Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of Self-Improvement
Most self-help advice is guesswork dressed up as wisdom. This podcast digs into psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral science to find what actually changes lives. It covers topics like mental strength, motivation, habit formation, and emotional intelligence, offering frameworks backed by studies rather than Instagram quotes. The show is for curious skeptics who want practical insights on self-improvement without pseudoscience or hustle culture.
Episodes
4 Fears that Secretly Sabotage your Life - And what to do about them
Fear doesn't show up wearing a mask. It shows up as a perfectly reasonable excuse — "I'm not ready yet," "the timing isn't right," "I just need to learn a bit more."
These aren't logical conclusions. They're fear in disguise.
Your brain has been lying to you. Keeping you safe in the short term, but permanently stuck in the long term.
In this episode, we break down the four fears that silently s
The Neuroscience of Fear - Understanding anxiety, trauma and the tools to overcome them [Lessons from NPD, BPD and ADHD]
Fear isn't the opposite of growth. It's the gatekeeper of it.
Every hesitation before a risk, every excuse before a hard conversation, every night spent worrying about what others think..
These are more than subtle character flaws. They're ancient circuits doing exactly what they were designed to do. The real question is whether you understand your fear well enough to stop letting it make your d
How to Make Hard Things Easier with a Growth Mindset - w/ Graham Hobson (Founder Photobox, Moonpig)
Most people wait for change to arrive in a dramatic package. A breakthrough. A sign. A better plan.
Graham Hobson’s story reminds us that real growth is quieter than that. It arrives through repetition, through coaching, through the willingness to be bad at something long enough to become good. As PhotoBox scaled, the lesson was not how to find one perfect move, but how to build a way of thinking
Why the Most Successful People Are All Walking Contradictions — And How to Become One
Most people think their biggest weakness is the problem. It's not. It's that they're only using half of themselves.
George Washington won a war by being the world's most honest man — and its most convincing liar.
Steve Jobs built the future by dreaming like a child and obsessing like an engineer.
These aren't contradictions. They're the formula behind the psychology of excellence.
The most pow
Overlooked Rules on Being a Useful Human - Essential Behavioural Psychology
You've read the productivity books. You've optimised your mornings. But what if the whole thing is backwards?
Self-improvement content is everywhere, yet it almost universally focuses on extracting more value from yourself. This episode flips that. Drawing on behavioural psychology and a surprisingly useful analogy about cells and organs, Sam makes the case that the most effective thing you can d
Lessons on Starting Before You Feel Ready w/ Graham Hobson (Founder Photobox + Moonpig)
Most startups don’t fail from lack of ideas. They fail because people quit too early—or play it too safe.
Graham Hobson built a €100M business starting with a simple frustration: printing photos of his kids. What followed wasn’t a smooth growth curve—it was years of uncertainty, near failure, and painfully slow progress. In this conversation, we unpack the real psychology behind building somethin
How to Spend Money to Buy Happiness: The psychology of what actually works
Money is not the goal. It’s a tool. Most people were never taught how to use it.
Core:We inherit scripts about money. Save more. Earn more. Want more. But those scripts were built for survival, not fulfilment. The shift is subtle but powerful: from accumulation to allocation. This episode is about choosing where your money goes—and what that choice turns you into. When you spend on time, you crea
The Psychology of Slowing Down Time - How to live a full life
Ever look up and realise a whole month has vanished? This episode is about why that happens — and how to get more life out of the same amount of time.
Most people think time speeds up because they’re busy. Not quite. Time speeds up when your brain stops noticing. When your days are repetitive, distracted, and half-lived, your memory writes almost nothing down. That’s why a week of scrolling disap
How to Create Your Own Opportunities and Stop Waiting for Your One Big Chance
If you’ve been treating your next decision like THE decision, well... A lot of anxiety comes from believing your future hinges on getting the next move exactly right.
However, there’s a particular kind of pressure that shows up when you want your work to mean something, but you also don’t want to blow up your finances, your nervous system, or your sense of self in the process.
Today we explor
Three Psychology Experiments That Changed How I Live
Most self-improvement assumes the problem lives inside you. But what if you've been looking in the wrong place?
