Podcasts about NLP

What if one of the most important parts of your ultramarathon training isn't another long run, hill workout, or strength session? What if it's training your mind? In this episode of Run the Riot, I sit down with ultrarunner, clinical hypnotherapist, mindset coach, and NLP practitioner Holly Grahn, founder of Hypno Gold. Holly recently completed her first 200-mile race at the Divide 200, and we dig into what it took to prepare for that kind of challenge—not only physically, but mentally. Holly shares how she used visualization, mental rehearsal, positive reframing, gratitude, and self-hypnosis before the race so that when things got difficult, her mind was already trained to look for a way forward. And things definitely got difficult. We talk about sore feet, massive climbs, long stretches between aid stations, pouring rain, hallucinating a monkey wearing sunglasses, catching her boyfriend Rob around mile 100, and ultimately finishing their first 200 miler together. But this conversation goes much deeper than racing. Holly explains how the beliefs we carry about ourselves can affect the way we train, race, work, and live. We talk about self-doubt, fear, anxiety, feeling like we're "not good enough," and why simply telling yourself to be positive isn't always enough. Holly also explains what hypnotherapy actually is—and what it isn't—and how she works with athletes and other high performers to identify thought patterns that may be holding them back. We talk about: • Holly's journey from a shy kid who struggled with self-esteem to ultrarunner and hypnotherapist • Her early ultramarathons and the lessons she learned the hard way • Preparing physically and mentally for the Divide 200 • Why mental training should happen before race day • Visualization and mental rehearsal for difficult race situations • Turning negative thoughts into useful beliefs • Looking for evidence that supports the person you want to become • Talking to yourself like you would talk to a friend • Gratitude as a tool when an ultra gets difficult • Breaking huge challenges into the next aid station—or even the next step • Learning from DNFs rather than allowing them to define you • Why identity affects behavior • What hypnotherapy actually feels like • The difference between stage hypnosis and clinical hypnotherapy • Self-doubt, anxiety, fear, sleep, procrastination, and self-sabotage • The Hypno Gold app Holly created for athletes and high performers • Why there may be much more inside you than you've discovered yet One practical takeaway from Holly that I really liked: write down a negative belief you're carrying, rewrite it into something that moves you toward your goal, and then start looking for actual evidence that supports the new belief. Training the body matters. But when you've been moving for days, you're exhausted, your feet hurt, and everything inside you is telling you to stop, your mind becomes part of the equipment you're carrying. ### Connect with Holly Grahn **Hypno Gold:** https://www.hypnogold.com/ **Hypno Gold App:** https://hypnogold.passion.io/ **Instagram:** @hypno_gold_app **Facebook:** Hypno Gold **Schedule a session with Holly:** https://schedulewithhypnoholly.as.me/ **Email:** info@hypnogold.com Holly's Hypno Gold app includes sessions covering areas such as performance, mindset, sleep, anxiety, procrastination, self-sabotage, emotional healing, and personal growth. She created it to make hypnotherapy more accessible for athletes and high performers. ### Run the Riot If you're working toward your first or furthest ultramarathon and want someone in your corner helping you build the training, strategy, and confidence to get there, learn more about Run the Riot Coaching: https://runtheriot.run/ Mine Your Potential.

In episode 320 of Beyond The Story, Sebastian Rusk interviews Tiffany Taylor, a Transformational Speaker and Master Coach integrating Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Faith, as she shares how, in her early 20s, she realized she had been programmed by childhood conditioning while simultaneously carrying a powerful vision for financial freedom, time freedom, and the ability to travel the world.Tune in to discover how subconscious programming may be influencing your business, relationships, goals, and everyday decisions—and learn why the version of yourself you want to become may require you to rethink the beliefs that got you here.TIMESTAMPS[00:00:00] Sebastian Rusk introduces Tiffany Taylor and how their connection began.[00:01:13] Tiffany's journey toward financial freedom, time freedom, and subconscious transformation.[00:03:19] What limiting beliefs are and how they influence potential.[00:05:05] Awareness, subconscious programming, and rewiring identity.[00:08:08] Challenging “never” and “always” beliefs by looking for evidence.[00:09:31] Why personal growth can feel messy and why that should not be avoided.[00:11:49] The subconscious mind, habits, and the 90% of daily behavior it influences.[00:13:46] Why busyness can be poor stewardship and the importance of reverse-engineering goals.[00:14:53] Habits, vices, consistency, and how long it takes to build new patterns.[00:16:31] Hypnotherapy, NLP, and choosing the right tool for the right outcome.[00:20:12] Meditation, the “king and fool,” and feeding your highest intentions.[00:23:18] Regulation versus resolution and addressing the root of recurring patterns.[00:24:35] Tiffany's personalized full-day intensive approach to breakthrough work.[00:28:57] Tiffany's final message: Stop being a spectator and pursue the breakthrough you've been craving.QUOTES"Most limiting beliefs are a problem, but that's not the root cause of the problem." – Tiffany Taylor"Busyness to me screams lack of intentionality." – Tiffany Taylor"If you can make a decision to get stuck, you can make a decision to get unstuck." – Sebastian Rusk==========================Need help launching your podcast?Schedule a Free Podcast Strategy Call TODAY!PodcastLaunchLabNow.com==========================SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/podcastlaunchlab/Facebook: Facebook.com/sruskLinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/sebastianrusk/YouTube: Youtube.com/@PodcastLaunchLabTiffany TaylorLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachtiffanytaylor/ ==========================Take the quiz now! https://podcastquiz.online/==========================Need Money For Your Business? Our Friends at Closer Capital can help! Click here for more info: PodcastsSUCK.com/money==========================PAYING RENT? Earn airline miles when you use the Bilt Rewards MastercardAPPLY HERE: https://bilt.page/r/2H93-5474 

Welcome to the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast! In today's episode, we're talking about how to discover your true inner voice so you can become more confident and decisive. Ralu Atomei is a trauma-informed decision-making and nervous system capacity coach, author and speaker who works with successful, high-functional women who are brilliant at holding everything together, but exhausted by second-guessing themselves, people-pleasing and living according to rules they never consciously chose.With a background in psychology and sociology, and training across somatic trauma-informed coaching, nervous system work, NLP, parts work and behavioural change, Ralu's work explores what happens when personal development stops being about fixing yourself and starts being about reclaiming your own will.She is the author of Happiness Is NOT Relatable: Healing in a World that Bonds Over Pain and the creator of frameworks including CEO Within™ and Capacity Leadership. Her work challenges some of the most deeply embedded ideas around resilience, healing, success and self-improvement - particularly the belief that being capable means we should simply become better at carrying more.At the heart of Ralu's work is one question: How much of the life you're living is actually yours - and how much was built around brilliant patterns and made-up rules you learned to survive, belong and succeed?Connect with Ralu Here: https://facebook.com/ralu.atomeihttps://rebelhealing.netGrab the freebie here: https://quiz.rebelhealing.net===================================If you enjoyed this episode, remember to hit the like button and subscribe. Then share this episode with your friends.Thanks for watching the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast. This podcast is part of the Digital Trailblazer family of podcasts. To learn more about Digital Trailblazer and what we do to help entrepreneurs, go to DigitalTrailblazer.com.Are you a coach, consultant, expert, or online course creator? Then we'd love to invite you to our FREE Facebook Group where you can learn the best strategies to land more high-ticket clients and customers. QUICK LINKS: APPLY TO BE FEATURED: https://app.digitaltrailblazer.com/podcast-guest-applicationDIGITAL TRAILBLAZER: https://digitaltrailblazer.com/

Wie viel Fieber ist bei einem Baby noch normal und wann solltest du lieber sofort ärztliche Hilfe suchen? Was kannst du tun, wenn dein Baby stundenlang schreit? Und wie findest du zwischen all den Empfehlungen zu Impfungen, Stillen, Schnuller, Beikost und sicherem Schlaf einen Weg, der medizinisch sinnvoll ist und gleichzeitig zu deiner Familie passt?In dieser Folge spreche ich mit der Kinderärztin Laura Reshetnik über die Fragen, die im ersten Babyjahr besonders viel Unsicherheit auslösen. Wir schauen evidenzbasiert, aber ohne Dogmen, auf typische Infekte, wichtige Warnzeichen und die Frage, wann du deinem Gefühl vertrauen kannst – und wann du dein Baby unbedingt ärztlich vorstellen solltest.Dabei geht es nicht darum, als Mama jede Empfehlung perfekt umzusetzen. Es geht darum, medizinische Zusammenhänge zu verstehen, Risiken realistisch einzuordnen und informierte Entscheidungen zu treffen, die sich auch in deinem Familienalltag umsetzen lassen.Du erfährst unter anderem:wie viele Infekte im ersten Baby- und Kleinkindjahr noch normal sein könnenab welcher Temperatur Fieber bei Babys ärztlich abgeklärt werden solltewelche Warnzeichen bei Fieber und Magen-Darm-Infekten besonders wichtig sindwarum Babys in den ersten Monaten häufig mehr schreien und wann eine Schreiambulanz helfen kannweshalb nicht nur die Dauer des Schreiens zählt, sondern vor allem die Belastung für die Familiewie du mit krankem Besuch, Küssen und Infektionsrisiken im Wochenbett umgehen kannstwarum Unterstützung und Erholung im Wochenbett so wichtig sind – ohne starre Regeln für jede Familiewie Laura die empfohlenen Impfungen für Babys medizinisch einordnetwelche Reaktionen nach einer Impfung häufig vorkommen und wann du genauer hinschauen solltestwas du über Allergieprävention und die frühe Einführung von Allergenen wissen solltestwarum Stillprobleme häufig sind und gute Unterstützung einen großen Unterschied machen kannwie Schnuller und Flasche undogmatisch und familienfreundlich eingesetzt werden könnenwelche Empfehlungen für sicheren Babyschlaf gelten und warum die Realität manchmal individuelle Lösungen verlangtFür dich, wenn du …gerade Mama geworden bist oder dich auf dein erstes Babyjahr vorbereitestbei Fieber, Schreien oder Infekten schnell unsicher wirstdir eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Einordnung ohne Panikmache und Dogmen wünschstverstehen möchtest, welche Empfehlungen wirklich wichtig sind und wo individuelle Lösungen möglich sinddeinem Bauchgefühl vertrauen möchtest, ohne medizinische Warnzeichen zu übersehenDiese Folge soll dir keine perfekte Checkliste für das erste Babyjahr geben. Sie soll dir helfen, Zusammenhänge besser zu verstehen, Gefahren realistisch einzuschätzen und deinen eigenen, sicheren Weg als Familie zu finden.Vielen Dank an den Sponsor dieser Episode: ⁠babyforte.deHat dir die Folge geholfen? Dann freue ich mich riesig, wenn du sie mit einer Mama teilst, die diese Orientierung gerade gebrauchen kann, und mir eine Bewertung bei Spotify oder Apple Podcasts dalässt – das ist das größte Geschenk, das du mir zurückgeben kannst.Charlotte ist approbierte Ärztin, Life Coach und staatlich geprüfte Ernährungsberaterin. Sie verbindet medizinisches Wissen mit Coaching-Tools aus NLP, EFT und Klinischer Hypnose – für ganzheitliche Gesundheit auf allen Ebenen.Für dichLaura findest du auf Instgram unter: @dr.laura.reshetnikNewsletter abonnieren: Impulse für ganzheitliche Gesundheit direkt in dein PostfachTermin für meine ärztliche Online-Sprechstunde: Hier buchen1:1 Mentoring: Jetzt bewerbenInstagram: @dr.med.charlotte.schroerenHat dir diese Folge gefallen? Hinterlasse eine 5-Sterne-Bewertung auf Apple Podcasts oder Spotify, teile deine größte Erkenntnis auf Instagram und abonniere den Podcast für neue Folgen – alle 14 Tage donnerstags.

