Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Tom Walters, board-certified orthopedic physical therapist, strength and conditioning specialist, educator, founder of Rehab Science, and author of Rehab Science: How to Overcome Pain and Heal from Injury, joins Dr. Michael Gervais to explain the difference between pain and injury, how fear and language shape the pain experience, and what to do when something hurts.

Dr. Masud Husain, clinical neurologist, neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Brain, and author of Our Brains, Our Selves, winner of the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, joins Dr. Michael Gervais to explain how the brain builds motivation, what happens to a person when that system fails, and why he believes the self is not set in stone.

Jamie Metzl breaks down the question behind his new set of ten principles, what happens when you read the original ten commandments literally, and why values collapse under pressure without the skills to hold them.

Tamsen Fadal, Emmy Award-winning journalist, menopause advocate, executive producer of the documentary The M Factor, and New York Times bestselling author of How to Menopause, joins Dr. Michael Gervais to explain what menopause actually is, why its symptoms are so often mistaken for anxiety or depression, and what women, partners, and leaders can do with better information.

Dr. Tommy Wood, physician and neuroscientist, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience at the University of Washington, and author of The Stimulated Mind, returns to Finding Mastery to join Dr. Michael Gervais on what we can do today to minimize our chances of developing dementia, how much of the risk is modifiable, and the three buckets he sorts every risk factor into.