Brain Health Revolution: How Two Women are Changing Their Lives and the World One Brain at a Time
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful episode, Dr. Daniel Amen sits down with two inspiring brain health coaches whose personal journeys prove that healing the brain can transform your life. From inherited trauma and destructive choices to purpose, peace, and passion—they discovered how understanding the brain was the key to lasting change. Now these Amen University brain health coaches on a mission to help others move from emotional pain to resilience, and from scattered focus to extraordinary success. You’ll hear brain health strategies anyone can use, along with real stories of people who’ve overcome ADHD, depression, traumatic brain injuries, and more—and are now sharing the message of hope and healing around the world.
00:00 Intro
01:03 Sponsor
01:25 Barbara’s Story
05:32 Laura’s Story
10:56 Elite Brain Health Training
12:20 Why We Need a Revolution
14:25 Katie’s Brain Health Discovery
17:35 You Need to Care About Your Brain
19:14 The Aftermath of Tragedy
23:00 Different Expressions of the Same Lifestyle
26:03 The Amen Whole 4 Blueprint
28:44 Galileo’s Psychiatrist
30:55 Winning Over Skepticism
34:17 Creating Brain Health Leaders
36:04 The Younger Generation of
44:27 New Studies on Hope
45:55 Spreading the Message
54:46 First Steps for Aspiring Brain Health Leaders
1:06:39 Sponsor
1:07:22 Wrap Up
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| 0:00.0 | It's a moral issue that affects everybody. |
| 0:03.8 | I invited Barbara and Laura to just talk to us about some of the people who've gone through |
| 0:10.0 | the program. |
| 0:11.0 | One of our graduates now, her name's Katie. |
| 0:13.0 | She was already struggling with ADHD, depression, anxiety, and binge eating, but she also |
| 0:19.0 | had a traumatic brain injury that gave her something that she hadn't |
| 0:23.3 | felt in a long time and that was hope. We know today that people are sadder, they're sicker, |
| 0:28.9 | they're unhappier than they've ever been, and despite the advancements in technology and |
| 0:34.3 | pharmaceutical advancements, they're getting pills and not skills. |
| 0:38.3 | When I started looking at the brain in 1991, it changed everything. |
| 0:42.3 | So many people tried to take me out professionally. |
| 0:45.3 | You guys know the story of Brad Peterson? |
| 0:51.3 | Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse. |
| 0:57.0 | Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better every day. |
| 1:03.0 | Your brain matters. |
| 1:05.0 | Amen Clinics helps people with brain scans and targeted treatment across 11 cities. |
| 1:11.6 | Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, D.C., Miami, New York, Seattle, Scottsdale, Los Angeles, Orange County, California, and San Francisco. |
| 1:22.4 | Learn more at Aemanclinics.com. |
| 1:26.8 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Change Your Brain Everyday podcast. We have a different format today. |
| 1:36.0 | I invited two of my friends, Barbara Gustafson and Laura Pamalesales and they are coaches on our elite brain training programs. |
| 1:53.8 | And today we want to talk about why you care about your brain. |
| 2:03.1 | And one of the most important strategies to brain help, which is you have to get it, |
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