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Non Fiction, Personal Development, Psychology

Jan 07: Upping Your Game When It Matters Most with Dr. Dana Sinclair

January 7, 2026

Performance psychologist helps identify your performance style for work, home, and winning in life.

Dialed In: Do Your Best When It Matters Most with performance psychologist and author Dr. Dana Sinclair

HAPPY NEW YEAR to you! And, as always, thank you for joining us.

Today, we’re not talking about new year’s resolutions – which most of us have abandoned by January 15th anyway. But we are talking about about how you can learn to step up your performance, with Dr. Dana Sinclair – her book, Dialed In: Do Your Best When It Matters Most.

Dr. Sinclair says ” … motivation is overrated”, and we’ll find out why. We discuss how to identify our individual performance style, and the importance of planning. And we bust some of the most common myths and lousy advice.

Why is daydreaming important? Why does character beat out talent? How do you develop helpful habits and routines? How do they differ from superstitious rituals? And how do you overcome the fear of failure, and stop self-sabotaging We share all of that, too.

Meet Dr. Dana Sinclair

Dialed In: Do Your Best When It Matters Most is a 2024 Globe & Mail Bestseller, and still going strong. Author, Dr. Dana Sinclair, is a registered psychologist, specializing in performance psychology for more than two decades. A founder and partner of Human Performance International, Dr. Sinclair is a former athlete, and as a psychologist, has partnered with elite athletes to help them achieve peak performance in professional football, hockey, baseball, and basketball. She is a clinical assistant professor with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and also works with surgeons and high-level medical and corporate organizations.

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Non Fiction, Personal Development, Psychology, Self-help

May 17: How to Rekindle Your Child’s Motivation with Dr. Ellen Braaten

May 17, 2023

Bright Kids Who Couldn’t Care Less

Bright Kids with author Dr. Ellen Braaten

If you’re confused by a child in your life who has lost interest in things they once enjoyed and doesn’t seem to care about anything, you’re not alone. In today’s post-pandemic world, we’re seeing children and adults struggle to regain the motivation they once had. This is particularly challenging for anyone with learning differences, as they try to catch up.

From Dr. Ellen Braaten’s new book, Bright Kids Who Couldn’t Care Less: How to Rekindle Your Child’s Motivation, we discuss how stress and anxiety can play into this. Why ADHD is more common than you may think. How a formula that Dr. Braaten terms the Parenting App can help focus recovery. How to meet your child exactly where they are today. And how to find more help if you need it.

About Dr. Ellen Braaten

Ellen Braaten, PhD, is widely recognized for her expertise in pediatric neuropsychological and psychological assessment, particularly in the areas of assessing learning disabilities and attentional disorders. Dr. Braaten is Executive Director of the Learning and Emotional Assessment Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and Visiting Professor at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She has been affiliated with MGH and HMS since 1998.

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Non Fiction, Self-help

FEB 17: Overcome the Challenges of Juggling Life & Working from Home with Helene Segura

February 17, 2021

Get Unstuck, Gain Focus, Improve Productivity & Creativity

If you’re struggling to find your new normal, you’re not alone.  Here’s another chance to catch listener favorite, Helene Segura. She talks with people every day about the challenges of managing kids, life, and working from home during a pandemic … and says it’s less about time management, and more about managing our minds and energy.

We discuss positive ways to overcome common challenges that many of us carried over from 2020, such as lack of focus and motivation. Impatience. Fear. The anxiety of uncertainty. And feeling blocked — creatively and productively.

About Helene Segura

With four books under her belt, including The Inefficiency Assassin: Time Management Tactics for Working Smarter, Not Longer, bestselling author Helene Segura knows what it takes to focus.  She’s been interviewed more than 200 times for feature articles in US News and World Report, Money Magazine, etc.  And has been a  guest on shows with Fox, CBS, ABC, and NBC affiliates.

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Personal Development, Self-help

NOV 13: Perceptual Intelligence with Dr. Boxer Wachler & Mindfulness for Emerging Adults with Donna Torney

October 31, 2017

Brian Boxer Wachler, MD describes Perception Intelligence (PI) as how we see what we see and why this affects every aspect of our life.

We’ll explore how we can improve our PI to see past illusion and self-deception. How to reverse self-delusion. Why we feel obliged to return a favor. And why some folks see Jesus in their cornflakes, or the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich.

Dr. Boxer Wachler is a leading authority on kerataconus and refractive surgery. His latest book Perceptual Intelligence: The Brain’s Secret to Seeing Past Illusion, Misperception, and Self-Deception.

Also today, licensed psychotherapist Donna Torney combines Eastern philosophies with modern neuroscience to aid millennials in facing the stresses and challenges of “adulting” in Mindfulness for Emerging Adults: Finding Balance, Belonging and Meaning in the Digital Age.

Donna is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, with a focus on emerging and established adults who are struggling to live in our fast-paced society.

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