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Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from five-star app Meditation Studio. I'm Patricia Carpice, co-founder of meditation studio and your host on Untangle,

along with my co-host every other week, Ariel Garten,

co-founder of Muse, the brain-sensing headband.

Join us each week as we introduce you to authors, experts, and thought leaders

who share their stories on how meditation and mindfulness practices

have the power to change our lives. Today's guest is John Sullivan, a sports scientist, clinical

sport psychologist, and co-author of the book The Brain Always Wins. For the past 16 years, he's worked

with an NFL team coordinating clinical care and sports science,

and he's worked with many other teams, including soccer, rugby, and national Olympic teams.

John shares that the brain always wins because, well, our brain controls pretty much everything,

our thinking, intellectual activities, well, our brain controls pretty much everything, our thinking, intellectual activities, emotions.

The brain gives us the power to speak, imagine, and dream.

It processes information and protects us governing all of our behaviors, whether we're awake or asleep. And the brain actually changes in response to experiences.

So most importantly, he believes we can learn to manage our brains better and that this has the

power to enhance our performance and our lives overall. Before we get started, just a little

reminder to check out our app, Meditation Studio,

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