mindgains.wistia.com · legacy Pro plan · lifetime figures to 11 Nov 2026
86 active videos and eleven years of Interpersonal Neurobiology conversations, now read end to end: who spoke, what they spoke about, and who was watching. Three recordings account for roughly half of everything ever watched — and two speakers account for well over half.
Ranked by lifetime hours watched — the measure that reflects whether people stayed, not just whether a page loaded.
| Video | Folder | Plays | Hours watched | Share of all watch time | Avg. watched |
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Sixty-seven named speakers appear across the 83 recordings that were analysed — but forty-eight of them appear exactly once. The concentration in who draws an audience is even sharper than the concentration in what gets watched.
Dan Siegel appears in 11 recordings and Bonnie Badenoch in 6. Between them they are in 17 of 83 sessions — a fifth of the catalogue — but 57% of all plays and 61% of all watch time. No one else comes close: the next most-watched speaker, Sarah Peyton, has 361 plays across two appearances.
Kirke Olson hosts or co-hosts 49 of the 83 sessions, and Mary Meador 27 — a run that stretches from 2015 to the present. The hosting has passed to Sherry Dikelsky and Greg Sizon in the most recent seasons, but the institutional memory of this archive sits with very few people.
Every analysed recording was tagged with the themes it covers — 352 in total. Grouped into families, they show a body of work that is far broader than "neuroscience for therapists": the largest single strand is about children, classrooms and play.
Counts are recordings touching each family, so they overlap — most sessions belong to three or four at once. Open any row in the inventory below to see that session's host, speakers, subject and themes.
Five groupings hold the whole catalogue. They are not equal: the two oldest archives carry almost all of the viewing, while the newest folder — where every session since mid-2024 lands — carries almost none.
Remembering John O'Donohue (912 plays, 249 hours), Playfulness IS the Treatment (847 plays, 223 hours) and Sarah Peyton on the right hemisphere (296 plays, 60 hours) together are 52% of all plays and 52% of all watch time in the active library. The other 99 videos share what's left. Whatever put those three in front of people is the most valuable thing in this account.
Five Powerful "Listening Tools" has been loaded 10,331 times and played 64 times — a 0.9% play rate across 6,266 visitors. Intro to Our New Community Website shows the same pattern: 1,985 loads, 87 plays, 4.4%. Both sit embedded on pages people visit for other reasons. Together they are 23% of all loads on the account and 3% of plays.
The 30 recordings in Imports from Zoom — everything captured since May 2024 — have drawn 143 plays between them, under 5 each, and eleven have never been played at all. Recent guests include Stephen Porges, Dan Siegel and Rollin McCraty; the content isn't the problem. Publishing and promotion is.
All 86, sortable by any column — click any row to open its host, subject, summary and themes. "Engagement" is the share of the video an average viewer watched. "Last played" comes from the event log, which Wistia keeps for two years — before Nov 2024 means the video has been watched at some point but not inside that window, and never means no play has ever been recorded.
| Video | Folder | Speakers | Uploaded | Length | Loads | Plays | Hours | Engagement | Visitors | Last played |
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This legacy Pro plan bills on active file count, not storage — the API reports no storage limit at all, with 264 GB held and uncounted. The allotment is 50 and the hard cap 500; the September cull brought you from 102 to 84, since risen to 86 with two October uploads. Archiving removes a file from the billable count exactly as deletion does, which is why the board meetings were archived rather than deleted. Bandwidth is a non-issue.
Cleared on 16 September: 17 archived — all fourteen board meetings plus a 33-second clip, a 5-minute test and a truncated duplicate — and 2 deleted outright, a 49-second clip and a remix copy. Every one had zero plays and none was in a channel. The effect is the largest single change here: never-played fell from 22 to 3, and dormant from 50 to 31. The board meetings were first copied to a shared Drive folder, verified byte-for-byte with their transcripts alongside.
