Change Your Mind

A step-by-step toolkit for training you to thrive.

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Get better at being your best.

Join former Navy SEAL, Patrick Dossett, world-renowned neuroscientist, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and a host of other leading experts, as they guide you through a program designed to help you build a better foundation for physical and mental health.

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Join former Navy SEAL, Patrick Dossett, world-renowned neuroscientist, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and a host of other leading experts, as they guide you through a program designed to help you build a better foundation for physical and mental health.

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UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE

Grounded in neuroscience, positive psychology, and physiology—Madefor helps you build better habits and a more resilient mindset.

  1. Geometric design. You can retrain your brain. This is neuroplasticity. Through consistent, intentional action over time, you can unlock new ways of thinking. Dr. Andrew Huberman, scientific advisor, explains neuroscience to Madefor members.
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    Yes, you can retrain your brain.

    The brain’s ability to grow evolves as we age, but never disappears—this is neuroplasticity. Through consistent, intentional action over time, you can unlock new ways of thinking.

  2. Super close-up of braided thread. Mindset matters. Embracing a resilient mindset changes the way you respond to challenges, leading to healthier behaviors that help you unlock your full potential. Positive psychology, wellness, wellbeing, mindset.
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    Mindset matters.

    Embracing a resilient mindset changes the way you respond to challenges, leading to healthier behaviors that help you unlock your full potential.

  3. Cube geometric design. Single focus, small steps. The way you direct your attention matters. When you focus on the right steps, you discover surprisingly simple and powerful ways to engage your body and mind. Madefor, focus, small steps, lasting change.
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    Single focus, small steps.

    The way you direct your attention matters. When you focus on the right steps, you discover surprisingly simple and powerful ways to engage your body and mind.

  4. Geometric design.There are many paths. No one way to achieve optimal wellness, but there are proven principles of how your brain, body, and mind work best. Madefor helps you uncover your own unique potential. Madefor your way. Individualized plan.
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    There are many paths.

    There is no one way to achieve optimal wellness, but there are proven principles of how your brain, body, and mind work best. Madefor helps you uncover your own unique potential.

We’ve distilled the science into one simple, step-by-step program, designed to help you achieve your greatest potential.

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Ten areas of focus,
21-day action plans.

Each highly researched focus area has been intentionally chosen to help you build a new positive habit. When completed together, they provide a foundation for cultivating new mindsets and greater wellbeing.

THE JOURNEY
Graphic of water drop. Hydration: Use hydration as an entry-point to better understanding your own boundaries, needs, and potential. Water, drinking water, health, wellness, water bottle, tracking. Madefor Hydration challenge, water challenge.

HYDRATION

Use hydration as an entry-point to better understanding your own boundaries, needs, and potential.

Graphic of pink megaphone. GRATITUDE: Learn to cultivate a powerful mindset, so you can lean on it no matter what life throws your way. Thankfulness, grateful, appreciate. Spread joy. Positive impact. Madefor Gratitude Challenge.

GRATITUDE

Learn to cultivate a powerful mindset, so you can lean on it no matter what life throws your way.

Green graphic of flame. Fuel: Learn to nourish yourself with intention, by listening carefully to your body’s signals and cues. Madefor fuel challenge, intuitive, listening to your body. Health, wellness, well-being, energy, exercise.

FUEL

Learn to nourish yourself with intention, by listening carefully to your body’s signals and cues.

Lavender graphic of linked chain. Connection: learn to take a more active role in your relationships in order to deepen your connections. Madefor relationships, community, deeper connection, people, friendships. Madefor focus. Madefor challenges.

CONNECTION

Learn to take a more active role in your relationships in order to deepen your connections.

Balloon graphic. Breath: Harness the power of your own breath and learn to rely on this internal tool when you most need it. Madefor tools, Madefor focus, Madefor Challenge. Stress-release, lessen anxiety, relax, health, well-being, positive change.

BREATH

Harness the power of your own breath and learn to rely on this internal tool when you most need it.

Graphic of comet imprint on peach background. Movement: Reconnect with the pure joy of moving your body and learn to thrive in the moment. Madefor focus. Madefor Challenge. Move, natural, explore, joy in motion, fitness, physical and mental benefits.

MOVEMENT

Reconnect with the pure joy of moving your body and learn to thrive in the moment.

Green leaf imprint graphic. Nature: Tap into the restorative properties of nature to gain greater awareness of your environment. Engage with the world around you. Dialogue with nature. Mental and physical wellbeing. Madefor focus/challenge.

NATURE

Tap into the restorative properties of nature to gain greater awareness of your environment.

