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Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning
Hosted by Andrea Samadi · education · EN
About this Podcast:
The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast provides support for school leadership and the workplace with a proven approach for implementing social and emotional learning as it’s well-known in our schools today and emotional intelligence in the modern workplace, with a proven strategy to increase well-being, achievement and results, backed by the most current neuroscience research.Andrea Samadi, a teacher from Toronto, (now living in Arizona, USA) began working with success and social and emotional learning principles with students in the late 1990s. Her programs, and trainings, grounded in brain-based research and practical neuroscience, help parents, teachers, coaches and employees to optimize learning, well-being and achievement at home, school or the workplace. Learn more at https://www.achieveit360.com
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What is Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning about?
The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast provides support for school leadership and the workplace with a proven approach for implementing social and emotional learning as it’s well-known in our schools today and emotional intelligence in the modern workplace, with a proven strategy to increase well-being, achievement and results, backed by the most current neuroscience research.
Who hosts Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning?
Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning is hosted by Andrea Samadi. The show has published 418 episodes to date.
What has Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning covered recently?
Recent episodes include "The Biology of Support: How Connection Shapes Learning, Growth and Performance" (25 October 2026, 50 minutes), "Phase 4 Launch: The Connection Loop, Perception, Emotion & Social Intelligence" (11 October 2026, 31 minutes), and "Movement to Mastery: Closing Phase 3 of the Brain’s Operating System" (4 October 2026, 45 minutes).
How often does Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning publish?
Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 34 minutes across 418 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning?
Booking probability for Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning requires a Pod Score of 87 or higher. Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning's contact route on record: public web form.
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The strongest fits for Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning are Educational Support Services and Business & Professional Training. Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning has an education audience.
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Andrea Samadi hosts Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning, an education podcast with 418 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Oct 11, 202631 minS16In this episode Andrea Samadi launches Phase 4 of the Brain's Operating System for Human Performance, focusing on perception, emotion, and social intelligence. She introduces the Connection Loop as a roadmap for...
Oct 4, 202645 minS16Episode 408 wraps Phase 3 by integrating what we learned about how movement, attention, practice, nutrition, and recovery work together to build capacity for learning and performance. Andrea Samadi reviews the movement...
Episode #417
Fueling Sustainable Change—Listen to Your Body and Lead by Example (with Jason Whittrock)
Sep 27, 202636 minS16In this episode Andrea Samadi revisits a 2020 conversation with trainer Jason Wittrock, exploring how movement, recovery, and nutrition interact to support learning, adaptation, and performance. They discuss sustainable...
Sep 13, 202641 minIn this episode Andrea Samadi explains the concept of sleep stress — a wearable-device measured how physiologically activated your body remains during sleep — and places it within a neuroscience-based movement and...
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Sep 6, 202646 minS16Episode 406 explains how movement prepares the brain but does not guarantee learning. It traces the full sequence—movement, RAS-driven readiness, salience and relevance, focused attention, encoding, retrieval and...
Aug 30, 202630 minS16In this episode Andrea Samadi explores how movement and sleep work together in a "brain operating system" for human performance, focusing on restorative sleep (deep + REM), personal WHOOP data, and the trade-offs...
Aug 23, 202631 minS16Andrea Samadi shares her personal resting heart rate data to show why measuring over time matters more than fixating on a single score. She explains how trends reveal stress, recovery, and adaptation, and why comparing...
Episode #412
The Science of Recovery—How Dr. Kristen Holmes Helps Us Turn Stress Into Greater Capacity
Aug 16, 202646 minS16In this episode Andrea Samadi explores Phase 3 of the Brain's Operating System—movement, learning, and cognition—focusing on the recovery and adaptation side of the "movement loop." She revisits Dr. Kristen Holmes’...
Aug 9, 202631 minS16In this bonus episode Andrea Samadi introduces the Predictable Performance System, a practical roadmap from her Brain’s Operating System. She shows how measuring patterns—not chasing daily scores—plus consistent...
Aug 2, 202621 minS16In this episode Andrea Samadi explores Phase Three of the Brain’s Operating System — how movement acts as the essential input that activates the brain, sharpens attention, boosts learning, and improves social and...
Jul 25, 202616 minAndrea Samadi shares a five-year self-experiment using a WHOOP wearable to track sleep, recovery, movement, and biological age. She reveals how daily low-intensity movement and consistent recovery—not one intense...
Episode #408
The Movement Loop: How Movement Activates the Brain for Learning, Adaptation & Performance
Jul 19, 202635 minS16Welcome back to Season 16 of the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast. I'm Andrea Samadi, and this is where we bridge neuroscience, social and emotional learning, and human performance so we can...
Jul 12, 202626 minS16Season 16, Episode 402 explores the Brain's Operating System for Human Performance, focusing on Phase 3: movement, adaptation, and performance. Andrea Samadi explains how movement triggers neurochemicals and blood flow...
Jun 27, 202638 minS16In episode 401 Andrea Samadi welcomes Greg Hill to explore why trust is the essential foundation for learning, growth, and high performance. They discuss how trust creates psychological safety, encourages risk-taking...
Jun 20, 202648 minS15In this milestone episode (400), Andrea Samadi celebrates seven years of the Neuroscience Meets SEL Podcast with her husband Majid Samadi. They reflect on the journey of translating neuroscience into practical...
Jun 14, 202629 minS15Episode 399 reviews Phase 2 of Season 15 and introduces the Motivation Loop — the sequence of meaning, belief, attention, action, reward, and recovery that drives sustained effort. The episode explains common loop...
Jun 9, 202624 minS15Episode 398 revisits neuroscientist Friederike Fabritius (from November 2022) to explain how three ingredients — fun (dopamine), fear (productive challenge), and focus — create the neurochemical conditions for sustained...
May 31, 202635 minS15Season 15, Episode 397 revisits research and real-world practice showing movement is more than fitness: it activates the brain, boosts attention, enhances learning, and sustains motivation. Dr. Chuck Hillman’s studies...
May 24, 202623 minS15Host Andrea Samadi welcomes Dr. Anna Lembke to explain how pleasure and pain share the same neural circuitry and how dopamine governs motivation. The episode explores why overconsumption of easy rewards dulls...
Recent guests
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Dr. Kristen Holmes
Vice President of Performance Science, Principal Scientist at WHOOP, WHOOP
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Anna Lembke
Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford University, Stanford University School of Medicine
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John Medina
Senior Vice President, Moody's Ratings, University of Washington School of Medicine
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Dr. Caroline Leaf
communication pathologist, cognitive neuroscientist, mental health and mind expert, best-selling author, top health podcast host
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