What if everything you've been taught about gratitude is wrong? Jamie Hess, media personality, keynote speaker, recovery advocate, and author of The Gratitude Shift [https://link.amazon/B08DWKvLv], joins us to challenge toxic positivity, the limitations of gratitude journaling, and the belief that you have to hit rock bottom before you can change your life. Drawing from her near-fatal battle with addiction, her mother's cancer journey, and her own transformation through recovery, Jamie reveals how to build mental resilience, develop authentic gratitude during life's hardest moments, and reframe adversity without denying your emotions. Jamie explores the psychology of happiness, the dangers of comfort and entitlement, raising resilient children, overcoming negative self-talk, and why money and success don't guarantee fulfillment. She also shares practical gratitude exercises, mindfulness techniques, the power of service and human connection, and how confidence, personal responsibility, and intentional discomfort can help you reset your mindset and create lasting change.

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00:00 – Why Everything You've Been Told About Gratitude Might Be Wrong

01:27 – Meet Jamie Hess: Author of The Gratitude Shift

01:38 – Magnesium L-Threonate for Brain Health & Cognitive Performance

03:13 – Toxic Positivity vs. Negativity: Which Is More Harmful?

04:13 – Finding Gratitude Through Grief, Cancer & Life's Hardest Moments

05:16 – Joan Lunden's Cancer Diagnosis & Turning Pain Into Purpose

07:04 – Chase's Father's ALS Journey & Finding Meaning in Loss

07:56 – Reframing Failure Without Forcing Positivity

08:58 – Red Light Therapy for Recovery & Wellness

10:50 – Why Two Things Can Be True: Gratitude & Suffering

12:00 – Personal Agency: You Get to Decide What Life Means

12:22 – Do You Have to Hit Rock Bottom to Find Gratitude?

13:05 – Jamie's Addiction, Near-Death Experience & Recovery

14:17 – Can You Build Resilience Without Experiencing Trauma?

15:01 – Why Mental Strength Is Built in Small, Daily Moments

16:20 – How Joan Lunden Built Resilience Before Her Cancer Diagnosis

18:28 – Are We Becoming Mentally Weaker in an Easier World?

19:13 – Gen Z, Boundaries & the Dangers of Comfort Culture

20:51 – Why Exercise Is One of the Best Ways to Build Resilience

22:08 – Social Media, Distraction & Our Declining Ability to Focus

23:32 – Are We Making Life Too Easy for Our Children?

24:57 – Supporting Cognitive Health With Magnesium L-Threonate

26:20 – Parenting, Discipline & Teaching Kids the Value of Hard Work

28:29 – How Competitive Sports Teach Mental Toughness

30:06 – Why Money, Privilege & Success Don't Guarantee Happiness

30:43 – How Enabling Behavior Contributed to Jamie's Addiction

32:04 – Can Wealthy and Poor People Experience the Same Gratitude?

33:57 – The Biggest Thing Stealing Your Happiness Right Now

35:20 – Anxiety, Cancer & Learning to Be Present

36:44 – The 3-3-3 Grounding Exercise for Mindfulness

37:53 – Why Gratitude Shouldn't Be a Solo Practice

38:39 – Gratitude Accountability Partners & Daily Group Texts

39:15 – Addiction Recovery & the Transformative Power of Service

41:34 – How Helping Others Can Change Your Perspective

43:30 – Practicing Gratitude for Your Past, Present & Future

45:26 – Scripting, Manifestation & Rewiring Your Mindset

46:59 – Three Practical Steps to Make Gratitude a Daily Habit

48:17 – Why Relationships Matter More Than Money or Success

49:12 – Negative Self-Talk & Learning to Appreciate Yourself

50:03 – Building Confidence Through Positive

EFR 974: Everything You Know About Gratitude Is WRONG! How to Rewire Your Mind for Happiness and Resilience with Jamie Hess

Could erectile dysfunction be an early warning sign of a bigger health problem? Urologist and men's health specialist Dr. Justin Houman, MD explores the connections between ED, cardiovascular health, low testosterone, stress, and sexual performance—and what men over 40 should understand before dismissing changes in their erections as normal aging. He explains morning erections, blood flow, tadalafil (Cialis), Viagra, performance anxiety, pornography, and the role of sleep and exercise in supporting sexual health. The conversation also examines testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), its potential effects on sperm production and male fertility, and options such as Clomid and hCG that Dr. Houman considers for appropriate patients. Chase shares his personal experience coming off TRT to start a family, while Dr. Houman explains why better men's health begins with honest conversations, individualized care, and understanding the causes behind your symptoms.

