Are you languishing under the weight of expectations? Want to free yourself from them, but don’t know how? 

In this episode, Mike and I explore how to uncover hidden expectations, expose imaginary ones, and most importantly how to shed them, and replace them with an action plan to reload our natural calmness, ability, and spirit. Then we can all live our purpose, and love our lives.

After a decade and a half of regular dialogue in a local café, I, Renee Beale, ex-scientist turned producer and coach, decided to transform coffee with emotional intelligence practitioner Mike Martin into this podcast, to share his unique perspective on the mind and how we can use our curiosity and creativity to gain control and rediscover peace – that’s been so helpful in my own life. If you found this episode insightful, we’d love it if you could share it with others. After all minds can bite and these bite-sized conversations offer remedies. 

Ever felt stuck and low on motivation, yet you still really desired the goal? Perhaps you’re in that state now? 

In this episode Mike and I discuss how to recognise inertia early, and how best to rest and reflect to avoid feelings of inertia transforming into physical malaise. From this position we can take back our agency, realign with our purposes, and employ our natural superforces like creativity, curiosity, and adaptability to crack through the inertia while helping others do the same.

After a decade and a half of regular dialogue in a local café, I, Renee Beale, ex-scientist turned producer and coach, decided to transform coffee with emotional intelligence practitioner Mike Martin into this podcast, to share his unique perspective on the mind and how we can use our curiosity and creativity to gain control and rediscover peace – that’s been so helpful in my own life. If you found this episode insightful, we’d love it if you could share it with others. After all minds can bite and these bite-sized conversations offer remedies. 

Why do many of us seek control in the relationships we have with partners, coworkers, and friends, even when this leads repeatedly to bad outcomes?

In this episode Mike and I discuss the cost of control to our health, our growth and our happiness, and the secret to remedying this behaviour – build up self-confidence and resilience, resolve past hurts, and work to dispel fears of rejection. Rather than a weakness, this is pure courage, and the path to better relationships and freedom for ourselves and others. 

After a decade and a half of regular dialogue in a local café, I, Renee Beale, ex-scientist turned producer and coach, decided to transform coffee with emotional intelligence practitioner Mike Martin into this podcast, to share his unique perspective on the mind and how we can use our curiosity and creativity to gain control and rediscover peace – that’s been so helpful in my own life. If you found this episode insightful, we’d love it if you could share it with others. After all minds can bite and these bite-sized conversations offer remedies. 

What if true vulnerability is an inner strength promoting alertness and protection, rather than a weakness where we are more likely to be harmed?

Vulnerability doesn’t feel right, it feels nervy and uncomfortable and it requires courage to stay there, but in this enlightening conversation emotional intelligence practitioner Mike Martin, and producer and coach Renee Beale discuss why vulnerability is our ladder to success, a pathway to freedom from stress, and a super-force to reshape our thinking and our lives. 

After a decade and a half of regular dialogue in a local café, I, Renee Beale, ex-scientist turned producer and coach, decided to transform coffee with emotional intelligence practitioner Mike Martin into this podcast, to share his unique perspective on the mind and how we can use our curiosity and creativity to gain control and rediscover peace – that’s been so helpful in my own life. If you found this episode insightful, we’d love it if you could share it with others. After all minds can bite and these bite-sized conversations offer remedies. 

Popular media might have many of us thinking that purpose is something to be strived for, something to achieve, but in this wonderfully insightful conversation emotional intelligence practitioner Mike Martin, and producer and coach Renee Beale discuss why purpose is something that you are. A plan for life, the answer to why each of us is here. Purpose is deeper than talent and ambition - it is a reason for living and a pathway to longevity. Find out how to start identifying your purpose, and apply powerful strategies to review, reinvent, and align to your purpose for a life filled with satisfaction and self-love.

After a decade and a half of regular dialogue in a local café, I, Renee Beale, ex-scientist turned producer and coach, decided to transform coffee with emotional intelligence practitioner Mike Martin into this podcast, to share his unique perspective on the mind and how we can use our curiosity and creativity to gain control and rediscover peace – that’s been so helpful in my own life. If you found this episode insightful, we’d love it if you could share it with others. After all minds can bite and these bite-sized conversations offer remedies. 

Fear. We’ve all experienced it. Perhaps it’s made you angry and want to fight, left you feeling trapped and frozen in place, or running as fast as you can in the opposite direction? 

In this episode, emotional intelligence practitioner Mike Martin, and producer and coach Renee Beale discuss how to release the fears that may be aging you, causing physical and psychological pain, and affecting your relationships and your confidence. Rather than sink us, Mike reveals the powerful questions to ask ourselves and others, so we can use fear as a truth serum to sharpen our clarity, feel highly energised, and support the ambitions we hold for our lives.  

After a decade and a half of regular dialogue in a local café, I, Renee Beale, ex-scientist turned producer and coach, decided to transform coffee with emotional intelligence practitioner Mike Martin into this podcast, to share his unique perspective on the mind and how we can use our curiosity and creativity to gain control and rediscover peace – that’s been so helpful in my own life. If you found this episode insightful, we’d love it if you could share it with others. After all minds can bite and these bite-sized conversations offer remedies. 

Do you experience nagging discontentment, wonder whether this is as good as your life is going to get, or perhaps you even feel like you’re living someone else’s life? 

In this episode, emotional intelligence practitioner Mike Martin, and producer and coach Renee Beale, discuss what influence is, how to identify it in your life, and why everyone can benefit from conducting an audit on the influences in their lives, both positive and negative. 

Along the way Mike offers practical tips to help us cultivate our strengths, discover our long-held desires, and free ourselves so that we operate from a position of peace and vitality. 

After a decade and a half of regular dialogue in a local café, I, Renee Beale, ex-scientist turned producer and coach, decided to transform coffee with emotional intelligence practitioner Mike Martin into this podcast, to share his unique perspective on the mind and how we can use our curiosity and creativity to gain control and rediscover peace – that’s been so helpful in my own life. If you found this episode insightful, we’d love it if you could share it with others. After all minds can bite and these bite-sized conversations offer remedies.