Mental Health Advocates

Dr. Deborah Heiser is back, and we are so stoked to talk about her new book. The Mentorship Edge: Creating Maximum Impact through Lateral and Hierarchical Mentoring  Learn how a mentor relationship can make your life more fulfilling The Mentorship Edge: Creating Maximum Impact through Lateral and Hierarchical Mentoring explores how we connect to others, feel valued, get pleasure from life, and believe our lives have meaning through forming mentor relationships with others. This book covers traditional hierarchical mentorship we're all familiar with, along with lateral mentoring, where you connect with a friend or colleague―someone you can be vulnerable with―whether they work in your department, another department, or outside of your organization entirely. Insight in this book is drawn from The International Association of Top Professionals 2025 Top CEO and Mentor of the Year Deborah Heiser's experience running The Mentor Project, a nonprofit mentoring organization with more than 100 mentors at the absolute top of their fields. In this book, readers will learn about: The proven benefits of mentorship in both work and home life Mentorship in various fields, including business, research, entrepreneurship, and art Classic examples of the power of mentorship, like when Steve Jobs asked Steve Wozniak for engineering help when he was at Atari The Mentorship Edge is an essential guide to demystify the special concept of mentoring and inspire individuals to engage in mentoring naturally, whether hierarchically or laterally, based on their goals and passions.

Dr. Mitch Clionsky is a vast source of knowledge about brain health being a Neuropsychologist who specializes in evaluating and treating patients with cognitive impairment. His book is 'Dementia Prevention' Emily Clionsky, MD, and Mitchell Clionsky, PhD , are physicians and neuropsychologist couple who have cared for their parents with dementia, created a test used by doctors to measure cognitive function, and treated more than 25,000 patients with cognitive impairment. Their 'Dementia Prevention Checklist' is a great starting point for everyone.

For our season 14 kickoff episode we bring in the number one guest regarding appearances we have, Dr. Debbie Heiser. This episode covers topics from previous shows, including Generativity, The Stigma of Mental Health, Imagine Age, Healthy Dependency, Are You Ready to Retire, and Adult Bullying. We also do a quick snapshot of Debbie’s new book, "The Mentorship Edge".

Talking 'Astrology' with me is like leading a child into kindergarten! Seriously I cannot think of anyone better to discuss this with than Angela Joseph, part teacher, healer and leader, perfect. For her 20th visit what a good topic, fun, informative and too dang short!  For more information on Angela, please visit her website: Angela Joseph

Recap – In this episode, leadership expert and PhD Allison McClintick helps us become 'accountable'.  By inspiring and aspiring to "take care of your thing" (whatever that may be) you gotta have an attitude of gratitude. We all have inner voices; it is having a better relationship with those voices that can lead to strong personality characteristics. Old beliefs can influence our choices both good and bad, please listen or watch as we deep dive this topic.

One of the best books on this complex topic "Dementia Prevention" is the topic of this episode. Dementia Prevention is not ONE thing. I wanted to share the most advanced model of science-based factors impinging on your risk for #alzheimersdisease , #vascular #dementia and #frontotemporal dementia.  Too complex? Don't worry, we build this #dementiaprevention model, chapter by chapter, in our 2023 Hopkins Press book https://lnkd.in/eeuXMWHK .

As explained by Psychologist Dr. Debbie Heiser, gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse and mental manipulation that will leave you questioning your own reality and have you wondering if you’re in the wrong in nearly every argument. Plus, gaslighting doesn’t just happen with significant others — it can happen with your family, your friends, your coworkers and even acquaintances.

In our annual season kickoff we always bring in the guest with the most interviews and of course this is Dr. Debra Heiser! In this episode I pulled topics from the vault including these- Ego and Identity The Mentor Project Caregiving Mentors What's my Purpose Generativity This is a very fun show, and you will enjoy our 'Season 13 Kickoff'

Be ready for some fire and brimstone from our rockstar spiritualist Angela Joseph. Be listening for topics that are important to understand. Having a relationship with ourselves, how to fill ourselves with good. Also be ready for us to discuss Tom's newest performance and achievement model- 'The Prime Objective'.