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Brad Hook Podcast

by Bradley Hook

Discover the Brad Hook Show: a place for the curious. Each episode offers deep dives with diverse guests—from academics demystifying theories to athletes discussing grit, authors revealing their thought processes, or storytellers enchanting with tales. It's a fusion of backgrounds and ideas, aiming to provide listeners with a kaleidoscope of inspiration, knowledge, and passion.Brad is the author of Start With Values (Penguin), founder of the Values Institute, and founder of Surfd.com, an action sports magazine. He is head of the Resilience Lab at Resilience Institute.

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  1. The Stress Response Was Built to Save Your Life, Not Your Future

    Does your immune system have more say over your thoughts than you realize? Dr. Aoife O’Donovan, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF and director of the THRIVE Lab, has spent nearly two decades studying how psychological stress gets under the skin and into the brain. In this...

  2. What Psychedelics Actually Do in the Brain, Explained by a Neuroscientist

    Dr. Chloe West is a psychedelic neuroscientist who studies how psychedelics change the way the brain processes information and updates its beliefs about the world. Her path began at age ten, when her family moved from a small town in Georgia's Bible Belt to Kawakawa in New Zealand's Northland…

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  3. The Navy SEAL Playbook: Don Mann on Grit, Goals, and Leadership

    Don Mann spent 21 years in the Navy SEAL Teams, retiring from SEAL Team Six, then another 25 as a CIA contractor. He is a New York Times bestselling author, host of the TV series Surviving Mann, and a veteran of more than 1,000 endurance events, including a double Ironman he finished after…

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  4. The Second Adulthood: Why Midlife Is an Awakening, Not a Crisis

    What happens when the striving that built your career stops working? Fabrice Desmarescaux, McKinsey partner, leader of Aberkyn in Southeast Asia and author of The Art of Retreats, joins Brad to explore the "second adulthood": the unnamed life stage that begins around 45, when raw problem-solving...

  5. Seven Marathons, Seven Continents, One Week — with Ellen Hunter Gans

    Ellen Hunter Gans is a writer, 41-time marathoner, Ironman triathlete, and the first person with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome to run seven marathons on seven continents in seven days. In this conversation she takes us inside the Great World Race — from a packed-snow course in Antarctica's White Desert…

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  6. Train Your Emotions Like a Skill: Joey Klein on the Inner Game of Mastery

    Joey Klein is the founder and CEO of Inner Matrix Systems and the author of The Inner Matrix and Relationship Alchemy. After a near-death experience at 19 pulled him out of a destructive lifestyle, he spent two decades blending ancient wisdom traditions, psychology, and neuroscience into a...

  7. Why AI Is Creating an Identity Crisis

    In this episode, psychologist and bestselling author Fiona Murden explores why identity—not skills—may be our greatest challenge in the age of AI. We discuss resilience, identity coherence, storytelling, parenting, leadership, and why understanding who you are is becoming one of the most…

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  8. Your Family Is the Most Important Team You'll Ever Lead

    Most entrepreneurs pour relentless intention into their business and then wing it at home. Ann Sheu thinks that's backwards. She makes the case that your family is the most important team you'll ever lead, and shows how the same clarity, values, and rhythms that build great companies can build...

  9. Your Voice Is a Mansion. Most People Live in One Closet.

    What if the voice you use every day is only a fraction of what's available to you? Voice coach, author, and performer Barbara McAfee says most of us live in "a tiny closet in a great big mansion" when it comes to our voice. We settle into one small corner of it and never realize how much more is...

  10. The Science of Sleep, Aging, and Living Better for Longer

    What if sleeping too much is almost as bad for you as sleeping too little? Brad sits down with Dr Junhao (Hao) Wen, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University, whose latest research in Nature maps how sleep duration shapes biological…

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  11. Why You Were Wrong About Being "Not Creative"

    What an 80-year-old Mongolian nomad, a group of girls from the slums of Mumbai, and a master sculptor in Hong Kong reveal about creativity. Most of us decide we're "not creative" early in life, and never question it again. This episode is here to change that. I sit down with Fredrik Haren, The...

  12. Peak Performance Without Burning Out: The Science of the Stress Sweet Spot

    Dr. Stephen Sideroff opens with a provocation: we are all designed to fail at managing stress. From there, the UCLA professor, clinical psychologist, and author of The 9 Pillars of Resilience walks Brad through why our hunter-gatherer nervous system keeps misfiring in a world that never signals...

