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Emonthebrain Podcast Transcripts

Emily McDonald · 49 episodes with transcripts

Emonthebrain Podcast is where science meets spirit. Hosted by neuroscientist-turned-mindset coach Emily McDonald, each episode explores how your brain, body, and beliefs shape the reality you live in.

Spoken has transcripts of 49 Emonthebrain episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 5, 2026.

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  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1852295289/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
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        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Hobbies: Your Best Defense Against Brain Rot

October 5, 2026

Emily McDonald (0:00)

Neuroscience shows that having a reason for everything that you do is ruining your life. And I will tell you the science behind why. Because if everything you do has a purpose, you work out to optimize your body, you walk to get 10K steps a day, you turn every creative pursuit into a side hustle, or you rest so that…

And so, I sat back and I thought about what was going on in my brain, did a little bit of research and deep diving, and came to find out that I really needed to do things for no reason again. And I needed to reset my dopamine system the right way so that I could actually be energized and inspired to do the work that…

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