POPULARITY
15 episodes with reach dr
12 episodes with reach dr
9 episodes with reach dr
16 episodes with reach dr
4 episodes with reach dr
4 episodes with reach dr
3 episodes with reach dr
3 episodes with reach dr
3 episodes with reach dr
Listen in as I talk to Ashley Van PeltAshley is someone who has torn down major barriers in a heavily male-dominated industry. Ashley started her career in the public school system, where she served for 11 years as an early childhood & special educator. This changed after a few of her friends encouraged her to start a landscape company as a part-time operation. Opportunities surfaced early on. After 4 months, her company was hired to work on the Atlantic City, New Jersey dune creation project which included installing sand fence & planting dune grass on an area equivalent to 88 football fields. That started her 21-year career as the President & 100% owner of Native Terrain, a government & commercial landscape company. With no formal training in business or landscaping, Ashley undertook professional growth coursework while simultaneously running the company and raising two children.Watch by downloading the CTR Media Network App on:Roku • Amazon Fire TV • Android TV • Apple TV • iOS App • Google Play App • Web AppAlso available across social media, podcast streaming platforms, radio, and digital media outlets.The journey share series...conversations that remind us that our stories have power. Ashley Van PeltWebsite: https://nativeterrain.comEmail: ashley@nativeterrain.comLinkedIn: Ashley Van PeltSPONSORS Would you like to be a guest or sponsor? Contact us at: https://www.levelingupthepodcast.com/shop Reach Dr. Alethia Tucker by going to: Email: atucker@joleaseenterprises.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachalethiatuckerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/alethiaatucker Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joleaseenterprises/Facebook: Alethia Tucker
Listen in as I talk to Jennifer Lovick-MarshallJennifer Lovick-Marshall is an educator, entrepreneur, wellness coach, and domestic violence advocate with a passion for helping women reclaim their health, confidence, and purpose. With more than 30 years in education, she combines her experience as a teacher, business owner, and certified coach to empower women through holistic wellness and personal restoration. As the 2026 Ms. Corporate America Suitland, Maryland, Jennifer is committed to helping women move from survival to strength and from adversity to thriving.Watch by downloading the CTR Media Network App on:Roku • Amazon Fire TV • Android TV • Apple TV • iOS App • Google Play App • Web AppAlso available across social media, podcast streaming platforms, radio, and digital media outlets.The journey share series...conversations that remind us that our stories have power. JENNIFER LOVICK-MARSHALLWebsite: coachingu2health.com & https://mustardseedskincare.shop, Email: Jennifer@JLMarshall.org Instagram: ms. suitland & coachingu2health Facebook: Jennifer Lovick-Marshall SPONSORS Would you like to be a guest or sponsor? Contact us at: https://www.levelingupthepodcast.com/shop Reach Dr. Alethia Tucker by going to: Email: atucker@joleaseenterprises.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachalethiatuckerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/alethiaatucker Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joleaseenterprises/Facebook: Alethia Tucker
Listen in as I talk to Dr. Jeanette LinderWhat happens when a physician stops ignoring her own body and finally begins to listen?Dr. Linder is an Oncologist and Functional & Integrative Medicine physician who transformed her own health after years of exhaustion, overwork, and burnout.Now, she's helping women remove the shame surrounding health, reconnect with their bodies, and build sustainable wellness rooted in grace, healing, and real life.This conversation is powerful, honest, and deeply needed for women who have spent years pouring into everyone else while neglecting themselves.This series was created to bring women together through authentic storytelling because we understand that one woman's testimony can help another woman survive, heal, and thrive. This episode is no exception.Watch by downloading the CTR Media Network App on:Roku • Amazon Fire TV • Android TV • Apple TV • iOS App • Google Play App • Web AppAlso available across social media, podcast streaming platforms, radio, and digital media outlets.The journey share series...conversations that remind us that our stories have power. #JourneyShareSeries #LevelingUpPodcast #AlethiaTucker #MoniquePearson #SoaringWithoutLimits #WomenWhoInspire #WomenEmpoweringWomen #PurposeInMotion #Reinvention #Women40Plus #HealingAndGrowth #WomenInLeadership #AuthenticConversations #CTRMediaNetworkSPONSORS Tandra Price TapIn Magazinehttps://www.tapinmagazine.org/about-tap-in-magazineInstagram: @tapinmazine & Tandra PriceWould you like to be a guest or sponsor? Contact us at: https://www.levelingupthepodcast.com/shop Reach Dr. Alethia Tucker by going to: Email: atucker@joleaseenterprises.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachalethiatuckerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/alethiaatucker Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joleaseenterprises/Facebook: Alethia Tucker
Welcome to the Journey Share Series! We are honored to welcome special guest Monique Pearson of Soaring Without Limits. Monique joins us for a powerful conversation centered around purpose, perseverance, growth, and the experiences that shape who we become. Her story is one of strength, vision, and rising beyond limitations, and we believe her journey will inspire women everywhere who are navigating transition, healing, reinvention, and expansion. Journey Share was created to bring women together through authentic storytelling because we understand that one woman's testimony can help another woman survive, heal, and thrive. This episode is no exception.Watch by downloading the CTR Media Network App on: Roku • Amazon Fire TV • Android TV • Apple TV • iOS App • Google Play App • Web App Also available across social media, podcast streaming platforms, radio, and digital media outlets. The journey share series...conversations that remind us that our stories have power.Contact Information: Monique PearsonFacebook: Monique PearsonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/s.w.o.l._enterprise/ and https://www.instagram.com/moniquesariepearson/. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moniquespearson/ Website: www.iammoniquepearson.comSPONSORS Tandra Price TapIn Magazinehttps://www.tapinmagazine.org/about-tap-in-magazineInstagram: @tapinmazine & Tandra PriceWould you like to be a guest or sponsor? Contact us at: https://www.levelingupthepodcast.com/shop Reach Dr. Alethia Tucker by going to: Email: atucker@joleaseenterprises.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachalethiatuckerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/alethiaatucker Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joleaseenterprises/Facebook: www.facebook.com/alethiatucker
What if one of the most promising frontiers in Alzheimer's research isn't just about what's building up in the brain - but how the brain clears it out? In this episode of Research Renaissance, host Deborah Westphal sits down with Dr. Tirth Patel, a neurologist and physician-scientist at UCLA and 2025 Toffler Scholar, to explore the cutting-edge science of brain clearance, tau protein, and the newly discovered lymphatic vessels surrounding the brain.This is a conversation about curiosity, persistence, and the kind of early-career science that could reshape how we understand and treat dementia.What You'll Learn in This EpisodeWhat tau protein is, why it "gunks up" the brain, and how it differs from amyloid beta in Alzheimer's diseaseThe recently discovered lymphatic vessels in the brain's meninges - and why they matter for clearing toxic proteinsHow sleep deprivation spikes tau and amyloid levels in the blood, and what that means for long-term brain healthThe glymphatic system: the brain's internal waste-clearance highway and its deep connection to sleepWhy aging slows down the brain's lymphatic drainage - and what researchers are doing about itThe genetics of Alzheimer's: the difference between causative mutations (APP, PS1, PS2) and risk factors like APOE4New FDA-approved blood tests and the promise of tau PET scans for better diagnosis and stagingThe latest treatments for Alzheimer's - how they work, their limitations, and what's coming nextWhy failure is one of the most undervalued tools in science - and what's missing in how the field handles negative dataA candid take on AI in biological research: where it helps, where it falls short, and whether it lets scientists failAbout Our GuestDr. Tirth Patel is a neurologist and physician-scientist at UCLA, currently working in the lab of Dr. Jason Hinman. His research focuses on how the brain's meningeal lymphatic vessels clear tau protein from the brain to the bloodstream - a question with major implications for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Dr. Patel is a 2025 Toffler Scholar, supported by the Karen Toffler Charitable Trust. He is also the co-host of the podcast Recreational Science, where he and his colleague Dr. Lou Yang explore wacky but well-designed scientific studies to illuminate the scientific method.
Photobiomodulation Stroke Recovery: How Laser Therapy Is Restarting Damaged Brains After Stroke For seven years, a woman lived unable to remember faces. She had developed prosopagnosia, a condition that turned every person she met into a stranger, no matter how many times they had been introduced. She kept notes. She took photographs. She built systems to compensate for what her brain could no longer do on its own. Then she sat down for a single laser therapy session with Dr. Robert Hedaya. One session later, the problem was gone. “I can remember the face of the person I worked with this morning and his wife and the dimple on his face,” she told him, describing something she hadn’t been able to do in nearly a decade. What Dr. Hedaya witnessed that day and what he now works to replicate for stroke survivors, people living with aphasia, early dementia, and Parkinson’s, is the result of a therapy called photobiomodulation. And the principle behind it may fundamentally change how you understand your own recovery ceiling. Your Neurons May Not Be Dead. They May Just Be Stuck When a stroke occurs, conventional medicine draws a clear line. Tissue that is destroyed is gone. Deficits that persist beyond the early recovery window are considered permanent. Survivors are told, sometimes gently, sometimes bluntly, that they have plateaued. Dr. Hedaya challenges that directly. In his clinical experience, there is often a population of neurons that survived the stroke intact but are no longer functioning. They are alive. Their cellular architecture is preserved. But they have lost their energy supply, specifically, the ability to produce ATP, the molecule that powers every cellular process in the body. Without energy, these neurons go quiet. They stop firing. From the outside, this looks like permanent damage. But it isn’t. It is dormancy. This mirrors the concept of the chronic penumbra explored in hyperbaric oxygen therapy research, where viable tissue sits in a suspended state, waiting for conditions to change. Dr. Hedaya’s approach is different in method but identical in premise: the brain has not finished recovering. It is waiting for the right signal. Photobiomodulation provides that signal. What Photobiomodulation Actually Does “After the first laser treatment, the problem was gone. Gone. She told me — I can remember the face of the person I worked with this morning.” — Dr. Robert Hedaya Photobiomodulation, also called transcranial laser therapy, delivers precise wavelengths of near-infrared light to targeted areas of the scalp. The photons penetrate through the skull, meninges, and tissue to reach dormant neurons, where they act on the fourth complex of the mitochondrial electron transport chain, the site where nitric oxide accumulates and blocks ATP production. The photons dislodge that nitric oxide. The mitochondria resume normal energy output. The neuron now has what it needs to resume its function. The downstream effects are significant: new synapses form through a process called synaptogenesis, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is produced, inflammation decreases, and misfolded proteins associated with cognitive decline begin to clear. Given energy, the brain begins repairing itself, not because the laser forces it to, but because the cells already know what to do. They were just waiting for the fuel. How QEEG Makes It Precise Not every stroke survivor responds to the same laser parameters or needs treatment in the same regions. This is where Dr. Hedaya’s approach clearly separates from consumer LED helmets or generic light therapy devices. Before any laser is applied, he conducts a quantitative EEG, a brain mapping process that measures electrical activity at 19 points across the scalp. Unlike a standard EEG, which relies on a clinician reading scrolling waveforms visually, QEEG uses AI to analyse thousands of data points and reverse-engineer the source. The result is a functional map: which networks are underperforming, which are overactive, and where pathways between regions have broken down. This is paired with a neuroquant MRI that measures 30 to 40 distinct brain structures volumetrically. Together, they function as a GPS triangulating exactly where the laser should be directed, at what wavelength, power, pulse frequency, and joule delivery for each individual patient. These parameters are adjusted as the patient responds, session by session. This level of precision is what distinguishes clinical photobiomodulation from anything available over the counter. A half-watt LED helmet delivering diffuse light through hair and scalp is not the same intervention. Depression After Stroke – And the Whole-Body Connection Roughly 30% of stroke survivors experience depression in the aftermath. This is not simply an emotional response to a difficult event – it is a physiological outcome with identifiable drivers that conventional psychiatry often does not investigate. Dr. Hedaya’s model, which he calls whole psychiatry, treats post-stroke depression as a downstream expression of broader disruption: hypothyroidism, hormonal imbalance, B12 deficiency, elevated mercury from dietary sources, gut dysbiosis, chronic inflammation, and unresolved neurological stress all play measurable roles. In one of his current stroke cases, treating low thyroid function triggered seizure sensitivity because post-stroke tissue is more vulnerable to excitatory input. That kind of complexity is precisely why a comprehensive functional evaluation must precede treatment. For survivors too depleted to engage with lifestyle changes, Dr. Hedaya will now often begin with laser therapy directly. Once cellular energy is restored, the motivation and capacity to make further changes typically follow. The jump-start, he has found, enables everything else. Is Recovery Still Possible After a Plateau? If you have been told you have reached your ceiling, the core message of this episode is worth sitting with: the plateau is often not a biological fact. It is frequently the consequence of underlying conditions that haven’t been identified, and dormant tissue that hasn’t been activated. “The brain is incredibly plastic,” Dr. Hedaya says. “When you challenge it and give it everything it needs, nutrients, light, hormones, and remove the toxins, great things can happen. There is hope. There is so much hope.” His practice, the Whole Psychiatry and Brain Recovery Center, offers initial consultations via Zoom for those who cannot travel to New Jersey. For survivors with a local physician willing to collaborate, educational consultation is also available. Reach Dr. Hedaya at wholepsychiatry.com. If this episode opened something up for you, Bill’s book – The Unexpected Way That A Stroke Became The Best Thing That Happened follows the full arc of what recovery can become when you stop accepting the ceiling and start questioning it. Find it at recoveryafterstroke.com/book. If the Recovery After Stroke podcast has supported your journey, you can support the show at patreon.com/recoveryafterstroke. This blog is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your doctor before making any changes to your health or recovery plan. The Laser That Restarts Brains – Dr. Robert Hedaya on Photobiomodulation, QEEG, and Whole Psychiatry After Stroke A laser pointed at the right spot in your brain can restart neurons that stopped working. Dr. Robert Hedaya explains how and who it can help. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy – Dr. Amir Hadanny Highlights: 00:00 Introduction – Photobiomodulation Stroke Recovery 01:09 Dr. Hedaya’s Medical Journey 07:55 Transition to Functional Medicine 10:31 Photobiomodulation Stroke Recovery Applications 19:21 Understanding Laser Mechanisms 24:36 Jumpstarting Healing with Laser Therapy 29:48 Understanding EEG vs. QEEG 34:10 Addressing Depression Post-Stroke 39:38 Holistic Approaches to Recovery 46:20 Patient-Centered Care and Follow-Up 51:38 The Role of Spirituality in Healing Transcript: Introduction – Photobiomodulation Stroke Recovery Dr Bob Hedaya (00:00) After the first laser treatment, the problem was gone. Gone. She told me, she said, my God, I can remember the face of the person I worked with this morning and his wife and the dimple on the face. And I said, what are you talking about? She says, have prosopagnosia. I said, says, can’t remember faces. I have to write down everything that I do and take pictures of everything and every person. I said, my God, it’s gone, gone. that’s when I went home that night and I was like, this doesn’t make any sense. How could this be? There’s nothing about a neurological condition being turned around in one minute. It makes no sense. Dr. Hedaya’s Medical Journey Bill Gasiamis (00:41) Welcome everyone to the Recovery After Stroke podcast. I’m Bill Gasiamis and my guest today is Dr. Robert Hedaya, a board-certified psychiatrist, functional medicine practitioner, and the founder of the Hull Psychiatry and Brain Recovery Center in New Jersey. Dr. Hedaya trained at Georgetown and the National Institute of Mental Health. And over the course of his career, he moved from conventional psychopharmacology into functional medicine after discovering of what was driving his patient’s symptoms had nothing to do with their medications and everything to do with their biology. In more recent years, Dr. Hedaya has added a tool that very few practitioners anywhere in the world are using, QEEG, guided transcranial photobiomodulation. That’s laser therapy, precisely using a functional brain map to reactivate neurons that survived the stroke but stopped working. In this conversation, we get into the science behind photobiomodulation and what it actually does inside the cell. How QEEG brain mapping removes the guesswork from treatment, why post-stroke depression is so often mismanaged, the role of nutrition, hormones, and toxin load in recovery. and why Dr. Hedaya believes the plateau most survivors are told about is not the biological sealing they’ve been led to believe it is. Now, before we get into this episode, if you found this podcast helpful in your recovery, my book, The Unexpected Way That a Stroke Became the Best Thing That Happened goes deeper into the tools and mindset shifts that support long-term recovery and personal transformation. You can find it at recoveryafterstroke.com/book. And if this show has supported you, you can support it at patreon.com/recoveryafterstroke. Now let’s get into it. Bill Gasiamis (02:38) Dr. Hedaya. Welcome to the podcast. Dr Bob Hedaya (02:41) Thank you. Pleasure to be here. Bill Gasiamis (02:43) It is a very good pleasure to have you here as well. The reason being is because I, what we’re going to discuss, but B the way that you came to be on my podcast was through somebody who listens to my podcast, reaching out and saying, need to have this gentleman on your podcast. And I get that a lot. And sometimes it’s like, thank you for the referral, but maybe that’s not for me, but this is definitely for me. Can you give me a little bit of. Dr Bob Hedaya (03:01) Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (03:13) background for people who are listening to understand how it is that you and I came to be on the podcast today, but more importantly, like your medical journey to today. Dr Bob Hedaya (03:26) Well, so first of all, I ⁓ was treating a woman who was, let’s say, about 50 years old. She had several strokes. And her husband looked me up, and they came here for treatment. in New Jersey. And ⁓ she had significant improvement in her ability to speak over a short period of time. That’s a little. kind of summary of the situation, but it was ⁓ profound. She still has work to do, a lot of work to do, but she’s doing it and she’s progressing nicely. So that’s, he basically, I guess, decided this needs to get out. And so he contacted you, et cetera, et cetera. In terms of my journey, ⁓ that could take a few hours. So let me try and summarize it. I will say I basically went to medical school, took off six months to study medicine on my own after two years because I really, lot of reasons, but one of them was I just was memorizing things and I didn’t really understand what I was doing. And so I took off six months and I really learned about the human body. I studied, I had a schedule, a very fixed schedule, about 10 hours a day of studying and exercise and eat. was very, you know, I was young and regimented. And I had six books, six subjects that I wanted to get through and I did. And I learned all about the body and different parts of the body, how they interact with each other. And also I was able to understand and predict even certain kinds of processes and problems in the body. So that was an integrative experience, which ⁓ later really served as the foundation for what I do. Fast forward, I was going to be a surgeon, decided to be a psychiatrist instead, because I was fascinated by by the human mind. And what happened was I was trained at Georgetown National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, DC. And then I was in practice for about a year. And I was treating a woman who had panic attacks. And they weren’t getting better after a year. And panic attacks are pretty easy to treat. And so I was like, what’s going on here? She paged me one night after a year, Saturday night. And I remember I had a little beeper, you know, and I went to find a phone booth and, hey, Joanne, what’s going on? It’s midnight, right? She’s talking to me, I’m having a panic attack. And I mean, I still remember the anguish in her voice. You know, it was really, really, really rough to listen to. So Monday morning, I went into the office very early and I’m like, I’m missing something. What am I missing? So I found I had one piece of blood work. had a blood count and the size of her red blood cells was large. and I had seen that and didn’t know what it meant and ignored it. Very little. It wasn’t very large. It was just a little bit out of the norm. And I was trained in hospitals. know, in hospitals, you don’t worry about the little things. You worry about the train wrecks, right? So you never really learn what the little things mean. So here was a so-called little thing and it was ruining her life. Meanwhile, I did some research. It was a B12 deficiency. I gave her B12 injection. And with the first injection, her panic was gone. Transition to Functional Medicine I mean, gone, gone, gone. And I was like, whoa, what else am I missing? Because psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, it’s a revolving door. You go to this doctor, you take these meds, you do this therapy. That works for a while, then you go somewhere else. I figured I’m missing a lot of stuff. And basically, ended up learning. I didn’t know it was called functional medicine, but I ended up learning functional medicine on my own. Wrote a book, got introduced. to Jeff Bland at IFM. contacted me and took formal training and then, you know, that was what I was doing. And I did that, ⁓ put out a second book ⁓ and that was a best seller. And ⁓ the book was called the Anti-Depressant Survival Program. But really it was functional medicine psychiatry or whole psychiatry, which I like to call it. But it’s functional medicine psychiatry, but the publisher wanted… you know, a nice fancy title that would, know, so they decided to call it the Anti-Depressant Program, you know, survival program. Anyway, the best seller and we had thousands of phone calls, we had a lot of publicity and I couldn’t obviously see everybody. So I picked people who had treatment resistant depression and people who had the resources and the motivation or the support to be able to do what they needed to do. And I just treated them with functional medicine. And at this time, you’ve got to realize I was a psychopharmacologist. I was also trained as a psychopharmacologist. So I was doing a lot of psychopharmacology. I mean, a lot. And now I’m doing functional medicine on everybody. And after about three years, I’m noticing that I’m not actually doing that much psychopharmacology anymore. And everybody’s getting better. And the diabetes is going away. and osteoporosis is going away and one woman’s MS lesion in her brain went away and I’m like, what’s going on here? You know what? I might be lying to myself. So maybe I’m paying attention to the positive cases and I’m ignoring the negative. So I hired a statistician to go over all my cases over the course of this period of time, it two or three years. Ended up in 23 cases of treatment resistant depression. ⁓ I wasn’t lying to myself. Every single person went into recovery, not partial remission, not 50 % better, fully recovered by 10 months, every single one. And I was just blown away that, you know, I mean, I was blown away before, but then it was like, well, you’re not really lying to yourself. So that’s what I was doing until 2014 when I retired. I had actually an inaccurate diagnosis. I retired and… turned out it was incorrect. So it was actually really good to be retired, although I missed it terribly, really missed medicine terribly. But it gave me some time. And this is where this kind of starts to relate more to your audience. ⁓ I’m sitting on a hammock for six hours reading a book. Well, you can’t do that when you’re in practice. Bill Gasiamis (10:07) Good thing to do. Yeah. Photobiomodulation Stroke Recovery Applications Dr Bob Hedaya (10:13) That doesn’t happen. So but I was you know in retirement, so I’m reading this book and put two and two together over the course of time and I learned about laser which which they were using in Russia in 1980s and learned how the laser worked and And I was like whoa this could really help the brain and Then I was thinking now. I’m not in practice right, but I’m then I’m thinking but how would I know where to? point the laser in the brain for a patient. And then I keep reading in the book, and then they start talking about in the next chapter about quantitative EEG. And I’m like, oh, that’s how I would know. So I spent the next three years or so actually studying these methodologies. And then in 2017, I want to say, or 2018, I treated my first patient who had early dementia. published this case actually. I was treating her for early dementia. And I had treated her for six months with functional medicine, know, hormones and treating infections, et cetera, et cetera. And she really was much better. And then I was ready to do my first quantitative EEG. And she’s doing much better. She still has some symptoms. And I do the QEG. And actually, if I could share my I don’t know if I can, Okay, so basically what I just sent you is ⁓ how her brain looked after six months of functional medicine, right? So I was shocked because I thought her brain would look much better. And then I said, okay, let’s do the laser. So I knew where to point it because the QEG and this was the shocker. With the first laser, she had a problem. before the laser treatment of facial blindness. I don’t know if you know what that is. It’s people who can’t remember faces. They just met someone, they can’t remember the face. It’s called prosopagnosia. She had acquired it seven years earlier. Bill Gasiamis (12:11) I do. Yeah. Dr Bob Hedaya (12:21) After the first laser treatment, the problem was gone. Gone. She told me, she said, my God, I can remember the face of the person I worked with this morning and his wife and the dimple on the face. And I said, what are you talking about? She says, have prosopagnosia. I said, what? What is proto-diagnosia? I don’t know what that is. She says, can’t remember faces. I have to write down everything that I do and take pictures of everything and every person. I said, my God, it’s gone, gone. that’s when I went home that night and I was like, this doesn’t make any sense. How could this be? There’s nothing about a neurological condition being turned around in one minute. It makes no sense. But then I realized, I reasoned it out, realized, well, she had a population of neurons that were kind of alive, but they were not really functioning. And then I kind of jump started them with the laser and they went about their business and did their job. Bill Gasiamis (13:19) I love it. So, that’s a contrast on what you’re doing as in psychiatry, because psychiatry from, you know, my understanding is, you know, if you, if you speak to somebody who’s been through psychiatry and you ask them, how’s your condition or how is your situation or what has improved, very few people can say, ⁓ well, I’m, I’m better. I’ve overcome it. We’ve moved beyond the resolve that Dr Bob Hedaya (13:27) Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (13:47) Nobody really does that. They kind of just continue to go through the motions of another appointment, another medication, another adjustment in the amount of medication, et cetera. And what you said also seems a little bit ridiculous and kind of too quick. How do you get that kind of a solution that’s meant to take ages? You’re supposed to go through the typical times and it’s supposed to be costly and Dr Bob Hedaya (14:06) Too quick. Bill Gasiamis (14:16) unattainable and all these things. And it makes people feel sometimes I know stroke survivors who come across promises like that from other ⁓ people who talk about ⁓ perhaps ⁓ non-studied, ⁓ no scientific background kind of solutions to stroke and then kind of give everyone a blanket. If we do this, we’ll fix your stroke deficits, which is not true. ⁓ And then And then it leaves people feeling like they got ripped off. If they paid money, it leaves people lost for hope that there is no hope, cetera. And we kind of find ourselves in a, okay, desperate, what do we do now situation, right? And that’s kind of why I got excited when your patient’s husband reached out and said that we should chat. And I had a bit of a look into the kind of work that you do. ⁓ Functional medicine, I’ve heard about heaps. Dr Bob Hedaya (15:00) Hmm. Bill Gasiamis (15:14) And I love that it’s merged with psychiatry because when I started my journey in 2012, overcoming the first brain bladed