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Hey, you're on air with Ella and I am joined by the brilliant Terese Houston. Hey, Terese,

how are you? Oh, it's such a treat to be here. Thank you, Ella. I am dying to talk to you. I have so many questions for you. Will you please, before I jump in, tell everybody who you are and what you do. So my name is Dr. Teresa Houston. I am a cognitive neuroscientist at Seattle University. And what I want to do is I want to give more people the gift of their very

best day. There are some days when you wake up and you feel like you're firing on all cylinders.

You've got focus. You've got creativity. You've got exactly what you need to do the work that

you're setting out to do. And then there are other days when you are not firing on all cylinders,

but you need to. And so what I am trying to do is take the best of neuroscience research and

translate it into how do you get more focused? How do you get more creative? How do you show up when

you're not feeling inspired? And I do that through my writing. I have a book that is just about to

come out called Sharp,

and it's simple ways to improve your life with brain science. But I also give talks. I do consulting.

Basically, I try to find wonderful people like you to help get the word out so that more women can

have the strategies they need on the days they need them. Well, one of the things that you do so

brilliantly is you are making neuroscience more accessible. Sometimes I get a little evangelical about

books. Yours is one of them. I cannot wait to share Sharp with my listeners because you give

such gems. You give us so many hacks, if you'll forgive the word,

and so many little things that we can do to sharpen our brain, to help us focus again,

and to help us get more creative when we might be leaning towards fuzzy, Teresa. Is this something

that you find like personally useful? I do. In fact, one of the motivations

to write this book came during peak COVID. I don't know about you, but I found myself checking

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