This is a Glass Box Media Podcast.

The Ziegler show comes from the legacy of Ziegzieg and brings together

personal and professional growth, business success and faith.

I'm your host, Kevin Miller.

In this episode, you are not a victim of your biology.

How's that for a headline?

How much do you care about the home you live in as an example? Does it matter a little or a lot if it's clean and safe with nice amenities?

Can you expand on it, strengthen it? Of course. Well, likewise every day we wake up to live inside our brains.

And like our homes, we have control over the quality and state, the capacity, the ability

of our brain. Much more control than outside circumstances.

Yet we don't tend to function this way. We tend to live as if our brains are concrete and

hardwired. Well, Dr. Caroline Leif is with us today. She's made it her life's work to debunk and

disprove this and show us how our brains can be our servants instead of the other way

around. She's a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist specializing in cognitive and

metacognitive neuropsychology.

She's worked since the early 1980s researching the mind brain connection the nature of mental health and the

formation of memory. She was one of the first in her field of study how the brain can change

with direct mind input which we refer to now as

neuroplasticity. Dr. Leaf is the best-selling author of Switch on

Your Brain. It sold 350,000 copies. Her recent book, Think, Learn and Succeed. And coming soon, she has a new book, Cleaning Up the Mental Mess, which is the title of her top-ranked health and wellness podcast.

Well, in this show, we go through what led her into this field,

how her faith overlaps with her vocational mission

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