Inner Voice - Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan
A Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan Zeine is a show talking about what matters the most to you in life. Listen to tips of the day about life, answers your questions, and interview with experts in the field of psychology, and authors of books about humanity.
Episodes

Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
E348– Inner Voice – A Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan. In this episode, Dr. Foojan Zeine chats with Dr. Stefano Sinicropi, a rising figure in spinal surgery renowned for his expert application of innovative Spine Surgery techniques. As a Board-Certified spinal surgeon, Dr. Sinicropi has dedicated his career to restoring his patients to a pain-free life, leveraging a proprietary Diagnosis and Treatment Algorithm to provide tailored treatment plans. These plans often include minimally invasive spine surgery, total disc replacement, or complex spinal fusion based on the patient's specific needs. Since joining the Midwest Spine & Brain Institute in 2006, Dr. Sinicropi has cultivated one of the busiest and most successful practices in the Midwest. His role expanded in 2012 when he was named President and CEO of the institute, furthering its mission to provide the right diagnosis for the right treatment. Dr. Sinicropi's approach is deeply rooted in accurate diagnosis and personalized care, ensuring each patient's treatment is as effective as possible. With over 9,000 patients undergoing successful spinal procedures under his care, his reputation for offering real answers and alternative solutions to those previously told there were none has made him a sought-after surgeon in Minnesota and beyond. His accolades include multiple Top Doctor awards from 2015 to 2023, a testament to his profound impact on spinal surgery and patient care. Over the past two years, he has embraced Wellness and holistic patient treatment methods, including gaining expertise in nutrition, diet, exercise, and biohacking. He founded the HyperCharge Performance Longevity and Recovery Clinics in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, which plans to expand to 7 locations by early 2025 and will roll out franchises later in 2025. He hosts Wellness at the Speed of Light, a long-form video podcast featuring renowned guests who discuss traditional, holistic, and cutting-edge treatments and discoveries in health and Wellness. He is passionate about helping educate the medical community and the public on strategies to halt and reverse the metabolic health crisis on the brink of collapsing the medical system. Dr Sinicropi has begun work on a new book titled "The Diary of a Reformed Spine Surgeon" with plans for release next year! Check Dr. Sinicropi's website: www.sinicropispine.com. Check out "Wellness at the Speed of light Podcast." The Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan Podcast has been selected as the #1 top podcast at FeedSpot 20 Best California Mental Health Podcasts https://podcasts.feedspot.com/california_mental_health_podcasts/ Check out my website: www.FoojanZeine.com, www.AwarenessIntegration.com, www.Foojan.com

Monday Apr 22, 2024
Monday Apr 22, 2024
E347– Inner Voice – A Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan. In this episode, Dr. Foojan Zeine chats with Khara Croswaite Brindle, a licensed mental health therapist in a private practice in Denver, Colorado. She holds various roles, including financial therapist, TEDx Speaker, burnout consultant, author, and professor. Her new book is Understanding Ruptured Mother-Daughter Relationships: Guiding the Adult Daughter’s Healing Journey through the Estrangement Energy Cycle. Access therapeutic tools for adult daughters at estrangementenergycycle.com. You may also check out her children’s book - Penny McGee's Family Tree: Talking to kids about family estrangement. https://a.co/d/8vdTmzU. Check out Khara at https://croswaitecounselingpllc.com. We explored what creates issues between mothers and daughters and how they can heal through letting go and connecting.
The Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan Podcast has been selected as the #1 top podcast at FeedSpot 20 Best California Mental Health Podcasts https://podcasts.feedspot.com/california_mental_health_podcasts/
Check out my website: www.FoojanZeine.com, www.AwarenessIntegration.com, www.Foojan.com

Monday Apr 15, 2024
Monday Apr 15, 2024
E346– Inner Voice – A Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan. In this episode, Dr. Foojan Zeine chats with Dr. Kenneth Blum, a well-known American scientist recognized for his work in psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics. We explored the role of assessment of “Pre-Addiction” and the responsibility of the medical field to bring this important factor into everyday practice. Dr. Blum has published over 740 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and meeting abstracts, with 17 books with over 18,000 citations and 185,000 reads worldwide. He has distinguished himself and is credited with the first genetic association of the Dopamine D2 receptor gene and severe alcoholism, published in JAMA in 1990. He is considered by some to be the Father of Psychiatric Genetics. In 1995, Dr. Blum coined the term “Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS)” and developed the USA and foreign-patented “Genetic Addiction Risk Severity” (GARS) test. Dr. Blum has also developed patented Pro-dopamine regulators in the USA and Europe. His overall patent portfolio consists of 100 patents worldwide. Dr. Blum serves on 23 peer-reviewed journals and is the Editor-in-Chief of several academic journals, including Current Psychopharmacology and Addiction Psychiatry. He also serves as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Psychiatry and Frontiers in Public Health. Dr. Blum is also the founding President of the United Scientific Group, an academic publishing house. His work has been featured in all the major media outlets worldwide, and in 1990, his work on genetics was in the top 25 most important scientific discoveries by Discovery Magazine. He is the recipient of NIH grants and has been awarded Lifetime Achievements, distinguished Honorary Doctors of Humane Letters, Lifetime Honorary Professor at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, and Distinguished Honorary Professor at Adelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Israel. Currently, besides faculty positions as an adjunct professor (Western University, University of Vermont, Wright School of Medicine), he is the Executive Chairman and CEO of TranspliceGen Therapeutics, Inc. Stanford University credited him in the top 2% of the World Best Scientist list (2023). Most recently, the International Research Awards on Neurology and Neuro Disorders awarded him the “Best Researcher Award 2023. Dr. Blum has been recently nominated for the KEIO Medical & Science PRIZE (THE JAPANESE EQUIVALENT TO THE NOBEL PRIZE) 2024. We have been selected as the #1 top podcast at FeedSpot 20 Best California Mental Health Podcasts https://podcasts.feedspot.com/california_mental_health_podcasts/ Check out my website: www.FoojanZeine.com, www.AwarenessIntegration.com, www.Foojan.com

Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
E345– Inner Voice – A Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan. In this episode, Dr. Foojan Zeine chats with Rae Leonard, an author, intuitive guide, and coach. Her latest book is High Sobriety: A Trip Out of the Bottle Into Your Intuition. She draws on several areas of expertise, including Jivamukti Yoga, VortexHealing®, Conscious Language, and Master cleansing, to help people ready for post-traumatic growth. Rae combines her coaching practice with frequency work, biofeedback, and transformation to help her clients intentionally change their deeply rooted patterns and unearth a carefully calibrated inner compass. You can find Rae at https://raeleonard.me/. We discuss how Rae has found her path to sobriety and share alternative ways of becoming sober and staying sober.
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We have been selected as the #1 top podcast at FeedSpot 20 Best California Mental Health Podcasts https://podcasts.feedspot.com/california_mental_health_podcasts/
Check out my website: www.FoojanZeine.com, www.AwarenessIntegration.com, www.Foojan.com

Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
E344– Inner Voice – A Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan. In this episode, Dr. Foojan Zeine chats with Dr. Donald Meichenbaum about anger, how to manage anger, how to recognize the signs of an abuser in intimate relationship violence, and much more. Dr. Meichenbaum is a psychologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is a research director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment at the University of Miami. Dr. Meichenbaum is known for his research and publications on psychotherapy and contributed to developing the technique of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). The American Psychological Association has voted him the tenth most influential psychotherapist of the 20th century. He was also chosen as the "most valuable contribution to the general field of psychotherapy" of that year by the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. Dr. Meichenbaum developed the therapeutic technique of cognitive-behavior modification, publishing the 1977 clinical handbook Cognitive Behavior Modification: An Integrative Approach. This umbrella term describes treatments that aim to change overt behaviors by changing thought patterns and cognitive processes. He has authored 12 books, with his recent one being "Treating Individuals with Addictive Disorders – A Strengths-Based Workbook for Patients and Clinicians," published in 2020. www.melissainstitute.org. For obtaining the Road Map to Resilience, https://roadmaptoresilience.wordpress.com/ Therapists can go to https://jkseminars.com/homestudy/getting-better-result-core-tasks-and-skills-expert-psychotherapists to get home study for Getting a Better Result Core Tasks and skill Expert psychotherapists. Check out my website: www.FoojanZeine.com, www.AwarenessIntegration.com, www.Foojan.com

