Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your

host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile.

Hello, my chickens. I am so excited about this conversation. I love talking to people

who have really deep academic expertise in the brain and how it works because all of

you know, one of my kind of soap boxes is that self-help and self-development work gets

kind of minimized because it's like women doing it. And so when we can talk about how

it overlaps really with the science, I think that's always such a powerful kind of conversation.

So our guest today is Dr. Lohanthile and she is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical

School among many other accomplishments that she can tell you about. And she's the author

of Bold Booth, which we're going to talk quite a bit about, which is a new book. So you

want to tell us a little bit about yourself? Sure, thanks for having me for the light

foot to be here. So I am a professor at Harvard Medical School, but I'd say my journey is

an unconventional one. I grew up in Brazil with lots of adversity. Climbed my way out of

trauma and poverty to get to Harvard. And my passion really is, is how to take science

out of the ivory tower into the inner city. So the last 15 years, all of my research and

my work has been training paraprofessionals on the skills that I describe on Bold Move.

And this idea and to your point, Karada, you said already, this idea that like we can

revive our brain, that we can train our brain if we really understand neuroscience and

use skills, we can exercise our brains to leave our best life. And that's what I'm really

passionate about. I love it. So I totally want to get into the book and your framework,

but just already I have like questions based on what you said that I want to talk about

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