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00:00 – Can Your Penis Warn You About Your Heart Health?

02:35 – Meet Dr. Justin Houman

02:47 – C15:0 essential fatty acids

04:22 – Erectile Dysfunction as a Cardiovascular Warning Sign

07:46 – What Counts as ED—and When to Get Evaluated

09:33 – Low Testosterone, Libido & Missing Morning Erections

12:22 – Cortisol, Stress & Nighttime Erections

14:04 – Erection Trackers & Why Nocturnal Erections Matter

16:46 – Cialis After 40: Blood Flow & Erectile Health

18:11 – Daily electrolyte support

19:32 – Why collagen coffee is better for you

20:59 – Cialis Side Effects & Natural Vasodilators

22:34 – Preventive Cialis Use: What We Know—and What We Don't

24:20 – ED Medications & Brain Health: Interpreting the Research

26:11 – Can Cialis Become a Psychological Crutch?

27:27 – Treating ED Versus Investigating Its Cause

28:43 – Breaking the Performance Anxiety Cycle

30:30 – Penis Size Myths & Unrealistic Comparisons

32:43 – Pornography, Arousal & the Mind-Penis Connection

36:10 – Ejaculation Frequency & Prostate Cancer Research

38:13 – Testosterone's Role in Libido & Erectile Function

39:14 – Chase's TRT Experience & the Fertility Tradeoff

41:00 – Clomid & hCG: Discussing Fertility-Conscious Treatment

43:37 – Oral Testosterone & Individual Treatment Goals

45:29 – Why Coming Off TRT Can Be Difficult

47:30 – Cycling TRT, Blood Counts & Medical Monitoring

50:04 – Oral Versus Injectable TRT & Smaller, Frequent Doses

51:28 – Online TRT Clinics, Access & Informed Decisions

53:23 – Sperm Banking & Planning for Future Fertility

55:16 – Exercise, Sleep & Testosterone Levels

56:22 – Caffeine, Winding Down & Meditation for Better Sleep

57:37 – Men's Health Education & Overcomplicated Wellness

59:44 – Talking With Your Partner About Sexual Health

01:01:10 – Helping a Young Patien

EFR 973: Can Your Penis Warn You About Your Heart Health? Erectile Dysfunction After 40, Cialis, Testosterone & Heart Health Explained with Dr. Justin Houman

Steve Jobs called Ron Johnson every night at 8 p.m. for a year while they developed the Apple Store. What were they figuring out? How to make people feel comfortable with technology—and create an experience they wanted to return to.

In this episode of Ever Forward Radio, Chase Chewning sits down with Ron Johnson, best known for creating the Apple Stores alongside Steve Jobs, to explore the human psychology behind customer experience, brand loyalty, and building places where people belong.

Ron shares why Apple put computers in shopping malls, why employees weren't paid commissions, and how hands-on experiences helped turn hesitant shoppers into confident customers. He also explains why he believes physical retail still matters, how AI could improve shopping, and what businesses lose when they remove the moments that bring people together.

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00:00 Meet Ron Johnson, Creator of the Apple Stores

00:09 Why Apple Stores Were Built Around Fear

01:06 Why Physical Retail Still Matters

04:52 How AI Could Change Shopping

07:44 Creating a Place Where Customers Belong

10:37 Helping People Discover the iPod and iPhone

13:55 The Ingredients of a Great Customer Experience

14:42 Steve Jobs Called Every Night at 8 PM

16:01 Why Apple Put Computers in Shopping Malls

19:16 How Apple Products Built Customer Loyalty

21:20 Are Pop-Up Stores Worth It?

23:51 Turning Moments Into Memories

27:14 Scent, Design, and the Heartbeat of a Store

29:38 What Apple Lost by Removing Launch-Day Lines

32:35 Developing Your Instinct for Business

34:47 How to Design a Physical Business

37:43 How Often Should a Store Refresh?

