Mayim Bialik's Breakdown

Mayim Bialik

Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown is a quirky, informative, and interactive podcast breaking down the myths and misunderstandings about mental health and emotional well-being. Neuroscientist Mayim Bialik combines her academic background with vast personal experience to provide listeners with valuable practical advice focusing on removing the stigma surrounding mental health and encouraging an understanding of the mind-body connection. Nothing is off limits as Mayim breaks it down with an amazing collection of guests.

  • 1 hour 14 minutes
    Microsoft AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, On the Most Powerful, Exponential Technology in Human History: Can We Harness its Revolutionary Potential for Medicine and Energy Without Triggering Social Upheaval, Job Displacement, and Autonomous Global Control?

    Are we sleepwalking into the biggest technological revolution in human history?


    In this explosive episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Mustafa Suleyman — CEO of Microsoft AI & author of The Coming Wave — breaks down what it really means to live in a world undergoing a massive reckoning with Artificial Intelligence. Whether you love it, hate it, or don’t even realize you’re already using it, AI is quietly reshaping everything we know about medicine, government, finance, energy, and even human relationships.


    Mustafa pulls back the curtain on the true risks of AI, the benefits that may outweigh them, and the unsettling truth about how fast this technology is evolving...much faster than anyone predicted. He reveals the single most significant global use-case of AI today (and why it’s a direct challenge to human evolution), the surprising reason AI therapy and companionship are exploding worldwide, and what we’re unintentionally outsourcing to machines that may isolate us from real human connection.


    We dive into:

    - The waves of AI evolution and what comes next

    - The coming disruption to the economy and the job market

    - How to prepare (and parent) in a world powered by AI

    - Why AI’s similarity to the human brain’s neural networks is both fascinating and terrifying

    - The urgent need for guardrails and safeguards before bad actors use AI to manipulate individuals and entire societies

    - Mind-blowing breakthroughs AI could unlock in human potential

    - Why Mustafa believes AI will never develop its own awareness or agenda

    - And the controversial question: Will it take a catastrophic AI event to force governments and agencies to finally work together?


    This is not just a conversation about technology, it’s a conversation about humanity’s future, the choices we’re making right now, and the consequences of ignoring the wave that’s already here.


    If you want to understand where AI is taking us, and how to survive and thrive in the next decade, watch this episode of MBB until the very end!


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    Mustafa Suleyman’s Book, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma: https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/#book


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    16 December 2025, 8:30 am
  • 1 hour 21 minutes
    Premonitions That Came True! Aberfan, Plane Crashes & Death Foretold | New Yorker Staff Writer Sam Knight on Seemingly Impossible Stories of Dreams and Visions Before Catastrophe

    What if precognitive abilities could actually save lives?


    Sam Knight (New Yorker staff writer, author of the widely popular The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold) joins Mayim Bialik's Breakdown to unpack some of the strangest, most unsettling questions in human experience: Can we really be scared to death? Do premonitions give us access to other timelines? Or are they evidence of a hidden, collective consciousness?


    Sam takes us inside the real story behind the deadly coal mine collapse that dozens of people eerily reported before it happened: a wave of psychic warnings so compelling it led to the creation of the British Premonitions Bureau, an experimental project designed to collect premonitions and prevent future catastrophes.


    We explore why people in the past seemed to understand extrasensory abilities better than we do today, and how head injuries have triggered sudden psi abilities in some truly bizarre cases. Sam also breaks down the most common types of premonitions, what separates accurate warnings from noise, why there aren't premonitions about positive things, the implications of so many different families and cultures sharing these inexplicable accounts, and why it’s actually anti-scientific to dismiss reports of precognition altogether.


    Do people who experience premonitions have a moral responsibility to act on them? Could these uncanny glimpses be messages from alternate timelines, or something emerging from the depths of the unconscious mind? And the biggest question of all: Do we all have the ability to receive premonitions but we just don’t know how to listen?


    If you’ve ever felt a strange sense of déjà vu, had a dream that came true, or wondered whether the future is already whispering to you…this is the episode of MBB you can’t miss.


    Sam Knight’s book, The Premonitions Bureau: https://www.samknight.net/books


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    12 December 2025, 8:30 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    Part Two: Quantum Mechanics Breaks Our Idea of Time. Dr. Stephen Wolfram Explains How the Universe Contains Infinite Timelines Unfolding Simultaneously in a Multi-Threaded Structure

    What if everything you know about reality, intelligence, science, aliens, and even your own body…is wrong?


    In this mind-expanding conversation of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Dr. Stephen Wolfram — the legendary computer scientist, theoretical physicist, mathematician, founder of Wolfram Research — reveals how the groundbreaking technologies he created are re-shaping our understanding of the universe itself.


