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Make Time for Brain Health and Fun with Dr. Julie Fratantoni - Make Time Podcast - Episode 5

Release Date: 03/25/2024

Make Time for a Good Night’s Sleep - Make Time Podcast - Season 3 Episode 5

Make Time Podcast with Emma and Helen

🎙️ On this episode of The Make Time Pod, Emma and Helen are joined by Mollie Eastman, the founder of Sleep is a Skill, a company that optimizes people’s sleep through behavioral change, technology, and accountability. Mollie was struck by a bad bout of insomnia while traveling internationally and while she sought help from doctors, supplements, and her own research, it soon escalated into chronic sleep deprivation. Through trying to understand her own sleeping habits, she soon realized there was a huge gap in our understanding of how to get a good night’s sleep. Now Mollie is using...

Make Time for Friendship with the Remember Me Girls - Season 3 Episode 4

Make Time Podcast with Emma and Helen

🎙️ On this episode of The Make Time Pod, Emma and Helen are joined by friends, founders and cohosts of the Remember Me podcast, Rachael Martinez and Maria Kent Beers. Maria and Rachael began as strangers, both coping with a parent who was diagnosed with Frontal Temporal Dementia. They found each other in online support group and then started a podcast, Remember Me, to generate awareness about dementia, specifically FTD. Through their show they became incredible friends. On this episode, they talk about how to prioritize friendship, the power of having someone in your life who understands...

Make Time for Women’s Brain Health with Dr. Nicole Buerkens - Season 3 Episode 3

Make Time Podcast with Emma and Helen

🎙️ On this episode of The Make Time Pod, Emma and Helen are joined by Dr. Nicole Buerkens, the world’s leading holistic child psychologist. Over her 25 year career, she’s worked to provide parents with effective, research-based strategies to help children overcome anxiety, mood, and attention issues. All this work has also given her unique insight into how the challenges of technology-driven modern day parenting can make it easy to forget to take care of our brain health, especially for women. Dr. Nicole Buerkens discusses how our brain changes as we age, the hormone...

Make Time for Friendship with Anne Shoket - Season 3 Episode 2

Make Time Podcast with Emma and Helen

🎙️ On this episode of The Make Time Pod, Emma and Helen are joined by the incredible Ann Shoket, former Seventeen editor-in-chief, author of The Big Life, and now CEO of The Li.st, a community built on women lifting each other up. We got real about something that doesn’t get talked about enough: loneliness. You may have heard about the “male loneliness epidemic,” but women are feeling it too. Between careers, family, and the chaos of daily life, it is so easy to let friendships slide, but they are the very thing that make life feel whole. Ann shares such down-to-earth wisdom...

Make Time for the Unexpected Journey with Emma Heming Willis - Season 3 Episode 1

Make Time Podcast with Emma and Helen

🎙️In this special episode of The Make Time Pod, Helen Christoni sits down with her dear friend and co-host, Emma Heming Willis, for an intimate conversation about Emma’s brand-new book, The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, & Yourself on the Caregiving Path. Emma opens up about her personal experiences as a caregiver to her husband, Bruce Willis, while balancing life as a mother, entrepreneur, brain health advocate, and now author. Together, Helen and Emma walk through key chapters of the book, exploring the challenges, lessons, and the moments that have shaped Emma’s...

Make Time for Season 2 Rewind with Emma & Helen! - Make Time Podcast - Season 2 Episode 12

Make Time Podcast with Emma and Helen

🎙️ Join *Make Time* podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they look back at some of their favorite moments from season two. In the last few months, we’ve covered a lot of ground. We talked about how to support caregivers, learned some amazing flirting tips, tapped into our femininity, and found new ways to honor our grief. We prioritized our brain health by learning about clean beauty, the power of meditation and how to start a daily writing habit. We hope this season encouraged you to make more time for yourself. We’ll be back with season three after a short...

Make Time for Grief with Barri Leiner Grant - Make Time Podcast - Season 2 Episode 11

Make Time Podcast with Emma and Helen

🎙️ Join *Make Time* podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they talk with Barri Leiner Grant, founder of The Memory Circle, about making time for grief. Barri lost her mother in her early twenties and found herself dealing with loss alone. She decided to create the space she was craving by hosting events for “motherless daughters,” eventually expanding this experience into The Memory Circle, a grief-focused therapy practice. In this episode, Barri, Helen, and Emma talk about how to “tend to grief” by journaling, starting a “delight...

Make Time for Clean Living with Dr. Roxanne Pero - Make Time Podcast - Season 2 Episode 10

Make Time Podcast with Emma and Helen

🎙️ Join *Make Time* podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they talk with Dr. Roxanne Pero about making time for clean beauty and health. After 12 years in traditional medicine as a practicing ob-gyn, Dr. Pero began exploring holistic health. She is now a Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, a medical speciality that uses therapuetic lifestyle interventions to treat chronic illnesses. Dr. Pero speaks with Emma and Helen about the importance of making time for a low-tox lifestyle. What does this mean in practice? This can be as easy as...

Make Time to Meditate with Jamie Graber! - Make Time Podcast - Season 4 Episode 9

Make Time Podcast with Emma and Helen

🎙️ Join *Make Time* podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they talk with Jamie Graber, teacher, author, Moon lover, mind-shifter, and energy mover, about the life-changing power of meditation. Jamie, the former owner of Gingersnap’s Organic, now runs Organically Jamie, a coaching practice where Jamie uses her experience in yoga, meditation, reiki, and manifesting to guide other women how to Make time to move towards their dream lives. Jamie’s tips to Make time for beginning a meditation practice is all about setting aside perfectionism: you don’t...

Make Time for 2025 Intentions with Emma & Helen - Make Time Podcast - Season 2 Episode 8

Make Time Podcast with Emma and Helen

🎙️ Join *Make Time* podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they look back on 2024 and set intentions for 2025. For Emma, 2024 was the year she wrote The Unexpected Journey, a book for caregivers that hits bookshelves in 2025. Helen ran three World Major Marathons, that were epic!. Together, Emma and Helen honored their 2024 intention to have more fun by doing yoga with goats, visiting The Gentle Farm, and hosting two in-person Make Time Wellness meetups in Los Angeles and New York. We invite you to listen along, reflect on your 2024 wins, and set your...

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Join hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni, Co-Founders of Make Time Wellness, as they welcome a great friend of Make time. Dr. Julie Fratantoni, cognitive neuroscientist and the Head of Research Integration and Partnerships at the UT Dallas Center for Brain Health. Dr. Julie reminds us all how important it is to get a good night’s sleep to reset the body and the brain and outlines some of her favorite actionable tips for creating a healthy bedtime routine. This episode also discusses the importance of making time for new, exciting experiences and how having fun supports a healthy, happy brain.

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About Dr. Julie Fratantoni:

Dr. Julie Fratantoni is a cognitive neuroscientist who specializes in creating tools that help people become proactive about their brain health. She serves as the Head of Research Integration and Partnerships at the UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth. Dr. Fratantoni leads the user experience and content creation for The BrainHealth Project™ – a 10 year, longitudinal research study seeking to define, measure, and improve brain health and performance across the lifespan. She leverages behavioral science for the development of the online BrainHealth dashboard and mobile app where participants access assessments (BrainHealth Index), coaching, and training. She also leads the Center’s Kindness Enterprise, a research and translational program seeking to uncover and harness the brain’s capacity for kindness, empathy and compassion as critical components of overall brain health and well-being. Julie has led high performance brain training for corporate executives, veterans, athletes and young adults. She is passionate about equipping and empowering individuals to take charge of their brain health so they can reduce stress, achieve their goals, and become the best version of themselves.

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