Real Raw Honest

Real Raw Honest

By Deni Michajl and Petra ZarembaEducationSelf-Improvement
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Real Raw Honest episodes

  • Why Your Childhood Is Running Your Business
    You think your business problems are about strategy. They're not. They're about the operating system installed in your brain before you turned seven.In this episode, I'm breaking down the neuroscience behind why you're stuck. Not pop psychology. Actual documented research from developmental biologists and psychologists that explains exactly how your childhood conditioning is running your business right now.In this episode, you'll discover:
    • Why your brain operated in a state of "hyperprogrammability" during your first seven years (the same state adults enter during hypnosis)
    • Dr. Bruce Lipton's groundbreaking research showing that subconscious programs acquired before age seven determine up to 95% of your adult behaviour, health, and business outcomes
    • Dr. John Bowlby's attachment theory and why 40% of entrepreneurs struggle with self-trust, worthiness, and perceiving risk as existential threat
    This isn't about blaming your parents. This is about understanding the mechanism so you can finally change it. Ready to decode your childhood conditioning? Let's go.

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    Petra - Transformation coach
    Denisa - Subconscious Alchemist

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    Petra - Transformation coach
    Denisa - Subconscious Alchemist

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    18 min
  • The Internal Split
    Over the past four episodes, we’ve been walking you through the quiet architecture of transformation.

    The gap between desire and belief.
The patterns that refuse to dissolve.
The invisible war no one else sees.
The force and friction that keep you exhausted instead of aligned.

    In this joint episode, we bring it all together.

    We zoom out and look at what’s really happening beneath the surface when you say you want more but something inside you resists it. We connect the dots between subconscious patterning, nervous system protection, identity attachment, and the subtle misalignment that creates internal conflict.

    This conversation isn’t about fixing yourself.
It’s about recognising where you’ve been split and gently returning to wholeness.

    If you’ve listened to the individual episodes, this is the integration.
If you haven’t, this is the map.

    Because becoming isn’t about forcing change.
It’s about closing the gap between what you desire and what you believe is safe to receive. Welcome back to the work.


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    Petra - Transformation coach
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    https://www.awakendivine.co.uk/
    33 min
  • Force and Friction
    Something inside you has shifted. And yet your external life looks almost the same.

    In this episode, we explore the phase where transformation has already happened within, but the external world hasn’t caught up yet. The uncomfortable in-between where silence feels like failure, where patience feels unbearable, and where the urge to push, force, and control becomes almost irresistible.

    We look at what really happens when force enters too early. How impatience can quietly repel the very reality you’ve been building. How snapping back to what’s familiar recreates the cycles you thought were already behind you.

    There comes a point where more effort doesn’t create more progress. Where pressure disturbs a process that was already underway. Where the instinct to interfere feels productive, but actually delays what’s forming.

    This episode offers a perspective on what may already be rearranging beneath the surface and why staying steady can matter more than pushing forward.

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    22 min
  • The Invisible War You're Fighting
    You're doing everything right. Reading the books. Implementing the strategies. Showing up consistently. So why does your business feel like you're dragging a boulder uphill in mud?In this episode, you'll discover:

    • The one physical sensation that reveals exactly where your misalignment lives (and why most entrepreneurs ignore it)
    • Why your body responds with tension, anxiety, or shutdown when you think about your vision (and what it's actually trying to protect you from)
    • The three-step process for creating real self-awareness (not the Instagram version)
    • The interrogation questions that will change everything (warning: these are uncomfortable)
    • Why your nervous system interprets opportunity as danger (and how to update the programming)
    This isn't about working harder. It's about working with your nervous system instead of against it. Ready to diagnose your alignment gap? Let's get into it.



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    Petra - Transformation coach
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    20 min
  • Patterns That Persist
    We notice the patterns. We track them. We try to understand them. And still… they return.

    In this episode, we step into the quiet logic that keeps repetition alive. The invisible subconscious forces beneath awareness that preserve what’s familiar, even when it no longer serves us. Why insight can arrive before the body is ready. Why understanding doesn’t automatically reorganise behaviour. Why the system holds on long after we think we’re done.

    This episode offers a deeper look at what’s really running the show… the moments, impulses, and internal structures that persist quietly, intelligently, insistently.

    If you’ve ever felt caught in loops you believed you had outgrown, this episode doesn’t offer a fix. It offers a lens. A way to observe the unseen currents beneath our intentions, and the patterns shaping our lives long before we consciously name them.  

