"There are five different types of domestic violence — and physical is just one of them."

That's the sentence that reframes this entire conversation. When most people hear "domestic violence," they picture bruises. Kat Polsinelli — a survivor, TEDx speaker, and coach — walks Greg Pihs through the four other kinds most of us never name: the emotional, the psychological, the financial, and the slow erosion of self that keeps someone in a relationship for years.

In this episode, Kat shares her story with remarkable honesty: a strict Catholic upbringing and a desire to "check every box," a first relationship that turned controlling, five years she couldn't fully account for, the debt and isolation, having her ex arrested — and then surviving the stalking that came after. She talks about the moment that became her TEDx talk: standing "eye to eye" with her teenage son and, for a split second, not recognizing who she'd become. That was the wake-up call.

From there the conversation turns to the rebuild. Kat and Greg — two people who've each done the work — dig into presence, self-worth, and the small daily disciplines of healing: learning to actually accept a compliment, the power of "let me think on that and get back to you," and why so many of us (girls especially) are quietly conditioned to "be nice" until we let people run us over. At the heart of it is a belief Kat lives by: no emotion is inherently negative unless it's left unresolved. Fear, sadness, guilt — they're information, not enemies.

It closes on a hard, freeing idea borrowed from Tony Robbins: if you're going to hate someone for the bad, you have to hate them for the good, too — so you might as well choose to love the growth that came from the pain. Healing, Kat suggests, isn't a finish line you cross. It's a practice you keep choosing.

⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:17 A word from our sponsor (Bryan Nale) 1:08 Welcome — meet Kat (Real Chats with Kat, TEDx, coaching) 3:26 The 5 types of domestic violence — physical is only one 3:42 Kat's backstory: a strict Catholic upbringing 4:43 The first relationship, and how control creeps in 8:09 Isolation, lost jobs, and quiet debt 9:18 Having her ex arrested — then surviving the stalking 11:42 Five years in: "eye to eye with my kid" (her TEDx moment) 13:13 "What you went through isn't what your life has to be" 15:05 Rock bottom, back to college, and wanting to help others 20:29 Peeling the onion: where is the center? 24:11 Learning presence and quieting the thoughts 27:17 Why presence isn't taught in our society 31:44 Building self-worth and not taking things personally 35:30 The power of the pause — building boundaries 41:25 Learning to actually accept a compliment 45:57 Honesty, respecting people's time, and saying the hard thing 56:48 How girls are conditioned to "be nice" 1:00:39 "No emotion is negative unless it's left unresolved" 1:02:01 Why men are taught not to cry 1:09:55 Is healing ever really "finished"? 1:17:27 Tony Robbins: hating the bad means hating the good 1:21:23 The book that was too intense to finish 1:23:29 Where to find Kat: The Lotus Effect & The Dragon Reclaimed 1:25:16 Outro

💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS • There are five types of domestic violence and physical is only one. Emotional, psychological, and financial abuse are just as real — and often invisible from the outside. • Getting an abuser arrested isn't the end of the story. Kat is also a survivor of stalking — "a whole other realm of turmoil" that came afterward. • Your past isn't your destiny. "Just because you go through things and experience something doesn't mean that's what your life has to be." • No emotion is inherently negative unless it's left unresolved. Fear, sadness, and guilt are information you're meant to feel and move through — not enemies to suppress. • Boundaries beat "being nice." Many of us are conditioned to be polite until we let people run us over. Even a simple "let me think on that and get back to you" rebuilds your footing. • Healing isn't a finish line. You keep meeting your limiting beliefs and choosing differently — and, as Tony Robbins puts it, if you'd hate someone for the bad you'd have to hate them for the good, so choose to love what you became.

💜 If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, you're not alone. In the U.S., the National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 — call 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE), text START to 88788, or chat at thehotline.org.

Guest: Kat Polsinelli — domestic violence & stalking survivor, TEDx speaker, and coach/facilitator; host of the podcast "Real Chats with Kat"; founder of The Lotus Effect (the-lotus-effect.com) and the community The Dragon Reclaimed. Host: Greg Pihs — Greg's YouTube channel: Success After Trauma Greg's book: "The Power and the Pain" (available on Amazon)

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"Discipline equals freedom — and you know who said that before Jocko did? Marcus Aurelius."