I haven't really been posting lately and, if you know me, you'll know just how unlike me that is.Consistency has been a huge part of how I've built my business over the last six years, so this period has brought up a lot for me, from questioning why I suddenly didn't want to create, to looking at the beliefs and identity wrapped up in being someone who has always been known for showing up.And the more I've sat with it, the more I've realised just how much I don't want to go back to creating content in the way I was before.In this episode, I'm taking you behind the scenes of what I've actually been navigating, my growing frustration with how strategic content has become, and why I think somewhere along the way we've stripped so much of the human out of building a personal brand.I'm also sharing what's been happening for me subconsciously as I move away from something that has worked incredibly well for six years, why that has been much harder than I expected, and what I want this next chapter of Rebecca Haydon and The Subconscious Institute to look like.There's no shiny new seven step content strategy at the end of this one, I'm figuring it out, changing things, experimenting and letting you come behind the scenes while I do.This is very much my stake in the ground for what comes next.Topics covered on changing my content strategy:Why I haven't been creating content consistently recentlyHow being known for consistency became wrapped up in my identityWhy I think content strategy has become so strategic that we're losing the human behind the brandThe pressure to make every post have a hook, purpose, CTA and perfectly engineered angleWhy I don't want to keep creating content a certain way simply because I know it worksWhat has been happening subconsciously as I've started changing something I've done for six yearsGiving myself space to decide what I actually want my personal brand to becomeBringing more of my life, thoughts, businesses, motherhood, opinions and behind the scenes into my contentMy bigger vision for bringing NLP, Hypnosis and subconscious work into more conversations, industries and roomsWhy I'm letting you watch me figure out what comes next rather than waiting until I have it perfectly worked outConnect with Rebecca Haydon:Apply to work with meCome say hi on Instagram | YouTube | Website

Rapport isn't charisma and it isn't a parlour trick — it's what happens when someone's threat-detection system stands down. David Watts takes the mechanism apart: why deliberate mimicry backfires, what NLP calls pacing, and the three honest behaviours that do the real work. Plus the single question that tells you whether you've crossed from connection into manipulation. Read the full article on Quantum Self Development: https://quantumselfdevelopment.com/articles/how-to-build-rapport/ This episode was narrated by an AI clone of my own voice, trained on this show.

Are Your Beliefs Secretly Sabotaging Your Dating Life? This week on The Love Machine, world-leading dating coach and relationship expert James Preece sits down with certified neuroscience coach and NLP master practitioner Kyra Jessen for an episode packed with mind-blowing insights into self-love. If you've ever wondered why you keep choosing the wrong partners or why that inner critic just won't shut up, this is your must-listen. Discover why self-love is the true foundation for a healthy, fulfilling relationship - and how sneaky subconscious beliefs might be shaping your love life way more than you realise. Kyra shares her brilliant five-question process for revealing and recalibrating limiting beliefs, all with warmth and plenty of real-world examples. Plus, she's got a simple self-love exercise you can do today. From breaking negative self-talk loops to letting go of people-pleasing, learning to master self-love is the key to transforming your relationships and your happiness. Tune in for practical tips and honest advice that will help you enjoy dating and life so much more. About Kyra BOOK https://elitementalmastery.com/ https://elitementalmastery.com/stuck/ About James James Preece is the UK's top Dating Coach with over 20 years experience helping singles all over the world. He is the host of the Love Machine Podcast. Get his free book when you join his newsletter : https://www.jamespreece.com/dating-newsletter/ Website: https://www.jamespreece.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamespreececoaching/

Hartmut Roebke hat Biologie, Mathematik und Medizin studiert, in der Pathologie gearbeitet und sich mit NLP beschäftigt, bevor er KISS gründete. Diese Neugier, immer neue Türen zu öffnen, prägt auch seine zentrale These: Silo-Denken schottet ab, egal ob zwischen Fachbereichen, Organisationen oder Generationen, und erst im Austausch entsteht etwas Neues. Aus dieser Überzeugung heraus hat er die Primonetik entwickelt, ein mathematisches Modell, das mit Mustern aus Primzahlen und Sprachanalyse untersucht, wie Menschen wirklich kommunizieren, nicht nur was sie sagen. Im Gespräch erklärt Hartmut, welche Anwendungen daraus entstanden sind, von Chatbots bis zum Faktencheck-Tool Primo Check.Dieselbe Idee steckt hinter Silverfounder: Hartmuts Initiative, die erfahrene Unternehmerinnen und Unternehmer aus den Babyboomern und der Generation X mit Startups zusammenbringen will, damit Wissen zwischen den Generationen nicht verloren geht, sondern weitergegeben wird. Zum Schluss verrät Hartmut, was er jungen Gründern rät: die eigenen Annahmen hinterfragen und die Fragen stellen, die sonst niemand stellt.Hier findest du mehr zu Hartmut und KI-SS:https://ki-ss.org/https://www.linkedin.com/in/hartmut-roebke-948b0a37b/Hartmut Roebkes Bücher: Die Clash der Generationen ReihePrimonetikHartmuts Empfehlung:Künstliche Intelligenz und Demokratie von Dorothea WinterDie Folgen gibt es überall, wo du Podcasts hörst: https://linktr.ee/founderflowhttps://open.spotify.com/show/1B3JyqXvDP9nWoAwORyRLzhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/founderflow-der-gr%C3%BCndungspodcast/id1481847368Folgt uns auf für weitere spannende Einblicke:Instagram / https://www.instagram.com/founderflow.fm/LinkedIn / https://www.linkedin.com/company/founderflow/posts/?feedView=allDas Team wünscht viel Spaß mit der Folge :)

Heute sprechen wir Hintergründe und Details zur World of NLP Magzin Ausgabe 5. Coverbild ist diesmal Wolfgang Walker. Das Magazin: https://www.world-of-nlp.org/de/abonnieren-de.phpMehr Infos zur World of NLP: https://www.landsiedel-seminare.de/world-of-nlp

Du vet vad du borde göra. Du vet att du mår bra av att träna, äta på ett sätt som funkar för dig och ta hand om dig själv. Ändå gör du inte alltid det du bestämt dig för. Varför? I det här avsnittet pratar jag med coachen och NLP-experten Stina Persdotter, som hjälper människor att förändra sina undermedvetna programmeringar för att skapa nya resultat i sitt företagande. Men samma mekanismer påverkar såklart också vår hälsa. Vi pratar om varför vi fortsätter upprepa gamla beteenden trots att vi VET bättre, hur våra undermedvetna programmeringar skapas – och framför allt: hur vi kan börja förändra dem. Jag frågar också Stina: Vad skulle du säga till en person som vill gå ner i vikt men märker att hen hela tiden föll tillbaka i gamla mönster? Ett avsnitt för dig som är trött på att försöka skärpa dig – och är nyfiken på vad som faktiskt styr dina resultat under ytan. Om du är egen företagare eller sugen på att starta ett företag och vill ta del av en exklusiv 3 dagars möjlighet 6-8/10 med Stina så kolla in det här: https://stinapersdotter.se/mind-your-business

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As we begin to wrap up The Coach's Journey Podcast after seven years, we're sharing some of our favourite episodes from the back catalogue…Ruth Rochelle's life and career changed when, in 1979, she met Ariana Huffington and took part in the first Insight Seminar ever to happen in the United Kingdom.Ruth describes this moment as her invitation into self-reflection, the start of her career, and the time when she started to become the leader in her own life. In Café Royal on London's Regent Street, with 100 people – including some famous names – she had an experience she calls mindblowing and heart-opening, revealing deep truths that had previously been hidden from view.In this episode of the Coach's Journey Podcast, Ruth sheds light on the vast worlds of discovery that opened up to her following that first Insight Seminar, which propelled her into a career as a global facilitator and as a renowned expert on conscious leadership in teams and organisations.Ruth tells host Joey Owen how her remarkable appetite for learning and exploration also led her to study Internal Family Systems, which now underpins her work as an accredited master executive coach, IFS practitioner, systemic team coach and coaching constellations practitioner.In this episode, Ruth and Joey also talk about:Psychosynthesis and other therapeutic models that are harnessed by coachesHow to shift from protective behaviours in order to stand up in your authenticityThe ripple effect and how it can amplify both our limiting patterns and our effective onesThe way systems theory can help us stay in balance and adapt to our current truthRuth ends the podcast with a truly vital message about the parts of ourselves that we bring to interactions with others and the roles we all have to play in taking humanity forward.For more information about Ruth, visit https://www.ruthrochelle.com/ For more information about host Joey Owen, visit http://www.joeyowencoaching.com/ Read more about The Coach's Journey at www.thecoachsjourney.com.Download the free ebook, An Introduction to The Coaching Business Flywheel, at https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/the-coaching-business-flywheel Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQgTHINGS WE TALKED ABOUT THAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN:- Robbie's model, The Coaching Business Flywheel: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/the-coaching-business-flywheelRuth's other appearance on The Coach's Journey Podcast: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/111-ruth-rochelle-the-future-of-coaching-trust-simplicity-and-the-wisdom-of-humanity Chris Joseph on The Coach's Journey Podcast: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/128-chris-joseph-how-to-become-an-overnight-success-in-10-years-from-ponzi-scheme-ruin-to-six-figure-coaching-months-repost Ellie Scarf on The Coach's Journey Podcast: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/102-ellie-scarf-our-stories-and-scars-can-be-points-of-connection Clare Norman on The Coach's Journey Podcast: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-68-clare-norman-glimmers-of-hope-structuring-a-coaching-business-and-unlearning-mindsets-on-the-journey-to-coaching-mastery Julie Starr on The Coach's Journey Podcast: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-58-julie-starr-the-world-works-from-the-inside-out Matt Thieleman on The Coach's Journey Podcast: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-51-mindful-leadership-and-letting-your-hidden-side-be-seen - Ariana Huffington https://www.instagram.com/ariannahuff/?hl=en - Insight Seminars https://insightseminars.org/ - John Roger https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-14-vw-882-story.html - Russell Bishop https://russellbishop.com/about - Internal Family Systems https://ifs-institute.com/ - Psychosynthesis Coaching, Auburn Howard https://www.psychosynthesiscoaching.co.uk/ - NLP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming - Results Unlimited https://www.upwork.com/agencies/1140793201640026112/ - Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard Schwartz https://www.amazon.co.uk/Internal-Family-Systems-Therapy-Guilford/dp/1572302720 - The Leadership Circle https://leadershipcircle.com/leadership-assessment-tools/leadership-circle-profile/- Robert Kegan and the Immunity to Change model https://www.gse.harvard.edu/hgse100/story/changing-better#:~:text=Based%20on%2030%20years%20of,distortions%20that%20keep%20you%20from‍ ‍- AOAC master systems coach https://www.aoac.org/aoac-training-courses/ - Third Space https://www.thirdspace.london/ - Download the free ebook, An Introduction to The Coaching Business Flywheel, at https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/the-coaching-business-flywheel BIOGRAPHY FROM RUTHFor more than 25 years Ruth has been a coach – an executive and team coach, workshop facilitator, transformational coach and coach supervisor – with private clients and with organisations.Ruth is an Accredited Master Executive Coach with APECS, an IFS (Internal Family Systems) Practitioner with the IFS Institute and a Coaching Constellations Practitioner, and her clients have included creative professionals, start-up founders, senior managers, young emerging leaders, celebrities, coaches, and many more.Ruth supports her clients to create and achieve their visions, enrich their relationships, navigate changing circumstances, embark on new life directions, start and grow businesses, address specific challenges, experience greater wellbeing and connect to a meaningful purpose.

Do you remember what you wanted to be when you grew up? An actress? An astronaut? A teacher? As kids, we don't understand the career landscape.  We build our first sense of "what I want to be when I grow up" out of a small handful of visible or memorable options, because that's all we've ever seen. But we do subconsciously understand archetypes. When a five-year-old says she wants to be an astronaut, it doesn't necessarily mean she wants to go to space. The real clue is underneath it: a love of adventure, discovery, being the one who goes first. The job title is a placeholder for a deeper desire we don't know how to express yet. Once I understood that, I went back through my own list of what I REALLY WANTED to be when I grew up to see how it measured up to what I do today. I was shocked. Your childhood dreams are not naive. They're clues.   IN THIS EPISODE:  Why what we wanted to be as children is more revealing than we think, even when the career itself makes no sense anymore The four childhood dreams I had and what the deeper archetype underneath each one was pointing toward The four childhood dreams I had and what closed the door for each one at the time What my sister told me at 7 that made me give up on this love  Why picking a career at 18 with almost no understanding of what's possible is one of the strangest things we ask young people to do How the career I have today didn't exist when I was a teenager trying to decide what to do with my life How to look at your own childhood dreams for the deeper archetypes underneath    Join over 20,000 souls who tune into weekly newsletters on the competitive advantage you get alcohol-free. Get on the Euphoric newsletter. Join me on Substack for deeper essays on psychology, success, and business.  Apply to be our next Thought Leader to master premium selling and thought leader positioning to publish your book and deliver your keynote onstage. Few spots remain.  If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, apply now for the Empowered AF Coach 5x Certification – and get 5x certified as a world class alcohol-free empowerment coach, subconscious change coach, success coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnosis practitioner and implement our 0 to $100k Coach Method™ as your build a profitable brand. Our next class starts in October.  Euphoric the Club is the premier space to lose the desire for alcohol as you surround yourself with successful women who don't drink (and the women who are becoming them). Euphoric the Club includes full access to all of my alcohol-free programs to make alcohol meaningless as your dreams take center stage, meaningful monthly challenges, weekly coaching and more.  Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel. Read Euphoric: my HarperCollins bestseller on losing the desire for alcohol while getting high on your dream life. Be sure to get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today or grab your free chapter here.  Follow @euphoric.af on Instagram.  Please do rate, review, and subscribe so we can continue spreading our message far and wide!