There's something worth sitting with in the idea that your physical surroundings are already making decisions about how you think — before you've consciously made any. The shape of a room. Whether your body is moving or still. How many open tabs are silently competing for your attention
Dr. Stephen Porges: Where Free Will Lives in Your Body, and Why You Keep Ignoring It
Free will might be smaller than you hoped, but more useful than you imagined.
This conversation with Stephen Porges is about the quiet shift in perspective he learnt from 50 years studying the nervous system. We are taught to believe that emotional strength means overriding fear, suppressing anger, and forcing calm. But a different story is available.
One where stress is not weakness, pain is no
How to Finally Commit to One Thing When Everything Feels Important
The better you get at seeing opportunity, the worse you get at finishing anything.
It turns out the same brain wiring that makes curious, growth-oriented people so interesting to talk to also makes them spectacularly bad at committing to one thing. In this episode, we explore the surprisingly rich psychology of focus — from what Taylor Swift's 16 dress changes per concert reveal about sequencing
How to Be Genuinely Interesting - Without performing, pretending, or people-pleasing
There's a story we tell ourselves about interesting people. That they were born that way. That charisma is a trait, not a choice. That fitting in is safe and standing out is risky.
None of it is true.
Interesting isn't a personality type. It's a decision about how far you're willing to go — into a topic, into yourself, into the slightly terrifying territory of being exactly who you are in a room
Your Nervous System Has Been Running Your Life - How to finally take control with Stephen Porges (Inventor of Polyvagal Theory)
How the science of the vagus nerve explains anxiety, ambition, burnout, and the art of becoming who you actually are.
Humans, might be the most sophisticated organism on Earth (capable of writing symphonies, landing on the moon, and inventing artisanal sourdough). Yet at our core, we are running threat-detection software that predates the dinosaurs.
Stephen Porges, the scientist who mapped the v
The Illusion of Panic: How to Master Your Nervous System When It Invents Danger
A Deep Dive into the Vagus Nerve, Neuroception, and Overcoming Burnout
Ever walked into a room and instantly felt like something was completely off? That is not your intuition being magical; that is your nervous system running the show.
We spend all day trying to "think" our way out of stress, but it rarely works. Your body has a built-in threat radar called neuroception that operates entirely b
The Psychology of Risk: How Near Death Experiences Help you Quit a Good Life to Pursue a Great One - w. Talia Lazarus
We are all waiting for permission that is never going to come. We cling to the illusion of a safe life, pretending that incremental improvements are the same thing as actual growth.
Talia Lazarus didn’t plan on changing her life; the universe intervened in the form of a devastating bus accident. In the agonizing space of her recovery, she confronted a profound truth: she was living a script writt
The Comfort Zone Trap - How Failure Builds Courage, Confidence, and an Interesting Life
Human beings have an issue. We want adventure, growth, and transformation, provided they arrive gently, avoid inconvenience, and never make us look foolish.
This episode is about that charming contradiction.
We spend years building small fortresses of competence, then wonder why life begins to feel boring. The trouble is that courage rarely appears before action; it usually turns up afterwards,
Chemistry Isn’t Compatibility: How to Choose Better Partners in Love and Work - w/ Matt Higgins
The psychology of healthy relationships: hidden rules behind better marriages, better teams, and better choices.
In this episode, I sit down with legendary investor Matt Higgins to dissect the psychology of lasting relationships.
It turns out that a staggering number of startups and marriages implode for the exact same reason: we mistake thrilling friction for long-term compatibility. We are rem
The Psychology of What Matters: How to Stop Wasting Time
A psychological guide to choosing priorities, resisting urgency, and spending time well.
Time is the universe’s most brilliant and inescapable invention, relentlessly marching forward whether you are building an empire or merely digesting a rather cheesy burrito. Yet, somehow, we’ve convinced ourselves we can beat it.
The universe is terribly indifferent to your productivity. Even Tutankhamun is
The Neuroscience of Growth Mindset: How to rewire your brain
The human brain is a wonderfully absurd little organ. It powers civilization, invents jazz, and still somehow convinces you that being bad at something once, means you should never try again.
