This podcast features an interview with Dr. Markus Rogan, a former Olympic gold medalist who transitioned into the field of behavioral health and mental health counseling. The discussion covers Dr. Rogan's unorthodox personal journey, including his family's history and his own conversion to Judaism.

Key topics discussed include:

• Dr. Rogan's shift from elite athletics to mental health work, and how he found meaning and fulfillment in helping others rather than pursuing individual athletic glory.
• The challenges athletes face in transitioning to post-athletic careers and finding a sense of identity and purpose.
• The concept of "enough" and how many people struggle with a lack of intrinsic self-worth and an excessive focus on external validation.
• Dr. Rogan's unique therapeutic approach that blurs the lines between therapist and patient, with the goal of creating a more authentic, mutual exchange.
• Simple breathing techniques that Dr. Rogan recommends for regulating anxiety and stress.

Overall, this podcast provides a thoughtful and personal exploration of finding meaning, authenticity, and mental/emotional wellness, drawing on Dr. Rogan's diverse life experiences.

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In this fascinating conversation, Dr. Gita Vaid, a board-certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst based in Manhattan, discusses the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted therapy. Dr. Vaid shares her expertise on MDMA and ketamine, explaining their potential for treating depression, anxiety, PTSD, and relationship issues.

The discussion covers:

• The unique benefits of MDMA and ketamine in psychotherapy
• How these medicines can help process trauma and increase self-awareness
• The potential for psychedelics in couples therapy
• Making psychedelic therapy more accessible and affordable
• Using psychedelics for personal growth and "peak performance"
• The importance of tailoring mental health treatments to individuals
• The nature of subjective experience in psychedelic journeys

Dr. Vaid offers profound insights into how psychedelic medicines can expand our understanding of consciousness, memory, and healing. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in the future of mental health treatment and personal transformation.

This conversation between JD Kalmenson and Dr. Gita Vaid took place at the Emerging Themes in Behavioral Health 2024. For more information: https://emergingthemesinbehavioralhealth.com/

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JD Kalmenson interviews Marc Brackett, PhD., to understand the territory of Emotional Intelligence. What exactly is it? What are the skills necessary to navigate difficult emotions, and how can emotions affect our thinking?

Montare Media presents Season 2, episode 8 of the Discover U Podcast: How does our Emotional Intelligence affect our Mental Health?

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Marc is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the child Study Center at Yale University. His research focuses on the role of emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, health, and performance.

He has published over 150 scholarly articles, received numerous awards, and is featured regularly in popular media outlets such as The New York Times, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, and The Today Show.

Marc is the lead developer of RULER, a systemic, evidence-based approach to Social Emotional Learning that has been adopted by over 3,000 schools across the US and in 27 other countries. He also consults regularly with corporations on integrating emotional intelligence principles into employee training and product design. He speaks to hundreds of thousands of people each year as a keynote speaker at over 600 conferences around the world, including The White House, U.S. Departments of Education, Justice and Defense, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, to name a few.

Marc is the author of Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help our Kids, Ourselves, and our Society to Thrive, which has been translated into 22 languages.

Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.

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Montare Media presents this week’s episode of the Discover U Podcast: How Our Relationships Affect Our Mental Health, with Katherine Woodward Thomas-- A fresh perspective on relationships, and their developmental role in our lives

JD Kalmenson, CEO of Montare Behavioral Health, a dynamic and comprehensive mental and behavioral health company in Southern California, interviews Katherine Woodward Thomas, a renowned author, teacher and therapist who has helped thousands of people around the world to navigate relationships in a healthier way.

Katherine Woodward Thomas is the New York Times bestselling author of Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After, and Calling in “The One”: 7 Weeks to Attracting the Love of Your Life, as well as an award-winning marriage and family psychotherapist. Over the past two decades, Katherine has had the honor of teaching hundreds of thousands of people from all corners of the globe to create conscious, loving relationships and to realize the higher potentials all their connections hold for health and happiness. Katherine also trains and certifies people to become Certified “Calling in The One” Coaches, and/or “Conscious Uncoupling” Coaches and provides ongoing supervision and development to a vibrant community of her coaches from around the world. She’s a Billboard charting, #1 iTunes jazz artist with her CD, Lucky in Love, which was co-written and co-produced with The Brothers Koren. Katherine will be presenting a Keynote at Montare Behavioral Health's Conference, Emerging Themes in Behavioral Health

Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.

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Montare Media presents Season 2, episode 23 of the Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson: Is Addiction a Brain Disease? With Dr. Mark Gold, MD

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JD Kalmenson’s interviews Dr. Mark Gold, MD to understand the history of chemical dependency, and process addictions, seen through the lens of a prominent researcher and medical doctor. Dr. Gold gives the audience an idea of how difficult it was to get proper treatment for any kind of addiction within the hospital system as far back as the 1970’s, and how his work transformed our understanding of addiction from a lack of will power to a brain disease. Discussion of various effective treatments follows.