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    26 min
  • The Gap Between Want and Belief
    You know exactly what you want. You've pictured it a thousand times. The income. The impact. The version of your life that feels aligned and true. So why does it feel like something inside you keeps hitting the brakes?

    In this foundational episode, we introduce a concept that changes everything: your conscious desires and your subconscious beliefs are often at war. And when they clash, your body always wins. This conversation explores the invisible force field between wanting something deeply and actually feeling safe enough to receive it. We're talking about the programmes running beneath your awareness, installed when you were young, now quietly controlling what you pursue, what you sabotage, and what you unconsciously push away.

    This isn't about manifesting harder or thinking more positively. It's about recognising that your nervous system has veto power over your goals. And until you understand how it operates, you'll keep wondering why the same patterns repeat, why the breakthrough never quite arrives, why you stop yourself right before the finish line.

    If you've ever felt like your biggest obstacle is you, this episode will help you see why. And more importantly, it'll show you there's nothing wrong with you. The real work begins.

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    Petra - Transformation coach
    Denisa - Subconscious Alchemist

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    https://www.awakendivine.co.uk/
    25 min
  • Welcome to the Codes of Becoming
    In this opening episode of Season 3, we take you behind the curtain of the last month and a half, a stretch of stillness, inner work, and necessary slowing down. We talk about what it means to hermit not from hiding, but from honouring.

    The integration that doesn’t look like effort, but feels like truth. And the kind of alignment that can’t be forced, only felt when you’re finally quiet enough to hear what’s real. We introduce the shape of this new season, how we’re bringing our work into the light, one episode at a time.

    From subconscious rewiring to soul recalibration, Codes of Becoming is a return to the tools, practices, and inner codes that have transformed our lives and now want to meet you in yours. Let's begin.


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    16 min
  • Through Fear: The Way Back to What’s Real
    What would your life look like if fear didn’t make the decisions?

    In this episode of Real Raw Honest, we sit down with Daniel,  Solopreneur, Ethical AI Consultant, and Founder at We Are Monad,  for a conversation that goes beyond the usual startup talk.

    We explore the subtle and not-so-subtle ways fear shapes our potential, from the paralysis it causes in business to the ways it silences our voice in personal life.

    Daniel shares how he’s navigated the tension between wanting control and learning to trust the unknown, how fear once dictated his choices, and how discomfort became one of his most honest teachers.

    This episode is a quiet rebellion against limitation, a reminder that fear isn’t a sign to stop, but an invitation to expand.Whether you’re a founder, creative, or simply human… this one will hit where it matters.
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    Daniel Zaremba

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    1 hr 3 min
  • Beyond the Label: Identity, Conditioning & the Power of Physical Expansion
    In this episode of Real Raw Honest, we’re joined by Luko, an entrepreneur with a strong devotion to personal growth and physical wellbeing. His journey reveals how movement can be more than just a habit, it can be a mirror, a mindset shifter, and a daily practice of expansion.

    Together, we explore how the labels we adopt can quietly shrink our potential, keeping us stuck in identities that limit more than they liberate. From the boxes we place ourselves in, to the unseen ripple effect of conditioning, Luko brings a grounded and expansive take on what it means to live beyond the surface of success.

    We dive into the connection between mind and body, the invisible impact of daily discipline, and how self-development is often felt most deeply in the quiet reps we do, both in and out of the gym.

    If you’ve ever felt boxed in by your own definition of success, this conversation will open something new.
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    Petra - Transformation coach 
    Denisa - Subconscious Alchemist
    Luko Tikvica 

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    31 min
  • Unmasking the Impostor: Reclaiming Confidence, Identity & Inner Clarity
    What if the voice holding you back isn’t yours but one you inherited, absorbed, or built to survive?
    In this episode of Real Raw Honest, we sit down with Kim, an executive coach, speaker, and communication strategist who’s helped hundreds of leaders speak with more clarity, confidence, and truth.

    But this isn’t just about how we speak, it’s about the stories we believe about who we are when no one’s watching.We unpack the quiet grip of impostor syndrome, the addictive high of external validation, and the slow identity erosion that happens when we live in chronic masculine energy, always doing, pushing, proving. Especially as women.

    Together, we explore what it takes to shift the internal dialogue, rebuild trust in your own voice, and lead from a place that’s rooted, not reactive.
    If you’ve ever felt like your confidence was built on something fleeting, or like your truth was too big to be spoken, this one’s for you.

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    Petra - Transformation coach
    Denisa - Subconscious Alchemist
    Kim Boudreau Smith 


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    54 min

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