Ep 46 - How I Reprogrammed My Brain for my PhD Defence

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. In this episode, I’m sharing a very personal story: how I reprogrammed my brain for my PhD defense and how the day ended up going better than I could have ever imagined.

This episode is a behind-the-scenes look at what that process actually looked like.

In this episode, we cover:

• How I unpacked the root cause of my exhaustion and stress in the weeks leading up to my PhD defense

• How I reprogrammed an intention for how I wanted to experience my defense — rather than trying to control exactly what would happen

• What happened when my “worst fear” actually came to life during my defense

• Why the outcome was still better than I could have imagined