Inside Personal Growth with Greg Voisen

In this podcast, Greg Voisen sits down with psychologist, senior fellow at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times bestselling author Rick Hanson, PhD, to unpack the powerful practices behind his book, Making Great Relationships: Simple Practices for Solving Conflicts, Building Connection, and Fostering Love. Relationships don't just happen by chance—they are built, nurtured, and transformed through the choices we make every single day. Why do so many of us default to conflict or disconnection when we hold the power to shape our interactions? How can changing your internal dialogue instantly alter the dynamics of your personal and professional life? Hanson pulls back the curtain on the brain science of connection, revealing how simple neural shifts and intentional habits can pull your relationships out of deadlock and unlock deep, lasting love and mutual respect.

🎯 What Listeners Will Learn

- How to Be on Your Own Side: Discover why self-loyalty, compassion, and inner strength form the non-negotiable foundation for building healthy, balanced connections with others.

- The "Let Be, Let Go, Let In" Framework: Master a practical three-step process to navigate negative thoughts, release old grievances, and hardwire positive emotional experiences into your brain.

- Strategies to Break Relationship Deadlocks: Learn the power of "unilateral virtue" (the 80/20 rule) to take responsibility for your side of the street and invite positive behavior from your partner.

- How to Assemble an Inner "Caring Committee": Build internal neural supporters to silence your inner critic and bolster your emotional resilience.

- Navigating Communication & Conflict: Understand how to reframe miscommunications, shift power dynamics with gentle curiosity, and apply disentangled forgiveness even when the other person never acknowledges the harm.

Our Guest, Rick Hanson, PhD :

➥ Book: Making Great Relationships: Simple Practices for Solving Conflicts, Building Connection, and Fostering Love

➥ Buy Now: https://a.co/d/0btQqVTs

https://rickhanson.com/

➡️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drrickhanson/

➡️Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rickhansonphd/

➡️Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.rick.hanson

➡️Twitter (X): https://x.com/drrhanson/

Learn more about your Inside Personal Growth host, Greg Voisen:

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➡️Instagram: www.instagram.com/insidepersonalgrowth/

➡️Facebook: www.facebook.com/InsidePersonalGrowth/

➡️LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gregvoisen/

In this podcast, Greg Voisen sits down with author and emeritus professor Robert Jensen to confront the four core questions that keep most deep thinkers awake at night: Is there a God? Is a spiritual plane real? Can nature offer us ultimate meaning? And do we actually possess free will? Unpacking his raw, introspective book, This I Don’t Believe: A Fulfilling Life without Meaning, Jensen opens up about surviving a traumatic childhood, walking away from hyper-individualism, and coming to terms with a world stripped of transcendent guarantees. From a near-fatal motorcycle ride at 100 mph to decades spent in academia and activism, this candid conversation challenges the notion that you need grand cosmic purpose to build a deeply satisfying, joy-filled life.

🎯 What Listeners Will Learn

- How to Find Contentment Without Transcendent Purpose: Discover how ground-level routines, meaningful labor, and genuine human connection can cultivate a deeply fulfilling life without requiring belief in a higher power or spiritual plane.

- The Danger of the Moral High Ground: Why holding rigid, self-righteous convictions—even when warranted—destroys open dialogue, and how to approach conversations across deep theological and ideological divides with true humility.

- Overcoming Trauma and Intellectualization: Insights into how early life abuse can lead to emotional detachment, and why cognitive analysis alone cannot heal deep wounds without making peace with what remains unknown.

- Balancing Grief and Joy: Learn how to acknowledge the reality of ecological and social crises without sinking into despair, holding space for both sorrow and everyday gratitude.

- The Delusion of Self-Creation: Why extreme self-reliance and libertarian ideals often mask fear, and how accepting our shared human vulnerability leads to stronger community and self-acceptance.

