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Have you ever made a decision that felt completely right at the time, only to regret it later and wonder whether you can trust yourself again?

In this episode of Mind Over Matter, host Sreemedha speaks with Lauren Salaun, a coach who discusses self-trust, relationships, self-worth, intuition and somatic approaches to personal growth.

Lauren explores why rebuilding self-trust isn't about making perfect decisions. It's about developing confidence in your ability to make choices, learn from unexpected outcomes and navigate difficult experiences without abandoning yourself.

The conversation begins with a question many people struggle to answer: How can you tell the difference between intuition, anxiety and patterns shaped by past experiences?

Lauren shares how her Christian faith, prayer, quiet reflection and connection with nature influence her personal approach to discernment. She also discusses why feeling grounded can be meaningful to her when evaluating decisions, while acknowledging that difficult choices won't always feel comfortable.

The discussion then turns to modern relationships and a challenging question: Has the language of self-worth sometimes become an excuse to avoid uncomfortable conversations?

Lauren argues that healthy relationships require more than knowing your standards. They also require self-awareness, emotional openness, accountability and a willingness to work through ordinary discomfort.

She explains how identifying triggers, recognizing relationship patterns and taking small, intentional steps can help people respond differently.

The central message is simple:

Trusting yourself doesn't mean you'll never make the wrong decision. It means believing you can handle what happens next.

About Lauren Salaun:

Lauren Salaun is a coach who discusses self-worth, relationship patterns, intuition, personal development and somatic coaching.

In the conversation, she describes working with clients to identify recurring patterns, emotional triggers and beliefs that may affect their relationships and decisions. Her approach incorporates body-focused coaching practices and work around self-awareness and the nervous system.

Lauren also shares how her Christian faith influences her understanding of intuition, discernment and personal growth.

Key Takeaways:

• Self-trust doesn't require perfect decisions. It includes believing you can learn from choices that don't work out.
• Intuition, anxiety and old patterns can feel similar; developing discernment takes reflection and practice.
• Lauren uses prayer, faith and quiet reflection as part of her personal decision-making process.
• A sense of groundedness can be useful information, but feelings alone shouldn't determine every decision.
• Gratitude can be practiced during ordinary moments, not just major milestones.
• Self-worth shouldn't become an excuse for dismissing every uncomfortable relationship experience.
• Healthy intimacy often requires difficult conversations and honest self-reflection.
• Maintaining hobbies, friendships and personal wellbeing practices can help you preserve your individuality in a relationship.
• Identifying emotional triggers is only the beginning; the next step is examining how you respond.
• Lauren describes using somatic coaching to explore patterns and practice alternative responses.
• Small, manageable actions can make difficult conversations feel more approachable.
• Building self-trust is an ongoing process rather than a single breakthrough.

Chapters:

1. Why we second-guess ourselves
2. What does trusting yourself actually mean?
3. Learning from decisions that didn't work out
4. Intuition versus anxiety
5. Lauren's faith-based approach to discernment
6. Recognizing groundedness and uncertainty
7. Prayer, reflection and connecting with nature
8. Finding gratitude in everyday moments
9. Self-worth in modern relationships
10. When “know your worth” becomes avoidance
11. Why healthy intimacy requires discomfort
12. Loving someone without losing yourself
13. Identifying relationship patterns and emotional triggers
14. Somatic coaching and changing habitual responses
15. Taking small steps through uncomfortable situations
16. Lauren's closing advice and where to connect

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In this episode of Mind Over Matter, Sreemedha speaks with career transition coach Steve Barton about navigating career change without losing your identity, confidence, or sense of security. Pasted text

Steve challenges the idea that you need to have your entire future figured out before making a change. Instead, he encourages people to begin planning while they're still employed—exploring opportunities, updating resumes, developing a side business, or gradually building the next stage of their career.

One of the most important distinctions in the conversation is between having a career and becoming your career. A job can provide income, responsibility and status, but Steve argues that none of those things fully define who you are.

The conversation goes deeper into fear, limiting beliefs, childhood conditioning and the stories people carry about money, security, success and what they're “supposed” to do.

