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THRIVING MINDS PODCAST — Arts
THRIVING MINDS PODCAST

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 #33: Food & Mood Stress Meter. What did you eat today? A great way to become aware of a stressed brain. Feb 28, 2020

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A short segment about how stress wires the brain to high fat food and sugar choices. In some cases under stress we will stop eating and other times we will go for the chocolate and ice-cream. Food is a great way to become aware of how stressed you are feeling.
Mood is wired in the brain to regions that dictate our food choices. Getting migfit is learning and training the brain to change these choices under stress.

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Episode #32: Getting MIGFIT. Using neuroplasticity to change your career and follow your passion and purpose. Alison Martin, Founder and CEO Indigo Soul Wellness. Feb 27, 2020

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Welcome to the new series- we are doing real time experiments in neuroplasticity. We are learning all about how to get your brain fit and fabulous. We are going to follow people putting it into action on a daily basis. Ali left a secure government job and started her wellness centre. Alison is also the mother of 3 children. You can imagine the stresses involved in achieving her dream. On a daily basis we work together to train the brain to manage stress in order to develop and grow her new business.
Everyone deserves to be happy, healthy and strong. Train Mig. Change your Life.

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Episode #31: Unlock you addictive habits and retrain your brain using neuroplasticity neuroscience. Elemental Health podcast from London. Feb 14, 2020

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Please welcome this weeks special guest, Selena Bartlett; Visionary, Entrepreneur. Innovator; Addiction Neuroscientist, Pharmacist, Fundraiser. Ever wondered who is running the show up there (in your head) and why we find ourselves down strange a devious paths and what your evolutionary DNA is telling you to do? This week we are going to stop you wondering and dive into some of the hard science behind how we really think. Selena has been in the field of neuroscience and specifically addiction habits for nearly 30 years. This conversation blew my mind, no pun intended. The amazing research Selena has done and the thought that she has put in to how us common people can relate and understand the most vital arts is astounding.
5.19 Understanding the capacity of the brain to change
8.30 Survival is hard wiring us for stress. Sub-conscious wiring over millions of the day.
16.38 Selena's journey from a crazy confused brain making poor decisions to finding the path and understanding how to change the brain.
20.28 Centuries of trauma can effect you ability to transform.
30.35 How mindset and brain training can reduce your waist size. ...and much, much more. Tune in!! RATE, REVIEW AND SUBSCRIBE Connect with me @thenoq Download the MigFit App http://migfit.io/ Selena's Ted talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnOxcvukHh8

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Episode #30. Connections with each other matter to rewire the brain for health, fitness, beating addictions. ABC Radio Adelaide interview. Dec 06, 2019

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The most amazing discoveries. We have evolved to survive over millions of years of evolution. However, we have not trained the brain to learn to be resilient in the modern era where the threats to our safety and security are different to pythons and sabre tooth tigers. Brain training is the next step in evolution, as we learn the principles of neuroplasticity to improve brain health and fitness. Everyone deserves to be happy, healthy and strong. Learn some of the simple but not easy steps to take.

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Episode #29. On becoming a neuroscientist. Professor Selena Bartlett's Lawrie Austin Plenary lecture for contributions to neuroscience awarded from the Australian Neuroscience Society. Dec 05, 2019

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Professor Selena Bartlett was honoured to receive the Lawrie Austin award for her contributions to neuroscience from the Australian Neuroscience Society. As many may know, she started the journey to become a neuroscientist because of her sister's struggle with schizophrenia. She did not like how she was treated and so went back did her PhD and has been on a mission ever since to learn more about how the brain works to improve the lives of people.
In this lecture, you will learn about everything about the brain and why neuroplasticity offers hope and inspiration to make big changes. Learn about adverse childhood experiences (ACE score) and how multigenerational trauma is one of the current best explanations for the development of addiction and mental health disorders later in life. We can rewire the brain using neuroplasticity.

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Episode #28. Rewire the brain to be happy- healthy-strong. Professor Selena Bartlett's public lecture in Adelaide to 500 people for the Australian Neuroscience Society Dec 05, 2019

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The Neuroscience of Brain Resilience. Professor Selena Bartlett was honored to give a public lecture, sponsored by the Australian Neuroscience Society on how to become the boss of the brain. Learning how to tap into the power of the brain to drive resilience. Professor Bartlett has studied the brain for nearly 30 years and she has learnt a lot about how it works. While there is a lot we do not understand and are continuing to uncover- there are some things we do know. Learning about how the brain works is the first step to driving long term change. You can become the boss of the brain. Tune in and learn simple but not easy things to try everyday.

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Episode #27. Daily cardiofitness rewires the effects of sugar on the brain to help rediscover our waistline. Hidden properties of sugar on the brain and the body, interviewed by the Healthy Happy Summit in San Francisco. Nov 25, 2019

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Interviewed by Dakura Smith from Healthy Happy Summit in San Francisco. We discuss the effects of sugar on the brain and body. Specifically the hidden properties that you may not realize wire the brain to be hungrier, overweight and unhappy. Sugar gives short term relief but long-term stress on the body.
To learn more about
Dakura Smith
LoveLiftFitness.org
1 (415) 999-4163

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Episode #26. Unconscious bias. Navigating the valley of death for women in science. Changing our mind about gender imbalances. Athena Swan Inclusion and Diversity Award 2019 Nov 21, 2019

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I was fortunate to be awarded the Athena Swan Award for Diversity and Inclusion for mentoring women in science to leadership over 2018. We learnt how to rewire the mind to take the oxygen first so we can navigate careers, family and have a wonderful life.

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Episode #25. Value loved ones today while you have them. Eddie Roberts rewired her brain to push through butterflies in the stomach to tackle fears, rockclimbing, waterskiing and a Bronze medallion in her 50s and losing her beloved mother. Audio with her Nov 21, 2019

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Edwina Roberts (Campbell) is an amazing woman breaking barriers and she shares with us the life changing events she tackled like rock climbing, water skiing, Lifeguard bronze medallion and having children later in life. She created the LifeStory kit to help people keep alive the stories between parents and their children. Her mother sadly passed in February this year. She fortunately recorded many stories with her mother. At the end of this podcast we share their beautiful story. It demonstrates the power of love between parents and their children. This is when you realize love really matters, especially from a mother. Thank you for sharing your story.

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Episode #24: Neuroplasticity in action with the expert Sheryl Batchelor. Learn how to rewire the brain from trauma inherited over multiple generations. Nov 10, 2019

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Sheryl Batchelor is the Founder and CEO of Yiliyapinya Indigenous Corporation. It is a not-for profit corporation using scientifically validated neuroplasticity programs to relieve the suffering and distress of vulnerable children, youth, adults and seniors so that they have a better quality of life. The Mission is to provide support services to help people in need to improve their memory, attention, brain speed and social skills which in turn improve their quality of life. We provide NDIS services and believe in a holistic way of healing and partner with other professionals to provide an integrated model of support. Yiliyapinya provides relief to people in need by changing and shaping their lives. The work we do at our not-for-profit corporation is aimed at providing a holistic approach to solving some of our society’s biggest challenges. We make sure our programs are empowering, focused on improving brain health and are personalised to the individual to relieve distress.
For more information visit.
https://www.yiliyapinya.org.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheryl-batchelor-96875084/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613467/

Role of microRNAs in obesity and obesity-related diseases

Giuseppe Iacomino and Alfonso Siani

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