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The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast provides support for school leadership and the workplace with a proven approach for implementing social and emotional learning as it’s well-known in our schools today and emotional intelligence in the modern workplace, with a proven strategy to increase well-being, achievement and results, backed by the most current neuroscience research. Andrea Samadi, a teacher from Toronto, (now living in Arizona, USA) began working with success and social and emotional learning principles with students in the late 1990s. Her programs, and trainings, grounded in brain-based research and practical neuroscience, help parents, teachers, coaches an.…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A practical Education show for listeners who want brain science translated into learning, workplace performance, daily habits, and emotion regulation.
Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning belongs on the Education beat as a practical brain and behavior show. Through expert interviews and occasional lesson style episodes, it connects learning, emotion regulation, workplace performance, and brain health without…
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A clear, practical take on curiosity, practice, and learning before mastery.
Andrea Samadi's conversation with Dr. Baland Jalal keeps coming back to a plain idea: learning comes before mastery, and low-pressure practice is part of the work, not a bonus.
A clear-eyed look at consistency, mission, and turning neuroscience into practical action.
This episode looks back on seven years of a podcast grounded in practical neuroscience, and it keeps returning to the basics that seem to have made it last: clear goals, simple benchmarks, and a mission centered on well-being, achievement, productivity, and results.
A practical brain-health reset built around movement, food, and small weekly habits.
The episode offers a practical reset: move your body, pay attention to what you eat, and treat brain health as something that can be trained day by day.
A grounded look at how noticing and regulating the mind can support calmer, more intentional living.
Andrea centers the episode on Dan Siegel’s Mindsight and a plain question: how can people use their brains to improve productivity, results, and well-being?
Short naps are treated as a practical performance tool, not a luxury.
The episode treats strategic napping as a real performance tool, not a perk. It contrasts Dr. Shane Creato's athlete first view with Matthew Walker's broader guidance, and keeps the practical advice simple: naps under 20 minutes, ideally before 3 p.m.
A reflective sales lesson that turns thought, desire, belief, and action into practical steps.
This episode presents sales through practical neuroscience and a season 14 reflection on Think and Grow Rich, with Andrea Samadi moving from thought and faith into desire, belief, and daily action.
Decision, persistence, and certainty shape a steady sales lesson built around follow-up and shared momentum.
The episode treats sales as a chain of small decisions: choose cleanly, stay in the conversation, and keep the right people involved. It makes the Napoleon Hill material feel less abstract by turning certainty, persistence, and steady questioning into plain sales habits.
A grounded look at how discomfort and in-group preference can shape bias in educational settings.
The episode treats bias as a brain-and-behavior question, not a slogan. It traces how discomfort, fear, and in-group preference can shape responses in educational settings, while Andrea Samadi keeps the discussion grounded in the podcast's long-running interest in applying…
Range trade talk for firearm instructors.
Clinical CE for busy veterinary teams.
Andrea Samadi uses episode 381 of Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning to reframe Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich as a sales manual, building from the 2022 six-part review and her earlier work with Bob Proctor.
Andrea Samadi opens Episode 362 of Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning with Whoop data showing stress days that can reach more than six hours, then introduces Sifu Bogi, also known as Paul Brighton, as a qigong teacher from the U.K.
The host concludes a year-long series reviewing Grant Bosnick's book on self-leadership, focusing on the final chapters about the neuroscience of resilience, authenticity in relationships, and cognitive bias.
Andrea Samadi revisits Dr.
One simple skill: 11 percentile points higher achievement.
This episode revisits a conversation with Rohan Dixit, founder of Leaf Therapeutics, exploring how heart rate variability (HRV) technology and breath awareness can reveal hidden stress and build resilience.
The host revisits a past interview with Bob Proctor, extracting two key lessons on personal development.
Andrea Samadi opens episode 365 of Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning with Horacio Sanchez, who is returning for the fourth time after earlier conversations on episode 74, episode 111, and episode 177.
Andrea Samadi continues season 14 of Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning by linking practical neuroscience with everyday well-being, productivity, and results.
Andrea Samadi continues her season 14 review, linking practical neuroscience to sales.
Andrea Samadi opens season 15 by circling back to the show's original question.
Andrea Samadi returns to season 14 with part two of a review of sleep, treating rest as a practical base for well-being, productivity, and results.
Andrea Somati opens season 13 by returning to the show’s core mission: practical neuroscience for everyday life.
This episode revisits an interview with neurologist Dr.
This episode explores how brain regulation and safety are foundational for learning and performance, featuring insights from Dr.
Host Andrea Samadi revisits her interview with the late Bob Proctor, focusing on part three of their discussion about the law of vibration and how aligning your frequency with your goals can lead to achievement.
This episode reviews insights from Dr.
Andrea Samadi interviews Dr.
Andrea Samadi starts by going back to season 14 and episode 378, where the show keeps coming back to the same question: how practical neuroscience can improve well-being, achievement, productivity, and results.
Andrea Samadi marks seven years of the show by looking back at what kept it moving.
Andrea Samadi welcomes back Dr.
Andrea Samadi opens season 14 with a return to Daniel J.
Andrea Samadi returns to the show’s long-running question of how the brain shapes results.
This episode introduces Season 15's roadmap of the brain's foundational systems, starting with nervous system safety and motivation.
Andrea Samadi introduces Season 15's roadmap of the brain's foundational systems, starting with regulation and safety, to align neuroscience, health, mindset, and performance for peak results.
This episode explores sleep as a foundational brain system for integration and safety in the context of neuroscience-based social emotional learning.
This episode introduces Season 15's focus on foundational brain systems, starting with regulation and safety, to help listeners apply neuroscience to improve results.
Andrea Samadi introduces an interview with Chad Helmstetter about applying neuroscience research to daily life through social and emotional learning.
An interview with psychologist Craig Polsvast about his book integrating neuroscience, psychology, and spirituality for mental well-being and performance.
Andrea Samadi introduces an episode about neurofeedback with Diane Costo, discussing how the brain controls personality and performance.
Interview with Dr.
This episode explores how to awaken extraordinary potential using neuroscience and practical strategies, drawing on Dr.
This episode explores the gut-brain connection and provides tips to improve it for better mood and health.