Steve also introduces ideas from his Game of Ten process, encouraging people to observe limiting thoughts rather than automatically identifying with them.

For anyone sitting at work wondering, “Is this still the life I want?”, this conversation is an invitation to examine what you're holding onto—and what might become possible if you allow yourself to change.

About Steve Barton:

Steve Barton is a career transition coach who works with people navigating professional and personal change.

His approach combines career transition with personal-development concepts involving self-awareness, limiting beliefs, identity, boundaries and what he describes as higher-self or consciousness-based work.

Steve also discusses his Game of Ten process and offers a downloadable book explaining his framework through his website.

Key Takeaways:

• You don't need your entire career transition figured out before beginning.
• When possible, start preparing for your next chapter before leaving your current source of income.
• Family responsibilities, finances and personal circumstances mean there is no single correct way to change careers.
• You are not your job. You have a job.
• Professional identity can become limiting when we allow a title or career to define our entire sense of self.
• Childhood and family conditioning can influence our beliefs about work, money, security and success.
• Steve encourages people to notice limiting thoughts rather than automatically treating them as truth.
• Career dissatisfaction can spill into relationships and emotional wellbeing.
• Ask yourself whether you genuinely love or feel aligned with the work you're doing.
• Coaching, therapy and personal-development work can provide support during periods of transition.
• Healthy boundaries matter when redefining your professional and personal identity.
• Career transition isn't necessarily about impulsively quitting. Planning can help create a more sustainable change.
• Steve's closing message is especially powerful: we can start over at any second of any day.

Chapters:

00:06 When your career no longer fits who you've become

00:35 Welcome to Mind Over Matter

00:54 Meet Steve Barton

01:08 Do you need everything figured out before changing careers?

01:37 Why career transitions should begin before you quit

02:25 Financial security, family and planning your transition

03:00 You are not your job

03:40 Letting go of limiting beliefs

04:38 Is fear protecting you or keeping you small?

05:01 Steve's perspective on fear and conditioning

06:20 Separating yourself from your thoughts and identity

07:25 Breaking old mental contracts

08:30 Observing limiting thoughts instead of becoming them

09:48 How career dissatisfaction affects relationships

10:13 What fear and anxiety can do to connection

11:09 Steve's Game of Ten philosophy

12:52 How do you know it's time to leave a career?

13:08 “Love it or leave it” and doing the inner work

14:49 Where to connect with Steve Barton

15:15 The Game of Ten process

16:20 You can start over at any moment

17:03 You don't need permission to change

17:34 Change is the one thing you can depend on

Connect With Steve Barton:

• Website: https://www.stevebartoncoaching.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coach-steve-barton/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevebartoncoaching
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/steve.barton.338
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stevebartoncoaching

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What do you do when quitting starts to feel like the easier option? On Mind Over Matter, host Shraddha talks with resilience coach Willie Blake about what actually keeps people moving through uncertainty and setbacks.

You will learn why resilience is less about never failing and more about getting back up, and why changing your body first can shift your mindset faster than thinking your way there.

About the Guest:

Willie Blake is a resilience and mindset coach based in Idaho who helps people break through limiting patterns like procrastination and perfectionism. He is the author of the ebook Break Free, which names twelve common limitations and how to move past them.

Key Takeaways:

• Resilience is doing the right things for a long time, not never struggling.
• When a goal feels impossible, your brain quietly stops trying to solve it.
• Changing your physical state, even a short walk, can shift a stuck mental state fast.
• Failure is a single moment, not a label. One setback does not define your whole story.
• Keep moving forward in small steps. Momentum matters more than perfection.

