension, high cholesterol, an auto-immune… Read More

How to Live a Better Life Every Day with Bryan Falchuk: PYP 251

January 24, 2018
From the moment his parents’ marriage fell apart, Bryan Falchuk turned into the fat kid. In a world out of control, food was the one thing he could control, and the one thing that could soothe his deep hurts and anxieties. Every day Bryan woke up and was determined to lose weight, and twenty minutes… Read More

The Mental Health / Lifestyle Link with Dr Elizabeth Winings: PYP 242

November 28, 2017
Elizabeth Winings is Doctor of Nursing Practice at  Nemours Children’s specialty care and Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. She specializes in working with children and teens who are receiving mental health care in an acute in-patient setting. In her work with the children and their families, she emphasizes wholistic, therapeutic, and lifestyle approaches toward wellness. Read More

Raising Healthy Parents with Sid Garza-Hillman: PYP 241

November 21, 2017
Sid Garza-Hillman returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, Raising Healthy Parents. In typical Sid fashion, the book is funny, irreverent, wise, and insanely useful. Sid is the Nutritionist and Program Director at The Stanford Inn by the Sea in Mendocino, California, and host of the Approaching the Natural podcast. He’s also a race director,… Read More

From the Sidelines to the Starting Line (and Finish Line!) with Anthony Masiello: PYP 240

November 17, 2017
Anthony Masiello grew up as the “fat kid,” and owned the identity with resignation. Growing up in a town with three pizza restaurants within walking distance, it was easy to avoid the healthy food his mom stocked in their refrigerator and rely on the standard American junk diet. His weight continued to grow as his… Read More

Chris Voss on Negotiating with Others and Ourselves: PYP 208

May 1, 2017
Chris Voss learned negotiation in one of the most high-stakes professions possible: as a lead international hostage negotiator for the FBI. Having learned from the super-smart, super-rational Harvard negotiation experts, Chris quickly discovered that humans are not rational, and that principles and tactics that work with Rational Humans (a fictitious species) do not reliably work… Read More

How to get your family to support your health transformation – without begging or getting angry

March 14, 2017

When one person in a family takes that first scary, courageous step toward wellness, you would think that everyone else in the family would be supportive.

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