Finding Genius Podcast

In today's technological age, children are encountering adult content earlier than many parents are prepared for. So what should families talk about before that first unwanted exposure happens — and how should parents respond if they discover their child has already seen pornography? Kristen Jenson joins the podcast to explain… Kristen Jenson helps parents have age-appropriate conversations about sexual content while teaching children how to navigate the online world more safely. Rather than relying only on filters or avoidance, she encourages families to give kids the tools to recognize harmful content, respond appropriately, and turn to a trusted adult for support. Hit play now to learn about: ● When parents should begin conversations about pornography and online sexual content. ● How to make difficult topics age-appropriate without creating unnecessary fear or shame. ● What parents can do before a child receives their first smartphone or unrestricted internet access. ● How to respond calmly if a child has already encountered pornography. Kristen is the founder of Defend Young Minds and the bestselling author of the Good Pictures Bad Pictures series, which has sold nearly 400,000 copies and been translated into more than a dozen languages. She is also the producer of BRAIN DEFENSE: Digital Safety, a curriculum designed to help children develop tools for navigating online risks. Kristen has testified before the Washington State Senate on children's exposure to pornography and has spoken at conferences focused on child safety and sexual exploitation. Through Defend Young Minds, her work centers on giving parents and professionals practical resources for raising resilient, screen-smart children. Connect with Kristen: Defend Young Minds Facebook X Instagram Good Pictures Bad Pictures Porn Proof Kids

Brock Holyoak, entrepreneur, author, speaker, and founder of NuFit, brings a blue-collar approach to self-improvement. He explores the relentless practice behind comedy, business, fitness, and family life. The conversation tackles accountability, overcoming fear, choosing experiences over regret, staying present, and why polished spontaneity is built through repetition.

In this episode, we connect with Jenn Pinkerton to discuss how emotional trauma can shape the way we connect, communicate, and respond in our closest relationships. As a psychotherapist, sexologist, connection expert, founder, and PhD candidate, Jenn brings a trauma-informed perspective to understanding why people can appear confident and successful on the outside – while still struggling with conflict, intimacy, vulnerability, or disconnection behind the scenes…Jenn works with individuals, couples, and families to identify the deeper patterns influencing their relationships. Rather than looking only at communication problems or compatibility, her approach explores how past experiences, attachment, emotional conditioning, and unconscious responses can affect the way people give and receive love, handle conflict, and protect themselves from vulnerability. This conversation explores: ● How unresolved trauma can influence adult relationships. ● Why the same conflicts and emotional patterns often repeat. ● The connection between attachment, vulnerability, and intimacy. ● How independence, control, and high standards can create distance. Jenn is the founder of Pinkerton Psychotherapy and host of the REDHEADREVEAL® Podcast, where she explores relationships, sexuality, intimacy, attachment, and personal growth. Through psychotherapy, relationship intensives, workshops, and education, she helps people better understand how their stories shape their present-day connections and develop healthier ways of relating to themselves and others. Connect with Jenn: Personal Website Pinkerton Psychotherapy REDHEADREVEAL® Podcast LinkedIn Instagram YouTube

Lyle Maxson, technology entrepreneur and CEO of ABOVE Technologies, explores Reflective AI and wearable tools designed to deepen self-awareness. They discuss how voice and conversation patterns may illuminate emotions, relationship blind spots, and cognitive load; the role of personal intentions in shaping feedback; and the privacy, consent, and surveillance risks surrounding AI-powered reflection.

