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Dr. Tracy Packiam Alloway: ...how powerful emotions can be in making decisions

Nobody Told Me!

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Our guest is Dr. Tracy Packiam Alloway, an award-winning psychologist and teaching professor who’s published 13 books on the brain and memory including, "Think Like A Girl: 10 Unique Strengths of a Woman’s Brain and How to Make Them Work for You". Her website is https://www.tracyalloway.com/


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0:00.0

Welcome to Nobody Told Me.

0:10.7

I'm Laura Owens.

0:11.9

And I'm Jan Black.

0:13.2

We are thrilled to talk once again with our guest on this episode, Dr. Tracy Pakiam

0:18.1

Allaway.

0:19.1

She first joined us on Nobody Told Me back in in 2018, to discuss how we can improve our working

0:24.0

memory.

0:24.9

Dr. Alloway is an award-winning psychologist and teaching professor who's published 13 books

0:30.5

on the brain and memory.

0:31.6

Her latest book is called Think Like a Girl, 10 unique strengths of a woman's brain and how to make them work for you.

0:39.8

Dr. Alloway, thank you so much for coming back on with us.

0:43.0

Thank you so much for having me.

0:44.4

I'm just so excited and so honored to be back on the show with both of you.

0:48.0

Well, we are thrilled to talk with you.

0:50.0

And one of the things that jumped out at me when I was looking at the book and the materials for the book is that you say you wrote the book because it's a book you wish you'd been able to read when you were finding your way into adulthood.

1:02.5

Tell us more about that. Yes. So, you know, I grew up in Malaysia. My family moved to the U.S. I've lived in Central America, in the U.K., and now back to the U.S.

1:12.5

And so along the way, you pick up these myths that you're told about women, or sometimes you

1:17.0

say these things to yourself, you know, are women emotional when we make decisions? Do we have to

1:22.0

be more like a male to be a good leader? And so as I began to get into the research, I really

1:27.3

wish that I had a little

1:29.1

guide like this to let me know how my brain was actually working and how ultimately I could

1:34.4

maximize some of those strengths. What are the myths that you set out to dispel in Think Like a

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