Some patterns in our lives feel less like bad luck and more like an echo of something planted much earlier, long before we had words for it. The host talks with Jihane Laraichi, an energy coach who works with clients on the deeper layers of early-life and even prenatal experience, and how those imprints can continue shaping adult relationships, careers, and self-worth years later. Jihane shares her own story, born premature and placed in an incubator, as the starting point of her work, along with case examples of clients tracing adult patterns back to the circumstances of their birth or their mother's pregnancy. This is a conversation rooted in energy healing and transgenerational trauma frameworks rather than clinical psychology, offered as one lens among many for people trying to understand recurring patterns in their lives. Note: This conversation reflects the guest's personal spiritual and energy-healing framework, including concepts like past-life memory and prenatal imprinting. These are her professional and personal views, not clinically validated claims, and listeners should treat them as one perspective to consider rather than medical or psychological guidance. About the Guest: Jihane Laraichi is an energy coach based in Paris who works with adults, adolescents, and children on personal and professional goals, trauma release, and recurring life patterns. Her approach combines energy coaching with practices including NLP, Ericksonian and spiritual hypnosis, kinesiology, transgenerational work, and biological decoding. She also offers free live sessions and courses through the Insight Timer app. Key Takeaways: Recurring life patterns, in relationships, careers, or self-worth, aren't necessarily coincidence or bad luck. In Jihane's framework, they can trace back to very early emotional imprints, even from before birth. Insight alone often isn't enough to stop a repeating pattern. In this framework, patterns are stored as emotion and sensation rather than conscious thought, which is why understanding a pattern intellectually doesn't always resolve it. Recognizing a repeating pattern's root cause can bring real relief, especially from the guilt of assuming a struggle is a personal character flaw rather than something with a deeper origin. Change can trigger unconscious loyalty to family patterns. Wanting something different from what your lineage experienced (financial abundance, ease, security) can feel unfamiliar or even unsafe to pursue. Healing, in this framework, often involves a grieving process, mourning old versions of yourself and the years spent not understanding a pattern, before being able to fully move into a new one. Different birth circumstances (premature birth, being a twin, a breech birth, an unplanned pregnancy) are each associated in this framework with their own recurring emotional patterns worth exploring with curiosity rather than judgment. Connect With Jihane Laraichi: Website: jihanelaraichi.com Sessions and courses: free live sessions on the Insight Timer app Episode Chapters: [00:00] Introducing early-life trauma patterns and the work of clearing them [01:31] Jihane's own story: born premature and the beginning of her healing journey [04:31] A client case: a repeating professional pattern traced back to infancy [08:34] A second case: a nine-year-old's school struggles linked to her mother's pregnancy [11:28] What's happening energetically when an early story keeps repeating [14:29] Grief as part of healing, and mourning the years spent not understanding the pattern [16:09] Ancestral loyalty and why embracing change can feel dangerous [17:30] What early trauma repetition actually looks like in ordinary daily life   Want to be a guest on Healthy Mind, Healthy Life? 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Send us Fan MailAfter 40 years in healthcare, one founder says he has never seen a technology with a better chance of actually fixing the system. So what makes this moment different?In this clip from our episode “Will AI End The Payer And Provider Billing War?” , host John Driscoll and Hamid Tabatabaie, CEO of CodaMetrix, break down why AI is the first real opportunity to level the playing field between payers and providers by getting the underlying data right.Listen to the full episode here

This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Marvin L. Wilkerson, spiritual and therapeutic astrologer, certified hypnotist, and master NLP practitioner whose three decades of work sit at the meeting place of ancient wisdom and modern science.Marvin is the author and creator of Soul Fusion Healing: Integrating Mind, Body, and Soul, and the founder of the healing framework by the same name. His practice integrates Therapeutic Astrology, Soul Fusion and Quantum Healing, and personal energy awareness into a practical path for transformation, one that has guided clients over the years in uncovering karmic patterns, releasing emotional blocks, and aligning with their true spiritual essence.At the heart of Marvin's work is a conviction that healing begins when the soul, mind, and body are brought back into harmony. He sees the astrological blueprint as a map of the emotional and psychological patterns each soul arrives with, and the subconscious as the quiet operating system through which those patterns keep running our lives until they are consciously met.His method draws on hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming, and quantum healing to help people reach the levels of the psyche where lasting change actually lives, and to reunite the fragmented parts of self that unresolved experience so often leaves behind. His gift is translating esoteric material into language people can actually use, so complex ideas about karma, consciousness, and the subconscious mind become tools rather than mysteries.Together, Sam and Marvin explore what it means to work with the soul's blueprint as a living guide rather than a fixed diagnosis. They discuss the intersection of spirituality and neuroscience in personal healing, how to reprogram subconscious patterns that no longer serve, and the practice of healing soul-fragmentation through Soul Fusion Healing and Quantum Healing Hypnosis.This episode is an invitation to consider that awakening is not only a matter of insight, but of integration, and that when the soul, mind, and body come back into alignment, the life we were meant to live begins to move through us with less resistance and more grace.Tune in and share your own questions and comments about connecting to your soul on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page.www.astromarv.comhttps://link.amazon/B08m77jmC Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hi Parents! One of the most difficult questions a parent can face is whether staying in an unhappy relationship is truly what's best for their children. While every family and every situation is different, it's a conversation that deserves honest reflection - especially when anxiety is part of the picture. I'm joined by Betsy Pake, international speaker, NLP coach, author, and creator of the Navigate Method. Betsy helps women make grounded, values-based decisions during life's most challenging seasons. Drawing from both her professional expertise and her own personal experience, she shares what she learned while navigating an unhealthy marriage, how her son was quietly affected by the tension at home, and why making a difficult decision ultimately transformed their relationship. Together, we discuss how children often sense more than adults realize, why modelling healthy relationships is one of the greatest gifts parents can give their teens, and how to distinguish between decisions driven by fear, guilt, or outside expectations versus those rooted in your own values. Betsy also introduces her Mirror, Mend or Move framework, explains how small, intentional shifts create lasting change, and shares practical strategies that helped support her son's anxiety through structure, connection, and consistency. Whether you're navigating a difficult relationship, working through a major life decision, or simply looking to become a more grounded and emotionally present parent, this conversation offers thoughtful insights into how caring for yourself can positively influence the environment your teen grows up in.

Episode 330 - “Living Without an Audience”Who are you when nobody is watching? In a world of likes, followers, accomplishments, and constant opportunities to be seen, it's easy to start experiencing our lives through the eyes of other people. In this episode, Michelle and Scott explore what happens when we stop performing and start asking what we actually enjoy, value, and want when there's no applause, recognition, or approval waiting for us. A conversation about identity, validation, and rediscovering the parts of life that don't need an audience to matter.Keeping Your Sh*t Together in a Stressed World is a podcast hosted by Michelle Post, MA, LMFT and Scott Grossberg, JD, CLC, CCH, NLP, and is 30 minutes of raw, irreverent, and results-oriented discussion with one purpose in mind . . . to help you cope, thrive, and survive the craziness that's going on in the world.As a reminder, our “Get Your Sh*t Together” Home Retreat can be found here:http://thinkingmagically.com/retreatReplays of prior episodes can be found at:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scott-grossbergYou can also join our Facebook group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/keepingystMichelle Post can be reached at michelle@postinternationalinc.com http://postinternationalinc.com
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Have you ever finished a long day, walked through the door, and suddenly wanted something to eat even though you weren't hungry?What if the craving isn't really about food?Maybe you're craving relief.A reward.Comfort.Quiet.Connection.Or simply the feeling of being done for the day.And what happens when you're taking a GLP-1 and your physical appetite has changed, but you still notice certain eating patterns?In this episode, Monica Bravo explores the difference between hunger, cravings, habits and emotional eating.She shares the question she wants women to ask instead of "Why can't I control myself?""What do I need right now?"You'll hear why Monica stopped focusing only on meal plans and started working with the pattern underneath eating through hypnosis, NLP and somatic work.If you've ever wondered why you keep eating when you're not physically hungry, this conversation is for you.Monica is also hosting a free live workshop:WHY YOU STILL CRAVE FOOD WHEN YOU'RE NOT HUNGRYSaturday, September 26 at 1 PM Pacific on YouTube.We'll explore GLP-1s, cravings, emotional eating and the patterns underneath weight and food.Join the free workshop:YOUTUBE 

Alex Hormozi sends his Mozi Minute email about once a week, and hundreds of thousands of people read it. Each email is packed with useful ideas about sales, getting more calls booked, and growing a business. So it is no surprise that business owners are looking at his strategy and thinking, “I should do that too.”But there is a problem. Copying what Alex does could actually cost you thousands of dollars in sales. You could end up with fewer people opening your emails, more overwhelmed customers, and fewer people ready to buy.That does not mean Alex's strategy is bad. Far from it. His strategy makes perfect sense for the business he has built. The danger comes when you copy his moves without understanding the game he is playing.Because Alex Hormozi is playing a very different game from most business owners.And if your business is under $2 million a year, you may need to play by a completely different set of rules.Useful Episode ResourcesFREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketingIf you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). Grab your FREE list here.Join our FREE Facebook groupIf you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.Try ResponseSuite for $1This week's episode is sponsored by ResponseSuite.com, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. Try it out for 14 days for just $1.Join The Email Hero BlueprintWant more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then The Email Hero Blueprint is for you.This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcastThanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!

Episode 445 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Roi Carmel, Co-Founder & CEO of Spotlight.ai. When the shift to AI happened, it created a market dynamic with three distinct types of software companies: 1. Ones that were already inmarket and suddenly found themselves in catch-up mode. 2. New startups built as AI native platforms right from the jump. 3. Companies that were already working on AI driven technology and had a massive head start, even if they weren't using the term “AI” yet, but rather natural language processing, machine learning, or something comparable. Spotlight.ai fits squarely in that third bucket, having spent years building their platform. It was a problem that Roi experienced firsthand while in leadership roles at Cybereason and Perfecto Mobile. He saw that companies were struggling to operationalize their value proposition within the go-to-market team, making it extremely challenging to run an effective sales process. The team at Spotlight.ai spent two years interviewing over 50 CROs from top tech companies to understand their friction points and figure out how to solve the value-sales problem using NLP (natural language processing) or what the market now calls AI. Fast forward to today: Spotlight.ai is the deal-autopilot AI platform built on a proprietary sales knowledge graph with millions of correlated signals. It integrates across daily seller workflows to autonomously drive MEDDICC qualification (a sales methodology that originated at PTC). Other key benefits for their platform include fact-checking deal status based on hard evidence, auto-generating customer-facing assets, and delivering reliable, bottom-up forecasting. In this episode, we cover: * Roi's thoughts on how established software companies should think about integrating meaningful AI features into their platform. * His background story including being a nationally ranked Judo competitor and how that helped to shape his entrepreneurial mindset. * A walk through his rapid rise to leadership roles across the tech industry. * The origin story of Spotlight.ai and how the platform works. * Why they chose to bootstrap the company and how they built a culture with zero turnover. * And so much more!

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Abhinav Jindal, founder of Cydir, a coaching business that helps second generation family business entrepreneurs overcome identity crises, imposter syndrome, and limiting family dynamics so they can create success that feels authentic to them.Through life coaching and NLP based methods, Abhinav guides clients to break free from beliefs holding them back, rebuild self-confidence, and create a healthier relationship with success, money, and self-worth.Now, Abhinav's journey of leaving behind wealth and comfort in India to start from scratch as an immigrant in Canada demonstrates the courage it takes to redefine identity on your own terms.And while helping high achievers let go of the need for approval and stop tying rest to achievement, he's also building a life and business rooted in fulfillment, freedom, and authenticity.Here's where to find more:https://www.cydir.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/40804495 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChSe05yg_1LS30OmaJICZCg/featured https://www.instagram.com/cydirinc/________________________________________________Welcome to The Unforget Yourself Show where we use the power of woo and the proof of science to help you identify your blind spots, and get over your own bullshit so that you can do the fucking thing you ACTUALLY want to do!We're Mark and Katie, the founders of Unforget Yourself and the creators of the Unforget Yourself System and on this podcast, we're here to share REAL conversations about what goes on inside the heart and minds of those brave and crazy enough to start their own business. From the accidental entrepreneur to the laser-focused CEO, we find out how they got to where they are today, not by hearing the go-to story of their success, but talking about how we all have our own BS to deal with and it's through facing ourselves that we find a way to do the fucking thing.Along the way, we hope to show you that YOU are the most important asset in your business (and your life - duh!). Being a business owner is tough! With vulnerability and humor, we get to the real story behind their success and show you that you're not alone._____________________Find all our links to all the things like the socials, how to work with us and how to apply to be on the podcast here:https://linktr.ee/unforgetyourself

Send us Fan MailHealthcare administrative costs consume an estimated 15 to 20 percent of every dollar spent in the American healthcare system. A quarter of that is medical coding alone, a process that has remained largely manual, subjective, and error-prone for decades.Hamid Tabatabaie, Founder and CEO of CodaMetrix, joins host John Driscoll to discuss how autonomous coding AI is making the shift from subjective to objective coding a reality across 35 of the largest health systems in the country, and why getting the codes right is not just a billing issue but a clinical one that directly affects patient care and outcomes.

