Episode 027 - Police Brutality and Racial Inequity from a Neurobiological Perspective with Dr. Bruce Perry

Dr. Bruce Perry is the senior fellow of the Child Trauma Academy. A major activity of the CTA is to translate emerging findings about the human brain and child development into practical implications for the ways we nurture, protect, enrich, educate and heal children. This model has been discussed as optimal for promoting social change in our current complex world.  Solving problems which involve parenting, education, the law, child protection systems, mental health, law enforcement and a host of related systems across every professional discipline is challenging. In response to this challenge, Dr. Perry and his team have created a collaborative, interdisciplinary virtual Center of Excellence to address the needs of high needs, high risk children.

Dr. Perry is a psychiatrist who holds an MD and PhD. His accomplishments are vast and numerous but to highlight some they include: best selling author the book The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog, faculty member, research professor, Chief of Psychiatry at Texas Children’s Hospital, and Medical Director. He has attended or held positions at Baylor, University of Chicago Medicine, Northwestern, Amherst, Stanford and Yale.

His experience as a clinician and a researcher with traumatized children has led many community and governmental agencies to consult Dr. Perry following high-profile incidents involving traumatized children such as the Branch Davidian siege in Waco (1993), the Oklahoma City bombing (1995), the Columbine school shootings (1999), the September 11th terrorist attacks (2001), Hurricane Katrina (2005), and the Sandy Hook Elementary school shootings (2012) and more.

A word about what Dr. Perry's work has meant to my work...

His clinical research over the years has been focused on integrating emerging principles of developmental neuroscience into clinical practice. This work has resulted in the Neurosequential Model©. This approach to clinical problem solving has been integrated into the programs at dozens of large public and non-profit organizations serving at-risk children and their families including where I started as a Clinical Director in 2003 using Dr. Perry’s work…

• Personal experiences at Littler Center, Namaqua Center, Mt. St Vincent Home for Children, and CereScan now CereHealth

Today...I think Dr. Perry can help lead the way to how we reform law enforcement and help black, disadvantaged communities heal and create new systems of reality for their futures.

Episode 026 - Insight: How to Become Self-Aware with Dr. Tasha Eurich

Dr. Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times best-selling author. Over her 15-plus-year career, she’s helped thousands of leaders become more self-aware and successful.

With a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Tasha is the principal of The Eurich Group, a boutique executive development firm that helps companies—from start-ups to the Fortune 100—succeed by improving the effectiveness of their leaders and teams. She does executive coaching, executive team development, and leadership and high potential development programs. 

Thinkers50 has named her one of the top 30 emerging management thinkers in the world and a top 50 World Leader in Coaching, and she ranked #13 on the GlobalGurus list of organizational culture experts.

Episode 025 - What Your Child with ADHD Wishes You Knew with Dr. Sharon Saline

Dr. Sharon Saline a clinical psychologist in private practice in Massachusetts who is a top expert in how ADHD, learning disabilities and mental health issues affect children, teens and families. Dr. Saline has worked extensively with schools on mental health issues in the classroom, interpreting psychological evaluations and improving teacher/parent communication. Her unique perspective, namely growing up in a household with a sibling who wrestled with untreated ADHD, combined with decades of clinical expertise, assists her in guiding families from the maze of emotions, conflict and stress toward successful dialog, interventions and connection.

Episode 024 - How To Manage Screen Time (Even During School Closures) with Dr. Sheryl Gould

Sheryl Gould is a Parenting Expert and author who has been coaching moms for over 15 years. She is the founder of Moms of Tweens and Teens, an international organization supporting moms to grow in their self-awareness, become more effective parents, and build stronger connections with their adolescents and families. Recently, she has written a book, SOS: A technology guide book for parents of teens and tweens, and due out this summer, You’re Not Crazy, You’re Not A Bad Parent, and No Your Teen Really Doesn’t Hate You.

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Episode 023 - Everything Isn’t Terrible Effective Ways To Deal With Anxiety and Calm Down with Dr. Kathleen Smith

Dr. Kathleen Smith is a licensed therapist and author of the book, Everything Isn’t Terrible: Conquer Your Insecurities, Interrupt Your Anxiety, and Finally Calm Down.

She is a graduate of both George Washington University and Harvard University and she’s written for popular websites. Kathleen runs her own private therapy practice in Washington, DC, and is the host of the TV show Family Matters.

Episode 022 - Home Schooling, Distance Learning: A Guide To Help Parents Navigate Our New Reality with Dr. Aditya Nagrath

Dr. Aditya Nagrath is a visionary leader on a mission to change the way that the world teaches mathematics. He graduated from the University of Denver with a dual major in Mathematics and Computer Science, while working full time as a software developer. After a decade at the University, Dr. Nagrath founded Elephant Head Software where he led a team of engineers to bring over 35 different product lines with over 50 different applications to market.

In 2016, Dr. Nagrath co-founded Elephant Learning in order to transform America's education system. Three out of 4 students are not proficient at High School Mathematics, leading to 69% of STEM majors switching to a major with less math.

Episode 021 - Mindset for Mastery: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life with Ryan Harris

Ryan Harris played offensive tackle on the Super Bowl 50 Denver Broncos champion team and is taking his life lessons to offer insights, inspiration and practical tools to help others overcome uncertainties to accomplish their goals. He endured nine surgeries over a ten year NFL career and shares how he did it in his book, Mindset for Mastery: An NFL Champions Guide to Reaching Your Greatness.

Episode 020 - Raising Courageous Kids

Lizi is a psychotherapist and life coach who is a Certified Daring Way™ and Rising Strong™ Facilitator and Case Consultant. Lizi translated the Daring Greatly™ and Rising Strong™ curricula into Spanish and Hebrew. She also leads parenting and Daring Greatly Workshops in Denver, Colorado.

Episode 019 - Family Focused Treatment for Bipolar Disorder with Dr. Sullivan

Aimee Sullivan, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist at the University of Colorado Johnson Depression Center. She provides evidence-based psychotherapy to youth and adults with mood and anxiety symptoms, with a special emphasis on treating bipolar disorders. She earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology with Dr. David Miklowitz at the University of Colorado Boulder, and completed her predoctoral clinical internship at UCLA. She specializes in the use of Dr. Miklowitz’s Family-Focused Treatment (FFT) for adolescents and adults with bipolar disorder, and youth at high risk for bipolar disorder. She has assisted with the completion of nationally-funded randomized controlled trials investigating the use of FFT, and served as a lead study psychologist for four years on these projects.

Episode 018 - Cultural Observational Health Trends from China with Expat Dr. Justin Trosclair

Dr. Justin Trosclair is a chiropractor trained in Texas with an undergrad from LSU. He had his own private practice for 6 years in the US until the past 5 years, where he has been the sole chiropractor in a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China serving 200,000 people. Dr. Justin started a weekly podcast called "A Doctor's Perspective" and is the author of two books: Today's Choices, Tomorrow's Health -small steps to improve health, food choices, exercise and life, and the other is Needle-less Acupuncture- self treatment guide for 40 common conditions all with no needles. He is married to a spectacular woman and they are raising a strong, intelligent, independent, beautiful daughter.