Eight years sober. Around $170,000 saved. A walk across 1,200-degree coals and a 14,000-foot skydive in the same month. Andrew Farrer packs a lot of living into a life — and in this episode he traces all of it back to a 2,000-year-old operating system: Stoicism.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Greg Pihs sits down with Andrew Farrer — Marine Corps combat veteran, classical-studies major, and lifelong student of Stoic philosophy — for a two-Marine deep dive that runs from boarding-school Latin to Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations," Seneca's letters, Zeno and the Stoa, Aristotle's golden mean, and the four cardinal virtues. At the center of it is the one idea Andrew credits with changing his life: the dichotomy of control — that the only things you truly govern are your response, your actions, and your thoughts.

From there it gets personal and practical. Why "the easier, softer way" is rarely easier. How discipline equals freedom, and why that's a Stoic idea long before Jocko put it on a book cover. What free fall at 400 miles an hour actually feels like. And a closing riff on Homer's Odyssey that reframes the whole thing: the guy trying to get home is you.

Featuring: Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Zeno, Epictetus, Socrates, Aristotle, Jocko Willink, Ryan Holiday, Homer's Odyssey, and a Warrior Weekend to Remember.

⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:24 A word from our sponsor (Bryan Nale) 1:16 Welcome, and meet Andrew Farrer 3:08 How it started: boarding-school Latin 3:56 Marcus Aurelius and "Meditations" 5:15 Where "Stoic" comes from: Zeno and the Stoa 6:29 Firewalking and a 14,000-ft skydive 9:22 Warrior Weekend and meeting Medal of Honor recipients 12:14 What 400 mph free fall actually feels like 16:16 Gratitude for the firewalk and GP Mind Growth Academy 19:28 Eight years sober — and the $170K math 20:12 The dichotomy of control 21:16 Worry, the RAS, and "self has no enemy to self" 24:37 Aristotle's golden mean: virtue between excess and deficiency 25:51 The four cardinal virtues of Stoicism 27:40 Seneca's letters and "the good life" (Vita Bonum) 28:57 Socrates, the symposium, and the Socratic method 30:30 The law of polarity: day, night, and the whole 33:38 "The easier, softer way" isn't — do the hard things 38:00 Discipline equals freedom (Jocko → Marcus Aurelius) 42:19 "Nothing about me is original" 43:56 Planning a Part 2 45:32 The Odyssey: "the guy trying to get home is you" 47:06 Xenia: how the Greeks treated strangers 48:57 Wrap-up and where to find more 50:06 Outro

💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS • The dichotomy of control: you can't control other people or their opinions — only your response, your actions, and your thoughts. Peace and sobriety both start there. • Sobriety compounds. Eight years without alcohol didn't just change Andrew's health; by his own math it saved him roughly $170,000 — money that now goes to simply living like an adult. • "The easier, softer way" usually isn't. Doing the hard thing on purpose — getting sober, changing yourself — is the path that actually works. • Discipline equals freedom. Governing yourself to do the things you don't want to do is the most freeing habit you can build — a Stoic idea from Marcus Aurelius, popularized by Jocko Willink. • Your attention is a filter. The mind processes ~2 million bits of information a second but you're consciously aware of ~126; focus on worry and your RAS keeps finding more to worry about. "Self has no enemy to self." • We are compilations. "Nothing about me is original — I'm a compilation of the books I've read and the people I've met." Choose your inputs.

This is a conversation the guys plan to continue — Andrew returns for a Part 2 to go even deeper on Stoicism.

Guest: Andrew Farrer — Marine Corps combat veteran Host: Greg Pihs — Greg's YouTube channel: Success After Trauma Greg's book: "The Power and the Pain" (available on Amazon)

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Content note: This episode includes discussion of childhood abuse and sex trafficking. Please listen with care.

"My voice was silenced before. It's not going to be silenced anymore. I'm going to be heard."

In this deeply moving episode of Power in the Pain, Greg Pihs sits down with Alexandria, a survivor of childhood abuse and sex trafficking who now shares her testimony so that others who have suffered can find meaning, healing, and a way forward. This is Part 1 of her story.

Alexandria opens not with her trauma but with her message: listen, hear, look. She walks through the faith that carried her through the loneliest years of her life, a profound moment of healing in her thirties, and the hardest work of all, forgiveness. She offers one of the clearest definitions of forgiveness you'll ever hear: acknowledging that a wrong has happened, and choosing to surrender judgment for it. And she's honest that forgiveness is not acceptance, and it doesn't erase boundaries.

