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See The Light in You with Professor M.S. Rao
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12/24/24 • 28 min
In this episode of The Optimized Mind, Dr. Kate talks with researcher and author Professor MS Rao. The discussion focuses on Professor Rao’s most recent book See the Light In You, along with his more general ideas on resilience and overcoming challenges. Central themes which emerge through the discussion include the power of perseverance, the ways in which spirituality relates to well-being, the reality that happiness lies within and the importance of living in the moment.
Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D. is the Father of “Soft Leadership” and the Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, India. He is a 21th-century philosopher, an International Leadership Guru with forty-three years of experience, and the author of fifty-three books including the award-winning ‘See the Light in You’ URL: https://www.amazon.com/See-Light-You-Spiritual-Mindfulness/dp/1949003132.
He is a columnist and an author-at-large at Entrepreneur. He has published over 300 papers and articles in prestigious international publications including Leader to Leader, Thunderbird International Business Review, Strategic HR Review, Development and Learning in Organizations, Industrial and Commercial Training, On the Horizon, and Entrepreneur magazine. He is a soldier, entrepreneur, editor, educator, author, explorer, enlightener, thinker, writer, researcher, mentor, motivator, professor, reformer, traveler, blogger, storyteller, volunteer, activist, futurist, analyst, strategist, and coach.
He is a C-Suite advisor and global keynote speaker. He brings a strategic eye and long-range vision given his multifaceted professional experience including military, teaching, training, research, consultancy, and philosophy. He is passionate about serving and making a difference in the lives of others. He trains a new generation of leaders through leadership education and publications. He hopes to build one million students as global leaders by 2030 URL: http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.com/2014/12/professor-m-s-raos-vision-2030-one_31.html.
He volunteers peace activities, advocates gender equality (#HeForShe), and builds students globally. He invests his time in authoring books and blogging on executive education, learning, and leadership. Most of his work is free of charge on his four blogs including http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.com. He is a prolific author and a dynamic, energetic, and inspirational leadership speaker. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Empowering Girls with Shannon Addison
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09/24/24 • 40 min
In this episode of The Optimized Mind, Dr. Kate talks with entrepreneur and Mom, Shannon Addison. The discussion focuses on the evolution of Shannon’s brand – My Crumby World. Central themes which emerge through this powerful conversation include – the importance of empowering girls towards kindness to combat bullying and mean girl behavior, the far reaching implications of bullying on the self-esteem and self-concept of girls, the importance of teaching girls to embrace and appreciate individual difference, the impact of social media on girls, the importance of creating connection with our kids through activities, and helping girls to embrace the importance of failing as part of the process of learning.
Author Shannon Addison doesn’t consider herself a writer; she thinks of herself as someone who enjoys writing and has been doing so for most of her life. She finds inspiration for her writing through journaling, which she believes allows her to explore ideas without feeling constrained. Her love for journaling has inspired her to combine stories with journaling in her Breadcrumbz Presents format. Shannon believes that encouraging young girls to start journaling will help them express their feelings, address difficult questions, and receive positive messaging. Shannon's first story idea came from personal experience. While having lunch with her daughter at her school, she observed the interaction between girls at the next table and how easily and quietly they manipulated and bullied others without being noticed. This behavior was troubling and familiar to Shannon, prompting her to reflect on her own experiences at that age. She realized that little has changed in how young girls treat each other, and with today’s access to cell phones and social media, they have even more capable tools to inflict harm. This inspired Shannon to prepare girls for such conflicts and help them navigate them through better communication with parents and peers.
Shannon hopes that her books’ stories and problem-solving packets enable young girls to deal with friendship, feelings, conflicts, and failures, empowering them in the process. Her aim is for young readers to relate to the characters in her stories, accept themselves and others, and find their true inner strength, kindness, and generosity of spirit. “My Crumby Guide to Baking and Friendship Making” is the second book in the Breadcrumbz Presents collection. The first book, “My Crumby Guide to Failing,” is currently available on Amazon.