38:27 Ron Reimagines a Podcast Studio

41:33 Writing the Book and Building the First Apple Store

44:35 How Ron's Mother Influenced Apple Stores

46:09 Your Personal Experience Is Your Advantage

49:06 Finding Work You Love

52:00 Rapid Fire: Business Advice and Hiring Mistakes

53:49 Apple's Best Decision During Ron's Time

55:19 What "Ever Forward" Means to Ron

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EFR 972: Apple Store Creator: Biggest Mistake Businesses Make With Customers (it's not AI) with Ron Johnson

What if doing more for your health is keeping you stressed, exhausted, and stuck? Board-certified internal medicine physician Dr. Scott Sherr, MD returns to explore the connection between chronic stress, mitochondrial health, nervous system regulation, and your capacity to recover. Scott explains his concept of the "sympathetic spiral of doom," why some people feel worse after practices intended to help them relax, and how his "parasympathetic edge" reframes performance around calm, adaptable energy. Chase and Scott discuss workout recovery, hormone changes, flow states, supplement overload, and the overlooked value of putting space between activities instead of stacking more into every day. Scott also shares his clinical perspective on methylene blue, creatine, NAD+, and peptides, including why he prioritizes foundational cellular health before adding advanced interventions. If you're doing all the wellness things but still feeling tired, wired, or overwhelmed, this conversation offers a timely invitation to reassess your routine, build resilience, and discover where doing less could help you move Ever Forward.

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00:00 Introduction to Dr. Scott Sherr

00:21 Chronic Stress and Why Relaxation Can Backfire

03:22 Mitochondria, Cellular Energy, and the Stress Spiral

08:14 Signs Your Recovery Routine Isn't Working

10:36 Hormones, Perimenopause, and Stress Tolerance

14:22 The Parasympathetic Edge for Better Performance

16:51 Nervous System Regulation for Strength Training

22:06 Flow States and the Importance of Post-Workout Recovery

26:38 Wellness Overload: Why Doing Less Can Help

34:46 When Longevity Goals Become a Source of Stress

39:11 Personalized Testing, Metabolomics, and Cellular Health

42:53 Creating Space Between Stimulus and Response

47:32 Methylene Blue, Energy, and Building Resilience

56:46 Creatine, NAD+, and Peptides: What's Worth the Hype?

62:05 Ever Forward

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EFR 971: Why Your Wellness Routine Isn't Working: The Sympathetic Spiral of Doom, Mitochondria, Stress & Recovery with Scott Sherr

Fatty liver disease is becoming increasingly common—but liver damage can develop quietly, sometimes before obvious symptoms or abnormal liver enzymes appear. Today we welcome Dr. Mike Smith, MD from Life Extension [http://lifeextension.com/chase10labs] to break down liver health, fatty liver disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), cirrhosis, liver inflammation, and the everyday factors that may be putting additional stress on your liver.

If you've ever wondered about the symptoms of fatty liver disease, whether fatty liver can be reversed, what causes nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, how MASLD develops, how fatty liver progresses toward cirrhosis, or what you can do today to better protect your liver, this episode is your deep dive into one of the body's most important—and often overlooked—organs.

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00:00 – Can Liver Damage Happen With Normal Liver Enzymes?

02:34 – Why Fatty Liver Disease Is Becoming So Common

05:15 – What Your Liver Actually Does Every Day

07:24 – How Food Travels From Your Gut to Your Liver

09:32 – Is Modern Life Overloading the Liver?

10:50 – Excess Calories, Visceral Fat & Fatty Liver Disease

12:22 – Sugar, Fructose & Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

15:29 – Alcohol and Liver Damage Explained

18:04 – Hangover Supplements, Glutathione & NAC

24:09 – Environmental Toxins and Liver Health

27:50 – Pesticides, Soil Depletion & Our Food Supply

30:47 – How Fatty Liver Progresses to Cirrhosis

33:27 – NAFLD, NASH & the Stages of Fatty Liver Disease

34:42 – Can You Reverse Fatty Liver Disease?

35:25 – The Silent Symptoms of Liver Dysfunction

36:22 – Can You Have Fatty Liver With Normal Liver Enzymes?

