{"podcast":{"title":"Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais","slug":"finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955","podcast_index_feed_id":4955,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/finding-mastery","website_url":"http://www.findingmastery.com","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/1b/7d/32/1e/1b7d321e-8d97-4243-9e9d-cfa87fdd2355/80a942c601e5aa10075b1f6a0a7ebd2a417522904e0a5f78d5e0fdd3f887bb13ee819e380f7c4c76626bc328d9ddd463c0be3400081e4e9131546757d7b71035.jpeg","author":"Dr. Michael Gervais","episode_count":633,"summary":"Dive into the minds of the world’s greatest athletes, leaders, thinkers, and doers with Dr. Michael Gervais—a high performance psychologist and world-renowned expert on the relationship between high performance and the mind. Dr. Gervais’s client roster includes Super Bowl winning NFL teams, Fortune 50 CEOs, Olympic medalists, internationally acclaimed artists, and more. On Finding Mastery, Dr. Gervais sits down with the best at what they do, like David Goggins, Brene Brown, Toto Wolff, soccer legend Abby Wambach, neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella — translating their life stories, mental skills, and personal practices into applicable tools you can use to unlock your potential. Walk with us to the edge of human possibility and learn what you are capable of. New episodes every Wednesday.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T06:20:11.791859+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955"},"episode":{"title":"The Psychology of Pain | Dr Tom Walters","slug":"the-psychology-of-pain-dr-tom-walters","published_at":"2026-09-23T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955/the-psychology-of-pain-dr-tom-walters","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955","url":"https://findingmastery.com/podcasts/tom-walters","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/120/rss.art19.com/episodes/b3ee7aba-1bb1-4c62-b5c9-ff40c784ce33.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"How much of the time you spend in pain comes from the injury itself, and how much comes from the fear around it? Dr. Tom Walters is a board-certified orthopedic physical therapist, strength and conditioning specialist, educator, and founder of Rehab Science. He has spent more than two decades helping people understand pain, movement, and injury recovery, and he is the author of Rehab Science: How to Overcome Pain and Heal from Injury. Tom’s starting point is that pain and injury are not the same thing. Pain is an unpleasant sensory or emotional experience tied to actual or potential tissue damage, which means what you believe about your body can change what you feel in it. Tom and Mike get into the nocebo effect, how a clinician’s words or reaction to a scan can amplify pain, why the field traded the word chronic for persistent, and how to manage exercise loads as your body adapts. Mike tells the story of an MRI he had around the age of 23. The doctor looked at the film, his eyes got big, and he asked if Mike was okay. Mike says his pain felt worse instantly. Tom says many musculoskeletal conditions improve with time and movement. He encourages people to take an active role in recovery: try an appropriate movement, notice how your body responds, and adjust from there. Enjoy the conversation. ___________________________________________________________________ Links & Resources: Dr. Tom Walters’ Website: rehabscience.com Dr. Tom Walters’ Books: Rehab Science: How to Overcome Pain and Heal from Injury , plus the 2026 Rehab Science body-region series: Knee, Back and Spine, Hip, Shoulder, Elbow, Wrist & Hand, Ankle and Foot, and Head & Neck Dr. Tom Walters’ YouTube Channel: Rehab Science The Rehab Science App: Rehab Science on the App Store Subscribe to our Yout…","meta_description":"How much of the time you spend in pain comes from the injury itself, and how much comes from the fear around it? Dr. Tom Walters is a board-certified orth…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4661,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955/episodes/the-psychology-of-pain-dr-tom-walters/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955/the-psychology-of-pain-dr-tom-walters.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}