and the second brain blade six weeks later, I went into functional medicine study to find out not formally, but I started doing what I didn’t know at the time was studying functional medicine and understanding like how I can decrease the inflammation in my brain. and provide the right environment for healing. And the first thing I came across was a book by somebody that you’re gonna know, Mark Hyman. And the book was, ⁓ the book was, ⁓ Eight Fat Get Thin. I read it, not wanting to get thin, I read it ⁓ because it ticked the boxes for the diet that I was gonna use to reduce inflammation in my brain. Dr Bob Hedaya (15:54) Okay. Bill Gasiamis (16:12) And the side effect was I thin. I wasn’t going for that because I was taking medication. was taking ⁓ dexamethasone, which made me put on weight and made these like all these types of ⁓ terrible side effects, but it was helping reduce the inflammation in my brain. So I, I was happy to have it, but I needed to achieve the same outcome as dexamethasone. Dr Bob Hedaya (16:13) I’m kidding. Bill Gasiamis (16:41) or a similar outcome as dexamethasone on a permanent basis without taking dexamethasone to improve the situation in my brain. And then I started to realize that I had a lot of power and I was ⁓ only not guided properly because my physicians, my doctors weren’t able to offer advice in that space. And had I not been the curious kind of guy that I was, I never would have come across Dr. Hyman and some other amazing guys who wrote books at around about that time that were similar in nature. so you’re, and then, and then a little while later, I found there was a Tasmanian, ⁓ psychiatrist, forget her name, but I have her book on my shelf upstairs who wrote a book about, ⁓ psychiatry and food and, the link between food and a good psychiatric outcome. Dr Bob Hedaya (17:15) huh. Bill Gasiamis (17:39) in the brain. And I just thought, okay, there’s much, much more that needs to happen here. Now, this the connections, there’s a lot of connections here. So recently on my YouTube channel, somebody left a comment I wanted to know about red light therapy, and will it help their brain? And I’m like, I have no idea. But let me do some research. I went on to PubMed, I found some articles and wouldn’t you believe it, there is a whole bunch of ⁓ proper data that Dr Bob Hedaya (17:40) You know what? Come on. Bill Gasiamis (18:08) suggests that there is a benefit. The only challenge that I always have with all of these potentially beneficial interventions is there’s no diagnosis done in the first place to determine whether somebody actually is eligible for a particular intervention. And what it sounds like you’re able to do is the diagnostics part and determine their eligibility. Tell me a little bit about why that is important. Dr Bob Hedaya (18:35) Right. Okay, so let me back, I wanna back up, because you said something very important, then I wanna reiterate it. I just gave you before a case of a woman who in five minutes, her problem was gone, right? Not, people should not think that’s the norm, okay? Not the norm. Occasionally it happens, I have a guy who had a head injury and had light sensitivity and confusion in certain situations with light, and one treatment, boom, gone. Understanding Laser Mechanisms People, you know, I have cases like that, but most of the time this is a gradual process. So people should not think it’s a cure-all for everybody. We do have to know who it’s good for. So what we do diagnostically before we do this is I will look at their brain, you know, obviously take some history and all of that business, but we do a quantitative neuroquant MRI. So we look at the different structures inside the brain. You know, we look at… Bill Gasiamis (19:32) Lovely. Dr Bob Hedaya (19:32) 30, 40 different structures. And then we also do a quantitative EEG, which is an electroencephalogram. We measure the electricity in the brain in 19 different places. And then there’s this really AI that takes all this data and it reverse engineers it. It’s called the inverse solution. And you can actually see the pathways, all of the pathways in the brain and the surface areas of the brain. And you can look at that, correlate that with the person’s symptoms. with the neuroquant MRI, it’s like a GPS, right? A triangulation of information and then assuming there’s not a mass or an aneurysm or some reason not to do the laser like an overactive brain or something like that, then we could consider using the laser. And then we also know where we want to do it based on the symptoms, based on the QEG, based on the neuroquant. We will decide what we’re going to target. And then we combine that, sometimes, not always. Bill Gasiamis (20:05) Hmm. Dr Bob Hedaya (20:31) with neurofeedback so we can exercise the areas that we want to exercise or calm down the areas that we want to calm down. And sometimes with hyperbaric oxygen, things like that. And hormones, using hormones or things like that. Bill Gasiamis (20:42) Yep. Hyperbaric oxygen has been a topic that I’ve discussed as well on the podcast and the people that I spoke to about hyperbaric oxygen and guys, I can’t remember right now, but I’ll put a link in the show notes for anyone listening so that you can go and find that episode and have a listen to it. Basically, what I loved about their approach was that they did a massive amount of diagnosis beforehand to determine where the penumbras were and then target those penumbras while the person was in the chamber. by getting them to do certain exercises that would activate those areas and therefore be targeted. So it sounds like the laser therapy is similar. Tell me about the laser. What kind of a laser is it? How does it get targeted to a specific spot? And what does it do when it goes there? I mean, I imagine it just doesn’t point there and go, I’ll illuminate that and it’ll be better. How does it actually work? Dr Bob Hedaya (21:18) Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay, so the laser, there are a bunch of different parameters that we have to adjust for each person. So it’s the frequency, how fast is the wavelength? What’s the wavelength? How many times per second is it pulsed? 10 times per second, 40 times per second, 50 times per second. Is it a 8, 10 nanometer wavelength or is it a 1064 wavelength? How many joules are we delivering? you know, where are we delivering it? So there are lots and lots of parameters to adjust, right? ⁓ What does it do? So simple, the first thing that it does, it does many, many things, right? But the very, very first thing it does is it actually releases ATP, the energy molecule, from your mitochondria. So it basically, the photon goes to the fourth channel, the fourth complex in the mitochondria, bumps off the nitric oxide, and that opens the flow of ATP. Well, if your brain, if your neurons have energy, they say, ⁓ energy, ⁓ well, we know what to do with energy. Let’s fix the puddles. Let’s build the roads. Let’s make the connections. Let’s do whatever we got to do. So now you’re getting energy flow. You also get synaptogenesis. You build new synapses. You get production of brain-derived neurotrophic factor. Bill Gasiamis (23:01) Wow. Dr Bob Hedaya (23:05) You get reduction of inflammation, get reduction of tau proteins and misfolded proteins. ⁓ You get, subjectively, get cognitive enhancement. aphasia, you know, people can start to speak. I mean, I can tell you one story. We used to shave people before doing the laser because I wanted to… Remember, you got a skull, you got the skin, you got all this stuff, right? How are you going to get the light into the brain, right? So we know that only about Bill Gasiamis (23:31) Mmm. Dr Bob Hedaya (23:35) 2.6 % of the light goes through the skull and the meninges and all the layers, right? So we used to shave people because I want to get the hair out of the way, right? At least get rid of some of it. So I had this woman who came to me, this is probably seven years ago, I guess. And at that time, I would not use the laser until I had done functional medicine on the patient. Because I figured, you know, let’s get the terrain straight. the nutrients, the hormones, get rid of the infections, get rid of the toxins, then we’ll apply the sunlight to the brain, to the plant, right? That was my logic. I thought that made perfect sense. So this woman came to me. She was 70 years old, obese. The husband wanted me to give her the laser. She wouldn’t change her diet, not an iota. High blood pressure, obesity. She could not speak. She would not take a medicine. She would not… Bill Gasiamis (24:04) Mm-hmm. Mm. Jumpstarting Healing with Laser Therapy Dr Bob Hedaya (24:33) Like, you name it, non-compliant all the way. Maybe you could say a word or two, that was it. Her husband begged me. I said, listen, it’s a waste, okay? It’s just a waste. I can’t ask her to shave her head. It’s not gonna work. I’m not doing it. He did not stop. So finally, I said, okay, fine, I’ll do it. So I was in my office and I’m making the laser plan. And I’m just writing, and something pops out of my mouth, God, I need a miracle. So I go into the laser room, and I start doing the laser. She starts talking. I have tears. He has tears. She starts talking. So by the end of like 20 sessions, I’m sitting with her having a 45-minute therapy session, because it turns out she was really severely abused when she was young. ⁓ She’s having a whole conversation with me. Turns out she’s psychotic also now. She’s also a psychotic and we didn’t know. So she needs to take some medicine for the psychosis because in the middle of the night, she’s going around with a baseball bat and she wants to like do, and she wouldn’t take medicines, I had to stop the laser. But that was an amazing thing because that was one, but with aphasia, typically it’s more gradual, much more gradual. But I have had a couple of patients where, and a woman came from Chicago and she just started talking also. So everyone’s different. You can’t necessarily come into this expecting that kind of thing is wonderful when it happens, but you Bill Gasiamis (26:14) Yeah. I love the fact that you can intervene with a laser, but also people can intervene with all the things that you said that that patient wasn’t doing beforehand. And that you that’s the top of the hierarchy of how you approach healing the brain is you do all those things. And then you supplement with ⁓ with a therapy like laser or whatever. And you kind of combine that and you make Dr Bob Hedaya (26:25) Yeah, yeah, you got it. Bill Gasiamis (26:42) like the, you make a soup of amazing things that all come together at the same time to support you together. And laser is just one of those things, but all the hierarchy like is so important because Dr Bob Hedaya (26:48) Yeah. It’s all important, all important. But I will tell you this. I have come to the point now where I believe that like people come to me and they don’t want to do anything and I’m like, okay, because I can jumpstart you, assuming you’re a good candidate. I can jumpstart you with the laser. I could just jumpstart you and then once I’ve jumpstarted you, say, ⁓ yeah, okay, I’ll do this. ⁓ okay, I’ll do a little of this. I’ll do a little. Because I’m bypassing everything and I’m giving you energy. Right? And so if you have energy, then, you know, there’s a lot that you can do that you couldn’t do before. So I kind of switched my model, really, only because of the accident of this guy who insisted I give his wife the laser, you know. Bill Gasiamis (27:30) Yeah. That’s not a way to go. mean, ⁓ there isn’t one way to solve a problem. there’s probably many iterations of, know, like how you can put that particular, like intervention together for a person that could specify for that individual, we’re going to go down this approach for you. You were going to go down this approach to get you going. Since you have all these, ⁓ challenges and energy is difficult. Maybe we’ll go directly with the laser and then Dr Bob Hedaya (27:46) Bye. Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (28:09) We give you the skills, the energy, Dr Bob Hedaya (28:09) That’s right. That’s right. Bill Gasiamis (28:12) the training, the coaching, the support to implement the rest of the stuff that you need to implement to continue providing the right ⁓ space for your brain to heal in ongoing so you’re not just relying on laser. Dr Bob Hedaya (28:14) Yeah. ⁓ Yeah, yeah Yeah, if someone comes to me post stroke for example and the laser is appropriate I’m not gonna say well, we’ll get around to laser in six months. I’m not gonna do that They need relief they need help if it can help them Let’s do that. Let’s jump on that and you know, and then is the other stuff we need to do will do it And there’s usually stuff to do ⁓ But I want to get the healing remember the laser is healing It’s clearing out proteins, reducing inflammation, increasing blood flow, synaptogenesis, doing all these good things over the course of time. So you really want to get that process going, I feel, as soon as you can. then, okay, now you can work on the diet that’s going to take some time, check the hormones, make sure there’s no infections, toxic element, you know, all that functional medicine stuff. Maybe you need some medication for depression, you know, it’s having a… a phaser or a stroke or a head injury or some of things like this, they turn your life upside down better than I know. It’s ⁓ incomprehensible, really. Bill Gasiamis (29:26) Yeah, really. Yeah, really challenging. With a laser, how much laser for how long, how often? Understanding EEG vs. QEEG Dr Bob Hedaya (29:37) Great question. So let me say a couple of things. First of all, we have laser and then we have the LED helmets, right? You’ve read about and read the helmets, right? So there are a lot of studies on the helmets. There’s a question of whether they’re really having a direct effect because for a few reasons. Number one, it’s LED, it’s not a laser. Number two, the voltage is so low, if you’re only getting 2.6 % through and it’s so low to begin with, what do you think you’re actually delivering into the tissue? know, it’s hard to imagine that you’re delivering much. there, know, Henderson, I think, wrote an article where he showed there’s no penetration into the brain. But the studies do show cognitive benefit. So it could be an indirect effect or, you know, all the studies are done by the companies that make the… the helmet, there could be some bias. I don’t know the answer there. The laser ⁓ itself is more potent, so we’re doing, say, 30 watts. So the equivalent of a 30-watt light bulb, right? They might be doing half a watt, a very, very, very dim light bulb. We’re doing 30 watts. Now, we’re targeting the area or areas that we want to hit. Now, it goes through 2.6. Bill Gasiamis (30:34) devices. Dr Bob Hedaya (31:03) 5 % of it goes through. And then of course it’s going to be diffused, right? And it’s going to hit the surface tissues more. 1064 will penetrate deeper into the brain, but you don’t really have to go that deep because there’s downstream effects that happen, right? So we really, and then we adjust the parameters depending on how someone does. for example, you know, I had a woman who I was treating And actually it was the patient who her husband contacted you. I was treating her with a certain amount of energy and then after about five sessions I went up, I doubled the energy and boom, she had a response. But we have no way of knowing that’s what she needed. It’s all a calculation. But she, you know… Bill Gasiamis (31:39) Yes. Dr Bob Hedaya (32:00) Whatever it is, the thickness of the skull or the membranes or whatever it is, that’s what you needed and that’s what worked. Bill Gasiamis (32:06) Yeah. Tell