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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.
Unknown Host hosts My BrainWise Coach, a education show with 101 episodes published.
Twelve people sit in a room. A real decision is on the table, the conversation is substantive, and then the meeting ends and nobody knows what was decided or whether anything was decided at all. That meeting is not dysfu
You use the word fair constantly, and your brain does not treat it as one thing. It treats it as four, and each one runs on different circuitry. Phil opens in a room in Prague where the standard human response to an unfa
You caught something today without noticing it. Maybe a colleague's anxiety before the meeting even started, maybe a friend's laugh you could not hold back. Your brain runs a continuous transmission system that broadcast
Smart, accomplished people become the worst learners in the room the moment something is their fault. That isn't arrogance and it isn't a character flaw. It's a threat response your brain runs automatically, built by dec
Cold plunges promise depression relief, anxiety elimination, and a full nervous system reset. Something real does happen in your brain when you hit freezing water. The distance between that neurochemistry and the transfo
You look in the mirror and see something the rest of the room does not. That gap is rarely modesty and rarely simple low self-esteem. It is your brain building a self-model from the worst data it has access to, then cali
You hear about every cognitive enhancer on the market. Sleep protocols, cold plunges, nootropics, red light therapy. Psycholinguist Falk Huettig argues the most powerful one is free, ancient, and already sitting on your
Your brain kept a secret from science for a century. This week closes the anniversary series with six discoveries that did not exist on the map in 2015, from new neurons in the adult brain to a hippocampus that keeps lea
You tell yourself you will save half the chocolate bar for tomorrow. You already know how that usually ends. This episode breaks down what actually happens in your brain the moment now competes with later, and why the pu
Someone you love is upset, and your first instinct is to make them feel better fast. A new study across seventeen countries finds that instinct is not human nature. It is a cultural habit, strong in the United States, th
Your child's brain builds its most important circuits during two specific windows, age one and age six. What happens in those windows shapes learning and memory for the next decade, and it matters far more than any scree
Sit beside someone you trust and your hearts begin to keep time with each other. That alignment is not a metaphor or a mood. It is a measurable signal of real social connection, and it can vanish the moment a room gets t
You go to sleep stuck on a problem and wake up with the answer. The solution surfaces in the shower, on a walk, three days after you stopped trying. A new Nature study finally reveals the machinery behind those moments,
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
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
Charles Spence
experimental psychologist · University of Oxford
1 appearance on this show
Aaron James
Johns Hopkins Medicine
1 appearance on this show
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