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Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning

Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning

Andrea Samadi 401 Episodes Jun 27, 2026

The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast provides support for school leadership and the workplace with a proven approach for implementing social and emotional learning in schools and emotional intelligence in the modern workplace. It offers a strategy to increase well-being, achievement, and results, backed by current neuroscience research. Andrea Samadi, a teacher from Toronto now living in Arizona, began working with success and social and emotional learning principles with students in the late 1990s. Her programs and trainings, grounded in brain-based research and practical neuroscience, help parents, teachers, coaches, and employees optimize learning, well-being, and achievement.

Episodes

Trust as the Foundation with Greg Hill: How Great Leaders Create the Conditions for Learning, Growth and Performance Jun 27, 2026 2255
Episode 400: Sales Leadership Under Pressure with Majid Samadi: 7 Lessons Learned from 7 Years of Neuroscience Jun 20, 2026 2876
Phase 2 Review: The Motivation Loop: How to Keep Effort Worthwhile Jun 14, 2026 1734
Fun, Fear, Focus: Closing the Motivation Loop with Friederike Fabritius Jun 8, 2026 1432
Move to Learn: How Movement Activates the Brain and Fuels Motivation (with Dr. Chuck Hillman and Paul Zientarski) May 31, 2026 2105
Dopamine, Motivation and Why the Brain Repeats Behavior with Dr. Anna Lembke May 24, 2026 1406
Theory of Mind: The Missing Link Between Attention, Reward, and Motivation with John Medina May 17, 2026 2225
Thought Patterns & Neurochemistry — The Hidden Drivers of Your Life (Revisiting Dr. Caroline Leaf) Apr 26, 2026 1558
The Neuroscience of Belief: How Meaning, Identity and Frequency, Drive Motivation (Featuring Bob Proctor) Apr 19, 2026 1736
The Motivation Loop: How Your Brain Decides What’s Worth Doing Apr 12, 2026 1160
When Brains Dream: How Sleep Integrates Emotion, Insight, and Creativity (Revisiting Antonio Zadra) Apr 5, 2026 1291
What Gets Measured Gets Improved: Sleep, Recovery & Peak Performance with Dr. Kristen Holmes Mar 27, 2026 1637

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