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"Unlocking Your Full Potential through Coaching" with Margaret Moore, MBA Apr 15, 2021

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Margaret Moore, MBA, is an executive coach and founder and CEO of Wellcoaches Corporation, a coaching school for health professionals, which has trained more than 13,000 coaches in 50 countries since 2000.Prior to Wellcoaches, Margaret was an executive in the biotechnology industry in the US, UK, Canada, France for 17 years, including serving as CEO and COO of two biotech companies.
Margaret is co-founder (2009) and chair of the Institute of Coaching at McLean, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, and is co-director of the Coaching in Leadership & Healthcare conference offered by Harvard Medical School since 2008.

In 2010 Margaret co-founded the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching, now a nonprofit subsidiary of the National Board of Medical Examiners, establishing standards and reimbursement for the coaching workforce in healthcare.

Moore teaches transformational leadership at Harvard Medical School’s Office of Global Education, and coaching psychology at Harvard Extension School. She is co-author of 20 peer-reviewed articles and 7 book chapters on coaching, the peer-reviewed Coaching Psychology Manual published by Wolters Kluwer, and Harvard Health Books Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life and Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life.

In this conversation Coach Meg talks about coaching as a way to unlock one's full potential. We talk about different kinds of coaching - lifestyle, career, health, and other specialized aspects of coaching. Coach Meg shares basic core principles of coaching, the importance of mindfulness and self-reflection, the power and learning that comes from knowing one's emotions, and strategies for preventing burnout and finding joy in your work . Tune in to learn more!

For more resources please visit:

www.coachmeg.com

www.wellcoaches.com

www.instituteofcoaching.org

www.nbhwc.org

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"How to Feed a Kid" with Asata Reid, MPH Apr 08, 2021

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Asata Reid MPH, MS Ed., is a professional chef and community health educator, and the founder of Life Chef LLC - a culinary education service focused on healthy cooking and nutrition for all of life’s stages.

As a partner of Small Bites Adventure Club, Chef Asata helps to develop recipes and activities for Farm to Home Explorer Kits and the Taste Test Boxes that are sent to classrooms and organizations. These turnkey activities help children discover, love and eat fruits and vegetables.

Asata has worked with Kaiser Permanente for over 13 years as a Health Educator, and facilitates classes in smoking cessation, sleep improvement, diabetes prevention and other wellness topics that impact the community.

With partners such as Georgia Organics, the Atlanta Community Food Bank, the Georgia Department of Public Health, and Quality Care for Children, she provides nutrition and culinary training for youth, adults and seniors, as well as professional development for school nutrition staff, and technical assistance for Farm to School/ECE programs.

Chef Asata teaches cooking and nutrition in the afterschool program at Drew Charter School where she also recently (2018/19) launched a life skills Cooking Club for upperclassmen as a continuation of the work from Michelle Obama’s health initiative Chefs Move to Schools. She co-founded the Cooking School at Irwin Street, served as the Health Education Director for Sevananda Natural Foods Market and Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture, and is the former Nutrition Health Educator at the HEALing Community Center in Atlanta’s historic West End.

Asata completed her Master of Public Health at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health where she completed a thesis on the complexities of picky eating. Asata also holds a Master of Science in Education from the University of Kansas where she developed a plan for integrating health and nutrition into PreK to 5th grade STEM curriculum. She is an honors graduate of Florida A&M University where she earned her BS in Journalism, and graduated with honors from the International Culinary School at the Arts Institute of Atlanta.

As a wife and mother, Asata enjoys slow family meals and her superpower is getting people to love eating their vegetables. In 2021, she self-published her first book “How to Feed a Kid: A Parent’s Guide”.

To learn more please visit:

New self-published book, How to Feed a Kid: A Parent's Guide available on Amazon for print or download.
Ongoing virtual kids' cooking classes with the Hand Heart and Soul Project.
Farm to Home Explorer Kits and Farm to School Taste Test Boxes with Small Bites Adventure Club: https://smallbites.club/

Good Food Good Mood series with Atlanta Eats and Kaiser Permanente (for Peachtree TV) GOOD FOOD GOOD MOOD RECIPE SERIES:

Social Media:

Instagram: @chefasata.lifechef
FB: https://www.facebook.com/lifechef/
Twitter: @Chefasata

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"Exercise as Medicine... for Your Brain" with Joe Nocera, PhD Mar 31, 2021

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Dr. Joe Nocera completed his undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed his graduate training at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and The University of Georgia. Following his graduate studies, Dr. Nocera completed post-doctoral training in the Departments of Neurology and Aging at the University of Florida. In 2009, while at UF he transitioned into the faculty ranks in the Department of Aging and Geriatric Research and concurrently became a Health Science Specialist at the VA Medical Center in Gainesville, FL. In 2012 he moved to Atlanta where he became an Assistant Professor in Neurology at Emory and a Health Science Specialist in the Atlanta VA Rehabilitation R&D Center of Excellence for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation. Dr. Nocera’s research interests include interactions between physical function and cognition with particular emphasis on the impact of dual tasking on locomotion and balance control. Dr. Nocera is also interested in the efficacy of exercise intervention programs for improving mobility and cognitive function in older adults and individuals with in Parkinson's disease.

