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Do you want to learn how to build resilience, boost your cognitive performance, and achieve mental agility? Then it’s time to discover the exciting world of brain health and fitness with Thriving Minds. Hosted by renowned neuroscientist Professor Selena Bartlett, Thriving Minds is a podcast dedicated to exploring the latest advances in brain science education.

With decades of experience studying addiction, stress, and mental health, Professor Bartlett is a true expert in her field. And she’s on a mission to empower people to take control of their mental and physical well-being. So what makes Thriving Minds so unique?

It’s not just about theory – it’s about practical tips and simple tools that you can use to improve your brain health and fitness right now. From understanding how stress wires the brain, the power of cold exposure, nutrition and exercise and connection.

Thriving Minds is also a deep dive into cutting-edge brain science and digital technology. From neuroplasticity to brain imaging, Professor Bartlett and her team are at the forefront of this rapidly evolving field. They’re exploring the latest research and innovations and sharing their insights with listeners around the world.And the best part?

Let’s make brain health everyone’s business. They’re inspiring people to take action and create a culture of mental fitness, where people prioritise their brain health as much as their physical health.

Tune in to the podcast and discover the secrets of brain health and fitness. Whether you’re looking to boost your cognitive performance, reduce stress, or improve your overall well-being, Selena and her team are here to help you thrive.

The opinions expressed in the podcast are Selena Bartlett’s personal opinion and her guests. They are for general informational purposes only and do not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing, psychology or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice, and no doctor/patient relationship is formed. The opinions in the podcast do not reflect the opinion of Queensland University of Technology.

Copyright: © 2022 THRIVING MINDS

Latest Episodes:

Episode #83 Sharing the cheat codes of life with Kurt Fearnley. He asks of us "Who are we?" Mar 04, 2022

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In this extraordinary episode with Kurt Fearnley. He asks us to think about who we are?
Are you the type of person that gives blood once a month.?
Are you the person that runs next door to help someone in need?
Are you a paraolympian representing your country?
At this extraordinary time in history, with the world order changing. What a great time to reflect on this question.
Would you stay in Australia to fight if you had to? What does it mean to be Australian?
All this and more in the episode that left me thinking. Who am I?
www.profselenabartlett.com
https://www.kurtfearnley.com/

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Episode #82. Escape with us to relieve some stress with Sarrah Le Marquand, Chief Editor Stellar and Body and Soul Magazine. Mar 01, 2022

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There is no doubt, to be human right now is not easy. It is almost impossible not to feel the shift underneath in the world order and the feeling is palpable. For us in Queensland and NSW, this is on top of catastrophic floods, and the pandemic. It is Ok to be human and feel the suffering. It is also OK, to escape for a few minutes into worlds that seem far removed from danger, clean-up, masks, and strife. This is the beauty of creating worlds for others to escape to.
Join us today with Sarrah Le Marquand is the founding editor-in-chief of Stellar, the country’s most read Sunday magazine, and also editor-in-chief of Body+Soul, Australia’s leading health media brand. Sarrah is also a weekly panellist on the Today show and is a regular co-host of The Project. She has appeared on Sky News, Q&A, The Drum, Studio 10, The Morning Show, Sunrise and is a frequent guest on ABC Radio. In 2021 she was announced as the first ever ambassador for Women’s Community Shelters, an Australian charity providing crisis accommodation for women and children experiencing domestic violence.
Thank you Sarrah for everything you are doing to help others have some relief.
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Episode #81. The Slow Silent Killers hidden in foods and drinks and what we can do about it. Dr James Mueke AM, Lieutenant Governor South Australia, Australian of the Year 2020 Feb 22, 2022

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Imagine knowing that there are ingredients in food and drinks that when consumed over time are slowly and silently leading toward type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease and in the worst case blindness. In this powerful episode with Dr James Muecke AM who is the Lieutenant Governor of South Australia and an Adelaide-based eye surgeon we discuss how a poor diet is the leading cause of death. The startling understanding that type 2 diabetes may be preventable through changing our diet. A pivotal moment happened for James when his patient Neil, woke up and was blind in both eyes, as a result of his type 2 diabetes. Further still, even if you have type 2 diabetes, imagine knowing that it may be possible, in some cases, to change your diet and have remission?
James is Australian of the Year for 2020 for his 32 years of humanitarian work. He is using this powerful platform to raise awareness of our poor diet, laden with sugary drinks and ultra-processed foods, which is devastating the health of Australians. Not only is he improving awareness in Australia through his influence with government and other organisations. He and I discuss how we were both addicted to sugar and what we did to reduce it and improve our health.
You can learn about what to do about reducing and removing sugar and other carbohydrates from your diet at www.profselenabartlett.com

More about Dr James Muecke here.

