#146 Optimizing Your Brain & Business Through Therapy with Dr. Jordan Hoffman

#185 Don't Miss Moments: Highlights from Beyond Influential Podcast Episodes 181-184

This week’s show is a special highlights episode where I’ve gone through the latest interviews and pulled out the must-listen clips and moments from conversations you might have missed or will want to revisit.

This is an easy way to see if a particular guest or topic sparks your interest, and if you like what you hear, you can check out the full episodes, which are all linked below. You can also check out the shownotes for each episode for more info about the guest, how to connect with them, their book recommendations and more!

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#184 Creating The Next Craze in Nightlife with Sauna, Ice Baths, & Breathwork with Myles Farmer of Othership

This week’s episode is all about building the next craze in nightlife—an alcohol-free alternative focused on wellness and community building.

Othership is a luxury sauna and ice bath experience with carefully curated and guided classes to make sure you have an immersive and transformative time where you can truly connect with yourself and others. With their first location based in Toronto, Othership has attracted both devoted enthusiasts and the attention of major wellness investors. Othership also has a great breathwork app, and you can get an extended free trial right here: https://othership.onelink.me/loJo/brittanyk

My guest this week is Myles Farmer, one of the five co-founders and the Director of Operations & Development responsible for their physical locations. For more about Myles, click here: https://bit.ly/3Twq5qz

On Ep. 184, we cover:

• How to run a successful franchise: What it takes & how to thrive
• Myle’s entrepreneurial evolution from hospitality and nightlife to wellness
• Making the difficult decision to leave a successful business & how he found the next thing
• Research Sprints: Tips to explore and test your business ideas
• The genesis of Othership: How he got the idea, finding co-founders, and making the vision a reality
• Covid’s impact on their launch & how they adapted, plans to expand to the US & more!

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#183 Stress Resilience, Heart Rate Variability, and Using Biofeedback to Train Your Nervous System with Dr. Jay Wiles

Dr. Jay Wiles is a clinical health and performance psychologist and the subject-matter expert on heart rate variability (HRV) and the interconnection between the human stress response and health optimization.

He works as a leading consultant in psychophysiology to health influencers, professional athletes and teams, executives, and high performers. He is also the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Hanu Health, where he has pioneered a new and innovative way of using heart rate variability and respiratory training to help you adapt and respond to stress, while allowing you to build resilience and improved performance. For more about Dr. Jay,  click here: https://bit.ly/3bUGy6L

On Ep. 183, we cover:

• HRV 101: What it is, why it’s important, and why you should be measuring it
• Tips & Tools to Improve Your HRV
• Biofeedback: How you can use it to train your nervous system and better respond to stress
• The benefits of resonance breathwork, sauna & cold plunge
• Hanu Health: Developing the product, startup life, and what’s next
• The four primary pillars to health and wellness, wearables, more!

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#182 Hypnosis 101: What It Really Is, What It Can Do For You & How to Use It Yourself with Dr. David Spiegel

Have you ever been hypnotized?

When you hear the word hypnosis, I’m willing to bet the first thing you think of is those stage performances where an audience member is instructed to do something ridiculous. But in reality, hypnosis is so much more than that, and it can truly benefit you in many ways. Whether you want to stress less, sleep better, manage pain, lose weight, overcome fears, or improve professional performance, hypnosis can help you do it.

This week’s Beyond Influential guest, Dr. David Spiegel is the expert when it comes to clinical hypnosis, and his mission is to help destigmatize hypnosis and show you how you can use the power of your own mind to heal and achieve. I wanted to have Dr. Spiegel on because this isn’t pseudoscience; what we discuss today is backed by decades of scientific research and clinical experience.

Dr. Spiegel has a laundry list of accomplishments and accolades, including degrees from Yale and Harvard Medical School. He is currently serving as Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Center on Stress and Health, and Medical Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he has been a member of the academic faculty since 1975.

Dr. Spiegel has more than 40 years of clinical and research experience studying psycho-oncology, stress and health, pain control, sleep, hypnosis, and more. He has published thirteen books, over 400 scientific journal articles, and contributed over 170 book chapters on hypnosis, psychosocial oncology, stress physiology, trauma, and psychotherapy. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Aging, and several other organizations. He is Past President of the American College of Psychiatrists and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. He was also invited to speak on hypnosis at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2018. 

On top of all of this, Dr. Spiegel is also the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Reveri, which is an app designed to help you learn and use the proven techniques of self-hypnosis to experience the benefits of hypnosis quickly and conveniently. 

On Ep. 182, we cover:

• Hypnosis: What it is & how it works
• Benefits of Hypnosis: How it can help with everything from reducing stress, anxiety, and depression to overcoming addiction, trauma, and phobias, to pain management, weight loss, better sleep, and improved focus
• Clinical vs. Stage Hypnosis: What’s the difference?
• Can you be hypnotized? How to tell if you’re hypnotizable
• Hypnosis vs. meditation: Similarities and differences
• Induction techniques and best practices for self-hypnosis
• Reveri: building the app, and the future of hypnosis

Book Recommendation

Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis by Herbert Spiegel, MD and David Spiegel, MD https://amzn.to/3JjA0es

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#181 Feel Your Best: How to Optimize Your Diet with Data and Improve Your Metabolic Health with Dr. Lauren Kelley-Chew of Levels Health

What if you could see in real-time how what you’re eating affects your health? 

We all know we should be “eating healthy”—but what does that mean exactly? Health is not one size fits all and with so much competing advice out there, I’m excited to introduce you to this week’s guest, Dr. Lauren Kelley-Chew. 

Lauren is a physician entrepreneur whose background includes private equity, a Y-Combinator backed digital therapeutics startup, and leading strategy and business operations at Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google X) where she focused on devices and emerging products.

She is currently the Head of Clinical Product at Levels Health, a startup dedicated to improving your metabolic health by helping you make better (and tangible) lifestyle choices through personalized data. Levels uses wearable biosensors like continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) to show you how the foods you eat affect your body specifically, in a quantifiable way. 

This is incredibly important because metabolic dysfunction and insulin resistance is at epidemic levels in the US and it’s tied to virtually every symptom or disease you can think of—diabetes, Alzheimer’s, high blood pressure, cancer, depression, anxiety, infertility, chronic fatigue, acne, psoriasis, and more. The good news is that it’s largely reversible by making some simple habit changes, which can go a long way in helping to prevent chronic disease and improve your quality of life.

I’ve been excited about what Levels is doing and where they plan to expand. They have an all-star team of MD’s, former SpaceX and Google engineers, advisors including previous guest Dr. Molly Maloof, Dr. Mark Hyman, Dom D'Agostino, Ph.D., Dr. Sara Gottfried, and David Sinclair, Ph.D., and huge investors backing them.

On Ep. 181, we cover:

• Why Lauren ditched the traditional medical practice route and her experience as a woman working in the tech scene
• Metabolic Health: What it is, why it’s important, how it relates to diet, sleep, exercise, and stress, and how it’s affected by glucose and insulin
• How CGMs can help you optimize your diet
• What she learned using Levels for herself, and how she's adjusted her diet
• Women’s health, the keto diet, and how it affects men and women differently
• Optimal blood sugar levels, what order you should eat your food, and other actionable tips
• Behind the scenes of Levels Health—their culture, content process, and more!

Book Recommendation

Women, Food, And Hormones: A 4-Week Plan to Achieve Hormonal Balance, Lose Weight, and Feel Like Yourself Again by Sara Gottfried, MD https://amzn.to/3IOqe3A

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