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Aspire with Emma Grede

Unlock Your Brain’s Full Potential

Aspire with Emma Grede

E13 Media

Entrepreneurship, Business, Society & Culture

4.6874 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Aspire with Emma Grede is a finalist for Best New Podcast with Signal’s Listener Choice Awards!  Vote here. What if your brain holds the key to unlocking success, resilience, and joy? In this episode, Emma sits down with neuroscientist, executive coach, and MIT lecturer Dr. Tara Swart to explore how to harness the full power of your brain. Dr. Swart shares practical tools and cutting-edge science on stress, intuition, and neuroplasticity—proving that you can rewire your mind at any stage of life. Together, they dive into: Daily habits that build mental resilience and lower stress Why multitasking drains productivity—and what to do instead The science of intuition and how to trust it How creativity, nature, and beauty fuel brain health Why purpose and community drive long-term success This is a masterclass in making your brain work for you, not against you. If you’re looking for science-backed strategies to thrive at work, at home, and in life, this conversation is for you. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Your brain holds the key to unlocking your success, but your thoughts aren't always on your side.

0:16.5

So how do you maximise the power of what is quite literally your most valuable asset?

0:21.5

One of the world's leading neuroscientists and leadership coaches, Dr. Tara Swart, is here to

0:26.6

help you unlock the power of your brain.

0:29.4

This episode is all about making your brain work for you.

0:42.8

Dr. Tara Swart, thank you so much for being here.

0:44.7

It was such a pleasure to be with you.

0:46.0

I'm really, really happy.

0:51.2

Besides the fact that you are just another lovely English person that I get to speak to today,

0:52.5

I cannot tell you.

0:56.7

I feel like watching your Instagram, listening to other podcasts that you've been on, I have learned so, so, so much. And I'm really excited today to be able to

1:02.9

share some of what you talk about. And I think that so much of what you talk about is really,

1:10.1

really misunderstood. You are a doctor and a

1:12.3

neuroscientist, but you've also, you've got this whole career as an executive coach. How did those two

1:18.1

things link together? Well, I actually changed career during the financial crisis, so about 15, 16 years

1:24.4

ago. And I didn't have a niche. Everybody else that was coaching was either an

1:29.1

experienced business person, and I'd just been an NHS doctor, or they were a psychologist.

1:34.7

And that was very accepted as, you know, having transferable skills to coaching. But as a

1:39.7

psychiatrist, I was kind of like out there on my own. And then I realized that there were unprecedented levels of

1:46.7

stress that I could help with. People becoming so stressed that they were actually having heart

1:51.6

attacks. I worked with the bank where people were actually dropping dead on the trading floor.

1:56.4

The mind-body connection became a really crucial factor for businesses to understand to save the

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