    We dive into the limits of science, the secrets of biological evolution, and why computational irreducibility may explain why some mysteries of nature can never be predicted, only experienced. Dr. Wolfram breaks down whether his computations suggest humanity is cosmically significant…or completely insignificant in a universe built from the same atoms repeating the same rules everywhere.


    Discover why the objective reality you experience as a human might be totally different for other species, and why this could be the key to understanding alien intelligence, extrasensory perception, and why there might be alien minds all around us right now that we simply can’t perceive.


    Dr. Stephen Wolfram also breaks down:

    - Does the body have its own language? (And, if so, what autoimmune disease might be “saying")

    - What can truly be built from random mutation, and why evolution even works at all

    - How reductionist science is limiting medicine, and how living matter actually behaves

    - Why AI may function as an alien mind, and what that reveals about the shocking simplicity of human language

    - What makes the human mind special, how we evolved this way, and why that very fact proves we are not the most advanced species possible

    - Do computers use a form of telepathy to communicate with one another?


    He even takes us behind the scenes of his work as a consultant on the hit film ARRIVAL, explaining how alien logograms connect to his research on how language shapes human thought, what abstract concepts a bigger brain could comprehend, and what kinds of ideas we might be biologically incapable of imagining.


    If you’re fascinated by astrophysics, AI, consciousness, aliens, evolution, mathematics, language, or the limits of human understanding, this episode of MBB will challenge everything you think you know!


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    Learn more about Dr. Stephen Wolfram and his work: ⁠https://www.stephenwolfram.com/⁠


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    10 December 2025, 8:30 am
  • 1 hour 16 minutes
    Quantum Mechanics Breaks Our Idea of Time. Dr. Stephen Wolfram Explains How the Universe Contains Infinite Timelines Unfolding Simultaneously in a Multi-Threaded Structure

    What if everything you know about reality, intelligence, science, aliens, and even your own body…is wrong?


    In this mind-expanding conversation of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Dr. Stephen Wolfram — the legendary computer scientist, theoretical physicist, mathematician, founder of Wolfram Research — reveals how the groundbreaking technologies he created are re-shaping our understanding of the universe itself.


    We dive into the limits of science, the secrets of biological evolution, and why computational irreducibility may explain why some mysteries of nature can never be predicted, only experienced. Dr. Wolfram breaks down whether his computations suggest humanity is cosmically significant…or completely insignificant in a universe built from the same atoms repeating the same rules everywhere.


    Discover why the objective reality you experience as a human might be totally different for other species, and why this could be the key to understanding alien intelligence, extrasensory perception, and why there might be alien minds all around us right now that we simply can’t perceive.


    Dr. Stephen Wolfram also breaks down:

    - Does the body have its own language? (And, if so, what autoimmune disease might be “saying")

    - What can truly be built from random mutation, and why evolution even works at all

    - How reductionist science is limiting medicine, and how living matter actually behaves

    - Why AI may function as an alien mind, and what that reveals about the shocking simplicity of human language

    - What makes the human mind special, how we evolved this way, and why that very fact proves we are not the most advanced species possible

    - Do computers use a form of telepathy to communicate with one another?


    He even takes us behind the scenes of his work as a consultant on the hit film ARRIVAL, explaining how alien logograms connect to his research on how language shapes human thought, what abstract concepts a bigger brain could comprehend, and what kinds of ideas we might be biologically incapable of imagining.


    If you’re fascinated by astrophysics, AI, consciousness, aliens, evolution, mathematics, language, or the limits of human understanding, this episode of MBB will challenge everything you think you know!


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    Learn more about Dr. Stephen Wolfram and his work: https://www.stephenwolfram.com/


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    9 December 2025, 8:30 am
  • 46 minutes 15 seconds
    Part Two: Is Consciousness Outside of The Brain?! Physicist and Inventor of the Microprocessor, Federico Faggin, explains how Science and Spirituality are Merging. His powerful awakened Revealed the Truth About Reality.

    What happens when one of the greatest minds in modern technology has a spiritual awakening that shatters everything he thought he knew about reality?


    In this exclusive interview on Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Federico Faggin — legendary physicist-turned-inventor, creator of Silicon Gate Technology, father of the first commercial microprocessor at Intel, and early pioneer of AI — opens up like never before about the transformational experience that changed the entire direction of his life.


    Faggin reveals the moment a beam of pure love, peace, and joy radiated through him, showing him that consciousness—not matter—is the true foundation of reality. This awakening didn’t just shift his worldview…it reshaped his life’s work, his understanding of physics, and his mission to bridge science and spirituality.