me about ⁓ QEEG. So let’s dive deeper into it a little bit because we kind of glossed over it. I think it’s important to discuss how it’s different from EEG, ⁓ what EEG is and then what the Q adds to EEG. Dr Bob Hedaya (32:24) OK, so the EEG, imagine somebody, you put a cap on, and it has all these electrical wires that are measuring the electricity that comes, that’s on your scalp. It’s coming from your brain, but it’s measured at the scalp. And each one is measuring the energy from that spot, comparing it to other spots. And then you might, your viewers might remember. all those squiggly lines, you’ll see like 19 or 20 squiggly lines and you’re like, what is this spaghetti? I don’t know what this is. And I mean, even in medical school, we looked at it and our eyes would glaze over because who knows what it is. So the neurologists look at it and they’ll scroll through it and look for certain patterns to see is there a seizure or is there area of damage where there’s a lot of slowing like the frequency of the electricity slows down if there’s tissue damage, right? And they look visually to see what they can find. But we know with AI, you can get the patterns that you can determine. There’s no way the human mind, the human eye, a trained eye, I don’t care how long you’ve been looking at EEGs, there’s no way you can extract this data that we now extract. So the quantitative is actually looking at the quantity of this, what’s going on here versus the quantity of electricity that’s here versus what’s here versus what’s here. And then all of that is calculated and they say, ⁓ well, if this is high and this is here and this is low here and this is this, well, that means they’re coming from this deeper place here and that’s under functioning. And, you know, that’s done over thousands, thousands of points in a very short order, very short order. It’s amazing. I can’t imagine practicing without this. So now I can look at the thalamus. I can look at the putamen. Addressing Depression Post-Stroke Bill Gasiamis (34:07) Mm-hmm. Dr Bob Hedaya (34:17) In my office, I can do these tests in my office. If a patient is my patient, I can send the QEG to their home and do it in their home. And I get this imagery that’s immensely better than a spec scan. It’s not an MRI, an MRI structure. This is function. Okay, this is function. It tells us how different parts are functioning. Bill Gasiamis (34:40) What’s lighting up? What’s not lighting up? What could be lighting up better? What’s not going to light up anymore? Dr Bob Hedaya (34:45) What’s the information flow? How is the flow going from here to here? How about this network? Is this network working? Is this network overworking? Is it underworking? How about the neuron populations that are firing when I’m relaxed? How are they doing? How about the ones when I’m thinking? How about the ones when I’m thinking fast? How about the populations when I’m emotional? We can look at all those populations and see what’s going on with those populations. And then we can actually target them. train them, et cetera. And then we have that data that we treat, and then we measure and see is it getting better? Do we need to change the protocol? It’s not helping, it is helping, et cetera. Bill Gasiamis (35:29) Yeah. with stroke, so many things come from stroke that people are not equipped to handle. You know, firstly, all of the, ⁓ the parts relating to, ⁓ simply the person discovering them, they’re, they’re immortal after all, you know, you become a mere mortal immediately and you kind of work out the most terrible thing that could have happened to me happened. My brain is injured and all these things go away. Right. And then. Unfortunately, like I think it’s 30 % the studies of people who experienced stroke will then also experience depression. Like as if recovering from stroke isn’t enough and all the deficits that you also have to recover from depression. What’s it like? How can that be supported with this particular method, this approach that we’re discussing here today? Dr Bob Hedaya (36:28) So ⁓ kind of separate from stroke, ⁓ treat treatment resistant depression with laser all the time. With stroke, we use the laser, but you have to watch the QEG to make sure you’re not getting overstimulation, number one. Number two, I learned this with the patient that referred me to you, ⁓ that after, put us in touch, there was actually a central Bill Gasiamis (36:44) huh. for us in touch. Dr Bob Hedaya (36:58) hypothyroidism, meaning the low thyroid function, right? And we had to treat that, but the problem was as we treated that, there was a supersensitivity and because the tissues after stroke are more vulnerable to seizures, the patient actually had a seizure. She was actually having seizures we didn’t know, mild seizures. And then when we treated the thyroid, then we actually ended up having seizures. now we have to support, you need thyroid function to be good in order to not be depressed, right? If you have low thyroid, you’re much more likely to be depressed in the face of a stroke or other stresses. So we were kind of a little bit of a bind there because we went and treated, but it’s too sensitive. So anyway, we’re actually threading that needle nicely and we’re moving slowly and carefully and keeping, there’s no seizure activity now. But you have to treat the depression because of the depression itself. Bill Gasiamis (37:29) Yep. Dr Bob Hedaya (37:55) is a big problem because you know to recover from stroke, man, you gotta work hard. You gotta keep a good attitude. gotta have your eye on the ball. There’s no room for like… I’m going to give up. There’s no room for that. I mean, of course you feel it and I mean, it’s all natural feelings, but you have to really be determined and that’s essential. so with depression that is ⁓ really can get in the way. So we treat it. The laser can treat it. Sometimes pharmacology, sometimes therapy, sometimes yoga, know, hyperbaric, all these things that we do with the nutrition, making sure the hormones are right. All these things work together, you know. Bill Gasiamis (38:14) Yeah. I love all of those things that you mentioned. And then all of a sudden you just throw in yoga. mean, it just, it’s so counterintuitive, isn’t it? When you have a conversation about all these acronyms and all these tests and lasers and all that kind of stuff, and then you just throw in yoga casually like that. It’s, and we underplay it, but it’s such a massive thing in the picture of what creates the environment for a good recovery, but also I love that you mentioned the thyroid in that conversation as well about depression and what can also be a trigger to depression and people may have depression, never check their thyroid and not know that it’s a thing. Now I’ve had thyroid surgery, have ⁓ half of my thyroid removed because I had a massive ⁓ goiter on one side and that was such a difficult thing to discover and have to go through 16 months after brain surgery. but they only discovered it after my brain surgery when they did a chest x-ray, because I wasn’t recovering properly and they found that I had this goitre which would have been there for a long, long time impacting my health and all sorts of things. And I make that point because often people who have had a stroke and can’t speak, for example, have aphasia, ⁓ or their arm doesn’t work or the leg doesn’t work properly, will say, I just wanna fix this thing. If I could speak, Dr Bob Hedaya (39:40) No. Holistic Approaches to Recovery Bill Gasiamis (40:09) everything’s better, but they’ve never looked at the other things that may be contributing to keeping the speech at a level which is not good enough for them, for example, to be comfortable with. And it’s like this one track mind, I’ll just get my speech back, I’ll get my speech back, you what do I need to do? Or make it go, get back for me. There’s often no looking into the other things that might be causing depression, for example. Dr Bob Hedaya (40:31) Thank you. Bill Gasiamis (40:38) After stroke, know for a fact that the gut gets impacted ⁓ very dramatically from a stroke and the gut is highly linked to ⁓ mood and how you feel. And nutrition is what supports the gut to feel better and taking out things from the diet that are ⁓ making the gut sluggish and not work appropriately will ⁓ improve your mood and how you feel. It’ll make a difference and Dr Bob Hedaya (40:59) Okay. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (41:08) and it’ll add to one of those little tools that supports depression and makes depression less impactful and you have less swings, et cetera. And that’s kind of the point that you’re making is that you don’t just turn up and do psychiatry. We’re gonna do psychiatry, treat you pharmacologically and then send you on your way and then see you in six, 12, eight months again or whatever and then just repeat the process again. It’s a whole, know, holistic is the word that you hear, but it is a broader conversation that people need to be having. And that sounds like what you guys do. It sounds like the conversation doesn’t encompass, it encompasses everything. It doesn’t just focus on one intervention. Dr Bob Hedaya (41:56) That’s why I call it whole psychiatry. But it really should be whole neuropsychiatry or whole brain or, you know, but it’s whole body, whatever you want to call it. It’s really more than the body because obviously the social connections play a big role as well, you know. So yeah, everything you’re saying is 100 % true and it’s all real. Everything you’re saying is real. Everything you do. mean, simple things going back to the B12. You you need B12 to… Bill Gasiamis (41:58) Yeah. Dr Bob Hedaya (42:26) remyelinate your neurons. need to keep the mercury, by the way, got to keep the mercury levels low. know, the mercury, if you’re eating tuna fish or swordfish and you have high mercury levels, know, the mercury will actually prevent you from making new branches. The mercury actually will bind on tubulin, which is like a brick that you need to build new roads. And it will prevent the tubulin from building new roads in your brain. So here you are working hard trying to… Bill Gasiamis (42:28) Mmm. Dr Bob Hedaya (42:54) do things and you’re a can of ⁓ whatever tuna fish with loads of mercury two, three, four times a week. Well, that’s not working, you know. So that’s why you really want to look at the whole thing. It’s a lot. It’s really a lot. You know, it’s a big program, but you you take, take steps. Everybody has different needs or not everybody has to do everything. Bill Gasiamis (43:04) Yeah. Yeah. Not everybody needs to do everything to achieve significant results, but it’d be amazing to be able to find the things and target those, the ones that you’re to get the most bang for buck on. So you’re to putting time and effort into things that are not getting results. For example, an led hat from, uh, Amazon for $9 that you put on your head. And it’s basically just a red light hat. It’s not really doing the thing, right? Dr Bob Hedaya (43:32) Hmm. Ha ha ha. Bill Gasiamis (43:49) And that’s kind of why I started to have that conversation and do a little bit of research in what they, know, what’s medically known as or scientifically known as photo bio modulation, you know, the idea is great, but then it came to me from somebody who I imagine was looking at a seven or eight or $9, $10 cap with red lights that put on the head and they Dr Bob Hedaya (44:00) Right. Bill Gasiamis (44:15) paid money for a cap and hoping for an outcome and they didn’t get an outcome and then they’re wondering why. I suggest when people are looking into those topics, is gonna go and have a look at the science, what it says about the nanometers of the type of light that you need to be experiencing, how, where, who, and always do these things with medical supervision. It really challenges me when I find out people do things like, know, methylene blue was a thing. Dr Bob Hedaya (44:44) Right. Bill Gasiamis (44:45) uh, very recently and people will just go get a bottle of Methylene blue from somewhere and just start taking it and have no idea what they’re doing and, and, and, know, what they could hope for. They could be making things worse than for themselves and actually making themselves, um, like make things a lot harder for themselves. So, uh, my point is this all needs to be done under medical supervision. Typically when you, somebody reaches out to you, how do you begin the conversation and then how does that person engage with you? And then what happens after they’re treated? Because often I know from my experience with all my neurologists, et cetera, very rarely do I see anybody a second time, six months, 12 months, 18 months, five years down the track. You usually go in, they patch you up, they send you home, you get back to your life and then maybe you do one MRI. Dr Bob Hedaya (45:36) Really? Bill Gasiamis (45:44) ⁓ for a few years after brain surgery just to make sure that everything’s stable. But that’s about it. Nobody follows up with you. Dr Bob Hedaya (45:52) No, it’s a whole different ball game with us. No. So what we do first is ⁓ if someone will contact us through the website, which is wholepsychiatry.com, they will actually fill out a form. And if we feel that it looks like we might be able to be helpful to them, then we will send them a welcome letter. And then they will have the opportunity to meet with our new patient coordinator at no charge. Patient-Centered Care and Follow-Up and she’ll talk with them for 15 to 30 minutes and kind of tell them what’s going on and see if they, you know, the fit is good, et cetera. And then they have an opportunity if they want to meet with me on Zoom for 15 to 30 minutes and ⁓ I’ll figure out, can I help them? Can I not help them? Is it a good fit, et cetera? And then if it looks like, you know, green light and they decide they want to move forward and it makes sense, then we’ll schedule an evaluation. The time duration of the evaluation depends on what kind of patient. It could be a couple of hours, could be four and a half hours. But usually for neurological patients, straightforward, it’s a shorter evaluation. And before the evaluation, we’ll collect the neuro-quant and the QEG and the old records, et cetera. And then I will go through all of that data plus lab data that we collect. And I will then have an idea. Okay, what’s going on here? Now there’s all these things. There’s digestion, there’s nutrition, there’s immune function, inflammation, toxins, hormones, all the hormones, structural issues, chiropractic issues, traumatic brain injury, cardiovascular issues, et cetera. We look at all of that and then to see what are the players here and spiritual, social resources, connectivity. We look at all of this. And then we have a whole picture of what’s going on. And then we can figure out, okay, how do we want to approach this? And sometimes we approach it very lightly. Say we just start with the laser, that’s it. Or sometimes somebody says, no, I want to really get in there and fix everything that’s wrong. Okay, well, we identified these five or six things that need correction. So let’s stage this in order. And that’s what we’ll do. And everyone’s different. And then we have follow-up depending on what we need in two weeks, in a month, six weeks, not usually six weeks. Once things are stable, it could be every two, three months or four months. But in the meantime, I’m in the boat rowing, paddling with them. That’s the way I do it. I treat people, really, I try to treat people just like I would want to be treated myself, like I would want my family to be treated. I do the very best. I love what I do, you know what I mean? I just love what I do and I