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Unlocking Peak Performance with Dr. Michelle Cleere
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08/27/24 • 38 min
In this episode of The Optimized Mind, Dr. Kate talks with Global Performance Coach, Michelle Cleere, Ph.D. The discussion focuses on the non-linear path towards growth and potential. Central themes which emerge through the discussion include – the importance of taking the first step forward, how we can apply the principles of sports performance across domains, the importance of recognizing small successes along the way and seeing progress as an evolving process, the intersection of expectation management and goal setting, navigating fear of failure, the importance of focusing on what you can control and what you can do, as opposed to what you can’t do, the importance of reflection and awareness in creating a strong performance mindset and the power of aligning mind and body.
Dr. Michelle Cleere helps top athletes, musicians, and executives all over the world to unlock the power of the mind and develop the mental skills to be the best.
MIND EXPERT
Prior to becoming an elite performance expert, Dr. Michelle spent most of her life struggling with her own performance hurdles. Once she was able to overcome them, she developed her own systems and research-based methods for supporting others in their journey.
It is her passion, mission and promise that she continues to help prevent others from experiencing the same painful battles.
Her academic background includes a PhD in Clinical Psychology and a Masters in Sport Psychology, allowing her to help clients deal with performance anxiety, gain more confidence, and build resilience. As many clients attest, their experience with Dr. Michelle is exactly what they needed and more than they expected – it was life changing.
AUTHOR, ATHLETE, AND PROFESSOR
Dr. Michelle is also a best-selling author, athlete, international speaker and college professor. Dr. Michelle’s bestseller line, Beating the Demons, helps clients develop practical skills to gain more control over competitive environments and mitigate the interruption in play to overcome intense odds and defeat adversity. She has been involved in many different sports and understands the stress and demands to perform at the top. As a 15-year USAT Coach, she developed simple and effective tools to mentally train her athletes, and they are used by coaches, teachers and leaders around the world. She is a professor at John F. Kennedy University where she teaches her students to use the mind as an ally to improve performance.
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Shattering Limiting Beliefs with Jocelyn Sandstrom
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07/09/24 • 43 min
In this episode of The Optimized Mind, Dr. Kate talks with Jocelyn Sandstrom, a certified teacher and practitioner of Advanced Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Neurological Repatterning, Ericksonian Hypnosis and a Millennium MethodTM. The discussion focuses on Jocelyn’s integrated approach to healing and helping people shatter their limiting beliefs and reach their potential. Central themes which emerge through this powerful discussion include the ways in which we can break through limiting beliefs, the power of inner-knowing and living in possibility with focus and intention. Jocelyn stresses that there is no one size fits all in any of this and that connecting with our inner-knowing and shifting our perspective of what’s possible is at the core of unlocking potential.
Growing up in Hawaii, Jocelyn has lived and worked in 12 different countries. This experience has allowed her to realize that even though we may speak different languages or have different traditions, at our core, we are all the same. She has used this knowledge to help and support clients around the world in creating next-level success not just in their careers but in their personal lives as well.
Since 2010, she has been providing Quantum Energy Sessions and teaching Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Neurological Repatterning, and the Millennium Method to clients globally. In 2022, she founded Wellness and Metaphysical, a community-driven platform that promotes a higher level of consciousness through expos and retreats.
Jocelyn's mindset and energy work have propelled her career, allowing her to work with leading global luxury brands like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Fendi, Cartier, Tiffany & Co., Christian Louboutin, and Yves Saint Laurent, among others. She has been featured on the covers of Elle, Marie Claire, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, and more. Alongside her husband, she has hosted two travel shows and appeared in various feature and short films. Now, she is focused on sharing her knowledge and experience through coaching and mentoring to help others turn their dreams into reality.