Our Guest, Robert Jensen :

➥ Book: This I Don’t Believe: A Fulfilling Life without Meaning

➥ Buy Now: https://a.co/d/0ikg5Evh

https://robertwjensen.org/

➡️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-jensen-75405b33/

➡️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robert.jensen.3701/

➡️Twitter(X) https://x.com/jensenrobertw

Learn more about your Inside Personal Growth host, Greg Voisen:

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➡️Instagram: www.instagram.com/insidepersonalgrowth/

➡️Facebook: www.facebook.com/InsidePersonalGrowth/

➡️LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gregvoisen/

In this podcast, Greg Voisen sits down with strategy consultant and author Kyle Austin Young to unpack his book, Success Is a Numbers Game: Achieve Bigger Goals by Changing the Odds. After surviving back-to-back layoffs, Kyle discovered a counterintuitive truth: motivation doesn't guarantee results, but mastering probabilities does. In this conversation, he reveals why relying on positive thinking often leads to hidden failure, how the dangerous "averaging trap" secretly ruins your plans, and why "thinking negatively" is actually the key to systematically engineering your biggest goals.

🎯 What Listeners Will Learn

- The Averaging Trap: Why three steps with a 70% success rate each actually leave you with a dismal 34% chance of overall success.

- Probability Hacking: How to boost your odds by intentionally identifying every potential risk and systematically eliminating it.

- The 4 Paths to Success: How to leverage high-probability goals, luck, volume of attempts, and risk reduction to win faster.

- The Power of Volume: Why historical breakthroughs—from Thomas Edison's 6,000 lightbulb filaments to Olympic hockey triumphs—rely on multiple attempts rather than raw talent alone.

Our Guest, Kyle Austin Young :

➥ Book: Success Is a Numbers Game: Achieve Bigger Goals by Changing the Odds

➥ Buy Now: https://a.co/d/0cr8THpQ

➡️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyleaustinyoung/

Learn more about your Inside Personal Growth host, Greg Voisen:

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➡️Instagram: www.instagram.com/insidepersonalgrowth/

➡️Facebook: www.facebook.com/InsidePersonalGrowth/

➡️LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gregvoisen/

In this podcast, Greg Voisen sits down with Lauren Craddock, author of OWN WITH INTENTION: 20 Minimalist Practices to Create Space for What Matters Most, to unpack a startling reality: how does a family transition from living in a $450-a-month duplex to accumulating—and eventually purging—over 34,000 items? Lauren exposes the hidden psychological traps of consumerism, perfectionism, and the "just-in-case" mindset that turns modern homes into overcrowded storage units. If you have ever spent hours organizing bins only to watch your home explode back into chaos, this episode reveals why standard decluttering systems fail—and how shifting your internal narrative is the key to creating true mental and physical space.

🎯 What Listeners Will Learn

- The "Perspective Pivot": How to identify and rewrite the underlying emotional stories that drive compulsive buying, hoarding, and clutter accumulation.

- The 8-Step System for Lasting Decluttering: Practical strategies like setting boundaries (instead of buying in bulk), channeling "Gandalf at the door" to guard your home against incoming clutter, and starting with non-emotional spaces.

- How to Overcome Cleaning Friction: Using a stopwatch to break down mental resistance toward everyday household chores.

- Reframing Heirloom Items: Practical advice on putting special heirlooms to active use rather than letting them gather dust in a closet.

- Passing It Forward: Using generosity and a higher purpose—such as supporting families in need—as the driving force to let go of material possessions gracefully.