Light blue circle imprints on blue background. Clarity: Build awareness around your material possessions to better understand what serves you. Closer look, relationship with things around you, possessions, collect, instinct, Madefor focus/challenge.

CLARITY

Build awareness around your material possessions to better understand what serves you.

Moon imprint on lavender background. Rest: tune into the light to better sync your mind and body, so you can begin each day at the top of your game. Better rest. Rhythm of environment. Madefor focus/Challenge. Lack of sleep, can’t sleep, get better rest.

REST

Tune into the light to better sync your mind and body, so you can begin each day at the top of your game.

Glasses imprint on yellow background. Vision: Measure your values against your actions, & use insights to create a more intentional future. Identify values, vision statement, imagine future, journal. Madefor focus/Challenge. Reassess values. Top values.

VISION

Measure your values against your actions, and use your insights to create a more intentional future.

Founding Advisory Board

Our diverse collective of experts, scientists, and clinicians are all dedicated to helping you achieve greater wellbeing.

Dr. Andrew Huberman, neuroscientist and Madefor’s Lead Scientific Advisor. Head of Stanford’s Huberman Lab and host of Huberman Lab Podcast. Has made many contributions to the fields of brain development and plasticity, and neural regeneration and repair.
NEUROSCIENCE
Andrew Huberman, PhD
Neuroscientist and Head of Huberman Lab at Stanford and Madefor Advisory Team

Dr. Andrew D. Huberman is a neuroscientist, tenured professor, and principal investigator/head of the Huberman Lab in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has made numerous important contributions to the fields of brain development, brain plasticity, and neural regeneration and repair. Dr. Huberman was awarded the McKnight Foundation Neuroscience Scholar Award (2013), a Biomedical Scholar Award from the Pew Charitable Trusts, and a 2017 ARVO Cogan Award for his contributions to the fields of vision science. His work on the use of noninvasive methods to enhance regeneration of damaged retinal neurons, leading to partial recovery from blindness, has been covered extensively in the popular press (Time, Scientific American), and is part of the National Eye Institute’s Audacious Goals Initiative to restore vision to the blind.

In 2017, the Huberman Lab created a state-of-the-art virtual reality platform to induce fear and anxiety under controlled conditions and study the neuroscience underlying these responses. Creating it involved collecting authentic 360-degree video of stress-inducing scenarios such as heights, claustrophobia, and swimming with great white sharks.

In 2018, the lab published a study in Nature reporting the discovery of two new mammalian brain circuits: one that promotes fear and paralysis, and another that promotes a “courageous” / confrontational reaction to visually evoked threats. This discovery has prompted ongoing exploration of how these brain regions may be involved in phobias, generalized anxiety, and PTSD—along with coping tools for reducing irrational fears.

Dr. Ruth Benca, UC Irvine Chair of Psychiatry & Human Behavior. Educated at Harvard and the University of Chicago, she’s an internationally recognized authority on the relationship between sleep and psychiatric disorders.
HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Ruth Benca, MD, PhD
UC Irvine Chair of Psychiatry & Human Behavior

Dr. Ruth Benca is a professor and chair in the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine. Previously, she was director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research and medical director of Wisconsin Sleep, where she treated patients with a broad range of sleep disorders.

Widely published in her field, Dr. Benca is an internationally recognized authority on the relationship between sleep and psychiatric disorders, and she has served as principal investigator for a number of basic and clinical research studies, funded by agencies including the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense. She has served as president of the Sleep Research Society and on the board of directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Dr. Benca received her undergraduate education at Harvard University and her MD and a PhD in Pathology from the University of Chicago, where she also completed a residency in Psychiatry and a fellowship in Sleep Medicine.

Pat Dossett, Madefor Co-founder and former Navy SEAL. MBA from Wharton School of Business, as a Tillman Military Scholar, and spent three years at Google before co-founding Madefor with Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS shoes.
HUMAN POTENTIAL
Patrick Dossett
Madefor Co-Founder & Former Navy SEAL

Patrick Dossett currently serves as President/CEO of Madefor, working alongside a team of subject matter experts in the fields of neuroscience, positive psychology, and health and wellness to deliver world-class programming designed to help individuals unlock hidden potential.

Prior to Madefor, Dossett served in various leadership roles, first as an officer in the US Navy SEAL teams and later in the fields of technology and non-profit to create positive change at scale.

Dossett holds a bachelor of science degree in Oceanography from the U.S. Naval Academy, a master’s in business administration from the Wharton School of Business and is the recipient of numerous awards and commendations for his service and leadership. Dossett currently resides in Los Angeles, CA with his wife, three children and their cat, Kula.