Jocelyn specializes in helping clients release deep-rooted issues from their past that are holding them back. She supports clients in building not just success but also fulfillment at the same time because success without fulfillment is empty, leading to burnout and anxiety. She supports her clients to discover their authentic truth and share that with the world, magnetizing their energy to start attracting people and opportunities out of the blue, enabling them to fall in love with themselves and their life while creating more success than ever before!
Jocelyn is the host of The Quantum Leap Podcast
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The Power of Intuition with Rae Leonard
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06/11/24 • 30 min
In this episode of The Optimized Mind, Dr. Kate talks with intuitive energy worker, author and researcher Rae Leonard. The discussion focuses on the power of intuition and how this has guided Rae over time, Rae’s journey through addiction and back, the ways in which Rae uses her life experiences and strengths to help guide others in her work, meditation and finally the power of frequency coaching/balancing in helping people to quiet their minds to achieve breakthroughs across domains.
Rae Leonard is an intuitive, energy worker, author, and researcher and is skilled in a number of alternative healing modalities. Her latest book is HIGH SOBRIETY: A trip Out Of The Bottle And Into Your Intuition, a wild read where she shares her rocky road of addiction with a wry gleam. Her story moves from fleeting glimpses of her past, to a transformation of a life now filled with limitless self love, jubilant health, and boundless joy.
In her intuitive practice, Rae combines her innate gifts with “Healy”, a frequency device that sees divine beings in their most exalted state of health, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, in their highest state of consciousness. Healy technology delivers energetic adjustments which bring her clients effortlessly into that matching bioenergetic state by communicating to the quantum field, the information field in the unseen realm, that is just waiting for us to tap in. As Albert Einstein said, “Match the frequency of the reality that you want and you can not help but get that reality. This is not philosophy, this is physics.”
Rae works with The Holistic Health Community in Stone Ridge, New York, where alternative health practitioners offer a wide range of services at no charge to the community. She feels it is a model for a new paradigm of health care that addresses body, mind and spirit and that favors the least invasive modalities whenever possible!
Rae reminds us that we are not victims in this life. We are Divine Angelic Infinite Beings who can decide to change our lives at any moment. Rock bottom is simply when you quit digging.
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Change your Paradigm with Dave Conway
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05/21/24 • 44 min
In this episode of The Optimized Mind, Dr. Kate talks with personal development expert, Dave Conway. The discussion focuses on how it is possible to transform thoughts into reality to drive success; the ways in which our programming impacts our results in life and how it is possible to shift our programming to boost results; and the importance of setting big goals as a catalyst for achieving more in life, among many other enlightening ideas. Dave shares the message that having something to change your life for and being fully, emotionally invested in that thing is central in the process of change. Dave also notes that the ability to accept extraordinary ideas and goals carries tremendous power and is at the center of ability to change.
Dave Conway is the best-kept secret of the personal development industry. Having coached over 25,000 entrepreneurs and coaches worldwide, he is considered one of the world’s best Mindset Mentors working today. As the founder of Conway Consulting, Dave helps people discover the power within their minds to turn that power into results unlike any they’ve ever experienced. All of this, and much more, has been made possible through the study and practice of manifestation.
Dave spent his early career as a carpenter, making $5,000 a month in income until he was introduced to the concept of manifestation, and once he witnessed its true power, he was hooked. Dave then decided to follow this calling and began working with Bob Proctor at the Proctor Gallagher Institute. At this time, he became the world’s second-highest-performing sales consultant. After leaving PGI, Dave started Conway Consulting, where he continued to serve and mentor entrepreneurs and coaches all over the world, permanently leaving behind his carpentry career and furthering his income from $5k to over $550,000 per month.
Dave credits his success to a genuine desire to empower people and show them how powerful they really are. As a regular contributor to Forbes.com and Entrepreneur.com, he is known for his action-oriented approach to mindset coaching that produces lasting and life-changing results. Dave understands the mindset as well as the skillset it takes for an entrepreneur to succeed.