Greg and Alexandria, both veterans, talk about resilience as a decision rather than a feeling, the difference between love and lust, taking every thought captive, and why belief is a choice you make moment to moment. As Viktor Frankl wrote, "Suffering ceases to be suffering the moment it finds meaning."

If you or someone you know is struggling, this conversation is offered as a message of hope.

⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:24 A word from our sponsor (Bryan Nale) 1:16 Welcome, and introducing Alexandria 2:35 "Before my story, let me share my message" 3:24 Viktor Frankl: suffering that finds meaning 4:18 The grief of being silenced 10:24 Coming to faith, and a moment of healing in the shower 15:19 The hardest years 16:55 Feelings change like the wind; truth is what you stand on 32:53 Wrestling with the Fifth Commandment 34:41 What forgiveness actually means 52:58 The tree of forgiveness and its fruit 54:35 The 2 AM phone call: "I forgive you" 63:37 Holding a boundary in love 65:55 Forgiveness is not acceptance 76:35 Taking every thought captive 80:25 Belief as a moment-to-moment choice 81:42 Where to find Alexandria

💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS • Suffering finds its power when it finds meaning. A story can become a testimony. • Resilience is a decision, not a feeling, something you choose internally. • Forgiveness is acknowledging a wrong and surrendering judgment. It is not acceptance, and it does not remove healthy boundaries. • Feelings are real and worth acknowledging, but they shift like the wind. Truth is the only ground you can stand on. • Belief isn't one-and-done. It's a choice you make over and over.

This is Part 1. Alexandria returns in future episodes to share more of her story.

Guest: Alexandria — YouTube channel "Success After Trauma"

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Everyone thinks resilience is getting knocked down and getting back up. Greg Pihs says that definition is holding you back.

In this episode of Power in the Pain, Greg reframes resilience as something that starts long before the knockdown: the decision to stay in the fight well past the point where a prudent person would call it logical to quit. By that definition, you don't need to get knocked down to be resilient, and every time you choose to stay in, even when it's hard, you're building the skill.

From there he gets practical and raw. Why "trying" something quietly guarantees you'll quit the moment it hurts. Why your pain threshold is a warning light, not a stop sign, and how much runway you actually have left past it (the gas-light metaphor will stick with you). And how discipline, governing yourself to do the things you don't want to do, is the most freeing thing you'll ever build.

Featuring Mike Tyson, Will Smith's treadmill, Arnold in Pump Iron, and Greg's own honest struggle with the 4 AM alarm.

⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:24 A word from our sponsor (Bryan Nale) 1:16 Welcome 1:37 Today's topic: resilience 4:31 Redefining resilience (it starts before the knockdown) 8:50 Which fights do you stay in? Trust yourself 13:21 Discipline equals freedom 21:27 Why "trying" robs you of resilience 24:17 Mike Tyson: everyone has a plan until they get punched 25:37 Will Smith and the treadmill 28:16 The gas-light metaphor 30:17 Your pain threshold is a warning, not a stop sign 35:13 Building resilience: govern yourself to do hard things 38:42 The 4 AM commitment (let it suck) 41:52 Pump Iron and the dopamine of hard work 44:50 Greg's ideal schedule 49:06 Recap

💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS • Resilience is the decision to stay in the fight past the point a prudent person would quit. You don't have to be knocked down first. • Every time you stay in past the logical quit point, you increase your resilience, even when the experience doesn't feel like it's serving you. • "Trying" something signals your nervous system to bail the moment it hurts. Commit instead. • Pain (physical, emotional, spiritual) is a warning light, not empty. You usually have far more runway than you think. • Discipline equals freedom. Govern yourself to do the hard thing, add one habit at a time, and let it suck at first.

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The box everyone says to think outside of? It's your own mind, and Greg Pihs shows you how to break out of it.

In this episode of Power in the Pain, Greg unpacks the "box" as your internal representation of the world: the thoughts you form about every experience, built automatically from your past. An event is just neutral data. The meaning you attach to it comes from an unconscious record of everything you've lived. Change the truths in that record and you change your entire life.

He lays out the practical work: catch your negative thoughts and write them down as they happen, then carve out time to audit them like a ledger, line by line, tracing each one back to where you learned it. Greg walks through a real example from his own drive that morning, following a flash of road-rage all the way back to a scarcity belief he inherited from his father, and shows how seeing it clearly means you can never unsee it.

Then he challenges the goal almost everyone names: "time and financial freedom." Because you're wired to be insatiable, freedom isn't the finish line. What you'd do with your time and money once you had them, that's what you actually want. And that's what pulls you forward.

⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:24 A word from our sponsor (Bryan Nale) 1:16 Welcome 1:20 Breaking the mold: what is the box? 1:37 The box is your internal representation 5:55 You are infinite; your past is finite 7:55 Auditing your past (line by line) 10:18 Wired to be insatiable 11:59 Why "time and financial freedom" isn't the real goal 16:31 Your RAS (reticular activating system) 17:47 The stop-sign story 20:41 Collect your negative thoughts 23:49 Auditing an inherited scarcity belief 41:10 When you're free, how will you give it away? 42:13 The mental dressing room

💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS • The "box" is your internal representation, the meaning you attach to neutral events, built from your past. • Events are just data. The emotional charge comes from your unconscious record of everything you've experienced. • Write down negative thoughts as they happen, then audit them later: trace each back to where you learned it. • Once you consciously see where a belief came from, you can't unsee it, and that changes your future. • "Time and financial freedom" isn't the real goal. What you'd do with it is. That's what magnetizes you forward.

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Most people spend their whole lives running away from what they don't want — and never stop to discover what they actually DO want. In this episode of Power in the Pain, Greg Pihs breaks down the power of desire: the difference between "away" and "toward" motivation, why admitting "I don't know what I want" is actually the first step forward, and how to use your imagination to find the why that pulls you through the hardest days.

Greg opens with a raw, unfiltered take on the Tony Robbins x Alex Hormozi podcast — what Robbins nailed about push/pull motivation, and exactly where Greg would've pushed back.

In this episode: - Why you already know what you DON'T want — and how that keeps you stuck - "Away from" vs "toward" motivation (two people, one bear, two very different reasons to run) - The trap of borrowed goals like "time and financial freedom" you don't really mean - Trading time for money now so you can trade money for time later - The imagination exercise: if you had total freedom tomorrow, how would you spend your money — and your life? - Why NOT knowing what you want yet puts you ahead of most people

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Why does the word "a lot" make one person panic and another person shrug?

In this episode of Power in the Pain, Greg Pihs breaks down a truth hiding in plain sight: your words carry emotional charges you never consciously chose. Those charges were installed in childhood, mostly between ages 0 and 14, based on the majority of experiences you had while learning each word. Decades later, your nervous system is still replaying that programming, whether or not it still applies to your life.

Greg walks through where those emotional anchors come from, why your internal dialogue is quietly setting your emotional state, your body language, and the opportunities that come your way. Then he gets practical: how to consciously choose your words to change how you actually feel.

To be clear, this is NOT about toxic positivity. Greg says it outright: he is not telling you to pretend, not telling you to just think positive, and not telling you to ignore problems. He's telling you to articulate your problems like you're in a courtroom, because when you're in logic, you're out of emotion.

⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:24 A word from our sponsor (Bryan Nale) 1:17 Words have emotions: unconscious emotional anchors 3:28 Every emotion is healthy until it goes unprocessed 4:45 We all think differently (pictures, video, sound, feeling) 6:21 The evergreen tree story: the white you couldn't see 9:00 Your internal dialogue is words, and it's setting your state 9:59 Where words get their emotions: childhood, ages 0-14 10:47 "A lot of snow": how one phrase becomes a threat 15:19 Why your neurology replays the first 20 years for the next 30 16:58 The fix: choose your words consciously 19:06 Unpacking "I hate my job" 20:51 "I need gas" vs "I want gas": need vs want 24:49 55% of communication is body language, and it's unconscious 26:21 This is NOT toxic positivity 27:07 The courtroom test: how would you articulate the problem? 27:39 "This sucks" vs "this situation is not favorable" 31:39 When you're in logic, you're out of emotion 32:01 Recap + how to use this today

💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS • Words carry emotional anchors set in childhood, based on the majority of experiences you had with them. • Emotions are always secondary to thoughts, and thoughts are made of words. • Your nervous system doesn't update on its own. It replays old programming until you consciously interrupt it. • Swapping "this sucks" for "this is not favorable" produces a genuinely different emotional response. • This isn't pretending. Articulate the problem like you're in court, and you shift from emotion into logic.

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Anxiety isn't happening to you. Greg Pihs breaks down the three ingredients you use to create it, and how to stop.