In this episode, we tour through the neuroscience of growth mindset with the cheerful suspicion that your limitations may be considerably less permanent than advertised. Along the way, there are one-armed su
Are You Thinking Your Thoughts, Or Are They Thinking You?
You like to think of yourself as someone who thinks for themselves. But what if the ideas running through your head aren't really yours — what if they found you, infected you, and quietly rewrote your behaviour to help themselves spread?
In this episode, we take an unusual detour into evolutionary biology — because it turns out the science of genes, parasites, and natural selection explains more
The Psychology of Never Feeling Good Enough (Even When You Clearly Are)
Hedonic adaption busily sweeps our wins under the rug like they are a nuisance. We look at how to fight back against your own psychology.
I once ran further than 99.9% of humans ever will. Then went to bed and forgot about it and spent half the week a little dissappointed with other failures. That's not modesty. That's my brain working exactly as designed.
We're wired to stop feeling satisfied
7 Weird Life-Changing Skills that are Strange to Work On
Nobody tells you that curiosity is a skill. Or that humor can be built. Or that the way you think is quietly deciding everything.
Most of us are running on borrowed opinions — System One thinking dressed up as personality. We consume the same content, absorb the same views, and wonder why we feel forgettable. This episode breaks down five traits that genuinely change your trajectory: deep thinkin
Why Having a Backup Plan Is Making You Fail - Burn the boats with Matt Higgins
In 1519, Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico and promptly set fire to his own fleet. By any conventional measure of military logistics, this seems profoundly counterproductive. It wasn't.
Matt Higgins — Shark Tank investor, Harvard Business School lecturer, and accidental dropout — has spent his career studying what happens when humans remove their own escape routes. Spoiler: it tends to go rather wel
Why You Have Great Ideas but Never Actually Do Anything With Them
We are spectacularly good at having ideas and remarkably reluctant to do anything with them.
It turns out that the distance between "I've got it!" and "here it is" is not a step but a rather long, occasionally bewildering journey. Not unlike flying a plane.
It involves a terrifying amount of fuel, significant faith in invisible forces, and a desperate hope that everything holds together on land
You Didn't Choose Your Attachment Style, but Here's How You Can Change It - With Jessica Baum
Most people think their relationship problems are about the other person. They're not — they're about an 18-month-old version of you who learned the only way to survive.
In this episode, psychotherapist Jessica Baum breaks down why your nervous system is still running a programme it wrote in infancy. Attachment styles — secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganised — aren't personality quirks. They're
From Reactance to Resilience: How to manage psychological triggers and create freedom
Most anger isn’t about the thing. It’s about what the thing means: “Someone just messed with my control.”
When your expectations get violated... plans change,d a process breaks, a person does something “unreasonable”. Your nervous system reads it like a little mugging.
And then you get reactance: that hot impulse to push back, prove a point, slam the door, unsubscribe from the whole situation.
How To Train Your Mind: The surprising benefits of play
Turns out you don't learn faster when you're stressed, you learn faster when you're happy! So let's talk about treating your brain like a friend, not a factory worker.
Muscles respond to stress with pretty linear upgrades; brains don’t. Brains upgrade through meaning, novelty, and attention—especially when something feels like play. That’s why memory champions don’t “grind” digits: they build abs
The Weird Psychology of Communication, Self-control, and Gossip: What evolution teaches us about communicating your needs clearly
In the noble quest to understand our minds, today we take a new angle. We track how grunts turned into gossip, myths, and the weird human habit of blushing when we screw up.
You’ll see why your brain is basically a compression algorithm: squeezing an entire inner universe through a tiny mouth-shaped funnel. We go from jellyfish nerve nets to gossip networks, and beyond. How shared stories make m
Hidden Potential: The Psychology of self-sabotage and changing what's possible - Heather Moyse (2x Olympic Gold)
We all love the idea of “potential” until it quietly turns into pressure, guilt, and a weird fear of actually trying.
Heather Moyse didn’t start professional sport until 27 and still became a double Olympic gold medallist. Breaking out of her social safety and truly exploring her potential wasn't easy.