  13. Mental Health, Leadership and the Future of Work

    Mohini Venkatesh, MPH, Chief of Staff at the National Council, joins Brad Hook to explore the state of mental health in the U.S., the growing role of Mental Health First Aid, and why workplaces need to treat people as whole human beings. Together, they discuss loneliness, burnout, substance use,...

  14. Creativity Isn't a Talent. It's a Survival Skill.

    In this episode, Brad speaks with Dirk Matthews, President of the National Career Development Association and Interim Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations at Columbia College Chicago. Together they explore: Creative resilience as a practical framework for navigating change Why...

  15. What Is Burnout? I Investigated and Was Surprised by What I Found

    Is burnout real or just imprecise language? In this video I work through the science, the philosophy, and my own three burnout experiences to find out what burnout actually is — and why the case against it doesn't hold up. Along the way I look at something most people don't realize: the evidence...

  16. The Science of Wishing Is Stranger Than You Think

    In this episode, Brad speaks with author and storyteller Brownell Landrum about her new book, The Art and Science of Wishing, and the global grassroots initiative she founded, The Cosmic Wish Experiment. Brownell explores the surprising science behind wishing, including the difference between a...

  17. Tiny Experiments: How to Learn, Grow, and Navigate Uncertainty

    What if the goals running your life are getting in the way of your growth? Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff joins Brad Hook to explore how curiosity, small experiments, and a willingness to be wrong can help us live and learn more deeply. Anne-Laure Le Cunff — founder of Ness Labs and author of...

  18. From Stem Cells to Signals: A New Era of Healing

    Dr. Tommy Rhee is a Navy Aircrew veteran, sports chiropractor, and pioneer in regenerative medicine. A former Team Chiropractor for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and UCLA Athletics, he has spent nearly two decades helping elite athletes recover faster and perform at their best. In this conversation…

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  19. From Mindfulness to Psychedelics: Rethinking Mental Health and Human Potential

    In this episode, I talk with Michael Juberg—academic, therapist, and scientific journalist exploring the intersection of mindfulness, compassion, and psychedelic medicine. Michael shares his journey as a self-described underdog, reflecting on the power of grit, self-belief, and persistence in...

  20. From Cancer to Confidence: Terry Healey on Rebuilding Identity After Adversity

    Terry Healey was diagnosed with a rare fibrosarcoma at 20, eventually undergoing more than 30 surgeries across several years of treatment and reconstruction. Left with a permanent facial difference, he faced a deeper reckoning than most: the scars on the inside, he discovered, were harder to heal...

  21. The Exocortex: How AI Is Changing the Way We Think

    Artificial intelligence is transforming how we work. It helps us think faster, create more, and solve complex problems with ease. But alongside these gains, a quieter trend is emerging — rising cognitive fatigue. In this video, I explore the connection between AI, attention, and burnout, and...

  22. What Are the Values of AI? I Asked Claude, Grok, ChatGPT & Gemini

    What does artificial intelligence actually value?I asked four of the world’s leading AI systems — Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Gemini — the same question: What are your values?Their answers overlapped in surprising ways — transparency, helpfulness, safety. But they also revealed important...

  23. Led by a Wolverine to Water: Adventures on the Trail with Wing Williams

    What if you could make a treaty with mosquitoes… and they actually stopped biting you? In this episode, author and adventurer Wing Williams joins Brad Hook to share stories from his “howling twenties”: thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail, learning to walk through forests...

  24. Bioelectricity, Water, and Fulvic Acids: Rethinking the Foundations of Health — Dr. Elizabeth Wanek

    In this episode, Brad sits down with Dr. Wanek, a former pediatric surgeon and foundational medicine practitioner, to explore a distinctive way of thinking about human health, energy, and resilience. Drawing on her background in surgery, biochemistry, and decades of clinical experience, Dr. Wanek...

  25. The First 11 Golden Summers

    There’s a popular idea that most of us only get about ten good summers at the end of our lives. But there’s another set of golden summers we rarely talk about — the first ones. In this reflection, I explore the idea of the first 11 golden summers: the brief window when your child is small, when...

  26. Don’t Manifest. Become.

    We’re often taught to focus on what we want — more money, more freedom, more connection — and to believe that if we visualise or strive hard enough, it will arrive.But there’s a problem with that approach.Chasing outcomes can quietly train the nervous system to live in tension, striving, and...

