Genius: Sciencing Our Human Potential – Details, episodes & analysis

Join us for a return of the "Genius Podcast: Sciencing Your Human Potential" with a special interview between host Dove (Diane) Wilson and forensic pathologist, professor and leader Nicole Jackson, MD. This conversation will uniquely benefit a wide range of people -- developing leaders, minorities, people suffering career surprises, those struggling with sleep, social media users, medical students, residents, and adults in general.

Learn about the life of a determined, talented young woman who had lost a parent as child, developed some fascinating sleep patterns -- some she is still making sense of -- and has pivoted to make contributions that truly matter.

It can happen to anyone. We can plan our lives so carefully some times and then the unthinkable happens. A teaser from an upcoming episode of "The Genius Podcast: Sciencing Our Human Potential." Join us! Dr. Jackson will be a featured guest in Episode 17 Called "Death, Life, Sleep and Dreams" to be released on Tuesday, May 14 on Youtube.com Spotify and all major podcast platforms. Interviewed by coach Dove Wilson of Great Sleep and Other Superpowers at www.Grimardwilson.com and www.greatsleep.life

One of our most popular podcast episodes in the last year was with the beloved Dr. Sayed Tabatabai -- known as @TheRealDoctorT. Through story, he helps us notice, wrap words around and digest the array of feelings that come with being in this global pandemic -- love, loss, confusion, and more.

He’s a critical care physician who lives in a world where a year ago he and his colleagues were called heroes. Now they are often distrusted, villainized, and concerned for their own safety. His writing is addictive in that he subtly beckons us to see life in more depth, to become more alive ourselves, and to hope for what's better in all of us.

Listen to how Dr. T strives to create balance under stress, how taking breaks figures in, what he's learned in the last year that he wants listeners to know, his love for Apple's hit show Ted Lasso and more.  

With Dr. Mark Shapiro, another upcoming Genius Podcast return, Dr. T co-hosts a fun and funny podcast series called #MedLasso which explores how the show relates to health care today.

Biography:

Dr. Sayed Tabatabai, MD is a nephrologist in San Antonio, TX, and has over 16 years of experience in the medical field. Dr. Tabatabai has been working with COVID-19 patients, during the pandemic and shares his experiences in a unique way, through social media. He enjoys a huge and beloved social media presence, especially on Twitter where he has over 65,000 faithful followers. He has written over 100 fictionalized and sometimes sci-fi patient stories that have been shared on Twitter which are being incorporated into an upcoming book. His writing speaks to the human experience of medicine and life on many levels and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, San Antonio Express-News, Medium.com, Physician’s Weekly, & podcast series including The Journal of Clinical Pathways and National Public Radio. He was honored this year as one of San Antonio Top Doctors 2020, by San Antonio Magazine.

Follow Dr. Tabatabai on Twitter: @TheRealDoctorT

It started with wanting to help the world during a crazy time, with being obsessed with people hearing the stories and insights of others, and with finding courage and connection. Reflections on the last year of starting the Genius Podcast, our guests, who is returning, and what else is ahead. Stay tuned for our fall episodes as we work away at them. Feel free to enjoy our previous episodes. Thanks for listening. 

Harness your nervous system. 

What if managing stress and transforming it into peak performance didn’t start with talk therapy? What if our mental health and ability for peak performance began with training our heart muscle? What if that sense of "flow" where we feel great and are productive, was fostered by a muscle memory we could train ourselves to have?

This episode of the Genius Podcast invites you to challenge the way we as a society think of mastering stress and creating peak performance in our lives.

This interview with internationally recognized sports psychologist Dr. Leah Lagos. It will teach you about HRV and a program she uses to great benefit with elite and Olympic athletes, CEOs, and even her little daughter.

Collect new perspectives and tools for conquering stress, improving relationships and ourselves. The world needs HRV.

Biography:

Leah Lagos, Psy.D, B.C.B., is an internationally known expert specializing in biofeedback, sport psychology, and performance psychology for elite competitors around the world. She is regularly featured in national media outlets including MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, CNN, Fox News, Today, and many more. Working with some of the world’s top business and sports professionals, including Olympic athletes, CEOs, international hedge fund managers, and many other business leaders, Dr. Lagos has established herself as a prominent name in peak performance training. Her training program is based on fifteen years of clinical study and application, treating a broad range of health and performance challenges. She lives in New York, New York.