We dig into behavioral inertia, self‑sabotage, and the invisible “settings” your environment i
The Feynman Technique: The 4 Steps to Learn and Master Anything
Most people “learn” by hoarding facts, which doesn't mean you understand them. Then you forget them all anyway...
In this episode, learning stops being about cramming and starts being about curiousity. Using Richard Feynman’s four-step technique, you’ll find a mindset that will add joy into your learning whilst also making it effective.
We unpack the learning pyramid, why lectures and highlights
How to Stop Wasting Time with the Wrong People - Emotional maturity with Jonathan Aslay
Most people treat dating like a lottery; swipe, hope, repeat.
Jonathan Aslay lost $2 million, his marriage, and his son. What saved him wasn't positive thinking. It was asking one brutal question: "What happened in your marriage?"
Not to judge. To observe. Because how someone talks about their ex reveals everything about their emotional maturity. Self-love isn't bubble baths and affirmations. It
Surrounded by Conformists: How to spot the 5 types of NPC and think your own thoughts - [Psychology of non-player characters]
The algorithm doesn't want you to think; it wants you to react. It wants you to be a character in its story, following a predictable path of outrage and agreement.
We are living through a shift where the line between human and bot is blurring. Not because computers are getting more human-like, but because we are becoming more bot-like.
We outsource our worldview to gurus, tribes, and mainstream
How To Build Free Will
Free will sounds easy until you look closely. Then it turns out to be smaller, stranger, and far more difficult than advertised.
We take a cheerful scalpel to the idea that we’re the conscious captains of our lives. With help from psychology experiments, philosophical detours we find out what's really going on.
Examining stories involving casinos, concentration camps, meditation cushions, and mor
5 Surprising Truths About Independence and Being Yourself: What really impacts who you are
The idea that you are a blend of the 5 people you spend time with has a dangerous side. In fact, it's not exactly true.
In this episode, I break down why the Growth Mindset is actually about autonomy, not assimilation. I share the story of my best friend Laurie—a guy with zero ambition who taught me how to relax and actually saved my career during burnout.
I also look at Sahil Lavingia, who blen
Life's Infinite Games: How to play by your own rules
What if the game you're playing isn't yours?
Every moment of your life, something is at stake. Ignore your partner, they feel less loved. Choose status over meaning, you'll need a therapist.
We inherit these games—LinkedIn profiles that read like eager cover letters, news consumption that convinces us everything's collapsing, social media that demands we perform. But there's another way.
Inste
4 Steps to Become Remarkable: A guide to overhaul your life
Get in control of your life and use your time to build a life of purpose.
We have been sold a myth of heroic solutions. Where a single dazzling act will change who we are. But real change is quiet, methodical, and often boring. As a result many people lack agency waiting for some heroic reinvention.
This episode explores the architecture of a "Deep Life," a four-month process of reclaiming your
Working with Time Instead of Against It - How to enjoy this year and every year of your life
You have roughly 4,000 weeks. Somehow, nobody mentioned this at school.
This episode takes a cheerful scalpel to modern time-panic—the kind that convinces smart adults that the next app, habit, or color-coded calendar will finally subdue existence. (It won’t.) Time, inconveniently, keeps doing what it has always done: passing. The good news is that this makes it remarkably reliable, like a train
5 Rules for Mental Health and Clarity - Andrew Huberman's simple formula for success
Every advanced master nails the fundamentals first. To perform at your best these are the 5 most basic and essential practices you need to return to time and again.
A short episode covering the core requirements for good mental health and clarity in life.
Whether you love Andrew Huberman, are a skeptic or don't even know who he is. These 5 lessons are science backed legit good advice worth repea
Leaving a Legacy: What do we actually get remembered for - Lessons on family and life - [Storied Recipe]
How to nurture the best in people with consistency and be remembered for what matters.
This is going to be a different episode about a cake my nan used to make. But isn't just a story about cake. It's about the difference between control and nurture. My school thought resilience came from forcing kids to clear their plates (even if they ended up vomitting). They were wrong. My Nan knew that real
The Regret Minimization Framework: How to make life decisions
A boat is safe in the harbor. But that is not what boats are built for.
