Are You Stressed, Overstimulated, Always Scrolling? Reset Your Brain with Harvard Stress Expert Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or like you’re running on fumes? Vic sits down with Harvard physician and stress expert Dr. Aditi Nerurkar for a powerful and practical conversation on burnout, bandwidth, and why we’re all so mentally maxed out. Dr. Aditi, author of The 5 Resets and regular on The Today Show, explains how toxic resilience and hustle culture are silently fueling our exhaustion, and shares why multitasking is actually sabotaging your brain. You’ll learn how to create digital boundaries, quiet “popcorn brain,” and embrace brain resetting tools like “stop, breathe, be” to reclaim groundedness and presence. This is a must-listen for anyone feeling stuck, spread thin, or like they’re spending a little too much time online. Without judgment, Vic and Dr. Aditi are here to help you reset your brain and body for less stress and more resilience!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.4	Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back.
0:11.4	Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight.
0:15.9	Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect.
0:19.3	Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered,
0:22.0	and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content
0:27.5	that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just
0:31.8	unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real.
0:44.3	Hello, everybody, and welcome back to RealPod.
0:47.3	I hope that this episode is finding you well.
0:50.0	However, if this episode is finding you in a stressed and burnt out state,
0:54.1	you've come to the right place because joining me today is a Harvard physician, stress expert.
1:01.2	She's been on the Today Show. She's the author of The Five Resets, Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience.
1:09.1	And her name is Dr. Aditi. To give you a little preview of
1:12.8	what we're going to talk about today, if you've ever felt unproductive and easily overwhelmed,
1:17.1	you're not alone because Dr. Aditi is going to dive into why so many of us feel that way and why we
1:23.2	feel like we have a shorter bandwidth than we used to. Also, Dr. Aditi is going to share how to
1:28.6	intentionally disconnect. Yes, unplug, which can be your biggest weapon to combating burnout.
1:36.7	She's going to give multiple examples on this as well. And at the end, we're going to talk about
1:41.4	the multitasking myth. Why doing more is actually slowing you down.
1:46.1	This had my jaw on the floor. I was just like, I'm so guilty of this. It turns out multitasking can
1:51.7	actually be your biggest efficiency killer. And Dr. Aditi unpacks that science and no surprises at the
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