Neuroscience Expert & Attorney on How Stress Hijacks the Brain and Business Decisions
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How does stress impact decision-making in the brain?
When people experience stress, when they experience trauma, it actually shuts down the areas of your brain that you need activated to make good decisions. This is also the case, by the way, with children and adolescents. If you ask them, what were you thinking when you did that? They'll say, I don't know, or I wasn't. And both are accurate, I think. But it's these areas, the top areas of the brain don't function so well. And that is the main thing that leads people to me just making terrible decisions sometimes. Talk about some of your chemistry work and some lives you've changed in the psychiatry side. I think the people who... My name's Rudy Moore, host of Living the Red Life podcast, and I'm here to change the way you see your life in your earpiece every single week.
If you're ready to start living the red life, ditch the blue pill, take the red pill, join me in Wonderland and change your life. Welcome back to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast, the Red Life edition. Joining me today is Dr. Jennifer Sweetin, quite a powerful force. One side, she's a lawyer and the next side, she's a psychologist. Not sure how to begin the yin to the yang here, Jen, a doctor. How was your interview today?
What motivated Dr. Sweeton to transition from engineering to psychology?
It was great. It was a great opportunity to think about how I come together. All these different things come together, I think, in more detail than I had given it thought. Yeah, I'm glad we had that moment together because I'm like, a lot of folks sit in the chair and they're like, this is my origin story. But I like to say that your origin story is almost like a supervillain. You started off in the search for answers of the heart, psychiatry. Let's talk about that first. Yeah, I've been interested in psychology for as long as I can remember, but I didn't decide to study it until after the death of my friend, after high school. Even then, I still was computer engineering in college, but then my purpose caught up with me.
I thought I was supposed to study engineering, but then I got into it, and I was like, you know, I think I'm more interested in the psychology and the brain side of things. Oh, you said computer engineering. Why'd you pivot? I just realized computer engineering wasn't really sparking much of an interest for me. And what was is my college roommate's textbook on psychology. So I started reading it and I thought, you know, I'm more interested in this.
How does dissociation relate to trauma and creativity?
Were you in the top bunk, bottom bunk? I was in the bottom bunk. All right. So I could just picture you with this giant psychology book. This was like before the days of the designers coming in and doing dorms. You know, you see those. Before the WeWorks. Yeah. College dorms. Right, right. What really fascinated you? What really sparked your imagination and made you go, let's focus on psychiatry? Well, I noticed after the death of my friend, I was different. I felt like I was walking around almost like in a dream, almost like a haze. And now I understand that as dissociation.
What is the connection between psychology and law?
But that was a very strange experience to experience, but then also to observe as I was experiencing it. And I wanted to know what's happening with me, what's happening with some of the friends that I was seeing and things that I was seeing about them that was different. And what's going on in the brain? Because I knew really even then it all comes down to what's going on neurologically. It's all what's going on in the brain. Oh gosh, I'm so curious. Let's dive right in. But before we do, let's talk about some of the stuff that you just talked about. Oh, I just lost track of my thought here. I hate when that happens. Let's talk about that actually. When you're talking about psychiatry and we're slowly moving into the evolution of being a lawyer, I kind of want to work about, talk about the emotions and what's really driving us to make the decisions that we make.
Because the reason why I'm making that connection is because I'm sure as a lawyer, you see a lot of human behaviors that are erratic. How did you make this decision?
How does online therapy compare to in-person sessions?
Yeah, how did you, what?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How does stress impact decision-making in the brain?
0:00–1:09
2
What motivated Dr. Sweeton to transition from engineering to psychology?
1:09–2:09
3
How does dissociation relate to trauma and creativity?
2:09–2:38
4
What is the connection between psychology and law?
2:38–3:32
5
How does online therapy compare to in-person sessions?
3:32–4:25
6
What are the benefits of forming strong therapeutic relationships?
4:25–5:23
7
How can understanding trauma lead to personal growth?
5:23–5:49
8
What insights does Dr. Sweeton provide about her daily work and future goals?
5:49–17:11
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