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Hello I’m Shannon Harvey – health journalist, filmmaker, author… and podcaster. In this podcast I’ll take you behind the scenes of my research and projects. You’ll find extended interviews with experts that sadly hit the cutting room floor when I’m making my films and writing my books. You’ll also hear the real-life stories of people I’ve met along the way who are successfully taking a whole-person, whole-life approach to healthy living. There will be laughter, there will be tears, there wil ...
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How Food Companies Get Us 'Hooked' On Junk – with Michael Moss (#11)
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They're cheap, convenient, practically imperishable, and engineered to be irresistible. They’re called "ultra processed foods" and in the midst of epidemics of diet-related chronic diseases, some nutrition scientists believe they are the smoking gun. In this week's podcast, Shannon Harvey talks with former New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning inv…
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Mindful Myths – With Timothea Goddard (#10)
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Usually I share interviews with scientists doing research that can shed light on how we can live better, healthier lives. But this week you'll hear from a different kind of expert – a mindfulness teacher who has made a big impact on my life. Timothea Goddard led the eight week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course that I participated in …
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The Importance Of Good Relationships With Robert Waldinger, PhD (#09)
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In this episode I’m taking you inside my research files. When I start to think about a new question or film project, I often don’t really know where it’s going to lead. Over the following weeks, months, or even years, I dive headfirst into the academic journals. The process often feels like a journey of discovery – sometimes it’s the evidence that …
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I know this sounds crazy but over the course of my latest project – My Year of Living MindfullyI spent more than $30,000 on scientific tests. A lot of people have asked me why I went to such lengths to get objective measures to see what, if anything, changed as a result of my daily mindfulness training. And my answer is simple. Because I believe th…
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In this episode I’m talking with the self-compassion pioneer and researcher, Associate Professor Kirstin Neff from the University of Texas. Although this interview was only briefly used in the documentary film that resulted from the year I spent delving into mindfulness (there was just so much ground to cover in just 96 minutes) it was nevertheless…
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If you're interested in learning how your brain works and how to use that knowledge to make healthy changes in your life, then this week's podcast is for you. This episode is my extended interview with Dr. Judson Brewer, who is an Associate Professor and the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University. You migh…
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After listening to this week's podcast, I suspect that you won't be able to stop yourself from taking a moment to reflect on what really matters to you the most in life, on what is truly important to you... and why. This episode is with Professor Michael Stegor – a world-leading expert in finding meaning in life. He's the Founder and Director of th…
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Richard Davidson, PhD (#04)
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This conversation is another extended interview from my film My Year Of Living Mindfully. This time it is with Professor Richard Davidson, the Director of the Centre for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Maddison. Richie is a trailblazing scientist who’s published hundreds of scientific papers on the neural bases of emotion. His dedicat…
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Today’s podcast interview is a little different from the first two. Although, like the others, this interview was done for my last documentary project, My Year of Living Mindfully, it isn’t with someone who’s specifically a mindfulness researcher. It’s with a scientist at the forefront of understanding the connection between our mind, body and heal…
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When I began my year-long documentary experiment to see what would happen to my health and wellbeing if I meditated every day for a year, a key motivating force was a special issue of The Lancet which declared that every country in the world is facing and failing to tackle a host of mental health issues. Crucially, the special issue was published b…
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In today’s episode you’ll be hearing what happened when I chatted to Jon Kabat-Zinn - who many people consider to be the father of mindfulness in the West. This was a key interview that I did during the production of my latest documentary called My Year of Living Mindfully. To give some context to this conversation. I was inspired to make the film …
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