We tend to view our lives as a single, continuous narrative. But in reality, we are a series of temporary selves, each with a distinct beginning and end. The teenager who dreams of adventure is not the same as the retiree who seeks comfort. When we defer our dreams, we aren't saving them for later; we are denying them to the
Cognitive Rigidity: 5 Lessons to build a flexible mind - [Cognitive Biases #6]
How to master cognitive flexibility by understanding the biases that keep you stuck.
In WWI, generals sent horses against machine guns. Cognitive Rigidity mean they couldn't reimagine the battlefield.
In this episode, I break down the five mental traps keeping you stuck. We look at why you value your own bad ideas more than good ones (The Endowment Effect) and why you can’t stop scrolling TikTok
The Illusion of Control: 7 Ways we lie to ourselves that even defeated Napoleon - [Cognitive Biases #5]
How the mind blinds us to reality by showing us what we want to believe.
We don't see with our eyes; we see with our stories. In 1951, psychologists proved that fans from opposing teams physically saw different fouls during the same game. This is the power and danger of perception.
It is the tension between what is real and what we believe is possible. When a doctor gives a patient a placebo, t
Why You Make Bad Decisions: Confirmation Bias and the 7 Sins of Lazy Thinking [Cognitive Biases #4]
How to make smarter decisions that improve your life by understanding your mind and it's hidden psychology.
We are all storytelling creatures, desperate to fit the world into a narrative that makes sense to us. Thus, we build echo chambers not because we are stupid, but because we are afraid.
The Confirmation Bias is a shield against the discomfort of being wrong. The Availability Bias shapes ou
Why We Don't Understand Money: How to fix your thinking flaws - [Cognitive Biases #3]
Think you konw what you're doing with you money on your mind? Think again.
You walk into a cinema and buy the $12 large popcorn because the medium is $10. You think you got a deal, but you actually just fell for the "Decoy Effect."Your brain is wired to latch onto the first number it sees.
In this episode, I break down the psychological pricing traps that businesses use to hack your wallet.
Ego Blindspots: Common cognitive distortions of the self - [Cognitive Biases #2]
Ever caught yourself defending a dumb idea just to look smart?
That's your ego controlling your brain. Cognitive biases and ego team up to screw your decisions daily.
Picture this: confirmation bias has you cherry-picking facts that stroke your self-image, while ego whispers you're too smart for mistakes. Spot the traps like Dunning-Kruger (overestimating skill) or sunk cost fallacy (throwing go
Thinking Fast and Slow: How to make better decisions and avoid hidden mind traps
You think you're rational? Think again. We love feeling like thoughtful decision-makers, but the truth is we're riddled with cognitive shortcuts.
Daniel Kahneman's Nobel Prize-winning work breaks down the systems of our mind. We constantly substitute hard questions with easy ones; e.g. Buying a stock because you like the company, not because you've done the data.
This episode cuts through the 30
Who are you VS. Who do you want to be? - How to align your actions with your desires
We can try all the things: new habits, different mindsets, therapy, medication, or god save us... self-help books.
Yet to no ones surprise: we don't wake up a different person, we don't start doing all the things we keep saying we will eventually do, we don't even lose weight...
What is the deal? Are we broken? Is there a way to fix ourselves?
It all comes down to a single question.
Who are y
The Hidden Psychology of Black Friday - How do shops manipulate us (and make calm aunties fist-fight over PlayStations)?
Inner Peace vs Retail Rage - How do shops design our experience to remove our decisions and make us to FOMO into all sorts of weird situations?
This episode peels back the slick banners and countdown timers to show the tiny psychological tricks that turn shoppers into hunters. Scarcity, anchoring, and anticipation aren’t marketing buzzwords — they’re brain hacks.
Retailers riff off ancient ins
Systems Thinking: How to understand the deeper reality of the world around us
Most problems in the world aren't random accidents, they're built into the systems we live in. When we look closer we find systems all around us drive the currents that change the world.
Systems Thinking is a key idea in science, politics and business, but it knows no boundaries as systems show up everywhere.