Monday Mar 25, 2024
Monday Mar 25, 2024
E343– Inner Voice – A Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan. In this episode, Dr. Foojan Zeine chats Robert B. Dilts, the founder of Dilts Strategy Group, has had a global reputation as a leading coach, behavioral skills trainer, and business consultant since the late 1970s. Robert has been a developer, author, trainer, and consultant in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) - a model of human behavior, learning, and communication, and has provided coaching, consulting, and training worldwide to various individuals and organizations. In May 2018, Robert was honored with the Lifetime Contribution Award by the Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming (ANLP). Robert is a co-developer of the Success Factor Modeling™ process, a method to identify and transfer the critical success factors necessary to promote effective entrepreneurial activities within both new and traditional companies by analyzing crucial patterns of business practices, and behavioral skills used by successful individuals, teams, and companies. Robert has authored numerous books and articles about Success Factor Modeling™, including Next Generation Entrepreneurship: Success Factor Modeling Volume I, Generative Collaboration: Success Factor Modeling Volume II, and Conscious Leadership and Resilience: Success Factor Modeling Volume II. Robert is also co-founder of the International Association for Generative Change (IAGC) with Dr. Stephen Gilligan. The purpose of the IAGC is to bring principles of generative change to multiple professions throughout the world. Today, we will discuss his latest book: “Sleight of Mouth II – How words can change worlds”. You may find Robert Dilts workshops for the public, coaches, and therapists at www.NLPU.com.
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Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
E342– Inner Voice – A Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan. In this episode, Dr. Foojan Zeine chats with Victor Trillo and Tyler Stonebraker. Victor is a founding team member of The PATHfinder Club and works as a youth mentor, employing his deep understanding of the impact of incarceration on individuals, first as the son of a man in prison throughout Victor’s childhood and later as a prisoner himself. At the age of 19, Victor received a Life sentence that was reversed after he had been incarcerated for 21 years. He is a powerful advocate for children of the incarcerated and, in June 2023, became the Program Coordinator for The PATHfinder Club and POPS the Club. Tyler is a 17-year-old high school senior from Parkrose High School in Portland who has been struggling with poverty all his life. He has nobody to look up to but is trying to turn his life around at The PATHfinder Club. We shared about the environmental factors that lead to teen incarceration and the path, hope, and the process of healing and health through expression and art. Check out the book “Advice to 9th Graders – stories, poetry, Art & Other Wisdom” and more information about this fantastic program at www.thepathfindernetwork.org.
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Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 11, 2024
E341– Inner Voice – A Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan. In this episode, Dr. Foojan Zeine chats with Dr. Behnam Bakhshandeh, PhD. MPS, founder and president of Primeco Education, a coaching and consulting firm, is a seasoned business executive who is well-known as a dynamic writer, speaker, personal and business coach, and trainer with more than three decades of hands-on experience. He quickly achieves exceptional outcomes by combining his enthusiasm and imaginative leadership talents. Behnam delivers a wealth of knowledge and a proven track record to each project, whether it entails personal development, customer-focused programs, technology integration, marketing, rethinking operational core processes, or delivering strategic initiatives. Dr. Bakhshandeh earned a BS in psychology, an MPS in Organization Development Change, and a Ph.D. in the Workforce Education & Development program at Pennsylvania State University, emphasizing Human Resources Development and Organization Development. Dr. Bakhshandeh has authored and published 10 personal and professional development books. He also designed and facilitated 17 coaching modules for individuals, couples, the public, teams, and organizations, 9 audio/video workshops, and 21 seminars and workshops. www.primecoeducation.com. In this session we spoke about his new book “Building an Organizational Coaching Culture-Creating Effective Environments for Growth and Success in Organizations”, shared about the coaching culture, how to train leaders, talent management, and the team in coaching culture. Check out my website: www.FoojanZeine.com, www.AwarenessIntegration.com, www.Foojan.com Remember to Subscribe, Listen, Review, and Share! Find me on these sites: *iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i...) *Google Play (https://play.google.com/music/m/Inpl5...) *Stitcher (https://www.stitcher.com/) *YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/DrFoojan) Platforms to Like and Follow: *Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DrFoojanZeine/) *Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/Dr.FoojanZe...) *Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/DrZeine/) *LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/DrFoojanZ...)

Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
E340– Inner Voice – A Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan. In this episode, Dr. Foojan Zeine chats with Dr. Robert Brooks, a clinical psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and former Director of the Department of Psychology at McLean Hospital, a private psychiatric hospital in the Boston area. He has lectured nationally and internationally and written extensively about such themes as psychotherapy, motivation, resilience across the lifespan, parenting, and family relationships, as well as creating a positive school and work environment. He is the author or co-author of 21 books, including Tenacity in Children: Nurturing the Seven Instincts for Lifetime Success; The Power of Resilience: Achieving Balance, Confidence, and Personal Strength in Your Life; and Reflections on Mortality: Insights into Meaningful Living. Dr. Brooks has received many awards for his work, including The Mental Health Humanitarian Award from William James College for his contributions as a clinician, educator, and author, and most recently, the 2023 Trailblazer Award from Worldmaker International in recognition of his contributions “to the field of human resilience, and his innovation in creating new pathways for many.” For additional information, visit Dr. Brooks’ website www.drrobertbrooks.com

Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
E339– Inner Voice – A Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan. In this episode, Dr. Foojan Zeine chats with Dr. David D. Burns, an American psychiatrist and adjunct professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is the author of bestselling books such as Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, The Feeling Good Handbook, and Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety. Dr. Burns developed an approach to psychotherapy called T.E.A.M. Therapy. T.E.A.M. is an acronym denoting Testing, Empathy, Assessment of Resistance (formerly Agenda Setting), and Methods. TEAM claims to address some of the shortcomings in cognitive therapy and proposes that motivation influences our thoughts, feelings, and actions just as much as our thoughts (or cognitions). Burns states that he draws from at least 15 schools of therapy and hopes that the TEAM approach will be as revolutionary a breakthrough in psychotherapy as C.B.T. was decades ago. www.feelinggood.com, and for the app, go to www.feelinggreat.com. Dr. Burns shared his experience with empathy in joining psychological resistances or conditions for treatment purposes. Check out my website: www.FoojanZeine.com, www.AwarenessIntegration.com, www.Foojan.com