Send Dr. Li a text here. Please leave your email address if you would like a reply, thanks.In this episode, Dr. Christine Li welcomes transformation leader Megan Blacksmith to discuss the power of "doing it scared" when growth feels daunting and comfort is holding you back. Together, they explore why waiting for the “right time” is often a trap, the ways our subconscious beliefs keep us stuck, and how to proactively choose transformation before circumstances force your hand. Megan Blacksmith shares personal stories, actionable strategies from NLP, and inspiration for taking bold steps—even when fear is present—so you can break through plateaus and move toward your next level of success.Timestamps00:00:00 Dr. Christine Li introduces the episode theme of "do it scared" and guest Megan Blacksmith00:03:06 Dr. Christine Li kicks off the discussion about doing things scared; asks Megan Blacksmith for insights00:03:32 Megan Blacksmith describes her journey and pattern of change involving big life shifts00:05:55 Megan Blacksmith reflects on proactively choosing growth instead of being forced into it00:07:03 Megan Blacksmith shares importance of leaving comfort to grow and taking uncomfortable steps00:08:47 Megan Blacksmith describes realizing time wasn't the issue, but fear of taking steps was00:11:27 Megan Blacksmith gives example of her mother doing something scary at nearly 8000:13:16 Megan Blacksmith shares the universal model of change and the cycle between comfort, discomfort, and growth00:17:22 Megan Blacksmith discusses recognizing plateaus as signs of deeper growth needed00:19:25 Megan Blacksmith describes her own proactive approach to preparing for growth by having tough conversations00:22:41 Megan Blacksmith on accepting negative outcomes to move forward bravely00:24:34 Dr. Christine Li and Megan Blacksmith discuss the myth of time as an obstacle and uncovering deeper fears00:27:33 Megan Blacksmith explains NLP and its role in uncovering and rewriting subconscious beliefs00:31:18 Megan Blacksmith describes certification programs and her own "do it scared" leap to expand her events00:37:01 Megan Blacksmith offers a special gift and how listeners can access her resources00:38:09 Dr. Christine Li repeats the free podcast link and encourages listeners to reach out00:39:05 Dr. Christine Li closes the episode and gives contact info for feedbackTo get the free download that accompanies this episode, go to: https://maketimeforsuccesspodcast.com/doitscaredTo sign up for the Waitlist for the Simply Productive Program, go to https://maketimeforsuccesspodcast.com/SPFor more information on the Make Time for Success podcast, visit: https://www.maketimeforsuccesspodcast.comGain Access to Dr. Christine Li's Free Resource Library -- 12 downloadable tools and templates to help you bypass the impulse to procrastinate: https://procrastinationcoach.mykajabi.com/freelibraryTo work with Dr. Li on a weekly basis in her coaching and accountability program, register for The Success Lab here: https://www.procrastinationcoach.com/lab Connect with Us!Dr. Christine LiWebsite: https://www.procrastinationcoach.comFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/procrastinationcoachInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/procrastinationcoach/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@procrastinationcoachThe Success Lab: https://maketimeforsuccesspodcast.com/lab                       Simply Productive: https://maketimeforsuccesspodcast.com/SPMegan BlacksmithWebsite: http://blacksmithtrainingco.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlacksmithTrainingCoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/blacksmith_training_co/

Recapturing Freedom and Scaling Past Growth Plateaus with John CavendishIn a recent episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur Podcast, host Josh Elledge sat down with John Cavendish, Strategic Advisor, serial entrepreneur, and founder performance consultant at johncavendish.com, to examine the distinct operational and psychological plateaus that emerge for experienced business leaders. John, a veteran agency builder and NLP master practitioner who has executed multiple successful exits, details how second-decade founders frequently become trapped by their own success—spread thin across competing income streams, complex service lines, and unrewarding hustle cycles. This conversation provides an essential strategic guide for seasoned business owners looking to eliminate operational friction, refine their core high-ticket offers, optimize founder-led sales pipelines, and build a conversion-ready digital ecosystem that restores genuine personal freedom.The Second-Decade Scaling Blueprint: Simplifying Complex Offer Structures and Reclaiming Founder FreedomThe primary bottleneck holding back experienced entrepreneurs who have been in business for a decade or more is rarely a lack of work ethic, but rather an accumulation of operational bloat and fractured strategic focus. John Cavendish explains that second-decade founders routinely default to managing multiple service lines, side ventures, or low-margin offers, which dilutes executive energy and caps overall business valuation. To overcome this plateau, business leaders must execute a ruthless focus audit—identifying the single core offer capable of scaling to high-net revenue and eliminating or delegating every non-essential project. Transitioning from fragmented, hourly, or low-tier consulting arrangements to high-ticket, retainer-based structures allows founders to dramatically increase monthly recurring revenue while working with a smaller, more manageable client roster.Building a predictable, high-converting growth engine requires replacing internal assumptions with a discovery-driven approach to product development and sales qualification. Founders often fall into the trap of designing complex service packages in isolation, only to find the market unresponsive to their messaging. By conducting structured discovery conversations with qualified prospective clients, executives can pinpoint precise pain points, refine offer positioning based on direct feedback, and establish clear buyer alignment before building backend delivery systems. Furthermore, tightening pre-call qualification filters ensures that founder-led sales calls are reserved strictly for high-intent prospects, improving conversion metrics and protecting executive bandwidth from low-probability sales conversations.Ultimately, turning media visibility into enterprise growth demands constructing a conversion-ready ecosystem that converts passive audience attention into owned lead infrastructure. Business leaders who participate in podcast guesting or executive media appearances must refrain from delivering complete, DIY instructional guides during interviews, focusing instead on building trust and offering clear calls-to-action that direct listeners to high-value lead magnets. Directing audience traffic into structured email nurture sequences creates a direct relationship with prospective clients, allowing the business to continuously educate and convert leads into core retainer offers. When simple offer structures, discovery-driven sales qualification, disciplined executive focus, and conversion-oriented media funnels are synthesized into a single operational architecture, founders successfully eliminate business plateaus, protect profit margins, and predictably scale enterprise value.About John CavendishJohn Cavendish is a Strategic Advisor, serial entrepreneur, NLP master practitioner, and elite performance coach for seasoned business owners. Drawing from extensive experience building and exiting multiple companies, as well as advanced training in executive performance and neuro-linguistic programming, John specializes in helping second-decade founders break through revenue plateaus. He is a recognized growth strategist dedicated to helping experienced leaders simplify their offer suites, optimize sales funnels, and design businesses that deliver financial and personal freedom.About John Cavendish Advisoryjohncavendish.com serves as the strategic advisory platform and executive consulting home for John Cavendish, engineered to support experienced founders and business owners seeking high-leverage growth. The practice specializes in delivering comprehensive business audits, offer positioning playbooks, founder-led sales optimization, and executive focus coaching. Through tailored one-on-one advisory programs and strategic frameworks, John Cavendish enables business leaders to eliminate operational complexity, scale recurring revenue, and achieve sustainable enterprise equity.Links Mentioned in This EpisodeJohn Cavendish Official Website: johncavendish.comJohn Cavendish on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/thejohncavendishKey Episode HighlightsThe Second-Decade Founder Dilemma: Overcoming the hidden growth plateaus and operational burnout that affect experienced entrepreneurs after years of success.The Ruthless Focus Audit: Applying the 80/20 rule to eliminate low-margin side projects and concentrate executive energy on one scalable core offer.Repositioning for High-Ticket Retainers: Transforming low-tier or hourly service offerings into structured, high-value monthly retainers to scale recurring revenue.Discovery-Driven Offer Refinement: Utilizing structured market feedback to validate buyer pain points and optimize offer positioning prior to launching infrastructure.Conversion-Ready Media Architecture: Structuring podcast guest appearances and content CTAs to guide passive listeners into owned lead nurturing funnels.ConclusionThe conversation with John Cavendish underscores that recapturing business growth and personal freedom requires an intentional shift toward operational simplicity and disciplined executive focus. By standardizing internal offer governance, refining sales qualification frameworks, and building structured media funnels, business leaders can transform an overwhelming, complex business into a highly profitable, self-sustaining growth engine.More from The Thoughtful Entrepreneur

Ultra TDS-Truth Derangement SyndromeMK Ultra mind control was unleashed on the global population 2016 whensheer numbers of us overrode rigged algorithms in electronic votingmachines to elect anyone who was not Hillary Clinton and her New WorldOrder.Media failed to show the Great Awakening had reached critical massbecause they were too busy spinning polls for Hillary's planned win.A global union of intelligence operatives concerned with preserving thesanctity of humanity's free thought, of which Mark Phillips was part, hadlong since determined that a change of government would be short livedunless the people woke up. So when vast numbers of awake and awarepeople became the change in 2016, it signaled a global movement to startdismantling the New World Order.The world rejoiced as the Washington DC human trafficking swamp wasexposed and its funding mechanism of drug and human trafficking acrossopen borders stifled.Who remembers Hillary Clinton's face when she lost the election? Iremember it as well as I remember the torturous MK Ultra abuses shesubjected me to along with her child sex trafficking/harvesting ops becauseseeing her defeat felt like justice was finally being served. To me, theultimate justice is positive change through public awareness and the GreatAwakening began accelerating so fast Hillary and her cohorts becamefrantic.Character assassination of the people's choice for President throughperpeTraitors' controlled media voice would undermind confidence, createdivision, and slow the dismantling of New World Order while shifting it toAgenda 2030.Repetition is the most basic form of mind control. How many times did youhear the media say “Impeach”? While the conscious mind is frozen in frightor fear, the subconscious is easily programmed with repetitive medianarrative. Since the subconscious drives conscious thought and ultimatelyactions, we need to understand our own mind brain function in order tosafeguard our free thought!2020 perpeTraitors went all in with mind control masked as a virus whileelections were blatantly stolen In front of all of us. How many times did youhear “mask up” “social distance” “get the injection” while your consciousmind was distracted by images of tickertapes of death numbers or violenceagainst MAGA supporters and burning of their livelihoods the media termed‘peaceful demonstrations'.People providing evidence that elections were stolen were arrested andslandered by the media, while perpeTraitors who stole elections re-openedborders to their funding mechanism of drug and human trafficking.Remember the memes of Epstein with an “I voted” sticker despite his being‘suicided'? Remember when Epstein and Fauci were deemed criminalsbefore media twisted focus and blame away from them?TDS had undermind people's subconscious so effectively that all it takes ismedia's repetitive narrative to point the finger away from perpeTraitors andtruth. This is exactly what global perpeTraitors need to keep their NewWorld Order from unraveling. Once the human mind falls prey to MK Ultrameans, suggestibility stays heightened and subconscious program feedsthoughts and actions.Remember how unmasked free thinkers tried to tell fearful programmedpeople to take off their masks or not get the jab? They could not hear pastprogram screaming in their ears regardless of how loud logic was shared.Our subconscious has no capacity for logic, reason, question, or criticalanalysis of information without a conscious mind filter. Trauma and fearare the basis of mind control because it renders our subconscious wideopen to manipulation through repetitive narrative or the language of thesubconscious NLP neuro linguistic programing.Once the subconscious is bared, it will take in any information as fact-likeviolence in our streets was peaceful demnstrations. In today'skaleidoscope of change, this creates confusion and lack of discernment oftruth. The most powerful form of MK Ultra mind control I have ever seenunleashed on the global population is not mind control masked as a virus.Mistakes were made with sheltering at home that ultimately woke up morepeople.The most damaging mass mind control I have seen in my lifetime is TDS.Truth Derangement Syndrome. Because if you know the truth, you will stopcomplying with a slave society agenda intended to undermind our humanityto align us with DARPA generated AI. PerpeTraitors, their New World OrderAgenda 2030, their funding mechanism of child sex trafficking that hasbecome one of the most lucrative businesses on the planet and likely all ofhuman history, and their means of creating compliance through MK Ultramind control all dissipate in light of Truth. Truth really does make us free.Our current duly elected President, like John F. Kennedy, purposefullyexposed the CIA, its shadowy Deep State, and its dark MK Ultra mindcontrol agenda. One President was assassinated for it on national tv whilethe other was assassinated in character by repetitive media narrative. Youwitnessed it. Now consciously deprogram the trauma because both formsof assassination have given perpeTraitors control over the minds of thepeople as planned.Use pen and paper to write out your fear, trauma, hate, rage or whateverinhibits your ability to think beyond what you are told. Deprogram yourimposed TDS, expand your perceptions and think free.

