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Welcome to My BrainWise Coach — a podcast exploring the intersection of neuroscience, behavioral science, and psychology to help you live and lead better lives. Hosted by Cole Bastian and Phil Dixon, each episode connects brain science to everyday life, leadership, and relationships. You’ll gain practical insights into emotional intelligence, habits, trust, change, growth, and many other topics — all grounded in research and real human experience. 🧠 Stay curious. Stay compassionate. Stay BrainWise.
My BrainWise Coach hosts My BrainWise Coach, a education show with 87 episodes published.
You know someone who jumps out of planes but cannot give a colleague honest feedback. You know someone who races cars at the limit but never says how they actually feel. Courage is not one trait. It is domain specific, a
Drink a milkshake you believe is rich and indulgent, and your body produces a stronger fullness signal than if you drink the identical shake believing it is light and sensible. Your attitude is not a mood or a motivation
Every important decision hides the same question. Do you stick with what already works, or gamble on something new that might be better? A team of researchers just answered it with math, using a problem Richard Feynman s
Why do some people come through loss, failure, and illness intact, sometimes even stronger, while others facing the same hardship never recover? Phil and Cole turn to the longest-running study of human life ever conducte
Think back to the last time something went wrong for you. Your first instinct was probably to look outward, at what someone else did or at what the situation made unavoidable. That reflex is not a character flaw, it is w
You have heard both pieces of advice. Shoot for the moon. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. They flatly contradict each other, and neither one tells you when to apply which. This episode walks through a 202
Your willpower does not vanish at four o'clock because you are weak. It runs down because it is a biological function with real limits, and most of what you were taught about self-control is quietly making the problem wo
The thing you are dreading has not happened yet, and it may never happen, but your body is already responding as if a lion is in the room. Your brain runs a survival program built for short, physical emergencies, and it
You walk into Monday morning as one person and leave Friday afternoon as someone almost unrecognizable. You have been taught to treat that as inconsistency, weakness, or failure. The science says you have it backwards. C
You finish a great training, take careful notes, feel like you've learned something real, and three months later the details are gone. That isn't a memory problem. It's a structural mismatch between how learning is usual
You've been told you're either an introvert or an extrovert your whole life, and neither label has ever quite fit. There's a reason for that. Jung's original 1921 framework has been distorted by a century of pop psycholo
Last week the count stopped at 11. This week it goes further. Phil and Cole make the case that some of what you call intuition, attunement, or "a feel for the room" is closer to sensing than to thinking, and that you hav
You were taught you have five senses. You don't. Neuroscience now recognizes at least twelve distinct sensory systems, and the ones Aristotle missed are the ones quietly running your emotional life, your decisions, and y
Every time you pull to refresh, swipe on a dating app, or scroll a feed that never ends, your brain is running the same circuit B.F. Skinner discovered in pigeons in the 1950s. The variable ratio reinforcement schedule i
That playlist you swear is helping you concentrate? Your prefrontal cortex may be quietly working overtime to ignore it. This episode unpacks what neuroscience actually says about music, focus, and emotional regulation,
There's one task on your list you keep skipping, and your brain is paying a tax on it all day. The order in which you do your work is not just a productivity question. It's a neurological one, and getting the sequence wr
Your brain isn't neutral when politics come up, and that's not weakness. It's wiring. In this conversation, Cole and Phil break down the neuroscience driving political polarization, why certainty feels so good to the bra
Bad sticks. Good slides off. You can name three things that went wrong this week faster than three that went right, and that asymmetry isn't a personality flaw or a bad mood. It's a measurable feature of how your brain p
You feel uneasy about AI, but you can't quite name why. Maybe you haven't started using it and worry you're falling behind. Maybe you've been using it heavily and suspect you've offloaded more than you meant to. This epi
Every scroll session leaves a neurological residue that most people don't know is there. A 2026 study published in Nature's Scientific Reports identified the exact psychological mechanisms connecting social media use to
Kelly McGonigal
Stanford health psychologist and bestselling author · Stanford University
1 appearance on this show
Roy Baumeister
Dr.
1 appearance on this show
Robert Sapolsky
neuroscientist, biologist, and author of Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will · Stanford
1 appearance on this show
Donald Thompson
multi-exit entrepreneur and award-winning CEO · The Diversity Movement
1 appearance on this show
Daniel Levitin
Neuroscientist, Musician and Author
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Phil
Fr · Orange County Pool Solutions
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Cole
teacher at HSE · Turn Offroad
1 appearance on this show
Charles Spence
experimental psychologist · University of Oxford
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