You can upgrade your brain, and Dorsey Standish will show you how. On Your Mind is the go-to podcast for anyone who wants sharper focus, steadier emotions, and a healthier mind-body connection. Drawing on her background as a mechanical engineer, neuroscientist, and CEO of Mastermind Meditate, Dorsey turns cutting-edge research into simple, actionable practices you can use right away.
In every episode, she (and the occasional scientist, athlete, or everyday high-performer) break down the science of brain performance into stories, head-heart-body tools, and real-life experiments you can try between listens. Whether you’re new to mindfulness or a bio-hack veteran, you’ll walk away with proven strategies to boost mental clarity, resilience, and overall well-being—one brain-powered step at a time.
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In the latest "On Your Mind" podcast episode, Dorsey Standish delves into habit formation, emphasizing that 40 to 90 percent of daily actions are habitual. She explains the habit loop -- trigger, behavior and reward -- using examples like morning coffee and meditation. Dorsey highlights the importance of making unconscious habits conscious to optimize them and discusses strategies like habit stacking, replacing negative habits with healthier alternatives and using rewards to reinforce new beh...
11 Dec 2025
Episode 10 -- Advocating for Yourself (with Brittney Johnson)
On this episode of "On Your Mind," Brittney Johnson -- an NBC5 reporter and Emmy-nominated journalist -- discusses with host Dorsey Standish on her journey in journalism and her advocacy for mental health and wellness. Johnson emphasizes the importance of prioritizing health, especially for busy women, and shares her experience of using her platform to raise awareness about mental health. She highlights the need for small, incremental changes -- such as meal prepping -- early morning workouts...
21 Nov 2025
Episode 9 -- Ask Me Anything
In this episode of the "On Your Mind" podcast, host Dorsey Standish takes questions from listeners and focuses on ways to enhance brain health and mindfulness. She discusses the importance of both formal and informal mindfulness practices, such as dedicating one minute daily and integrating mindfulness into daily activities. Dorsey emphasizes the benefits of deep work periods and mindful pauses at work, and the significance of interpersonal mindfulness in relationships. She also addresses cha...
16 Oct 2025
Episode 8 : Green Spaces, Healthy Minds (with Molly Morgan)
On this episode of the "On Your Mind" podcast, host Dorsey Standish chats with Molly Morgan -- Texas State Director of Trust for Public Land -- about the significant impact of parks and green spaces on mental health and community well-being. Morgan highlights her work in Dallas, where she has helped to create 22 new parks and improved the city's park access score annually each of the last five years. She emphasizes the importance of accessible green spaces within a 10-minute walk, noting that...
25 Sept 2025
Episode 7 -- Designing Spaces for Brain Health (with Marissa Heyl)
In this week’s episode of “On Your Mind,” host Dorsey Standish chats with Marissa Heyl, the founder of Inclusive Wellness Design, about neurodesign, which integrates neuroscience with environmental design to promote brain health. Inspired by her mother's early-onset Alzheimer's, Heyl focuses on creating spaces that support cognitive health. She emphasizes the importance of different zones for focus, mindfulness and rest, and shares projects such as a treehouse reading nook and a Zen lounge. H...
4 Sept 2025
Episode 6 -- A Mindfulness Journey (with Calvert Collins-Bratton)
Calvert Collins-Bratton discusses her journey into mindfulness, inspired by Dorsey Standish and influenced by the practices of an Indian colleague. A mother of three, a community leader and the Chief Relationships Officer at Communities Foundation of Texas, Calvert emphasizes the power of practicing mindfulness in her everyday life. Whether it’s using a meditation pillow or employing phone-free moments in the office and at home, Calvert uses mindfulness tools to recalibrate, prioritize and re...
12 Aug 2025
Episode 5 – All About Brain Health (with Dr. Julie Fratantoni)
In this episode of the "On Your Mind" podcast, host Dorsey Standish and guest Dr. Julie Fratantoni discuss mental fitness as a crucial aspect of brain health. Dr. Fratantoni explains brain fitness involves both physiological (hardware) and mental (software) components, emphasizing the importance of resilience, emotional balance, and cognitive skills. She highlights her previous work for the Center for Brain Health, where she used a brain health index as a holistic assessment tool for brain he...
29 Jul 2025
Episode 4 – The Messy Middle
On this episode of the On Your Mind podcast, Dorsey discusses the concept of the "messy middle" in personal transformation, emphasizing the importance of recognizing that change is a gradual process rather than a single, transformative moment. She shares her journey from burnout to mindfulness, highlighting the incremental improvements in mental health and self-awareness over a decade. She also stresses the significance of small, consistent habits like morning mindfulness practices and health...
30 Jun 2025
Episode 3 – Origin Story
Dorsey Standish interviews Mari Woodlief about their meditation journeys and the founding of Mastermind, a meditation studio envisioned as a "gym for the brain," which became a wellness community.
9 Jun 2025
Episode 2 – De-Stressing a Fortune 500 (with Christine Wenger)
Christine Wenger shares her transformative journey from high-stress corporate life to mindfulness, highlighting the power of self-awareness and small, consistent practices for stress management in an interview with Dorsey Standish.
21 May 2025
Episode 1 - Intro
Host Dorsey Standish introduces the podcast, setting the stage for discussions about mental health and well-being.
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