Your Badass Brain
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsGeared toward the analytically minded, this podcast uses Coaching, Science and Logic to help you better understand your brain and start deliberately using it to improve your quality of life and create the results that you want. Transform any are of your life including work, relationships, parenting, money, health and most importantly, your mental and emotional well-being. If you struggle to relate to a lot of the "fluffy" self-help tools out there, then this is the podcast for you.
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Episodes
Fear of Being Judged
June 21, 2021 13:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBAre you afraid of being judged by other people? Does this fear keep you playing small or hiding certain parts of yourself from the world? In this episode, learn why your base brain mistakenly places so much importance on other people's opinions, and why it is never actually their negative judgement that is the problem. Discover the key to truly not being phased by what anybody else thinks of you.
The Willngness to Be Wrong
June 17, 2021 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBOne of the things that our human brains like more than anything is to be right. If you are alive today, it is because your brain has been producing effective thoughts and therefore, it believes that all of those thoughts must be right. Being wrong about anything, to your base brain, would introduce an element of uncertainty, which it views as a threat. But, sometimes, the very best thing you can do for yourself is to use Your Badass Brain to DECIDE that you are wrong about something. In...
Your Thoughts About Your Feelings
May 21, 2021 02:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBMany of us are uncomfortable with negative emotion. Unfortunately, there is no way to completely eliminate negative emotion from our lives. However, we can decide how we want to think about it. Listen to this episode to learn how your thoughts about your feelings determine whether you are creating unnecessary suffering and how you can feel more at peace.
Changing a Relationship
March 26, 2021 13:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBHumans are a social species and we crave connection. Relationships with other people are some of the most amazing and fulfilling experiences we have. They can also be a source of misery when another person is not showing up how we want them to. We become angry, irritated, frustrated, and resentful, and we want them to be different so that we can feel better. Join me on this episode of Your Badass Brain to learn how YOU can single-handedly transform ANY relationship in your life and feel th...
Becoming Happier
March 05, 2021 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBDo you know that feeling good is a skill that you can actually practice and develop? What better goal is there than learning how to create more happiness in your life and to sustain that happiness for longer periods of time? You can learn to feel better and to reduce the amount of unnecessary negative emotion that you experience, by using nothing but your brain. Tune into this episode to start your practice of becoming happier.
Base Brain Beat Down
February 10, 2021 15:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBWhen we set goals for ourselves or decide to make changes in our lives, we usually start out feeling very motivated and excited. Unfortunately, this can quickly fade when things aren't as easy as expected or don't go exactly as planned. We can become critical and judgmental of ourselves over the lack of progress that we are making. We start to put immense amounts of pressure on ourselves, often with the mistaken belief that we are doing it to motivate ourselves. In this episode, learn ho...
Fear of Missing Out
January 15, 2021 13:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBOur base brains want us to believe that we are missing out on something. They want us to believe that if we just had that one thing in our life that were different, then we would be truly happy and our lives would be better. But, when we buy into this, we actually prevent rather than create that happiness. What if you believed that you already have everything that you need to be truly happy and at peace? Who would you become if you knew for certain that the only thing that needs to chan...
New Year’s Evolution
January 05, 2021 13:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBWe made it to 2021 and now is a great time to decide what changes we want to make throughout this new year. We often approach this by setting new years resolutions. We decide what we are going to DO or or stop DOING. Our resolutions are action based and unfortunately, less than 10% of people succeed in accomplishing the resolutions they set. In this episode, we explore why this is the case and how you can approach things differently in 2021, in order to make true and lasting change in y...
Believing New Things
December 18, 2020 13:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBWhat do you believe - about the world, about yourself, about your future? When and how did you form those beliefs and how do they impact the life experience that you are having? In this episode, we are going to explore some simple brain science to understand how many of our beliefs are formed without our conscious input and how continuing to hold those beliefs may be holding us back. We are going to talk about the process of reprogramming the brain to Believe New Things and how this can u...
Life is 50/50
December 08, 2020 14:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBWe spend much of our lives on a quest for happiness, but when this constant quest for happiness causes us to react and resist our negative emotions, it often leads to stress, misery and self-sabotage. In this episode, learn how accepting that life is meant to be 50/50 can actually bring you more peace and allow you to use your negative emotion to learn more about your brain's default programming so that you can strategically begin to create the thoughts and emotions that will lead to more p...
The Positive Power of Negative Emotion
November 27, 2020 12:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBWe spend so much of lives trying to avoid negative emotion. Why? Why are we so resistant to negative emotion? What is so bad about a negative emotion? What if the key to living a happier and more successful life is in the ability to allow and FEEL your negative emotions? Join me on this episode to learn how allowing and processing your emotions can bring you the peace and freedom you've been striving for and help you start taking new actions in your quest to create new results in your l...
Think on Purpose
November 18, 2020 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBYour brain produces around 60,000 thoughts per day. It takes in the circumstances of the world around you and makes a prediction on what everything means based on its own unique, individual programming. It wants you to believe that these thoughts are simply the truth and when you believe that, without question, you accept the emotions that those thoughts create as if you have no control. You always have control over what you think. When you use Your Badass Brain to distinguish between ...
Start to Use Your Badass Brain
November 09, 2020 15:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBYour brain is the most powerful asset you will ever have. Whether you are struggling with career goals, relationship issues, parenting concerns, money matters, weight loss or you simply want to FEEL BETTER, your brain is the key. If you want to get the most out of it, you need to understand how it is currently programmed and then determine where that programming is serving you and creating what you want in your life and where you are simply accepting its default output and the results it cre...
Podcast Trailer
October 27, 2020 13:00 - 3 minutes - 2.48 MBA quick introduction to the podcast with the potential to change your life. Find out what Your Badass Brain is all about and how you can feel better and achieve the goals that you set for yourself through coaching, psychology and neuroscience.