Guest: Valerie Orsoni

What if optimizing your health isn’t just about tracking more data, but understanding how your nervous system, thoughts, and emotions are impacting each other in ways you might not realize?

In this podcast episode, biohacker, adventurer, and wellness pioneer Valerie Orsoni joins host Dr. Deborah Rozman to explore the evolving world of biohacking—from performance, energy, and recovery to the often-overlooked role of mental, emotional, and physiological balance.

Valerie Orsoni has defied the odds—healing from serious illness, scaling mountains, diving deep into the ocean, and inspiring others to realize their own capacity for health and transformation. She shares insights from her global work in health and wellness, along with personal experiences that challenged her assumptions about what fuels sustained changes in health and wellness.

As the conversation unfolds, they dive into how stress, emotions, and heart rhythm patterns influence the body in ways many traditional biohacking approaches miss.

Valerie reflects on powerful group experiences where collective intention and heart-focused practices created a tangible shift in energy—something both measurable and deeply felt.

This episode offers a fresh perspective on optimizing your health—one that blends science, self-awareness, and a more intuitive understanding of the body. Whether you’re deeply into biohacking or simply looking for more energy and less stress, you’ll walk away with insights you can actually use.

The episode closes with a guided heart-focused meditation to help get our heart and brain in sync and power up our personal coherence.

About our guest:

Valerie Orsoni is a globally recognized biohacking expert, longevity specialist, and bestselling author of 56 books. Her latest, Eat WRONG & Live BETTER, launches in the USA on April 10. Based in San Francisco, she is the founder of ValBiohacker.com, biohacker.fr, and LeBootCamp.fit, and a sought-after international conference speaker. A Hall of Fame inductee at the University of Hartford, Valerie translates cutting-edge science into actionable longevity protocols—backed by her own measurable biomarker transformations, including telomere lengthening and improved epigenetic pace of aging. An extreme athlete who has skied toward the South Pole and summited 44 peaks over 14,000 feet—20 of them in just 9 days—she embodies the philosophy she teaches. Valerie bridges the worlds of performance, precision health, and everyday wellness for a global bilingual audience.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Guest: Michael Sandler

When life blindsides you with trauma, stress, overwhelm, and a feeling that recovery is impossible, where do you turn?

In this powerful episode, HeartMath President Deborah Rozman talks with Michael Sandler—author, teacher, and survivor of multiple nearly fatal accidents—about how he rebuilt his life from the inside out after traumatic brain injury. Michael shares candidly about his recovery journey, the dark moments when giving up seemed easier, and the exact inner shifts that helped him reclaim hope, purpose, and joy.

Together, Deborah and Michael discuss how traumatic brain injury and chronic stress can change our heart rhythms and disrupt communication between the heart and brain—and why this matters so much for mental health, emotional balance, and physical recovery. They explore science-based and heart-based practices for:

• Supporting injury recovery and nervous system healing
• Overcoming challenges when it feels impossible to go on
• Moving beyond anxiety, overwhelm, and fear into genuine peace
• Remembering who you really are—beyond your trauma and stress

This uplifting, time-relevant conversation speaks directly to the uncertainty so many feel today and offers practical hope: you can rise above the stress of personal or societal challenges, think more clearly, and reconnect with the love and resilience that have always been at the core of who you are. Join us for this hopeful and awakening conversation.

Deborah closes this beautiful conversation with a guided heart meditation to help listeners find calm, reconnect with their inner resilience, and return to a deeper sense of peace.

About our guest:

Michael Sandler is the co-host of the popular Inspire Nation show, a transformational, self-help, spiritually focused podcast and YouTube channel, along with his wife, fellow coach and teacher, Jessica Lee. He is a best-selling author, speaker, entrepreneur, visionary, coach, and the co-creator of Inspire Nation University and the Automatic Writing Experience online course.

Guest: Amy VaaS

When stress is high, and the future feels uncertain, how do you make good decisions—at work, in your relationships, or in everyday life? This captivating episode explores a practical, science-based way to stay clear and grounded when it matters most.

HeartMath CEO Deborah Rozman has an intriguing conversation with Amy VaaS, former Global Well-Being Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), who helped bring HeartMath’s heart coherence practices into high-pressure, highly analytical environments, including cybersecurity and risk teams. Amy shares how she moved from focusing only on the brain and neuroscience to realizing that the missing piece was the state of the heart—directly affecting clarity, judgment, communication, and how we show up under stress and overload.

Hear Amy’s real-world stories of how science-based heart coherence practices helped:

• Leaders and teams think more clearly, listen better, and make better decisions even in challenging conversations.
• Teams, under intense pressure to shorten meetings, reduce reactivity, and become “the calm in the storm” for their clients and colleagues.
• People experience improved sleep, feel more emotionally regulated in daily life, and know how to reset their nervous system quickly.

Amy also shares how she now works through her new venture, VAAS Solutions, integrating heart coherence into leadership advising, team effectiveness, and organizational culture—so performance, resilience, and well-being all rise together instead of competing with each other. Her insightful examples reveal how small, consistent coherence practices can quietly transform how leaders, teams, and individuals operate.

Whether you’re a long-time HeartMath fan or completely new to heart coherence, this engaging episode will give you a deeper understanding of why being in a coherent heart state is not just a “nice-to-have wellness perk,” but a practical, repeatable skill for making better decisions under stress in any area of life.

The episode closes with a practical guided heart-focused meditation led by Deborah to help you practice heart coherence for yourself—so you can bring more calm, clarity, and heart into your work, your family, your health, and the everyday decisions that shape your life.

About our guest:

Amy VaaS is the founder and principal advisor of VAAS Solutions. She works with organizations to strengthen leadership, improve team effectiveness, and create cultures where people and performance excel. With over 25 years in globally recognized financial and professional firms, she has led initiatives that empower leaders to navigate complexity and build resilient cultures. Amy integrates neuroscience-based tools, coherence practices, and leadership strategies across onboarding, milestone leadership development, and executive coaching. Today, she partners with companies worldwide to guide leaders through real-world demands while building cultures that advance both people and results.