    Federico Faggin breaks down:

    - How his spiritual awakening rewired his life & work

    - Why Consciousness & Free Will actually explain Quantum Physics (and not the other way around)

    - The 3 levels of reality, and why our spiritual reality is inseparable from the material one

    - Why humanity faces destructive consequences (like environmental collapse) when we’re out of alignment with true reality

    - How gravity itself is “proof of love” at the deepest level

    - How ego overidentification blinds us to the true nature of existence

    - Why the boundary between science & spirituality has already dissolved

    - How the next evolution of medicine will awaken a deeper understanding of oneness, consciousness, and free will

    - Why your personal happiness is ultimately up to you and no one else

    - His insights on the Afterlife, Collective Consciousness, and whether we’re living in a Simulation


    PLUS...Federico shares a special sneak peek at his groundbreaking new book!


    If you’ve ever wondered what consciousness really is, whether science can explain spirituality, or what happens after we die, this conversation will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about reality.


    Federico Faggin’s book, Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature: ⁠https://a.co/d/hC8xFjf⁠


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    7 December 2025, 8:30 am
  • 51 minutes
    Is Consciousness Outside of The Brain?! Physicist and Inventor of the Microprocessor, Federico Faggin, explains how Science and Spirituality are Merging In His Quantum Field Theory of Consciousness. His powerful awakened Revealed the Truth About Reality.

    What happens when one of the greatest minds in modern technology has a spiritual awakening that shatters everything he thought he knew about reality?


    In this exclusive interview on Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Federico Faggin — legendary physicist-turned-inventor, creator of Silicon Gate Technology, father of the first commercial microprocessor at Intel, and early pioneer of AI — opens up like never before about the transformational experience that changed the entire direction of his life.


    Faggin reveals the moment a beam of pure love, peace, and joy radiated through him, showing him that consciousness—not matter—is the true foundation of reality. This awakening didn’t just shift his worldview…it reshaped his life’s work, his understanding of physics, and his mission to bridge science and spirituality.


    Federico Faggin breaks down:

    - How his spiritual awakening rewired his life & work

    - Why Consciousness & Free Will actually explain Quantum Physics (and not the other way around)

    - The 3 levels of reality, and why our spiritual reality is inseparable from the material one

    - Why humanity faces destructive consequences (like environmental collapse) when we’re out of alignment with true reality

    - How gravity itself is “proof of love” at the deepest level

    - How ego overidentification blinds us to the true nature of existence

    - Why the boundary between science & spirituality has already dissolved

    - How the next evolution of medicine will awaken a deeper understanding of oneness, consciousness, and free will

    - Why your personal happiness is ultimately up to you and no one else

    - His insights on the Afterlife, Collective Consciousness, and whether we’re living in a Simulation


    PLUS...Federico shares a special sneak peek at his groundbreaking new book!


    If you’ve ever wondered what consciousness really is, whether science can explain spirituality, or what happens after we die, this conversation will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about reality.


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    Federico Faggin’s book, Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature: https://a.co/d/hC8xFjf


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    5 December 2025, 8:30 am
  • 1 hour 44 seconds
    Part Two: How Changing Our Core Narratives Changes Our Life! Dr. Sue Morter’s Spiritual Awakening Revealed How The Subconscious Communicates Through Our Body, How to Heal, and Our Ability to Access Your Highest Self

    Are you really in control of your life, or are you being unconsciously driven by old stories, buried trauma, and misleading intuition? In this powerful episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Dr. Sue Morter—renowned international speaker, Bio-Energetic Medicine pioneer, and author of The Anatomy of Awakening—reveals how to finally break free from the narrative running your life and step into the highest version of yourself.


    Dr. Sue explains why anchoring into your present body is the key to escaping fear loops, anxiety, paranoia, nervousness, and survival-mode thinking...and how to transform that stuck energy into creativity, passion, movement, purpose, and unstoppable tenacity. She shares practical, real-world tools to shift your internal state, elevate your frequency, and choose a worldview where the universe is actually working for you, not against you.


    You’ll learn how to tell when your intuition is misleading you—triggering false “unsafe” signals that hold you back from the next stage of life—and how to distinguish true guidance from subconscious fear. Dr. Sue breaks down the hidden implications of being driven by the trauma stored in your subconscious, and how to rewrite these old memories to unlock your next chapter.


    She reveals why “safety” shouldn’t be your primary goal, and how energy vibration changes the moment your mind, body, and breath unite into wholeness. You’ll also discover how meditation reconnects you to the soul, plus an accessible breakdown of chakras, levels of consciousness, and the vibrational frequency of love—along with the specific energy centers that determine your life path and soul purpose.


