The Hardy Brain

The Hardy Brain

Hosted by: Dr. David Hardy

The show that takes athletic introverted entrepreneurs and leaders and transforms them into ironclad brain performers.

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Episodes

"I'm So Dysregulated That I Made a Career Out of It" — Tyler Hayden

That’s raw truth from Tyler Hayden, the speaker Dr. David Hardy calls "the guy for team building." Tyler is ā€œCanada’s Energizer Bunny on crackā€ šŸ‡ ⚔, a survivor who turned ADHD and trauma into a superpower for...
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11,000 Kids Chose Robots Over Basketball. Here's Why" — Kristijonas Vasiliauskas

"I Want to Raise Kids So Amazing That Even Aliens Would Want to Be Our Friends" Meet Kristijonas Vasiliauskas—he got 11,000+ kids in Lithuania choosing robotics over basketball. Now he's on a mission to rewire how...
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Most Meetings Have Less Brain Activity Than Someone Who’s Asleep - Chad Littlefield

"I was facilitating through the bars of solitary confinement..." ā›“ļø Most people feel like they are in "meeting prison" on Zoom, but Chad Littlefield actually spent years facilitating conversations for juvenile inmates...
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I Expected a Promotion… Then Bobsleigh Canada Fired Meā€ — Lyndon Rush

"I was fully expecting a promotion… and I got axed." 🄶 That’s Olympian & former Bobsleigh Canada coach Lyndon Rush on the moment his career flipped overnight. But here’s the twist—instead of spiraling, he turned...
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Healing at the Speed of Sound- Alex Doman

Your brain is noisy. Not metaphorically—literally. Every day, your auditory system is drowning in cacophony, forcing your brain to work harder just to extract meaning from the chaos. That exhaustion you feel? That's...
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The Silver Medal Mindset: Living 100 Years in a Decade- John K Coyle

Olympic silver medalist, 5x TEDx speaker, Emmy-winning storyteller, and bestselling author John Coyle (@johnkcoyle) breaks down the hidden neuroscience of time — why it speeds up as we age and exactly how to slow it...
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Refugee to Ultra-Runner: The Power of Voluntary Friction- Linh Huynh

What drives a person to run 250 kilometers across a scorching desert or a frozen tundra just to find "voluntary friction"? In this episode of The Hardy Brain, we sit down with the "Asian Forrest Gump," Linh Huynh...
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Moving Machines with Your Thoughts- Dr. Christoph Guger

šŸŽ™ļø What if you could move a paralyzed hand years after a stroke — simply by imagining the movement? That’s not science fiction. It’s happening right now with Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology. In this powerful...
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No Arms, No Quitting, No BS with Alvin Law

This is not a podcast about overcoming obstacles. 🤯 It’s about an ordinary man with no arms who repeatedly became the best in the world at extraordinary things. šŸš€ Meet Alvin Law. In this jaw-dropping episode of The...
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Steve Ramona Says "Shut Up"—And Explains Why It's Worth 7 Figures

Imagine dropping a šŸ’°$20M deal and giving yourself exactly 24 hours to feel the pain. Then? You switch back to CEO mode. 🧠 Or buying groceries for a stranger holding a baby, only to discover in tears that her husband...
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Hormonal Minefield-> Perimenopause, Brain Fog, and Meltdowns with Dr. Jenn Bunzenmeyer

You're 42. Prime of your career. Building empires. Then you snap at your business partner over nothing. Your vision changes three times in 18 months. You wake up at 2am with your heart pounding and don't know why....
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The Skid Row CEO: From Homelessness to a 9,000 km Walk of Transformation

From pushing a shopping cart under a viaduct strung out on heroin to the cover of Canadian Business in less than 12 years. šŸ›’āž”ļøšŸ“ˆ This week's episode with @https://skidrowceo.com/ isn't a feel-good story—it's a...
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