Archived media cost nothing on this plan but clutter every search. 58 are duplicate copies from the 2024 reorganisation — The Healing Path with James Finley exists five times over, When We Embrace the Science four — and 17 joined them in the September cull. They keep their tags, which is why retiring them barely moved the tag vocabulary.
Nine titles have since been fixed by hand — Dan Siegel — Temperament & the Enneagram and Dan Siegel — October 2023 replaced Zoom filenames, the Embodiement misspelling is corrected, and two ALL-CAPS titles are now sentence case. Around two dozen still carry strings like "- Shared Screen with Gallery View - Oct 15, 2025 10:30 AM - 1h 28m" or raw HTML entities that render literally. Note that channel episode titles are separate records: renaming the media does not change what community.mindgains.org displays.
O'Donohue, Playfulness and Peyton behave like nothing else in the library — 1,109, 1,467 and 321 unique visitors respectively, against a typical 20. That's external referral, not member browsing. Find the referring pages before optimising anything else; repeating whatever that was is worth more than every other item on this list combined.
Average engagement across the 83 videos anyone has watched is 24%. On a 65-minute session that's about 15 minutes — people are already taking a clip's worth. Cutting one every month gives the channel something shareable and matches actual behaviour instead of fighting it.
Nothing auto-publishes from the Zoom import folder, and that is the safeguard: it is why board meetings never reached community.mindgains.org. The cost is that a session reaches members only when someone moves it. Four had been waiting between 28 and 301 days; all four were added in September, bringing the archive channel to 83 of the 86 active files. The one deliberate omission is the website welcome video, embedded directly on the site. The two October uploads are the current backlog.
The board meetings are in Drive and archived on Wistia; the fragments and remix copy are gone. Because this plan bills on active file count, archiving was the full saving and nothing further is gained by deleting them. That inverts if the account moves to storage-based pricing, at which point the archived board meetings become the obvious candidates — they already exist in Drive, verified, with transcripts.
Nine are done. Roughly two dozen still carry Zoom suffixes or raw HTML entities. Remember that the media name and the channel episode title are separate records — changing one does not change the other, so a rename is two edits if it is to reach members.
Method. Baseline figures come from the Wistia API on 26 Aug 2026, refreshed to 11 Nov 2026. Per-video numbers are lifetime totals; the 24 plays and 13 hours recorded across eight videos since August have been added to their August baselines, and last-played dates updated from the event log. Account-level totals (53,389 loads, 4,601 plays, 1,077 hours) include the 75 archived items, which is why they run higher than the sum of the 86 active videos — those account for 3,987 plays and 1,036 hours, or 96% of all watch time. One caveat on the refresh: plays and watch time add cleanly across periods, but unique loads and unique visitors are counted per window, so a viewer returning in both is counted twice in those two columns. Last-played dates come from the event log, which Wistia retains for two years. The ranked analytics endpoint likewise returns nothing before Aug 2024, so trend data older than two years isn't available and the "concentration" figures are lifetime rather than recent. Embed-location analytics returned no rows for the last two years, so the referral sources behind the top three videos couldn't be identified from the API alone.
Speakers and themes. Every video now has an English transcript in Wistia. 83 of the 86 are analysed — the 19 excluded recordings have since been archived or deleted, and the three unanalysed items are the September and October uploads, which have transcripts but have not been through the extraction pipeline. Wistia's captions carry no speaker labels, so who is present is inferred from self-introductions and from people addressing each other by name — reliable for identifying participants, not for attributing individual quotes. Automatic transcription also mangles unusual proper nouns, so names have been corrected against video titles and folder descriptions where possible and a few may still be wrong. One correction to an earlier description of this method: no session was read in full and none was limited to its opening. A single rule was applied to every transcript — keep the first 1,400 words, then twelve evenly spaced 170-word windows across the rest — giving exactly 3,452 words per video, a median of 35% of what was said. It samples the whole session rather than truncating it, but the resolution is coarse, so a topic discussed only in the unsampled portion would leave no trace in the themes below.