Find Dr. Lagos at: https://drleahlagos.com/

Twitter: @DrLeahLagos

Her best-selling book is called: "Heart Breath Mind" and is available in hardback, softback, and audio. 

Neurofeedback, Adaptation & Prisoners of the Couch

Part 2 of my conversation with applied neuroscience pioneer Dr. Richard Soutar brings us into the intriguing challenge of brain change and self-awareness. Topics include: how high-functioning individuals can suffer devastating impairments without knowing it, Hedonic Adaptation or how we can heal but not see it, a new paradigm of understanding trauma as capable of injuring the brain similar to an accident or blow to the head, emotional intelligence as an integration of different parts of the brain, and, in Dr. Soutar's words, the promise that everyone can have a great story of recovery like mine.  Thanks, Dr. Soutar, I’m always learning from you.

Biography:

A pioneer in the field of neurofeedback, Dr. Richard Soutar has published Five books on the topic of neurofeedback as well as a number of invited chapters and research papers and conducted workshops at conferences and clinics in the U.S and Europe. As a former professor of psychology and sociology, he has taught at both the undergraduate and the graduate level as well as being a clinician, director, and business administrator of various clinics around the country. He developed the first internet training course for neurofeedback certified by the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA) and has been a BCIA mentor for over 15 years.  He has served as Secretary and President of the Neurofeedback Division of the Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB). He is Director of Research and Development for New Mind Technologies where he is developing equipment, brain mapping databases, and assessment instruments and software programs for neurofeedback clinicians.

New Mind Database System

www.newmindmaps.com

New Mind Academy

www.newmindacademy.com

New Mind Youtube

https://youtu.be/QN0Fqhz-1Jg

Kids, Sports and the Brain

“Sports have so many benefits for kids. We won’t prevent every injury, we’re not wrapping kids in bubble wrap. But we can make changes to eliminate impacts and protect the brain.”

If you’re a physician, parent, coach, or sports lover of any kind, this podcast episode will be valuable. Dr. Julie Stamm has spent over a decade studying and compiling a body of data featured in her brand new book called "The Brain on Youth Sports." It directly challenges a number of important and damaging myths about the brain and sports.

We talk about the reality of brain injury, how it occurs, with whom, under what conditions, gender factors, whether or not helmets help, what definitely does help kids who want to play sports stay safe, and very practical steps that need to be taken.

She’s not an ivory tower researcher, she loves sports and has done her research.

Biography:

Julie Stamm, PhD, is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She brings a unique perspective on the issues of repetitive head impacts in youth sports as a scientist and expert in the field, an anatomist with knowledge of childhood development throughout the body and the brain, and an athletic trainer who has provided medical care for athletes in a variety of sports. As an avid sports fan and a three-sport high school athlete from a small town in Wisconsin, she values the importance of sports participation for children. She earned her doctorate in anatomy and neurobiology from the Boston University School of Medicine and conducted research at the Boston University Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center and the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Twitter: @JulieStammPhD

Instagram: @JulieStammPhD

Facebook: @JulieStammPhD

Research shows the transformative impact music can have on brain and body. This week our Genius Podcast featured expert Victoria Storm, an extraordinary musician, music therapist, and leader.

This episode will increase your ability to tap into music in daily life especially during these times. It will give you prescriptions for making the most of this incredible resource.

As a performing artist, it is not surprising Victoria Storm is also an entertaining speaker full of stories and inspiration.

Lastly, it should be known that Diane Wilson once got to sing accompanied by Victoria and her band, Kettlestrings. The experience made clear to her that anyone wanting run away and be in a rock band had a totally understandable goal.

Biography: 

Singer-songwriter Victoria Storm’s songs are an introspective commentary on the classic themes of joy and struggle, loss and success, resentment and release. Her songs always provide good melodies and heartfelt sentiments. She performs at local venues, festivals, and throughout the Midwest, including songs from her 2017 EP release “Hidden.”   Storm is also commissioned to write and record custom songs for special occasions.   As a board-certified music therapist, Storm develops and delivers music therapy services in hospital systems, in her own private practice, and contracts with additional music therapists and educators to further extend her mission of making music accessible. She loves performing “Caring Concerts” for sensitive audiences, giving inspirational keynote concerts, and educational presentations on music therapy.