try to do the best, highest quality. And it’s not that I’m perfect, not that I don’t make mistakes, ⁓ not that I know everything because that’s for sure that I don’t, but that’s my approach. So I try to be in the boat with the patient. As long as the patient’s paddling, I’m paddling just as hard, if not. Bill Gasiamis (49:02) Yeah, it sounds like at least if things, if you don’t make the right approach initially, there’s a whole bunch of tools and resources and things that you can kind of focus on. And one of the things you mentioned, again, you glossed over it, but I love that you do this is spiritual. Like it might be a spiritual journey that the person needs to take. And it’s so overlooked because people, you know, do have… Dr Bob Hedaya (49:22) yeah. yeah, yeah. Bill Gasiamis (49:30) existential crisis after a stroke. it’s like a spirituality helps somehow for a lot of people ease, heal that, ⁓ help people move through, you know, the weeds and come out into the opening and then kind of see the opportunities and where they need to go next. And people don’t need to engage with somebody like you to go on a spiritual journey. That might just be something they’ve ever looked and they can just go, you know what, I’m going to pick up the Bible or ⁓ I’m going to learn about this particular ⁓ spiritual journey or whatever and go through it and do whatever it is that they need to do to kind of start beginning the healing journey in their own special unique way. It’s really important that spirituality gets addressed and it’s not glossed over. And I’m not saying that you did or I did or we do, but in the back of the minds, stroke survivors may not consider that being important. The Role of Spirituality in Healing Dr Bob Hedaya (50:31) Yeah, first of all, I’m passionate about spirituality. I mean, passionate because the truth, in my opinion, is that consciousness, your level of awareness is really consciousness is the foundation, the substrate of everything that exists. The material is an outflow from consciousness. So I could talk about this forever. Not everyone is oriented this way. So, you know, I just saw a businessman, very successful businessman ⁓ last week. He doesn’t want to just, you know, get me back online. OK, I don’t want to hear this mumbo jumbo and I just can’t. I don’t want to delve into it. Just get me better. know. But other people are like, I want to find the meaning, you know, and it’s very important. to find the when I think generally for most people finding the meaning in it is critical. And I’ll say one thing, my mother, may she rest in peace, was in the emergency room, probably 25, 30 years ago, I don’t know, something was wrong, she was in the emergency room for seven, eight hours or whatever, and some guy comes by and says, ma’am, can I get you a sandwich? And she says, oh yeah, please, please get me a sandwich. He gets her a tuna fish sandwich, whatever it is, right? He leaves. She’s so grateful. She’s so grateful that she volunteers in the hospital for 20 years. Okay? This guy has no idea what he did and all the people that he helped through her, right? So you’re, you you and you’re not just you, but we, each of us in our small minds, we have no idea. the impact we have on other people. So if it’s important to a person to have a meaningful life, understand that you don’t have to be running a company. You can smile at a stranger, change their day. There are things that you can do and you have an impact. Now, that’s a small consolation when you’re dealing with a stroke, obviously, but that’s when you kind of want to work to a meaningful ⁓ attitude and a good attitude. So yes, the spirituality is… many people very important. Bill Gasiamis (52:54) David who brought us together ⁓ wanted me to meet you so I could interview you. that part of the role that he played in what happened to his wife ended becoming something that helped other people. Isn’t it interesting? The whole journey started on. Dr Bob Hedaya (53:15) Exactly. Bill Gasiamis (53:20) He contacted me because he wanted to make something good come of what happened to his wife, which I’m sure his wife was also interested in. And he said, you need to get Dr. Hedaya on because we need to share more information, make this stuff aware. so, and I’m like, well, that’s perfect. Of course I do. Whoever comes to me with that kind of information because they want to help other stroke survivors because he’s hoping that other caregivers that are in his shoes have a better outcome. They have more support. They have more information. They have more tools. Dr Bob Hedaya (53:27) Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (53:50) That’s the spiritual journey. You don’t have to call it ⁓ Christianity, Judaism. You don’t have to call it something. You don’t have to label it, but that is what spirituality looks like in practice. Dr Bob Hedaya (53:56) Right. Right. That’s exactly it. That’s exactly it. And it gives me chills because, you know, I know his wife is suffering, you know, and ⁓ but she’s making really great headway, but it’s hard, you know. But look at look that he’s reaching out and he cares enough about other people and to and make her journey and what she’s gone through and what she’s learned be useful to other people. That’s it. That’s just beautiful. I mean, that that speaks volumes about him and her. Bill Gasiamis (54:32) It does absolutely and her and your work because your work is not unique. You’re not the only one doing this kind of work. I think there’s only kind of a small percentage of ⁓ medical professionals in the field that are practicing in this way. And hopefully that continues to grow. ⁓ If somebody wanted to, well, somebody lots of people are listening to this today. If anyone wanted to reach out ⁓ who thinks, you know, that they might be able to ⁓ benefit from or go down this kind of approach. How should they go about that? What questions should they be asking of you, et cetera? Like how do they begin? Because this is a different conversation than I have ⁓ neurological injury, have aphasia. It needs to be positioned differently, this conversation. Dr Bob Hedaya (55:29) Tell me what you mean. I’m not really clear what you’re saying. Bill Gasiamis (55:33) If somebody wants to find a clinician who practices the way that you practice, you guys, for example, you know, you know, who thinks about the brain in a different way. What, what should they be looking for and what. Dr Bob Hedaya (55:38) Aha, I see, I see. I would say that they should go to the website for the Institute for Functional Medicine. And there’s a tab. This is find the practitioner. And make sure you look for a practitioner that is certified, fully certified. And then investigate the practitioners who are in your area and see if they experience. in this area. there are not I’m not aware of, there’s a guy somewhere in the Midwest here who’s using a laser, I believe. And then maybe other people that I don’t know about using lasers, but I’m not aware of anybody that I could say, go see this person for this quantitative EEG guided transcranial photobiomodulation. I’m not saying that that is readily available. It’s not. But the whole functional medicine thing, there are a lot of practitioners. And I think that’s the way to go there. Just do your homework. Bill Gasiamis (56:48) Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Your organization is whole psychiatry and the brain recovery center. Is that right? Okay. So the psychiatry part of it, ⁓ people might be listening and going, well, that doesn’t apply to me, the specific word specifically doesn’t need to apply to an individual to engage with you because, we’re not just dealing with the psychiatry part of somebody’s recovery. Dr Bob Hedaya (56:56) Yeah. Right. Thank you. No, no, we’re dealing, we treat psychiatric, but we treat neurological. You know, I started as a psychiatrist. was, you know, certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, but I was doing psychiatry. then, you know, just following, you know, learning and whatever, I ended up, you know, doing some neurology here. And so, but we didn’t change the name to the whole neuropsychiatry and brain recovery. Maybe we should, or maybe the whole brain recovery center or something like that. So, you we do both, no, and if, and if, I can’t be helpful, of course, I’m going to tell people this, we really don’t want to waste people’s time, energy, money, et cetera. ⁓ But it’s, it’s been, you know, I have to say an amazing journey. And I would say when you follow for me, this is me, my life, following my passion of learning about the brain and understanding the brain and Bill Gasiamis (57:45) Yeah. Dr Bob Hedaya (58:14) looking for the fundamentals of how do things work and just there’s a common sense in medicine. I looked at the laser when I was reading that book and I was like, wow, ATP in the brain, that could really help the brain. How would I
Send us Fan MailWhat makes dentistry so incredible? The options! You can be incredibly successful whether you build, buy, or associate long-term. The key is understanding which path is best for you. Join us today as Dr. David Rice, CEO and founder of IgniteDDS, provides valuable insight into your options. Dr. Rice will delve deeper into this subject at the South Florida District Dental Association's Tri-Affiliate event, March 31, 2026, at the Koven's Conference Center in North Miami. Register at www.sfdda.org. Reach Dr. Rice at https://ignitedds.com/
Mom2Mom MENTORING - Work/Life Harmony, Soul-Care, Kingdom Minded Moms
Have you ever felt completely called and completely stuck at the exact same time?
In this episode of The Elisha Show, Dr. Tommy Rhee breaks down regenerative medicine in a clear, eye-opening way, explaining how stem cell signaling, not live cell injections, activates the body's natural healing power ⚡
Join me and my guest April Sheris. April is a pioneering force in media and cultural entrepreneurship, redefining BIPOC storytelling on a global scale. Upland Studios, which started in 2012, is a multifaceted empire celebrated for amplifying diverse voices, with Shereice having over 12 years of experience in publishing, media, and innovation. She also founded New Mexico's first on-rail book club in partnership with NM Railrunner Express and has taught marketing at the University of New Mexico through the Small Business Administration.April SherisInstgram: @aprilsherisWebpage: www.uplandstudios.comhttps://booksarethenewrich.comFacebook: April SherisWould you like to be a guest or sponsor?Contact us at: https://www.levelingupthepodcast.com/shopReach Dr. Alethia Tucker by going to: Email: atucker@joleaseenterprises.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachalethiatuckerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/alethiaatuckerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/joleaseenterprises/Facebook: www.facebook.com/alethiatucker
In this inspiring episode, Ambassador Elisha sits down with Dr. Rahul Prasad — scientist, author, global thinker, and humanitarian leader
Join me and my special guest Dr. Tiffaney Williams as we share her message of empowerment, inspiration, and hope. The interview took place in Detroit Michigan where she spoke at the Leadership Experience Tour (LET)Dr. Tiffaney Williams is a luminary of international acclaim, revered for her transformative expertise in the domains of finance, investments, Business, and personal development. As a gifted speaker, financial coach, entrepreneur, and investor, she has honed her skills to coach hundreds of individuals and corporations on the psychology of money; and the mindset that matters to achieve unparalleled success though understanding personalities that compliment high level success. Dr. Tiffaney WilliamsInstagram: @drtiffaneywilliamsFacebook: Dr. Tiffaney WilliamsWebsite: https://www.whoistiffaneywilliams.comWould you like to be a guest or sponsor?Contact us at: https://www.levelingupthepodcast.com/shopReach Dr. Alethia Tucker by going to: Email: atucker@joleaseenterprises.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachalethiatuckerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/alethiaatuckerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/joleaseenterprises/Facebook: www.facebook.com/alethiatucker
Join me and my special guest Pastor Anthony D Shannon as he shares about leaders living generously. The interview took place in Detroit Michigan where he spoke at the Leadership Experience Tour (LET)Pastor Anthony Shannon is a dynamic and visionary leader who is the Senior Pastor of The Victory Church International in Westland, MI. As a prophet, Pastor Shannon is dedicated to teaching and breaking down the Word of God in a practical, powerful, and life-changing way. He believes in helping individuals discover their purpose, live abundantly, and succeed according to God's plan.Pastor Anthony D ShannonInstagram: @anthonydshannonFacebook: Anthony D ShannonLinkedin: Anthony ShannonWebsite: https://thevictorychurchint.org. &https://www.mysalesteamguru.com/anthonydshannon-consultingRegistration Links for products advertised:90 Day Reinvention Program: https://90dayreinvention.com/Reinvented to Thrive Mastermind: tinyurl.com/4kav4frbWould you like to be a guest or sponsor?Contact us at: https://www.levelingupthepodcast.com/shopReach Dr. Alethia Tucker by going to: Email: atucker@joleaseenterprises.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachalethiatuckerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/alethiaatuckerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/joleaseenterprises/Facebook: www.facebook.com/alethiatucker
Join me and my special guest Monique Cox Waithe of New Beginnings Counseling and Consulting Group PLLC. This is a repeat broadcast that is aired every year during the holidays. What do you do when the happiest time of the year, isn't the happiest time of the year?Monique has worked as a licensed therapist and life coach for over 25 years. She holds a Masters degree in Social Work from Howard University. She has a heart for helping people reach their full potential by helping them gain the tools needed to be successful in all aspects of their lives. She works with people who are going through life transitions and may feel that they have lost themselves in the process.Monique Cox-WaitheFacebook: Monique Cox-WaitheLinkedin: Monique Cox-WaitheInstagram: @sistamoeWebsite: https://www.sistamoe.comWould you like to be a guest or sponsor?Contact us at: https://www.levelingupthepodcast.com/shopReach Dr. Alethia Tucker by going to: Email: atucker@joleaseenterprises.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachalethiatuckerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/alethiaatuckerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/joleaseenterprises/Facebook: www.facebook.com/alethiatucker
In this powerful episode, Ambassador Elisha sits down with the incredible Dr. Amy Loden Tiffany
Ever wonder if you're pushing your teen too hard, or not enough? Dr. Carmen Bell-Ross joins Rebecca Greene to show parents how to trade pressure for purpose with The College Smarter Method™, a proven framework that turns the college process into a journey of confidence, clarity, and joy. Dr. Carmen Bell-Ross, founder and CEO of SP Grace, LLC, and creator of The College Smarter Method™, helps students and parents transform the stressful college admissions process into a meaningful, growth-focused experience. In this heartfelt conversation, she and Rebecca laugh, swap motherhood stories, and discuss what it truly takes to raise confident, self-driven young adults. From choosing the right college to adjusting after move-in day, Dr. Bell-Ross brings the calm and wisdom every parent needs during this season of change.
