Podcasts about well designed life

Welcome back to Live a Well-Designed Life! This week, we're exploring one of the most powerful acts of self-love: setting boundaries.In this episode, we'll discuss: ✨ What boundaries are and why they matter – how they protect your energy, well-being, and relationships. ✨ Signs you need stronger boundaries – do you feel drained, overwhelmed, or resentful? ✨ The different types of boundaries – emotional, physical, time, and digital. ✨ How to confidently set and communicate boundaries – using ‘I' statements, saying no, and being firm. ✨ Overcoming guilt and pushback – strategies to stay consistent even when others resist. Setting boundaries isn't about pushing people away - it's about prioritising your well-being and showing others how to respect you. You deserve relationships and commitments that honour your energy.At the end of the episode, I'll leave you with a journaling prompt to help you reflect on where you need stronger boundaries.If you found this helpful, subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a reminder to protect their peace.For more inspiration, visit Kiransinghuk.com and follow me on Instagram and Threads @kiransinghuk for daily self-compassion practices and mindset shifts.

Welcome back to Live a Well-Designed Life! Last week, we explored self-love, and today, we're diving deeper into self-compassion - how you support yourself during life's toughest moments.In this episode, we'll cover:✨ What self-compassion really means and why it's a game-changer for emotional well-being.✨ The 3 key elements of self-compassion ✨ How self-compassion differs from self-pity and self-indulgence - and why it's not about making excuses.✨ Practical ways to be kinder to yourself, from shifting your self-talk to mindful breathing and self-compassion journaling.✨ How embracing imperfection can free you from unrealistic expectations and create deeper connections.Self-compassion isn't about ignoring your struggles - it's about meeting yourself with patience and care. By changing how you speak to yourself, you can build resilience, reduce stress, and feel more at peace with who you are.At the end of the episode, I'll leave you with a powerful journaling prompt to help you reflect and apply what you've learned.If this resonates with you, I'd love for you to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs a little extra kindness today.For more inspiration, visit Kiransinghuk.com and follow me on Instagram and Threads @kiransinghuk for daily self-compassion practices and mindset shifts.

As we step into February and approach Valentine's Day, it's the perfect time to shift our focus inward. In this week's episode of Live a Well-Designed Life, I dive into the transformative power of self-love and why it's the cornerstone of a fulfilling, intentional life.✨ Here's what we'll explore in this episode:

As January comes to a close, it's time to reflect on the journey so far. Have you been building momentum with your goals, or have setbacks left you feeling stuck? Wherever you are, this week's episode of Live a Well-Designed Life is here to help you stay consistent, overcome challenges, and build a lifestyle that lasts.Join host Kiran Singh as she shares: ✨ Why consistency is the secret to long-term success - and how to make it adaptable to your life. ⚡ Practical strategies to tackle challenges head-on and shift your mindset to resilience.

Are you feeling overwhelmed by your to-do list or struggling to balance your personal goals, work responsibilities, and family commitments? You're not alone.In this week's episode of Live a Well-Designed Life, I guide you through practical steps to take control of your time and design a schedule that empowers you rather than drains you. Learn how to: ✨ Identify your true priorities using the Eisenhower Matrix. ⏳ Plan your week with simple yet powerful techniques like time-blocking. ⚡ Avoid common productivity pitfalls like multitasking and over-scheduling.

What if the secret to achieving your goals isn't a grand plan but the small, consistent actions you take every day?In this week's episode of Live a Well-Designed Life, we're exploring the transformative power of daily habits and how they shape the lives we create. Habits aren't just routines—they're the foundation of who we are and the results we achieve.Join host Kiran Singh as she uncovers ⬇️:

New Year of Better Call Daddy kicks off with a heartfelt exploration of father-daughter bonds, the power of gratitude, and the journey to having it all. Join Reena Friedman Watts and her dad, Wayne"Big Daddy" Friedman, as they welcome Cathy Christen, an entrepreneur inspired by her father's unwavering support and love. Cathy shares how her dad's influence shaped her life, instilling values of gratitude and resilience while growing up in a modest two-bedroom apartment with six family members. Her father's encouragement and belief in her abilities led her to start her own business at 19, a venture she still runs today. Cathy's story highlights the importance of recognizing each child's unique qualities and nurturing them to flourish. In this episode, Cathy opens up about her journey through personal challenges, including a difficult relationship and the decision to have an abortion. Her candidness offers listeners a chance to connect with the struggles and triumphs of finding one's path while maintaining authenticity and growth. Cathy also discusses the transition from not wanting children to embracing family life, emphasizing the importance of designing a life that balances business success with personal fulfillment. Her strategies for achieving this balance include building a supportive team and prioritizing time with her husband and children. Wayne Friedman weighs in with his wisdom, reflecting on the significance of structure in life and the lessons learned from mistakes. He praises Cathy's journey of self-discovery and her willingness to share her experiences to help others. Don't miss this inspiring episode filled with stories of love, resilience, and the pursuit of a life well-lived. (00:00) Better Call Daddy Show returns with more daddy drama (01:17) Cathy Christen says her father instilled gratitude in all of his kids (06:34) I think having a dad that supports you helps you believe in God (10:24) Trans: Keats' always supported us in our endeavors, right (14:55) Ren had an absent father growing up, but now has kids (19:41) When I heard your podcast, I was like, oh, yeah (20:04) Your husband and you eloped eight years ago (23:03) I've been on my own since 17, so communication has been very similar (23:30) M. Benjamin went to college in West Palm Beach, Florida (27:32) Your dad was definitely ready for your arrival (30:01) As a child, you knew you wanted to pursue business, right (35:05) I was able to build, uh, really life by design (38:33) Sometimes people get blocked with like, well, I don't have the funds (43:05) I started teaching Benjamin to breathe when he was one and a half (47:16) I'm trying to model that so that my sons can be great fathers themselves (48:02) Did your dad influence your book or was he a part of your book (52:19) What do you want and why? How do you get there (55:31) Is there anything that you would like to ask your dad around (01:01:48) Better Call Daddy talks about parenting and abortion on this week's podcast Connect with Reena Friedman Watts: - Website: bettercalldaddy.com - LinkedIn: Reena Friedman Watts - Twitter: @reenareena - Instagram: @Reena Friedman Watts - Instagram Podcast: @bettercalldaddypodcast Connect with Cathy Christen: Website: https://cathychristen.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathy-christen/ Join us for this episode that celebrates the power of family, the impact of mentorship, and the courage to live authentically. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and share this episode with someone who values the wisdom of a loving parent.  

Life is a series of seasons - each one holding unique lessons, challenges, and opportunities. Yet in today's fast-paced world, we often lose touch with this natural rhythm, striving for more while feeling less connected to ourselves.In this heartfelt episode of Live a Well-Designed Life, Kiran Singh, Lifestyle Coach and advocate for intentional living, invites you to pause and reflect: What season of life are you in right now? How can you use this season as a foundation to design a life you love? Join Kiran as she shares three transformative steps to help you:

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Kyra Bobinet, MD, MPH, has passionately pursued and studied the truth about behavior change for nearly three decades as a physician, public health leader, healthcare executive, and behavioral expert. An award-winning health innovator and thought leader, Dr. Bobinet has an MD from UCSF School of Medicine and an MPH from Harvard University. She belongs to the Stanford Medical School AIM lab, where she has taught on health behavior change, and is CEO/founder of Fresh Tri, a behavioral software based on the latest neuroscience of habit formation and lasting change.Her first bestselling book, Well Designed Life, is a collection of globally influential brain science and behavior change. Dr. Bobinet is an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota. She enjoys meditation, horsemanship, and herbalism and lives with her family and animal and plant teachers in the Santa Cruz Mountains.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/no-limits-podcast--5110273/support.

