Hi and welcome to the first episode of the Brain Health and Beyond podcast with Aisha and Dean Shirezai.

My husband, Dean, and I are neurologists, scientists, parents, authors, and speakers with a focus on public health and community empowerment.

In this podcast, we're going to take a look at the world from a neuroscientific

perspective and explore how we can enhance ourselves and our lives in this complex world.

We hope you enjoy our conversations with each other, as well as notable healers,

artists, thinkers, and leaders around the world.

Thanks for joining us on our quest to achieve better brain health and beyond.

We're here.

We are.

Our first episode.

I'm so glad we're here.

We're doing this finally.

We've had this plan in mind for a long time and there's so much to talk

about. Yeah, this is the journey that started 15 years, actually longer than that, but the two of us

met about 16 years ago to be exact. So let's start this conversation by diving deep into the concept of why we're here, the why, expand on that, why we're doing what we're doing on a regular basis, and where are we headed.

So we can start talking about the day we met.

Yes.

Well, the why for us, the personal why, as far as the two of us and then the why, but where we see

the incredible potential when it comes to brain and brain health and brain growth, but it starts

with our why.

We met thousands of miles away.

We're talking about in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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