Ever wonder if you're pushing your teen too hard, or not enough? Dr. Carmen Bell-Ross joins Rebecca Greene to show parents how to trade pressure for purpose with The College Smarter Method™, a proven framework that turns the college process into a journey of confidence, clarity, and joy. Dr. Carmen Bell-Ross, founder and CEO of SP Grace, LLC, and creator of The College Smarter Method™, helps students and parents transform the stressful college admissions process into a meaningful, growth-focused experience. In this heartfelt conversation, she and Rebecca laugh, swap motherhood stories, and discuss what it truly takes to raise confident, self-driven young adults. From choosing the right college to adjusting after move-in day, Dr. Bell-Ross brings the calm and wisdom every parent needs during this season of change.
Join me and my special guest Dr. Stephanie Wall as we talk about her company and her drive behind 1 Million Lives Transformed. The interview took place in Detroit Michigan where she spoke at the Leadership Experience Tour (LET)Dr. Stephanie WallDr. Stephanie Wall is dedicated to revolutionizing the world through individual empowerment, beginning with women. As a certified coach, influential speaker, and founder of '1 Million Lives Transformed,' she leverages her expertise to break down barriers, helping women reclaim their innate power and achieve new heights personally and professionally. Her mission is a revolution, one woman at a time, to reshape the world through the power and potential of women.Contact Information:Dr. Stephanie WallWebsite: https:www.1millionlivestransformed.comLinkedin: Dr. Stephanie WallInstagram: @drstephanieFacebook: Stephanie WallSPONSORSMs. Corporate America – MarylandFacebook: Ms. Corporate America MarylandInstagram: md.mscorporateamericaFacebook: Ms. Corporate America – MarylandEmail: md@mscorporateamerica.comWould you like to be a guest or sponsor?Contact us at: https://www.levelingupthepodcast.com/shopReach Dr. Alethia Tucker by going to: Email: atucker@joleaseenterprises.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachalethiatuckerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/alethiaatuckerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/joleaseenterprises/Facebook: www.facebook.com/alethiatucker
Join me and my special guest John Ebron as we talk about his company and the products he offers on his platform. The interview took place in Detroit Michigan where she spoke at the Leadership Experience Tour (LET)Special GuestJohn EbronEbron of Ebron Coaching & Consulting, LLC, to the CXO 2.0 Conference in Las Vegas.A decorated veteran with over 20 years of global military leadership, John now serves as a Master Mindset Life Coach, helping leaders cultivate emotional intelligence, clarity, and purpose. His work bridges behavioral insight with mission-driven strategy, empowering professionals to embrace courageous transformation.Through dynamic keynotes and one-on-one coaching, John equips both emerging and seasoned leaders to challenge conventional thinking and lead with authenticity and resilience. His bold approach to leadership development inspires lasting impact in business and beyond. (Bio from recent interview with CXO 2).Contact Information:Coach Nia Renee· Website: ebroncoaching.org· Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ebron-ba-cbc-23954419/· Instagram: @coachebron· Facebook: John Ebron SPONSORSMs. Corporate America – Maryland· Facebook: Ms. Corporate America Maryland· Instagram: md.mscorporateamerica· Facebook: Ms. Corporate America – Maryland· Email: md@mscorporateamerica.com Would you like to be a guest or sponsor?Contact us at: https://www.levelingupthepodcast.com/shop Reach Dr. Alethia Tucker by going to: · Email: atucker@joleaseenterprises.com· LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachalethiatucker· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alethiaatucker· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joleaseenterprises/· Facebook: www.facebook.com/alethiatucker
In this powerful and deeply inspiring episode, Dr. Charles Thomas, author of Forged From Fire: Pieces of Prosperity, joins Amb. Elisha to explore what it truly means to be disciplined, consistent, and resilient in life.
In this powerful episode, Amb. Elisha sits down with the inspiring Dr. Crystal T. Harrell, PhD, a researcher, author, and transformational speaker, to explore how to transform pain into purpose, chaos into clarity, and life transitions into beautiful breakthroughs.
In this powerful episode of WITneSSes Podcast, Amb. Elisha sits down with world-renowned psychologist Dr. Tony Iezzi to uncover how unresolved trauma and hidden patterns shape our lives — and how to break free.
Join me and my special guest Coach Nia Renee as we talk about her company How to Love a Battered Woman. The interview took place in Detroit Michigan where she spoke at the Leadership Experience Tour (LET)Special GuestCoach Nia ReneeCoach Nia Renee is a Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Coach,, speaker, and author who empowers women to heal, rebuild, and thrive after trauma. A six-time brain surgery survivor and advocate for emotional resilience, Nia draws from her own lived experiences to guide others through the pain of toxic and narcissistic relationships toward renewed strength and self-worth. She is the creator of the Battered Hearts Rising Blueprint, a powerful coaching framework designed to help clients awaken, heal, and reclaim their power. Through one-on-one coaching, group sessions, and transformational speaking engagements, Nia equips women with the tools to set healthy boundaries, embrace self-forgiveness, and rise confidently into the life they deserve. With compassion and authenticity, she is on a mission to show survivors that healing is possible—and thriving is their birthright.Contact Information:Coach Nia Renee· Website: https://howtoloveabatteredwoman.com· Linkedin: Coach NiaRenee, MBA· Instagram: @coachniarenee· Facebook: Coach Nia Renee SPONSORSCoach Nia Renee· Website: https://howtoloveabatteredwoman.com· Linkedin: Coach NiaRenee, MBA· Instagram: @coachniarenee· Facebook: Coach Nia Renee Ms. Corporate America – Maryland· Facebook: Ms. Corporate America Maryland· Instagram: md.mscorporateamerica· Facebook: Ms. Corporate America – Maryland· Email: md@mscorporateamerica.com Would you like to be a guest or sponsor? Contact us at: https://www.levelingupthepodcast.com/shop Reach Dr. Alethia Tucker by going to: · Email: atucker@joleaseenterprises.com· LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachalethiatucker· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alethiaatucker· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joleaseenterprises/· Facebook: www.facebook.com/alethiatucker
In this eye-opening episode, Dr. Julie Siemers — nurse educator, flight nurse, and author of Surviving Your Hospital Stay, reveals the hidden risks of hospitalization and how patients and families can protect themselves. With over 46 years in healthcare, Julie shares shocking truths about medical errors, hospital-acquired infections, and communication breakdowns that cost lives, and most importantly, what you can do to stay safe. You'll discover: • The top 5 hospital mistakes patients must watch out for • How to speak up without being dismissed by healthcare professionals • Why hospital safety grades matter and how to check yours • The powerful role families can play in preventing harm • Practical steps to become an empowered patient Reach Dr. Julie: https://drjuliesiemers.com/patient-safety-checklist ... Want to be a guest on WITneSSes? Send Elisha Arowojobe a message on #PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/member/ambelisha Elevate your business with Anastasia's expert consulting. Use code Elisha3 for an exclusive offer and transform your business today! https://resurrectionmentor.wixsite.com/so/42PDEPEB8?languageTag=en Feel like something's missing? Start Living the Magical Life today. Buy Now: https://a.co/d/4sHrFx2 Become a member of WITneSSes+ Here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/WITneSSesplus
Join me and my special guest Regina Martin as we talk about Dare to Dream, her career, and her second time speaking at the Leadership Experience Tour (LET) Special GuestRegina Martin – Dare to DreamThe Motivated Educator is the founder of Dare to Dream Motivational Speaking and Coaching, LLC. As a higher education professional, she works with students to help them discover student success through the college journey and has been an Adjunct Professor for First Year Experience for eight years.Regina also has a passion to empower individuals to Dare to Dream She became a Certified Motivational Speaker through the AB Fire Speakers Academy and Angela Brand Her Fire Speaker Academy. She also works with young women and seasoned professionals helping the to discover their dreams and potential while designing their next chapter. · Website: https://www.iamreginamartin.com· Email: daretodreammotivate@gmail.com· Facebook: Regina Martin and Dare to Dream Motivational Speaking SPONSORS Kayla Tucker, SSP, NCSP· Website and Social Media· Threads: @wholeschoolpsych· wholeschoolpsych.com (blog posts)· wholeschoolpsych.com/resources (guides and email subscription) Dr. Tandra Price - Tap In Magazine· https://www.tapinmagazine.org· Instagram @drtandraprice and@tapinmagazine· Facebook: Tandra Price Ms. Corporate America – Maryland· Facebook: Ms. Corporate America Maryland· Instagram: md.mscorporateamerica· Facebook: Ms. Corporate America – Maryland· Email: md@mscorporateamerica.com Would you like to be a guest or sponsor? Contact us at: https://www.levelingupthepodcast.com/shop Reach Dr. Alethia Tucker by going to: · Email: atucker@joleaseenterprises.com· LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachalethiatucker· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alethiaatucker· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joleaseenterprises/· Facebook: www.facebook.com/alethiatucker
In this episode of Witnesses, Amb. Elisha sit down with Dr. Len Lopez, a health and fitness expert with nearly 30 years of experience helping people transform their lives. Dr. Len shares his powerful 5 Steps a Day system—a simple yet life-changing framework to improve your body, mind, and spirit through better sleep, thoughts, eating, physical activity, and spiritual growth. We discuss how small, consistent steps can create lasting habits, why so many struggle to find fulfillment despite success, and how you can take control of your health and mindset starting today. Whether you're looking to boost your energy, build resilience, or strengthen your spiritual life, Dr. Len's insights will inspire you to take action.
Are you a CEO, founder, or business leader struggling to master work-life balance while growing your brand? In this episode of the Command Your Brand Show, host Josh Silvestro sits down with naturopathic doctor and certified clinical nutritionist Michael Biamonte to uncover practical, actionable strategies for achieving harmony between career and personal life. Learn how to identify stress triggers, optimize your health, and harness productivity without falling victim to the "pill culture" mindset. Michael shares his expertise in holistic health, his journey from personal loss to professional success, and how natural methods can help you stay focused and energized as a leader. They also discuss how effective organization and setting up systems, like an organizational board, can help CEOs and founders run their businesses smoothly without feeling overwhelmed.If you're ready to enhance your leadership potential and prioritize your well-being, this conversation is packed with insights you don't want to miss! Smash that like button, subscribe to our channel, and check out more episodes to start commanding your brand today.#complementaryhealthcare #anxiety #healthandwellness #healthpodcast #mentalhealth#nutrition #complementaryandalternativemedicine #howtofocus #timemanagement #entrepreneurCHAPTERS:00:00 - Introducing Michael Biamonte06:27 - History of the Pharmaceutical Industry11:11 - Alternatives to Medication11:42 - Understanding Mental Health Issues19:35 - Business Strategies for Owners20:38 - Running Your Own Business24:10 - Educating Your Staff Effectively25:47 - Success Stories in Practice27:11 - Curing Candida Naturally29:42 - OUTRO30:00 - How to Reach Dr. Michael30:23 - Outro________________________________________________________________________⇩ LOOKING TO COMMAND YOUR BRAND? ⇩BOOK A CALL: With Our Team to See How We Can Helphttps://commandyourbrand.com/book-a-call/BOOK: Grab Your Copy of Our Book, Command Your Brand: Grow Your Impact, Income and Influence in the New Media Landscape, Rated the # PR Book on Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Command-Your-Brand-Influence-Landscape/dp/B0CJXGKD15________________________________________________________________DOWNLOAD AUDIO PODCAST & GIVE A 5 STAR RATING!:APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/ro/podcast/command-your-brand/id1570323509SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/0wE8jDVdlpsDCmNx8sYZTQ?si=41fd776e1a6b43be(also available Google Podcasts & wherever else podcasts are streamed_________________________________________________________________⇩ OTHER VIDEO PLATFORMS ⇩➤ RUMBLE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rInZbdlLiU_________________________________________________________________⇩ SOCIAL MEDIA ⇩➤ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/CYBmedia➤ INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/commandyourbrand➤ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/commandyourbrand_________________________________________________________________➤ CONTACT: INFO@COMMANDYOURBRAND.COM
In this eye-opening episode, Amb. Elisha sits down with Dr. Chris Fuzie, a former police officer turned organizational leadership expert and author of Liminal Space and Score Performance Counseling. Dr. Fuzie shares his inspiring journey from law enforcement to academia, highlighting how leadership and followership are two sides of the same coin. Listeners will learn: ✅ The truth about followership vs leadership ✅ How to build behavior-based leadership within organizations ✅ The importance of defining and teaching leadership behaviors ✅ Why effective followership is key to organizational impact ✅ How to create behavioral tessellations that scale across any team Whether you're a CEO, team leader, or aspiring professional, this episode delivers powerful insights on how behavior drives leadership success. Reach Dr. Chris: www.cmfleadership.com ... Want to be a guest on WITneSSes? Send Elisha Arowojobe a message on #PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/member/ambelisha Elevate your business with Anastasia's expert consulting. Use code Elisha3 for an exclusive offer and transform your business today! https://resurrectionmentor.wixsite.com/so/42PDEPEB8?languageTag=en Feel like something's missing? Start Living the Magical Life today. Buy Now: https://a.co/d/4sHrFx2 Amb. Elisha just published a transformational workbook, buy now: https://ambelisha.gumroad.com/l/Llaenlap
In this eye-opening episode, Dr. David Bilstrom, internationally recognized autoimmune and chronic disease expert, joins Amb. Elisha to reveal powerful truths about healing the body naturally, preventing autoimmune disease, and the science of epigenetics. Dr. Bilstrom explains: • What autoimmune disease really is and why it's skyrocketing worldwide • Why conditions like type 1 diabetes, autism, and even Alzheimer's may all stem from the same immune root cause • How the body can self-heal, and why aging symptoms shouldn't begin before age 90 • The role of butyrate and TUDCA in gene expression and disease reversal • How your lifestyle choices can impact up to 8 future generations through epigenetics • You'll also learn how to take back control of your health—whether you're 25 or 75—using cutting-edge research that's transforming medicine. Reach Dr. Bilstrom : http://www.drdavidbilstrom.com/expertscourse ... Want to be a guest on WITneSSes? Send Elisha Arowojobe a message on #PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/member/ambelisha Elevate your business with Anastasia's expert consulting. Use code Elisha3 for an exclusive offer and transform your business today! https://resurrectionmentor.wixsite.com/so/42PDEPEB8?languageTag=en Feel like something's missing? Start Living the Magical Life today. Buy Now: https://a.co/d/4sHrFx2 Amb. Elisha just published a transformational workbook, buy now: https://ambelisha.gumroad.com/l/Llaenlap
In this powerful episode, Dr. Onaysia Martinez—physical therapist, entrepreneur, and host of The Selfish Shnaub podcast—joins Amb.Elisha To share her bold journey from burnout in the healthcare industry to becoming a purpose-driven coach and business owner helping women lead with confidence and faith. Dr. Onaysia reveals the truth about burnout as a symptom of generational guilt, the courage it takes to stand up for your values (even if it costs your job), and why trusting yourself is the only way to unlock your next level. She also dives deep into how to stop performing for approval, how purpose is rooted in divine alignment with God, and why charging your worth is a necessary act of generational healing. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a high-achieving woman navigating burnout, or someone ready to live boldly on purpose—this episode is for you.
In this powerful episode, Ambassador Elisha sits down with Dr. Michael Broukhim, an integrative psychiatrist and rabbi-in-training, to unpack his unique, root-cause approach to mental wellness. From childhood loss to spiritual awakening, Dr. Michael shares how trauma, energy healing, and compassionate self-talk shape his mission to help patients fully heal—often without lifelong medication. Discover why he believes mental illness is often temporary, how SSRIs may shrink the brain, and why tech addiction is the silent epidemic. Whether you're curious about alternative psychiatry, seeking trauma healing, or craving purpose, this episode is packed with transformative insights. Reach Dr. Michael: https://hope-therapy-center.com/integrative-psychiatrist-dr-broukhim/ ... Want to be a guest on WITneSSes? Send Elisha Arowojobe a message on #PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/member/ambelisha Elevate your business with Anastasia's expert consulting. Use code Elisha3 for an exclusive offer and transform your business today! https://resurrectionmentor.wixsite.com/so/42PDEPEB8?languageTag=en Feel like something's missing? Start Living the Magical Life today. Buy Now: https://a.co/d/4sHrFx2 Amb. Elisha just published a transformational workbook, buy now: https://ambelisha.gumroad.com/l/Llaenlap
In this eye-opening episode, Dr. Victoria Mattingly, organizational psychologist, keynote speaker, and author of Inclusalytics, shares how she's helping companies create inclusive, human-centered workplaces through data-driven strategies. Discover her journey from bartending to launching her own firm, Mattingly Solutions, and why workplace allyship, mental health, and emotional intelligence are the keys to sustainable success. Whether you're a leader, entrepreneur, or employee—this episode will change how you see workplace culture and inclusion. Topics Covered: • What is organizational psychology? • Why inclusion boosts business success • Burnout, resilience, and starting over
In this powerful episode, Ambassador Elisha sits down with Dr. Shanea Clancy—a dynamic healthcare leader, trauma-informed practitioner, and advocate for mental health and prison reform. As a first-generation college graduate, nurse, and executive MBA holder, Dr. Clancy shares how she overcame adversity to become a leading voice in addiction recovery, resilience training, and mindset mastery. Discover how Dr. Clancy helps clients break through burnout, conquer addiction (beyond substance abuse), and develop laser focus and energy for peak performance. Learn why mindset and mentorship are critical to success, and how she uses neuroscience-backed strategies to guide clients into purpose-driven living. Listen now to get inspired, challenged, and equipped with tools for transformation. Reach Dr. Shaneae: https://www.shaneaclancy.com/ ... Want to be a guest on WITneSSes? Send Elisha Arowojobe a message on #PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/member/ambelisha Elevate your business with Anastasia's expert consulting. Use code Elisha3 for an exclusive offer and transform your business today! https://resurrectionmentor.wixsite.com/so/42PDEPEB8?languageTag=en Feel like something's missing? Start Living the Magical Life today. Buy Now: https://a.co/d/4sHrFx2 Amb. Elisha just published a transformational workbook, buy now: https://ambelisha.gumroad.com/l/Llaenlap
High blood pressure doesn't have to be a lifelong sentence. Join host Parul Sarma in conversation with Dr. Pratiksha Gandhi, Founder & CEO of CoCardio Inc, as she shares how hypertension can be reversed through lifestyle, innovation, and heart-centered care. This powerful episode, uncovers what truly works beyond medication. Tune in to TALRadio English on Spotify & Apple Podcast, rethink prevention and reclaim your health naturally.Host : Parul SharmaGuest : Dr. Pratiksha Gandhi, Founder & CEO of CoCardio IncYou can Reach Dr.Pratiksha Gandhi @heartstrongwellness.co/#TALRadioEnglish #HypertensionReversal #HeartHealth #PreventiveCardiology #NaturalHealing #HolisticWellness #DrPratikshaGandhi #CoCardio #TakeThePressureOff #WellnessPodcast #BloodPressureAwareness #HealthRevolution #ParulSharmaTalks #TouchALife #TALRadio
Autoimmune diseases are rising at an alarming rate, affecting millions worldwide and often leaving patients with more questions than answers. In this special interview, Dr. Ashwani Garg, Co-Founder of the Functional Medicine Clinic, sheds light on why chronic illnesses are not our destiny and how the right environment within the body can lead to true healing. Join host Suhasini as they explore the science, hope, and power behind functional medicine. Tune in to TALRadio English on Spotify & Apple Podcast.Host : SuhasiniGuest : Dr. Ashwani Garg, Co-Founder of the Functional Medicine ClinicYou can Reach Dr.Ashwini Garg @functionalmedicineclinic.in #TALRadioEnglish #AutoimmuneAwareness #ChronicDiseaseReversal #FunctionalMedicine #RootCauseHealing #HealthNotDisease #HolisticHealth #WellnessJourney #IntegrativeMedicine #HealingFromWithin #SpecialInterview #DrAshwaniGarg #TouchALife #TALRadio
Dr. Cooke joins Greg in studio discussing several issues related to Alabama politics and then larger international affairs from a hopeful spiritual perspective. A new pope, Pakistan and India at war, Israel & Hamas, Russia & Ukraine are among the topics. Reach Dr. Cooke at StanCooke@att.net
In this powerful episode, we sit down with Dr. John L. LaCasse PhD—author, academic, and former mega yacht builder—whose journey from material success to metaphysical exploration is nothing short of extraordinary. From being told he exists in an “outside dimension” by a renowned professor, to pioneering counter trade in the yacht industry, to earning multiple terminal degrees later in life, Dr. LaCasse shares insights on frequency, purpose, and transformation. His deep curiosity and unconventional path reveal the hidden layers of reality that most ignore. This conversation is a must-listen for seekers, scholars, and those chasing more than just success. Reach Dr. John https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089927916756 ... Want to be a guest on WITneSSes? Send Elisha Arowojobe a message on #PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/member/ambelisha Elevate your business with Anastasia's expert consulting. Use code Elisha3 for an exclusive offer and transform your business today! https://resurrectionmentor.wixsite.com/so/42PDEPEB8?languageTag=en Feel like something's missing? Start Living the Magical Life today. Buy Now: https://a.co/d/4sHrFx2 Send Amb. Elisha Hello here: https://open.substack.com/pub/ambelisha1/p/join-my-new-subscriber-chat?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3z233v
In this powerful episode, Ambassador Elisha sits down with Dr. Glenn Toby—entrepreneur, author, and founder of the Book Bank Foundation. From surviving youth homelessness in Brooklyn to becoming a pioneer in the early days of hip hop and later a global advocate for literacy and education. Dr. Toby shares his incredible transformation story. He opens up about what kept him going through hardship, how music shaped his approach to business, and why he believes education is the key to eradicating poverty and ignorance. Dr. Glenn's journey is one of resilience, hope, and service—and this episode is packed with insights and inspiration for anyone ready to step into purpose and impact. Reach Dr. Glenn: https://thebbf.org/ ... Want to be a guest on WITneSSes? Send Elisha Arowojobe a message on #PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/member/ambelisha Elevate your business with Anastasia's expert consulting. Use code Elisha3 for an exclusive offer and transform your business today! https://resurrectionmentor.wixsite.com/so/42PDEPEB8?languageTag=en Join my Substack subscribers chat here: https://open.substack.com/pub/ambelisha1/p/join-my-new-subscriber-chat?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3z233v
The Secret to Better Relationships and how they work With Dr. Robert RohmMost people don't realize the key to their success isn't more effort—it's understanding people. And no one explains this better than Dr. Robert Rohm.In this powerful episode of On The HomeFront with Jeff Dudan, we sit down with one of the world's leading authorities on the DISC model of human behavior—Dr. Robert Rohm. Having shared the stage with legends like Zig Ziglar and Les Brown, Dr. Rohm has spent the last four decades teaching people how to connect, lead, and live better by understanding personality styles. From resolving deep family conflict to becoming one of the most sought-after speakers in the world, Dr. Rohm shares the exact moment DISC transformed his life—and how it can do the same for you. Jeff and Dr. Rohm talk about parenting, leadership, personal growth, and how DISC is more than just a workplace tool—it's a life tool. Whether you're a business owner, a parent, or someone who wants to level up in life, this conversation will give you the practical frameworks and motivation you need to make lasting change.
The Secret to Better Relationships and how they work With Dr. Robert RohmMost people don't realize the key to their success isn't more effort—it's understanding people. And no one explains this better than Dr. Robert Rohm.In this powerful episode of On The HomeFront with Jeff Dudan, we sit down with one of the world's leading authorities on the DISC model of human behavior—Dr. Robert Rohm. Having shared the stage with legends like Zig Ziglar and Les Brown, Dr. Rohm has spent the last four decades teaching people how to connect, lead, and live better by understanding personality styles. From resolving deep family conflict to becoming one of the most sought-after speakers in the world, Dr. Rohm shares the exact moment DISC transformed his life—and how it can do the same for you. Jeff and Dr. Rohm talk about parenting, leadership, personal growth, and how DISC is more than just a workplace tool—it's a life tool. Whether you're a business owner, a parent, or someone who wants to level up in life, this conversation will give you the practical frameworks and motivation you need to make lasting change.