Our Guest, Lauren Craddock :

➥ Book: OWN WITH INTENTION: 20 Minimalist Practices to Create Space for What Matters Most

➥ Buy Now: https://a.co/d/049duuDM

https://www.ownwithintention.com/

➡️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-craddock/

➡️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurencraddockofficial/

➡️Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laurencraddockofficial/

Learn more about your Inside Personal Growth host, Greg Voisen:

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➡️Instagram: www.instagram.com/insidepersonalgrowth/

➡️Facebook: www.facebook.com/InsidePersonalGrowth/

➡️LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gregvoisen/

In this podcast, Greg Voisen sits down with Dr. Denis Cronson, a physician, strategist, and leading global expert on executive health, to uncover a sobering truth: executive bodies are aging faster than the very businesses they run. Drawing from over 20 years of clinical experience and more than 10,000 comprehensive health assessments of top corporate leaders, Dr. Cronson exposes how the exact traits celebrated in the boardroom—relentlessness, intense control, and the drive to push through exhaustion—are quietly destroying leaders' biological systems long before strategic failure ever shows up on a balance sheet. From the hidden neurochemical traps of "busyness addiction" to the terrifying cognitive costs of sleep deprivation (where six nights of under six hours of sleep leaves leaders functioning at the legal threshold of intoxication), this conversation serves as a critical wake-up call for high performers who believe their drive makes them immune to the laws of biology.

🎯 What Listeners Will Learn

- The "Executive Condition" Paradox: Why top-performing leaders can deliver incredible commercial results while their biometrics, cognitive bandwidth, and internal health are rapidly deteriorating.

- The Biological Cost of High-Pace Leadership: How sustained activation floods the body with cortisol, narrowing focus, causing inflammation, accelerating biological aging, and impairing executive decision-making.

- The Dopamine & Busyness Trap: How the brain rewards non-stop availability, sleep sacrifice, and overwork, creating a highly addictive cycle that leaders confuse with productivity and identity.

- The Cognitive Impairment of Sleep Deprivation: Why sleeping under six hours a night severely impairs emotional bandwidth and judgment, functionally leading to "legally drunk" decision-making in the boardroom.

- Actionable Strategies for Biological Sustainability: Practical guidance on establishing an optimal sleep routine, managing late-night food and alcohol intake, preserving lean muscle mass to guard against frailty, and finding an "honest mirror" to spot dangerous performance drift before a health crisis strikes.

Our Guest, Dr Denis Cronson :

➥ Book: The Executive Condition: The Hidden Health Crisis of High-Performing Leaders

➥ Buy Now: https://a.co/d/05tkf5Y2

https://pivotasag.com/

➡️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-denis-cronson-20277412/

Learn more about your Inside Personal Growth host, Greg Voisen:

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➡️Instagram: www.instagram.com/insidepersonalgrowth/

➡️Facebook: www.facebook.com/InsidePersonalGrowth/

➡️LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gregvoisen/

In this podcast, Greg Voisen sits down with Shawn Vanderhoven, author of Pause: How to Lead Brilliant Work in a Busy World, to uncover why constantly grinding might actually be sabotaging your success. In a culture that glorifies non-stop hustle, high performers are quietly burning out while their best ideas slip away. What if the secret to breakthrough leadership, sharp focus, and peak creativity isn't pushing harder, but strategic pausing? Shawn reveals how intentional breaks act as a catalyst for brilliant work, offering actionable strategies to transform constant busyness into intentional impact. If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the relentless pace of modern work, this conversation will completely shift how you approach productivity, leadership, and daily life.

🎯 What Listeners Will Learn

- The Power of Strategic Pausing: Discover why stepping back isn't a sign of weakness, but a critical driver of innovation and high-level execution.

- Preventing Burnout: Practical methods to maintain long-term energy and focus without sacrificing your ambition or career trajectory.

- Leading in a Noisy World: How leaders can create space for clarity, strategic thinking, and smarter decision-making amidst constant distractions.

- Actionable Pause Practices: Simple, realistic ways to integrate intentional reset moments into your daily routine—even with a packed schedule.

- Unlocking Creative Breakthroughs: How stepping away from routine tasks frees your mind to solve complex problems and drive bigger results.