  27. 10 Scientific Discoveries That Will Change How You See Reality — Brad Hook

    What if your brain is deciding before you do? What if you’re not seeing reality — just your best guess? What if time, memory, morality, and even your body are more flexible than you think? In this video, we explore 10 real scientific experiments that quietly rewrote how we understand the mind,...

  28. Inside Avalanche Rescue: Bombs, Rescue Dogs & Ego-Free Leadership — with Caroline Elliott

    What can high-risk avalanche rescue teach us about leadership, ego and team wellbeing? In this episode, Brad sits down with Caroline Elliott — avalanche specialist, ski patroller, controlled bomber, and avalanche dog handler — to explore what happens behind the scenes in the mountains before you...

  29. How to Have a Great Holiday Break (Start Now, Not in January)

    Thanks for visiting! Connect with me on https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyhook/ or https://www.instagram.com/bradhook and don't forget to subscribe here for more videos like this.Most people hit the holidays exhausted, wired, and a little numb. We crash, sometimes get sick, finally start to feel...

  30. The Best Well-being Frameworks Explained: PERMA, SPIRE, Flow, Māori Wisdom & More

    What does it mean to live well? Across psychology, indigenous wisdom, leadership research, and well-being science, dozens of frameworks attempt to answer that question. In this episode, Brad Hook (https://bradleyhook.com) explores the world’s most influential models — what they mean, why they...

  31. Insight: What Is Interoception? The Hidden Sense That Helps You Navigate Stress and Build Calm

    What is interoception — and why is it one of the most important skills for emotional regulation and resilience?Interoception is your body’s hidden sense: the ability to feel your heartbeat, breath, gut, tension, and internal shifts. It’s the quiet language of your inner world, and most of us have...

  32. Insecurity Isn’t a Feeling, It’s an Opinion You Can Change — Jaemin Frazer

    I’d love you to check out the free Values Assessment (https://app.values.institute/). Find me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bradhook. In This Episode — Meet Jaemin Frazer 🔥 Jaemin Frazer is an award-winning life coach, author, and founder of The Insecurity Project. Recognized as one…

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  33. “I Ran 250km Across the Sahara Desert” — The Ultra Mindset with Jonathan Fors

    At just 25, Jonathan Fors has already achieved what most consider impossible. From finishing 41st out of 1200 runners in the 2025 Marathon des Sables — a 250 km odyssey through the Moroccan Sahara Desert — to running 100-mile mountain races and living as a digital nomad since 19, Jonathan…

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  34. Why You Can’t Sleep (and How to Fix It Without Pills) — Beatrix A. Schmidt

    Sleep coach, speaker, and author Beatrix A. Schmidt joins me (https://www.instagram.com/bradhook) to reframe sleep as a trainable life skill. Drawing from fifteen years of coaching and her new book Sleep Skills for Life (2025), Beatrix explains why “tips and hacks” rarely solve persistent sleep...

  35. Why Is Everybody So Angry? The Science of Outrage and the Search for Meaning

    Why does the world feel so angry? From sleepless nights and outrage algorithms to polarization and the longing for struggle, this episode unpacks the roots of modern anger—and explores how we can transform it into connection, service, and purpose. Connect with me on Instagram:...

  36. Can a Dog Heal PTSD, Addiction, and Homelessness? — Yishai Ishi Ron

    I’d love you to check out my new book, ⁠Start With Values⁠ (https://values.institute/start-with-values-book/). It’s packed full of tools to help you lead a life that is aligned with your core values, reducing stress and increasing fulfillment. Please connect with me on Instagram...

  37. How to Detect Lies: Lessons from a Secret Service Agent — Brad Beeler

    Stay connected with me on Instagram ( In This Episode Meet Brad Beeler — retired U.S. Secret Service Special Agent and the longest-tenured polygraph examiner in agency history. Over 25 years, Brad conducted more criminal polygraph examinations than anyone in Secret Service history, trained...

  38. How to Find Positive in the Negative (and See Both Sides) — Dr. John Demartini

    I’d love you to check out my new book, ⁠Start With Values⁠ (https://values.institute/start-with-values-book/). It’s packed full of tools to help you lead a life that is aligned with your core values, reducing stress and increasing fulfillment. Connect with me on Instagram at...

  39. [Guide] How to Stay Calm Under Pressure: Discover the S.P.A.C.E. Method

    Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies your freedom to choose. In this video I teach my new S.P.A.C.E. method—Stop, Pay attention, Align, Commit, Energize—a simple, research-aligned way to bring your values into high-pressure moments. It takes under two minutes to use...

