But what I realized is even though I knew all of this mindset stuff, like how to change my thinking, how to redirect it and reframe it, it still didn't help me.

And I started to feel like a fraud actually. I was like, what is wrong with me? Why can't I like sink myself better?

And that is what really got me interested in brain health. And I discovered how our brain is more like the computer hardware and our mindset is the software.

So if the computer hardware is damaged in any way, or it's not functioning at its best or it's not optimized or has a lot of bugs, it directly impacts our software, which is our thought processes and how we think, feel and act.

Welcome visionaries, creators, innovators, entrepreneurs, leaders and growth seekers of all types to the Passion Struck podcast.

Hi, I'm John Miles, a peak performance coach, multi industry CEO, Navy Veteran, and entrepreneur on a mission to make passion go viral for millions worldwide.

And each week I do so by sharing with you an inspirational message, an interviewing, I achievers from all walks of life who unlock their secrets and lessons to become an Passion Struck.

The purpose of our show is to serve you the listener by giving you tips, tasks and activities. You can use to achieve peak performance and for two, passion driven life you have always wanted to have.

Now let's become Passion Struck. Welcome to episode 71 of the Passion Struck podcast with Cindy Shaw. I want to start out today's episode by thanking the audience for the over 1400 five star ratings that you've given this podcast today and the countless others that we have received in other countries around the world.

And I'm going to highlight one of the comments that we received this past week. It is from a listener, Lucius J Jackson, who wrote, love this.

You're an amazing person, John Armiles. I've been listening to your podcast since the beginning. I can tell how much energy you put into this podcast. You created a beautiful one.

Thank you, Lucius, so much for that feedback. It means so much to us and all these ratings mean so much in the moment we're creating to help people go from being Passion Stuck to becoming Passion Struck.

Now let's start out today's episode with a quote from Professor William Alman who said, the brain is a monstrous beautiful mess. It's billions of nerve cells called neurons lay in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it.

Our great lead in for episode today where we will go deep into this monstrous beautiful mess with our guest Cindy Shaw. She is the founder of the Better Brain Academy and she uses her expertise as a brain health and mental performance trainer to help people transform their lives.

And in our episode today, we discuss the six pillars of brain health. How our brain is different than our mind and the importance of that distinction. How our brain health impacts our overall performance and achieving peak performance, the secrets to sound sleep and her advice on achieving it.

The things that she has found from our brain that we need to watch out for and how we can take control of our mental health and achieve the highest cognitive results. What a great episode today. Now let's become Passion Struck.

I am so excited today to have Cindy Shaw on the Passion Struck podcast. Welcome Cindy. Hi, thank you so much for having me here.

Well, I was so thankful that you would come on the show. I saw your profile as I was looking for podcast guests and I know a number of the listeners on the podcast have been wanting me to dive deeper into mental health and how your brain and mental performance is so key to living a passion struck life.

So I really want to impact that in today's episode. Awesome. Well, I thought a good starting point for the audience would be what got you into this work. It to begin with what was that impetus that drove you to start really looking at brain health and how that helps people achieve peak performance.

Awesome. Well, you know what, I actually used to study mindset and I developed a program for women specifically on how to take control of your mindset. And so I studied amazing teachers like Tony Robbins. I did the training that he did that all of his programs are based off of called neuro linguistic programming.

I became a certified hypnotherapist. So I really dialed in my mindset. And it wasn't until my mid to late 30s that I started having troubles just focusing and concentrating and it got to a point where I honestly thought I had early onset Alzheimer's like I would wake up.

And by noon, I couldn't remember if I'd even had breakfast, I couldn't remember what I'd had for breakfast if I had breakfast. My husband jokes and says like I was the best wife to be married to because I didn't remember anything that he did that piss me off.

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