Understanding your emotional brain with neuroscience with Lori Shook

Unsaid @ Work

Unsaid @ Work
Understanding your emotional brain with neuroscience with Lori Shook
Jan 08, 2024 Season 2 Episode 58
Catherine Stagg-Macey

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Our emotional brain reacts quickly without thinking, often driven by biases.

In this episode, my guest Lori Shook, helps us gain a deeper understanding of how our brain and body react to stress and emotions in the workplace.

In our conversation, we seek to:

  • Understand the neuroscience behind our need for belonging and its influence on our well-being and performance at work.
  • Gain insights into the connection between neuroscience and coaching techniques for personal and professional development.
  • Discover the role of the prefrontal cortex in managing emotions, making logical choices, and problem-solving.
  • Learn about the limbic system and its influence on our emotional responses and decision-making processes.
  • Gain practical strategies to create a sense of belonging, fairness, and certainty as a leader in the workplace.

Lori Shook has been a coach for 27 years and has been training coaches for 25 years.  Along the way she’s also developed other talents, especially in training others. Her superpower is to demystify what’s going on and present it back to people in a palatable way – which is why she’s accumulated a pretty big fan base.

She believes that neuroscience is one of the key factors that helps to people understand themselves, their interactions with others and to develop “people skills”.
Lori refers to her model, Be SAFE and Certain, and you can follow along with the visual here.

Follow Lori on Linkedin and check out her program, Rewired to Relate

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Big shout out to my podcast magician, Marc at iRonickMedia for making this real.

Thanks for listening!