My BrainWise Coach
Welcome to My BrainWise Coach — a podcast exploring the intersection of neuroscience, behavioral science, and psychology to help you live and lead better lives.
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- Sep 13, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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Can Dogs Smell Stress? What Brain Scans Reveal About Your Dog (S3E12) (opens the original)
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You walk in after a brutal day, and before you say a word your dog is already there, doing the specific thing they do when something is wrong. You assume you are projecting. Four peer-reviewed studies say you are not. Learn more, get certified, take the Personal Threat Profile (PTP), and book 1:1 coaching at brainwiseenterprises.com. Hernández-Pérez and Cuaya's 2026 iScience study at the University of Vienna, scanning awake pet dogs in an fMRI as they viewed human faces Why a human smile lights
Power Posing Debunked: What New Research Says About Posture and Mood (S3E11) (opens the original)
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In 2012 Amy Cuddy tells a TED audience that two minutes of open posture rewires your hormones. Three years later a bigger study finds nothing, and the original lead author publicly abandons her own finding. The question buried under that wreckage finally gets asked properly. Learn more, get certified, take the Personal Threat Profile (PTP), and book 1:1 coaching at brainwiseenterprises.com. Carney, Cuddy and Yap's 2010 power posing study and what it actually claimed Eva Ranehill's 2015 replicati
AI Sleep Data, Posture, and How Motivation Actually Works (S3E10) (opens the original)
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Three peer-reviewed studies land in Phil's inbox on the same morning, and for once he reads all three on the spot. They share no theme, but they share something underneath. Each one found the brain already doing something it has always done, and we simply had no way to see it until the tools caught up. Learn more, get certified, take the Personal Threat and Reward Profile (PTP), and book personalized 1:1 coaching at brainwiseenterprises.com. Here is what you get: How a Cleveland Clinic foundatio
Who's Got the Monkey? The Neuroscience of Why You Can't Delegate (ND3E9) (opens the original)
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You arrive Monday with a clear plan for the week. By Friday evening your team is at the pub and you are still at your desk, buried under problems that were never yours. In 1974 William Oncken Jr. and Donald L. Wass named that mechanism in a Harvard Business Review article that became one of the magazine's two best-selling reprints ever, and this episode adds the part they could not: why your brain keeps doing it even when you know better. Learn more, get certified, take your Personal Threat and
Why Your Wandering Mind Makes You Unhappy: The Harvard Study (S3E9) (opens the original)
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A Roman emperor writing private notes on the Danube frontier claimed your happiness depends on the quality of your thoughts, not your circumstances. Eighteen centuries later, two Harvard psychologists test that claim with an iPhone app and 250,000 real-time data points. He was right, and the default mode network explains why. Learn more, get certified, take your Personal Threat Profile (PTP), and book personalized 1:1 coaching at brainwiseenterprises.com. Inside this conversation: Marcus Aureliu
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