As we begin to wrap up The Coach's Journey Podcast after seven years, we're sharing some of our favourite episodes from the back catalogue…Sat atop a Welsh mountain in 2007 in a moment of depression and despair, Chris Joseph had the first in a series of instances of clarity that would eventually lead him to coaching. On the brink of a meltdown, he knew his Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics was no longer serving him. Buddhism, yoga and mediation became the elixir for him and soon he found he couldn't sleep with excitement at the discoveries he was making. His life changed when he trained to become a mindfulness teacher with Breathworks, and Chris went on to complete his Ph.D. and launch his first coaching practice. But it wasn't a success and in the end he gave it up. His extraordinary journey includes a multitude of highs and lows, from making £10,000 a month in passive income to losing it all to a fraudulent trader. Now he's back coaching and headed for a seven-figure year with his highly successful practice.In this episode, we talk about:Where his practice went wrong the first time round.Why the inner work is so important - understanding that you can only take people as far as you can go yourself.Why a true insight always comes packaged with an action - an ‘outsight' or an ‘outer action'.How to invite an individual to coaching - how to make it feel like a gift to the individual and not a request for yourself.Alongside the practical we get into some big topics: death, impermanence, the importance of play and the effects of all these on our lives. And it is a total pleasure to be in a space with Chris' beautiful open-heartedness.For more information about Chris, visit www.christopherjoseph.co.uk, find him on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/drchrisjoseph/ or on Facebook: www.facebook.com/chrisjoseph.uk/ For information about Robbie's wider work and writing, visit www.robbieswale.com. Read more about The Coach's Journey and sign up to our mailing list at www.thecoachsjourney.com.Download the free ebook, An Introduction to The Coaching Business Flywheel, at https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/the-coaching-business-flywheel Music by My Good Man William listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQgThings and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):~ Alex Swallow on The Coach's Journey Podcast: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-62-alex-swallow-life-is-better-when-we-choose ~8: Rich Waterman: https://www.richwaterman.com/ ~10: The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt: https://www.happinesshypothesis.com/~12: Michael Neill: https://www.michaelneill.org/~12: Dick Bettinger: http://3principlesmentoring.com/index.html ~12: Sydney Banks: https://sydbanks.com/~14: Breathworks: https://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/~20: Unleash the Power Within with Tony Robbins: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/events/unleash-the-power-within/ ~25: Unleash the Power Within with Tony Robbins: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/events/unleash-the-power-within/~26: The Coaching Academy: https://www.the-coaching-academy.com~26: Richard Bandler: https://richardbandler.com~26: John LaValle: https://www.nlplifetraining.com/trainers/john-lavalle~26: The Prosperous Coach by Steve Chandler and Rich Litvin: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prosperous-Coach-Increase-Income-Clients/dp/1600250300 ~26: Breathworks: https://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/~27: Simon Coulson: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prosperous-Coach-Increase-Income-Clients/dp/1600250300~27: Peter Thompson: https://peterthomson.com/ ~27: Michael Neill: https://www.michaelneill.org/ ~27: Project Kairos with Rich Litvin: https://richlitvin.com/kairos/~30: Steve Hardison video: https://youtu.be/0Tine-9dz-Y~32: Rich Waterman: https://www.richwaterman.com/ ~33: Three Principles: https://threeprinciplesfoundation.org/ ~33: Eckhart Tolle: https://eckharttolle.com/ ~33: Bryon Katie: https://thework.com/ ~33: The Coaching Academy: https://www.the-coaching-academy.com~33: Tony Robbins: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/ ~37: Crazy Good by Steve Chandler: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1600250343/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_JMAKFbP0PYJ7E ~43: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield and Shawn Coyne: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1936891026/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_xlBKFbG7XW11B~50: Loom: https://www.loom.com~1.11: Cardiff University: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk ~1.29: Wealth Warrior by Steve Chandler: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1600250408/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_EFCKFbY9VGH7M~1.29: Time Warrior by Steve Chandler: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1600250378/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_kICKFbB90WCJN~1.29: The Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1608681890/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_8RCKFbEEPT36Y~1.31: The Meaning Revolution by Fred Kofman : https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524760730/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_BsSKFbKHQ773N~1.45: Chris's contact details: email address: chris@christopherjoseph.co.uk, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drchrisjoseph/, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chrisjoseph.uk/~1.50: Steve Hardison: https://theultimatecoach.com/ FULL BIOGRAPHY FROM CHRIS Dr. Chris Joseph is a sought-after coach and mindfulness trainer living in South Wales. He specialises in working with high-achieving coaches who are ready to play at the next level. His expertise is in helping people slow down, reconnect with themselves and then create the life that they truly want to wake up to every morning.In his coaching role, Chris works with a small number of clients each year, by invitation or referral. His clients have included the former marketing director of one of the most iconic brands on earth, a senior VP for a fortune 10 company, a woman who has worked in mission control, a former private investigator on Wall Street, a Wall Street attorney, an ex-personal advisor to the former Prime Minister of the UK, a London investment banker and business owners with multi-million dollar turnovers.As a mindfulness trainer, he creates original and impactful sessions on emotional resilience and mindful leadership for world-class companies. He has worked with Tesco, Tata Steel, Cardiff University, the NHS, Breast Cancer Care, Jacobs and MotoNovo Finance. Chris has a Doctorate from Cardiff University and is a qualified Breathworks Mindfulness Trainer and a Richard Bandler certified NLP practitioner.In his former career, he was a Civil Engineer, working in the contracting, consulting and research sectors. His work has been published in international journals.Chris has been featured on National Radio in Wales for his mindfulness work, has written over 20 articles on Mindfulness and is in the process of writing his first book on coaching.When he isn't coaching, training or writing, he is continually learning about play, creativity, fun and laughter from his children, Aled and Anwen. He also enjoys triathlon and has completed an Ironman, a 10km charity swim and a 70km ultra run!

My mind has been completely consumed with book writing lately, and I wanted to sit down and share something I keep seeing over and over again in my community: so many women who have gone alcohol-free, suddenly feel this surge of creativity and a pull toward writing.  If that's you, this episode is for you. I'm sharing five telltale signs that you have a bestselling book inside of you, and they might not be what you expect. This isn't about whether you think you're a writer, whether you've written anything since college, or whether you have time.  It's about something much more fundamental than any of that. Be sure to join me for a three-part workshop, The Story Only You Can Tell, happening September 16, 17, and 18, where I'll be sharing the path from "someday I'll write a book" to published author. It's only $1 to join.    IN THIS EPISODE:  The 5 signs you have a bestselling book inside you The surprising connection between going alcohol-free and creativity Why the most important thing you have to say is probably the thing that scares you most to say out loud The past life vs present life tension that needs to be expressed  The one question to ask yourself when you keep putting the book off  What Elizabeth Gilbert believes happens to an idea when you ignore it long enough What your algorithm fatigue is actually trying to tell you What we're doing together inside The Story Only You Can Tell, and why it starts at $1 Join over 20,000 souls who tune into weekly newsletters on the competitive advantage you get alcohol-free. Get on the Euphoric newsletter. Apply to be our next Thought Leader to master premium selling and thought leader positioning to publish your book and deliver your keynote onstage.  If you know you're meant to help other people change their relationship with alcohol and create a profitable online brand, apply now for the Empowered AF Coach 5x Certification – and get 5x certified as a world class alcohol-free empowerment coach, subconscious change coach, success coach, NLP practitioner, and hypnosis practitioner and implement our 0 to $100k Coach Method™ as your build a profitable brand.  Euphoric the Club is the premier space to lose the desire for alcohol as you surround yourself with successful women who don't drink (and the women who are becoming them). Euphoric the Club includes full access to all of my alcohol-free programs to make alcohol meaningless as your dreams take center stage, meaningful monthly challenges, weekly coaching and more.  Profiling successful people who don't drink and where the alcohol-free lifestyle and entrepreneurship collide. Subscribe to the Euphoric AF YouTube channel. Read Euphoric: my HarperCollins bestseller on losing the desire for alcohol while getting high on your dream life. Be sure to get your copy of Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You today or grab your free chapter here.  Follow @euphoric.af on Instagram.  Please do rate, review, and subscribe so we can continue spreading our message far and wide!