38:36 – Testing and Screening for Liver Disease

39:20 – Why Liver Enzymes Don't Tell the Whole Story

40:11 – Ultrasound and Diagnosing Fatty Liver

41:14 – Magnesium and Liver Health

42:13 – Best Supplements for Supporting Liver Health

44:06 – Magnesium L-Threonate, Brain Health & the Liver

45:20 – Why Our Food May Be Magnesium Deficient

49:07 – Can Magnesium Improve Fatty Liver?

50:27 – Foods That Support a Healthy Liver

51:48 – Practical Ways to Protect Your Liver

52:49 – The Most Important Liver Health Takeaways

55:20 – How to Live "Forever-ish"

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Disclaimer: This episode is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Always discuss personal medical concerns, testing and supplementation with your qualified healthcare provider. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

EFR 970: Fatty Liver Disease: How to Prevent and Reverse Liver Damage with Dr. Mike Smith

Most relationships don't end because of one catastrophic moment—they die by a thousand cuts. Relationship therapist Kristina Ferrari joins Chase to challenge conventional ideas about love, marriage, communication, masculinity, femininity, intimacy, and therapy, explaining why unresolved patterns and nervous system dysregulation often sit underneath what couples call "communication problems." Drawing from her clinical work and the lessons of her own 30-year marriage and divorce, Kristina breaks down why women can weaponize emotional language, how men miss subtle warning signs that their partner is pulling away, what happens when a woman loses respect for a man, why marriage should be viewed as the beginning rather than the finish line, and how resentment can slowly destroy attraction and sex. They also explore masculine-feminine polarity, modern therapy, accountability, responsive desire, sexless relationships, raising resilient sons, and what both men and women must do differently to build relationships that are more than simply "fine."

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00:00 – Why Should You Take Relationship Advice From Someone Who Got Divorced?

04:42 – Doing the Work and Still Getting Divorced

05:26 – Has Modern Therapy Become Professional Hand-Holding?

09:06 – Your Relationship Is a Mirror

10:55 – Your Feelings vs. the Story You Tell Yourself

12:34 – Are Your Feelings Lying to You?

13:28 – The Nervous-System Test to Use Before You Speak

14:58 – Why Communication Isn't Actually the Problem

16:33 – How Many Couples Actually Have Great Relationships?

17:43 – When Your Relationship Is Just "Fine"

20:06 – The Biggest Relationship Red Flag You're Ignoring

20:45 – Is Never Fighting Actually Healthy?

21:45 – Stop Trying to Turn Your Partner Into Someone They're Not

23:22 – Divorcing Someone You Still Love

24:33 – Are Women Getting Relationships Wrong Too?

25:12 – Emotional Language vs. Emotional Intelligence

26:10 – How Women Can Weaponize Their Emotions

28:02 – The "Receipt" Test for Relationship Conflict

30:00 – Do Men and Women Need Different Kinds of Accountability?

32:02 – What's Wrong With Modern Therapy?

34:00 – Therapy, Resilience and Raising Stronger Kids

35:21 – Respecting Your Partner's Role as a Father

36:18 – What Happens When a Woman Loses Respect for a Man

38:20 – Raising Resilient Sons

40:18 – Can a Man Regain a Woman's Respect?\

41:16 – Masculine and Feminine Polarity

42:52 – Why Men Need a Strong Spine and an Open Heart\

44:35 – Kristina's 1–10 Nervous-System Regulation Rule

46:28 – Masculine Structure and the Feminine "Storm"

48:18 – Is Emotional Intelligence Becoming a Status Symbol?

51:09 – Weaponizing Therapy and Spiritual Language

52:24 – What's Broken About Couples Therapy?

54:30 – Why Kristina Goes Harder on Women First\

55:10 – The 100/100 Relationship Model

56:46 – Why Good Therapy Should Push Your Edge

57:58 – Five Warning Signs She's Pulling Away

59:45 – Why Men Feel Blindsided When Women Leave

1:00:24 – Marriage Is NOT the Finish Line

1:01:20 – How Relationships Die by a Thousand Cuts

1:03:02 – The Warning Signs Women Give Men for Years

1:04:41 – The Laundry Basket Theory

1:06:27 – When Your Wife Starts Feeling Like Your Mother

1:07:18 – The Biggest Sexual Red Flags in Relationships

1:08:07 – Why Sexual Novelty Disappears

1:09:29 – Should You Have Sex When You're "Not in the Mood"?