Kyra Bobinet, MD MPH is the CEO and Founder of Fresh Tri, a cutting edge neuroscience-based health behavior change platform developed with and for Walmart associates. She is an award-winning public health physician that specializes in healthcare innovation, technology-enabled behavior change, behavior neuroscience, health disparities, and population health management. With an M.D. from UCSF and an MPH from Harvard, Dr. Bobinet is also an adjunct professor at Stanford School of Medicine and Dr. BJ Fogg's Behavior Design Lab. Dr. Bobinet's best-selling book, Well-Designed Life, has been called a must-have tool for health innovators worldwide.Former Medical Director of Health and Wellness Innovation at Aetna, Dr. Bobinet designed evidence-based clinical interventions and patented algorithms for 30 million members. She is the inventor of Aetna's Mindfulness product and cited clinical study, which proved significant outcomes and claims cost reductions. Dr. Bobinet has dedicated her life to helping people free themselves from failure and, in particular, achieve lasting habit change to live happier, healthier lives.In This Episode Dr. Kyra Bobinet's website---What's new with The Trauma Therapist Project!The Trauma 5: gold nuggets from my 700+ interviewsThe Trauma Therapist Newsletter: a monthly resource of information and inspiration dedicated to trauma therapists.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/advertisement

Calling all newbie and seasoned designers, builders, window treatment specialists! In this episode, I personally invite you to join myself, LuAnn Nigara, and many other top industry experts to LUANN NIGARA LIVE November 5-8, 2023 in Orlando, Florida…⁠ This is a 2 ½ day event that will give you the opportunity to work ON your business, get help solving challenges, and meet other design professionals who you can connect with.  This year LUANN NIGARA LIVE is going to be about Health and Wealth! A Well-Designed Business within a Well-Designed Life. I'll be there too as a speaker helping you turn your conference "a-ha" moments into wins in your business by making your learning actionable so you can maximize your health and wealth. It's going to be a spectacular event you won't want to miss. But don't just take it from me. Tune in to this episode to hear a message directly from LuAnn Nigara, the host of the event… And get your tickets here => LuAnnLive.com

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life,' I am talking about trusting the timing of your life + the importance of embracing your journey, even the messy parts. WEBSITE: https://kiransinghuk.comLIVE A WELL-DESIGNED LIFE APP: https://kiransinghuk.com/appJOURNAL: https://kiransinghuk.com/journalDIGITAL LIBRARY: https://kiransinghuk.com/library-accessBOOKS: https://kiransinghuk.com/product-category/books

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life,' I am talking about the importance of working on your mindset and how, by changing your mindset, you can simply change your life.WEBSITE: https://kiransinghuk.comLIVE A WELL-DESIGNED LIFE APP: https://kiransinghuk.com/appJOURNAL: https://kiransinghuk.com/journalDIGITAL LIBRARY: https://kiransinghuk.com/library-accessBOOKS: https://kiransinghuk.com/product-category/books

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life,' I am talking about Slowing Down and sharing 10 Ways to Simplify Your Life.WEBSITE: https://kiransinghuk.comLIVE A WELL-DESIGNED LIFE APP: https://kiransinghuk.com/appJOURNAL: https://kiransinghuk.com/journalDIGITAL LIBRARY: https://kiransinghuk.com/library-accessBOOKS: https://kiransinghuk.com/product-category/books

Shrink the Possibility of Failure | Kyra Bobinet Kyra Bobinet, MD, MPH, is the full-time CEO & founder of Fresh Tri, a simple, sustainable behavior change approach based on the brain science of habit formation. She is an award- winning public health physician, specializing in healthcare innovation, technology-enabled behavior change, behavior neuroscience, health disparities, and population health management. Kyra holds an M.D. from UCSF and an MPH from Harvard, and acts as adjunct faculty for Stanford School of Medicine and Dr. BJ Fogg's Behavior Design Lab. She was the former Medical Director of Health and Wellness Innovation at Aetna, where she designed evidence-based clinical interventions and algorithms for over 30 million members. During that time, she was the inventor of Aetna's Mindfulness product and cited a clinical study, which proved significant outcomes and claimed cost reductions. Dr. Bobinet's best-selling book, Well Designed Life, has been called a must-have tool for health innovators worldwide. Topics covered in this episode: Behavior Design Design Thinking Paradigm Shift Performance Mindset Habenula Motivation Perceived Failure Forming Better Habits Tiny Changes Wellness Culture Modern Technology Time to Change To learn more about Kyra Bobinet and her work, head over to https://www.freshtri.com/ __________________________________________________________ Scientifically backed with thousands of published research particles, the healing power of red light therapy is well established to have safe and effective physiological benefits. We know that infrared light penetrates deeper into the body and not only can red and infrared light help to reduce pain and inflammation, but it can also give us better sleep, better metabolism, improve our mood and our mental status and help with our hair, skin and nails, and our thyroid hormonal systems. It leads to a huge string of metabolic events helping us to stay healthy. All you have to do is set up a red light therapy panel or wrap yourself up in a red light therapy wrap for 10 20 or 30 minute treatments and you can do it daily 3 to 5 times a week. You never know whether or not red light therapy might be the missing link that can help you to have targeted cellular healing. Right now my listeners can head over to http://www.lindseyelmore.com/fringe and order the Fringe Light Red Light Therapy Panel Wrap. You can wrap the wrap on your feet, ankles, knees, hips, low back. Get a portable light therapy that truly works head to http://www.lindseyelmore.com/fringe to order your Red Light Therapy Device today! __________________________________________________________ Do you want to live a healthy lifestyle but you don't know where to find reliable health education, you don't have someone you can trust to lead you to which health and wellness options are out there. When you go to http://www.Wellnessmadesimple.us you can learn practical skills that you need to build a healthy lifestyle. You'll gain access to more than 85 videos, 11 hours of education and more education is always being added, and you'll join a community that has given more than 2400 positive reviews. All you have to do is get access, and right now we are offering half off of an annual subscription when you shop the code 2023Wellness and after that, watch the coursework, then implement daily changes positively transform your help you can feel better. Go to http://www.Wellnessmadesimple.us to get an annual subscription, and shop the code 2023Wellness for half off of your annual subscription. __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ We hope you enjoyed this episode. Come check us out at www.lindseyelmore.com/podcast.

