Why is almost all communication coaching worse than useless?

Michael Hoeppner breaks down why mental advice for what's actually a physical art form keeps you stuck in self-consciousness and thought suppression. This conversation goes beyond tips and tricks into the neuroscience of why trying NOT to say "um" makes you say it more.

What you'll learn:

• Why speaking takes 120 muscles but gets mental coaching
• How thought suppression sabotages your communication automatically
• The embodied cognition approach that actually builds skill

Michael Hoeppner coaches presidential candidates and created GK Training. He's the author of bestseller "Don't Say Um" and has spent decades studying why conventional communication advice backfires.

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What was the moment you realized you were spending more time diagnosing your partner than actually working on the relationship?

Dr. Isabelle Morley breaks down why therapy language has become our defense mechanism instead of our healing tool. This conversation goes beyond surface-level awareness into why using clinical terms to explain our pain actually keeps us stuck in the pattern.

What you'll learn:

• Why the person doing the diagnosing often needs more work
• How weaponizing therapy speak blocks real intimacy and accountability
• The negative cycle that makes everyone look pathological when triggered

Dr. Isabelle Morley is a couples therapist practicing Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Her work focuses on helping people stop using clinical language as a weapon and start accessing the vulnerability underneath their defenses.

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What if creativity isn't a metaphor for magic but literally the same thing?

Pam Grossman breaks down why the creative process and magical practice use identical mechanisms—and why that's not poetic language, it's actual reality. This conversation goes beyond surface-level inspiration into the suppressed history of why magic was banned (spoiler: it threatened capitalism, not logic).

What you'll learn:

• Why casting a creative circle works identically to casting spells
• The magician's pose: one hand up receiving, one hand down grounding
• How magic was suppressed to control populations, not because it was fake

Pam Grossman is the author of Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path to Creativity and host of The Witch Wave podcast. She's spent decades studying why the most effective creators throughout history—from Beyoncé to Benjamin Franklin—used techniques traditionally considered magical.

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What if every time you said "I'll try," you were actually announcing you just weren't going to do it?

Carla Ondrasik breaks down why "trying" sabotages your goals and why your brain literally can't process the word. This conversation goes beyond surface-level motivation into the neuroscience of language and accountability.

What you'll discover:

- Why children under two never say "try" until shame enters

- What happens in your brain when you attempt the try test

- How "I'll try" creates a grab bag of excuses with zero accountability

Carla Ondrasik spent 25 years in music publishing before writing "Stop Trying," challenging one of the most ingrained patterns in modern culture.

This week's challenge: Become hyper-aware of every time you say "try"—count how many times before 10 a.m.

Resources:

- Carla's book "Stop Trying": https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Trying-Discover-Lifelong-Greatness/dp/1637744129

- Carla's website: https://stop-trying.com

- Follow Carla on Instagram: @carlaondrasik

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Why do we take personality tests to understand ourselves and then use that understanding to never change?

Merrick Rosenberg breaks down personality intelligence and why most assessments keep you functioning at acceptable dysfunction. This conversation goes beyond surface level advice into how to master all four personality styles instead of staying locked in one.

What you'll discover:

• Why your brain rewards you for being authentic
• How to read others and meet their actual needs
• The five year timeline for real behavioral change

Merrick Rosenberg is the creator of the DISC personality system using bird styles. He's spent decades teaching people how to become chameleons who can access any personality style at the right moment.

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Key Takeaways

• Movement is the origin and expression of all psychological experience
• Your early developmental movement patterns created the thought stories you're running today
• The rhythm that soothed you as an infant is still your nervous system's language
• Small shifts in posture, gesture, or movement create massive changes in thinking over time
• You can't heal a body you hate, but you can heal a body you feel neutral about

What if everything you think is actually rooted in how you move?

You're not stuck because you're thinking wrong. You're stuck because you're moving wrong. The way you learned to walk as a toddler created thought patterns you're still running today. The rhythm that soothed you as an infant is still your nervous system's language. Your posture right now is reinforcing the exact story you're trying to change.

This isn't about exercise. It's about understanding that your body holds the blueprint for every pattern you can't seem to break. And the smallest shift in how you move can completely rewire how you think.

Today's guest is Erica Hornthal, a licensed clinical professional counselor, board-certified dance movement therapist, and author of Body Aware and Body Talk.

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In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why chronic neck and shoulder pain might actually be your heart wall
• How your heart functions as a second brain with its own memory
• The connection between forgiveness and unlocking your heart's intelligence

Have you ever felt like your heart was going to break?

Not metaphorically. Like, physically felt it. That elephant sitting on your chest. The feeling like you can't breathe.

In those moments, when your heart feels like it's breaking, your subconscious does something to protect you. It builds a wall around your heart. An actual energetic barrier made of trapped emotions. That wall doesn't just keep out the pain. It keeps out everything. Love. Connection. Joy.

Today our guest is Dr. Bradley Nelson, founder of the Emotion Code and author of the new book, The Heart Code. He's been helping people release trapped emotions and dismantle heart walls for over 37 years.

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In this episode, you'll discover:

✨ Why mistranslations in the Bible kept you from Christ consciousness

✨ How your root chakra holds religious trauma from childhood programming

✨ The energetic shift happening now for souls completing 3D incarnation

Have you ever felt like the God you were taught to worship doesn't match the God you actually experience? Like there's this massive gap between what you were told to believe and what your soul knows to be true?

I grew up in a world where God was a checklist. Say the right prayers. Follow the right rules. Fear the right things. And for a long time, I thought leaving religion meant leaving God entirely. I couldn't even say the word "God" without feeling like I was betraying the version of myself that had fought so hard to break free. So I called it the universe instead. The source. Anything but the loaded word that carried so much baggage.

But here's what I've learned. Deconstructing your faith isn't the same as losing your connection to something greater. Sometimes you have to tear down the walls of the house you were raised in to discover the foundation was always sacred.

Today our guest is David Hulse, founder of the Academy for Spiritual Awakening and a longtime researcher of ancient texts, energy healing, and the intersection of biblical interpretation and consciousness. He's spent over 60 years moving from fear-based religion to love-based spirituality, and he's here to help you do the same.

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