Charlotte Fox Weber is a psychotherapist and writer. She cofounded Examined Life and was the founding head of The School of Life Psychotherapy. She grew up in Connecticut and Paris and now lives in London with her husband and two young children. Her book Tell Me What You Want or What we want ( depending on your location) is her first book. In this episode we discuss why it is important to fulfil our desires. The book uses case studies based on Charlotte's patients to catalogue 12 of our deepest desires, every desire from the desire to love and be loved, to the desire to actually desire, to the desire for attention, to belong, to connect, to create and more. Charlotte also spells out the damage to us of not fulfilling our desires. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tell-What-You-Want-Therapist/dp/1982170662https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-We-Want-Journey-Through/dp/1472281438

In this episode I talk with Dr Fatima Hamroush who is a consultant opthalmologist. Expect to learn about the anatomy of the eye, common eye conditions such as dry eye, macular degeneration, cataracts and diabetic retinopathy. We hear about risk factors for glaucoma and how to manage the condition. We also expect to learn about how best to optmise your eye care including the benefit of nutrition that supports good eye health. https://www.dmec.ie/our-practice https://ie.linkedin.com/in/dr-fatima-hamroush-83647269

Today I'm talking with Robin Dreeke. He is a best-selling author, professional speaker, trainer, a former marine, a facilitator, and retired FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. Robin has taken his life's work of recruiting spies and broken down the art of leadership, communication, and relationship building. Prepare to have your preconceptions of what an FBI agent is in person, completely obliterated. In this episode we learn that the communication skills it takes to work in counter intelligence can be used by us all to build rapport and human relationships in everyday life. We also learn about the importance of transparency, the need to drop any expectations of reciprocity when dealing with other people, and the significance of non verbal communication.   Expect to learn about the key pillars taht make up the Language of leaders ie: thoughts and opinions, challenges, the need to be non-judgemental, the need to be curious about what others are willing to share with you  and the importance of giving people you're engaging with, choices.  Robin's book : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sizing-People-Up-Behavior-Prediction/dp/0525540431 Robin's website: https://www.peopleformula.com Robin's Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/rdreeke/?hl=en Robin's twitter : https://twitter.com/rdreeke

My guest today is Dr Steven Laureys, a world leading neurologist, researcher, author and keynote speaker with a passionate interest in understanding and caring for the brain. His team works principally with severely brain damaged patients with various degrees of consciousness including comatose patients, to determine their extent of neurological disability and their degree of neuronal plasticity, which ultimately will govern their capacity to recover. They do these using various forms of brain scans. Dr Laureys is also a passionate meditator and has married his medical background, his interest in the brain, and his curiosity regarding meditation by writing a book entitled: The no nonsense meditation book, a scientist's guide to the power of meditation. In this episode expect to learn what meditation is, how studying the brains of expert meditators like buddhist monks while they're meditating is giving us an insight into the brain's ability to physically change. We learn of the physical, psychological and emotional benefits of meditation. We also find out how applying our knowledge about the brain's ability to change can be used to benefit severely brain damaged patients. Plus Dr Laureys talks to us about brain activity in those people who have undergone a near death experience, and finally we learn about how meditation changes our DNA to help us live longer! I loved talking with Dr Laureys, his work is lifechanging and groundbreaking, I hope you enjoy our conversation. Dr Laureys' Ted Talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qqc_wJS6-Q Dr Laureys' book : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Steven-Laureys/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ASteven+Laureys His website : https://www.drstevenlaureys.org/

Dr Jaimie Krems is an assistant professor in social psychology at UCLA. Her research explores human social cognition, emotions, and behaviour. Evolution has influenced our frienships and is the reason we are loyal, we share intimate details, we feel betrayal when let down. What follows is a really interesting discussion where we learn what women want from a man, we ask can men and womens rally be friends, are men's relationships with their male friends less profound and less complex than womens relationships with their female friends. Does hell really hath no fury like a woman scorned? Liam Neeson even crops up in the discussion and we touch upon how modern dating apps are altering how we meet a partner plus, we tlk about women having casual sex. https://www.kremslab.com/ https://www.psych.ucla.edu/faculty-page/jkrems/