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Living an Authentic Life with Wendy Cole
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04/02/24 • 28 min
In this episode of the Optimized Mind, Dr. Kate talks with transition mentor Wendy Cole. The discussion focuses on Wendy’s realization at an early age that she was in fact a girl. Wendy describes in depth the evolution of this early. Knowing and what it has meant to her for over 40 years until she started her own transition. Wendy speaks eloquently about the power of living an authentic life throughout this powerful conversation.
As a Transition Mentor, Wendy Cole helps her clients identify, explore, and eliminate the stress of facing life’s changes. Since 2017, Wendy has guided others to learn to embrace change. Her life experiences are the tools she uses. She believes in the mind’s powers; she practices mindfulness, shifting her beliefs and energy to support herself going forward, making profound changes in her life, health, and finding joy in being.
This is the starting point of every Transitional Change. You KNOW who you truly are, in every aspect. But the outside is what matters. That is what people see. And taking that first transitional step is TERRIFYING. It’s the stress. Stress of the journey, stress of the mental weight, stress of worrying about the outside world. The physical transitional change is the easiest part. It’s getting through the mental aspects that hold us back. Applies to everyone...
Knowing from childhood she was a girl, Wendy yielded to familial and societal expectations to fit in. At age 67, Wendy changed her life with her transition. Beginning in January 2015 she focused internally: accepting who she really was, confronting fears, doubts, and anxieties that held her back for decades. She took the leap of faith to find freedom and joy in being herself. By July 2015, Wendy was living as a woman. She had her long-awaited surgery at NYU Medical in 2017. Wendy knows by focusing inwardly to find freedom and joy will benefit the rest of your life.
To connect with Wendy: https://MeetWendyCole.com
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YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wendycole8326
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-cole-gtm/
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Fix Your Reflection First with Rhonda Farrah
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03/19/24 • 57 min
In this episode of The Optimized Mind, Dr. Kate talks with Rhonda Farrah, a lifestyle empowerment coach. The discussion focuses on the importance of fixing your own reflection first. Rhonda shares her approach for helping people change from the inside out and find opportunity in challenge, no matter how big or small. Central themes which emerge throughout include -- the power of surrender; finding gifts and blessings in challenge; taking responsibility for your choices; the reasons why we need to fix our reflection first and the powerful impact this has. Finally, Rhonda shares a powerful formula for living an empowered life.
In more than 25 years as a practicing Educational Counselor and Psychotherapist, Rhonda M. Farrah, MA, DRWA has consulted with clients and companies in a variety of industries and environments. Rhonda has applied her experience and education as a coach, author, speaker, and teacher specializing in Health and Wellness Empowerment in all aspects of Life.
As a speaker, Rhonda has proved to be a highly articulate and effective communicator, recognized for her creativity; and a visionary who sees “the big picture”. Her imaginative flair has served others, and earned her recognition as a resource person, problem solver, and creative leader. Rhonda is blessed in that she excels in developing and presenting seminars and classes based on a balanced lifestyle; all including her key areas of experience ranging from Human Dynamics & Development, Motivation, to Spiritual Awareness & Development.
As a practicing LIFEstyle Empowerment Coach, Rhonda assists individuals in Empowering themselves, as well as those that surround them, thus actualizing their health and wellness goals and objectives on both personal and professional levels. Rhonda has a demonstrated talent for motivating, encouraging, and leading individuals in a positive direction for betterment and Empowerment. Rhonda’s creative endeavors are dedicated to individual Empowerment and the conscious evolution of humankind, that we may align perfectly with our Creator, fulfilling our purpose while enjoying its process...All culminating in a Collective Consciousness for the Highest and Best GOOD of ALL concerned!