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life,' I am sharing 7 Steps to Creating a Meaningful Daily Routine. Creating a meaningful daily routine can help you improve your productivity, reduce stress, and increase your overall sense of well-being. WEBSITE: https://kiransinghuk.comLIVE A WELL-DESIGNED LIFE APP: https://kiransinghuk.com/appJOURNAL: https://kiransinghuk.com/journalDIGITAL LIBRARY: https://kiransinghuk.com/library-accessBOOKS: https://kiransinghuk.com/product-category/books

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life,' I am sharing 35 simple things you can do to change your life - they're all tried and tested and o work.WEBSITE: https://kiransinghuk.comLIVE A WELL-DESIGNED LIFE APP: https://kiransinghuk.com/appJOURNAL: https://kiransinghuk.com/journalDIGITAL LIBRARY: https://kiransinghuk.com/library-accessBOOKS: https://kiransinghuk.com/product-category/books

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life,' I am sharing my latest breakthrough; how my stuff, my belongings, are holding me back from living my life.WEBSITE: https://kiransinghuk.comLIVE A WELL-DESIGNED LIFE APP: https://kiransinghuk.com/appJOURNAL: https://kiransinghuk.com/journalDIGITAL LIBRARY: https://kiransinghuk.com/library-accessBOOKS: https://kiransinghuk.com/product-category/books

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life,' I am talking about How to do a Life Cleanse when Entering a New Season. I am sharing ways you can make your routines more efficient and energising, and let go of any habits, beliefs, or parts of your life that are no longer serving you – to make space for what is new and fresh.WEBSITE: https://kiransinghuk.comLIVE A WELL-DESIGNED LIFE APP: https://kiransinghuk.com/appJOURNAL: https://kiransinghuk.com/journalDIGITAL LIBRARY: https://kiransinghuk.com/library-accessBOOKS: https://kiransinghuk.com/product-category/books

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life,' I am talking about Simple Daily Changes you can make to Become Your Best Future Self.WEBSITE: https://kiransinghuk.comLIVE A WELL-DESIGNED LIFE APP: https://kiransinghuk.com/appJOURNAL: https://kiransinghuk.com/journalDIGITAL LIBRARY: https://kiransinghuk.com/library-accessBOOKS: https://kiransinghuk.com/product-category/books

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life,' I am talking about the importance of creating Life Systems + I am sharing my 5-Step Process to Creating Systems that help me flow through life.WEBSITE: https://kiransinghuk.comLIVE A WELL-DESIGNED LIFE APP: https://kiransinghuk.com/appJOURNAL: https://kiransinghuk.com/journalDIGITAL LIBRARY: https://kiransinghuk.com/library-accessBOOKS: https://kiransinghuk.com/product-category/books

Kyra Bobinet is an MD and CEO & Founder of  Fresh Tri - The Brain Science Behind Building Healthy Habits a neuroscience-based digital health company   She is also the author of WELL-DESIGNED LIFE: 10 LESSONS IN BRAIN SCIENCE & DESIGN THINKING FOR A MINDFUL, HEALTHY, & PURPOSEFUL LIFE     Help us fight censorship! Get immediate access to exclusive and censorship free content by donation or free by becoming a member here  

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life,' I am talking about Stepping into the Woman you Want to Become and what you will need to do to become her.WEBSITE: https://kiransinghuk.comLIVE A WELL-DESIGNED LIFE APP: https://kiransinghuk.com/appJOURNAL: https://kiransinghuk.com/journalDIGITAL LIBRARY: https://kiransinghuk.com/library-accessBOOKS: https://kiransinghuk.com/product-category/books

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life,' I am talking about Self-Doubt and sharing a few strategies that can help you overcome it.WEBSITE: https://kiransinghuk.comLIVE A WELL-DESIGNED LIFE APP: https://kiransinghuk.com/appJOURNAL: https://kiransinghuk.com/journalDIGITAL LIBRARY: https://kiransinghuk.com/library-accessBOOKS: https://kiransinghuk.com/product-category/books

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life,' I am talking about Positive Affirmations and What to Do When they Don't Work - and it's easier than you think!WEBSITE: https://kiransinghuk.comLIVE A WELL-DESIGNED LIFE APP: https://kiransinghuk.com/appJOURNAL: https://kiransinghuk.com/journalDIGITAL LIBRARY: https://kiransinghuk.com/library-accessBOOKS: https://kiransinghuk.com/product-category/books

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life,' I am sharing my thoughts on what it means to Show up for Yourself & How to Do It, about the process and the benefits. WEBSITE: https://kiransinghuk.comLIVE A WELL-DESIGNED LIFE APP: https://kiransinghuk.com/appJOURNAL: https://kiransinghuk.com/journalDIGITAL LIBRARY: https://kiransinghuk.com/library-accessBOOKS: https://kiransinghuk.com/product-category/books

Welcome to 2023's first episode of Live a Well-Designed Life. Today's episode is all about slowing down in January - it's time to reset, create space & time to reconnect to your inner-self and mindfully set new intentions.WEBSITE: https://kiransinghuk.comLIVE A WELL-DESIGNED LIFE APP: https://kiransinghuk.com/appJOURNAL: https://kiransinghuk.com/journalDIGITAL LIBRARY: https://kiransinghuk.com/library-accessBOOKS: https://kiransinghuk.com/product-category/books

Do you view your life like a fast food chain or an upscale restaurant? Well we can't anticipate everything that life throws our way, when we aren't being active, purposeful, and intentional players in our life, letting life “just happen” to us, we turn our lives into mini fast food joints. We have a whole new vibe on Everyday Grateful and in today's episode, I'm sharing affirmations to help you lead a well-designed life ❤️ If you're loving this season of Everyday Grateful, let me know! Leave a review, Tag me in your stories or follow me for more encouragement @yiemajohn on FB and IG or shoot me an email at hello@yiemajohn.com

In this episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran', I'm getting a bit personal, sharing a life update plus a recent life lesson about healing.

In this episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran', I am talking about Life, the importance of slowing down, self-discovery, procrastination, take out time to simply be, personal growth and most importantly; Living Life on Your Terms.

Are you focusing on what's ESSENTIAL in your life? Do you even know what's essential to you? In this episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran', I am sharing my thoughts on the importance of focusing on the essential and by doing that, how your life can be more meaningful.https://kiransinghuk.com/https://www.instagram.com/kiransinghuk/

In this episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran' I talk about the importance of Slowing down and tunining in during these difficult times. https://kiransinghuk.com https://www.instagram.com/kiransinghuk

In today's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran,' I talk about how you can become ‘The Woman You want to Be'. It's all about getting you thinking about your personal development plan. No matter where you are in life, it's always helpful to revisit the vision of Who you are? Where in your life are you right now in comparison to where you want to be? Where in your life can you upgrade? What is your life can you release and let go of?The Woman I Want to Be: https://kiransinghuk.com/woman/Connect with me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kiransinghuk/

In today's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran,' I talk about the importance of focusing on yourself, especially during these uncertain times.https://kiransinghuk.com/

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran' I am sharing my thoughts on why we sometimes don't follow through with our goals and intentions, and it's not what you think! Plus I also talk about how to live your ideal life right now and not in the future when everything is 'perfect'.https://kiransinghuk.com/

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran,' I am talking about how to go on with life after losing a loved one. This one is very close to my heart as I lost my Mum to cancer back in 2007. I share a short story my teacher told me which changed the way I dealt with losing my Mum and how to go on with life.https://www.kiransinghuk.com/

What do you think of when it comes to your future? In this episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran', I am sharing my thoughts of the term 'future', the importance of turning chores into something meaningful, setting New Year's resolutions and more.https://kiransinghuk.com/

Happy New Year everyone! Tune in to the first episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran' where I am sharing some thoughts ways to simplify your life and living a more meaningful life, how to be your own support network, how to practise self-compassion and more.https://kiransinghuk.com/

Happy New Year everyone! Tune in to the first episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran' where I am sharing some thoughts ways to simplify your life and living a more meaningful life, how to be your own support network, how to practise self-compassion and more. https://kiransinghuk.com/

What do you think of when it comes to your future? In this episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran', I am sharing my thoughts of the term 'future', the importance of turning chores into something meaningful, setting New Year's resolutions and more. https://kiransinghuk.com/

Today we are excited to welcome our first Results May Vary repeat guest, and author of Well-Designed Life, Dr. Kyra Bobinet. Kyra’s specialty is combining brain science & design thinking to serve the health of whole populations of people, and to challenge them and herself to live healthy fulfilling lives; physically, mentally, and spiritually.Dr. Bobinet has spent her career working in the healthcare industry, building programs and algorithms to change behaviors at the million-person scale. Today she is the Founder and CEO of Fresh Tri, a simple, sustainable behavior change approach based on the brain science of habit formation. Let’s listen in as Kyra shares her thoughts on the brain behavior gap, and why it’s so dang hard to do the things we know we should; and how adopting an iterative mindset can offer you a more successful and compassionate approach to habit change. Show Notes:About Dr. Kyra BobinetA Well Designed Life by Kyra BobinetFresh Tri App: Fresh Tri™ is a simple, sustainable approach based on the brain science of habit formation,download on the App StoreCDC’s National Diabetes Prevention ProgramHarvard Business Review’s article about Growth MindsetCarol Dweck book on Fixed and Growth Mindsets

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran,' I am talking about how to go on with life after losing a loved one. This one is very close to my heart as I lost my Mum to cancer back in 2007. I share a short story my teacher told me which changed the way I dealt with losing my Mum and how to go on with life. https://www.kiransinghuk.com/

On this week's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran' I am sharing my thoughts on why we sometimes don't follow through with our goals and intentions, and it's not what you think! Plus I also talk about how to live your ideal life right now and not in the future when everything is 'perfect'.

In today's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran,' I talk about the importance of focusing on yourself, especially during these uncertain times. https://kiransinghuk.com/

In today's episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran,' I talk about how you can become ‘The Woman You want to Be’. It's all about getting you thinking about your personal development plan. No matter where you are in life, it’s always helpful to revisit the vision of Who you are? Where in your life are you right now in comparison to where you want to be? Where in your life can you upgrade? What is your life can you release and let go of? The Woman I Want to Be: https://www.kiransingh.net/product/th... Tune-in to my interview with 'Life Like You Mean It' Podcast: https://www.lifelikeyoumeanit.com/kir... Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kiransinghuk/

Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Dr. Kyra Bobinet, an expert in the behavior neuroscience of habit formation.  She is the CEO of Fresh Tri and author of Well Designed Life: 10 Lessons in Brain Science and Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy & Purposeful Life.We must change the way behavior change is done.  In this insightful episode, we learn:Iterators never fail.  Have an interation mindset versus a performance mindsetShame kills our goals.  The brain's habenula and automaticity are so important to making it safe to try new things Design-thinking should be applied to our own life.  Design your life or let it design you. Dr. Bobinet's core values are: do no harm, compassion, curiosity.www.the-me-suite.comFB: @mesuiteLinkedIn: Donna PetersTwitter: @DonnaPetersCMeO*The Me-Suite podcast theme song by @Moshun

"Everything we do or don't do can be explained by whether it serves our self-image. We spend most of our energy promoting the image we want to project, maintaining the image we've already built, or hiding the image we don't want others to see."   Dr. Kyra Bobinet is an expert in behavior change and design thinking. After earning her Masters at Harvard and her medical degree at UCSF, Kyra kept hearing the same question from her patients: “If I know what I need to do, why am I not doing it?” She made it her life's mission to answer this question, exploring what she calls, “the unknown terrain that separates our intentions from our actions."   We talk about how our self-image shapes every part of our behavior, what it feels like to live with unconscious stress, why our institutions are setting us up to fail, and much more.    If there's a habit you're looking to stop, change or create, I highly recommend Kyra's book, Well Designed Life. Kyra is also the founder of FreshTri, a behavior change app that does not rely on goals or tracking, but instead focuses on iteration.   If you're enjoying these conversations, tap the 5 stars, or share this episode with a friend — that's how the show will continue to grow!   As always, you can send your own questions, topic ideas, or feedback to TheBetterQuestions.com, or on Instagram @thebetterquestions.

Tune in to the latest episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran' Podcast where I talk about doing an end of month reflect & review and setting intentions for the coming month.

Tune in to the latest episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran' Podcast where I talk about the importance of simplifying your life (especially during these difficult times) so you can free up space to focus your energy and time on what truly matters to you + a life update. View the video 'How to Simplify Your Life' here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc70X1rf5TA.

Tune in to the latest episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran' Podcast where I talk about the importance of focusing on what you can control, living a meaningful life and share tips on how to empower your day. Join 'The Intentional Living Collection'; https://collective.kiransingh.net/.

Tune in to the latest episode of 'Live a Well-Designed Life with Kiran' Podcast where I talk about the importance of slowing down and turning inwards during these difficult times, where I share simple tips to help you stay calm and how to make the most of our newfound time to create, do more of what we love and simply be. Join 'The Intentional Living Collective'; https://collective.kiransingh.net/

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Wouldn't it be nice if there were a simple recipe that insured you got everything you wanted?  Unfortunately, there isn't. However, I think I've figured out seven ingredients, that when practiced and fully stepped into, bring you closer to your ideal life than you ever imagined. I've observed and learned through my own trial and error, that there are seven necessary actions and mindsets we have to take to live the life that is truly fulfilling.  To live a life that is More Happy and Less Crappy.In this follow-up to Episode 20 of "A Well-Designed Life", I give you the final three ingredients in my recipe for living your ideal life; #5: Being willing to let go of the things in your life that are not working, #6: deliberating creating tension to create the sweet spot and finally, #7: embracing the mysteries of life.

Designers and medical professionals are both key to building the future of health. Dr. Kyra Bobinet is working within that intersection by using neuroscience to help people design healthy lives. She's an MD and the CEO of engagedIN, a neuroscience-based design firm. Both design and behavioral change are iterative processes, and Dr. Bobinet has experience applying behavioral strategies as a corporate executive to scale the impact of her programs.    Show notes Conversation with Dr. Kyra Bobinet Dr. Kyra Bobinet is an MD MPH.  EngagedIN is a neuroscience-based design firm. Dr. Bobinet is the CEO. Dr. Bobinet wrote Well-Designed Life, a book about the intersection of health and design.    We want to hear from you. Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and listener questions for future All Turtles Podcast episodes.  Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco

Dr. Kyra Bobinet is the CEO and founder of a neuroscience-based design firm called EngagedIn. This organization specializes in behavior change by bridging the gap between what people want to do and what they actually do. Dr. Bobinet is the author of “Well Designed Life: 10 Lessons in Brain Science and Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy, & Purposeful Life”.  She has founded several healthcare start-ups, and has designed behavior change programs, billion-dollar products, and mobile health apps. All of her designs, whether for at-risk teens or seniors, are rooted in the belief that true caring is our greatest value. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Company: engagedIN Website: DrKyraBobinet.com Blog: https://www.drkyrabobinet.com/blog Book: Well Designed Life by Dr. Kyra Bobinet Most Influential Person Sylvia Gretchen, her mindfulness teacher Effect on Emotions “What I think the value of mindfulness is, is that, I know when I'm having negative emotions.” “I can do something to slow down, go outside, or take a deep breath.” Thoughts on Breathing “I learned that we breathe so shallowly as modern people.” Suggested Resources Book: Well Designed Life by Dr. Kyra Bobinet Book: The Miracle of Midfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh App: Samsara Bullying Story “My mindfulness alarms are going off when I realized that there was a group of young people collecting. It's not a good sign after school.” “They had one girl that was being bullied by the other girls and I rushed out of my car all the way down and started screaming at them: Stop it!” “It broke it up, and the girl was protected.” Free Gift Thinking of launching your own podcast? You’ll need a host, a place to upload your episodes. Podbean is awesome. Podbean is built specifically for podcasters, been around for 10 years and the pricing is super competitive. It’s $9 a month, no matter how much content you upload and they have great stats as well. You can help support Mindfulness Mode AND get a month of free hosting with my affiliate link. Go to www.Podbean.com/PodbeanMM

Dr. Kyra Bobinet explains how to close the gap between intention and behavior to form better, lasting habits. — YOU'LL LEARN — 1) Powerful behaviors that build life-changing habits. 2) Just how long it takes to form a habit. 3) Quick ways to ease stress and anxiety at work. Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep523 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT KYRA — When it comes to health engagement, Dr. Bobinet has 5 words of advice: be caring, authentic, and useful. As the CEO-founder of engagedIN, Kyra devotes her life to helping people crack the code of how, what, and especially, WHY we engage.Kyra has founded several healthcare start-ups, spanning behavior health, population health, and mobile health. She has designed behavior change programs, big data algorithms, billion dollar products, mobile health apps, and evidence-based studies in mind-body and metabolic medicine. All of her designs, whether for at-risk teens or seniors, are rooted in the belief that true caring is our greatest value.• Kyra's book: Well Designed Life: 10 Lessons in Brain Science & Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy, & Purposeful Life• Kyra's company: EngagedIn.com • Kyra's website: DrKyraBobinet.com• Kyra's app: FreshTri.com— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • App: Calm• App: Clear• App: Headspace• App: Otter• TED Talk: “The science of emotions: Jaak Panksepp at TEDxRainier”• Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman• Book: Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu• Previous episode: 317: How to Form Habits the Smart Way with BJ Fogg— THANK YOU SPONSORS! — • SideTrak. Work with two displays anywhere, anytime. Get 10% off at sidetrak.com/discount/awesome.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a really neat week on the podcast. We're essentially clearing up some misconceptions this week. As yoga and meditation have become more mainstream, we've lost a bit of the impact that these practices can have. We all know that yoga can make you more flexible, but what about the impact it can have as a mind-clearing tool to set you up for a more successful meditation practice?  We're diving deep into these topics today, as well as the topics of visioning and life design. I couldn't be more excited! Today you'll meet Megan Betterman. Megan is a digital marketing leader within the Web & Mobile team at a large healthcare company. She is also a wellness consultant, yoga instructor and certified Gyrotonic trainer. She combines movement, meditation and visioning into impactful programs and experiences to encourage deep reflection and self-discovery. Megan earned a Master of Business Administration from St. Catherine University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of St. Thomas. She spends her free time on her own health and wellness adventure, traveling the world and playing in nature. Relevant Links: meganbetterman.com/wellness Insight Timer (meditation app) Well-Designed Life (book)

Neuroscience and Design Thinking offer keys to a mindful, healthy and purposeful life. Dr. Kyra Bobinet author of Well Designed Life offers the science behind why we don’t do what we know we should. We talk about the difference between behaviors and habits and offer practices we can adopt to form new habits. Developing an iterative mindset helps us succeed. The practice of embodying self-compassion is extraordinarily easy; we do it all the time without knowing. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://positivitystrategist.com/ps120

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Imagine you're in a canoe and trying with all your might to paddle upstream.  You are straining and striving to go against the current.  You'd probably have to work exceptionally to make any progress at all.  Conversely, if your canoe were going WITH the current, your efforts and your progress would be easy and practically guaranteed!The same is true in all aspects of our life.  When we choose "downstream" behaviors and thoughts life is easier and ultimately more satisfying.  In this episode of "A Well-Designed Life", Cheri describes the pitfalls of upstream living and the benefits of the easier and more satisfying downstream thoughts and actions.  She teaches you how to go with the flow and trust that everything you need is waiting for you downstream.

We humans hold onto things.  From old, out-of-date clothes that used to fit to that hand-me-down furniture that's well passed it's prime.  We know these things should go . . . but we hold on to them for reasons that often puzzle and frustrate us.  We do the same thing with the stories and thoughts we have about ourselves and our life.  We hold on to those negative, hurtful, derailing stories that keep us playing small and being miserable. In this episode of A Well-Designed Life, Cheri helps you understand the power and long term consequences of holding on to these limiting beliefs.  She validates why and how they occur but more importantly, she empowers you to release them!  She offers tips and inspiration to help you find your inner mojo to let them go for good and find the ease and freedom you desire.

“I know what I should do. I just don't know why I don't do it.” Sound familiar? Listen in as Dr. Bobinet, author of Well Designed Life, 10 Lessons in Brain Science and Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy, and Purposeful Life shares simple techniques to help you design your life, the life you want to live. Dr. Bobinet has uniquely combined the core principle of design-thinking with the neuroscience of behavior change resulting in powerful lessons to share.

“I know what I should do. I just don’t know why I don’t do it.” Sound familiar? Listen in as Dr. Bobinet, author of Well Designed Life, 10 Lessons in Brain Science and Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy, and Purposeful Life shares simple techniques to help you design your life, the life you want to live. Dr. Bobinet has uniquely combined the core principle of design-thinking with the neuroscience of behavior change resulting in powerful lessons to share.

Wow, this week’s interview is near and dear to my heart! Remember how I let you in on the secret that I’ve been working with people 1:1 to teach them my Life Design framework? Well, this week you get to meet one of them! Courtney Mott is a beautiful example of a person who took responsibility for her life and made incredible changes. She quit her job. She is building a new business. She advocated for herself and went on a dream beach vacation. And, most important of all, she changed her identity around what she was worth, which has allowed her to make the biggest shifts of all and has changed her financial situation. I’m thrilled to bring you this interview because it’s such a gorgeous example of what life design can do! YOU CAN DO IT TOO! I’m thrilled to announce that I’m accepting enrollments into the Life Design Lab! It is a 6-week live, online program where I’ll teach you a powerful Life Design framework that you can use to create the life YOU want to be living! Click here for more info!

Welcome to the first 'Creating a New Healthcare' podcast of 2019!This is an incredibly timely topic.  At the start of each year, most of us resolve to discard bad habits and take up new, healthier ones. We all struggle with the perennial challenge of getting motivated, avoiding frustration; and sustaining new behaviors beyond just a few days or weeks.  In this interview we discuss a new approach and health app focused on healthy eating - fresh Tri - which our guest co-developed with Walmart.Our guest this week - Kyra Bobinet - is a bestselling author and the CEO-founder of engagedIN, a neuroscience behavior design firm that uses neuroscience to make health and wellness products, and communications, more engaging.Kyra is a physician who received a masters in public health from Harvard. She was the recipient of Harvard’s 2015 Innovator Award. Kyra is the author of A Well Designed Life: 10 Lessons in Brain Science and Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy, and Purposeful Life.  She and her work have been featured by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Huffington Post and NPR. She’s created health startups, blockbuster products, health apps, and evidence-based programs in mind-body & metabolic medicine.  Some of the incredibly relevant issues covered in this episode include:“The emperor has no clothes.” - Kyra’s assessment of the employer wellness industryThe fundamental differences that make her new app - fresh Tri - unique in the world of healthy habit developmentWhy the perception of ‘failure’ is actually harmful to our health and is the neurophysiological basis for de-motivationHow to apply the basic principle of design thinking to constantly improve one’s   approach to developing healthful habits - and how to side-step failure trapsA rare opportunity to hear an expert describe  ‘the anatomy and physiology of behavior design’The ‘secret sauce’ Kyra discovered and believes to be the single most important factor in sustained behavior changeWhat’s unique about this interview and the work Dr. Bobinet is doing is that it goes beyond healthcare and physical health. This message of how we perceive failure and success is a fundamental life skill. Kyra’s research can assist us in avoiding the pitfalls of self-defeat in all aspects of our lives. Her underlying motivation - to remove the self-blame and harsh criticism we inflict upon ourselves - is a hopeful and realistic way to begin the new year.  As always, I hope you get as much out of this interview as I have.Zeev Neuwirth, MD 

Advanced Life Design For Healthcare EvolutionKyra Bobinet, MD MPH. CEO & Founder, http://engagedin.com/about/ (engagedIN) - "My goal is to serve the health of whole populations of people, and challenge them and myself to live healthy fulfilling lives; physically, mentally, and spiritually...to be engaged in healthcare evolution." Expertise: Behavior Neuroscience, Design Thinking, Mindfulness, Behavior Change, Patient Engagement, Population health management, Healthcare Innovation/ Technology-based Medicine, Workplace Well-being/Culture, Human development (multi-cultural), Product Design, Brand personality design, Neuroscience-based market research, and Clinical study design. Take a moment to consider her outstanding qualifications. 'Maven' is an understatement. She's on it. When it comes to healthcare evolution and engagement, Dr. Bobinet has five words of advice: be caring, authentic, and useful. As the CEO-founder of engagedIN, Kyra devotes her life to helping people crack the code of how, what, and primarily, WHY we engage. Photo by https://unsplash.com/photos/NysO5Rdn7Mc?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText (Marc Szeglat) on https://unsplash.com/collections/874415/change?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText (Unsplash) Neuroscience Directs Her Larger MissionKyra has founded several healthcare start-ups, spanning behavior health, population health, and mobile health. She has designed behavior change programs, big data algorithms, billion-dollar products, mobile health apps, and evidence-based studies in mind-body and metabolic medicine. All of her designs, whether for at-risk teens or seniors, are rooted in the belief that true caring is our most significant value. Dr. Bobinet teaches at Stanford School of Medicine on patient engagement and empowerment, and health design with Dr. Larry Chu, founder of MedicineX. She has studied in Dr. BJ Fogg's Persuasive Tech Lab at Stanford, whom she credits as the founder of “behavior design”. NB: You will love her honest, insightful remarks about the evolving coalescence of neuroscience and patient care. The Websites, Books, And Connectionshttp://geni.us/bobinet (Well Designed Life: 10 Lessons in Brain Science & Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy, & Purposeful Life )- 2015 - Bobinet http://www.drkyrabobinet.com/ (drkyrabobinet.com) |  http://www.engagedin.com/ (www.engagedin.com) Podcast: http://inspirenation.libsyn.com/ (InspireNation) Twitter: @DrKyraBobinet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engagedindesign/ (https://www.instagram.com/engagedindesign/) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/engagedindesign/ (https://www.facebook.com/engagedindesign/) Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyrabobinet/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyrabobinet/) Additional CBJ Expert ConnectionsCBJ Experts on Mindset - http://corebrainjournal.com/mindset (http://corebrainjournal.com/mindset) CBJ Experts on Children & Family - http://corebrainjournal.com/family (http://corebrainjournal.com/family) CBJ Experts on Autism & Family - http://corebrainjournal.com/autism (http://corebrainjournal.com/autism) Wellness From Vision To Reality - Silverman - http://corebrainjournal.com/275 (http://corebrainjournal.com/275) My Crazy Family - Hallowell - http://corebrainjournal.com/276 (http://corebrainjournal.com/276) --------- Easily Forward This Audio Message Link To a Friendhttp://corebrainjournal.com/282 (http://corebrainjournal.com/282) ----------- Next CoreBrain Journal Episode283 Kelly Breeding is a clinical social worker with extensive experience in building community partnerships, non-profit leadership, fundraising, and program development. Ms. Breeding's clinical practice has afforded her the opportunity to work with diverse populations with a specialization in trauma and life transitions as well as providing

If you've ever struggled with knowing what you want to get done, but have no idea how to do so, then do we have the well designed life, show for you!  Today I'll be talking with Dr. Kyra Bobinet, CEO of the design firm engagedIn, the recipient of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Innovator award, and the author of a BRILLIANT new book on creating lasting change, The Well Designed Life. And that's just what I want to talk with her about today, about the truth about motivation and 10 lessons in Brain Science and Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy, and Purposeful Life, and how to GET DONE what you really want to do get done! Well Designed Life Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: What was the experience that shifted Dr. Bobinet's life from medicine to design work??? What's it mean to design our own lives? What is iterative change and why is iteration so important? What are the top 10 lessons in brain science and design thinking for a mindful, healthy, and purposeful life? What's it mean to design the change you want to see in the world? What can we learn from Dr. Fogg about our refrigerator? How can we work with our children's laziness (or our own)? What's the habenula in the brain? What can we learn from elephants in captivity about our brains? What's the importance of letting go of success, and instead welcoming in tinkering? What's the neuroscience behind compassion and empathy? What can we learn from Daniel Kahneman's Fast Brain, Slow Brain? What's the gap between what we want to do, and being able to do it – and how do we move past it? What are tiny habits? What's me, not me? What's the real truth about motivation? How do we design our lives for lasting change? What's it mean to track ourselves, and how can this help? What is deep tracking? What do we need to know about our future self and past self??? What's it mean to relapse and reboot? How do we free ourselves from attachment – and what's a Native American giveaway??? What do we need to know about helping our kids design there lives? What's an iterative mindset? To find out more visit: DrKyraBobinet.com and www.engagedIN.com Dr. Kyra Bobinet on the Neuroscience Behind Motivation & Getting Done What You Want to Get Done!!! Health | Law of Attraction | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Meditation | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