Connect With Willie Blake:

• Website: https://coachwillieblake.com
• Instagram: @williamblake_light
• Facebook: WilliamBlake.Light
• LinkedIn: williamblake-light
• YouTube: @DyslexicAchieversHub

Episode Chapters (approx.):

• [00:00 (approx)] Welcome to Mind Over Matter: resilience built one choice at a time
• [02:00 (approx)] What Resilience Really Means: doing the right things for the long haul
• [05:00 (approx)] Why Our Brains Avoid the Impossible: the lazy brain and the possibility gap
• [09:30 (approx)] Change Your Body, Change Your Mind: getting into motion before motivation arrives
• [14:00 (approx)] Redefining Failure: why one bad moment is not your whole story
• [19:00 (approx)] Losing 40 Pounds and the Words We Use: separating identity from struggle
• [24:00 (approx)] Keep Getting Back Up: the message Willie leaves with every listener

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Ever feel your mind say no before you have even tried? On Mind Over Matter, host Sayan and coach Gazit Chaya Nkosi explore overcoming mental barriers by working with the body, not against it.

You will learn how the vagus nerve shapes fear, why calming down alone is not enough, and why struggling in a dysfunctional system is not a personal failing.

About the Guest:

Gazit Chaya Nkosi is a coach in Massachusetts and founder of The Rooted Co-op. Their work centres on the autonomic nervous system and the vagus nerve.

Key Takeaways:

• Mental barriers are often body-based fear responses, not "just in your head."
• A fear can be valid even when acting from it is not your best option.
• Support your nervous system with breath, humming, gentle movement or your senses.
• Make decisions once you feel settled, not mid-reaction.
• Reactive in one place? Something there needs to change. Reactive everywhere? Check sleep, food and movement.
• Thriving in a dysfunctional system is not yours alone to fix. Lean on community.

Connect With Gazit Chaya Nkosi:

• Website: https://www.therootedcoop.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@therootedcoop
• Substack: https://substack.com/@gazitchayankosi
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gazitchaya.nkosi
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gazitchayankosi

Episode Chapters (approx.):

[00:00] Welcome to Mind Over Matter: the invisible walls we build brick by brick

[02:30] More Than "All in Your Head": how the vagus nerve reads safety and threat

[06:00] Modern Lions: why today's fears are still valid

[08:30] Working With Your Design: breath, humming, movement and the senses

[11:30] Calming Down Is Not Enough: noticing what is asking to change

[14:30] Capacity or Circumstance: reading where your reactivity shows up

[17:00] Not Your Fault Alone: collective care in a dysfunctional system

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Do you keep telling yourself "I am just not that kind of person"? On Mind Over Matter, host Sreemedha and coach Geoff Grant explore how negative self-talk shapes our choices and relationships.

You will learn where limiting inner stories come from, how to question them, and how to write a new narrative you can sustain.

About the Guest:

Geoff Grant is a consultant and coach in Massachusetts. He spent 25 years as a caregiver and brings that lived experience to conversations about mindset and self-talk.

Key Takeaways:

• Ask of any inner story: is this true, or a story I am telling myself?
• Limiting narratives often grow from past experience or the voices around you.
• Be mindful of what you read, watch and listen to.
• Journal the story you want, including what you want and do not want.
• Language can widen or narrow the aperture of your life.
• Consistency beats commitment. Repeat the new story until it holds.

Connect With Geoff Grant

• Website: https://www.geoffgrantconsulting.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantgeoff/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geoffgrantconsulting/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/geoffgrantconsulting/

Episode Chapters (approx.):

[00:00] Welcome to Mind Over Matter: when the voice in your head writes the script

[01:30] Where Inner Stories Begin: beliefs, values and the reality we create

[03:30] Roots of Negative Self-Talk: past experience and the voices around us

[06:00] Why Old Stories Persist: changing the narrative even after life changes

[08:30] Language in Everyday Life: integrating 25 years of caregiving

[11:00] Start With a Journal: writing the story you want to live

[14:00] Consistency Beats Commitment: keeping a new mindset sustainable

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What if the walls holding you back are more like fog than stone? This episode of Mind Over Matter is for anyone stuck in fear, insecurity, or old thinking that outward success hasn't fixed.

Author Michael Muccio shares how teachability, deliberate gratitude, and repeating new truths until they replace old ones helped him move past fear, and why he believes connecting to a greater source makes change possible.

About the Guest:

Michael Muccio is a Sarasota, Florida-based author and former corporate hospitality executive who was mentored by Zig Ziglar. He writes from a Christian perspective, and his latest book is the novel Evil's First Breath.