In this episode of Power in the Pain, Greg walks through the exact strategy your mind runs to produce anxiety: a thought, aimed at the future, about an outcome you don't want. He uses the "people aren't buying right now" moment every business owner knows, and points out you have plenty of proof people didn't buy in the past, and zero proof about the future you're bracing for.

Then he gets into the part most people skip. Greg shares his own history of chronic anxiety, the daily heart-pounding "can they see this" feeling, three combat deployments and single-digit body fat that never felt as hard as forgiving his stepmother. His point lands hard: the hard thing isn't the stuff other people call hard. It's the change you keep avoiding, and avoiding it is what keeps the anxiety running.

Who this is for: Anyone who feels anxiety before a sales call, a meeting, or a hard conversation, and wants a way to shift it instead of white-knuckling through it.

In this episode:

• The three ingredients required to create anxiety, and how to remove one
• Why the word "not" is your early-warning flag
• What to do when you feel anxiety but can't name the thought behind it
• How running anxiety over and over builds it into a chronic neural pathway
• The link between chronic anxiety and the hard thing you're avoiding
• How Greg went from daily panic to seldom feeling anxiety at all

Questions this episode answers:

• How do I actually create my own anxiety without realizing it?
• How do I stop anxiety before it starts?
• What do I do when I feel anxious but don't know why?
• Why do I have chronic anxiety even though I do hard things?
• Can you get rid of severe anxiety and panic attacks for good?

Watch, find your anchor word, and start arriving in futures without anxiety.

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THE PROBLEM IS NEVER THE PROBLEM — the difference between the symptom and the root cause, and why "proximity" tricks your mind into hyper-focusing on the closest discomfort while the real root keeps growing back. (That's why the coworker you couldn't stand shows up again at your next job under a different name.)

THE NEGATION TRAP — your unconscious mind doesn't process negatives. Say "I don't want these problems" and it hears "I DO want these problems," and your brain goes hunting for evidence to prove you right. Focus on the problem and you stay in the rat race.

THE FREEDOM ILLUSION — why "I just want to be able to do whatever I want" is a fake goal. A life with no mission gets boring fast. Greg shares his own vision — 150+ acres, a self-funded nonprofit retreat center built to run without him — as an example of trading "doing whatever I want" for a mission that creates impact.

NOT KNOWING IS THE STARTING POINT — if you admit you don't know what you want, you're actually the furthest ahead. Continuing to not know, though, is a choice.

THE DRESSING-ROOM METHOD — how to discover what you want by "trying on" future realities in your imagination, like outfits in a fitting room. Keep what lights you up, take off what doesn't. There isn't one perfect future hiding like a needle in a haystack — there are plenty of exciting ones.

The takeaway: stop trying to get rid of your problems (there will always be problems) and become a life creator instead. Problems aren't the problem — they're just something you'll always continue to solve.

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What if you could change your behavior as easily as you change your clothes? In this episode of Power in the Pain, Greg Pihs unpacks one deceptively simple idea: most of your behavior runs on autopilot, selected by your unconscious mind before you're even aware of it.

But just like humanity went from "no clothing" to consciously choosing the right outfit for the right occasion, you can learn to consciously choose your behavior for the experience you actually want.

Greg breaks down the exact mental algorithm your brain runs every moment: an experience comes in through your five senses, gets filtered through every past experience you've ever had, and produces a thought, then a feeling, then a physical response, then behavior, all in a nanosecond. Once you can see that sequence, you can interrupt it.

He shows you the easiest place to step in (the thought), and what to do when you catch yourself too late (the pattern interrupt). This one's about personal power, free will, and learning HOW to think, not WHAT to think.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro

0:30 A word from our sponsor (Bryan Nale)

1:22 The big question: what if you treated behavior like clothing?

2:49 Clothing through history, and why awareness changes everything

8:05 Why your behavior runs on autopilot (and why that's a feature)

14:06 The algorithm: how your mind picks your behavior for you

22:49 The Nashville cowboy boots test

25:55 Putting it together: choosing behavior on purpose

31:52 Thought → feeling → body, and where to step in

33:29 Caught in the act? Pattern interrupts (the networking example)

38:26 Recap + how to use this today

💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Your behavior is mostly unconscious autopilot, but you can consciously override it any time.

• Emotions are always secondary to thoughts. The thought comes first, every time.

• The easiest moment to change a behavior is the instant the thought appears. Challenge it.

• Already mid-behavior? Use a pattern interrupt to break the vortex, then re-decide.

• Free will is real: you're not being told what to think, you're being shown how to think.

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