He graduated with Honors from Adelaide University Medical School in 1988. Following his internship at Royal Adelaide Hospital, James lived and worked as a volunteer doctor in Kenya in 1989. After completing ophthalmology training in Adelaide in 1995, James worked as an eye surgeon in Jerusalem for 12 months. James furthered his expertise with a Fellowship in Ocular Oncology at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. He returned to Adelaide in 1998 where he has been a Visiting Consultant and Senior Lecturer at Royal Adelaide Hospital (retired 2020) and Women’s & Children’s Hospital (retired 2016). James established the Ocular Oncology Units at these two centres upon his return.

James has taught the diagnosis and management of eye cancer in ten countries in Asia. He founded not-for-profit organization Sight For All in 2008, turning his boundless energy into a fight against blindness in the Aboriginal and mainstream communities of Australia and many of the poorest countries of the world. Sight For All’s comprehensive and sustainable projects are now impacting on the lives of over one million people each year.

His commitment to social impact and humanitarian endeavors has earnt him a number of awards including an Order of Australia in 2012, the Australian Medical Association’s President’s Leadership Award in 2013, and Ernst & Young’s Social Entrepreneur for Australia in 2015.

· Degree of Doctor of the University (honoris causa), University of Adelaide, 2021

· Australian of the Year, 2020.

· South Australian of the Year, 2019.

· University of Adelaide Distinguished Alumni Award, 2019

· Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Australia, Social Category), 2015

· Finalist, Pride of Australia Medal, 2014

· President’s Leadership Award for blindness prevention in developing countries - Australian Medical Association, 2013.

· Rural Health and Wellbeing Award for service to Aboriginal eye health in South Australia, 2012.

· Member of the Order of Australia for the provision of eye health services to Asian and Australian Aboriginal communities, 2012.

Learn more about Dr James Muecke AM here.
https://sightforall.org/about/

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Episode #80. How exercise helps us remember better and extends our lifespan with Dr Tara Walker, neuroscientist. Feb 16, 2022

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I can hear you now. I don’t run, or I am too old to run or the classic, I want to protect my knees, and the list goes on. This is exactly what I use to think. Exercise is the one thing shown across several studies to help the brain produce new cells or neurons, also called neuroplasticity. Dr Tara Walker, a neuroscientist, at the Queensland Brain Institute has spent the last 20 years trying to work out how running helps the brain’s memory centres function more effectively. In a recent high-profile journal, she and her colleagues published a remarkable discovery, that a trace element, selenium, they found in the blood leads to the production of more brain cells in the part of the brain, called the hippocampus, that helps us learn new things and remember old ones. Selenium can be found in nuts, grains and fresh fruit and vegetables and particularly in brazil nuts. For example, one brazil nut a day is enough. Having brazil nuts does not help and can lead to problems.

As much as we might like to take a supplement rather than run or exercise. There will never be enough benefits conferred from supplements that are equivalent to exercise. The main reason is that exercise gets the heart pumping blood and oxygen to nearly every place in the body and keeps the heart and body fit. It activates skeletal muscle that helps with insulin sensitivity and diabetes. The benefit list goes on and on. There is a lot of debate about how much exercise is the right amount. Can you do too much exercise? The right prescription of exercise has not been worked out. But there is no doubt that some form of movement everyday matter to stay healthy. For those of us not able to walk or run, then we can move our arms. If this is not the case, then we can learn something new, like a language, or meet new people. The brain needs a lot of novelty, and learning to stay healthy.

Dr Walker has gone one step further than many of us and that is to work out through experiments how exercise improves factors in the blood that leads to changes in the brain. This was ground-breaking research. The most surprising discovery was just how much memory is improved with aging from adding exercise and the supplement, selenium. This leads to the idea that what you eat matters to getting the brain benefits from exercise.

Dr Walker also didn’t think she could run. She was a swimmer when she was young. But by taking small steps, she slowly built up to running. She thought a 10km fun run was her limit, but then came the half and full marathon and now she is training for a 60 km trail run in the mountains in Brisbane. While she runs, her best ideas come, and this is how she decided to examine the blood of animals exercising to discover that proteins related to selenium are changed. This was the beginning of an 8-year project to demonstrate how exercise changes the brain. It takes a village running together to make breakthroughs in neuroscience. What amazing work, and how lucky are we to interview her on the Thriving Minds podcast. Learn more about Dr Walker here.
https://qbi.uq.edu.au/dr-tara-walker

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Episode #79. Why kindness at work works. What is your money, joy and love equation with James Rhee. Feb 02, 2022

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James Rhee now has 1 million views on TED, for his kindness at work talk. This is not the “being nice” version of kindness nor the “Love Eat Pray” version of love. This is about the human need to be seen and heard and the feeling of safety generated that leads the people and their brain health toward creativity, innovation, and purpose. James is an expert at building back businesses, especially when they on their knees, through optimising the unmeasurable, “goodwill” of its people and translating this into the balance sheet. In the process of turning around Ashley Stewart, a near bankrupt, consumer women’s clothing brand for plus size, moderate income, black women. He captured “goodwill” by operationalising our collective human ambition to be better. In this interview, we discuss businesses that operationalise “goodwill”, through kindness and love toward their people.

