This week, I’m talking to Emily Fletcher, the founder of Ziva Meditation. She’s the leading expert in using meditation for extraordinary performance. Emily’s work has been featured on/in Good Morning America, The Today Show, Vogue and ABC News and has taught more than 20,000 students around the world. Her book, Stress Less, Accomplish More, is out now.

Emily and I discuss how mindfulness and meditation are different, using meditation as a performance tool, how to clear your backlog of stress, why meditation might not have “worked” for you in the past (and how to make it work for you now), and the single most important thing you can do for your brain health.