Architect of Calm
Formerly: PausePoint- The Podcast
Architect of Calm is a conversation-driven podcast exploring how specialists, researchers, and practitioners actually build calm into their lives, not as an aspiration, but as a system.
Each episode, host Felisa Wiley sits down with the people who study human behavior, performance, and well-being for a living and asks the question most podcasts skip: what does this look like in your own life?
Honest, interview-format conversations with the people who know this work from the inside.
Architect of Calm
Latest Episodes
E17: A Sleep Scientist on What Rest Actually Does with Dr. Alen Juginović
OverviewIn this episode of PausePoint: The Podcast (soon to be Architect of Calm), we sit down with a guest who spends his days sleep-depriving mice to answer a question that should unsettle anyone skimping on rest: does poor slee...
E16: Your Job Isn't the Problem, Your Open Tabs Are with Mary (Wendroff) Petto
OverviewIn this episode of PausePoint: The Podcast (soon to be Architect of Calm), we sit down with a guest who makes the case that burnout, quiet quitting, and workplace disengagement aren't really about hours or workload, they'r...
E15: Storytelling Tools For Mindfulness And Mental Health with Maia Kinney-Petrucha
Overview In this episode of PausePoint: The Podcast (soon to be Architect of Calm), we're joined by Maia Kinney-Petrucha, storyteller and cognitive neuroscientist, to talk about what OCD actually looks like from the inside, n...
E14: The Marine Who Became a Neuropsychologist: Fasting, Jung, and the Science of Sitting Still with Dr. Ciro Visone
Overview In this episode of PausePoint: The Podcast (soon to be Architect of Calm), we sit down with a guest whose path into brain science started with watching fellow Marines come home from war with injuries no one fully und...
E13: What If Your Body Knows The Truth First with Deb Glassman
Overview In this episode of PausePoint: The Podcast (soon to be Architect of Calm), we sit down with a guest whose path through medical training led her straight to mindfulness and never really back out. She shares what a rea...
