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Children nowadays have the luxury of being able to choose from a wide range of athletic activities. Though this is fantastic for their long-term development, youth sports have become more intense and competitive than ever before, which can pose a risk to our kids' mental health and overall well-being. So, how can we raise happy, healthy athletes while nurturing them into kind, compassionate, confident, and well-focused young adults who are empowered to passionately pursue their goals? Introducing Kirsten Jones, Peak Performance and Sports Parenting Coach and author of ‘Raising Empowered Athletes’. Packed with actionable advice, this episode is the ultimate roadmap if you’re a parent trying to navigate the challenges, decisions, and pressures of youth sports!

Listen and Learn:

• What are the advantages of our kids engaging in sports?
• What are the biggest pitfalls of our modern-day youth sports culture?
• How can we support instead of pressure our athletes?
• Ways to help increase internal motivation in your kids
• How to identify if your child is participating in sports solely just to please you?

Resources:

• Kirsten’s book, Raising Empowered Athletes: A Youth Sports Parenting Guide for Raising Happy, Brave, and Resilient Kids
• Please sign up to receive updates, hear the podcast, or schedule a call at kirstenjonesinc.com
• @kirstenjonesinc (Facebook and X)
• @kirstenjonescoach (Instagram and LinkedIn)

About Kirsten Jones

Kirsten Jones, Peak Performance and Sports Parenting Coach, is a co-host of the #RaisingAthletes Podcast (with Susie Walton) and a motivational speaker. Her first parenting book, Raising Empowered Athletes, launched August 8, 2023 from Triumph Books.

Kirsten, a Hall of Fame DI volleyball player from William and Mary and fifteen year NIKE executive, clients include teen athletes (and their parents), where she helps them learn how to reach their goals by releasing their limitations.

Kirsten and her husband are raising three athletes themselves (ages 23, 20, & 17) in Los Angeles. Her boys are both DI basketball players and her daughter plays high school volleyball. Kirsten also coaches club volleyball and enjoys traveling anytime she gets the chance.

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Want to change your relationship with food? This incredible interview with Judson Brewer, a pioneer in the field of habit change and author of The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop, will not only deepen your understanding of your eating behavior patterns and triggers, but you'll also learn how to completely shift your habits with kindness and curiosity. Listen in for a slew of actionable tips, modern science, and ancient wisdom from Judson; discover which foods are best for your body while still enjoying the foods you like; and strengthen your understanding of how your brain works and how to make permanent changes in your life based on that knowledge.

Listen and Learn:

• How his struggle to help patients with binge eating and overeating led Judson to write The Hunger Habit
• What's the issue we're facing as a society and culture with eating and food in general?
• Why keeping a healthy diet by measuring what you eat comes with its own set of challenges
• How our food consumption instincts have evolved and gotten mixed up in modern times
• Identifying the patterns that bring us to eat
• How you can practice kindness to facilitate openness and learning from experiences
• Recalling past experiences before engaging in habitual behavior to make better decisions and avoid repeating negative experiences in the future

Resources:

• Visit Judson’s Website: https://drjud.com/
• The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop
• A simple way to break a bad habit | Judson Brewer | TED
• Connect with Judson on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook

About Judson Brewer

Judson Brewer M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally renowned addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is a professor in the School of Public Health and Medical School at Brown University. His 2016 TED Talk, “A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit,” has been viewed more than 19 million times. He has trained Olympic athletes and coaches, government ministers, and business leaders. His first book, The Craving Mind, was published in more than sixteen languages. His second book, Unwinding Anxiety, was an instant New York Times bestseller.

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Ever had to deal with someone who just seems impossible to reason with? You know, the kind of person who always blames others and seems to turn every minor disagreement into a conflict? If you've been there, you’ll want to check out this episode with Bill Eddy, Chief Innovation Officer of the High Conflict Institute and an expert in understanding high-conflict personalities and dealing with adult bullies. We talk about the characteristics of high-conflict individuals, the psychological impact on their victims, and effective strategies from his book Our New World of Adult Bullies: How to Spot Them -- How to Stop Them to navigate these relationships. Tune in and empower yourself with concrete tools and expert advice to diffuse high-conflict behavior effectively and change how you handle bullies in your life!

Listen and Learn:

• Identifying the four main traits of high-conflict personalities
• Do all individuals with personality disorders fit the high conflict profile?
• How to identify if you have a relationship with someone with a high-conflict personality
• The differences between adult bullies and child bullies
• What is the primary motivation for bullying behavior?
• The surprise attack tactic bullies often use and how you can be less vulnerable to them
• What is a negative advocate, and how do people end up in that role?
• Using the BIFF method in communication to avoid blame cycles and maintain constructive dialogue
• Why you should never label the behavior of a high-conflict person or bully?
• Combating bullying in political and online realms and why this demands societal action through education and setting boundaries

Resources:

• highconflictinstitute.com
• Connect with Bill @highconflictinstitute on socials:
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/high-conflict-institute
• https://twitter.com/highconflict?lang=en
• https://www.instagram.com/highconflictinstitute/
• It's All Your Fault! The High Conflict Institute Podcast
• Psychology Today Blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/5-types-people-who-can-ruin-your-life
• Bill’s books:
• Our New World of Adult Bullies: How to Spot Them -- How to Stop Them
• 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life: Identifying and Dealing with Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other High-Conflict Personalities
• Biff: Quick Responses to High-Conflict People, Their Personal Attacks, Hostile Email and Social Media Meltdowns
• Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder

About Bill Eddy:

Bill Eddy is Chief Innovation Officer of the High Conflict Institute based in San Diego, California. He trains lawyers, judges, mediators, and therapists throughout the United States and a dozen other countries in managing high-conflict family, workplace and legal disputes. He is the author of over 20 books and manuals and has a popular blog on PsychologyToday.com.

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Many clinical professionals all over the world are incorporating tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs) into therapy. They offer diverse benefits and can be a game-changing way to introduce enjoyment and creativity into therapy sessions. For this conversation, we are thrilled to be joined by Megan Connell, author of Tabletop Role-Playing Therapy: A Guide for the Clinician Game Master, to talk about the advantages and potential of RPGs in therapy. Using the wildly popular Dungeons&Dragons as the primary example, we look at how coming together to solve problems, face conflicts, and overcome obstacles through collective storytelling can provide a safe and creative environment for individuals to explore without real-world consequences, while also building on skills such as social and confidence development. Listen in and elevate your therapy game with a perfect blend of fun and learning!

Listen and Learn:

• Megan gives an introduction to therapeutically applied tabletop role-playing games and how they're played
• The many benefits of tabletop role-playing games in teaching therapeutic skills
• The limitless possibilities of Dungeons&Dragons
• How Megan approaches character creation for her clients
• The overlap between the ACT Hexaflex Model and role-playing games

Resources:

• Visit Megan's Website
• Order your copy of Megan’s book Tabletop Role-Playing Therapy: A Guide for the Clinician Game Master
• G33ks like us
• Geek Therapeutics
• Healthquest Innovative Therapeutics
• Clinical Roll
• Psychology at the Table
• Follow Megan on X

About Dr. Megan Connell

Dr. Connell is a Licensed Psychologist and a Therapeutic Dungeon Master. She graduated from Argosy University Hawai’i in 2010 and served as a psychologist in the US Army for seven years. While in the Army she received specialty training focused on trauma and PTSD. In 2016, she left active duty and started her work in private practice. There, she has focused her work primarily on challenges related to anxiety, panic, changes in life, depression, trauma, and helping women on the autism spectrum. Through her work with Leyline Geek Therapeutics, she has helped train other mental health professionals on what geek culture is and how we can use geek culture to lead to better, more fulfilling lives.

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Deception is everywhere. Fake psychics, dodgy investment deals, cults, and pesky scam calls can be hard to detect, even for the smartest or most vigilant individuals. This poses the question of what makes us vulnerable and what precautions we can take?

Joining us for this episode are two exceptional cognitive scientists, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. Through studies and findings from their highly anticipated book, "Nobody's Fool, Why We Get Taken In, and What We Can Do About It" they provide us with valuable insight into how to navigate the treacherous world of deception.

In this fascinating conversation, Christopher and Daniel unveil the cognitive biases that plague us all while offering practical ways to safeguard ourselves from being duped. Drawing upon real-life situations, they come equipped with an arsenal of tactics that can be incorporated into your daily life and that won't breed paranoia or leave you in a perpetual state of vigilance—quite the opposite! Their goal is to provide you with the knowledge to navigate life confidently, cautiously, and securely.

Listen and Learn:

• Is everyone susceptible to being duped?
• How have Daniel and Christopher become savvier at recognizing scams as a result of writing and researching their book, Nobody’s Fool?
• Daniel's clever suggestion for protecting your family from scam calls
• How ‘truth bias’ can make us more vulnerable in day-to-day life
• Why do we often fail to see something that's right in front of us? Even something so glaringly apparent?
• Principle of focus: what does it mean, and how is it used as a means to deceive?
• How our beliefs and expectations can deter us from seeing what is actually there and how to avoid falling victim to the trap
• Why it's crucial to consider all of the information that you're missing when interpreting information or data that is presented to you
• How can we protect ourselves from being fooled when the risk is high?
• The “illusory truth effect”: why do we have a tendency to treat familiarity as a sign of fact?
• How can we find that balance between accepting the truth bias and being cautious?

Resources:

• Christopher Chabris
• Follow Christopher on Twitter
• Daniel Simons
• Follow Daniel on Twitter
• Nobody's Fool, Why We Get Taken In, and What We Can Do About It
• The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us
• Gorilla Experiment
• Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini

About Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris:

Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris are the authors of the 2010 New York Times Bestseller, The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us, which has been translated into 20 languages. They have collaborated on research for more than 25 years, and they jointly received the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize (given for research that "first makes you laugh and then makes you think"). They have contributed to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Slate, and other national publications, and their work has appeared in science museums worldwide. They spent nearly a decade researching and writing Nobody’s Fool.

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