ABOUT GEORGE HAYMAKER
Applied Neuroscience Educator | Certified Master Neuroplastician®
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I Understood Professional Success .
I Didn't Understand Why Other Areas of My Life Weren't As Successful — or What to Do About It.
For more than 35 years I was an entrepreneur. Professionally, I experienced success.
Yet there were aspects of myself and my life that continued creating consequences I didn't want despite my best efforts to change them.
Some affected how I experienced life. Some affected my relationships. Some affected my health, stress, and overall well-being.
Like many people, I assumed I simply needed more discipline, more willpower, or better strategies.
I eventually learned something different.
The Insight That Changed Everything
The brain produces every aspect of
who we are how we experience life and how life experiences us.
That means our thoughts, emotions, behaviors, habits, reactions, and experiences are not random.
They are being produced by the brain as its best guess as to what will keep us
safe conserve energy and fulfill important needs in the moment.
The problem is that those guesses are based largely on
experiences learning and information the brain has accumulated in the past.
As a result, the brain will continue producing thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and experiences that may have made sense at one point in our lives —
but no longer produce the outcomes we want today.
Once I understood that, the question I asked changed from:
"Why does this keep happening?"
to:
"Why is my brain producing this—and what would I prefer it produce instead?"
The Next Insight
Once I understood how the brain was producing my
thoughts emotions behaviors habits reactions and experiences
I became fascinated by a simple question:
If the brain can learn these patterns, can it learn something different?
What I discovered is that the brain is constantly changing already.
Through a process known as neuroplasticity, the brain updates, strengthens, weakens, and reorganizes the neural pathways that influence how we
think feel behave and experience life.
That realization changed the way I viewed personal change. I suddenly had hope.
Rather than trying to fight unwanted thoughts, emotions, habits, and reactions after they appeared —
I became interested in understanding why the brain was producing them in the first place —
and the process to help it produce something different.
Who I Help
I work with men and women who are frustrated by aspects of themselves and their lives that they haven't been able to permanently change despite their best efforts.
For some, those challenges show up in their marriages and intimate relationships.
For others, they show up as unwanted mental and emotional experiences such as
anxiety overthinking self-doubt emotional reactivity or feeling stuck.
For others, they may show up as unhealthy coping habits that provide temporary relief —
but create longer-term consequences.
While these challenges may appear different on the surface, they often share something in common —
the brain has learned to produce
experiences behaviors and responses
that are no longer creating the outcomes the person wants.
My work focuses on helping people understand
why those experiences are being produced and how neuroplasticity can help create something different.
Experience & Education
Entrepreneur, Business Owner & Leader
For more than 35 years, I have built and led my own businesses (unrelated to the neuroscience field I now work in), giving me firsthand experience with the pressures, responsibilities, and challenges many successful professionals face.
Education & Professional Training
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Bucknell University
Graduate Degree in Applied Neuroscience, BrainFirst Institute
Master (M.npn) Neuroplastician®
International Master Addiction Coach (IMAC)®
Graduate-Level Certification in Addiction & Recovery Science, Stanford University
Graduate-Level Certification in Nutrition Science, Stanford University