My guest today is Brian Berneman. He is a well being leader, international speaker host of the conscious action podcast and as a holistic coach and co founder of conscious action and you being you he helps people discover a conscious way of living and how to have a positive impact in the world. Today on the work in we'll be exploring how to use the mind body connection in order to take conscious action towards your goals in the new year, among many, many other things.

Now there's a lot going on in your head when you're standing in front of a room teaching a class. Whether you teach math, or kickboxing, history or yoga. There's a process that our brains go through to lock information in. As teachers, instructors and coaches. we need to be aware of that so we can support our students and clients in their learning process. Today, you're going to hear about a foundation that you need to learn just about anything, what memory hooks are and how to use them. How to create a location filing system for your memories, and why forgetting is important to this one's going to be good.

An unsung and underappreciated piece to being successful as a fitness professional is creativity. Today’s episode is a mindset reset on what creativity is and it’s value to learning and memory. Collin and I discuss how to use creativity, curiosity and imagination to help our brains adapt to perceived environments and how stress can kill creativity and limit our success learning or remembering things.

The body, nervous system and movement are intricately connected to how we learn and remember things. And one of the biggest fears for our aging populations is memory loss, dementia and alzheimer’s. Movement is a key aspect to maintaining brain health so it makes sense that we should expand our understanding of that connection.