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Join host Tom Billio, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion dollar brand Quest Nutrition, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

Welcome to Impact Theory.

Welcome to Impact Theory. You are here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless, but you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will help you actually execute on your dreams.

All right, today's guest is a professional dancer and molecular neuroscientist with a PhD from Caltech that is hellbent to destroy the longstanding stereotypes about the frumpy and pathologically unhyp scientist.

She gave an amazing TEDx talk that covered state of the art neuroscience and brain imaging all while dressed in some eye catching neon green high heels.

And her fresh dial and voice helped the video gain nearly 100,000 views and make it very clear that she's not your mother scientist.

As effortless in front of crowds and cameras as she is in the lab, she's painting a new reality for people that shows that STEM is for anyone willing to dive headlong into the unknown and start figuring things out.

And to that end, she earned her doctorate by modifying mice brains to glow and then shot lasers at them and took pictures to see the effect that smoking has on the brain.

And that's just what she did to graduate. Since then, she's brought together the worlds of science and creativity, entering herself into the pantheon of globally recognized science communicators who can bring the often impossible to understand worlds of things like quantum computing and neurochemistry within reach of the masses.

Her ability to combine the usually sterile world of research with the mass appeal of pop culture has made her the go-to host stroke journalist for countless scientific shows across virtually every medium, including the wildly popular tech know, which airs on Al Jazeera English and virtually every English speaking country in the world,

YouTube's lab fail and discovery channels denues among several others. So please help me in welcoming the woman who considers it her personal mission to redefine who and what we think of as a scientist, the researcher, actress, host, and of course choreographer for all of Caltech's musical productions, the doctor with the best shoes in the game, Dr. Crystal Dillworth.

My pleasure. Thanks for being here. I'm so excited. Quite the introduction. I'll try and live up. Very true. As you well know, I'm very excited to have you here today. And one I'll quickly ask, I don't want to start going down this rabbit hole, but how much of the science of the multi-dimensional stuff do you buy into?

Oh, so you're asking me about multiverse theory as well. I know it's one of the first ones. This is a dangerous rabbit hole to dance around, but just quickly while we're here.

Well, I think as a neuroscientist, I can't answer as a physicist, but as a neuroscientist, the idea that there are other options, I'm a penguin in another universe that's sort of like the example is very comforting.

Really? Why comforting?

It makes it so that every decision that I make, as I said, is accounted for. So if I chose yes in this reality, then maybe I chose no, and that timeline got a chance to play out. So I never feel like I'm missing out on anything.

That's interesting. Even though you don't get to experience that timeline.

No, it's all about controlling my experience in this dimension, and I don't have to worry about the other me's and other dimensions that are controlling their experience.

You've talked about how we all create our own realities. And what do you mean by that?

I think our expectations create our reality in the same way that psychologists will tell you that we often recreate patterns in terms of our relationships with other people throughout our life, like something that happened to us in childhood, we might put ourselves in the same situation, or seek out similar experiences.

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