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Habits & Behavior Change

A collection of The One You Feed Episodes that deal with building habits or changing your behavior.

How to Get Unstuck with Adam Alter

August 18, 2023 Leave a Comment

In this episode, Adam Alter shares valuable strategies for learning how to become unstuck and break through common barriers in life. He emphasizes the importance of seeking new perspectives and thinking differently to break through mental and emotional blocks. He also highlights the connection between physical movement and creative inspiration, explaining how it stimulates the brain and unlocks fresh ideas.

In this episode, you’ll be able to:

  • Discover powerful strategies to unblock personal growth hurdles and pave a clear path toward your goals
  • Uncover the surprising relationship between physical movement and creativity
  • Recognize the unspoken value of failure and how it can lead to unforeseen successes
  • Immerse in the importance of broadening your horizon and embracing new perspectives to clear mental roadblocks
  • Learn how and why exploration and exploitation for fostering both personal and professional growth

Adam Alter is a Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the Robert Stansky Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow, with an affiliated appointment in the New York University Psychology Department. Adam has also written for the New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Atlantic, WIRED, Slate, Huffington Post, and Popular Science, among other publications. He has shared his ideas on NPR’s Fresh Air, at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, and with dozens of companies, including Google, Microsoft, Anheuser Busch, Prudential, and Fidelity, and with several design and ad agencies around the world. Adam’s academic research focuses on judgment and decision-making and social psychology, with a particular interest in the sometimes surprising effects of subtle cues in the environment on human cognition and behavior. His research has been published widely in academic journals, and featured in dozens of TV, radio and print outlets around the world.

Connect with Adam Alter: Website | Twitter | Facebook

If you enjoyed this conversation with Adam Alter, check out these other episodes:

How to Create Emotional Agility with Susan David

Thomas Sterner on How to Be Fully Engaged

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How to Embrace Challenges for Positive Change with Nikki Eisenhauer

May 5, 2023 Leave a Comment

Nikki Eisenhauer explains how practicing mindfulness, being present in the moment, and consciously minimizing distractions such as excessive scrolling can help reduce inner chatter. She shares the need for repetition and consistency in making these lifestyle changes, as well as replacing old, unhelpful habits with new ones that encourage a serene, focused state of mind. In this episode, you’ll also discover:

  • How to take control of your personal journey by embracing responsibility and fostering growth
  • Mastering the power of stillness and its impact on your well-being
  • Learning to acknowledge and utilize the gift of high sensitivity to enrich your life experience.
  • How to distinguish between your inner voices to make choices that resonate with your wisest self
  • Learning to work with the obstacles on your way to wellness and finally overcome them

Nikki Eisenhauer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC) and has been in private practice since 2009.  She is a passionate mentor, teacher, and healer who transforms head knowledge into heart knowledge to help Seekers move from surviving to thriving.  Nikki is also the host of the podcast Emotional Badass: Where Moxie Meets Mindful, which has over 3+ million downloads in 100+ countries.  She shares her recovery story as a mentoring healing tool to empower highly sensitive people (HSP’s) to embrace who they really are in this one precious life. 

Connect with Nikki Eisenhauer Website | Instagram | Emotional Badass Podcast

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If you enjoyed this conversation with Nikki Eisenhauer, check out these other episodes:

How to Harness the Chatter in Your Head with Ethan Kross

Overthinking and Internal Soundtracks with Jon Acuff

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How to Make Lasting Changes with John Norcross

January 13, 2023 Leave a Comment

In this Episode, We Discuss How to Make Lasting Changes and…

  • Why motivation and will power are overrated when trying to make lasting changes
  • Why you must understand the 5 stages behavior change and match your activity to the proper stage
  • How slips up are inevitable and are perfect opportunities to learn
  • How to use conflicting energy sources -the pushing away from unwanted behavior and pulling toward a desired behavior
  • Why self monitoring and tracking progress increases your chances of success

“Behavior change is not a hundred yard dash, it is indeed a marathon. You need to concretely build in the new behavior, resist temptations and then maintain it over time.“ – John Norcross

Dr. John Norcross is an internationally recognized expert on behavior change. He is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Scranton, a board-certified psychologist, and is the author of the acclaimed book, Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions. John has authored over 400 publications and has co-written and edited 22 books in the areas of psychotherapy, clinical psychology, professional training, and self-change.