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Let Yourself Off The Hook with Liam Naden
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03/11/24 • 55 min
In this episode of The Optimized Mind, Dr. Kate talks with Liam Naden, transformative teacher, speaker, and author. The discussion focuses on Liam’s self-developed coaching model which helped him to rebuild his life after losing everything. Themes which emerge throughout the discussion include understanding how the brain works, and using each part of the brain as it was designed, the power of letting go of resistance in trying to solve problems; focusing on what is; an explanation of the four-part brain rebalancing model developed by Liam and the power of the creative brain.
“If you really want to succeed in your life you have to Let Yourself Off the Hook!
Stop trying to solve your problems, achieve your goals and manage your life through force and struggle.
This is the message of Liam Naden, a transformative teacher, speaker, and author who helps successful people overcome their negative limitations and find fast and practical solutions to their problems. He guides them in resetting their brain and thinking creatively instead of getting stuck in their fear-based fight-or-flight mode.
Using a unique science-based method to reset and realign the brain, Liam shows you how to unlock your natural creativity and problem-solving ability,
enabling you to discover and live a truly rewarding and fulfilling life.
Liam’s only journey has taken him from the successes of being a serial entrepreneur as owner of more than 18 businesses and multi-millionaire - to losing everything and becoming homeless in his mid 40s. It was only as he rebuilt his life and wealth in a much more satisfying way that he realized the missing link to true success: the correct functioning of the human brain.
He is now the host of the Let Yourself Off the Hook podcast, a best-selling author and creator of Brain Rebalancing - a process which gets the four parts of the brain working they way they should - and bringing you the success you should have.
Through his coaching programs and guest appearances he now teaches individuals from around the world to understand that there’s a more natural way to solve problems in all areas of life. It aligns with the brain’s ability to find creative solutions to challenges rather than attempting to fight against them. When you adopt this mindset, you achieve true and lasting success much more quickly and without the limitations of struggle and stress.
As Liam will show you, “True success only happens when you give up the struggle and Let Yourself Off the Hook!”.
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Living in Your Zone of Genius with Akash Rupareliaa
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12/31/24 • 28 min
In this episode of The Optimized Mind, Dr. Kate talks with entrepreneur Akash Rupareliaa. The discussion focuses on the ways in which Akash and his team serve others by helping entrepreneurs build their businesses and gain visibility in a way which helps them to create a massive impact for those they work with. Central themes which emerge through this powerful conversation include the importance of a service mindset and living in your zone of genius, lessons learned while living as a monk, the connection between purpose and success and the power of the subconscious mind.
Akash’s journey is a masterclass in transformation, resilience, and purpose. He took the unexpected route from being a party boy to a monk, ultimately channeling his deepest heartbreak into the creation of a thriving social media empire that now generates millions. Along the way, he learned the true meaning of confidence, and now he is on a mission to make spirituality and deeper thinking not just accessible, but undeniably cool. His remarkable achievements speak for themselves: Built a successful social media agency worth millions.
Dropped out of a top global university to pursue a life of purpose and empowered countless individuals to elevate their lives through spiritual and entrepreneurial insights. Blended ancient wisdom with modern success, showing that inner growth is the true foundation of business triumph.
He is also an Ambassador & Trustee to FoodforallUK, distributing 100,000+ warm meals to homeless people in the UK and refugees around the world, including places like Syria and Ukraine. His unconventional journey demystifies spirituality and success, blending them into a powerful force for personal and professional growth. Book Akash for an electrifying discussion on turning life’s challenges into triumph, building confidence, and making the world think deeper—while elevating their own lives and businesses.
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FAQ
How many episodes does The Optimized Mind have?
The Optimized Mind currently has 133 episodes available.
What topics does The Optimized Mind cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Psychology, Mental Health, Podcasts, Education and Mental Illness.
What is the most popular episode on The Optimized Mind?
The episode title 'Empowering Girls with Shannon Addison' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Optimized Mind?
The average episode length on The Optimized Mind is 39 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Optimized Mind released?
Episodes of The Optimized Mind are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of The Optimized Mind?
The first episode of The Optimized Mind was released on Oct 4, 2022.
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