1:10:42 – The Small Rejection That Says More Than You Think

1:11:56 – The Biggest Mistake Men Make Initiating Sex

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EFR 969: Why Women Lose Respect for Men—and the Relationship Warning Signs You're Missing - Why Women Pull Away, Men Feel Blindsided & Sex Disappears with Kristina Ferrari

What if the person you believe yourself to be—your personality, your memories, your motivation, even your perception of reality—is far less fixed than you think? In this episode, I sit down with Oxford neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist Professor Masud Husain for one of the most fascinating explorations I've had into what actually makes us who we are. We unpack how the brain constructs our sense of self, why what we experience as "reality" is actually a representation created by the brain, and what patients with neurological disorders can teach us about just how fragile identity can be. Masud explains why dopamine is less about pleasure and more about our motivation to act, how a tiny change in the brain can dramatically alter personality and behavior, and why our memories aren't recordings of the past but reconstructions that can change over time. We also go deep into free will and whether our choices are ever truly free when every decision is influenced by previous experiences, memories, biology, and unconscious processes. From hallucinations and false memories to the voice inside your head, consciousness, attention, and the surprising amount of information influencing you without ever entering conscious awareness, this conversation ultimately raises a powerful question: if your brain is constantly constructing your experience of reality, how much of the person you believe yourself to be is actually capable of changing?

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00:00 – What Actually Makes You, You?

02:14 – Is the Brain Different From the Mind?

04:34 – Your Brain Is Creating a Simulation of Reality

08:56 – Is There Really a Singular "Self"?

12:02 – Confidence, Truth and How We Define Reality

16:18 – How Your Brain Makes Decisions

18:04 – How Brain Damage Can Completely Change Motivation

20:44 – The Neuroscience of Motivation and Apathy

23:25 – Dopamine's Real Role in Motivation

27:21 – Why Apathy May Require More Brain Activity

29:16 – How to Make Motivation Easier

31:10 – The Myth of Dopamine Hits and Dopamine Detoxes

34:18 – What Happens When Dopamine Gets Too High?

35:55 – Do We Lose Ourselves One Brain Function at a Time?

40:02 – Can Changing the Brain Change the Self?

44:20 – The Ethics of Altering the Brain

48:40 – The Treatments Transforming Neurological Disease

52:45 – Do We Actually Have Free Will?

55:20 – Can Your Choices Create Your Reality?

56:23 – How Experiences Shape the Choices We Make

57:55 – If You Lost Every Memory, Would You Still Be You?

60:17 – What Is a Memory, Really?

60:58 – Your Memories Are Reconstructions, Not Recordings

62:32 – False Memories and Confabulation

66:36 – Is Memory Constantly Recreating Your Identity?

68:03 – When an Experience Feels More Real Than Reality

68:48 – Delusions, Hallucinations and the Brain's Version of Truth

70:41 – The Terrifying Power of Belief

72:58 – Can We Think Without Language?

74:08 – What Is the Voice Inside Your Head?

75:33 – Are Thoughts Created or Received?

78:37 – Neglect Syndrome: How the Brain Can Ignore Half of Reality

83:39 – Can Neuroscience Explain Consciousness?

85:19 – Your Brain Processes Things You're Not Conscious Of

87:10 – Rapid Fire: Social Media, Dopamine, Loneliness and AI

89:25 – Can Purpose Be Measured in the Brain?

89:45 – What Does Ever Forward Mean to Masud?

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EFR 968: Proof We Live in a Simulation: The Neuroscience of Identity, Free Will, Memory and Belief with Masud Husain

Fatty liver disease is becoming increasingly common—but liver damage can develop quietly, sometimes before obvious symptoms or abnormal liver enzymes appear. Today we welcome Dr. Mike Smith, MD to break down liver health, fatty liver disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), cirrhosis, liver inflammation, and the everyday factors that may be putting additional stress on your liver.

