What It Really Takes to Change with Karin Nordin, PhD

Today on Far From Perfect I am talking with Karin Nordin, who is a Behavior Change Expert. She has her PhD and is CEO of Body Brain Alliance. If you're like me you might recognize her from her work at Precision Nutrition. Karin's work focuses on two things, Helping people approach self help without self hate and helping people close the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it. This is done by science! She talks to us about how your brain has no distinction between a small task and a HUGE one. We talk about how self help is divided into two polar categories; action focused and how to tap into your inner goddess. She talks to us about how to connect these two sides. We discuss Interbody brain alliance, time management(and what that really means). We also talk about Cognitive Flexibility and her Tips to boost productivity. We even dabble in ADHD. And wait for it...Committing to doing less!!! This is such an amazing conversation that you won't want to miss. Karin offers: Change Academy(which is a DIY), Alliance Coaching (1:1), Meaningful Mornings, and Compassionate Calendar. You can find Karin on instagram @karinnordinphd and her company @bodybrainalliance. This is the book she recommended: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown. More about Karin: Karin is a loving dog mom, funfetti flavor super-fan, and self-help book encyclopedia… and she also happens to be a PhD expert in health behavior change and published mindset theory researcher. After graduating with her doctorate, Karin had a striking realization: The typical self-help and productivity approaches of the personal development industry were shockingly inconsistent with the actual research on change. That inconsistency became the fuel for her business Body Brain Alliance, where she’s on a mission to teach compassion-first change techniques that help dedicated self-improvers become their 2.0 selves. As part of that mission, Body Brain Alliance provides programs for change enthusiasts, as well as high level education on curriculum design and coaching practices for impact-first entrepreneurs. To make it simple: We teach people to change, and we teach coaches how to teach people to change.