In every era of humanity we created new systems in politics, law, technology and e
Die With Zero Regrets - Stoic ideas to make the most of your life
What if “enough” wasn’t a number — but a moment?
This conversation explores the quiet art of leaving nothing essential undone. We talk about the trap of “more” — more savings, more time, more planning — and how it steals the urgency that makes life vivid.
To die with zero regrets isn’t to die empty; it’s to die complete. Like an artist who finishes a painting not because it’s perfect, but becaus
The Psychology of Podcasting: Lessons in self actualisation, intrinsic motivation and how to enjoy yourself - w/ Paul Davies
99% of podcasters quit before episode 20. Why do 1% keep going... and what does it teach us about ourselves?
Paul Davies interviews Sam on the psychology of motivation, self-determination, signalling theory and more as we break down the psychology of what makes people podcast.
Besides analysing what's driving the trend to start a podcast we also learn about why humans do anything and how to make
How to Defeat Your Shadow Life and Face Your Calling: Lessons from Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield,
What if the life you're living is just a metaphor for the life you're meant to live?
Pressfield kept his typewriter buried under spare parts in his truck. He knew it was there. Thought about it constantly. But he was too terrified to dig it out and write. So he drove. For years.
Shadow callings aren't about laziness—they're about proximity without risk. We fall into fixed mindset thinking this
Tips on Getting Better Today Than Yesterday - w/ Olympic Coach Frank Dick OBE
What if winning isn't a destination? What if it's the quiet act of becoming slightly better than you were when the sun rose this morning?
Frank Dick spent five decades asking "How do we help people see their own progress?"
As British Athletics' legendary Director of Coaching, he discovered something profound. We're wired to notice missing buttons but blind to the ones that are there. His Four Rs
Moments Where Character Forms: Stop being a Victim and build a Victor Mindset - w/ Olympic Coach Frank Dick OBE
Ever notice how the people who never mess up also never win big? Frank Dick, the legendary British Olympic coach who led Team GB through its golden era, calls this "the risk of winning."
For over 50 years, Frank coached Olympic champions like Daley Thompson and Sebastian Coe. His growth mindset framework reveals a counterintuitive truth about mental strength: failure isn't falling off your bike—i
What is a MINDSET Exactly? (and how do you spot a bad one)
Ever said "you just need the right mindset" without knowing what that actually means? You're not alone. Most people use mindset like a magic word—vague, fluffy, and completely useless.
This episode breaks down what mindset really is through psychology, not wellness guru nonsense. You'll learn the difference between growth mindset (seeing failure as learning) and fixed mindset (believing ability i
Make Time Your Friend: Build a positive mindset with a little existential psychology (and stoicism)
Panic less, enjoy more - treat time well and it will treat you well.
Humans have a difficult relationship with time. Sometimes just a birthday can lead to spiralling mental health.
Yet time is the medium of existence that gives us all the experiences that make life so great.
Of course, time also ages us and ultimately robs us of everything we ever have and ever loved.
With the right mindset w
Questions to Build a Life of Substance & Let Go of What is Holding You Back - w/ Jodi Wellman
Build a mindset that doesn't care what other people think, because you know what actually matters to you.
In this episode we examine insightful ways to take control of your life and define where it's going.
We steal some of the best questions and ideas from existential psychology that you can try applying to your own life.
What is a life worth living?
Healthy vs toxic aspirations?
How
The Real Problem with Work Life Balance and the Mental Model to Fix It
Rethinking the problem and our mindset from scratch when it comes to this whole life thing.
What if the problem isn't your schedule—it's your metaphor?
We've inherited a story about work and life as opposing forces, locked in eternal combat for our limited hours. This story feels true because everyone tells it. But stories shape reality.
Consider this: your life contains multitudes. Work, yes.
Shame, Addiction, and How To Focus On Who You Are Becoming
We evolved shame as a gift. A signal that whispers when we've drifted from who we might become. What if the discomfort you feel isn't the problem, but the compass?
This episode explores a surprising truth: the hardest patterns to change aren't the ones destroying us, but the ones keeping us comfortably mediocre. Yet they hold us back and sometimes shames even stops us from acknowledging they exis
Be Crystal Clear: 3 Truths and 2 Tips to Communicate with Impact [Archive]
Our cognitive biases and ego can muddy the waters of our minds and block the path to clear communication.
