Luci Gabel—On Leadership, Life, Health and Happiness

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Luci Gabel—On Leadership, Life, Health and Happiness

Hi! I'm Luci Gabel, Integrative leadership coach and trainer, professor at the GWU School of Medicine graduate program in integrative medicine, speaker, and author of Eat to Lead. I talk about leadership, health and happiness and how it all goes together in your life. Key topics here are motivating yourself and others, being brave enough to be different, having life balance, setting yourself up for longevity and a high quality, happy life —on top of building a career you love. Looking forward to having you here. Have a listen and comment—I'd love to know about you, too!

  1. The Neuroscience of Motivation Part 2: The Brain Needs Certainty | Ep 37

    6D AGO

    The Neuroscience of Motivation Part 2: The Brain Needs Certainty | Ep 37

    Regardless of what your big goals in life are, what your values are, how you grew up, what you experienced, what you like and don't like, there are motivators in our brains that cause similar reactions in all of us. They will cause you to move towards or away from someone or something. If you know a little about these ancient, but very important mechanisms of the human brain, you'll understand how what you do and say can create reactions from people that either motivates them or demotivates them, causes them to want to draw closer to you, or move away from you. This episode is part two of The Neuroscience of Motivation. I'm talking about "Certainty." If you'd like a transcript of this or the last episode so you can have it for reference, let me know at https://www.Lucigabel.com/contact Sign up to get my emails about these broadcasts and other insights at https://www.lucigabel.com/leadership Episode 33 has two meditations for you. References: Chamine, S. (2012). Positive intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and how You Can Achieve Yours. Greenleaf Book Group. SCARF: a brain-based model for collaborating with and influencing others. (2008). In Neuroleadership Journal. Neuroleadership Institute. #brain #neuroscience #motivation #leadership

    21 min
  2. The Neuroscience of Motivation Part 1: Enhance your Leadership Skills | Ep 36

    MAR 28

    The Neuroscience of Motivation Part 1: Enhance your Leadership Skills | Ep 36

    There are several primal, neurological systems in the brain that determine whether someone is going to be attracted to what you have to say, or put off by it, and it takes 1/5 of a second for that decision to be made. If you ever want to influence someone, motivate someone, or help someone, heck, if you just want to have a good relationship with someone, it’s really good to know this information. In this episode you'll hear how you can have better conversations, and have conversations go the way you intend them to go (instead of having them go sideways or off the rails by accident). You’ll be better positioned to leave someone with the impression you intended, understanding clearly what you said, and why you said it. And, you'll be able to create an environment where people want to listen, want to collaborate, and want to do great things with you. Even better—people will like you. Listen in for more! Would you like a transcript of this episode so you can review it later? Let me know here and I'll send you one: https://www.LuciGabel.com/contact References: Izuma K, Saito DN, Sadato N. Processing of social and monetary rewards in the human striatum. Neuron. 2008 Apr 24;58(2):284-94. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.03.020. PMID: 18439412. Chamine, S. (2012). Positive intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and how You Can Achieve Yours. Greenleaf Book Group. SCARF: a brain-based model for collaborating with and influencing others. (2008). In Neuroleadership Journal. Neuroleadership Institute. Harvard Business Review, The Ideal Praise to Criticism Ratio, Zenger Folkman. March 15,2013. https://hbr.org/2013/03/the-ideal-praise-to-criticism #motivation #leadership #mindsetmotivation #relationships #success

    19 min
  3. Lead Yourself First | Elite Mindset Performance Coach Gary Chupik | Ep 35

    FEB 25

    Lead Yourself First | Elite Mindset Performance Coach Gary Chupik | Ep 35

    Gary Chupik is internationally recognized as one of the top mental performance coaches in the world, who has worked with the likes of Seattle Seahawks, US figureskating, Crossfit Olympics, National Motorcross Association, Stanford University, Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, the FBI, police and fire people, and many more. What's his message? You have to know how to lead yourself first before you can lead anyone else. There are many techniques to doing that. Join us as we talk about a few in this episode such as: the kind of mindset shift an athlete or business person needs to get to the next level how visualization works for extreme success in athletics and businessexamples of creating an inner locus of control to stack the deck in your favorwhy leading yourself must come before you lead anyone else For your special gift from Gary, go to EliteMindsetAssessment.com and use code ELITE100 for your assessment. Gary's website is EliteMindsetNation.com where you can also sign up for his Monday Morning Motivations. Let us know if what this episode made you think about, or if you had any great takeaways! #mindset #mentalperformance #leadership #success

    36 min
  4. Improving Your Mental Performance | Illustrated by stories from my life during the LA fires |Ep 34

    FEB 1

    Improving Your Mental Performance | Illustrated by stories from my life during the LA fires |Ep 34

    How we perform best mentally is different from what most of us think—and the opposite of what our culture has been telling us and pushing us to do which is:

do as much as you can, all at once, all the time.

