#230 Healthy Functioning with a Heart and Mind Connection with Dr Magdalena Bak-Maier

23-01-2024 • 16 mins

Welcome to the 230th episode of the award-winning Diverse Minds podcast. We welcome the New Year with a series on heart and mind connection. I am speaking with Dr Magdalena Bak-Maier this week about healthy functioning with a heart and mind connection.

About my guest

Dr Magdalena Bak-Maier is a mental health and well-being expert, educator, neuroscientist and leading coach-therapist. Her unique heart, mind, body and spirit approach helps people navigate life, lead and heal by tapping into the full power of their nervous system.

Magdalena teaches minds to feel and hearts to think. She believes that talent is not in short supply, but healthy people are! She works to change this through 1:1 clinics, education and consultancy.

She is the creator of the Grid method for health, results and success. The crucial insight she made is that healthy people are good at balancing work, life, career and self-care, which we can all learn to do.

Grid supports mental health and well-being in students and adults and has been selected for sharing at the Columbia University Coaching Conference, Positive Psychology Congress as well as US National Public Radio and Guardian Masterclass series. Magdalena’s current work explores Grid's use of ineffective habit change and burnout recovery.

Her most recent project is a 12-month goal-setting adventure designed to support people in recovering their agency and confidence through tangible results and a training module for Oxford University Press on healthy workplace cultures.

To take the Grid method into the world, Magdalena trains other coaches and managers in this powerful approach and offers Grid workshops and keynotes.

You can learn more about her work at www.maketimecount.com or via LinkedIn, follow her YouTube channel, or explore her books. Whatever you do, make your health and well-being a key priority. The world needs you.

In today’s show

About and what she’s currently working on [02:41]
How she became an author and a changemaker. [03:19]
What the term “heart and mind connection” mean to her? [05:20]
Frameworks that help people connect heart and mind together. [08:43]
Her top 3 mental health tips. [11:38]

Quotes

My road to authorship was partly aspirational and accidental.
Listening to your heart is important.
So often, we talk ourselves out of things using purely rational.
Connection is all about team work and linking yourself to other people.
Self -care is not just about sleep and good nutrition. It’s also about attending to your mind, heart, body and spirit.