“It is okay to suck at meditation”
– Ariel Garten
Ariel Garten is a neuroscientist, innovator, and entrepreneur whose driving purpose is to empower and help others overcome mental obstacles in order to live healthy, happy lives and reach their maximum potential. Garten is one of the Founders of InteraXon, the makers of Muse: the brain sensing headband. Muse is the award-winning wearable technology that assists and trains meditation and mindfulness.
Before founding InteraXon, Ariel was not only trained as a neuroscientist and psychotherapist, but also started her own international clothing line while she worked in labs researching Parkinson’s disease and hippocampal neurogenesis. Her creativity and entrepreneurial drive, combined with her fascination with the brain, lead her to bring together two like minded friends and together they founded InteraXon, a Silicon Valley backed startup that allowed people to control computers with their minds, the technology that sparked the creation of Muse.
The technology was the feature showcase at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, where they allowed over 7,000 people control the lights on the CN tower, Canadian parliament buildings, and Niagara Falls with their brains from across the country. Muse is now used and loved around the world, in 5 languages with over 5,000,000 sessions of meditation. Ariel and her team have been featured in over 1000 media pieces, including CNN, Forbes, Fortune, WSJ, etc. and recipients of multiple innovation awards.
These days, Ariel can be found at home playing with her 2 year old or on stage across the world speaking about happiness, meditation, understanding mental health, empowering women in business, or telling her own innovation story, consistently giving her audiences the tools they need to help them become their best selves.
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Show Notes:
- How did you get into the creative mode of fashion Designing?
- Using scientific principles and concepts in fashion designing
- How do you define consciousness?
- Do you believe in a spirituality?
- On her experience as a Reiki Practitioner
- What are some of your spiritual practices that you have in your daily life?
- On her upbringing in a Jewish tradition
- How much time do you spend in your meditation practice?
- Morning Routines
- Would you attribute your creativity and innovation to your mom is a renowned artist?
- Creating anything from a blank canvas
- Unconditional love from her mom
- Meditation practice
- how do we use Muse brain sensing headband?
- Kill your inner critic
- and much more
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