The Empowered Brain

The Empowered Brain is the only podcast that uses science, psychology and coaching to help you rewire your brain, become more effective create a happier life. Listen and learn how to master your mind, master your emotions, thrive amidst daily stressors, and master time. Dr. Vanessa Calderón is a Harvard grad, Physician, Master Coach, and mother of 2. She has over 20 years of clinical and leadership experience and is the founder of the The Journey (to your empowered brain). The Journey uses the latest science in neuroplasticity, resiliency and psychology to help people: (1) Master their Mind and become more effective in all areas of their lives; (2) Master their Emotions and heal from past traumas; (3) Master Stress and Resilience and thrive amidst life's everyday stressors (4) Master Time, create healthy boundaries and have more time for people they love. Learn more at: www.vanessacalderonmd.com/join

Recent Episodes

187. Exciting News and Updates
Apr 17, 2025 – 29:18
186. How to Feel Less Guilt today and in the New Year
Dec 22, 2024 – 20:18
185. Creating your Identity on Purpose
Dec 15, 2024 – 29:47
184. The Joy Deficit: Why You Don't Make Time for Joy and How to Get it Back
Dec 8, 2024 – 24:34
183. Understanding and Rewiring Negative Thought Patterns so you can Break Free from Guilt, Imposter Syndrome and Insecurity
Dec 1, 2024 – 32:19
182. How to Prepare for Holiday Stress: Managing Difficult People, Triggering Conversations, and Avoiding Re-traumatization
Nov 24, 2024 – 43:09
181. Lessons to Improve Emotional Resilience, Inner Peace, and Success
Nov 17, 2024 – 23:42
180. The Gifts of Self-Compassion
Nov 10, 2024 – 32:06
179. The Messy Middle: How to Not Quit When Things Get Hard and Uncomfortable (when you are creating a new habit or self-improvement)
Nov 3, 2024 – 18:17
178. How to Get Your Time Back for YOU!
Oct 27, 2024 – 22:17
177. You matter too: Servant Leadership vs Martyrdom, What Are You Practicing?
Oct 13, 2024 – 34:46
176. Redefining Your Relationship With Weakness
Oct 6, 2024 – 20:00
175. The Power of Ritual and how to incorporate them into your daily life
Sep 29, 2024 – 28:10
174. The RAIN Pneumonic: How to process and be with difficult thoughts, feelings, and moments
Sep 22, 2024 – 21:52
173. Invalidating Your Emotions: Why you do it, how it's effecting you and how to stop
Sep 15, 2024 – 28:35
172. Reconnecting To Your Intuition: A Guide to Your Inner-Knowing
Sep 8, 2024 – 42:17
171. What are you choosing to believe and why?
Sep 1, 2024 – 22:25
170. The Powerful Practice of Surrender
Aug 25, 2024 – 27:04
169. How to React to Your Negative Thoughts: Liberate Yourself From Negative Thoughts and Elevate your Consciousness
Aug 18, 2024 – 25:38
168. Why Verbalizing Your Goals Matters: How to Prime Your Brain for Success
Aug 11, 2024 – 18:41
167. The Fulfillment Deficit: How to know if you are experiencing it and what to do about it
Aug 4, 2024 – 25:28
166. Simple Practices for Happiness and Inner Peace
Jul 28, 2024 – 36:07
165. Overwhelm: Why You Feel It and How to Not Let it Get in Your Way
Jul 21, 2024 – 17:01
164. Competition, Jealousy, Envy: Why you do it and How to stop
Jul 14, 2024 – 27:32
163. The Selfishness Lie: How to stop believing it and start choosing you
Jul 7, 2024 – 26:44
162. Allowing the Magic: Intersection between Spirituality and Science with Dr. Rashmi Schramm
Jun 30, 2024 – 44:57
161. Ancestral and Generation Trauma: How to know if you have it and How to Heal
Jun 23, 2024 – 31:15
160. How to do a Results Audit (Is Self-Mastery important to me and how do I start)
Jun 16, 2024 – 31:38
159. How to Allow Your Success to be Easy (instead of thinking it always has to be hard)
Jun 9, 2024 – 22:30
158. Permission To feel Sad: Why You Avoid Feeling Sad, and What to Do Instead
Jun 2, 2024 – 25:19
157. Self Compassion and it's Link to Productivity, Achievement, and Business Success
May 26, 2024 – 27:27
156. How to Stop Being Hard on Yourself AND still be productive
May 19, 2024 – 19:55
155. You're not lazy, but here's who benefits when you think you are (and what to do about it)
May 12, 2024 – 32:40
154. How to Separate Your Core Self from Your Thinking Brain
May 5, 2024 – 13:07
153. The Self-Awareness vs the Self-Confidence gap and their Relation to Imposter Syndrome
Apr 28, 2024 – 36:54
152. How to Practice Mind Yoga for a More Determined and Resilient Mind
Apr 21, 2024 – 22:53
151. How to Cultivate the Relationship With the Person You Spend the Most Amount of Time With
Apr 14, 2024 – 18:11
150. Navigating Grief and Loss in the midst of personal and professional responsibilities
Apr 7, 2024 – 34:13
149. Journey to Authenticity: How a mom of 3 and an entrepreneur overcame procrastination and imposter syndrome to create the business and life of her dreams
Mar 31, 2024 – 55:29
148. Why You Quit on Your Goals, and How to Recommit (so that you achieve your goals and your truest desires)
Mar 24, 2024 – 28:19
147. The Science of Manifestation and how to use it to create your goals
Mar 17, 2024 – 25:58
146. How to take a Loss in Business and in Life
Mar 10, 2024 – 14:38
145. The courage to have difficult conversations
Mar 3, 2024 – 10:05
144. How to have more courage
Feb 25, 2024 – 12:28
143. How to do a Personal Energy Inventory, and Steps You Can Take Now To Protect Your Sacred Energy
Feb 18, 2024 – 28:25
142. Acts of Unconditional Love
Feb 14, 2024 – 21:36
141. Mastering Self-Discipline: Part 4 The Science of Human Motivation how to use it to get more done
Feb 7, 2024 – 20:05
140. Mastering Self-Discipline Part 3: The Science of Self-Discipline and how to use it to get more done
Jan 31, 2024 – 28:13
139. Mastering Self-Discipline: Part 2 How to Get into and Stay in Your Flow State
Jan 24, 2024 – 30:19
138. How to do your own internal healing and liberation: A Conversation with Natalie Gutierrez, LMFT, Author of The Pain We Carry
Jan 17, 2024 – 01:16:11