Results May Vary Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Hello Results May Vary listeners, it’s Tracy! I’m excited to share this very special episode featuring a panel conversation on the topic of Psychedelic Medicine and Design. I recently co-hosted this live event at the Stanford University Hasso Plattner Institute of Design aka the dschool, with my teaching colleagues Elysa Fenenboch and Dr. Gianni Glick. 

We set out to explore the question, what IS the role of design as we transition psychedelic medicine from the research lab to medical clinics and journey spaces? How might they be used for the most good to individuals, cultures, and ecological ecosystems, including the plants and molecules themselves. 

Let me introduce our guests in order of how you’ll hear them in the recording:

Ismail Ali is the Director of Policy and Advocacy for MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies 

Dr. Allison Feduccia is a neuropharmacologist, psychedelic researcher and educator

Ayize Jama-Everet is an author, professor, producer, and guerilla theologian

Dr. Kyra Bobinet, who you may know from being a guest on this show twice, is also known as Me’me and is an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, and the founder and CEO of health tech company FreshTri

The pandemic has taken its toll on many people's romantic relationships. How can passion thrive as the world starts to rebuild? Katie Love is a life designer and expert on the human heart. The RMV chat to her about how to build a co-creative relationship, how to re-spark passion and when to decide if a relationship is coming to an end.

Today we are excited to welcome our first Results May Vary repeat guest, and author of Well-Designed Life, Dr. Kyra Bobinet. Kyra’s specialty is combining brain science & design thinking to serve the health of whole populations of people, and to challenge them and herself to live healthy fulfilling lives; physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Dr. Bobinet has spent her career working in the healthcare industry, building programs and algorithms to change behaviors at the million-person scale. Today she is the Founder and CEO of Fresh Tri, a simple, sustainable behavior change approach based on the brain science of habit formation. 

Let’s listen in as Kyra shares her thoughts on the brain behavior gap, and why it’s so dang hard to do the things we know we should; and how adopting an iterative mindset can offer you a more successful and compassionate approach to habit change.

Show Notes:

About Dr. Kyra Bobinet

A Well Designed Life by Kyra Bobinet

Fresh Tri App: Fresh Tri™ is a simple, sustainable approach based on the brain science of habit formation,

download on the App Store

CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program

Harvard Business Review’s article about Growth Mindset

Carol Dweck book on Fixed and Growth Mindsets

Today we’re thrilled and honored to welcome Sasha Sagan. Raised in a secular household by the astronomer Carl Sagan and writer and producer Ann Druyen, Sasha was taught that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of profound beauty, and that science reveals truths that are more wondrous than any myth or fable.

When she herself became a mother, Sasha began her own hunt for the natural phenomena behind our most treasured occasions — from births to deaths, holidays to weddings, anniversaries, and the simple ways we mark the rhythms of the everyday. Seeing life itself as worthy of celebration, Sasha authored the book, For Small Creatures Such As We, which thoughtfully explores how we might blend science and spirituality.

Let’s listen in as Sasha shares how she’s been creating a new set of rituals for her young daughter that honor the joy and significance of each experience. She’ll also share how you can design your own rituals to feel more connected to self, community, and the vast universe we’re all an integral part of.

Today we are excited to welcome physician, author, speaker, and friend, Dr. BJ Miller. As a practicing hospice and palliative care doctor, BJ is best known for his TED Talk, "What Really Matters at the End of Life," and recently co-authored A Beginner’s Guide to the End, with the Editorial Director of IDEO, Shoshana Berger. BJ sees patients and caregivers through his online palliative care service, Mettle Health. And is the subject of Netflix's Academy Award-nominated short documentary, End Game. 

Listen in as BJ shares his story of recovery from a life altering accident at 19 through his perspective of creativity instead of loss, and what opened up even further after he was introduced to the profession of design. We also dig into what death can teach us about living fully, and how design can help us overcome the fear of embarrassment and shame that often holds us back from the very life experiences we desire the most.

Show Notes:

Polio

The Washington Post’s article about renaming Palliative Care 

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

BJ’s Ted Talk

Shoshana Berger

A Beginner’s Guide To The End

Mettle Health:

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As always, thanks so much for listening to Results May Vary! We’d love to have you participate in the conversation we’re having about life design by joining our Results May Vary podcast Facebook group. That’s where we’ll share more tips, tricks and inspiration, and where you can share your own experiments with fellow community-members, who also know and believe that we are all born creators, and that everyday is a whole new chance to create!

"Your mindset is like glasses. It's the lens through which you see the world."

In this episode of Results May Vary, Chris and Tracy welcome new co-host Katia Verresen, an executive coach and dubbed "the fairy godmother of Silicon Valley." Katia's passion for life design and realizing that anything can be created inspires her work with startup cofounders, senior executives, and investors.

Listen as Katia shares more about how you can approach life through the lens of abundance and choice, and how to fit little pleasures for yourself into every single day.

Results May Vary is a podcast, and a community, to help you design your life. Did you know that we are all born creators? And every day is a whole new chance to create! Let’s play, and learn, together! Share your life design experiments and ideas on our Results May Vary FB Group page.

Saeeda Hafiz is a yoga teacher, author, and wellness expert. As a holistic health educator with the San Francisco Unified School District, she focuses on sharing her knowledge of physical and mental wellness within the school system. On this episode of Results May Vary, Saeeda talks with Chris and Tracy about how growing up in a household of chaos, gave her the freedom to choose a different life for herself. Saeeda shares how yearnings for something else started out as intuition as a child, until she could put words to those yearnings as an adult. She works to set a tone for people on how they can care for themselves through food, movement, and holistic living. Saeeda Hafiz is the author of The Healing: A Memoir of Food, Family and Yoga. You can learn more about her work on her website, saeedahafiz.com.

Barbara has been designing her life for almost a century, with a stint at global design firm IDEO starting when she was just 93-years-old. After seeing founder David Kelley featured on an episode of 60 Minutes, Barbara wrote to the company offering to help design for aging and low-vision populations. Hailing from the field of occupational therapy, after training through the U.S. Army’s War Emergency Course, and serving for 20 years before retiring as a major in 1966, Barbara’s own experience with macular degeneration led her to design glasses to help her and others with the condition. In this episode of Results May Vary, Barbara shares her fascinating story of personal reinvention, and how rather than allowing her illnesses and advanced age to hold her back, she simply used them as new constraints to redesign her life around.

Surprise, listeners! It’s been quite awhile since our last episode, but that doesn’t mean you’ve heard the last of me and Chris, or the amazing individuals we’ve met who have been intentionally designing their own lives. In fact, we dug into the Results May Vary vault and found 3 previously unreleased, yet truly inspiring episodes that we’re excited to be sharing with you now.In addition, Chris and I have big news: we’d already been planning to launch a comeback even before Covid hit, and now seems like a particularly useful time for us to follow through! Because a quarantine can’t kill our creativity. In fact, now that our well-worn habits and daily and even institutional structures have been thrown out the window, this transition period is an unprecedented opportunity for all of us to imagine new futures for ourselves, our communities, and the world.And you know what? Launching a brand new season of Results May Vary isn’t even the biggest news. Chris and I are absolutely thrilled to announce the addition of a third co-host, Katia Verresen. Katia provides transformational coaching for inspired leaders at companies like Airbnb, Facebook, Refinery29, Mystery Science, and The New York Times. Her passion is to help ambitious leaders achieve their full human potential, and once you meet her in episode 1 of our new season, you’ll understand from her infectious energy exactly why we had to add her to our team. Another team member we’re infinitely grateful for is Jenny Luna, who joins us as our first ever professional producer. Jenny has made auditory magic happen on podcasts for Mother Jones and Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and we’re excited to have her do the same for us.So stay tuned. We’ll be launching our 3 Vault episodes soon. And will follow up with our new season in short order after that.Now without further ado, feel free to dig into the treasures we discovered in our vault. And then we’ll talk to you soon in our new season, starting off with our interview introducing you to Katia!

Kristen Berman spends a lot of time thinking about human behavior. As a behavioral economist, she helps people make the changes that they want in the long term, but are hard to implement in the short term. On this episode of Results May Vary, Kristen talks with Chris and Tracy about the ways our environment can alter our behavior and how incorporating small changes can yield giant results. Kristen shares strategies and tips on how to approach life from a behavior economist’s perspective in order to “hack back” our lives and design the lifestyle changes we want. In 2013, Kristen co-founded behavioral product design company Irrational Labs, with Dan Ariley. She also founded Common Cents Lab at Duke University, which aims to increase the financial well-being for low-to moderate-income people in the U.S. and abroad.