Passing down a business is about far more than ownership, legal documents, or financial planning. It can also raise difficult questions about identity, family dynamics, leadership, legacy, and what life looks like after the transition. In this episode, Elizabeth Ledoux and Andrea Carpenter join us to discuss how family and founder-led businesses can approach succession with greater clarity and intention. Together, they explore why successful transitions depend not only on having the right structure in place, but also on preparing the people involved for what comes next… This conversation explores: ● Why family business transitions often become complicated. ● How owners can prepare emotionally for stepping away. ● The challenges next-generation leaders face when taking over. ● How family relationships can influence succession decisions. Elizabeth founded The Transition Strategists more than 30 years ago after seeing how often business owners reached the point of transition without being fully prepared for life afterward. A former petroleum engineer turned entrepreneur, she developed the Transition Roadmap Developer and co-authored It's a Journey, a guide focused on creating thoughtful, intentional business transitions. Andrea serves as President of The Transition Strategists and brings the perspective of a successor herself. Her work focuses on what she calls Transition 3.0 — a relationship-first approach to helping owners, families, and next-generation leaders navigate succession together. She also created Your Next Gen Friend, a community and podcast exploring identity, wealth, family business, and the unique pressures that can come with inheriting a legacy. Connect with Elizabeth & Andrea: The Transition Strategists Your Next Gen Friend Podcast Andrea Carpenter LinkedIn Elizabeth Ledoux LinkedIn

What happens when conventional medicine and naturopathic care are used together instead of treated as opposites? In this conversation, Dr. Joshua Levitt breaks down integrative health, root-cause thinking, and how patients can make sense of complex health concerns without getting lost in overly complicated wellness advice. Dr. Josh is a naturopathic physician, educator, author, and Co-Founder and Medical Director of UpWellness. With more than 20 years of clinical experience, his approach combines conventional diagnostics with naturopathic strategies to help patients better understand what may be contributing to chronic and everyday health issues. This conversation explores: ● What a root-cause approach to health actually means. ● Where conventional and naturopathic medicine can complement each other. ● Why good diagnostics matter before choosing a treatment strategy. ● How nutrition, lifestyle, and natural therapies fit into integrative care. Dr. Josh earned his naturopathic medical degree from Bastyr University and previously served as a clinical preceptor at the Yale School of Medicine. Over the course of his career, he has worked with thousands of patients and has focused heavily on translating complex health concepts into clear, actionable guidance. This eventually led him to co-found UpWellness, where he works to bring integrative health education and natural wellness solutions to a much broader audience beyond the clinic. Tune in for a practical conversation about integrative medicine, better diagnostics, natural health, and how to approach wellness with more clarity and less confusion. Connect with Dr. Josh: Website: http://www.upwellness.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/upwellnessshop/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjoshlevitt/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/upwellness TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drjoshlevitt

What does it take to run a healthcare practice that delivers better care without causing burnout for the people behind it? In this episode, Timothy Boyle sits down to discuss how hospitals, laboratories, and private practices can reduce operational bottlenecks, improve workflows, strengthen revenue performance, and create a better overall experience for patients and staff. As Director of Sales and Business Development at REVA Global Medical, Timothy works with healthcare organizations facing the growing pressures of staffing, reimbursement, efficiency, and patient expectations. He has nearly a decade of experience across many healthcare services, diagnostics, and SaaS – where he witnessed firsthand how improving the business side of medicine can impact the quality and sustainability of care. This conversation explores: ● How operational bottlenecks can contribute to clinician and staff burnout. ● The ways that healthcare practices can improve efficiency without sacrificing patient care. ● The connection between stronger workflows and a better patient experience. ● Common revenue and reimbursement challenges facing medical organizations. Before entering the healthcare industry, Timothy spent four years playing professional hockey, an experience that reframed his approach to teamwork, discipline, resilience, and performance. His career has since included work in medical diagnostics, healthcare technology, recovery solutions, and business development. He has also served as a Lead Facilitator at a group home for men with autism. Whether you manage a large healthcare organization or a small private practice, this episode offers a practical look at how better systems can reduce friction, support clinicians, and create room for sustainable growth.