Over his 25-year career at the University of Florida, Dr. Mark Gold has been a Professor of Neuroscience, a physician-scientist at UF McKnight Brain Institute, and a university bench-to-bedside leader. He became UF Distinguished Professor, Eminent Scholar & Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry. He was the Founder of the Division of Addiction Medicine & Florida's Recovery Center, UF Psychiatric Hospital, and outpatient centers from Gainesville to Vero Beach. His theories have changed the field, stimulated research, and led to new treatments. With his mentor Herb Kleber, Gold helped change addiction psychiatry to disease management, including evidence-based care that evaluates & treats co-occurring disorders. Gold's work proved that cocaine caused a relative dopamine deficiency along with anhedonia, and pioneered the study of second-hand tobacco, cannabis, and opium smoke. Gold and Kelly Brownell co-chaired the historic Yale Conference on Food and hedonic overeating. This work has led to collaborative research on the drug-like effects of some food and the use of anti-addiction medications in obesity. Since his retirement, Gold has continued his work as a researcher, mentor, and inventor. He is on the Board of Directors of various education, intervention, and prevention organizations, including CADCA and DEAEF. And he has received numerous Lifetime Achievement awards for his pioneering work.

Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.

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Montare Media presents Season 2, episode 22 of the Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson: Understanding the Needs of Multicultural Populations in Behavioral Healthcare, with Dr. Norman Kim, PhD.

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JD Kalmenson’s interviews Dr. Norman Kim, the co-founder of the Institute for Antiracism and Equity, as well as the Diversity chair of the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, to discover how innate biases in the healthcare system compromise both the quality and quantity of care provided to marginalized communities. Dr. Kim explains how a deeper understanding of cultural differences, and an increased sensitivity to diverse cultural norms, leads to better outcomes for everyone suffering with mental health challenges.

Dr. Kim is the inaugural Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer for the Center for Practice Innovation at Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and the NY State Office of Mental Health, and the co-founder of the Institute for Antiracism and Equity, a social justice-focused consultancy. He completed his B.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. in Psychology at UCLA. Norman has developed an expertise in psychiatrically complex populations, and his primary areas of interest are the application of a transdiagnostic framework for eating disorders, taking an evolutionary approach to shame and anxiety, and minority mental health. He is a regular national and international speaker, educator, and passionate advocate with a particular focus on minority status and barriers to mental health care in marginalized communities. He was the founding co-chair of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Committee of IAEDP, on the inaugural Behavioral Health Taskforce for the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, former board member of the Eating Disorders Coalition, and serves on numerous advisory boards. Most recently Norman was the Deputy Director of Ayana Therapy, a tech startup focused on providing culturally intelligent, adapted, and accessible care to marginalized communities, and was the co-founder of Reasons Eating Disorder Center.

Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.

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Montare Media presents Season 2, episode 21 of the Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson: Facing Addiction with Anna Lembke, MD

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JD Kalmenson’s interviews Dr. Anna Lembke about her latest book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, which explores why our relentless pursuit of pleasure ultimately leads to pain. Living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli, how do we resist overconsumption, and find true happiness?

​​Anna Lembke, MD is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she is the author of more than a hundred peer-reviewed publications, has testified before the United States House of Representatives and Senate, has served as an expert witness in federal and state opioid litigation, and is an internationally recognized leader in addiction medicine treatment and education.

In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018).

Dr. Lembke appeared in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.

Her latest book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021) was an instant New York Times bestseller and explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.

Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.

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Montare Media presents Season 2, episode 20 of the Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson: How to Raise Children Who Thrive with Michele Borba, Ed.D

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JD Kalmenson’s interviews Dr. Michele Borba about her latest book, Thrivers, which outlines the character traits most correlated with resilience, and suggests simple every-day things parents can do to develop these in their children. Dr. Borba shares her years of research and hands on experience with humor and wisdom.

​​Dr. Borba is an internationally renowned educational psychologist, parenting /child expert, a best-selling author, and a sought-after motivational speaker. Dr. Borba has spoken in 19 countries and served as a consultant for hundreds of schools and corporations worldwide, including Sesame Street, Harvard University, and the US Armed Services, to name just a few. Dr. Borba is a regular on the TODAY show, and has appeared on countless other media outlets, including Dr. Phil, The View, and CNN. Her work is featured in major newspapers and journals like TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and The New York Times. Dr. Borba’s award-winning 24 books have been translated into 22 languages, and she is the recipient of numerous national and international awards, recognizing her expertise in solution-based strategies to strengthen children’s empathy, and social-emotional intelligence. She offers research-based parenting advice culled from a career working with over one million parents and educators around the world.

Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.

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