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"Understanding and Working Through Burnout" with Wendy Baer, MD Mar 19, 2021

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Wendy Baer, MD, is Assistant Professor holding joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Baer serves as Director of Psychiatric Oncology at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, and also serves as Vice Chair for Wellness in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology.

In her work at Winship Cancer Institute, Dr. Baer helps patients and their families deal with the stress of receiving a cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment. As a Psychiatrist she has expertise in treating clinical depression and anxiety both with medications and psychotherapy to help people manage emotions, behaviors and relationships. The fundamental goal of Dr. Baer's practice is to promote wellness and maximize patients' quality of life as much as possible. She believes strongly in the team approach to patient care and collaborates regularly with patients, doctors, nurses and social workers.

In this conversation we talk about burnout: understanding the burnout, its signs and expressions. What fields and professions are especially prone to burnout? Does the role, the attitude, or the culture within a workplace make a difference? How and why the spread of burnout changed in the context of COVID-19 pandemic? Dr. Baer also talks about working through and out the burnout, through better understanding its causes on personal level and taking intentional steps to structure your external environment and internal energy to combat it. We talk about taking care of different domains - physical, emotional and spiritual. Tune in to learn more!

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"Unwinding Anxiety" with Judson Brewer, MD, PhD Mar 11, 2021

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Dr. Jud is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University, as well as a research affiliate at MIT. Before that, he held research and teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts’ Center for Mindfulness. Read more about his research here. He is passionate about understanding how our brains work, and how to use that knowledge to help people make deep, permanent change in their lives — with the goal of reducing suffering in the world at large.

As an addiction psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for treating addictions, Dr. Jud has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety (Eat Right Now, Unwinding Anxiety and Craving to Quit).

Based on the success of these programs in the lab, he co-founded MindSciences, Inc. to create app-based digital therapeutic versions of these programs for a wider audience, working with individuals, corporations, and hospital systems to put effective, evidence-based behavior change guidance in the hands of people struggling with unwanted behaviors and “everyday addictions.”

In this episode Dr. Jud shares the biggest takeaways from his new book “Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind” that got released on March 9, 2021 is already an #1 Best Seller. What if we looked at worry as if it were a bad habit?

Dr. Jud describes the effects of uncertainty on our mental and emotional health. Uncertainty can take us out fo the "safety zone" and put us in a state of high alert, that leads to anxiety. But what if, instead of entering the "panic zone", we learn how to enter the "learning zone"? Dr. Jud teaches us how to recognize anxiety, and build new habits that help us grow in a calmer state of mind. We cannot think our way out of anxiety…. but we can feel our way out of it! What does that look like? Dr. Jud shares a framework and related tools to do just that. Tune in to the episode to learn more!

For more information please visit:

www.drjud.com

https://drjud.com/book/

Learn more about the app-based behavior change programs from DrJud and MindSciences for eating, anxiety, and smoking cessation.

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"The Importance of Research and Brain Health" with Monica Parker, MD Mar 09, 2021

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Dr. Monica Parker, is a graduate of Fisk University and The University of Nebraska Medical Center. She joined the Emory School of Medicine faculty in 1995. She has transitioned roles as a geriatric, primary care provider to that of clinical research investigator. She now leads the Minority Engagement Core (MEC), one of six cores of the Emory Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Dr. Parker serves as Co-investigator on several NIH-funded projects. One of Atlanta’s top dementia care experts, she advocates and educates about Alzheimer’s, caregiving resources and the importance of research participation for the elimination of health disparities in persons of color. She has co-authored several peer reviewed articles on the differences in neurocognitive disorders between African and European Americans, African American caregiving needs, and research participation for African Americans with colleagues at the Mayo Clinic, Oregon Health Sciences University, Ohio State University and Emory University.

She is active in several civic and professional organizations, most notably, she was appointed the inaugural Health and Human Services Facet Director of The Links Incorporated (2010-2014). She serves on several Boards to include AGRHODES Nursing and Rehab, Georgia Alzheimer’s Association Board of Governors, The Health Outcomes Task force for the National Alzheimer’s Association, Georgia Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias State Task Force, Georgia Museum of Art (GMOA) and the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism for the State Bar of Georgia.

A recipient of several honors, she was “A Key to A Cure” Awardee by the Wesley Woods Foundation and Atlanta Magazine’s “Groundbreaker of the Year”. Castle- Connolly Associates named her one of Atlanta’s Top Doctors, in Family/Geriatric Medicine 2009-2013, as published in the Atlanta Magazine.

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Recast: "The Heart of Cardiovascular Prevention" with Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC Feb 11, 2021

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In honor of February, Heart Health Month, we are recasting our favorite conversations with heart health experts!

In this episode Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC talks about prevention of heart disease. Dr. Sperling covers a range of topics related to cardiovascular disease and its prevention. What is preventive cardiology? How can we prevent heart disease in individuals and populations? What are the risk factors for heart disease? Dr. Sperling discusses the opportunities in healthcare as it relates to cardiovascular health, and why this topic is especially relevant in the time of the pandemic. Dr. Sperling talks about local and national projects he is leading to restore cardiovascular health and closes with tips on what each of us can do to make an impact. Tune in to learn more!

Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC is the current Executive Director of the Million Hearts Initiative for the Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is the Founder and was the Director of The Heart Disease Prevention Center at Emory since 1997. He is currently the Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine, and Professor of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health. He served as the President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology from 2014-2016, served on the writing committee of 2018 the ACC/ AHA Guideline on the Management on Blood Cholesterol, and served as Chair of the World Heart Federation writing group on the Roadmap for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention among People Living with Diabetes. Dr. Sperling was the recipient of the 2017 Award of Honor from the Alumni Association of Emory University School of Medicine. He has received awards for excellence in teaching (including 4 Golden Apple Awards and The Dean’s Teaching Award), mentorship (Emory SOM 2018 Mentorship Award), and the R. Wayne Alexander Research mentor award. He has authored over 350 manuscripts/ abstracts/ books, and has been an invited speaker on every continent except Antarctica.

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Recast: “I Have a Carrot and a Stent, You Pick!”, with Koushik R. Reddy, MD Feb 08, 2021

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Dr. Reddy is the director of interventional cardiology at the James A Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, FL. He completed his general and interventional cardiology fellowship training at Winthrop University Hospital in Long Island, NY. After practicing interventional cardiology for ten years, he changed his focus towards cardiovascular health promotion and disease prevention, using lifestyle and nutrition based strategies. He is a member of American College of Cardiology’s working group on nutrition and lifestyle. In addition, he serves as a board of director and the treasurer for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He is the founding Co-Chair of Veterans Health Administration/Department of Defense member interest group and the Cardiology member interest group under the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Reddy is board certified in Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology and Lifestyle Medicine.

He is closely involved with the department of Whole Health at the Tampa VA hospital. Working in partnership with the local Whole Health leadership, he established two preventive cardiology clinics.

HEAL – Healthy Eating and Living – Introductory Program

CALM – Comprehensive Approach to Lifestyle Medicine – 6 weeks of multidisciplinary program.

He is passionate and deeply committed to the idea of health promotion and disease prevention, using lifestyle and nutrition related tools. It is with this passion and commitment, he boldly challenges his patients with – “I have a carrot and a stent, you pick!”

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"Introduction to Gardening" with Daniel Parson Jan 28, 2021

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Daniel Parson is in his twenty-third season of organic growing. He started in 1998 at wildflower organics in Dawsonville, GA, where he worked four years. Next, he managed the Clemson University student organic farm for two years, and operated Gaia Gardens in Decatur, GA for five. In 2009, he started a new venture, Parson Produce, supplying a CSA, local restaurants, and farmers markets in Clinton, SC. In 2014, Daniel moved to Oxford, GA to start a campus farm for Oxford College of Emory University, producing food for the dining hall, CSA, and Emory Farmers Market while serving as a resource for student education and research.

Daniel has two degrees from Clemson, a BS in Biological Sciences and an MS in Plant and Environmental Science, focusing on cover crops and organic systems. In addition to growing produce, Daniel has presented workshops on various organic topics to many state and regional groups, including the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, Southern SAWG and Georgia Organics. Daniel received the 2009 Georgia Organics Land Steward of the Year Award and in 2008 was listed on Mother Nature Network’s 40 farmers under 40. Also, he served on the Georgia Organics board from 2006-2008 and the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association board from 2012-2014.

In this episode Daniel makes an introduction to home gardening that can help people think about planting this season. Daniel talks about site selection (sun, proximity, and water); soil management and testing; mapping/calendar/rotations; crop selection and timing-garden calendar from UGA; weed management: cultivation and mulching; harvest timing -getting the most out of your planting.

UGA extension is our best resource in Georgia and every state has a similar service if there are listeners from other parts of the country.

https://secure.caes.uga.edu/extension/publications/files/html/B577/B577PlantingChart.pdf

To learn more. please visit:

https://oxford.emory.edu/academics/organic_farm.html

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"The Role of Diet in Managing and Preventing of Alzheimer's Disease" with Jenny Bilko, RD Jan 19, 2021

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Jenny Bilko, MS, RDN, LD is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist at the Emory Executive Health Clinic, the Paul W. Seavey Comprehensive Internal Medicine Clinic, and the Emory Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness Center. She received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Dietetics from the University of Georgia. She completed Dietetic Internship and received Master’s degree in Nutrition Science at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Jenny also has a Certificate in Training for Vegetarian Nutrition.

Jenny is passionate about nutrition for prevention and management of chronic disease through plant-based and Mediterranean diet. She provides education and counseling to patients for weight loss, heart health, diabetes, etc.

Alzheimers is the most common type of dementia and the 6th leading cause of death un United States. In every disease there is a genetic component and the environmental component. When it comes to Alzheimers - what does that distribution look like? Jenny Bilko, RD talks about the MIND diet and how to take advantage of foods that we eat to manage and prevent Alzheimers.

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