Brad Pendergraft, aka “Brain Coach Brad,” is the developer of the brain-research based “FIRE!” process to break habits of worry, stress, and anxiety. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience with trauma and crisis services. Brad has dedicated his life to helping others function at the highest level, studying cutting-edge research-based strategies to help people experience powerful results faster and easier. Brad has helped many people in various walks of life and was invited back to New York after 9/11 to work with NYPD officers who were struggling with post-traumatic stress. Brad is the author of The Unworried Brain and I’m offering an opportunity to win one of several copies. Details are in the beginning of the audio podcast.
04:00 – How Brad Pendergraft, LCSW, got the moniker, Brain Coach Brad
05:30 – How people respond to trauma
06:50 – Controlling your mindset and reaction
11:14 – What matters is what happens next
14:00 – How to get out of the negative loop
16:00 – Why we beat ourselves up mentally
19:30 – Why we avoid the awareness of the mistake
21:50 – Using worry to thrive
23:30 – First step in habit formation
25:10 – How celebrating awareness of failure helps create change
28:45 – Wiping out self-criticism
29:50 – Overcoming deep negative patterns with FI.R.E.
36:00 – The “Of Course” Challenge
41:20 – What’s the most powerful way to affect attention?
44:30 – Why Brad does daily gratitudes to manage the brain
47:15 – Possibility thinking
48:00 – The most important takeaway from this podcast
54:00 – Acclimate to the negative things that you can’t change
55:00 – Handling Achilles surgery without anesthetic
1:03:30 – Practicing vivid visualizations to interrupt attention
1:05:00 – Making better gratitudes
1:09:05 – These are all practical steps to create change
1:10:00 – Why positive thinking might fail you and how to change it