Lisa Fitzpatrick, M.D., M.P.H. Epidemiologist & CEO and Founder, Promoting Practical Health, Inc. CDC-trained medical epidemiologist & board-certified infectious diseases physician with both domestic and global experience in public health.
HEALTH LITERACY
Lisa Fitzpatrick, M.D., M.P.H
Epidemiologist & Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Promoting Practical Health, Inc.

Lisa Fitzpatrick, M.D., M.P.H., is a CDC-trained medical epidemiologist and board-certified infectious diseases physician with both domestic and global experience in public health. She was recently named as a member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Health Literacy.

Although Dr. Fitzpatrick’s career has traversed clinical medicine, research and public health program implementation, she is most passionate about improving the nation’s health literacy and demystifying health information. Her goal is to inspire greater and more effective disease prevention and health promotion action in communities by making practical and useable health information more accessible to ordinary citizens.

Dr. Fitzpatrick’s skills and experiences are diverse. She is a medical doctor who began her public health career in 1998 as a medical epidemiologist at the nation’s premier public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a member of the CDC’s elite Epidemic Intelligence Service. She has served a foreign diplomat in the Caribbean while representing the US government CDC Global AIDS Program under PEPFAR.

John Ratey, Psychiatrist & Author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise, Go Wild, Driven to Distraction, etc. Associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard and expert in neuropsychiatry. An authority on the brain-fitness connection.
PSYCHIATRY
John Ratey, MD
Psychiatrist at Harvard and Author of Spark and Go Wild

Dr. John J. Ratey is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an internationally recognized expert in neuropsychiatry. Dr. Ratey’s groundbreaking “Driven to Distraction” series on attention deficit disorder, written with Dr. Edward Hallowell, is considered one of the bibles of ADD, with over two million copies in print.  His book “Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain,” established Dr. Ratey as an authority on the brain-fitness connection and set him on a mission to re-engineer schools, corporations, and individual lifestyle practices to use exercise to achieve peak performance and optimum mental health.

His 11th and most recent book, “Go Wild,” explores how to achieve optimal physical and mental health by getting in touch with our caveman roots and “re-wilding” our lives. Dr. Ratey has served as a consultant to the President of Taiwan and the Minister of Education in South Korea, a co-head of the Advisory Board of the California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sport, a consultant to ANTA Kids in China, and an Ambassador for Active Kids with BOKS, Reebok’s nonprofit school fitness program. Dr. Ratey’s own nonprofit, Sparking Life, has a mission to promote exercise in the treatment of mental health challenges. Recognized by his peers as one of the Best Doctors in America since 1997, Dr. Ratey was honored as “Outstanding Psychiatrist of the Year for Advancing the Field” in 2016 by the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society.

Married, with two children and two grandchildren, Dr. Ratey maintains private practices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Los Angeles, California.

Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S is a registered dietician & co-author of bestselling “Intuitive Eating,” a mind-body self-care eating process. She’s been quoted in CNN, Today, MSNBC, Fox News, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, & People.
NUTRITION
Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S
Registered Dietitian and Author of Intuitive Eating

Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S (Certified Eating Disorders Registered Dietitian-Supervisor), is co-author of the bestselling “Intuitive Eating,” a mind-body self-care eating process, which has given rise to over 90 studies showing benefit, and more than 800 certified intuitive eating counselors in 22 countries. Tribole has written nine books on healthy eating and runs a busy nutrition-counseling practice in Newport Beach, California. Previously, she was the nutrition expert for Good Morning America, a national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, and a contributing editor for Shape magazine, where her monthly column appeared for 11 years. Tribole has been quoted in hundreds of media outlets, including CNN, Today, MSNBC, Fox News, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and People magazine. As a highly sought-after speaker and college lecturer, she trains the public and healthcare professionals on how to cultivate a healthy relationship with food, mind, and body. Tribole received her master’s in nutritional science and her bachelor’s in dietetics from California State University, Long Beach. In 1984, she qualified for the Olympic Trials in the first-ever women’s marathon (with a time of 2:51:15!). Although she is no longer a competitive runner, Tribole is a wicked ping-pong player and avid hiker. Her favorite food is chocolate—when it can be savored slowly.