Our Guest, Shawn Vanderhoven :

➥ Book: Pause: How to Lead Brilliant Work in a Busy World

➥ Buy Now: https://a.co/d/0fdxMMak

https://www.pausebook.co/

➡️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnvanderhoven/

Learn more about your Inside Personal Growth host, Greg Voisen:

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➡️Instagram: www.instagram.com/insidepersonalgrowth/

➡️Facebook: www.facebook.com/InsidePersonalGrowth/

➡️LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gregvoisen/

In this podcast, Greg Voisen sits down with author and speaker Mike Wood to explore his transformative new book, One Brave Breath: The Owner's Manual for Being Human. Overcoming a severe form of dyslexia that left him unable to read until age 25, and rising from a teenage father to a chief operating officer, Mike shares how an inner voice telling him he was "stupid" dictated his life for 42 years. Listeners are taken deep into the mechanics of the mind, uncovering how to break free from relentless mental noise, rewrite negative core beliefs, and shift permanently from a state of fear to a life driven by love.

🎯 What Listeners Will Learn

- How to identify and silence the relentless mental noise that triggers anxiety, frustration, and physical illness.

- The powerful psychological difference between the "fear bucket" (producing cortisol) and the "love bucket" (producing oxytocin).

- Actionable techniques to use your imagination and the laws of the subconscious mind to reframe past trauma with love, compassion, and forgiveness.

- The profound importance of stepping into the "witness seat" to realize that you are not your thoughts.

- How letting go of rigid personal identities and labels makes you more resilient, peaceful, and effective in your relationships.

Our Guest, Mike Wood :

➥ Book: One Brave Breath: The Owner's Manual for Being Human

➥ Buy Now: https://a.co/d/0ebmT9AN

https://luvbeingu.com/

➡️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-wood-209b2629/

➡️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/learntolovebeingyou1

➡️Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LearnToLoveBeingYou

➡️Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lovebeingyou1

Learn more about your Inside Personal Growth host, Greg Voisen:

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➡️Instagram: www.instagram.com/insidepersonalgrowth/

➡️Facebook: www.facebook.com/InsidePersonalGrowth/

➡️LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gregvoisen/

In this podcast, Greg Voisen sits down with internationally recognized author Richard Barrett to explore his groundbreaking book, The Architecture of Human Consciousness: The Hidden Structures Shaping Human Evolution. Are you reacting to reality, or merely viewing the world through the distorted lens of your unintegrated fears? Barrett shatters traditional views of self-improvement, revealing that true growth isn't about building a new self—it's about unmasking who you truly are by confronting the protective shadows that hide your soul. Together, they unpack the revolutionary Triadic Model—which maps 7 levels of depth and 9 worldviews into 63 distinct ways of being—to explain how shrinking identities trigger political polarization and personal anxiety. By dismantling "the myth of arrival," Barrett offers a captivating look at how releasing the illusion of a final endpoint allows us to gracefully unfold our potential and align with universal intelligence.

🎯 What Listeners Will Learn

- The Difference Between Personal Development and Personal Revealing: Why true evolution happens when you integrate your shadow to release the hidden gifts of your soul.

- The Triadic Model of Consciousness: How the organizing mind, the shadow, and the soul interact across 63 distinct configurations of human consciousness.

- Early Childhood vs. Developmental Shadows: How early protective adaptations and current developmental pressures trigger personal collapse under stress.

- The Macro Cause of Societal Polarization: How national and political divisions occur when collective identities shrink from nation-awareness down to state-awareness.

- Escaping the "Myth of Arrival": Why chasing a final state of self-completion is a trap, and how to embrace an endless, graceful unfolding of awareness.

