npnHub Podcast - Neuroplasticity in Practice
npn Neuroplasticians 17 episodes Oct 30, 2026
The npnHub Podcast explores how neuroscience and neuroplasticity move from theory into real-world practice. It features conversations with Neuroplasticians and leading voices in applied neuroscience who use these ideas in coaching, leadership, education, organizations, human performance, and behaviour change. Listeners hear practical examples, field experiences, challenges, and insights from applying neuroscience. The show is for practitioners, professionals, and anyone curious about the practical application of neuroscience and neuroplasticity.
Episodes
How to Calm Your Brain by Rewiring Emotional Triggers with Mandy Hoddinott
What if calming your brain starts with listening to your body?
In this episode, Mandy Hoddinott explores how nervous system regulation, memory reconsolidation and neuroplasticity can help us understand emotional triggers and change deeply rooted behavioural patterns. She explains how automatic fight, flight and freeze responses can continue to shape our thoughts, emotions and actions—even when the
How Your Values Rewire Your Brain: The Science of Neuroplasticity with Peter Demarest
What if your values are the secret to changing your brain?
In this episode, Peter Demarest explores how neuroplasticity, decision-making, mindfulness and the science of value influence our thoughts, habits and behaviour. He challenges the idea that the values we say we believe in always guide our everyday choices—and explains why automatic patterns can override even our best intentions.
Peter intr
The Neuroscience of Creativity: Rewire Your Thinking with Kevin Chesters
Why does the brain resist change, and what can we do to encourage more creative thinking? Kevin Chesters, author of The Creative Nudge, explores how neuroscience, neuroplasticity and simple creative habits can help us challenge familiar patterns, overcome fear and approach problems differently.
Kevin explains how biology, social pressure, conformity and cognitive biases can keep us attached to fam
Neuroscience of Emotional Regulation & Coaching with Susan Britton
Why is staying calm so difficult when emotions take over? Award-winning coach educator Susan Britton explores how neuroscience-based coaching can help us manage stress, communicate more effectively and build lasting emotional resilience.
Susan explains how the brain’s fight-or-flight response affects thinking, decision-making and relationships. Using her Red Zone and Blue Zone framework, she revea
Neuroplasticity & Tao Healing Arts: Reduce Stress with Arrow Gonsalves
What if greater clarity, resilience and personal growth came not from pushing harder, but from strengthening the connection between your brain and body?
In this conversation, Arrow Gonsalves shares her journey into Tao Healing Arts and explores how mindful movement, breathing and self-awareness may support stress resilience, emotional wellbeing and neuroplasticity.
Arrow introduces the Taoist prin
The Neuroscience of Communicating Under Pressure with Shelley Goldstein
Why do capable, experienced people sometimes struggle to think clearly when the pressure is on?
In this conversation, Shelley Goldstein explores how neuroscience-based preparation can help us communicate with greater clarity, confidence and authenticity during high-stakes moments. She explains why preparing the message alone may not be enough and why we also need to train for the pressure surround
Neuroplasticity, Brain Training & Sustainable Habits with Andrea Marcellus
Can you train your brain to make healthy habits easier and more sustainable?
In this conversation, Andrea Marcellus brings 35 years of experience in fitness and wellbeing to an exploration of neuroplasticity, metabolism and long-term behaviour change. She explains why restrictive approaches can be difficult to maintain and why small, repeatable and rewarding habits are central to her approach.
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Neuroplasticity, Interoception & Positive Leadership with Donnnie Hill
What happens when neuroplasticity moves beyond theory and becomes something you live every day?
In this conversation, Neuroplastician Donnie Hill shares how neuroplasticity, interoception and nervous-system practices have become part of his personal life and professional work. He explores how movement and emotional awareness are helping him recognise resistance, express difficult emotions and move
How to Rewire Your Brain for Lasting Change with Dr. Judith Wright
What if lasting change isn’t about willpower, but about training your brain to become someone new? Dr. Judith Wright explores how neuroplasticity can help us move beyond insight and create meaningful transformation.
Drawing on decades of work across psychology, coaching, emotional intelligence and transformational leadership, Judith explains how repeated practice can help us build new beliefs, beh
Highly Sensitive People: The Neuroscience of Sensitivity & Leadership with Sira Laurel
What if being highly sensitive isn’t a weakness, but a powerful advantage for leadership, relationships and performance? Sira Laurel explores the neuroscience of sensory processing sensitivity and how understanding your nervous system can transform the way you work, lead and connect.
Sensory processing sensitivity is a biologically rooted trait associated with deeper processing of sensory and emot
Menopause, Brain Health & Resilience with Dr. Ashika Pillay
How can functional medicine, neuroscience, mindfulness and behaviour change work together to support wellbeing?