In today's episode, Deborah Maragopoulos joins us to discuss why the hypothalamus can be thought of as the "maestro" of the body's hormonal system. Sitting at the intersection of the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems, the hypothalamus plays an important role in regulating everything from mood and memory to sleep, energy, metabolism, digestion, immune function, and the aging process… Deborah is an integrative Family Nurse Practitioner, author, and specialist in neuro-immune-endocrinology with more than 30 years of clinical experience. Known as the "Hormone Queen," she has worked extensively with women experiencing hormonal imbalances related to perimenopause, menopause, PCOS, infertility, and much more. Her approach combines conventional and naturopathic perspectives to help identify underlying patterns that may be contributing to chronic symptoms. This conversation covers: ● The difference between functional and conventional medicine. ● Why the hypothalamus plays such a central role in hormone regulation. ● How hormonal imbalances can affect mood, sleep, energy, metabolism, and digestion. ● The connection between the nervous, immune, and endocrine systems. Deborah is the author of The Hypothalamus Handbook: Your Tool to Discovering the Root of Your Health Issues and Finally Healing Your Body, Mind, and Soul, as well as Hormones in Harmony and Menopause Action Plan. A UCLA graduate and former president of the California Association of Nurse Practitioners, she has also served as an endocrine advisor and developed her own integrative model of care focused on supporting hypothalamic and hormonal function.

Join us in this episode as Erai Beckmann shares his thoughts on blockchain, artificial intelligence, global commerce, and the potential for emerging technologies to expand access to the financial system. As Erai puts it, "We think the first step towards global peace is to allow financial access to those that don't yet have it." That idea sits at the center of Peace Through Trade (PTT), the blockchain project he is a founding partner of and is helping build around peer-to-peer commerce, digital trade, and greater economic participation. Peace Through Trade is a regulation-focused Layer-1 Proof-of-Work blockchain ecosystem designed to work alongside governments and existing financial structures rather than outside them. Erai's approach to Web3 is shaped by a career spent building in emerging and highly regulated industries, where he learned that new technologies are more likely to achieve lasting adoption when regulation is addressed from the beginning. Click play to find out: ● How blockchain could expand access to global commerce and financial services. ● Why Erai connects economic participation with greater international cooperation. ● The role regulation may play in bringing blockchain into mainstream use. ● How AI, Web3, and digital trade could intersect in the future. Before Peace Through Trade, Erai led public companies and co-founded a pharmaceutical venture focused on cannabinoid-based products in Latin America. He was involved in lobbying and legislative efforts surrounding medical cannabinoid access in Brazil, an experience that helped shape his regulation-first philosophy. Today, he applies that same thinking to blockchain: understand the rules, build infrastructure capable of operating within them, and focus on practical use beyond speculation. Connect with Erai: Peace Through Trade Personal Website LinkedIn

Could a new generation of therapies eventually reproduce some of the effects we associate with diet and exercise? In this episode, we connect with Dr. Adam Dorr to discuss the rapid evolution of GLP-1 medications and the possibility that combining fat-loss drugs with emerging myostatin- and activin-blocking therapies could change how we think about weight, muscle mass, metabolic health, and healthy aging. Adam is the Director of Research at RethinkX, an independent think tank focused on technology-driven disruption. As an environmental social scientist and technology theorist, he approaches healthcare through the same systems lens RethinkX has applied to energy, transportation, and food. Adam's recent work explores what RethinkX calls "Health Optimizer Therapies," or HOTs: combinations of treatments that may eventually target fat loss, muscle preservation or gain, metabolic health, and other aspects of physical well-being at the same time. He describes this convergence as moving medicine closer to a long-pursued idea: something resembling diet and exercise in a bottle… This conversation explores: ● Why GLP-1 medications could represent more than a weight-loss trend. ● The potential role of myostatin and activin inhibition in preserving or increasing muscle. ● What could happen when fat-loss and muscle-building therapies are combined. ● Why RethinkX views these technologies as part of a broader healthcare disruption. Adam holds a PhD from UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs and an MS from the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability. He has spent much of his career studying how rapidly improving technologies move from niche innovations to forces that can transform entire sectors. Connect with Adam: RethinkX Rethinking Health: The Health Optimizer Therapy Disruption X