Key Takeaways:

• Mental barriers grow stronger when we assume we already have the answers. Stay teachable.
• Practice gratitude on purpose: your next breath, your home, clean water, food.
• Repetition rewires thinking. Say a new truth until it's your first thought each morning.
• Fear takes many forms: failure, success, criticism, ill health. Naming it is the start.
• Real change often comes from connecting to something greater than yourself.

Connect With the Guest:

Website: https://evilsfirstbreath.com

Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Evils-First-Breath-Michael-Muccio/dp/1685730914

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-j-muccio-8a55a219/

Episode Chapters (approx.):

[00:00] Walls or Fog? - an opening on the stories our minds tell us

[02:00] The Biggest Misconception - how a lack of teachability strengthens barriers

[04:00] Knowledge Beyond Yourself - Zig Ziglar and success in seven areas of life

[08:00] The Roots of Our Barriers - faulty thinking, gratitude, and joy in the now

[11:30] Plugging Into the Source - assertive gratitude and the phone charger analogy

[14:30] When Fear Runs the Show - repetition and replacing old thought patterns

[19:00] Prayer, Surrender, and the Origin of Evil - Michael's approach and his book

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What if joy was never about avoiding pain, but about growing through it? The host talks with speaker and coach Kate Heartsong about why sadness and joy can't really exist without each other.

Kate shares a simple breathing technique for calming down in the moment, why acknowledging a hard emotion has to come before releasing it, and a personal story about her daughter's long recovery that took her a decade to fully accept.

About the Guest:

Kate Heartsong is a speaker, coach, author, and Reiki Master based in Denver. She is the founder of Joyful Radiance and the author of Deeply We Are One and Humanity's Cry for Change.

Key Takeaways:

• Joy and sadness can't really exist without each other, they define one another.
• Acknowledge a hard emotion before trying to release it, don't just stuff it down.
• A slow breath in for three counts, out for seven, can calm you quickly.
• Acceptance doesn't mean liking what happened, it means no longer fighting what already is.
• Speaking kindly to yourself in the mirror is a simple way to raise your mood.

Connect With Kate Heartsong:

Website: joyfulradiance.com

Facebook: Kate Heartsong Joyful Radiance

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Welcome to Mind Over Matter (approx.)

[02:00] Meet Kate Heartsong (approx.)

[06:00] The Biggest Misconception About Joy (approx.)

[13:00] Why Sadness and Joy Need Each Other (approx.)

[20:00] Acknowledging Emotion Before Releasing It (approx.)

[28:00] A Personal Story of Acceptance (approx.)

[35:00] Where to Find Kate (approx.)

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What if the belief holding you back was never actually yours to begin with? Host Niharika talks with coach Anu Verma about where self-limiting beliefs really come from, and how to tell a genuine limitation apart from a belief that's just familiar.

Anu shares why self-awareness requires real honesty with yourself, a simple exercise for picturing your future self if a pattern continues, and why the discomfort of change is often a sign you're finally moving in the right direction.

About the Guest:

Anu Verma is a strategic intervention life coach trained through Tony Robbins' Unleash the Power Within program. She helps people identify and unlearn self-limiting beliefs picked up from their parents and early environment.

Key Takeaways:

• Children copy their parents' behavior far more than they listen to their words.
• Ask if a long-held belief actually makes you happy, not just whether it's familiar.
• Picturing your future self if a pattern continues shows whether it's really serving you.
• Discomfort during change is often a sign of growth, not proof something is wrong.
• You can't change a belief you haven't first honestly identified and accepted.

Connect With Anu Verma:

Website: victim2victor.net

Instagram: @victim2victor_anuverma

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Welcome to Mind Over Matter (approx.)

[02:00] Meet Anu Verma (approx.)

[06:00] Genuine Limitation or Just a Familiar Belief? (approx.)

[13:00] How Beliefs Get Passed Down From Parents (approx.)

[20:00] The Future-Self Exercise (approx.)

[27:00] Why Discomfort Can Mean You're on the Right Path (approx.)

[31:00] Where to Find Anu (approx.)

