🎙️ Welcome to Season 3 of Better Together: A Brain Health Collective!

This season, we’re diving even deeper into the vibrant landscape of brain health—bringing you conversations that connect mind, body, and community. Join us as we uncover the latest science, stories, and strategies to help you maximize your brain’s potential, at every stage of life.

✨ Episode Highlights Include:

• How strengthening your heart can unlock a healthier brain in The Brain-Heart Connection ❤️🧠
• Surprising ways that creativity and lifelong learning fuel neuroplasticity in Neuroplasticity & Lifelong Learning 🎨💡
• Small changes to reduce workplace stress and boost cognitive performance in Brain Health in the Workplace 💼🧘‍♀️
• And much more…

💬 Our expert guests—from neuroscientists to wellness coaches—will share actionable tips to help you sleep better, eat smarter, move more mindfully, and foster deeper social connections, so you can thrive in every part of your life.

🔗 Don’t miss out! Subscribe now on [Spotify], [Apple Podcasts], or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. 🎧

✨ It’s time to elevate your brain health journey. Because we’re not just talking about mental clarity—we’re building a Brain Health Collective. Let’s go on this journey—together.

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In today's episode we talk about care partnering with Dr. Rolf Lulloff, co-founder and lead volunteer coach of the Brain Center of Green Bay, retired orthopedic surgeon, and author of the book Living and Loving with Parkinson’s Disease: Our Partnership Through a 45-Year Journey. He talks through ways we as care partners can stay positive on those difficult days, how to be a good care partner and much more.

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Today we in on a 2021 conversation with Susan McFadden Ph.D a retired Psychology professor from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where she taught both graduate students and undergraduate students on adult development and led seminars on dementia. In 2012 she retired from UWO and co-founded the Fox Valley Memory Project, where she still continues to volunteer. The programs offered through the Fox Valley Memory Project aim to create “dementia-friendly communities” here in Northeast Wisconsin.

In this conversation with Susan, she will be talking about friendship within the context of dementia and dementia-friendly communities. This conversation along with audience questions was recorded in 2021 but the content is still very much important today. So without further ado, let's dive into the episode.

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Are you stressing about your stress? Then you are in the right place. In this episode we sit down and talk with LaReina Tipping, Brain Center of Green Bay Program Manager to talk all things stress. We dive deep into how stress can both negatively and positively affect our brains and bodies, how we handle stress, self-care for our brains and stress management resources.

Resources:

https://farms.extension.wisc.edu/farmstress/how-stress-affects-brain-and-body/

Better Together Podcast with the Brain Center of Green Bay is where you will learn from our founders, coaches, collaborative partners, community members, and local educators to explore ways we can maximize our brain health throughout our lives with sleep, nutrition, physical exercise, neuroplasticity, the arts and so much more! 

Better Together with the Brain Center of Green Bay is made possible in thanks to our season sponsors Green Bay Packers Give Back and M2 Technology along with sustaining sponsor Festival Foods.

For more information on the Brain Center of Green Bay please visit: www.braincentergb.org

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The Better Together Podcast and the information provided during the series are made available for informational and personal education purposes only. The content of the Better Together Podcast does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the Brain Center. The Brain Center does not endorse or promote any specific products or businesses. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Brain Center.

The Brain Center hereby disclaims any and all liability to any party for any damages arising directly or indirectly from any use of the content of the Better Together Podcast.

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In episode two of Better Together with the Brain Center of Green Bay we sit down with Sheri Fairman, owner of Dementia Care Solutions in Green Bay. Sheri has over a decade of experience in the social work field and working with the aging population. During our conversation we discuss some of the signs of "not normal aging", ways to care for your loved one and how the pandemic affected those with dementia. For more information on Sheri Fairman and Dementia Care Solutions please visit: https://dementiacaresolutions.org/

Better Together with the Brain Center of Green Bay is made possible in thanks to our season sponsors Green Bay Packers Give Back and M2 Technology along with sustaining sponsor Festival Foods.

For more information on the Brain Center of Green Bay please visit: www.braincentergb.org

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• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/braincentergb/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brain-center-of-green-bay/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-iPp79dpqgk5ajX9Lwvpw

The Better Together Podcast and the information provided during the series are made available for informational and personal education purposes only. The content of the Better Together Podcast does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the Brain Center. The Brain Center does not endorse or promote any specific products or businesses. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Brain Center.

The Brain Center hereby disclaims any and all liability to any party for any damages arising directly or indirectly from any use of the content of the Better Together Podcast.

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Welcome to the first episode of Better Together with the Brain Center of Green Bay, sponsored by Green Bay Packers Give Back. Charge Up Your Brain with Sleep! In this episode we will be going over one of the six pillars of brain health, restorative sleep. We talk about why we should care about getting good quality sleep. Dr. Dave Donarski co-founder and in-house sleep guru for the Brain Center of Green Bay sits downs to talk about the benefits of sleep, his tips and tricks for a good nights sleep and so much more! 

The information discussed in this interview are for educational purposes only. They are to  assist you in making appropriate decisions regarding your health in conjunction with your healthcare provider. The information discussed today is not meant to be a substitute for your healthcare. The Brain Center of Green Bay and its staff are not your doctors or other healthcare professionals. Any treatments should be discussed with your healthcare providers.

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