Dr. Michelle Segar on Why We Need to Shift to the Joy Choice EP 135

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Dr. Michelle Segar is an award-winning, NIH-funded sustainable behavior change researcher at the University of Michigan and a lifestyle coach. She is the author of the best-selling book No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness. For nearly three decades, she has pioneered methods to create sustainable healthy behavior change that is being used to boost patient health, employee well-being, and gym membership retention. On April 26th, she released her latest book the Joy Choice: How to Finally Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise, which the Big Idea Club selected as one of their 22 books they cannot wait to read in 2022.She also wrote the bestselling book No Sweat. She is a sought-after expert and is frequently featured in major media like the New York Times, NPR, Forbes, and Prevention.

The Secret to Sustainable Behavior Change

On the Passion Struck Podcast, Michelle and I discuss how optimal living 101 and how the secret sauce to sustainable behavior change is the consistent choices that we make throughout our day. If we want to achieve sustainable change, lasting change, where we need to put our attention is on these micro choices.

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Time Stamps

• 0:00 Announcements and introducing Dr. Michelle Segar
• 4:41 Michelle's passion for the creating healthy behavior change
• 8:32 Why the Joy Choice is about the power of micro choices
• 12:13Defuncting the myths about habit change
• 17:10Why our life is like forever blowing bubbles
• 21:37How to learn to accept that being perfectly imperfect is fine
• 27:00Overcoming the perfection rabbit hole
• 31:50Behavior change is not starting and stopping. It is sustaining.
• 36:32Overcoming the Tornado of TODOs
• 41:00The POP tool for enabling adult play
• 47:42The four core decision disruptors - Temptation, Rebellion, Accommodation, Perfection
• 56:00The Wonder Women Effect
• 59:20Why we need to be giving grace
• 1:01:30Show wrap-up and synthesis

Stay Connected with Dr. Michelle Segar

* Website: https://michellesegar.com/

* Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichelleSegar

* LInkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellelsegar/

* University of Michigan: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/people/michelle-segar/

Show Links

* Interview with Susan Cain

* Interview with Astronaut Nicole Stott

* Solo Episode on the Power of Choice: https://passionstruck.com/the-power-of-choice-why-our-choices-are-powerful/

* Solo Episode on Why Accepting Yourself is the key to your life: https://passionstruck.com/why-accepting-yourself-is-the-key/

*Solo episode on work-life balance: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7AZksXySbYVoMPMuma5DpB?si=_VPv5sn3QBCq2pYVh-LXkg

*Solo episode on overcoming burnout: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5keAXxjRs3Q8NKZYWBlPXS?si=N-nf0iQjThSzgsCAutPVPA

*Solo episode on how you stop living in fear: https://passionstruck.com/how-do-you-stop-living-in-fear/

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