Stefanie Faye
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Neuroscience-based strategies for encouraging growth mindset, creativity, emotion regulation and resilience.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It connects brain research with the practical and social conditions that shape how people learn, regulate emotion, build relationships, and make decisions.
Mindset Neuroscience Podcast turns guest conversations into careful tours of how brains meet ordinary life. The host follows neuroscience into revenge and forgiveness, attachment and emotional development, inward attention, education, purpose, and children's encounters with…
A zero-to-nine punishment scale gives your inner scorekeeper something uncomfortable to chew on.
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Courage is framed as evidence built over time: repeated challenges can teach the brain that fear is survivable.
Bravery is treated here as something people can practice when fear turns a hard conversation, a public post, a new experience, or a live performance into something that feels unsafe.
A thoughtful episode on how shared attention and purpose may influence the way teams learn and work together.
Caroline Zimanski brings social neuroscience into a practical conversation about how people think, learn, and make progress together. The episode is most engaging when it shifts away from the idea of brains as isolated systems and considers what may happen during shared…
A nervous-system lens on why one tense interaction can feel like the whole story.
This Mindset Neuroscience mini episode treats taking things personally as a problem of nervous-system interpretation, not just sensitivity or bad thinking.
A calm neuroscience reflection on noticing bodily patterns before they run on default.
Inner intelligence is framed here as a practical science of noticing. The host links everyday social triggers to the brain's formation through experience and relationships, then traces that influence through bodily sensation, attention, belief, and behavior.
A measured look at brain fog, theta activity, restorative sleep, and working memory exercises.
Brain fog is framed as something more specific than a hazy complaint, with the host treating it as a pattern that can be examined. The episode links drowsiness and unclear thinking to brain-map patterns marked by dominant theta activity, especially in frontal areas, while…
Purpose is framed as a way of linking meaning, behavior, and brain activity.
The episode treats purpose as more than a slogan: it starts with ordinary meanings of the word, then connects purpose and meaning to brain circuitry.
A neuroscience conversation about wisdom as the discipline of staying grounded, flexible, and open to critique.
The conversation between Dr. Nicholas Wright and Stephanie Fay treats decision-making as a matter of judgment under pressure, not certainty. It stays focused on what wisdom can look like when people are working with incomplete information, and the RAF frame, reality,…
A broad neuroscience interview that turns biography into an argument about vulnerability, behavior, and media.
Season five opens on Dr. Alan Hamilton, tracing a path from janitor to Harvard-trained brain surgeon and decorated Army veteran. His background spans military medicine and multiple professorships, and the conversation is at its best when it stays with his view of how…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
This mini-episode from the Mindset Neuroscience Podcast breaks down emotion regulation into five key pillars: co-regulation with others, maintaining autonomy, suppressing or enhancing emotional states as needed, building resilience through variability, and daily self-monitoring.
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Mindset Neuroscience Podcast focuses on “super regulators,” a term the speaker uses for leaders who regulate their own nervous systems and help others do the same.
Mindset Neuroscience Podcast Season 5, Episode 2 features Deb MacNamara, a faculty member at the Neufeld Institute for close to 20 years, discussing attachment through neuroscience and developmental science.
Mindset Neuroscience Podcast interviews Dr.
The host explores how neuroscience reveals trauma as patterns embedded in the brain-body system and explains how self-directed neuroplasticity through practices like micro-movements, sensory awareness, and social connection can help rewire these patterns to overcome past experiences and build new neural pathways.
The host reads her article on cultivating 'inner intelligence,' explaining how to distinguish your true internal guidance from conditioned social responses.
Stephanie Fay frames the conversation around wisdom, uncertainty, and the brain's role in both personal moments and global security decisions.
The episode starts with the idea behind *The Body Keeps the Score* and moves into a cellular argument.
Stephanie Fay speaks with Kyra Bobinet about the neuroscience of feeling like a failure.
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This episode explores resilience through a neuroscience and systems thinking lens, arguing it's not about staying calm but optimizing energy expenditure, embracing rupture and repair, and aligning with a clear mission.
Host interviews clinical psychologist Tim Lewis ('Complex Trauma Doc') about his journey from childhood trauma through adulthood recovery to professional expertise.
Host Ashley interviews social neuroscientist Caroline Zimanski about her research on brain synchronization and teamwork, exploring how neural patterns correlate with effective collaboration, the role of joint attention, and practical applications for organizations using design thinking.
Neuroscientist host Stephanie interviews Dr.
This neuroscience-focused episode explores how gratitude and appreciation function as neurophysiological interventions that regulate the nervous system.
Stephanie Fay talks with Ross Ellenhorn about attunement, adaptation, and what happens when repeated shutdown starts to wear down hope and agency.
The episode opens by laying out purpose in a few everyday senses.
Stephanie Fay speaks with Michelle Mace Curran, a former U.S.
Tim Lewis, known as the Complex Trauma Doc, joins the show for a conversation about trauma, healing, and the forces that shape both.
Nico joins for a conversation about embodied memory.