  40. What Does It Take to Row an Ocean (and Beat Cancer)? — Felicity Ashley

    I’d love you to check out my new book, Start With Values — https://values.institute/start-with-values-book/. It’s packed with tools to help you live in alignment with your core values, reducing stress and increasing fulfillment. In This Episode Felicity Ashley — mother of three, ocean rower…

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  41. How Do You Turn Trauma Into Purpose? — Rhonda Sciortino

    I’d love you to check out my new book, ⁠Start With Values⁠ (https://values.institute/start-with-values-book/). It’s packed full of tools to help you lead a life that is aligned with your core values, reducing stress and increasing fulfillment. In This Episode Rhonda Sciortino is a “bootstrapper”…

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  42. Why Ancient Wisdom May Be the Only Answer to Artificial Intelligence — Paul Gibbons

    I’d love you to check out my new book, ⁠Start With Values⁠ (https://values.institute/start-with-values-book/). It’s packed full of tools to help you lead a life that is aligned with your core values, reducing stress and increasing fulfillment. In This Episode Paul Gibbons is one of the world’s…

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  43. Can Relationship Intelligence Transform Your Life? — Railey Molinario

    I'd love you to check out my new book, ⁠Start With Values⁠ (https://values.institute/start-with-values-book/). In This Episode Abandoned at birth and raised in abuse, Railey Molinario transformed pain into purpose, becoming a globally recognized thought leader in human connection and emotional...

  44. [Guide] Why You Can’t Focus Anymore – And How to Fix It

    Your attention span is shrinking. Your memory feels foggy. Your time is slipping away. In this video, I break down the science of brain rot — how TikTok and social media platforms hijack your attention, distort your sense of time, and erase your memories before they’re even formed. Drawing from...

  45. What Is Your Body Trying to Tell You? — Dr. Evette Rose

    I’d love you to check out my new book, ⁠Start With Values⁠ (https://values.institute/start-with-values-book/). It’s packed full of tools to help you lead a life that is aligned with your core values, reducing stress and increasing fulfillment. 🎙️ In This Episode Dr. Evette Rose is a globally...

  46. How to Deal with Bullies (Including Your Internal Bully) — Marilise de Villiers Basson

    In this conversation, Marilise de Villiers Basson shares her journey from a corporate career as a chartered accountant to becoming an entrepreneur and author focused on overcoming bullying and trauma in the workplace. She discusses the importance of recognizing and taming the inner bully, the…

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  47. How to Be More Resilient: Science-Backed Practices with Brad Hook

    In this special episode, I (Brad Hook) share tools and practices to help you build personal resilience. You’ll discover a research-based framework for navigating change, challenge, and uncertainty — grounded in both science and real-life experience. In this session, we explore: Nervous system...

  48. What Do Celebrities Really Eat? — Vikki Krinsky

    Triathlete, founder, and private chef with 18 years of experience and a deep love for thoughtful food and performance-driven nutrition. Over the past decade, she’s cooked for longtime clients like Seth MacFarlane, worked with athletes like Christian McCaffrey, and quietly traveled the world…

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  49. Dangerous Wisdom: What It Means and Why Philosophy Matters — With Nikos Patedakis, PhD

    Philosopher and educator Dr. Nikos Patedakis joins me for a deep, expansive conversation about the soul of education, the legacy of Socratic inquiry, and the urgent need for meaningful dialogue in an era of accelerating technology. Nikos challenges the idea of philosophy as abstract theory and...

  50. What Is Spiritual Intelligence—and Why Does It Matter? — Dr. Yosi Amram

    What does it mean to live with spiritual intelligence in an age of uncertainty and AI? In this conversation, Brad Hook connects with Dr. Yosi Amram—MIT engineer, Harvard MBA, licensed psychologist, and bestselling author—to explore how spiritual intelligence can transform leadership, deepen...

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Discover the Brad Hook Show: a place for the curious. Each episode offers deep dives with diverse guests—from academics demystifying theories to athletes discussing grit, authors revealing their thought processes, or storytellers enchanting with tales. It's a fusion of backgrounds and ideas, aiming to provide listeners with a kaleidoscope of inspiration, knowledge, and passion.Brad is the author of Start With Values (Penguin), founder of the Values Institute, and founder of Surfd.com, an action sports magazine. He is head of the Resilience Lab at Resilience Institute.

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