Dr. Mike explains how fat begins accumulating in the liver, how liver inflammation and cellular damage can progress toward fibrosis and eventually cirrhosis, and why fatty liver disease isn't only a concern for people who drink alcohol. The conversation explores the metabolic and lifestyle factors associated with poor liver health—including excess calories, visceral fat, refined sugar, highly processed foods, alcohol, environmental exposures, medications, metabolic dysfunction, poor sleep, and chronic stress. Mike Smith transcript

We also unpack one of the biggest challenges surrounding fatty liver disease: you may not know you have it. Dr. Mike discusses vague symptoms including fatigue, brain fog and gastrointestinal issues, why standard liver enzyme testing doesn't necessarily tell the entire story, and when additional evaluation such as liver imaging may become relevant.

You'll also learn how the liver processes what you eat and drink through the body's "first pass" system, why metabolic health is so closely connected to liver health, and practical strategies discussed in the episode for supporting healthy liver function through nutrition, exercise, reducing environmental exposures, and appropriate supplementation.

We also explore the relationship between magnesium and liver health, including magnesium's role in liver reactions involved in detoxification and the broader importance of adequate magnesium status. Dr. Mike discusses magnesium alongside milk thistle, curcumin and foundational dietary strategies as part of a broader—not single-supplement—approach to liver health.

If you've ever wondered about the symptoms of fatty liver disease, whether fatty liver can be reversed, what causes nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, how MASLD develops, how fatty liver progresses toward cirrhosis, or what you can do today to better protect your liver, this episode is your deep dive into one of the body's most important—and often overlooked—organs.

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00:00 – Can Liver Damage Happen With Normal Liver Enzymes?

02:34 – Why Fatty Liver Disease Is Becoming So Common

05:15 – What Your Liver Actually Does Every Day

07:24 – How Food Travels From Your Gut to Your Liver

09:32 – Is Modern Life Overloading the Liver?

10:50 – Excess Calories, Visceral Fat & Fatty Liver Disease

12:22 – Sugar, Fructose & Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

15:29 – Alcohol and Liver Damage Explained

18:04 – Hangover Supplements, Glutathione & NAC

24:09 – Environmental Toxins and Liver Health

27:50 – Pesticides, Soil Depletion & Our Food Supply

30:47 – How Fatty Liver Progresses to Cirrhosis

33:27 – NAFLD, NASH & the Stages of Fatty Liver Disease

34:42 – Can You Reverse Fatty Liver Disease?

35:25 – The Silent Symptoms of Liver Dysfunction

36:22 – Can You Have Fatty Liver With Normal Liver Enzymes?

38:36 – Testing and Screening for Liver Disease

39:20 – Why Liver Enzymes Don't Tell the Whole Story

40:11 – Ultrasound and Diagnosing Fatty Liver

41:14 – Magnesium and Liver Health

42:13 – Best Supplements for Supporting Liver Health

44:06 – Magnesium L-Threonate, Brain Health & the Liver

45:20 – Why Our Food May Be Magnesium Deficient

49:07 – Can Magnesium Improve Fatty Liver?

50:27 – Foods That Support a Healthy Liver

51:48 – Practical Ways to Protect Your Liver

52:49 – The Most Important L

EFR 968: Fatty Liver Disease: How to Prevent and Reverse Liver Damage with Dr. Mike Smith

ADHD in women is far more complex than being distracted, forgetful, or unable to sit still. In this episode, Dr. Jolene Brighten, ND, author of ADHD and Women [https://link.amazon/B0cf7eigK], breaks down how ADHD actually presents in women, why so many women are first diagnosed with anxiety or depression, and how estrogen, progesterone, dopamine, the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopause can influence symptoms. We explore executive dysfunction, time blindness, rejection sensitivity, procrastination, medication, hormone therapy, exercise, sleep, nutrition, caffeine, meditation, and practical strategies for working with an ADHD brain instead of constantly fighting against it. Ultimately, Dr. Brighten reframes ADHD not as personal failure, but as a different operating system that requires different tools to thrive.

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00:00 What science gets wrong about women and ADHD

02:32 Why studying the female brain is so complicated

04:18 Hormones and ADHD medication effectiveness

06:45 Can we recover decades of missing female health data?

08:01 Estrogen, dopamine and the menstrual cycle

09:32 Personality flaw or ADHD symptom?

