How Food Companies Get Us 'Hooked' On Junk – with Michael Moss (#11)
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They're cheap, convenient, practically imperishable, and engineered to be irresistible. They’re called "ultra processed foods" and in some nutrition scientists believe they are the smoking gun.
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Mindful Myths – With Timothea Goddard (#10)
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Usually I share interviews with scientists doing research on how we can live better, healthier lives. But this week you'll hear from a different kind of expert – a mindfulness teacher who has made a big impact on my life.
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The Importance Of Good Relationships With Robert Waldinger, PhD (#09)
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In this episode I’m taking you inside my research files and a conversation I had with Professor Robert Waldinger – the director of the longest ever study on life and happiness.
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Daniel Goleman, PhD (#8)
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This episode is my extended interview with science journalist, Daniel Goleman, whose 1995 best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence helped make the science of emotions mainstream.
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Kristin Neff, PhD (#7)
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In this episode I’m talking with the self-compassion pioneer and researcher, Associate Professor Kirstin Neff.
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Judson Brewer, PhD (#06)
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If you're interested in learning how your brain works and how to use that knowledge to make healthy changes in your life, then this week's podcast is for you.
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Michael Steger, PhD (#05)
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After listening to this week's podcast, I suspect that you won't be able to stop yourself from taking a moment to reflect on what really matters to you the most in life, on what is truly important to you... and why. It with Professor Michael Stegor – a leading expert in finding meaning in life.
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Richard Davidson, PhD (#04)
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This is another extended conversation from my film, My Year Of Living Mindfully. This time it is with Richard Davidson PhD, the Director of the Centre for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Maddison.
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Elissa Epel, PhD (#03)
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This podcast is a little different from the first two. Although, like the others, this interview was done for my last documentary project, My Year of Living Mindfully, it isn’t with someone who’s specifically a mindfulness researcher. It’s with Professor Elissa Epel, a researcher at the forefront of understanding the connection between our mind, body and health. I knew this conversation would be fascinating because Elissa had already made a big impression on how my own lifestyle was influencing my hea
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Willem Kuyken, PhD (#02)
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Now, more than ever, we need discussions about the "how" of preventing and treating mental health problems. This episode features Willem Kuyken PhD, Director of the University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre. His research has earned him a place among the Who’s Who of influential scientists. His research investigating how mindfulness can prevent depression has ranked him in the top 1% of researchers in his field. Mindfulness is sometimes dismissed as "woo woo", but this interview will make you think again.
info_outlineI know this sounds crazy but over the course of my latest project – My Year of Living MindfullyI spent more than $30,000 on scientific tests.
A lot of people have asked me why I went to such lengths to get objective measures to see what, if anything, changed as a result of my daily mindfulness training. And my answer is simple. Because I believe that science matters.
You can read a piece called Why I Stopped Looking for Miracles and Started Reading Scienceto get the full story on this, but in essence, it wasn’t until I was in my late 20s, after I’d been sick with an autoimmune disease for a number of years that I finally realised that I needed to apply the critical thinking skills that I’d learned as a journalist to my health. And when it came to my experiment to see if daily mindfulness training could really improve my health and wellbeing – I felt that objective, hard science was important.
This week's podcast episode is my extended interview with science journalist, Daniel Goleman, whose 1995 best-selling book, Emotional Intelligencehelped make the science of emotions mainstream.
More recently Dan co-authored a book called Altered Traitswith neuroscientist Professor Richard Davidson, who was in episode four of my podcast. The two friends met in their university days at Harvard and in the book, wanted to set the record straight on what we do and do notknow about mindfulness.
As a fellow journalist who has dedicated his life to writing about psychological science, Dan was a great starting point as I began to navigate my way through the sometimes murky waters of mindfulness research.
As you’ll hear throughout this interview, he also offers some helpful advice to people who are at just getting started with mindfulness training.