 Research shows we can't focus on more than one thing at a time. Even if you think you are, what you're really doing is juggling thoughts—touching on one for a moment and then switching.

 Studies have found that the more we try to "multitask," the more we risk impairing our cognitive control and even reduce our grey matter.

Not to mention, when we force ourselves to think about too many things at once and act with extreme speed, we increase the risk of making serious mistakes. This episode offers several powerful tips on how to quickly improve your mental performance, instead of diminish it. I got a potent reminder of this concept during the LA fires last month—I've included some of my personal stories here too. #brain #mentalperformance #mentalhealth

    19 min
  5. A Quick Path to Stress Relief | Ep 33

    JAN 13

    A Quick Path to Stress Relief | Ep 33

    Contrary to popular belief, consistent, high levels of stress aren't conducive to high-performance. Science now shows that being able to lower your stress in-between stressful sprints, improves your mental and physical performance, enhances resilience, creativity, and problem solving skills, and improves your mental and physical health. Reducing stress doesn't require you give up your job, or spend hours on meditation. Here I share easy-to-implement exercises that can immediately lower your blood pressure, heart rate, and stress hormones like cortisol. When practiced regularly, you can train your body to relax more quickly and eventually, on-command, so you can function better during the day and sleep better at night. The nice thing is, these techniques are always available to you. Join me to reduce your stress and enhance your overall well-being. Related Episodes: More Joy Less Pressure: Episode 32 What Leaders can Learn from Top Athletes: Episode 27 Stress Effects and How to Deal with it: Episode 21 #stress #stressmanagement #stressrelief #leadership #health

    16 min
  6. More Joy, Less Pressure |Ep 32

    12/19/2024

    More Joy, Less Pressure |Ep 32

    Holidays are filled with emotions: hopes and dreams, and also pressure, even fear or dread.  Here are three things I do, to dramatically and immediately reduce my stress, bring me into focus at any current moment , elongate, and extend the amount of time that I spend in the blissful positivity state, and help my brain and body maintain optimal health and performance.

    17 min
  7. Seize This Superpower: Letting Go of Assumptions and Tuning in to Reality | Ep 31

    11/21/2024

    Seize This Superpower: Letting Go of Assumptions and Tuning in to Reality | Ep 31

    The ability to pause and question assumptions is a superpower. It allows you to engage the executive functioning frontal lobe of your brain, rather than relying solely on the fight flight freeze response which will frequently lead you down the wrong road when it comes to making important, impactful decisions. In this podcast I give you three steps to breaking free of assumptions and the fight, flight freeze response that causes them. Letting go of assumptions is about unlocking your potential, not just about avoiding mistakes. When you challenge assumptions, you gain clarity, strengthen relationships, and make smarter decisions. Imagine the freedom and power you get from acting based on reality, rather than the stories your mind has created. This skill is part of what makes meaningful relationships, good decision making, and great leadership. But it's rarely practiced. Referenced episodes for more mastery of this skill: Episode 21: The Effects of Stress and How to Deal With It Episode 10: Healthy Conflict Culture Episode 30: Aging 2.0: Research Breakthroughs that are Redefining Your Future #leadership #health #healthylifestyle #stress #mindset

    16 min
  8. Aging 2.0: The Scientific Breakthroughs that Redefine Your Future | Ep 30

    11/01/2024

    Aging 2.0: The Scientific Breakthroughs that Redefine Your Future | Ep 30

    I stopped paying attention to how old I was after I learned a few things about age and aging that I think you'd be interested in knowing as well. What I learned was so profound that I literally stopped counting the number of years I've been alive. We used to think of age as a number that predicts illness or death. But we've found out that different people with different lifestyles do not have the same physiology at the same age. With the infinite diversity of lifestyles that there are on this planet, there are an infinite number of ways that we can age—and this is good news. The overview here is that age and aging is not what we used to think it was. It's probably not what you think it is! There's an incredibly fast advancing knowledge about age that you should be aware of, and the more you know about this, the better off you're going to be! I want to share it with you. So, I hope you stick with me to the end to hear about all the good stuff. And if you want more: Here's a link to a short read about Telomeres: Are Telomeres the Key to Aging and Cancer (no date) Are telomeres the key to aging and cancer. Available at: https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basics/telomeres/ (Accessed: 09 November 2024). https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basics/telomeres/ For more info, here's a great book: The Telomere Effect https://a.co/d/jbaKm7X

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Hi! I'm Luci Gabel, Integrative leadership coach and trainer, professor at the GWU School of Medicine graduate program in integrative medicine, speaker, and author of Eat to Lead. I talk about leadership, health and happiness and how it all goes together in your life. Key topics here are motivating yourself and others, being brave enough to be different, having life balance, setting yourself up for longevity and a high quality, happy life —on top of building a career you love. Looking forward to having you here. Have a listen and comment—I'd love to know about you, too!

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