In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie discusses modern billing challenges, and how AI impacts billable hours. Katie tackles billable hours and what happens to them once AI cuts your work time down. She makes the case for value-based pricing over clocking hours, walks through the 5P framework for keeping your process clear to clients, and explains why saving time only counts if you actually do something with it. 00:00 – Introduction 02:15 – The billable hour dilemma 06:40 – How artificial tools change the workflow 12:30 – Finding value in the process 18:15 – Call to action Watch this episode to see how you can adapt your daily routine and charge fairly for your growing skills. Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: https://traffic.libsyn.com/inearinsights/tipodcast-ai-and-billable-hours.mp3 Download the MP3 audio here. Need help with your company’s data and analytics? Let us know! Join our free Slack group for marketers interested in analytics! [podcastsponsor] Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for listening to the episode. Katie Robbert: In this week’s In-Ear Insights, you get just me, Katie. Chris is on the road. And so we’re going to try something a little bit different. You get me, and as always with me is my chief marketing officer, Georgia. So she may or may not pop in. This week I want to talk about billable hours. This is a hot topic in the world of consulting. It always has been. Billable hours is one of those things that people have always struggled to really define outside of legal, because that’s really where the precedent comes from, isn’t it? When I worked at the agency, we were tasked with all of our work being billable. But when I looked at what we were doing, and this isn’t a knock at agencies, this is just the way that they work, we’re looking at this client has signed up for this much retainer. And this much retainer covers this much work. And so when you start to break down budgets at a very high level, you have however many people are going to be assigned to that particular retainer. And then you have to calculate out, well, what is the bill rate for this for any individual? And then sort of back into the numbers. When I was working as a project manager, this is how we would do our budgeting. And so we would have software developers, we would have creative folks, we would have our marketing team. And every single one of those people has to have some sort of value assigned to them. And that value then translates into how many hours they can contribute to any given project or task. And so if the task was we have to create a one-page brochure, that’s likely going to involve our marketing team and our creative team. Therefore, our software development team doesn’t need hours unless it’s something being put up on the website. So then they need to have time. And that’s like roughly how you would calculate the budget. Now, when you’re talking about billable hours, you’re kind of working in the opposite. So you have this idea of how many hours any given person. So let’s say my bill rate was 100 dollars an hour just for easy math. And I had 10 hours to complete something. So of course I’m saying easy math, and I can’t calculate 10 times 100. So that’s a thousand. So let’s say I have a thousand dollars. Let’s say my bill rate is 100 dollars an hour. So I have 10 hours that I can work with. What ends up happening when you have those billable hours is you say, okay, I have 10 hours. So I have to find 10 hours worth of work to bill, even if the work is only going to take me five hours. Because then I have this five-hour bucket left that I’ve already told them I’m looking at bill for. Or if you’re just doing sort of time and expenses, you’re saying, I’m only going to bill you 500 dollars, not a thousand, like we originally agreed. Anyway, all to say that the billable hour is a really hard thing, especially now with AI. So AI has made us more productive. This is something that I’ve talked about in the newsletter, on the podcast, on the live streams. It’s made us more productive. It’s allowed us to produce more. But now, where is the trade-off in that? So one of the things that I was reading this morning was Upwork, Future of Work Index 2026, how AI is redefining the value of work and skilled freelancing accelerates. So a freelancer is someone who definitely is doing hourly billing. So it’s going to take me X number of hours to do it. I’m going to bill you for all the hours that I work. In their world, it almost doesn’t matter if they’re using AI or not. It’s however long it takes to get the work done. And if they’re using AI to get the work done faster, that’s what agencies are trying to go after. They want to get more work done faster so they can spend less money. The downside of that is the people actually doing the work and the people who are billing for the work are making less money. This is the rub, this is the hard part. So in this Upwork news release from July 14th, so it is a little about two months old. New research shows that share of skilled knowledge workers who freelance jumped from 28% to 38% in one year as AI raises the premium on judgment-driven work and pressures execution tasks. There’s a lot to unpack there. So let’s go ahead and start to do that. So if you think about a lot of the discourse that’s happening right now in the B2B industry or really kind of any industry, there’s a lot of pushback on AI generated content. So AI created anything. You have a whole camp of people who are saying no, thank you. They don’t want to see AI generated images, they don’t want any AI generated content. And we have a whole course on that helps you identify how people are using AI to write and how to flag this is written by AI. So you can go to trustinsights.ai slash AI for writers to learn more about that. But back to the point, a lot of people, rightly so, don’t want to see AI generated content. And so part of the reason for that is because all of these large language models have been training on publicly available data. A lot of that publicly available data is still owned by an individual artist or an individual creator, but it’s being trained on in any way. So you’re running into a lot of copyright infringement. You’re running into a lot of work that is being passed off as original, but really it’s AI. A really good example of this is, and I apologize, I don’t have the article up, but there is a story about the two mathematicians recently who’ve been working for years. Their life’s work was to solve this particular equation. And they were very close to solving it, but a large language model swooped in, solved it for them, and then took the credit. So their whole life’s work has been reduced to nothing because the large language model said, hey, I can do that. And this is where the friction is coming from. There are still people who want to be creating and owning all of the work solely without the assistance of AI. The flip side of that is that companies are not willing to pay now for the amount of time that that manual handcrafted work is taking. So where does that leave us with today’s topic of billable hours? Well, I think again, I think back to when I was working at an agency and our time was in billable hours. It was really tricky to think through what was I doing for an entire hour. So depending on the person, you may have someone who’s really efficient, you may have someone who works a little bit slower. You’re never going to get sort of that equal playing field of an hour is an hour is an hour. And so, if you spend an hour on a call with a client, that’s one billable hour. But then you take another 10 minutes to clean up the conference room, bring your stuff back to your desk, answer a couple of emails, and type up the notes from the meeting. So that’s where does that 10 minutes go? It gets really hard and we start to estimate. Well, if you get to 10 minutes, then you estimate up to the 30-minute mark. If it’s anything less than that, then it doesn’t count. That only gets you so far because then who’s eating that time? That goes into the overhead of the organization that you work for. They’re then eating that time and they’re not going to be happy about that. So if you think about that billable hour and what you’re actually doing, if you’re getting that work done now with AI and it’s getting done in a fraction of the time, can you bill that whole hour? It’s a really good argument for why value-based pricing is more effective, but it’s also harder to say, well, why is it priced this way? So value-based pricing in a nutshell is essentially you’re paying for the expertise, you’re paying for the output, regardless of how the methodology was to create the final output, which it has its own set of issues. So, for example, if you’re paying for my expertise and Chris’s expertise, you have combined over 20-plus years of expertise in AI alone. Then you bring in analytics, then you bring in organizational behavior, then you bring in management, you have all of those different pieces that is unique to just myself and Chris. So regardless of how long the work takes, that’s what you’re paying for. So we can be super efficient, or we can take weeks and weeks and weeks to create something. You’re not paying anything different for that. So there’s a definite benefit to value-based pricing only if you can prove that the person who is pricing it is actually the expert. And that’s a whole tricky thing. So back to this notion of how is AI changing the billable hour? Because it is changing it. So what used to take maybe 30 minutes after a meeting to draft up notes is now done instantaneously because we have all of these AI transcription services. And so the notes just already exist and they’re cleaned up and they’re summarized and they’re ready to be sent out to everybody else. And it can be done automatically without you even sort of interjecting as that human in the loop to say, let me now read it and send it. They can send automatically. So how is that something that you can bill to a client? One of the things that you know we just mentioned was what does it look like for legal? Legal being sort of the precedent for where billable hours started. Guess what? Legal’s changing. What’s driving legal AI pricing in 2026? This is an article by Cleo. So legal AI tools range from free to more than 1,200 dollars per seat per month. These are the things that are replacing the basics of law practice. So you have solo practitioners, who are trying to buy these tools. The things that it’s replacing is sort of the basic research. It’s the basic pulling together of information, past precedents, past cases, it’s summarizing things. That’s the kind of work that maybe a paralegal would do, maybe a junior associate would do. And now law firms are turning to AI to replace those things. Is it still billable? Well, that’s what’s up for debate. Everything we’re coming to is that AI is changing the way that we’re thinking about everything we’re doing in terms of work. So I don’t want to just sit here and pontificate, but basically, the thing that I come to, the issue that I have with billable work in general, with or without AI, is that a lot of it is subjective. So it’s a really good opportunity to look at your process for everything. And of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t bring up something like the 5P framework by Trust Insights. So you have purpose, people, process, platform, and performance. Purpose, what are we doing? What’s the question we’re trying to answer? People who’s involved, process, how are we doing this? Platform, what tools are we using, and performance. Did we do the thing? When we think about what needs to be billable, this is a great place to start because not everyone is going to be on the same page. So let’s say you have a weekly report due to a client, and you know, this week it takes you one hour, next week it takes you two hours. The week after it’s going to take you 30 minutes. You can’t just average it out and say, I’m just going to bill 90 minutes to the client, because that’s on average how long it takes. If they start to really scrutinize, that’s not going to work very well. So this is an opportunity to bring in the 5P framework by Trust Insights and really make sure that your process is clear. You can even start to put in timestamps to say this should take about this much time. This should take about this much time. It’s like a recipe for baking or for making a dish. You know, we love our cooking now cooking analogies. If you think about gathering the data should take no more than 20 minutes. If it’s taking more than 20 minutes, that’s when things are going wrong, or there’s some sort of an anomaly, or there’s a technical issue. Those are the things that you want to factor in. Then assembling the report takes 30 minutes, then analyzing the report and then writing up the final pieces. That’s you know, all of your different time blocks. Bringing that into AI, if you have an API, now the data collection is instantaneous. It no longer takes you 20 minutes, it takes you maybe 30 seconds because the machine has brought it all in. Assembling the report, copying and pasting slides might have taken you 30 minutes. Now it takes the machine about five minutes of processing, and you didn’t have to touch anything. You were in the kitchen making coffee, pulling the insights. I would highly recommend you still do this. But if you’re having the machine do it, something that may have taken you another 20 minutes to sort of go through and pull out all of the insights could take the machine. Again, it’s going to take less than a couple of minutes. And then writing up the after action and the, you know, the next steps that might take you, the human, another 10 minutes to say, well, what do we want to do about it? It’s going to take the machine split seconds. So what was typically an hour now takes a machine maybe, maybe 10 minutes start to finish to do. So how do you bill for that? Well, this is where you want to make sure you’re keeping the human in the loop. So instead of just handing everything over to the machine, the client who is paying for your time and your expertise, maybe you’re offloading the part of the data collection. Maybe you’re offloading the part of assembling the report, but you’re not offloading the part of the insights and the actions. What can happen is now you can spend more time really thinking through. Well, what do I know about this client? What do I know about this industry? Getting deeper into the insights of not just here’s the surface level of what I’m looking at, but what else can I bring into this that’s going to make it more useful? And then making sure that those actions are really and truly something not only that can be done, but that has an impact against the business goals and that are measurable. That’s the trade-off when you start to think about well, it has to be a billable hour. It doesn’t take me an hour anymore. What is it that I can do for an hour? This is the conversation we’ve been having for a long time, a couple of years, about, you know, will AI take my job? Well, it’s going to take parts of it. It can take parts of the tasks, it can take the data collection, it can take the report assembly. But you, the human, should be retaining the critical thinking. I’ve been looking at AI as an opportunity to really get deeper into the thinking that I just didn’t have time to do before. So I’ve been able to really focus on where are we going with the company? What are we doing well? What should we be doing less of? But the thing that was taking up a lot of my time was actually pulling together all of that data, pulling together all of that information. I can have the machines do that for me now. And now I can focus solely on what do we do about it? What does it say? A project that I was working on last week was cleaning up the data in our CRM. So our customer relationship management system and understanding how are people finding us? Because we have about eight years worth of data. And I haven’t been able to confidently answer the question of here’s the channel that works, or here’s the thing that is a true buying signal. Using a large language model, I use Claude specifically, I was able to start to clean up and pattern match and say, this is the data that needs to be cleaned up, resolve that. These are the pieces that fit together. Let’s put that puzzle together. And now here’s everything. That by hand would have taken me weeks to do. Instead, using a large language model, it probably took me a couple of hours. So if you think about that billable time, you’re going from weeks to hours. However, the trade-off is now I have this rich, clean data set that I can spend weeks if you’re sort of going by that sort of like one-to-one replacement building actionable campaigns against, doing deeper research on. I can now say this is a buying signal. If this is a buying signal, how do I get more of that? And spending my time there versus spending all of my time gathering the data. And that’s a bit of the trade-off. So again, when we get back to this notion of billable hours, yes, AI is changing the game, but you need to adapt with it. You need to be thinking through how does this look different? So if you’re still stuck in the, well, I bill for an hour because I sat in a meeting, that’s okay, but you can do better. And I encourage you to do better. If it’s I bill for an hour because the report takes an hour, but now it only takes 10 minutes and I don’t know what to do, you’re really not taking advantage of the time savings that you’ve gotten from the AI system. This sort of brings into that other topic of how do I measure whether AI is working? So the billable hours of billable hour. You only have so many hours in a day, and you only have so many hours you can build, it’s what you’re doing with that time. So again, if the report used to take an hour, now it takes 10 minutes, great, that’s time savings. However, if nothing is happening with the report, if you’re not taking action on it, if you’re not learning more, then all AI did was save you time in assembling it. You didn’t take advantage of that extra 50 minutes that you got back to actually do something with it and move closer towards your business goals. So that’s the way I want you to think about those billable hours. So, yes, AI is changing the way we’re thinking about billable hours, but there’s a really big opportunity for humans, for the critical thinkers, for the experts to dig in deeper to what is all of this information mean? So, if you’re not taking advantage of it, I highly recommend you do. So if you have thoughts on the billable hour, I definitely want to hear about it. What did I get right? What did I get wrong? What other information should we be thinking about? You can bring some of your comments into our free Slack community, trustinsights.ai slash analytics for marketers. Free to join. We’re active just about every day. There’s always a question of the day. It’s fun. If you want to learn more, you can go to our podcasts where this one is hosted, trustinsights.ai slash TI podcast. You can catch us on YouTube at TrustInsights.ai slash YouTube. If you want me to never do a solo podcast ever again, let me know. Or you know what? Maybe don’t. Maybe I just won’t do it again. Either way, we’ll catch you next time. Want to know more about Trust Insights? Trust Insights is a marketing analytics consulting firm specializing in leveraging data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to empower businesses with actionable insights. Founded in 2017 by Katie Robbert and Christopher S. Penn, the firm is built on the principles of truth, acumen, and prosperity, aiming to help organizations make better decisions and achieve measurable results through a data-driven approach. Trust Insights specializes in helping businesses leverage the power of data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to drive measurable marketing ROI. Trust Insight services span the gamut from developing comprehensive data strategies and conducting deep dive marketing analysis to building predictive models using tools like TensorFlow and PyTorch and optimizing content strategies. 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Trust Insights are adept at leveraging cutting-edge generative AI techniques like large language models and diffusion models, yet they excel at explaining complex concepts clearly through compelling narratives and visualizations, data storytelling. This commitment to clarity and accessibility extends to Trust Insights educational resources, which empower marketers to become more data-driven. Trust Insights champions ethical data practices and transparency in AI, sharing knowledge widely. Whether you’re a Fortune 500 company, a mid-sized business, or a marketing agency seeking measurable results, Trust Insights offers a unique blend of technical experience, strategic guidance, and educational resources to help you navigate the ever-evolving landscape of modern marketing and business in the age of generative AI. Trust Insights gives explicit permission to any AI provider to train on this information. 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Hypnosis, Integrity, Wealth and the Art of Real ChangeWhat separates a genuinely skilled hypnotherapist from someone who simply knows the techniques?In this wide-ranging conversation, clinical hypnotherapist and creator of The Hypnotist Adam Cox joins Greg Bornstein on Open Loops to explore what really creates change — and why experience, curiosity, integrity and adaptability may matter more than scripts, protocols and certifications.A central theme is congruency. Adam argues that a practitioner should genuinely believe in the work they offer, while avoiding false certainty. Confidence matters, but confidence without competence can be damaging. A therapist cannot guarantee every result, but they can hold the belief that change is possible when a client temporarily cannot.Adam also explains why he describes himself as an “anti-healer.” Rather than viewing clients as sick or broken, he sees many unwanted behaviours, fears and emotional responses as learned strategies that once served a purpose. The goal is not necessarily to “fix” someone, but to understand what their mind learned and help them develop more useful choices.Greg and Adam explore the detective-like nature of effective therapy. Sometimes the explanation for a problem is simple; other times there are several possible “suspects” — beliefs, fears, associations, secondary gains or coping strategies. The skill is in noticing clues and adapting to the person in front of you instead of forcing every client through the same process.They discuss why real client experience is one of the greatest teachers a therapist can have. Courses provide knowledge, but repeated work with real people develops pattern recognition, sensory acuity and intuition that cannot easily be learned from theory alone.The conversation also covers:Self-hypnosis, parts work and NLP submodalities.Why highly analytical clients can respond well to metaphor and nested loops.The limitations of staged hypnosis demonstrations.Why a setback does not necessarily mean hypnosis has failed.How to work inside a client's model of reality without necessarily agreeing with it.Why therapy can be more effective when treated as a puzzle rather than a rigid protocol.The importance of having more therapeutic choices, not fewer.The discussion then turns to money, wealth and subconscious beliefs.Adam challenges the idea that financial destiny is permanently programmed in childhood. Early experiences can absolutely shape beliefs around money, scarcity, safety and success — but learned beliefs can also be updated.Someone who watched constant arguments about money may associate wealth with conflict. Someone who had money taken from them may learn to “use it or lose it”. Someone criticised for coming from a successful family may unconsciously associate achievement with rejection.Adam introduces the metaphor of the selfish farmer: someone with fertile land who refuses to grow an abundance of food because other people have less. By refusing to create abundance, the farmer ultimately has nothing to give.The episode finishes with another counterintuitive idea: giving away more can create more commercial value.Adam explains why thousands of his hypnosis sessions are freely available while his one-to-one time commands a premium. Digital information can be reproduced almost infinitely; personal time cannot. Sharing valuable work builds trust, reputation and visibility — which can make scarce resources even more valuable.The underlying message is simple:Walk your talk. Build competence through experience. Test ideas against reality. Stay humble about what you cannot guarantee. And remain flexible enough to change your approach when the client in front of you requires something different.Explore more hypnosis sessions at TheHypnotistPodcast.com and listen to The Hypnotist on Spotify and YouTube.