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If uncertainty makes you want to hold everything together, this episode is for you. Boundaries coach Barb Nangle joins Mind Over Matter to explore what resilience actually looks like when life does not go according to plan.

Barb shares how internal safety, healthy boundaries, and emotional resilience help you stay with yourself through uncertainty, why setbacks do not erase your progress, and one practical way to move through transitions without pretending everything is fine.

About the Guest:

Barb Nangle is a boundaries coach, speaker, and podcaster, and the founder of Higher Power Coaching and Consulting. She hosts the podcast Fragmented to Whole and works primarily with professional women who say yes when they want to say no and who put others ahead of themselves. She is based in New Haven, Connecticut.

Key Takeaways:

• Resilience is not about never falling apart; it's the willingness to keep going and ask for help.
• Building internal safety means staying with your own values and priorities even when someone else is upset.
• Just because a thought feels true or a feeling registers as danger doesn't mean it actually is.
• Identify your top five values and use them as a compass for decisions during uncertain transitions.
• A setback does not erase your progress; noticing it and trying again is a sign resilience has grown.
• Repetition turns uncomfortable new boundaries into comfortable habits over time.

Connect With the Guest:

• Website: https://higherpowercc.com/
• Podcast: Fragmented to Whole, Life Lessons from 12-Step Recovery
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/higherpowercoaching/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbnangle/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HigherPowerCoaching
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@higherpowercoaching
• Free resource for listeners: https://higherpowercc.com/pack

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Cold Open (approx.) - What resilience really asks of us when life throws us off

[03:00] Meet Barb Nangle (approx.) - from co-dependent bottom to boundaries coach

[08:00] What Resilience Actually Looks Like (approx.) - fall down seven times, get up eight

[14:00] Building Internal Safety (approx.) - staying with yourself when others are upset

[19:00] From Fragmented to Whole (approx.) - boundaries, honesty, and getting to know yourself

[23:00] A Practical Approach to Uncertainty (approx.) - values as your compass through transitions

[27:00] Setbacks Don't Erase Progress (approx.) - pink clouds, gray clouds, and starting again

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If you keep chasing approval and still feel off, this conversation is for you. Author and coach Kirana Sidin joins host Niharika on Mind Over Matter to talk about what mental resilience actually means, and why it has less to do with never falling and more to do with choosing to come back.

Kirana unpacks the quiet cost of external validation, why self-respect is the real foundation of a stable mind, and one simple, practical way to start living by your own values instead of everyone else's expectations.

About the Guest:

Kirana Sidin is an author, certified life coach, and speaker based in Jakarta, Indonesia. She is the author of Cheers for a Good Life, and her coaching work focuses on helping people gain clarity so they can make better decisions.

Key Takeaways:

• Resilience is not staying strong at all times; it's the ability to step back and still choose to return.
• A lot of mental strain comes from chasing external validation instead of checking in with your own values.
• Weak self-respect often shows up as difficulty saying no and a constant need to feel needed.
• Slow down and ask yourself what's truly essential before reacting to what life or others expect of you.
• Notice what you keep returning to even when no one is watching; that's often a sign of what matters.
• Progress isn't linear. Coming back stronger, slowly and intentionally, matters more than never stepping back at all.

Connect With the Guest:

• Website: https://cheersforagoodlife.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kiranasidin/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirana-sidin-2a16b4114/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kiranasidin
• Book: Cheers for a Good Life

Episode Chapters:

[00:00] Cold Open (approx.) - Getting unstuck from the same worry, on repeat

[02:30] The Biggest Misconception About Mental Resilience (approx.) - it isn't about never falling

[08:00] Why External Validation Quietly Wears Us Down (approx.) - performing for approval instead of checking in

[13:00] The Root Cause Beneath Mental Health Struggles (approx.) - weak self-respect and unclear boundaries

[18:00] What a Lack of Self-Respect Looks Like Day to Day (approx.) - always needed, never sure how to say no

[22:00] One Practical Way to Start (approx.) - slow down and ask what's truly essential

[26:00] Sustaining Change and Coming Back Stronger (approx.) - why progress isn't linear

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