Awaken and Align4 Maalis 2020

Episode 74: Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway With Fearologist Mary Poffenroth

Mary Poffenroth is a biology lecturer and fear researcher for San Jose State University. In addition to contributing to Science magazine, Forbes, TEDx and SXSW, she advises growth driven individuals and organizations on how to use science to transform their relationship with fear to improve strategic decision making and increase creativity while cultivating more authentic communications.

Mary, a Salzburg Global Fellow and first generation college student, holds two masters degrees, one in biology and the other in science communication from Imperial College London, and will be completing her PhD in Media Psychology in 2020. She is the author of Write Present Create: Science Communication for Undergraduates and has taught nearly 20,000 students both in person and online since 2007. She began her research career in astrophysiology at NASA Ames Research Center Moffet Field in 1999 and now focuses her research on the intersection of fear science, communication, and personal/social change.

Her interview about Fearology that was featured on one of my favorite podcasts, Ologies was named by Time Magazine as a top podcast and recommended that episode specifically. In This Episode We Talk About:

What is fear from a scientific perspective?
Why being fearless is detrimental to your life goals.
What to do when you have fear about the coronavirus.
The different types of fear.
The scientific steps you can take to deal with your fears.
Why stress is killing you.

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