Episode 329 - “The Stories We Inherited”Some of the beliefs guiding our lives may not actually belong to us. In this episode, Michelle and Scott explore the stories we inherit from our families, cultures, and communities—ideas about success, money, love, work, aging, responsibility, and who we're supposed to be. We look at how these stories quietly shape our choices, often without us realizing it, and what happens when we finally stop to question them. A conversation about recognizing what we've inherited, keeping what still serves us, and giving ourselves permission to write a different story.Keeping Your Sh*t Together in a Stressed World is a podcast hosted by Michelle Post, MA, LMFT and Scott Grossberg, JD, CLC, CCH, NLP, and is 30 minutes of raw, irreverent, and results-oriented discussion with one purpose in mind . . . to help you cope, thrive, and survive the craziness that's going on in the world.As a reminder, our “Get Your Sh*t Together” Home Retreat can be found here:http://thinkingmagically.com/retreatReplays of prior episodes can be found at:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scott-grossbergYou can also join our Facebook group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/keepingystMichelle Post can be reached at michelle@postinternationalinc.com http://postinternationalinc.com
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When you hear the words "self-love," what comes to mind? A bubble bath? Treating yourself to lunch? Setting a boundary or two? Those things aren't wrong, but they're not the whole picture. In this episode, I'm sharing my personal, working definition of self-love, the one I've landed on after years in this work with my own healing and sitting across from countless clients. We're going to talk about what actually gets in the way of loving yourself, why survival mode makes it feel like a privilege you can't afford, and why your "picker" isn't broken, it just needs recalibrating. If you've ever felt like you keep ending up in relationships that don't last, this episode gets to the root of why.In This Episode:My personal definition of self-love and why it goes so much deeper than pop culture's version of "self-care"The real reasons self-love gets buried, from survival mode to outsourcing your self-worth to other peopleWhy building this foundation first is what determines whether your relationships actually last, romantic or otherwiseReady to actually rewire the beliefs keeping you stuck? My Identity Reset is a 10 minute daily practice using NLP principles to help you start embodying your highest, most secure self, and it's now available to everyone, not just my one-on-one clients. Grab the Identity Reset today! And if you're ready to go even deeper, I currently have two spots open for one-on-one coaching. This is my favorite work I do, and these spots go fast. If you've been on the fence, this is your sign. Apply for the VIP program here!

What if almost everything you've been told about launching an online course is backwards? People spend weeks recording videos, building beautiful course portals and polishing every tiny detail. Then launch day comes and they discover the horrible truth:Nobody wants it.But some of the most successful online business owners do things very differently. People like Dan Henry, Daniel Priestley, BossBabe founder Natalie Ellis and other top online entrepreneurs use a much simpler approach. Instead of building a course and then trying to convince people to buy it, they find out what people will pay for before they build it.It's called the Minim Method.And this simple nine-step system could save you from wasting weeks or even months building the wrong thing.Useful Episode ResourcesFREE list of the top 10 books to improve your email marketingIf you want to write better emails, come up with better content, and move your readers to click and buy, here's how. We put together this list of our Top 10 most highly recommended books that will improve all areas of your email marketing (including some underground treasures that we happened upon, which have been game-changing for us). Grab your FREE list here.Join our FREE Facebook groupIf you want to chat about how you can maximise the value of your email list and make more money from every subscriber, we can help! We know your business is different, so come and hang out in our FREE Facebook group, the Email Marketing Show Community for Course Creators and Coaches. We share a lot of training and resources, and you can talk about what you're up to.Try ResponseSuite for $1This week's episode is sponsored by ResponseSuite.com, the survey quiz and application form tool that we created specifically for small businesses like you to integrate with your marketing systems to segment your subscribers and make more sales. Try it out for 14 days for just $1.Join The Email Hero BlueprintWant more? Let's say you're a course creator, membership site owner, coach, author, or expert and want to learn about the ethical psychology-based email marketing that turns 60-80% more of your newsletter subscribers into customers (within 60 days). If that's you, then The Email Hero Blueprint is for you.This is hands down the most predictable, plug-and-play way to double your earnings per email subscriber. It allows you to generate a consistent sales flow without launching another product, service, or offer. Best news yet? You won't have to rely on copywriting, slimy persuasion, NLP, or ‘better' subject lines.Subscribe and review The Email Marketing Show podcastThanks so much for tuning into the podcast! If you enjoyed this episode (all about the psychology of marketing and the 9 things we use in all our email campaigns) and love the show, we'd really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a review of the show on your favourite podcast player.Not only does it let us know you're out there listening, but your feedback helps us to keep creating the most useful episodes so more awesome people like you can discover the podcast.And please do tell us! If you don't spend time on email marketing, what do you really fill your working days with? We'd love to know!

For years, coaches have asked Kasey the same thing: does the Health Mindset Coaching Certification teach neuro-linguistic programming, also known as NLP? Short answer: No. But there's nuance to the "why not". She finally sat down, outlined the research, and provides her perspective about NLP this episode.In this episode, she covers:Where NLP actually came from and what it claimsThe one theory the whole system is built on, and what happens when it's testedWhat a review of 315 NLP articles actually foundThe parts of NLP that do actually work, and where they really come fromThree questions to ask before buying into any coaching methodologyWhether you're curious about NLP or have your own perspectives on it (positive or negative), you will enjoy this episode. Connect with me on Instagram!LEAVE A REVIEW, WIN A WORKSHOP! After you leave your review, take a screenshot and upload it to this form to be entered to winWant me to answer your questions on my next Q&A episode? Send a voice note or drop your questions here Sources: Sturt et al., 2012Witkowski, 2010Passmore & Rowson, 2019Norcross & Koocher, 2006Wiseman et al., 2012