In this episode, Dr. Ashika Pillay shares how her background in medicine, functional medicine, coaching and mindfulness shapes her holistic approach to health and wellbeing. She explains how looking beyond individual symptoms can reveal important connections between biology, lifestyle, b
Weaponized Incompetence & the Mammal Brain with Dr. Loretta Breuning & Christen Schweizer
Why do people sometimes act incapable, even when they are perfectly capable? Dr. Loretta Breuning and Christen Schweizer explore weaponized incompetence, learned helplessness and the mammal brain to reveal what may be happening beneath everyday behaviour.
From horses competing for resources to children avoiding tasks and adults navigating relationships, the conversation examines how attention, pro
The Neuroscience of Leadership: Why Great Leaders Develop From Within with Dr. Ryan Gottfredson
What if better leadership isn’t simply about learning more skills, but developing the nervous system behind how you lead?
In this episode, Dr. Ryan Gottfredson explores why traditional leadership development can miss an important part of the puzzle: how leaders think, feel, regulate and respond. He explains the difference between the “doing” side of leadership, which includes knowledge, skills and
Interoception, Attention & Neuroplasticity: Reclaiming Your Inner Signals with Dr. Leonard Khirug
What if learning to sense what’s happening inside your body could help you reclaim your attention and make more conscious choices?
In this episode, Dr. Leonard Khirug explores the relationship between interoception, neuroplasticity, attention and behaviour. Drawing on decades of neuroscience experience and his personal journey through burnout, he explains how noticing internal signals such as chan
Building Resilience in Children & Athletes Through Mindful Toughness with Dr. Christine Silverstein
How can mindful toughness help us build resilience, manage pressure and move through adversity? Dr. Christine Silverstein shares practical tools and powerful real-life stories that reveal how our thoughts, emotions, relationships and responses to challenges can shape performance and well-being.
Drawing from her book Wrestling Through Adversity, Christine explores how pressure, criticism and childh
The Neuroscience of Love and Leadership with Corrie Block
Can love transform leadership, coaching and organisational performance?
In this episode, executive coach and author Corrie Block challenges conventional leadership thinking and explains why love may be one of the most overlooked competitive advantages in business.
Drawing on his experience coaching global CEOs, Corrie explains why high-performance leaders need more than traditional coaching techni
The Neuroscience Behind NLP with Josh Davis, PhD
What does neuroscience really say about neuro-linguistic programming?
In this episode, neuroscientist and NLP expert Josh Davis, PhD, explores where NLP is supported by research, where popular claims become overstated and how practitioners can use these tools more responsibly.
Introducing ideas from his book, The Difference That Makes the Difference, Josh explains how neuroscience and psychology c
How AI is Changing Neuromarketing Forever with Roger Dooley
How is artificial intelligence transforming neuromarketing, persuasion and human decision-making?
In this episode, Roger Dooley introduces the ideas behind his book, The Persuasion Engine, and explains how Neuromarketing 2.0 is making advanced behavioural science faster, smarter and more accessible.
Roger shares practical ways coaches, practitioners, entrepreneurs and marketers can use AI for empa
The Social Neuroscience of Leadership in the AI Age with Prof. Michael Platt
How do great leaders influence the brains of the people they lead?
In this episode, Prof. Michael Platt from the Wharton School and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania explores leadership through the lens of social neuroscience, anthropology and human behaviour.
Michael explains why the human brain remains optimised for a world that existed hundreds of thousands of years
Stop Living on Autopilot with Relly Nadler
How can emotional intelligence and better “brain prompts” help leaders move out of autopilot and into clearer, more intentional thinking?
In this episode, Dr. Justin James Kennedy speaks with Relly Nadler about leadership, coaching, emotional intelligence and the neuroscience behind better decision-making.
Relly explains why much of our behaviour runs on autopilot. The brain relies on familiar pro
How Humor Rewires Your Brain for Resilience & Success with Tina Schweiger & Karyn Buxman
How can humour, neuroscience and human connection support meaningful transformation?
In this episode, Karyn Buxman and Tina Schweiger explore how humour and neuroscience intersect to strengthen resilience, shift unhelpful patterns and bring more joy into everyday life.
The conversation examines why laughter is more than a reaction. Karyn and Tina discuss how humour can help us move out of stress p
Unlock Your Flow State & Silence Your Inner Critic with Karyn Buxman & Tina Schweiger
How can you quiet your inner critic and create the conditions for greater flow, clarity and performance?
In this episode, Tina Schweiger and Karyn Buxman explore flow state, emotional awareness and the role curiosity and playfulness can have in supporting wellbeing and performance.
Through the lens of applied neuroscience, Tina and Karyn discuss how the inner critic can contribute to performance b