Our Guest, Richard Barrett :

➥ Book: The Architecture of Human Consciousness: The Hidden Structures Shaping Human Evolution

➥ Buy Now: https://a.co/d/03GJgnX9

https://www.barrettacademy.com/

➡️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrettvalues/

Learn more about your Inside Personal Growth host, Greg Voisen:

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➡️Instagram: www.instagram.com/insidepersonalgrowth/

➡️Facebook: www.facebook.com/InsidePersonalGrowth/

➡️LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gregvoisen/

In this podcast, Greg Voisen sits down with presentation coach, keynote speaker, and author Joel Schwartzberg to uncover the devastating mistake most people make in public speaking: failing to actually have a point. Highlighting insights from the second edition of his book, Get to the Point!: Simplify, Sharpen, and Sell Your Message, Joel breaks down why simply talking about a topic or delivering a "Wikipedia page" fails to move an audience. From recalling his sixth-grade speech in a blue polyester suit to coaching CEOs and champions, Joel reveals how shifting from mere audibility to powerful delivery can completely transform your impact. Are you truly persuading your audience, or are your key messages drowning in a sea of unnecessary details and AI-generated noise?

🎯 What Listeners Will Learn

- The 3-Step Test for Finding Your Point: How to use the "I Believe That" test, the "X, Y" test (means vs. impact), and the "Truism Buster" to transform weak topic fragments into compelling messages.

- The Power of Volume and Pausing: Why increasing your volume conveys instant confidence and authority, and why pausing gives your audience's brain the necessary 2 to 3 times more time to digest your points.

- Avoiding Cognitive Overload: Why "more is less" when delivering a message, and how focusing on one main idea at a time stops your points from diluting each other.

- Elevating Appreciation: How moving beyond a generic "thanks" to explain what specific action was taken and why it mattered creates high-level impact in professional and personal relationships.

- Using Generative AI Authentically: How to use AI as a supportive brainstorming tool rather than a replacement for your authentic voice, avoiding verbosity and artificial precision.

Our Guest, Joel Schwartzberg :

➥ Book: Get to the Point!, Second Edition: Simplify, Sharpen, and Sell Your Message

➥ Buy Now: https://a.co/d/0cxOzuSZ

https://www.joelschwartzberg.net/

➡️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelschwartzberg/

Learn more about your Inside Personal Growth host, Greg Voisen:

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➡️Instagram: www.instagram.com/insidepersonalgrowth/

➡️Facebook: www.facebook.com/InsidePersonalGrowth/

➡️LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gregvoisen/

In this podcast, Greg Voisen sits down with author and mind fitness expert Liam McClintock to uncover how a former Yale graduate and private equity rising star walked away from high-stakes success to search for the world’s fittest minds. From the depths of the Amazon jungle to the Himalayan foothills—and ultimately ordaining as a Buddhist monk—Liam shares the pivotal moment in a rainy parking lot that shattered his ego and redefined his life. Discover how his book, Fit Mind: 4 Steps to Lasting Bliss—Neuroscience and Meditation for Daily Life, bridges cutting-edge neuroscience with ancient wisdom to turn meditation from a tedious chore into a dynamic, daily superpower.

🎯 What Listeners Will Learn

- The 4-Step Framework for Lasting Bliss: How to apply Recognize, Release, Relish, and Remain to rewire your mind and transition from unfit mental chatter to peak baseline well-being.

- The Neuroscience of the Soft Smile: Why simple physical shifts—and even "fake" smiles—act as neuroplastic surgery to disarm stress and cultivate meta-awareness.

- Moving Beyond the "Monkey Mind": How to break free from the narrative voice chattering up to 4,000 words per minute and reclaim your present-moment joy.

- The Emotional Detox Challenge: A practical exercise for releasing deep-seated negativity and emotional blocks toward the most difficult people in your life.

- CrossFit for the Mind: How the free Fit Mind app takes you beyond basic relaxation into progressive daily mental training for long-term psychological resilience.

Our Guest, Liam McClintock :

➥ Book: Fit Mind: 4 Steps to Lasting Bliss--Neuroscience and Meditation for Daily Life

➥ Buy Now: https://a.co/d/030Fulur

https://fitmind.org/

➡️LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liam-mcclintock-4ab028100/

Learn more about your Inside Personal Growth host, Greg Voisen:

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➡️Instagram: www.instagram.com/insidepersonalgrowth/

➡️Facebook: www.facebook.com/InsidePersonalGrowth/

➡️LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gregvoisen/