Dr. Ginger Campbell, MD on ”Exploring Brain Science: For Career and Life Success”

Our guest today, Dr. Ginger Campbell has been running her Brain Science Podcast[i] since 2006, and anyone who studies the topic of Neuroscience would have come across her work, as a pioneer, where she launched her podcast all those years ago because she believes that “understanding how our brain really works is essential for being a good citizen in the 21st Century.”[ii] Watch this interview on YouTube here https://youtu.be/W6QeFM6-9lI On this episode we will learn: ✔  Podcast Hall of Fame, 2022, Dr. Ginger Campbell, host of the Brain Science Podcast: Why an MD began podcasting. ✔ Why Dr. Ginger believes that understanding our brain, is essential for being a good citizen in the 21st Century. ✔ Top lessons she has learned from hosting the Brain Science Podcast since 2006. ✔ What is that feeling of certainty? ✔ Where does intuition come in, and can we trust it? ✔ Is interoception (listening to what we feel in our body) reliable? ✔ What about solving our problems in our dreams? Is this reliable? ✔ What about premonitions? Can we trust them? ✔ Why do emotions make our memories stick? ✔ Things to consider with our thinking? We think, therefore we are wrong? ✔ How to distinguish neuroscience from pseudoscience? ✔ Dr. Ginger's thoughts on neuroscience in the field of education. Welcome back to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we cover the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (for schools) and emotional intelligence training (in the workplace) with tools, ideas and strategies that we can all use for immediate results, with our brain in mind. I’m Andrea Samadi, an author, and educator with a passion for learning specifically on the topics of health, wellbeing and productivity, and launched this podcast to share how important an understanding of our brain is to our everyday life and results using the most current brain research. On today’s episode #243, we will be speaking with Dr. Virginia “Ginger” Campbell, MD, who is a physician, author and science communicator who was just inducted into the 2022 Podcast Hall of Fame. She also runs the podcast Books and Ideas, that includes more diverse guests including science fiction writers. Dr. Campbell spent over 20 years as an emergency physician in rural Alabama, and in 2014 she went back to the University of Alabama in Birmingham where she completed a Fellowship in Palliative Medicine which is an approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex and often terminal illnesses. She now practices Palliative Medicine in Birmingham, Alabama and enjoys sharing her passion for science—especially neuroscience. When I was referred to Dr. Campbell for this interview, I almost jumped out of my chair and wrote back quickly, knowing how timely our conversation would be as I was editing our recent interview with physician and neurologist, Dr. Douyon. I know that Dr. Ginger will open our eyes even further to help us ALL to connect the dots with our brain, as it relates to our health and wellbeing. Let’s welcome Dr. Ginger Campbell, and get right into her thoughts about Brain Science, and see what we will learn from her deep and vast experience to help us to all take our understanding of the brain, and our health, to new heights. Welcome Dr. Ginger! Thank you for joining me today. INTRO: So, Dr. Ginger, from my email to you, I’m sure you know that I’m a follower of your work as a pioneer not only in the podcasting world, but as someone who has successfully been helping people to understand how their brain works (which is why we launched this podcast. Can you tell us where your career began, what need did you see, and how did you find your way to podcasting in those early days when I’m sure you needed to understand how to create your own code and website? Q1: Dr. Ginger, now that we have an understanding of your background, I wanted to begin our questions today by telling you how honor