On this episode of Elevate with Robert Glazer, Robert has a candid conversation with speaker and award-winning author, Jenny Evans about resiliency, stress, confidence and human performance. Listen in as they take a deep dive into how our brains work, how it’s impacted by stress and simple things we can do to quickly recover from stress while elevating our personal and professional performance.
Show Notes
- Jenny’s journey to changing her body, brain and performance and how it led her to start her company, PowerHouse Performance
- Jenny’s unique approach to helping others be more resilient and deal with stress
- Why stress is a chemistry problem and how it affects your brain, sleep, and decision-making
- How understanding strategies for optimizing our brain and physiology benefits companies
- Jenny’s definition of stress and resiliency
- Why we can’t reduce stress and what we should be focused on instead
- What the primitive parts of our brain crave that make change difficult
- Why will-power and self-discipline are limited resources
- What a productive morning looks like and how it leads to a productive day
- Time of day our cortisol (stress hormone) levels are highest
- What happens when there’s too much cortisol in the body
- The name Jenny uses to refer to our primitive brain and why she calls it that
- Why, when you’re stressed, you want to mimic fighting or fleeing -or pig out on sweets
- How to alleviate negative side-effects of stress in 30 to 60 seconds
- Why her book is titled, The Resiliency rEvolution (small “r,” big “E”)
- Why long workouts really don’t produce better results
- The #1 way to elevate your fitness and get twice the results in half the time
- How Jenny manages stress day-to-day
- Jenny’s 5 Core Beliefs and how they guide her behavior and decision-making on a daily basis
- Why recovery is so vital to our ability to perform at a high level
- What selling her Powerhouse product on QVC taught her about failure
Links from the Episode
Episode Transcription
PowerHouse Performance
Jenny’s Bio
Jenny’s TED Talk
CONNECT SOCIALLY!
Guest: Jenny Evans
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennyevans/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JennyEvansPH/
Host: Robert Glazer
Twitter: https://twitter.com/robert_glazer/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glazer
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