Welcome to Building Your Best Brain, the podcast where we explore neuroscience-backed principles to help you build resilience, regulate stress, and show up as the fullest version of yourself.

It is an exciting time because we are starting a new series on this podcast all about the balanced brain! Not a perfect brain that never comes across any obstacles but a brain that is flexible, resilient and able to come to a balanced place more easily. 

We are focusing on boredom! We cover;

• What boredom looks like in our brain 

• How to integrate boredom into your life 

• What do to when you resist boredom

Welcome to Building Your Best Brain, the podcast where we explore neuroscience-backed principles to help you build resilience, regulate stress, and show up as the fullest version of yourself.

Today's episode is a timely story from my own life: the journey of writing and submitting my PhD thesis in neuroscience.

While this episode may resonate with anyone currently working on a thesis or major project, it's really about something much bigger. It's about the limiting thoughts we tell ourselves, the scripts we inherit from our environment, the beliefs that keep us stuck, and what it actually takes to move through overwhelm without burning out.

In this episode, I share four lessons that not only made writing my thesis possible, but surprisingly enjoyable.

Welcome back to the Building Your Best Brain podcast!

This week's episode is the final installment (for now) of our Inside-Out Brain series, where we've been exploring the science behind how our internal brain activity influences the people and world around us.

We're ending on one of my favorite topics: the stress response.

In this episode, we dive into how your stress response impacts not only you, but also the people around you in ways you may not expect. We explore how stress can spread through social interactions, how our nervous systems influence one another, and why learning to regulate your stress may be one of the most powerful ways to support the well-being of those around you.

Hi curious friends, welcome back to the Building Your Best Brain podcast!

This week’s episode is a special one because it gives you a sneak peek into my free Pick My Brain webinar series. This session was a mix of live and previously submitted questions all centered around how our thoughts impact not only our own brain activity, but also the people around us.

We explore the neuroscience behind thoughts, perception, emotional regulation, communication, and the subtle ways our internal world shapes our external experiences.

Welcome back to Build Your Best Brain — where neuroscience meets real life so you can show up as your fullest, happiest, and most empowered self.

We took a little break… but we are back and continuing our Inside-Out Brain Series — exploring the science of how your inner world shapes your outer reality.

In today’s episode, we go even deeper into one of the most powerful forces shaping your relationships, career, and daily interactions: your thoughts… and how they may be influencing the way others respond to you

Welcome back to Build Your Best Brain — where neuroscience meets real life, and where you learn how to actually use your brain to feel better, think clearer, and live more intentionally. This month, we’re continuing our Inside-Out Brain series — exploring how your inner world shapes your outer reality. In today’s episode, we take it even deeper… into the biology of belief — and how the beliefs you hold don’t just live in your mind, but actively shape your brain activity, your body, and how others respond to you.

Welcome back to Build Your Best Brain — where neuroscience meets real life, and where you learn how to actually use your brain to feel better, think clearer, and live more intentionally. This month, we’re dismantling the idea that we’re powerless to our environment. We’re exploring the inside-out brain — how your inner world shapes the outer one — and today, we’re taking it a step further by looking at how your body influences the brains of the people around you.

Welcome back to the Build Your Best Brain podcast — the place where we explore neuroscience and how to apply it to everyday life so you can build a healthier, happier, and more resilient brain. This month, we’re diving into a concept that genuinely changed my life once I understood the science behind it and learned how to practice it daily. It’s the idea of the inside-out world —

Welcome back to the Building Your Best Brain podcast — and to a special episode where we have the lovely Lisa Riegel who comes to use with tons of knowledge and experience when it comes to perceptions in our brain! Lisa has a PhD in Education Policy and Leadership and has worked with kids all the way to CEOs. She brings the brain science behind why our perceptions impact our stress response and our quality of life. 

Welcome back to the Build Your Best Brain podcast — and to our final chapter (for now) on a very timely topic: fear and your brain. We are getting deep into the science ; How you interpret your fear sends different signals to your brain. How this impacts the brain and our stress longterm. What is looks like when we change our interpretation.

Welcome back to the Build Your Best Brain podcast — and to a new chapter of the show, where we’re diving into a timely and powerful topic: fear and your brain. This episode isn’t here to scare you — it’s here to empower you. We are getting deep into why avoiding your fears actually causes them to take up MORE space in your brain.

Welcome back to the Build Your Best Brain podcast — and to a new chapter of the show, where we’re diving into a timely and powerful topic: fear and your brain. This episode isn’t here to scare you — it’s here to empower you. For a long time, I struggled to shift some of my most stubborn fear circuits. Not because I didn’t understand them. Not because I lacked the tools. But because I didn’t realize how many subtle, sneaky ways my fears were being activated every single day — without my awareness.

Welcome to the Build Your Best Brain podcast — and to a new chapter of the show where we’re diving into a very timely topic: fear. Before you worry — this episode is not here to scare you. It’s here to inform, educate, and ultimately empower you. We’ll explore fear on multiple levels, starting with how fear impacts — and often hijacks — our attention.

Welcome to the Building Your Best Brain podcast — and the very first episode of 2026. Recently, I shared that 2026 is the year I’m intentionally rewarding my brain to build the circuits that support my dreams. And while that might make logical (even scientific) sense… how do you actually begin doing that? The good news: it’s probably not as complicated as you think. You’ve likely experienced versions of this already.

Welcome back to Building Your Best Brain! As we close out the final days of 2025, today’s episode dives into the neuroscience behind how to actually enjoy the journey toward your goals—not just push through it. So many of us struggle to stay motivated and consistent. Not because we lack discipline or desire, but because of how our goals are set up and because no one ever taught us how the brain really works in the process.

Welcome to the Building Your Best Brain podcast! I’m so happy you’re here—learning how to rewire your brain for resilience and feel empowered by your own biology. As someone who loves a good goal (finishing my PhD and building a business over here 🙋‍♀️), I realized something was missing from traditional goal setting. Most approaches don’t actually help your brain build the circuits needed to support goals from a productive, sustainable, and regulated place.

Welcome to the Building Your Best Brain podcast! I’m so happy you’re here — learning how to rewire your brain for resilience and feel empowered by your own biology. In this episode, we dive into the missing piece of stress regulation — the piece that helps your brain build positive momentum, instead of feeling like you're stuck in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. (You know… addressing one stress symptom only to have another pop up a few moments later.)

Welcome to Building Your Best Brain podcast! Today’s episode we dive into the science behind why when we try to make a change in our brain (example – regulate your stress, rewiring a limiting belief) that you may start to feel WORSE. If I knew this information 5 years ago it would have saved me so much time and energy! The stage that most people give up and think the tools aren’t working is usually when you brain is making massive change and you don’t even know it.

Welcome back to Building Your Best Brain! In this episode, I’m sharing something brand new — a 6-level framework I developed to measure and improve stress regulation, based on neuroscience, behavior, and emotional awareness.

Welcome back to Building Your Best Brain! Today, we’re diving into the neuroscience of thoughts — what actually happens in the brain when you get caught in a spiral, why your emotions can take over so quickly, and how to bring your brain back to balance.