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Aug 2021
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#61: The science of stress and 3 ways to...

Phill Agnew
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What do you do when you get stressed out? Do you work through exercises and routines to solve the problem, or do you hope it’ll go away? Most of us wait for the experience to pass, but we shouldn’t. In today’s show, bestselling author Ethan Kross talks through why we get stressed and three proven tactics to beat it. Ethan's book Chatter: https://www.ethankr ... Show More
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