She is currently creating a new collection of songs coming to streaming services and for purchase soon, and working on her first recoding project with her band Kettlestrings. She is also actively exploring house concerts if any listeners are interested in discussing the possibility of hosting an evening of music in their home/venue.

https://linktr.ee/VictoriaStormMusic www.VSMusicServices.com www.Kettlestrings.com

Misery

https://youtu.be/NdV8pqA7kZE

Nurses’ vigil

https://youtu.be/gGI0jI3srh8

According to pre-pandemic statistics, anxiety disorders affect over 40 million adults in the U.S., or almost 20% of the population. Estimates are that one-third of all people will have an anxiety disorder in their lifetime. Overall, anxiety is the most common mental illness, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. And, during the pandemic, it's become a hidden epidemic. 

This episode of the Genius podcast features Dimitrios Tsataris, MD, a board-certified psychiatrist and specialist in anxiety management. Even talking with Dr. Tsataris was a bit of a calming experience. I had met him in our social media posts but this was our first time chatting over Zoom. He’s warm, yet professional, kind, and authentic. Our topics included: the different ways anxiety can manifest, how social media may wreak havoc on our calm, what’s keeping people awake, affect forecasting, myths in our culture that generate angst, going back to work in person, building our capacity to feel empowered, and why it’s important to normalize talking about mental health, especially now. 

You will leave feeling more equipped to deal with your own anxiety and more understanding of others. 

Pour yourself a cup of coffee and join us for this episode. Thank you so much, Dr. Tsataris.

Biography: 

Dimitrios Tsatiris, MD is a practicing board-certified psychiatrist specializing in the field of anxiety management. He is a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Northeast Ohio Medical University.

He studies and writes about the interface of anxiety and achievement. His Psychology Today blog “Anxiety in High-Achievers” is viewed by more than 20,000 readers per month.

His work has appeared in Health.com, Psychology Today, PsychCentral, KevinMD, ThriveGlobal, and the White Coat Investor among other publications.

You can check out his work at dimitriostsatiris.com. You can also find him @drdimitrios on Twitter, Instagram, and Clubhouse.

Sleep like an Olympian?

Coaching for Powerful Sleep

Such an exciting time to have interviewed Dr. Singh. She helps optimize the performance of Olympic athletes and, I, like the rest of the world this week am obsessively watching the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Part two of the Genius episode with sleep specialist Meeta Singh, MD will help us all manage our sleep to perform more optimally. Topics include the biggest misconceptions around sleep, proper melatonin use, sleep disorders, home sleep studies, the mystery of night owls, personal Circadian clocks, the skill of unwinding, who can judge if they have sleep apnea or are sleep deprived, signs of chronic sleep deprivation, sleep as a skill, COVID as world resets, a peek at Dr. Singh’s own World Series ring.  So exciting.

Basically, you don’t want to miss this segment.

Biography: 

Dr. Meeta Singh is a sleep doctor whose work and research focus on “coaching the sleep muscle” to help maximize performance in both individual athletes and sports teams. She also works with C suite executives to help with jet-lag management and enhancing sleep.

She is the Service Chief of Sleep Medicine and Medical Director at the Henry Ford sleep laboratory in Michigan. She did her training in psychiatry at the Mayo clinic and a sleep fellowship at the Henry Ford Hospital. She is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (under the American Board of Medical Specialties) as a psychiatrist and sleep medicine sub-specialist. She is a member in good standing of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine the Sleep Research Society.

She has served as a consultant for multiple NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA teams. She has also worked with college sports teams. As part of this service, Dr. Singh performs athletic sleep assessments with personalized prescriptions for better sleep. She also helps sports teams and athletes with their travel management with a focus on addressing sleep deprivation and jet lag and maximizing athletic performance. Her passion is lecturing and educating teams and athletes about the benefits of sleep on performance. She is also a speaker at national conferences aimed at educating sports leaders and business organizations about this subject.

LinkedIn: Meeta Singh MD Twitter: @meetasinghmd Instagram: @athletesleepmd  www.meetasinghmd.com