Connect with John Norcross: Website | Twitter

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If you enjoyed this conversation with John Norcross check out these other episode:

James Clear- Part 1

James Clear – Part 2

BJ Fogg

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How to Make Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise with Michelle Segar

January 3, 2023 1 Comment

How to Make Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise

Eric and Michelle Segar Discuss How to Make Lasting Choices in Eating and Exercises using the Joy Choice and…

Key Concepts:

1. How can having conscious awareness of our thoughts related to eating well and exercise enable us to make different choices?

2. What is a motivation bubble and how can it lead to lasting changes in behavior?

3. How the “POP” decision tool works and strategically guides attention from decision traps and leads to making the Joy Choice!

“The Joy Choice is the perfect imperfect option that let’s us do something instead of nothing and harmonizes exercise and eating within our full self. ” – Michelle Segar, author of The Joy Choice:  How to Finally Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise.

Dr. Segar is an award-winning researcher at the University of Michigan. She has been a sustainable behavior change scientist and health coach for almost 30 years. Her work investigates how to help people adopt self-care behaviors, like exercise and healthy eating, in ways that bring joy and meaning, and can survive the complexity and unpredictability of the real world. She has authored two popular books (No Sweat, The Joy Choice), advises the World Health Organization on their physical activity initiatives, and was selected as the inaugural chair of the United States National Physical Activity Plan’s Communication Committee. Her pragmatic work is being scaled to boost patient health, employee well-being, and gym membership retention.

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Connect with Michelle Segar: Website | Twitter | Linkedin |

If you enjoyed this conversation with Michelle Segar, please check out these other episodes:

Michelle Segar (Interview from 2016)

How to Meet Yourself with Dr. Nicole LePera

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How to Overcome Procrastination with Tim Pychyl

December 30, 2022 Leave a Comment

In This Episode, Eric and Tim Pychyl Discuss How to Overcome Procrastination and…

Key Concepts:

1. What is the connection between procrastination and health?
2. How can we use implementation intentions to deal with self regulation failure?
3. What is the importance of not wasting our lives with procrastination?

“It is in the getting on with life that makes our lives and that procrastination, in a very real sense, is an existential issue of not getting on with life itself.” – Tim Pychyl

Tim Pychyl is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Carlton University and the host of the podcast, “I Procrastinate”. His latest book is Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change

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Connect with Timothy Pychyl: Website | Twitter | 

If you enjoyed this conversation with Timothy Pychyl, please check out these other episodes:

David Kadavy on Getting Started

Tim Urban – Wait but Why – Part 1 and Part 2

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How to Work with the Craving Mind with Dr. Jud Brewer

December 27, 2022 Leave a Comment

craving mind

In This Episode: How to Work with the Craving Mind

Key Concepts:

  1. The roles of rewards and punishments and the importance of understanding how the habit loop cycle works in adjusting behavior.
  2. Understanding cravings and addictions and strategies that can be used to work through our habitual behavior patterns.
  3. How bringing awareness and curiosity is a crucial component in training our mind to deal more effectively with cravings.

Jud Brewer, MD, Ph.D. (“Dr. Jud”) is a New York Times best-selling author and thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery,” who blends over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training and a career in scientific research. Dr. Jud is the director of research and innovation at Brown University’s Mindfulness Center, where he also serves as an associate professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences at the School of Public Health and Psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University.

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Connect with Dr. Jud Brewer: Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

If you enjoyed this conversation with Dr. Jud Brewer, please check out these other episodes:

BJ Fogg on Tiny Habits

Habits for Healing Anxiety with Dr. Jud Brewer

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