Today's episode provides strategies on how to be both a more effective thinker and communicator.
Topics:
Communication problems in relationships, business and writing
Cognitive blockers to clarity
How to identify and maintain a grip on the most important thing
What bundling and
From Escaping the Holocaust to Building a Billion Dollar Empire - The Life and Mindsets of Dame Stephanie Shirley
Dame Stephanie Shirley built a billion-dollar tech empire from her kitchen table in the 1960s, pioneered remote work before anyone knew what Wi-Fi was, and discovered the psychology behind turning survivor's guilt into unstoppable motivation.
This isn't some feel-good story about "everything happens for a reason." It's a masterclass in how your brain can rewire trauma into resilience. Stephanie s
Lessons, Paradoxes and Hard Questions For Building an Authentic Life
We chase alignment with our purpose, values, passions but can sometimes get a little lost on the way.
Life has a scary habit of passing us by in a rush and Sam has just turned 35 years old and feeling very philosophical about the whole thing.
We take a tour of some of the big problems in society people struggle with and the paradoxes that make them difficult.
From waning attention spans to poli
12 Questions For Meaningful Relationships - How to go deep w/ Topaz Azides
You know that Stupid questions = Stupid answers. It's the same for boring questions. If you want to live a meaningful life with space for personal growth and connection with those around you.
The answer is fantastic questions.
Questions that help you understand yourself better and your partner.
Questions that lead to conversations where you really see each other deep down at a human to human le
A Curios Thing About Your Ego (and 3 ways to turn it down)
The ego is more unruly than you think. We dissect how it works and how to make it work for you.
When you don't watch it carefully your brain will trick you into thinking it knows things it doesn't. This can lead to all sorts of disasters.
Learn 3 ways that your ego get's in the way of real growth and learning and how to build a stronger and more open mindset.
Lessons:
Create Space: Begin
How to Cultivate Awareness and Self-Control to Overcome Addiction - w/ Jeremy Lipkowitz
Ever felt like you're fighting a losing battle with your own brain? Addictions are like that. We learn the mindsets and psychology to build self-awareness and take control of your decisions and behaviours.
Jeremy Lipkowitz, a former Buddhist monk, meditation teacher, and coach is the host of "Unhooked: breaking porn addiction podcast". He helps men break free from compulsive behaviors—especiall
How to Teach a Growth Mindset to Children (and to yourself)
You want your kid to magically become some badass, challenge-eating machine?
Lectures don’t work, praise gets boring, and perfectionism is just another word for control freak. We dive into the reality behind both teaching and practicing a growth mindset.
Firstly it starts with you living a growth mindset so this episode is primarily a masterclass on building one yourself.
Self-efficacy is cruci
How To Overcome Your Problems With Curiosity and adventure - /w GeoWizard (Tom Davies)
Ever felt like life’s locked you in a box and thrown away the key? Tom Davies (GeoWizard) knows the feeling—and he picked the locks with curiosity and a pinch of madness.
This isn’t your standard self-help fluff. Tom went from odd jobs and dead-end days to having 1.4 million followers watching his adventures. His fame launched when he crossed Wales in a straight line, just because he asked, “What
The Hidden Connections Between Movement and Mental Strength You Need To Know
Freedom doesn’t arrive when you finally “figure it all out”—it arrives the moment you move.We’ve built mental walls around the idea that creativity is genetic and strength is inherited. But imagine a world where every step, stretch, or stumble is a tiny act of liberation, welding new circuits of possibility in your brain. Picture the mountaineer navigating a cliff, or a child learning to throw—a d
How to Build More Memories Instead of More To-Dos - w/ Jodi Wellman
Positive Psychology applied to the shortness of life. This episode is a repeat of a masterclass from last year on living wider and deeper with psychologist and author Jodi Wellman.
