{"podcast":{"title":"Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning","slug":"neuroscience-meets-social-and-emotional-learning-87842","podcast_index_feed_id":87842,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/andreasamadi/feed.xml","website_url":"https://andreasamadi.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/5243127/Samadi_07212023_1400ao9wt.jpg","author":"Andrea Samadi","episode_count":415,"summary":"The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast provides support for school leadership and the workplace with a proven approach for implementing social and emotional learning as it’s well-known in our schools today and emotional intelligence in the modern workplace, with a proven strategy to increase well-being, achievement and results, backed by the most current neuroscience research. Andrea Samadi, a teacher from Toronto, (now living in Arizona, USA) began working with success and social and emotional learning principles with students in the late 1990s. Her programs, and trainings, grounded in brain-based research and practical neuroscience, help parents, teachers, coaches and employees to optimize learning, well-being and achievement at home, school or the workplace. Learn more at https://www.achieveit360.com","last_synced_at":"2026-09-14T04:17:11.444705+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/neuroscience-meets-social-and-emotional-learning-87842"},"episode":{"title":"Dr. John Ratey and The Movement Loop: How Movement Becomes Human Performance","slug":"dr-john-ratey-and-the-movement-loop-how-movement-becomes-human-performance","published_at":"2026-08-02T18:26:29+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/neuroscience-meets-social-and-emotional-learning-87842/dr-john-ratey-and-the-movement-loop-how-movement-becomes-human-performance","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/neuroscience-meets-social-and-emotional-learning-87842","url":"https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/movement-matters-how-every-move-rewires-the-brain/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/e5nn48jq62w9yan5/404-4vamn4-Optimized.mp3","summary":"In this episode Andrea Samadi explores Phase Three of the Brain’s Operating System — how movement acts as the essential input that activates the brain, sharpens attention, boosts learning, and improves social and emotional readiness. Drawing on Dr. John Ratey’s insights and related neuroscience research, she explains the chain reaction from exercise to brain activation, learning, and adaptation. The episode also emphasizes the vital role of recovery in consolidating gains so movement leads to lasting performance improvements, and invites listeners to adopt movement as a daily catalyst for clearer thinking, better learning, and greater resilience. Dr. John Ratey and The Movement Loop On this episode 404, we will: Explore where Dr. John Ratey's groundbreaking research fits within the Movement Loop. Understand how movement activates the brain and prepares us to learn. Discover why attention is the gateway to learning and performance. Connect Dr. Ratey's work with Dr. Chuck Hillman, Dr. John Medina, Kristen Holmes, and Jason Whitrock to see the bigger picture. Learn how movement becomes lasting human performance by building our capacity over time. How Movement Becomes Human Performance Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast. I'm Andrea Samadi, and on this podcast, we bridge the science behind social and emotional learning, emotional intelligence, and practical neuroscience so we can create measurable improvements in well-being, achievement, productivity, and results. If you've been following along through Season 16, you'll know we've been building what I call The Brain's Operating System for Human Performance—a neuroscience-based framework that explains how movement, recovery, and adaptation work together to improve our health, learnin…","meta_description":"In this episode Andrea Samadi explores Phase Three of the Brain’s Operating System — how movement acts as the essential input that activates the brain, sh…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1283,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/neuroscience-meets-social-and-emotional-learning-87842/episodes/dr-john-ratey-and-the-movement-loop-how-movement-becomes-human-performance/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/neuroscience-meets-social-and-emotional-learning-87842/dr-john-ratey-and-the-movement-loop-how-movement-becomes-human-performance.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}