The Psychology Of Speaking Under Pressure | Matt Abrahams
29 July - 48 minsWhen the moment arrives and you don’t have a script, are you trying to impress, or working to connect?
Matt Abrahams is a lecturer in organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, host of the Think Fast, Talk Smart podcast, and author of Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot. His path into this work starts very young and is almost comically literal. His last name starts with AB, so all through school he was the one teachers called on first. He felt what it is to be put on the spot before he had any tools for it. Later, in the corporate world and then at Stanford, he watched how much rides on those unscripted and authentic mo...
Series Episodes
The Psychology of Youth Sports | AMA Victoria Garrick Browne and Dr Michael Gervais
For this 30th installment of our popular series Ask Me Anything, Dr. Michael Gervais turns the microphone with co-host Victoria Garrick Browne, Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient, former Division I volleyball player, mental health advocate, and founder of the nonprofit The Hidden Opponent. Together they answer questions submitted by the community on identity, performance anxiety, burnout, and how to raise young people who know they are more than what they do.
1 hour 5 mins
5 August Finished
The Psychology of Youth Mental Health | Ross Szabo
Ross Szabo breaks down a clear, working definition of mental health, why the more words you have for your feelings the better your mental health becomes, the neuroscience behind coping, and how parents, teachers, and leaders can help young people build mental health skills before they ever reach a crisis point.
1 hour 6 mins
22 July Finished
Women Are Not Small Men | Dr Stacy Sims
Dr. Stacy Sims, exercise physiologist, nutrition scientist, and bestselling author of ROAR and Next Level, joins Dr. Michael Gervais to share why so much of what women have been taught about training and nutrition was built on research that was never done on women, what actually changes during perimenopause and menopause, and how to work with your physiology rather than against it.
1 hour 47 mins
15 July Finished
The Psychology Of Building Team Culture | Eddie Jones
Eddie Jones, one of the most accomplished coaches in world rugby, who has led Australia, England, and guided Japan to one of the greatest upsets in the sport's history, joins Dr. Michael Gervais to share how he builds team identity, learns from past mistakes, creates training environments where mistakes become learning, and gets people to become more than they thought they could.
1 hour 18 mins
8 July Finished
The Psychology Of Parenting | Dr. Dan Siegel
Dr. Dan Siegel, Harvard-trained clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA, neuroscientist, and New York Times bestselling co-author of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, joins Dr. Michael Gervais to share what four decades of attachment research reveal about the three things children need most from us, why repair matters more than perfection, and why understanding your own story may be the foundation of parenting well... and living a full life.
1 hour 33 mins
1 July Finished