We cover:
The walking dead vs astonishingly alive
Overcoming habits and autopilot living
Regret avoidance and controlling your life
Useful positivity vs toxic positivity
As they say "Get busy living, or
What is Actually Important? How to stop reacting to news and non-events
Have you ever wondered how important something really is, yet lacked a reference point to put it into context?
These days news, apps, jobs or neighbours comments all seem to be infinitely important and it's somewhat distracting. If you want to actually do stuff you need to know what is important and screen out the rest.
Sam shares a framework for working out the impact of any idea or event that
The Top 3 Fitness Mistakes and How to 20:80 your Health - w/ Coach Jake Parker, Beyond Fitness
We think fitness is about the body. But in truth, it begins in the story we tell ourselves.
In this conversation with Jake Parker, we explore fitness not as a battle of discipline, but as a shifting of identity.
Humans evolved in a world of scarcity where every calorie mattered. Now, in a world of abundance, that same wiring works against us. The magic, Jake suggests, is in designing new default
Where To Spend Your Life Energy: A 3-step framework for brilliance
It's not just what you do, it's how you do it.
We are increasingly bombarded with demands and equally confused by how important everything seems.
Growing up every year the next exam will make or break the rest of your life... The reality is some things don't matter and other things matter much more than you will ever know.
Saying hi to that stranger that becomes your wife, helping a friend star
The Evolutionary Psychology of Gender Roles, Male Violence & Food - How Fire Transformed Us
Ever felt like you were wrestling with more than just a campfire? Me too. Turns out, controlling fire is a bit like trying to control your own mind; tricky, unpredictable, and full of surprises.
In this episode, we have an episode drop from Sam's new show "How to Change the World; The History and Future of Innovation".
We dive into the wild story of how humanity’s obsession with fire set us on t
Defining Your Own Success in a World Full of Self-Appointed Experts - w/ Mike Winnet (Worlds #1 Demotivational Coach)
What if success isn’t about working harder or even more achievement, but about how we feel day to day?
In this episode, Mike Winnet invites us to reconsider the very stories we tell about ambition and achievement.
The culture around entrepreneurship often creates illusions; mirages shimmering in a desert of social media noise.
Mike challenges us to step beyond these distractions and ask: What i
Why Taking Life Less Seriously Could Be the Productivity Boost You Need
The art of making work not suck; how playing helps you stress less (and achieve more).
In today’s episode, we challenge the architecture of adulthood, built brick by brick with “shoulds”. Using stories of ancient ancestors and modern cubicles, we’ll ask:
Why do we surrender to seriousness, and at what cost?
You’ll learn how the prison of comparison, the tyranny of the checklist, and our fear of
How to Stay MOTIVATED When You Keep LOSING - w/ Gold Medal Olympian Sir Ben Hunt-Davis
Imagine training every day for a decade… and still losing. Then figuring out one question that changes everything.
Olympic gold medallist Ben Hunt-Davis didn’t win because he trained harder, he’d been doing that for years and kept losing. He won because he and his crew started asking one question before every decision: Will it make the boat go faster?
In this conversation, Ben shares the mess
Why You’ll Care About Completely Different Things in 5 Years
Ever look back at something you obsessed over… and now you can’t even remember why?
This episode’s about that gap. The gap between what you care about today and what future-you will actually give a damn about.
We’ll talk about puppies that can’t tell a cushion from a laptop, people who think their city is the center of the world, and why your 16-year-old self thought video games were the meaning
How to Find Your Zone and Stay There - A Masterclass On Focus w/ John Lee Dumas
Feel like your focus constantly slips through your fingers? Like you’re juggling five projects but none are actually moving the needle? You’re not alone—distraction is the silent killer of progress.
In this episode, we break down how John Lee Dumas built a million-dollar podcast empire with one secret weapon: laser-sharp, relentless focus. Forget multitasking; mastery comes from saying no to ever
The Art of Consistency: 10 Simple Rules for Real Growth
Everyone loves a good habit but what's the science that makes some work and others not so much?
Real growth isn’t about lightning bolts, but the quiet art of consistency.
In this episode, we zoom out to see habits not as chores, but as choices that shape our identities, day after day. Ancient stoics, modern neuroscientists, even a friend and his broken snack safe remind us: transformation is gen
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