Context heavily influences our behavior (regular listeners of the show know our “context matters” mantra well!). Sometimes, because of what life throws at us, we have to re-evaluate our options. The best choice isn’t always the perfect choice. For instance, in an ideal world, we might be planning a 5 mile run after wor

1. How can having conscious awareness of our thoughts related to eating well and exercise enable us to make different choices? 2. What is a motivation bubble and how can it lead to lasting changes in behavior? 3. How the “POP” decision tool works and strategically guides attention from decision traps and leads to makin

Michelle Segar is the author of No Sweat, she is a lifestyle coach and an award-winning NIH-funded sustainable behavior change researcher at the University of Michigan. She's got nearly three decades under her belt, and she's pioneered methods to create sustainable, healthy behavior changes, those changes are being use

What is the key to lasting motivation? Motivation is a topic that comes up a lot in our community. You want to eat right, read more, exercise daily, and meditate regularly. But talking about making a change is often easier than achieving long-term follow-through. I’m excited to have Dr. Michelle Segar on our show today

Michelle Segar, Ph.D.: “How we feel while we exercise determines whether we keep doing it or not.”  Michelle, a behavioral sustainability scientist and lifestyle coach, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to make healthy eating changes that actually stick, plus: - What we’re getting wrong with nutrition & fi

In this episode I speak with Michelle Segar, NIH-funded researcher at University of Michigan and author of, "The Joy Choice: How to Finally Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise," whose wakeup call was seeing how many people were failing to take care of themselves by following conventional - and wrong - wisdom