In contrast, workplace stress, does completely the opposite, as Forbes recently published an article showing the main reason people want to leave their job is an awful boss or a toxic and stressful workplace. Similarly, people remain in jobs because they feel appreciated, thanked, and feel part of driving the purpose of the business. Goodwill pervades every aspect of the business, and it is almost akin to that feeling you have when you are part of something much greater than yourself. Some refer this feeling to “energy or soul or spirit”, words not often used in business. The synergistic benefit derived from the “combined human capital” of a team behind its leader is notoriously difficult to measure, and unfortunately, when it leaves, it is felt fast and furious.

James has learnt that authentic leaders, not only lead by example, but capture and bottle the essence of the communal nature of human capital. He discusses how kind people across a business, raise the whole business to unforeseen levels, drive thriving processes and balance sheets and most importantly build better future leaders. We talk about ways to transform the inevitability of a future being a technology driven and much-touted universal base income, a concept of providing a low payment to everyone, due to the disappearance of work to giving individuals opportunities and knowledge to grow businesses that build back better Societies.

Within each of us, lies a renaissance opportunity springing forth in the post-pandemic 2022’s. James was given a red helicopter when he was 5 by a father of his friend at his school, to say thank you to James giving his son something to eat at lunchtime. The red helicopter materialised “goodwill” and gave James his most important lesson for life, and that is, how to make tangible the intangible nature of human capital component of “goodwill. James is the founder of Red Helicopter, a media EdTech start-up to accelerate business school education for all, he teaches at MIT Sloan, and Howard University. The first assignment the students are given is to answer the question: what their optimal money is, joy, love equation for life. What is yours? Join us on an exciting episode of the Thriving Minds podcast.

James Rhee is an acclaimed impact investor, founder, CEO, goodwill strategist, and educator who empowers people, brands, and organizations by marrying capital with purpose. He is an award-winning thought leader on topics such as multidimensional transformation, the intersection of capital, race, and gender, the future of capitalism, and values-based investing and leadership. James has dedicated his life to making knowledge, opportunity, and capital accessible to all. His practical theories on Money, Life, and Joy marry capitalism with ethics and offer individuals, brands and organizations an actual playbook on how to drive dramatic transformation by identifying and unleashing purpose through the union of mathematical and creative systems.
https://www.redhelicopter.com/about/

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Episode #78. People are everything. Creating, fashion and neuroscience with Lydia Pearson. Jan 27, 2022

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Have you wondered how you create a brand-new product, an idea or way of living out of nowhere? Today, we speak to Lydia Pearson, fashion designer and teacher and someone creating new products and ideas every day. Having led a global fashion brand, Easton Pearson, through the highs and lows of the picky and tricky fashion world. Lydia is not shy about giving something hard a good shot. Nor is she afraid to pull the pin when things are not feeling right. Her biggest lesson in life is that people are everything.

The pandemic has shown how important people are as we face and fight a hidden virus. The pandemic has come with consequences to all our health but at the same time we are building resilience, strength, and determination. As we head out of the pandemic, very slowly, we may want to return to how it was. Instead, imagine that just around the corner, there is something magical and much better waiting to happen. We discuss how the breaking down of something precious, like your hard-working fashion brand, Easton Pearson, turned into an museum archive that remains on show. The Easton Pearson fashion archive inspires generations to come. Lydia discusses the daily courage it took to get up and swim and run that led to a far better and more fulfilling life.

Lydia is now reaching back, by teaching younger generations, how to create and grow local businesses, and she is moving forward, with a new creation, ShiloLydia, stitching together new creations. The clothes are more artworks with a special purpose, they marry old and the new, by bringing our ancestors back to life. They take the ancestors table linen, maybe someone we love that is present or passed, and they use the beautifully embroidered parts of the linen and switch it back into repurposed well-crafted high-end tailored shirts. As creativity and the courage to reinvent ourselves in new ways separates humans from most species. We moving forward by switching the well embroidered parts of our past to create magic across our communities. Join Lydia and I stitching our expertise together on the Thriving minds podcast.

