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Hey, Power The Nation, strap in. We've got a powerful podcast today with Dr. Julia Degangy.

She's a neuropsychologist, author, and speaker, and she's an expert in the connection between

our brains, our emotions, and our relationships. She in the connection between our brains or emotions and our

relationships. She works in clinical practice teaching her patients how to harness the power of the

brain to lead more satisfying and emotionally intelligent lives. She has a new book coming out,

Energy Rising. I was able to score an advanced copy, and I can tell you it's a powerful book. It goes

through how to harness the power of the brain to lead to more satisfying and emotionally intelligent life. I could tell within the

first minute of our interactions before we hit play that she has a PhD would deal with monkeys like

me. We went from having an interesting interaction where I felt like I was interviewing her on the

podcast to me all of a sudden being on the couch and her doing her clinical analysis of me. I'm a little nervous to reach back out and hear what she has to say, but I'll connect back with her. I want you guys to keep an eye out for energy rising and more important plug in for Dr. Julia D. Ganji. So where, you know, just some origin story. Where'd you grow up? How'd you get into this? And I mean,

obviously you're a, you know, Harvard medically trained professor and neurosychologists. So

where'd you grow up? How'd you get into this? So I am a neuropsychologist, which means I'm a

clinical psychologist with specialized expertise in the brain. And I never thought I was going to be a

psychologist. So grew up in Chicago and I

kind of come from a lineage of psychologists. So my dad's a psychologist and he focuses on addiction.

And there was a lot of emotion in my house for better and for worse. So I always thought psychology

was my dad's thing. My dad is a phenomenal storyteller. So he would

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