I want everyone to see themselves as designers of their own lives because that's truly what we're doing. We're co-creating this reality and we're all an active part of it. Essentially, there are two types of people: designers and those who are still struggling with the concept. Brain science is really how your brain works and why it does what it does whereas design thinking focuses more on the future. Design thinking is what we can become and what we can transform ourselves into. - Dr. Kyra Bobinet JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | REVIEW THIS PODCAST  20% OFF ORGANIFI - USE CODE: WELLNESSFORCE Do you want to change in some way, shape or form, but you're too comfortable fitting a specific mold of other people's expectations? In Wellness Force Radio 183, CEO and Founder of engagedIN, Author of Well Designed Life, and teacher of health engagement at the Stanford School of Medicine, Dr. Kyra Bobinet, shares how we can all live a well-designed life. As you listen to this episode, you will learn all about how to become a designer of your own life, your unique connection between the heuristic link and self-image, and how you can set yourself up for a future self that will thank your past self. Learn how your current self can live up to the expectations of your future self and how to create a life you will love.  Get Your Copy of Well Designed Life Click here to get your copy of Well Designed Life by Dr. Kyra Bobinet     I know what I should do...I just don't know why I don't do it."   This phrase captures a universal human experience--we can't always get ourselves to do what we know is best for us. In Well Designed Life, you will learn that the solution to this stumbling block resides in coupling two disciplines: brain science and design thinking. Brain and behavior sciences have exploded in recent years. This catalyzes new insights into why we do what we do--and how we can change.   Meanwhile, major advances in consumer technology, service industries, and public health are rapidly changing how we live. This boom of innovation has been fueled by a creative approach to solving problems called design thinking. We are living in the age of design--and designers are the new rock stars.   Dr. Kyra Bobinet brings together over 25 years of successfully designing interventions, products, and experiences that change lives--to empower you as the designer of your life. Dr. Bobinet has gathered her top ten key concepts from psychology, behavior, and neuroscience and shows you how to apply each of them to change your health, relationships, and well-being. Bobinet insists that the success or failure of changing our lives hinges on both understanding what's going on inside our head and applying the flexible mindset of a designer.   You have a choice: design your life or let it design you!   Infused with relatable narratives that are at once witty and gripping, professional and personal, Bobinet takes you on a journey through the origins of your self-image, motivations, decisions, and unconscious behaviors--leaving you with the keys to free yourself from your conditioning and lead a well-designed life. Listen To Episode 183 As Dr. Kyra Bobinet Uncovers: Her book, Well Designed Life, and the process she went through to write it. How she defines behavior change and how you can change your own behavior for the long-term. The difference between brain science and design thinking. The connection between the heuristic link and self-image plus their connection to behavior change. The difference between fast brain and slow brain; intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation; inspiration vs. motivation; and stable motivation vs. unstable motivation. How she was able to design her own life in order to step into her own for her family. Her unconscious stress and how her poor eating habits caused by the heuristic link affected her health. How she was able to apply design thinking to her life after facing various health concerns. Her advice for listeners to take the first steps towards redesigning their lives and how iteration actually helped her scenario. What the habenula is and how it functions as the record keeper of all your failures. What her narrative was in the past versus now in the present. How you can build the mindset of a designer and ignore the habenula. Why self-love is an excellent companion to your mindset and behavior. Your current self vs. your past self vs. your future self and how you can design your life around them accordingly. Why the A-Type personality and high performers have such a tight relationship between the past self and future self. Why the self-image of the future self is so important in moments of decision making. Why relapse should be recognized as a critical stage for behavior change and how you can face it. How suffering helps us either become more flexible or take on the role of the victim. How gaining emotional intelligence can truly strip you of your ego. What practical steps you can take after listening to this episode. Power Quotes From The Show "Our brains are super lazy and it wants to make everything a shortcut. So, the way you get ready in the morning is a heuristic. All those automatic, heuristic actions are meant to conserve energy so we can live our lives on autopilot for most things that we repeat every day. So, when you are exhausted or stressed, you're most likely going to use your fast brain and heuristics to get through decision-making moments. But the more you can think ahead and put the slow brain into action when scheduling your week, the more powerful your thinking is so that you don't have to make things up as you go through the week." - Dr. Kyra Bobinet "As a mother, I was unconsciously stressed so I would automatically go buy a chai latte every single day and I wouldn't burn it off because I was working on a laptop all the time. Having that warm, comforting drink of a tiny shot of caffeine with a huge amount of sugar really got me going in the morning and that was my treat to myself. But I wasn't doing any long-term thinking; this was my short-term reward. The brain is very good at short-term rewards and going through these dopamine cycles and it really kicked me into this addiction of chai lattes." - Dr. Kyra Bobinet  "The previous part of me didn't know that I had to design my life. Back then, I knew what I should have done, but I didn't know why I wasn't doing it and I didn't have a how to do it. What I notice between people who can design their behavior and those who cannot is that the people who can don't have to spend a year in frustrating feedback looks and constantly feeling bad about themselves for not doing what they know they should do." - Dr. Kyra Bobinet "The habenula in our brain basically tracks our failures. If we fail at something, we won't want to try it again because the habenula down regulates our motivation to try it again. The only way to get around the habenula is to iterate and to think that the story that you tell yourself is 'I'm just figuring it out. That's my job.' Not to do it, but to figure out how to do it." - Dr. Kyra Bobinet "Your self-image is the filter of everything you do and don't do. We just don't always know in the moment which self-image is governing. Is it the self-image of myself as this fiery and healthy person or as an overweight kid? We're constantly in the midst and struggle of different self-images. In the end, it’s really the self-image of the future self that is going to matter when the time comes. - Dr. Kyra Bobinet Links From Today's Show Dr. Kyra Bobinet Facebook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Change Training Center  engagedIN Facebook Twitter Instagram Well Designed Life Course Well Designed Life by Dr. Kyra Bobinet Stanford School of Medicine Healing by Design: Kyra Bobinet, MD, MPH Mindfulness-based stress reduction Food Decision-Making: Effects of Weight Status and Age Habenula: Crossroad between the Basal Ganglia and the Limbic System Tao Te Ching Laurence Gonzales BJ Fogg WFR 048 Nir Eyal WFR 088 Dan Pardi About Dr. Kyra Bobinet When it comes to health engagement, Dr. Kyra Bobinet has 5 words of advice: be caring, authentic, and useful. As the CEO-founder of engagedIN, Kyra devotes her life to helping people crack the code of how, what, and especially, WHY we engage. Kyra has founded several healthcare start-ups, spanning behavior health, population health, and mobile health. She has designed behavior change programs, big data algorithms, billion-dollar products, mobile health apps, and evidence-based studies in mind-body and metabolic medicine. All of her designs, whether for at-risk teens or seniors, are rooted in the belief that true caring is our greatest value. Dr. Bobinet teaches at Stanford School of Medicine on patient engagement and empowerment, and health design with Dr. Larry Chu, founder of MedicineX. She has studied in Dr. BJ Fogg’s Persuasive Tech Lab at Stanford, whom she credits as the founder of “behavior design.” Dr. Bobinet received her Masters in Public Health at Harvard University, specializing in Healthcare Management, Technology-enabled Behavior Change, and Population Health Management. She received her medical degree from the UCSF School of Medicine. 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In this episode of Creating a New Healthcare, Dr. Zeev Neuwirth interviews Kyra Bobinet MD, CEO & founder of engagedIN - a healthcare behavior design firm which uses neuroscience and state-of-the-art design techniques that make products and communications more engaging for consumers.  Kyra has an impressive background in developing health apps, blockbuster products, and evidence-based programs in wellness & metabolic medicine.  Prior to founding her own company, she served as a physician executive at Aetna, where she designed large-scale population health management and wellness interventions for Fortune 500 companies.  In 2015, she authored the ‘Well Designed Life: 10 Lessons in Brain Science and Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy, and Purposeful Life’.  In addition to her companies work, she also co-teaches patient engagement and health design with Dr. Larry Chu at the Stanford School of Medicine.  This podcast episode is a critically important to anyone interested in patient engagement & behavior change.  Kyra has spent years studying and combining the most up-to-date, evidence-based brain science, behavior change and design thinking - and embedding them in healthcare programs and products.  You will come away from this interview with a very different understanding of behavior change.  As Kyra puts it, “we have learned more about the brain and behavior in the past 5 years than in the previous 5,000 years - offering the potential and power to reach, influence and improve health and well-being at scale”.There are  a number of pivotal learnings to be gained from this interview.  Here are a couple.One of the most compelling advantages of Dr. Bobinet’s approach is the absence of blame, shame or guilt.  In this model, there is no sense of personal failure.  If there is a failure, it is in the behavior design, not in the provider or patient; because the intent is not in manipulating or psychologizing the individual; but rather in manipulating the design.Another advantage to this approach is that it’s based on brain science.  Kyra describes a part of the brain called the Habenula.  It’s purpose is to prevent us from repeating behaviors that might harm us.  As Kyra describes, the Habenula is essentially a ‘failure counter’.  If we perceive a failure - like in trying to lose weight or starting some new exercise regimen or eating healthier - the Habenula downgrades our motivation.   So - not only do we not achieve the intended behavior change, we also feel bad about it, and are demotivated to try something else.  The Habenula pathway is literally a physiologic demotivator.  Realizing the unintended consequences of this evolutionary neural pathway, the Design approach attempts to side-step the Habenula’s failure mode.  If we perceive a design attempt as an externally located learning experience, rather than a personal failure, the Habenula failure counter and cycle of suffering is far less likely to be activated.  The Design approach transforms behavior change from compliance-based to creative-based.  And, this is not a theoretical model.  It is a practical one that has been deployed in industry and in healthcare.  Kyra describes how companies like Facebook use this creative iterative approach.  She also shares some of her own projects that have deployed this approach.  There are numerous pearls, parables and personal takeaways that Kyra offers up in this interview.   Kyra is, above all else, completely genuine and authentic; and therefore her voice is incredibly compelling.  It’s truly a delight and a privilege to share this interview with you.   

Dr. Kyra Bobinet has five words of advice on engaging people in health: be caring, authentic, and useful. As a national speaker, bestselling author and CEO-founder of engagedIN, a neuroscience behavior design firm, Kyra devotes her life to cracking the code of WHY we engage in our health. Everyday, she and her team use neuroscience to make products and communications more engaging. For this work, Kyra received the 2015 Innovator Award from Harvard where she received her Masters in Public Health. She earned her medical degree at UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Bobinet is the author of Well Designed Life: 10 Lessons in Brain Science and Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy, and Purposeful Life. She has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Huffington Post, ExperienceLife and NPR. She has created health start-ups, blockbuster products, health apps, big data algorithms, and evidence-based programs in mind-body & metabolic medicine. A former executive at a large payer, she has designed large-scale population health management and wellness interventions that yielded ROI for Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Bobinet co-teaches patient engagement and health design with Dr. Larry Chu at Stanford School of Medicine, and studied in BJ Fogg's behavior design lab. When she's not geeking out on neuroscience, you can find her engaged in her 160-acre training center in the Santa Cruz Mountains. 00:00 How we should be looking at engagement. 01:50 “If it doesn't make sense to the brain, then we shouldn't be talking about it.” 02:50 Competing priorities in patients' lives. 03:50 Why people don't use patient portals. 04:45 Right-sizing expectations with patient portals. 05:00 “Where's the cheese?” 05:30 Get real about the ‘season of' and defining the use case for the patient portal. 09:00 Is seasonal health enough? 10:30 Emotion as a value proposition. 11:00 How Kyra would redesign patient portals to be more purpose-driven. 11:50 How patient portals can be an extension of trust, not just a repository. 19:00 How to go about improving user experience within patient portals. 19:20 “What's this doing to their brain?” 20:30 The main patient portal participants. 24:00 Where self-image and social aspects fit into EHRs. 28:40 What makes us better designers of behavior. 33:00 “We just have to remember what we know.” 33:45 You can learn more at engagedin.com and changetrainingcenter.com.

Do you have a rat’s nest of clutter that you consider your safe space? Have your let go of something only to later regret it? Are you forever collecting books and information on organizing and clearing clutter but not getting anything done? Learn about clearing clutter for a life well designed. Julie shares her thoughts on A Life Well Designed podcast with Jonathan Pritchard. Life coach, author & award winning professional organizer Julie Coraccio shares steps and tips to support you in creating the life you choose, deserve and desire through decluttering your life and how to organize your life. About Clearing the Clutter Inside & Out Clutter is stuck stagnant energy and can prevent you from creating the life you choose, desire and deserve. We discuss clutter in all its forms: energetic, spiritual, emotional, mental & physical and provide tips for clutter free living and how to organize your life. We're thinking outside the box on areas where people might not realize where clutter is blocking them. When we remove clutter from our lives we can discover our passions, lead the extraordinary lives we are all meant to live and share our gifts with the world.

Most people will fail to keep the New Year's resolutions they make each January,a grim reality that results in shame and disappointment. People know whatthey should be doing to lead healthier and happier lives, but today's guest says the way we set our resolutions is flawed. A specialist in behavior neuroscience and faculty at Stanford Medical School, Dr. Kyra Bobinet says people will only be successful if they match their resolutions to how their brains work. She'll explain how to apply brain science to eating healthier and exercising more. She is also the author of the new book, “Well Designed Life: 10 Lessons in Brain Science & Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy, and Purposeful Life.” She has been featured on NPR, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Fast Company and many other media outlets.    Her websites are www.drkyrabobinet.com and www.engagedin.com

Today we're proud to introduce you to Dr. Kyra Bobinet, whose specialty is combining two medicines together: behavior change and design thinking. After completing med school, she decided to change course in order to dig deeper into the science behind behavior change.

We're tackling the much under-talked about design dilemma: How do you design for litter boxes and diaper pails?  So we're asking the question: When it comes to litter boxes and diaper pails, where do you put the poop without compromising design? HGTV designer Genevieve Gorder is sharing her perspective on the unglamorous quandary. Genevieve designs for her new series Genevieve's Renovation. You can also catch her on Dear Genevieve, HGTV Star, A Hero's Welcome Home, and hosting HGTV's White House Christmas Specials. Off air, Genevieve designs for a diverse group of clients and companies ranging from her collection at Capel Rugs, ships with Royal Caribbean, hotels, restaurants, private clients, and her new lifestyle web series A Well Designed Life on ulive.com. Married designers and founders of AphroChic, Jeanine Hays & Bryan Mason, are experts at design that embraces culture and the unique admixture of the traditional and the contemporary that helps to define us all. Jeanine and Bryan have been featured on Good Morning America, and in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, Elle Decor, EBONY and more. Dinah Wulf is the creator of DIYInspired.com, mom to a 3-year-old daughter, and loves to repurpose and decorate. She's contributed to magazines, named one of Mashable's Moms Full of Inspiring Advice, and partnered with some fabulous brands including Jo-Ann Fabric and Crafts, Home Depot and 3M DIY. She's also a part of Martha's Circle, a network of DIY blogs chosen by Martha Stewart's Editors.

We're tackling the much under-talked about design dilemma: How do you design for litter boxes and diaper pails?  So we're asking the question: When it comes to litter boxes and diaper pails, where do you put the poop without compromising design? HGTV designer Genevieve Gorder is sharing her perspective on the unglamorous quandary. Genevieve designs for her new series Genevieve's Renovation. You can also catch her on Dear Genevieve, HGTV Star, A Hero's Welcome Home, and hosting HGTV's White House Christmas Specials. Off air, Genevieve designs for a diverse group of clients and companies ranging from her collection at Capel Rugs, ships with Royal Caribbean, hotels, restaurants, private clients, and her new lifestyle web series A Well Designed Life on ulive.com. Married designers and founders of AphroChic, Jeanine Hays & Bryan Mason, are experts at design that embraces culture and the unique admixture of the traditional and the contemporary that helps to define us all. Jeanine and Bryan have been featured on Good Morning America, and in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, Elle Decor, EBONY and more. Dinah Wulf is the creator of DIYInspired.com, mom to a 3-year-old daughter, and loves to repurpose and decorate. She's contributed to magazines, named one of Mashable's Moms Full of Inspiring Advice, and partnered with some fabulous brands including Jo-Ann Fabric and Crafts, Home Depot and 3M DIY. She's also a part of Martha's Circle, a network of DIY blogs chosen by Martha Stewart's Editors.