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Your Body's Hidden Intelligence: From Mindset to Bodyset | Jen Aks | TEDxFolsom
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-26 15:25
mindset. We've all heard so much about it. Get into the right mindset so you can win the game. So you can close the deal, so you can step into that conversation with strength.But there's another asset inside of our body that we don't pay nearly enough attention to. And that's body set. Just like mindset is a mental attitude that helps us get clarity and confidence for the things that we need to do and say in our life. Body set is the physical and emotional state that inform that clarity and confidence becau ...
The secret to better brainstorming | Dr. Roger Firestien | TEDxOmaha
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-25 17:01
so what do you think the connection might be between a waffle iron and a sneaker right I'm going to tell you in a minute all right I spent the last 47 years of my life helping people solve really complex problems like inventing products to save people's lives helping companies out innovate their competition and getting people that don't particularly like each other work together to solve problems effectively and I do this with a process called creative problem solving here's how it works first you figure ou ...
What losing my period for 8 years taught me | Dr. Whitney McFadden | TEDxSan Diego Studio
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-25 16:48
[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] For eight years, my hormones shut down. My period stopped. Doctors ran tests. They ordered MRIs. They prescribed birth control. They told me to eat more, exercise less. I tried everything they said. Nothing worked. I was functioning, but inside I felt lost. I wasn't just missing a cycle. I was bleeding emotionally, disconnected from my own body. I felt like I had lost my womanhood, my rhythm, my sense of self. I feared that I would never have children. As a physician, I ...
Shared Firsts: Redesigning How We Find Belonging | Amanda Black | TEDxSan Diego Studio
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-25 16:47
[Music] [Applause] My mom was the first person I'd share big news with. She was my first call before every big decision. And she was there for my first steps, my first heartbreak, my first job. She was my first friend.And when she died, I didn't just lose my person. I lost my anchor, my compass. And with her went something I didn't expect to lose, my sense of safety in the world.A few days before she died, she asked me to sit with her. And I can still see her sweet smile in that moment when she said, "Honey ...
Hugs in the Wild - A Human Connection Experiment | Angela Pennella | TEDxSan Diego Studio
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-25 16:47
[Music] [Applause] We remember to charge our phones, our laptops, our cars, even our toothbrushes. But what about us. Where do we plug in to recharge.There's no red blinking light warning us. There's no alert that says low battery until one day we just hit empty. In a world drowning in noise, people are starving for something real, authentic human connection.And I believe each of us carries a human connection battery right here. And like any battery, it needs to be charged not once but continuously. The pro ...
How to look beyond the fixed self and choose who you are | Paul Vincent | TEDxPacific Avenue
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-25 16:46
[Applause] You're not actually looking at me right now. What you're seeing is your brain's best guess. Your eyes aren't windows that you're looking through.What's happening is far stranger. Your brain takes millions of sensory signals, filters them through your memories, beliefs, and expectations, and then renders its version of the external world. What you're seeing is an internal image.This is what neuroscientists call the active inference model of the brain. But here's where it gets even more strange. It ...
How Design Designs Us | Prernaa Mangla | TEDxNerul
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-25 16:40
[Music] 20 years ago when I chose to take a road less traveled, it has forever changed my life. Today when I'm standing here today beaming with pride I am telling you my journey that has begun 20 years ago when I was the only student in a class of 30 to take fine arts as a main subject where my friends my cousins were aiming for engineering medical and accountancy. I chose interior design not because one day I know it will bring me here but I really wanted to see art and design come alive in realtime spaces ...
Why success isn't making you happy & how to fix it | Meghan French Dunbar | TEDxSan Diego Studio
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-25 16:38
[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] It's 1992. Bergen Elementary in the small mountain town I grew up in in Colorado. And it's my favorite day of the year. It's field day.And as I'm lining up for my next competition, I might as well have been Braveheart's daughter. I'm talking child-sized kilt and blue war paint. I am ready to destroy the competition, to do whatever it takes to win this next competition and add yet another blue ribbon to my extensive ribbon collection, which I 100% keep in a box underneat ...
Scars are what make you powerful | Catherine Hampel | TEDxSan Diego Studio
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-25 16:38
[Music] [Applause] I can remember it like it was yesterday. I was six years old standing barefoot on the bathroom floor watching my mom Dolores get dressed. She lifted her shirt and for a moment I forgot to breathe.There it was. She had this scar across her chest. It was long and jagged like a bolt of lightning had struck her and it had she had breast cancer.She didn't flinch when she saw me watching and she didn't try to cover it. And in that moment together without saying a single word, she taught me some ...
Let's Make It Awkward | Deborah Liu | TEDxSan Diego Studio
TEDx Talks· 2025-09-25 16:37
[Music] [Applause] Don't make it awkward. That's what I used to tell myself every time someone interrupted me, dismissed me, or edged me out of the conversation. After all, I didn't want to be known as, you know, that word, difficult.I remember going to the show Money 2020, the preeminent payments conference, and walking the floor. Thousands of influential fintech leaders from all over the world would gather. And as the head of payments at Facebook, I would be the most senior person represented for my compa ...