Dr. Samer Hattar is a Chronobiologist and focuses on Light and Circadian Rhythms at the National Institute of Mental Health. He’s the leading chronobiologist in his field, and his research focuses on how light affects behavior.
CHRONOBIOLOGY
Samer Hattar, PhD
Chronobiologist at National Institutes of Health (NIH) *

Dr. Samer Hattar is a senior investigator and chief of the Section on Light and Circadian Rhythms at the National Institute of Mental Health, the lead federal agency for the research of mental disorders, under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health. A leading chronobiologist in his field, Dr. Hattar’s research focuses on how light effects behavior.

For years, it was assumed that when light struck the retina, only two kinds of cells responded: rods and cones. However, research by Dr. Hattar and others uncovered a third type of photoreceptor cell called intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs). This discovery has spurred further research into how light influences circadian rhythms, sleep, learning, and mood, potentially leading to more effective treatments for seasonal affective disorder.

Dr. Hattar was previously an associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Department of Biology at Johns Hopkins University, where he established the Hattar Lab. He received his PhD from the University of Houston in Texas, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is married to Rejji Kuruvilla, a neuroscientist and professor at Johns Hopkins.

* Dr. Hattar is serving in his personal capacity.

Rory Cordial is a Physical Therapist, Movement Specialist, and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. As a speaker/leader in sports medicine, rehabilitation, and performance, he works with professional athletes, dancers, entertainers, and CEOs.
MOVEMENT
Rory Cordial, DPT
Physical Therapist

Rory Cordial, a doctor of physical therapy (DPT) and certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS), is an international speaker and leader in the field of sports medicine, rehabilitation, and sports performance. Cordial’s clients include professional athletes, dancers, entertainers, CEOs, and health-conscious entrepreneurs who seek to optimize performance while preventing or mitigating injury.

He received his doctorate degree at the University of Montana, a bachelor of science in sports science at the University of Idaho, and spent years studying experts in the fields of sports medicine, strength and fitness, spirituality, human movement, psychology, and philosophy. He credits his father, a physical therapist with 30-plus years of experience, for honing his treatment skills. More recently, Cordial added to his extensive knowledge of biomechanics, physiology, anatomy, and human movement by spending time in Thailand learning Thai massage, in Bali learning yoga, and he sought out a Shaolin monk to learn Qi Gong and mindfulness.

As a lifelong learner, Cordial’s methods are based in science but his methodology allows for the vast complexity and unknowns that surround the workings of the human body and mind.

Dan Cnossen, Navy SEAL officer (retired) and Paralympian. Severely injured in 2009 in Afghanistan, and has since competed (and won gold) for Team USA in the 2014 and 2018 Winter Games. U.S. Naval Academy and Harvard grad.
HUMAN PERFORMANCE
Dan Cnossen
Navy SEAL officer (retired) and Paralympian

Cnossen was raised on a fifth-generation family farm in Topeka, Kansas. After successfully completing basic SEAL training in 2003, Cnossen deployed numerous times in support of global special operations. As a SEAL platoon commander, he was severely injured in 2009 in Afghanistan, resulting in the amputation of both legs above the knees.

Turning to sport for recovery, Cnossen began training full-time for the U.S. Paralympic ski team in 2011 as a cross-country skier and biathlete. Before his injury, he had never skied. But he has since competed for Team USA in the 2014 and 2018 Winter Games and is the first male athlete to win a gold medal for the United States in biathlon, a sport that combines cross-country skiing with precision shooting. 

Cnossen holds a bachelor of science degree in English from the U.S. Naval Academy, a master’s in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a master’s in theological studies from the Harvard Divinity School.

Dave Phillips is an executive mentor, speaker, entrepreneur, columnist, talk show host, and the author of “Three Big Questions.” Previously, he was a member and coach of Canada’s National Freestyle Ski team, a stuntman, and a ski-show performer.
MINDSET
Dave Phillips
Executive Mentor, Speaker, and Author

Dave Phillips is an executive mentor for high-performance CEOs and business leaders who seek an authentic life purpose. He works with clients on topics ranging from the boardroom to the bedroom and some of the most challenging areas of leaders’ lives.

Phillips is an entrepreneur, columnist, talk show host, and the author of “Three Big Questions,” a book that helps everyone to answer critical questions about purpose, mission, and vision. Previously, he was a member and coach of Canada’s National Freestyle Ski team, a stunt man, and a professional ski-show performer. Phillips broke two Guinness World Records for ski duration and was also awarded the Bronze Medal for Bravery from the Royal Canadian Humane Association for his part in a life-saving effort.

Phillips is married to Ontario native and Olympic gold medalist in Alpine skiing, Kathy Kreiner-Phillips. They live in Vancouver and have three grown children, Nelson, Liam & Michela.

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