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How to Regulate your Brain in a Dysregulated World with Amina Zamani

Feeling overwhelmed by constant news cycles and political stress? Neuroplasticity specialist Amina Zamani shares science-backed techniques to regulate your nervous system in just 75 seconds. Learn how to rewire limiting beliefs, break inherited trauma patterns, and build resilience using simple daily practices. What we learn:
Grounding techniques for instant anxiety relief
Why 95% of our thoughts are from yesterday (and how to change this)
The 40% rule: how we inherit our parents' limiting beliefs
Why rest is essential for neuroplasticity
Visualization techniques to reduce news overwhelm
How positive self-talk literally rewires your brain
Perfect for anyone struggling with anxiety, political stress, inherited family patterns, or seeking practical mental health tools backed by neuroscience research.
Amina Zamani is a neuroplasticity specialist with over 15 years of experience helping people overcome limiting beliefs and rewire their brains for lasting transformation. Her work blends neurolinguistics—which integrates elements of behavioral neuroscience and psychology—with somatic awareness and coaching to create deep, identity-level change.
Amina has spent over four years intensively studying neurolinguistics and conducted research in the cognitive psychology department at UCLA. Her focus lies at the intersection of behavioral change, performance coaching, and the mind-body connection, activating the emotional and cognitive systems needed to clear internal conflicts and reshape neural pathways.
She has worked with prominent leaders at Fortune 500 companies including Meta, LinkedIn, and Cisco, as well as bestselling author, presidential candidate Marianne Williamson, and a renowned medical professional who works with Tony Robbins and Hollywood celebrities. She also speaks regularly at global companies and entertainment organizations such as Live Nation.
Amina has been featured in CBS, Life Style Magazine, and USA Today, sharing her mission to make mental health accessible and to help people everywhere understand that they have the power to rewire their own brains. Her heart is in helping others realize they are not broken—they are rewritable.
You can follow her @aminazamani or at her website https://www.aminazamani.com/
 
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Motherhood as a Path to Liberation with Tiffany Persons: Creating Conscious Connection with Your Children

In this raw conversation, Tiffany shares how she broke generational cycles, transformed her parenting approach, and discovered that her liberation was bound up with these children's healing. Learn practical strategies for conscious parenting, nervous system regulation for kids, and how to parent from presence rather than survival mode. Plus: the mindset shifts that completely changed her financial reality as a single mother. Topics covered:
How to shift from reactive punishment to conscious connection with teenagers
The difference between parenting in your twenties vs. forties and what wisdom brings
Why teaching emotional regulation matters more than traditional success metrics
Specific strategies for parenting children who've experienced trauma
How to create genuine relationships with teenagers instead of hierarchical control
Why focusing on children's inner development transforms external behavior
Practical tools for single parents feeling overwhelmed by multiple children's needs
 
Tiffany Persons is a prolific and award-winning creative through her three founder roles as a feature film and television producer, commercial casting director, and social impact leader. As the founder of Persons Pictures, she most recently produced the psychological thriller Blink Twice directed by Zoe Kravitz. Tiffany’s producing work began in the music video genre at the height of its art form where she worked with iconic artists ranging from Missy Elliot to Mick Jagger. Tiffany’s ultimate intention with all mediums is to deliver stories that spark honest and transformative cultural conversations. In addition to Person Pictures, Tiffany is the founder of Tiffany Company Casting, one of the leading commercial casting companies with clients including Apple, BMW, and Nike has been awarded three Cannes Grand Prix Lions awards for the Microsoft ad campaign We All Win which celebrated gaming youth with disabilities thriving at their passion, Mastercard’s True Name ad campaign honoring trans and nonbinary customers rights and identity as the first credit card company to have their chosen name on bank cards , and the March for Our Lives ad campaign Generation Lockdown highlighting the unflinching truth of the trauma of gun violence on school children .for her third founder role, Tiffany created the nonprofit organization Shine on Sierra Leone that for the past 19 years has brought innovative and highly respected educational, health, financial, agricultural, and sustainable building for the Kono region.Her work is also celebrated with several awards including the recipient of the United Nations Woman of the World award and the International Eckart Witzingmann Award for Creative Responsibility. Based in Los Angeles with her five children, Tiffany is a proud native of Detroit and a descendant of the Fula, Mende, and Temne people in Sierra Leone.
 
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Giving the Right Fucks with Josh Burstein

Emmy-winning producer and former Obama administration strategist Josh Burstein joins Denise Love Hewett for an unfiltered conversation about American politics, democratic reform, and the path forward. From his role as creative director for the 2024 DNC convention to his recent campaign for DNC Vice Chair, Josh breaks down what's broken in our political system and what needs to change. What You'll Learn:
Citizens United's impact on democracy and campaign finance
Why the Democratic Party needs modernization and new messaging tactics
The "broligarchy's" control over information flow and social media
Local organizing vs. federal politics: where real change happens
Building coalitions beyond traditional red-blue divides
Practical activism: from divestment strategies to community organizing
The role of comedy and creativity in political resistance
Josh shares insights from working on March for Our Lives, Michelle Obama's "When We All Vote," and major Democratic campaigns, while discussing the challenges of reforming political institutions from within. The conversation covers everything from the misinformation war to grassroots organizing strategies that actually work.
Josh is an Emmy-winning producer, storyteller, and activist who served as a senior digital strategist in the Obama Administration, and Obama/Biden presidential campaigns. Josh was Creative Director for the 2024 DNC Convention in Chicago, directing original content for official channels and helping manage the first “Creator Cohort” of Influencers, credentialed like press, netting an estimated $800M worth of earned media. Josh previously directed digital communications for March For Our Lives, led the creative launch of Michelle Obama's initiative: When We All Vote, and was Senior Creative Advisor to the Democratic Party. Josh made waves running a dynamic campaign for DNC Vice Chair this year, speaking truth to power and pressing the urgency for modernization and meaningful infrastructure. A working standup comedian, Josh knows how to speak to broad coalitions with positivity and empowerment. Josh is a Truman National Security Fellow, Webbys Executive Judge, an initial member of the “Climate Comedy Cohort,” and an advisory board member for the climate change organization, Dayenu. 
 
You can follow him @joshburstofa
 
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Too Much with Denise Love Hewett premieres April 7th!

Introducing Too Much with Denise Love Hewett.  I'm Denise, my career has had many incarnations and disappointments. From running a famous nightclub at 21 to becoming an Executive Producer in entertainment at 25, to starting my own company at 26 and shutting it down at 33, to growing a celebrated DJ career over a decade.  I’ve been around all the temptations and luxuries humanity chases (Money, Power, and Fame) and I’ve concluded that life is about so much more.
Too Much is a place for outsiders, changemakers and those who live boldly in their truths.  We're showing the world different, big and unapologetic pathways to success in business and life. 
 
The older I get, the more I have found the life I want to live doesn't resemble the blueprint society placed out for me.  Too Much is a place to explore magical thinking and to redefine categories. 
 
Every week, I'll sit down with people who are challenging the status quo, living as their total authentic self,  and showing us different ways of being. It'll be fun, stimulating, sometimes uncomfortable but really beautiful. 
 
A fuller and better tomorrow awaits. I hope you'll join me on April 7th. Please follow and subscribe to us here and on instagram @Toomuchwithdlh