    Dr. Sue even opens up about her own radical spiritual awakening - triggered by transcendental meditations she began to heal her chronic migraines. (Her experiences lifted her into a realm above the earth, where she realized we are all made of pure light!)


    We dive deep into the physical manifestations of buried trauma, the truth about your multidimensional nature, and how anyone can use remote healing to send and receive transformative energy across space and time. At the heart of it all? Love—the ultimate vibrational mechanism that gives you access to higher consciousness!


    If you’re ready to shift your entire energy system, expand your awareness, and rewrite the story of your life, this is the episode of MBB you don’t want to miss.


    Dr. Sue Morter’s Upcoming Book, The Anatomy of Awakening, debuts March 2026: ⁠https://a.co/d/bNH8uFu⁠


    Check out our full episode with Dr. Richard Davidson: ⁠https://youtu.be/nGxwNRFLLpM⁠


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    3 December 2025, 8:30 am
  • 1 hour 4 seconds
    How Changing Our Core Narratives Changes Our Life! Dr. Sue Morter’s Spiritual Awakening Revealed How The Subconscious Communicates Through Our Body, How to Heal, and Our Ability to Access Your Highest Self

    Are you really in control of your life, or are you being unconsciously driven by old stories, buried trauma, and misleading intuition? In this powerful episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Dr. Sue Morter—renowned international speaker, Bio-Energetic Medicine pioneer, and author of The Anatomy of Awakening—reveals how to finally break free from the narrative running your life and step into the highest version of yourself.


    Dr. Sue explains why anchoring into your present body is the key to escaping fear loops, anxiety, paranoia, nervousness, and survival-mode thinking...and how to transform that stuck energy into creativity, passion, movement, purpose, and unstoppable tenacity. She shares practical, real-world tools to shift your internal state, elevate your frequency, and choose a worldview where the universe is actually working for you, not against you.


    You’ll learn how to tell when your intuition is misleading you—triggering false “unsafe” signals that hold you back from the next stage of life—and how to distinguish true guidance from subconscious fear. Dr. Sue breaks down the hidden implications of being driven by the trauma stored in your subconscious, and how to rewrite these old memories to unlock your next chapter.


    She reveals why “safety” shouldn’t be your primary goal, and how energy vibration changes the moment your mind, body, and breath unite into wholeness. You’ll also discover how meditation reconnects you to the soul, plus an accessible breakdown of chakras, levels of consciousness, and the vibrational frequency of love—along with the specific energy centers that determine your life path and soul purpose.


    Dr. Sue even opens up about her own radical spiritual awakening - triggered by transcendental meditations she began to heal her chronic migraines. (Her experiences lifted her into a realm above the earth, where she realized we are all made of pure light!)


    We dive deep into the physical manifestations of buried trauma, the truth about your multidimensional nature, and how anyone can use remote healing to send and receive transformative energy across space and time. At the heart of it all? Love—the ultimate vibrational mechanism that gives you access to higher consciousness!


    If you’re ready to shift your entire energy system, expand your awareness, and rewrite the story of your life, this is the episode of MBB you don’t want to miss.


    Dr. Sue Morter’s Upcoming Book, The Anatomy of Awakening, debuts March 2026: https://a.co/d/bNH8uFu


    Check out our full episode with Dr. Richard Davidson: https://youtu.be/nGxwNRFLLpM


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    2 December 2025, 8:30 am
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    Re-Air: Matthew McConaughey: Love Hard

    This week to celebrate Thanksgiving, we are revisiting our episode with the one and only Matthew McConaughey (Dazed and Confused, Dallas Buyers Club)! Matthew helps us break down the science behind feeling and expressing gratitude, something especially important to focus on this time of year.


    He also takes us on an electrifying journey through his intriguing life, from his intense childhood in which his parents divorced and remarried each other three times, to surviving off a head of lettuce with ketchup in Australia, to his current ambitions considering a run for political office. Matthew details his life-changing quests sparked by having the same wet dream twice and how he puts himself in positions to receive divine, prophetic messages from the universe. He explains why his dad was proud of him for getting into a bar fight, why he cries during births and not deaths, and why his son creates Powerpoint presentations to illustrate why Matthew is wrong. Mayim and Matthew discuss parenthood, and Matthew opens up about the sense of immortality he felt at the birth of his first child. Mayim also breaks down binding anxiety!


    From the entire Mayim Bialik's Breakdown team, we want to wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving!