In this inspiring episode of Healthy Waves, host Avik Chakraborty welcomes two remarkable guests: Susan Hensley, a transformational coach and author, and Dr. Daniel Zeiss, a personal growth pioneer and transformational expert. Together, they explore the profound intersection of creativity, mental mastery, and purposeful living. About the Guests: Susan Hensley is a transformational coach, speaker, and the author of Art for Your Sanity. After decades as a corporate executive, Susan discovered the healing power of art journaling during her personal journey through stress and life transitions. She now empowers others to embrace creativity as a tool for resilience and self-discovery. Dr. Daniel Zeiss is the founder of the Peak Growth Center, where he combines psychotherapy, trauma therapy, and coaching to guide high-achieving professionals toward living authentic and fulfilling lives. He is dedicated to helping individuals overcome mental barriers and achieve sustainable growth. Reach Dr.Daniel - https://peakgrowth.center/ Reach Susan - https://susan-hensley.com/ Episode Summary: Join Avik as he dives into a riveting conversation with Susan and Dr. Daniel. They share their journeys of transformation, offering unique insights into using creativity and mental mastery to navigate challenges. Susan discusses how art journaling became a powerful tool for stress relief and inner clarity, while Dr. Daniel explains how purpose-driven mental strategies can combat burnout and foster personal growth. Key Takeaways: The Power of Creativity: Learn how simple, playful acts like art journaling can unlock inner wisdom, provide stress relief, and build resilience. Mental Mastery: Understand the role of purposeful thinking in overcoming barriers and achieving clarity in life transitions. Burnout Prevention: Explore strategies for balancing professional success with personal well-being. Purposeful Living: Discover how aligning with your true purpose can lead to sustainable growth and fulfillment. Actionable Tools: Gain practical tips for integrating creativity and mental techniques into daily routines for a healthier, happier life. Want to be a guest on Healthy Mind, Healthy Life? DM on PM - Send me a message on PodMatch, DM Me Here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/avik Subscribe To Newsletter: https://healthymindbyavik.substack.com/ Join Community: https://nas.io/healthymind Stay Tuned And Follow Us! YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@healthymind-healthylife Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/podhealth.club/ Threads - https://www.threads.net/@podhealth.club Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/podcast.healthymind LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/newandnew/ #podmatch #healthymind #healthymindbyavik #wellness
On this episode, host Rockne Roll goes over the basics of Kabbalah with Dr. Yosef Rosen, the recently-appointed Director of Jewish Life and Learning at the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland. They discuss the history of Jewish mysticism, where it can be found today and how to bring a small spark of the mystical into your Jewish practice. Reach Dr. Rosen by email at yosef@jewishportland.org. Check out the Federation's Chanukah Happenings page online at jewishportland.org/ourcommunity/chanukahresources24.
This week on Happy Hour with Bundle Birth Nurses, Sarah has a candid conversation with Dr. Nathan Riley an OB-GYN, home birth doctor and holistic gynecologist about challenging hospital births versus home birth. Dr. Riley was initially trained in the standard medical model but became disillusioned with the overly interventionist approach to childbirth. So, he started attending home births to provide a more patient-centered, hands-off approach. He emphasizes the importance of building trust and rapport with patients, rather than rushing through routine procedures. He challenges the common assumption that hospital births are always safer, and argues that the trauma from disrespectful treatment can be more harmful than the medical risks. Dr. Riley shares stories on a more holistic, patient-empowered approach to maternity care, where nurses and providers prioritize the human connection and emotional needs of birthing people.Helpful Links: How to Reach Dr. Riley Dr. Nathan Riley InstagramBorn Free MethodSue Carter - Authority on Oxytocin Steven Porgis - Developed Poly Vagal TheoryLuminous Life - James l Oschman Physiologic Birth Class
A “BEST OF 97% EFFECTIVE” EPISODE! Tune in this fall for new episodes and more great content.Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.comSHOW NOTES:Brace Yourself! Dr. Gary McGrath, leadership guru, gets rid of bad bosses. In this continuation episode of 97% Effective, Michael and Dr. Gary walk through how he coaches a bad boss and all the stakeholders around them: their reports, peers, and even the boss of the bad boss. If you have a bad leader working for you, next to you, above you – or want to ensure you don't become one, then listen in. A coach consultant, Dr. Gary is the CEO of Statarius, a leadership development firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.If humility is such an important leadership trait, why are most leaders anything but?Dr. Gary on “the invisibility of leadership”: The public persona of a CEO vs the real human you don't see behind the scenesAre horrible geniuses a model?Leadership as a responsibility, not a positionWhat Dr Gary means when he says “I get rid of bad bosses”Are you happy as a manager or leader?Coaching the bad boss who thinks they are great: 360s and other techniques to uncover blind spotsWhen the CEO brings in a Coach to work with a troubled employee: Are they avoiding doing their job?How waiting to make people decisions can harm the entire organizationThe important 3-way conversation: “The Coach is here to coach you up -- or out”Write your mission statement and then ask yourself if you are in the right jobShould a coach give advice? Be clear on the type of coach you are – or needDr. Gary on being “kind but not gentle” and how he channels Mrs. DoubtfireCoaching the peers who have to work with the bad bossRelationship Building 101: “I don't like this man very much.. I need to get to know him better.”3 key relationships and how to use them: Coaches, mentors and sponsorsGo have lunch and ask, “How can we win together?”Coaching the direct report who works for the bad bossKnow the difference: Are you suffering or struggling?How to better assess which people should be developed into leadersCounterintuitive insight: Why promoting average people, not superstars, is a better approachReaching Dr Gary and his Statarians BIO AND LINKS:Dr. Gary McGrath is the CEO of Statarius, a leadership development firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. After serving as an officer in the U. S. Army, he went on to a 40-year business career in manufacturing, information technology, and marketing with Fortune 500 companies and technology startups. Dr. Gary is the author of the CEO's Journey: The Seven Steps of Intentional Leadership. He holds degrees in engineering from the University of Connecticut and a doctorate of business administration in marketing and leadership from Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drgarymcgrath/Statarius: https://statarius.com (or call them at +1 919-632-3235)Reach Dr. Gary vs email: gary [at] statarius.comHis Book: The 7 Steps of Intentional Leadership: https://statarius.com/resources/Dr. Gary interviews Michael, on Leading from the Front: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5cB4BNrYcSRuOiNU9Udtmq?si=28c8741cfb75428dMichael's Book, Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
In this enlightening episode of Healthy Waves, host Avik Chakraborty is joined by two incredible guests, health coach Allie Cass and Dr. Wendy Garvin, a leader in healthcare transformation and mental health in oncology. Together, they delve into the pivotal role that mindset plays in overall health, particularly for cancer patients and their families. Through a holistic lens, they explore how thoughts, beliefs, and emotions can directly influence physical health and well-being, emphasizing the importance of emotional intelligence in managing stress and supporting mental health in oncology. About the Guests: Allie Cass: A former professional bodybuilder turned health coach, Allie is dedicated to helping women transition from merely surviving to thriving. With her expertise in metabolic coaching and mindset elevation, she empowers clients to embrace self-love, gut health, and hormonal balance for sustainable transformation. Dr. Wendy Garvin: With over 20 years in clinical practice, Dr. Wendy is a pioneer in mental health support for cancer patients. As the CEO of Collaborative Cancer Care and the founder of The Stress Blueprint, she is committed to revolutionizing mental health care in oncology, ensuring that patients and their families receive the emotional support they need during challenging times. Reach Dr. Wendy: https://collaborativecancercare.com/ Reach Allie: https://www.alliecasshealth.com/ Key Takeaways: The Power of Mindset: A positive mindset is foundational to health, influencing behaviors, perceptions, and ultimately physical well-being. Stress and Physiology: Chronic stress can lead to a cycle of physical ailments, including autoimmune issues and weakened immune responses. Holistic Health Approach: Integrating mindset coaching with physical health practices creates a comprehensive approach to wellness, particularly for women and cancer patients. One Learning for Listeners: Listeners will learn that cultivating a positive mindset and managing stress are not just mental exercises; they have profound physiological implications that can significantly impact health and well-being. By addressing emotional health, especially in high-stress situations like cancer care, individuals can create a path to holistic healing and thrive in their lives. Want to be a guest on Healthy Mind, Healthy Life? DM on PM - Send me a message on PodMatch, DM Me Here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/avik Subscribe To Newsletter: https://healthymindbyavik.substack.com/ Join Community: https://nas.io/healthymind Stay Tuned And Follow Us! YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@healthymind-healthylife Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/podhealth.club/ Threads - https://www.threads.net/@podhealth.club Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/podcast.healthymind LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/newandnew/ #podmatch #healthymind #healthymindbyavik #wellness
There are some key turning points in mid-career and midlife, so how do we best manage those turning points? Especially if we aim to make our second half of life even better than our first? This is a hot topic right now for not only many entrepreneurial businesses, but for our population. Today's interview is with Dr. Charlynn Ruan, a clinical Psychologist and founder of a large group practice. She is an expert in mediation and mindfulness-based treatments. Transitions in the halftime of life affect both men and women and we uncover some of the myths and facts as we all enter the second half of life to have the healthiest relationships possible with adult kids, partners, parents, and friends. Some of the key challenges are shame, lack of communication and a victim mindset. Key takeaways are to lean into the hard things and ask for what you need. Full article here: https://goalsforyourlife.com/turning-points. Get all our articles here: https://goalsforyourlife.com/newsletter You can reach Dr. Ruan at https://www.mythrivepsychology.com/ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Introduction 01:42 - Dr. Charlene Ruan's Background 04:00 - Challenges in Mental Health 10:00 - When Does Halftime Start 10:35 - The Gift of Running Out of Time 13:07 - Building Positive Habits 19:06 - Understanding Hormones 21:08 - Mental Health Symptoms and Misdiagnosis 23:20 - Sex During Perimenopause 25:10 - Advice from Your Future Self 26:50 - Growing vs. Aging 28:00 - Cultivating a Healthy Sex Life 33:54 - Challenges in Long-Term Relationships 42:24 - Importance of Respect and Appreciation 43:30 - Men's Need for Respect 45:39 - Treating Men Like Children 47:20 - How to Reach Dr. Ruan 47:57 - Last Words of Advice 50:48 - OUTRO
In this transformative episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik Chakraborty speaks with Dr. W. Garrett Goggans, founder of the Triumphant Stories Movement and an international best-selling author. Dr. Goggans shares his personal journey of overcoming challenges, including running away from home and dropping out of school, to eventually obtaining a doctorate and becoming a mentor and motivational speaker. Through his story, he reveals the importance of mindset, resilience, and the power of personal narratives in shaping success and fulfillment. About the Guest: Dr. W. Garrett Goggans is a visionary leader and founder of the Triumphant Stories Movement, a platform empowering individuals to share their stories of overcoming adversity. He has transformed his own life from being a teenage runaway to becoming a highly accomplished author, mentor, and speaker. His passion lies in helping others heal, grow, and unlock their potential by sharing their own stories. Reach Dr. W.Garrett - https://www.triumphantstories.com Key Takeaways: Overcoming adversity is about shifting your mindset and finding healing in your personal journey. Success is not about the end result but celebrating the small victories along the way. Personal growth often comes from discomfort and facing challenges head-on. Sharing your story can not only help you heal but also inspire and uplift others. One Learning for Listeners: The feeling of being "stuck" is often a sign of growth. Embrace the discomfort, stay mindful of the small steps, and remember that progress is a journey, not a destination. Want to be a guest on Healthy Mind, Healthy Life? DM on PM - Send me a message on PodMatch, DM Me Here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/avik Subscribe To Newsletter: https://healthymindbyavik.substack.com/ Join Community: https://nas.io/healthymind Stay Tuned And Follow Us! YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@healthymind-healthylife Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/podhealth.club/ Threads - https://www.threads.net/@podhealth.club Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/podcast.healthymind LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/newandnew/ #podmatch #healthymind #healthymindbyavik #wellness
A Senior Moments podcast featuring Dr. Marlene Bizub. Marlene Bizub, Psy.D, earned a Doctorate degree in Forensic Psychology from Eisner Institute for Professional Studies and a Master's Degree in Counseling and Gerontology from Wichita State University. Dr. Marlene has over 30 years' experience as a therapist, college instructor, family preservation specialist, and has spent over 20 years serving as a forensic evaluator for the courts in family law cases before becoming a speaker, author, and private consultant in the area of divorce, blended families, and family law issues. Dr. Marlene has a weekly video podcast, “The High Road”, on Bold Brave TV Network. Author of the book, Contentious Custody: Is It Really in the Best Interest of Your Children, Dr. Marlene is passionate about her work as a Forensic Psychologist and Certified Divorce Coach, helping people learn to “love their children more than they hate their ex”. Reach Dr. Marlene at www.marlenebizub.com or 719-641-5403.
"How do we mend the intricate bonds between mothers and daughters? Join us as Dr. Debra Mandel, a nationally renowned psychologist, shares her journey and wisdom on healing these vital relationships."
"How do we mend the intricate bonds between mothers and daughters? Join us as Dr. Debra Mandel, a nationally renowned psychologist, shares her journey and wisdom on healing these vital relationships."
© 2020-2026 Ivy Podcast Discovery LLC