11:50 Why women are diagnosed with anxiety and depression first

13:56 Why female ADHD doesn't always look hyperactive

14:42 Time blindness explained

16:33 ADHD is really a problem of dysregulation

17:27 What ADHD actually is—and isn't

20:03 Are you born with ADHD?

22:56 Hormones, masking and the female ADHD experience

26:37 When ADHD begins showing up in girls

27:50 ADHD medication in children

30:03 Can a brain scan diagnose ADHD?

31:13 Procrastination vs. task paralysis

33:47 ADHD in high-performing women

36:32 Rejection sensitivity dysphoria

39:07 Can changing your self-talk improve symptoms?

40:08 How to interrupt negative ADHD thought loops

44:46 Dopamine, phones and doomscrolling

45:54 Why ADHD brains need pleasure

48:24 What Parisian cafés can teach us about attention

51:02 ADHD medications: what women should know

53:42 HRT, estrogen and ADHD symptoms

57:30 Should the goal be getting off ADHD medication?

1:00:03 When medication becomes a bigger conversation

1:02:10 Exercise, sleep, environment and nutrition—ranked

1:03:05 20 minutes of exercise and focus

1:03:42 Iron deficiency, sleep and ADHD

1:04:12 Why nutrition comes last—but still matters enormously

1:06:01 Are women simply not eating enough?

1:09:31 Rapid fire: the best and worst ADHD morning habits

1:15:51 The "different operating system" approach

1:19:06 What Ever Forward means to Dr. Brighten

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EFR 967: ADHD in Women: The Hormone, Diet, Dopamine and Medication Connection No One Is Talking About with Jolene Brighten

Actress Erika Christensen joins us for a thought-provoking conversation about self-trust, identity, emotional resilience, and breaking free from the experiences that quietly shape how we think, feel, and behave. Erika shares how Dianetics and its concept of the "reactive mind" have influenced her understanding of trauma, fear, shame, external validation, and the beliefs we carry from our past, while exploring what it takes to become more present and trust yourself again. Together, we unpack the difference between faith and proof, why painful experiences can cause us to learn the wrong lessons, how self-trust can transform decision-making and relationships, and why changing your mind can actually be a sign of growth. Erika also reveals how these principles changed the way she approaches acting and ultimately explains why true freedom, for her, comes down to one powerful idea: possibility.

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00:00 Welcome to Ever Forward with Erika Christensen

01:00 Knowing Her Purpose at 12 Years Old

05:19 "I Knew I Was Going to Make It"

07:16 Losing Yourself in Other People's Perception

07:53 Dianetics and the Reactive Mind

09:28 Can People Actually Change?

12:36 Are We Given Answers—or Better Questions?

13:57 Understanding the Reactive Mind

15:44 Why Self-Discovery May Require Another Person

19:08 How Do You Know the Difference Between Theory and Truth?

20:00 Faith vs. Proof

22:22 How Erika Developed Faith in Herself

23:42 Trauma, Self-Trust and Whether People Are Inherently Good

24:45 What Shame Really Says About You

26:49 How Much of Our Suffering Is Self-Created?

28:25 Erika Shares Her Husband's Experience With Dianetics

30:58 How Dianetics Changed the Way Erika Sees Other People

34:11 How Self-Trust Changed Erika as an Actress

37:01 A Practical Tool for When You Feel Triggered

39:59 Who Are You Beneath Your Conditioning?

42:09 The Trap of External Validation

44:07 Why Self-Trust Makes You a Better Decision-Maker

47:36 "You Are Exactly Where You're Supposed to Be"

49:31 Why Changing Your Mind Is a Strength

50:51 Rapid Fire: Fear, Anger, Forgiveness & Freedom

53:55 What "Ever Forward" Means to Erika

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Chase Chewning (@chasechewning) · Zencastr

Chase Chewning (@chasechewning)

3 MILLION downloads and counting! This is the podcast devoted to help you build a life that propels you forward - EVER FORWARD. Exclusive conversations with industry leaders in health and wellness, personal development, entrepreneurship, celebrities and entertainers, emotional intelligence, creatives, military members and many more. Join host Chase Chewning every Monday and Wednesday. Chase is a US Army veteran, ACE Certified Health Coach, and holds a BS in Exercise Science and MS in Health Promotion. He currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning