Move Your Mind with Nick Bracks explores how the most successful people think and the mindset that got them there. Hosted by actor, TEDx speaker, and mental health advocate Nick Bracks, the show features deep, unscripted conversations with world-class thinkers, performers, and creators. Nick draws from his experience delivering over 1,000 talks worldwide and working in film, television, and mental health advocacy to uncover what drives human potential. Guests have included Harvard psychologist…
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Your mind is designed to keep you safe. But what happens when it starts protecting you from threats that aren't actually there? In this episode I sit down with Dr. Sue Morter to explore why we can stay trapped in survival mode long after the danger has passed, and how fear can quietly shape the decisions we make, the risks we avoid, and the lives we end up living. Sue describes the way the mind…
Our attention span has collapsed from around two and a half minutes on a screen to just 47 seconds. And according to psychologist and attention researcher Dr. Gloria Mark, the problem is much bigger than simply spending too much time on our phones. In this episode I sit down with Gloria to explore what we're actually avoiding every time we reach for a screen, why boredom has almost disappeared…
He lost nearly 100 friends on September 11th. Twenty-five years later, he says he has a wonderful life. In this episode, I sit down with retired FDNY firefighter and 9/11 survivor Tim Brown, who was inside the World Trade Center on the morning of the attacks and came within seconds of dying when the South Tower collapsed. We talk about the final conversations he had with the friends he never saw…
She was born three generations into one of the most extreme cults in American history - where child abuse was doctrine and children were the product. She escaped at 15 with nothing. In this episode I sit down with Daniella Mestyanek Young, who went from a childhood in the Children of God cult to graduating valedictorian, becoming a U.S. Army intelligence officer stationed in Afghanistan, and…
Most of us walk past someone sleeping on the street and tell ourselves a story about how they got there. In this episode I sit down with Mark Horvath, founder of Invisible People, and he challenges pretty much everything I thought I knew. We talk about why most homeless people are actually sober, why affordable housing is the real issue and not personal failure, how politicians are using homeless…
Most of us assume the person with the credentials knows us better than we know ourselves. In this episode, I sit down with lawyer-turned-therapist and author Mark A. Michaels to explore why that assumption might be therapy's biggest blind spot. We talk about the authority of the therapist versus the authority of lived experience, the myth of Freud's Oedipus complex and what the story is actually…
Many of us have been taught that being mentally strong means pushing through, hiding our emotions, and pretending we're okay. In this episode, I sit down with psychotherapist and bestselling author Amy Morin to explore the difference between mental toughness and mental strength. We talk about anxiety, grief, emotional suppression, avoidance, self-awareness, uncertainty, vulnerability, resilience,…
When you're feeling intense emotions, your mind can start convincing you of things that aren't true. In this episode, I sit down with Spencer Greenberg, a mathematician and psychology researcher, to explore why our brains distort reality, why painful thoughts can feel so convincing, and how to stop believing every story your mind tells you. We talk about anxiety, depression, negative thought…
At 19 years old, Coss Marte was making millions of dollars a year running one of New York City's largest drug operations. A few years later, he was facing life in prison. Most people would assume that was the end of the story. It wasn't. In this episode, I sit down with Coss Marte, a former drug kingpin who transformed his life after incarceration and went on to build ConBody, a fitness company…
Most of us have been through difficult experiences. We’ve been hurt, let down, rejected, traumatised, or faced challenges we never asked for. The question is: what happens next? In this episode, I sit down with Chris Moon, a former military officer, landmine survivor, former Khmer Rouge prisoner, and the world’s first amputee ultra-distance runner. Chris has survived experiences most of us can’t…