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Episode #77 What it takes to break a cycle of disadvantage to become happy, healthy and successful. Mark Ryan's incredible story of success. Dec 14, 2021

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Mark Ryan's story of courage.
He grew up in a single-parent household in public housing in Redcliffe, north of Brisbane (parents divorced when my twin brother and I were three years of age after a relationship characterised by domestic violence - mental and physical)
He showed promise academically and was included in various gifted and talented programs as a child
- One of the first students offered a 'Learning for Life' scholarship through The Smith Family in 1997, which allowed me to study Law and Journalism at QUT
- Started my career as a sport journalist in Townsville in 2001, moved to England to play semi-professional cricket in 2006, and stayed there until 2009 working in sports television production
- Worked in various media, communications and strategy roles over the past decade with organisations such as Tatts Group, the Gold Coast Suns AFL Club, and Mater
In 2019, I was named runner-up in the Griffith University Responsible Leadership MBA Scholarship competition, sponsored by Queensland Business Monthly.
Since 2017, I've been the Chairperson of Return Serve, which is a not-for-profit organisation which uses free or low-cost sporting activities to help create healthier lives and brighter futures for people from disadvantaged backgrounds
His current role is Manager, Strategic Communications, with Queensland Rail. I've held this role since June this year
We discuss
Childhood trauma - how does that affect the human brain and lived experience?
Changing a person's story and identity throughout life - building a new narrative
The effect of identity on relationships and how you're positioned in society - and how a shift in thinking can change your perception (i.e. when you've come from a disadvantaged background, it's easy to perceive that you're not of the same social status as others ... I tended to feel more comfortable relating to people who had also experienced adversity or come from a challenging background)
How do I make the most of my brain's plasticity (playing new sports; meditation; gratitude; constant learning; curiosity; etc.)
Importance of language in shifting thinking and behaviours (e.g. power of stories and metaphors; performativity; etc. - and how it can be used to translate neuroscience to reach a broader audience)
Important shifts we need to make in the way society views people from disadvantaged backgrounds - acknowledging the complexity of social disadvantage and treating it as a complex challenge, not something that can be 'fixed' with short-term measures
With brain health, shifting from the pathogenic paradigm of health to a salutogenic way of thinking, where appropriate ... again, the human brain and our bodies are complex, they are not there to be 'fixed' as though there is some baseline of health
Psychological safety in the workplace and in society - in organisations, we love ideas that provide certainty (e.g. models of change) which don't embrace the notion of neuroplasticity ... they primarily serve the need for certainty and linear progression amongst people in power

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Episode #76 How to engage young people using neuroplasticity with Sheryl Batchelor Dec 06, 2021

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For decades Sheryl Batchelor, CEO and Founder of Yiliyapinya Indigenous Corporation has been teaching young people about their brain to improve cognition and self-regulation. In the podcast, we discuss the techniques she helps to engage young people with neuroplasticity.
The revolution of the 80s and 90s taught us how important physical exercise is for our overall health and well-being, brain fitness is the next step forward in that revolution. Just like your physical body, it is now scientifically proven that the brain can change its physical form and function throughout a person’s life span. This is known as neuroplasticity.

Her organisation applies the principles of neuroplasticity to improve cognitive skills such as memory, processing speed and attention. Success in school, work and in life requires these skills to work quickly and efficiently. When a participant’s cognitive functions are weak, they have trouble focusing their attention, are easily distracted, take a long time to complete a task, have difficulty remembering information and prioritising tasks. Research has now proven that these skills are trainable and can be improved with practice.

We discuss how she uses the latest scientifically validated activities including computerised, non-computertised training, mindfulness, biofeedback and neurofeedback programs that target cognitive weaknesses.

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Episode #75 Beating the Odds to Raise the Profile of Teachers. Meet Professor Marcia Devlin, CEO Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership Nov 28, 2021

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Dr Marcia Devlin is a qualified teacher and registered psychologist who began her education career as a primary teacher before moving into the tertiary sector.

She has extensive experience in professional learning for teachers and facilitating improved student learning, including through excellent teaching and learning leadership.

Her most recent executive role was Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Victoria University and previously, she has held executive and senior roles at Federation University, RMIT University, Deakin University and The University of Melbourne.

Since 2018 Dr Devlin has been a member of the Board of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority; she is also a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Melbourne Polytechnic and a Trust Member of the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre.

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Episode #74. How to unleash your creative brain on the "Common Creative" podcast with Paul Fairweather and Chris Meredith Nov 24, 2021

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Let's talk about brain training!

Professor Selena Bartlett is a Group Leader in Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity at the Translational Research Institute and a Research Capacity Building Professor at QUT. Join us for a fantastic conversation about brain training, flow states and the importance of working in teams for creativity.

Links/References

Selena Bartlett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drselenabartlett/

Selena Bartlett website: https://www.profselenabartlett.com/

Thriving Minds Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thriving-minds/id1471835230

The Common Creative Podcast (Paul and Chris): https://creativecommons.org.au

The Common Creative (Mailing List Subscriptions): http://eepurl.com/hgp0_j

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