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    28 November 2025, 8:30 am
  • 56 minutes 42 seconds
    Part Two: Your Brain Might Be Lying. The Scientific Explanation for Cellular Memory, Why Universal Intelligence Can Be Found In Nature and How Past Memory Is Actually Changeable | Dr. Nikolay Kukushkin

    Are Your Memories Lying to You? Neuroscientist Dr. Nikolay Kukushkin—NYU clinical associate professor, research fellow, and author of One Hand Clapping—joins Mayim Bialik's Breakdown to BREAK OPEN everything we thought we knew about memory, consciousness, evolution, and the future of humanity.


    Dr. Kukushkin might be the first to scientifically prove that “the body keeps the score," and he's here to share his groundbreaking research revealing that every cell in the body may have the potential to store memory. What this means for trauma, healing, and everyday life will blow your mind!


    We explore how human memory evolved, why we remember the way we do, and the hidden purpose memory plays in meaning-making, identity, and human experience. You’ll learn how memory is stored, changed, and distorted, why memory is NOT reality, what makes the human experience truly special, and what sea slugs can teach us about being human. We also discuss whether it’s more accurate (or useful) to view reality through a materialist vs spiritual lens, how natural selection is far more creative and intelligent than we ever imagined, and whether Artificial Intelligence is humanity’s evolutionary path.


    Dr. Kukushkin reveals what we've been getting wrong about dopamine: its real evolutionary purpose, how to harness this new science to boost motivation, productivity, and well-being, and why social media “dopamine hits” are so addictive - and so damaging.


    Dr. Kukushkin also breaks down:

    - Overlooked implications of being a carbon-based species

    - Sinister effects of sleep deprivation

    - Can the human brain ever reach its memory capacity?

    - What happens when we’re downloading too much information from our environment

    - What happens when we outsource our language abilities to technology?

    - What are the consequences of forming human-like emotional connections with chatbots?

    - Is there hope that we will return to using our brain’s full cognitive power?


    PLUS...the spiritual experiences technology can never replicate, and why real life will always give us what machines can’t!


    If you care about human potential, the future of consciousness, or understanding the truth about your own mind, this is the episode of MBB you CANNOT miss.


    Dr. Nikolay Kukushkin’s book, One Hand Clapping: Unraveling the Mystery of the Human Mind: ⁠https://www.nikolaykukushkin.com/press-1⁠


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    26 November 2025, 8:30 am
  • 55 minutes 36 seconds
    Your Brain Might Be Lying. The Scientific Explanation for Cellular Memory, Why Universal Intelligence Can Be Found In Nature and How Past Memory Is Actually Changeable | Dr. Nikolay Kukushkin

    Are Your Memories Lying to You? Neuroscientist Dr. Nikolay Kukushkin—NYU clinical associate professor, research fellow, and author of One Hand Clapping—joins Mayim Bialik's Breakdown to BREAK OPEN everything we thought we knew about memory, consciousness, evolution, and the future of humanity.


    Dr. Kukushkin might be the first to scientifically prove that “the body keeps the score," and he's here to share his groundbreaking research revealing that every cell in the body may have the potential to store memory. What this means for trauma, healing, and everyday life will blow your mind!


    We explore how human memory evolved, why we remember the way we do, and the hidden purpose memory plays in meaning-making, identity, and human experience. You’ll learn how memory is stored, changed, and distorted, why memory is NOT reality, what makes the human experience truly special, and what sea slugs can teach us about being human. We also discuss whether it’s more accurate (or useful) to view reality through a materialist vs spiritual lens, how natural selection is far more creative and intelligent than we ever imagined, and whether Artificial Intelligence is humanity’s evolutionary path.


    Dr. Kukushkin reveals what we've been getting wrong about dopamine: its real evolutionary purpose, how to harness this new science to boost motivation, productivity, and well-being, and why social media “dopamine hits” are so addictive - and so damaging.


    Dr. Kukushkin also breaks down:

    - Overlooked implications of being a carbon-based species

    - Sinister effects of sleep deprivation

    - Can the human brain ever reach its memory capacity?

    - What happens when we’re downloading too much information from our environment

    - What happens when we outsource our language abilities to technology?

    - What are the consequences of forming human-like emotional connections with chatbots?

    - Is there hope that we will return to using our brain’s full cognitive power?


    PLUS...the spiritual experiences technology can never replicate, and why real life will always give us what machines can’t!


    If you care about human potential, the future of consciousness, or understanding the truth about your own mind, this is the episode of MBB you CANNOT miss.


    Dr. Nikolay Kukushkin’s book, One Hand Clapping: Unraveling the Mystery of the Human Mind: https://www.nikolaykukushkin.com/press-1


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    25 November 2025, 8:30 am
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