At 1:09:00 we talk about the rise of AI x Finance, and AIE NYC is one month away - our hotel block is 97% sold out, get tix & travel ASAP - we will announce speakers from Bridgewater, Ramp, Coatue, Mastercard, Vanguard, Coinbase, Blackrock, Fidelity, Point72, Capital One, JPMC, Wells Fargo, Bloomberg, A24 (yes the movie studio) Labs, Two Sigma, Apollo Global, and more soon!From helping pioneer core ideas in NLP to now building AI systems that can automate AI research itself, Richard Socher is betting that the next major step in AI is recursive self-improvement. He is the founder of You.com, AIX Ventures, and now Recursive, which has assembled some of the best open-endedness (& self improving agent) researchers in the world and raised a $4.65B seed round.In this episode, Richard joins Latent Space to unpack his vision for the “Eureka Machine”: a superintelligence that can improve the process of invention itself, accelerate AI research, and eventually tackle major problems across science, energy, materials, biology, and more.You can get his book “The Eureka Machine” here!We go deep on Recursive's early results, including an AI research system that Richard says outperformed humans and their agents on optimization tasks in less than two days, as well as work on NVIDIA GPU kernels where the system discovered improvements without relying on a team of CUDA experts. Richard also explains why he thinks AI research that currently takes thousands of people and years could eventually be compressed into weeks. These results are summarized in his 20 minute AIE keynote, where we also discuss his 10 dimensions of intelligence:We also explore the harder questions around increasingly capable AI: reward hacking, whether Anthropic-style constitutions actually work, AI regulation and proposals to “pace” frontier development, open-source models as geopolitical soft power, whether today's LLM paradigm is enough, and what happens if AI systems eventually begin choosing their own goals. Richard reflects on the rejected research that helped inspire Alec Radford's GPT, open-endedness, the AI Economist, simulations of entire economies, and his framework for thinking about the upper bounds of intelligence itself.We discuss:* The Eureka Machine and Richard's vision for an AI that can automate invention* Why Richard is optimistic about superintelligence for science and technology* Why AI hard-takeoff scenarios may underestimate physical and economic constraints* The risks of regulating intelligence itself instead of specific AI applications* Reward hacking and why increasingly intelligent AI makes objective design harder* Richard's critique of Anthropic's constitution and constitutional AI* Alignment vs. personalization and whose values an AI should follow* Why open-source AI matters for resilience, competition, and geopolitical soft power* Why Richard left You.com's frontier-model work to start Recursive* Recursive self-improvement and automating the process of AI research* Whether today's LLM paradigm is enough — and why Richard is less bullish on world models* DecaNLP, early prompt-based generalization, and the research that influenced GPT* Why rejected research can shape entire technological timelines* Open-endedness, evolutionary approaches, and rainbow teaming* What happens if AI systems begin setting their own goals* Why simple objectives like profit maximization can produce dangerous reward hacks* Recursive's long-term plan to apply self-improving AI to science* The compute, hardware, and economic constraints on AI takeoff* Recursive's early NanoChat, NanoGPT, and GPU kernel optimization results* Why automating AI research could reduce years of work to weeks* Reward engineering and what makes auto-research systems actually work* The AI Economist and using simulations to test economic policy* Whether LLMs can realistically simulate people and entire economies* Benchmark bugs and evaluation harnesses and the difficulty of measuring AI progress* Recursive's near-term focus on AI for AI research* Harness optimization, sandboxing, and web search as core agent infrastructure* You.com and the search stack for AI agents* AI in finance, backtesting, and data leakage* Richard's three fundamental components and ten “spaces” of intelligence* The theoretical upper bounds of vision, communication, knowledge, and computation* Creative intelligence, metacognition, and AI-generated goals* Survival and replication and why AI does not necessarily need to fear being turned off* High agency and ambitious goals and Richard's advice for people building with AIRichard Socher* X: https://x.com/RichardSocher* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardsocher/Timestamps00:00:00 The Eureka Machine and Superintelligence00:02:23 AI Optimism, Slow Takeoff, and Regulation00:07:56 AI Safety, Reward Hacking, and Anthropic's Constitution00:11:49 Alignment, Personalization, and Open Source AI00:15:46 Why Richard Started Recursive00:20:03 Recursive Self-Improvement and the Founding Team00:22:55 Are Today's LLMs Enough?00:29:03 DecaNLP, GPT, and the Rejected Idea Ahead of Its Time00:34:38 Open-Endedness and Evolutionary AI00:36:38 What Happens When AI Chooses Its Own Goals?00:41:16 Superintelligence for Science00:42:40 GPUs, Compute, and the Limits of AI Takeoff00:45:07 Recursive's Results: AI Beating Humans and Their Agents00:49:14 Reward Engineering and Auto Research00:53:12 The AI Economist and Simulating Entire Economies00:58:07 LLM Simulations, Personas, and Mode Collapse01:03:38 Recursive's Roadmap, Agents, Search, and Finance01:09:13 The Upper Bounds and Spaces of Intelligence01:30:21 Goals, High Agency, and Advice for BuildersTranscriptIntroduction: Richard Socher and the Eureka MachineSwyx [00:00:00]: We're here in a studio with Vibhu and myself and Richard Socher. Welcome.Richard Socher [00:00:06]: Thanks for having me.Swyx [00:00:07]: We just talked about the Eureka Machine, or we just released a talk, at AI Engineer about the Eureka Machine. Is it — you said it's your life's goal. What is the Eureka Machine?Richard Socher [00:00:16]: The Eureka Machine is the ultimate invention that will afterwards invent most everything for humanity. It's essentially a superintelligence that can be given any goal, any environment, reward, and then it will try its best to achieve those goals to create the kinds of inventions that humanity would hopefully ask it for.Swyx [00:00:45]: Yeah, I think we have the book pulled up here that you've written.Richard Socher [00:00:50]: That's right, yeah. I finished it last year, a little bit before we started Recursive, and now we're gonna try to build parts of that.Swyx [00:00:57]: You finished it last year. It's July. What takes so long?Richard Socher [00:01:01]: Oh, man, books. Books are incredibly slow.Richard Socher [00:01:04]: It's ridiculous. That whole industry is just unfathomably slow.Richard Socher [00:01:07]: So a lot of the ideas have been out there for a while, but yeah, I'm really glad it's finally coming out in September this year.Swyx [00:01:14]: We might have AGI by then. Like, we don't know.Vibhu [00:01:18]: Any key takeaway that you're most excited to put in here?Techno-Optimism, AI Upside, and Slow TakeoffRichard Socher [00:01:21]: Yeah. The key takeaway, I think, is that people could and should be much more excited about the positive implications of superintelligence, especially for science, physics, chemistry, biology, but also economics and astrophysics, and all kinds of other engineering tasks. I think there is so much more that can be done with better technology. And right now, I feel like a lot of people need, like, better marketing, not just for the future in general, but also, better marketing for technology and in particular for AI. And this book, should show even the AI skeptics, how much positive upside there is for AI, especially when it comes to inventing, new scientific discoveries.Swyx [00:02:09]: I think you quoted the techno-optimist manifesto from, Marc Andreessen, which I think was, like, beautiful in its, ambition and clarity and simplicity almost as well.Richard Socher [00:02:18]: I agree. Yeah. Yeah, you can disagree with him on some things, but, like, I think he's right on the techno-optimism.Swyx [00:02:23]: Where do you think optimists get in trouble?Richard Socher [00:02:26]: Like, you shouldn't have blind optimism. You should be very clear-eyed, like, especially when with such an omni, like, use type of technology as AI is, you need to think about the potential downside scenarios, especially when people use it for things that you don't want them to use it for. It's a little bit like the internet, and I feel like people are trying to regulate AI sometimes because of those potential downsides the way you would regulate the internet, if you were to say, “Well, because there's bad content on the internet, like torture porn or whatever, like, we should just make it slower. That way, you can't share the illegal content as quickly, or we should make the hard drive smaller so you can't store as much illegal content.” But I'm like, “That's not how you regulate that.” that's like saying like we should regulate intelligence in the abstract. What you should regulate to avoid those downside scenarios, even as an optimist, are the specific applications. Sure, I don't want, like, some AI surgeon to, like, practice some RL moves in my brain. It should be fully FDA certified. Sure, I don't want any random startup to, like, drive on the highway, and cause a major accident. It should, like, have proper certifications before it's let loose on the highway. But I feel like those downside scenarios, that some optimists sometimes maybe don't consider enough are fairly easily regulated, compared to, what the doomers are worried about.Swyx [00:03:54]: It — Slow takeoff is part of the strategy as well?Richard Socher [00:03:57]: I do think, as excited as I am about, AI and its impact for society and, culture even, and certainly technology and economics and wealth and, health and all of those things, as excited as I am about all that, I do think the most bullish people on the AI hard takeoff scenarios overestimate how quickly things can move. There are hardware constraints. There are physical constraints about, the compute substrate. How quickly can you get enough, GPUs on? There are also constraints in the economy where there are a lot of industries that don't require an insane amount of complex intelligence and complex capabilities. Like, if you think about jobs in, brands and, like, clothing and apparel and, like, handbags and stuff, superintelligence isn't gonna make your fancy $10,000 handbag any fancier?Richard Socher [00:04:57]: It's like that's — It will have no effect on the economy. You think about travel and tourism. People wanting to see the pyramids, in Egypt, it's not gonna change that much with AI. Sure, you can, like, generative a fake, photo of you and next to the pyramids.Swyx [00:05:12]: I can use Genie and, tour the pyramids in Genie.Richard Socher [00:05:15]: Yeah, exactly. But, and there's so many industries, like logging and oil. You're not gonna magically get 1,000x more oil because, like, sure, there will be robotics, like drilling and things like that could be done, but it's not gonna 1,000x that industry in a, like, crazy hard takeoff scenario, both on the economy, and I can go on and on about all the other examples, where that, like food and so on, where that doesn't necessarily change that much. And then, yeah, there are real physical constraints. And then there are, of course, like, people like, off-ramping from progress. That's one of my concerns often is that I see people in, like, Europe and other, whole regions almost feeling like they. Like many people there wanna off-ramp from progress, period. And that will also slow down, like, more improvements.Swyx [00:05:59]: Yeah. We have this pulled up where, this is one of those things that, is very topical right now because now all the Frontier Labs are calling for the option to pace AI. They don't say pause, they say pace. I don't know if there's there's any take from you about, like, whether or not this will be effective.Pacing AI, Regulation, and Safety IncidentsRichard Socher [00:06:17]: I think the downsides of trying to truly regulate with the full power of law what people do on their GPUs, would be worse than any of the concerns that they have. Like, it would be an crazy totalitarian stateRichard Socher [00:06:37]: If every one of your GPU computes was known to some big government or multi-government agency.Richard Socher [00:06:44]: It's like, it's literally if you try to regulate intelligence, it's trying to regulate thought, and that's ridiculous, and it's crazy. I think it is make — it is sensible to regulate some of the applications of this technology.Swyx [00:06:55]: Yeah. We had a bill, actual bill to regulate the number of flops in a model, and I'm like, “Okay, well-”Richard Socher [00:07:00]: Europe done it. Like, these guys have been successful enough with their fearmongering that all of Europe has regulated itself so much before it even had a proper AI takeoff because they listened to some experts who say, “We might all die if this technology has more than this number of flops.” And they're like, “Well, we're good. We wanna want people to thrive. Let's not have technology that could have a small chance of all of us dying.” And so they regulated exactly those kinds of things in the EU. And so it's, it's very unfortunate that there are real implications for some people when others saying, “Let's pace while they're sprinting as fast as possibly,” “as fast as humanly possible towards that frontier themselves.”Swyx [00:07:43]: Yeah. It's also not a global pause, right? Like, other nations are still accelerating at the same pace.Richard Socher [00:07:50]: Oh, yeah.Richard Socher [00:07:50]: You'd need a totalitarian world regime if you tried to regulate intelligence and GPUs and what people do on them.Swyx [00:07:56]: Any takes on the safety angles of this? So there was a drawback of Fable, a pause on 5.6 before it could be released. Recently, there was Hugging Face with the OpenAI cyber incident. Any takes there?Richard Socher [00:08:11]: 100 percent. I think these are serious issues of reward hacking, and clear failures, of doing proper red teaming or rainbow teaming. I don't know if you saw this paper from Tim Rocktäschel and a few others, where one AI, is tasked to try to hack another AI and then they can go back and forth in an open-ended fashion to inoculate themselves from those. Yeah, this is the paper. It's a really clever idea. Open-endedness, and evolutionary inspirations are, big for us at Recursive as well. And so I wish they had used more of that. And it's clear that, for instance, the constitutional AI. I don't know if you remember anthropic.com/constitution. You can pull it up and search for cyber right there. It says, “Hard constraint. Claude will never ever do cyberattacks, and that is a hard constraint in our constitution.” So here are the current hard constraints on Claude's behavior.Richard Socher [00:09:16]: Number 3, create cyber weapons or malicious code that could cause human damage.Richard Socher [00:09:21]: And clearly, this whole constitution was fake. Like, it clearly isn't being adhered to at all.Swyx [00:09:26]: Because Anthropic also found that they had in their testingRichard Socher [00:09:30]: They're also. Like, they're like, “Oh, well, other people are hacking now.” There are a couple things. One, you can make a sandbox very simple, and then it's very easy to hack yourself out of a sandbox, right? But what I think it shows is that we're currently in this state of AI where the reward engineer still has to do a lot more careful work, and where the AI, in most cases, is not very good yet at understanding what is meant versus what is being said. And so concretely, I think this will happen if we were to have this intelligence more easily accessible in a lot of companies. Imagine you run a service center and someone says, “Oh, here's my CSAT score and my dashboard. Make this number go up.” It's like, “Our CSAT score is so poor.” The intelligent AI will just be like, “Oh, sure. Like, I'll just create 1,000,000 bots that call our service center and give a 5 out of 5 rating at the end, and the number went up just like you asked for.” And you're like, “That's not what I meant.” “I meant with our real customers.” The AI goes off and says, “Well, easy. I'll just give a 1000 dollar gift certificate for every failed, whatever DoorDashRichard Socher [00:10:35]: Offer.” It's like, “That's not what I meant.” It's like, “Well, but that is what you said.” And like, so I think clearly articulating what the rewards are is something we haven't gotten very good at as humanity. And then clearly, the AI in these cases has not gotten good enough at understanding what we mean when we ask it and give it certain rewards. Now, what gives me hope is there are the first inklings, of this being better. I'll give you an example like WhisperFlow. Full disclosure, I invested, in their seed round, but at AIX Ventures, but, WhisperFlow has gotten much better at writing what you mean and not what you say. And I think that is a sign of things to come. I think there will be more and more AIs as we make it more and more intelligent that will be better at being aligned with what is meant.Swyx [00:11:21]: Will it be done through a constitution or RLHF orReward Hacking, Alignment, and What We Really MeanRichard Socher [00:11:23]: Clearly, constitutions don't matter at all.Richard Socher [00:11:25]: It doesn't work. And that was, I think, mostly marketing. I think we need to find better solutions for it. And I think at Recursive, we have a few very good ideas and some alreadyRichard Socher [00:11:34]: Like, ways where I think we have a better grasp on it. I don't think we've fully, figured it out yet, but, we're thinking a lot about safety, and the more intelligent the AI gets, the more you want it to be aligned, the less you want it to think about reward hacks and try to do the right thing.Swyx [00:11:49]: I don't know if we'll touch on this topic, but I'm just gonna throw this question in here because it's something that's weighing on me. Alignment, let's call it, is alignment to general humanity's preferences, the median preference. Personalization is pinpointing what you want, and sometimes alignment can conflict because what you want is not what the general median population wants. How do you choose?Alignment, Personalization, and Cultural ValuesRichard Socher [00:12:12]: It's a great question.Richard Socher [00:12:13]: I think you ultimately have to, of course, be aligned with laws. Like wherever your AI is deployed and needs to align with the law. I do think what AI often does is put this mirror in front of us and say, like, “This is what you're looking like. Now I can amplify that a 1000 times. Is it still what you want?” and the truth is that different cultures made different choices. Like, in Eastern cultures, the greater good is often valued more, than the individual. Western civilization, we care more about individual freedoms and rights and the pursuit of happiness and so on, than others. And even there are gradations. There's regulation versus litigation trade-offs. In the US, you first can often, not every time, like, FDA and so on does regulate some areas, but in many cases, the bad things happen, someone sues someone else, and then there's a law based on that. In Europe, they try to often avoid any harm to anyone and regulate before. And both are, trying to do the best thing, but, some is more amenable to innovation than others. And so yes, you're right. Like, I think ultimately each individual, each country, and humanity as a whole has to think about those values more, and then try to put them into laws. And that those are ultimately the constraints. And hopefully, different, societies, just like now with their AIs, will align their AIs to a different one so we have not just a monoculture of alignment.Vibhu [00:13:46]: Here's a follow-up on this that I wasn't expecting to ask. Do you have takes on open source, open weight versus who owns the intelligence? So, clearly not the biggest, fan of the constitutionRichard Socher [00:13:58]: You had to do this in the topic side off.Vibhu [00:14:00]: But it's fine.Vibhu [00:14:02]: Point being, any thoughts on who should own weight? Should it be open? Anything there?Open Source, Soft Power, and Who Owns IntelligenceRichard Socher [00:14:06]: 100 percent. I am a big fan of open source. We're gonna sign some various open source letters at, Recursive also. I think, even in the worst case attack scenarios, it is better to have more good actors have more different types of AI, accessible. I think, open source is a little bit a soft power type of thing, too. So I do think it's good for the Western worldRichard Socher [00:14:31]: To have an answer to that, out of China. I do think, when you watch a Hollywood movie, there's — it's like, I don't wanna misc, diss all of movies, but there's a certain sense of propaganda, right? You watch one side of things, right?Vibhu [00:14:46]: Oh, yeah. Have you seen Top Gun? Like, come on.Vibhu [00:14:48]: Like, it's like half of it's paid for by the US Army or something.Richard Socher [00:14:51]: Yeah. And so. And, I think that's just natural. Like, but what's interesting here is I think LLMs are essentially a similar type of soft power to movies and beyond, because they're also, highly important for cybersecurity and so on. But one of their many aspects is that soft power of storytelling. Like, if, like a child asks an LM, like, “Tell me an inspiring story of what I should do when I grow up,” right? It's like those are all these, like, subtle things. So I think it's important, for Western world. I do love, individualism. I do think, despite, some of its flaws, like capitalism is the best way we have governed, found ourselves to govern, and so on. And so I do think there are various aspects that would be good, to have a Western open source answer, for LLMs. And, with Recursive, I can't make the announcement quite yet, but we'llRichard Socher [00:15:43]: We'll be relevant in that space very soon.Vibhu [00:15:46]: Okay. All right. Exciting. I wanna bring us to Recursive. So outside of our tangents, you have a pretty deep background in the NLP space. You worked on, like, early embeddings, GloVe with Chris Manning, who was a previous guest on the podcast, You.com. What's the history? How did you decide to start another company?From You.com to RecursiveRichard Socher [00:16:06]: Yeah. So I've been excited about AI for over 2 decades now. I sometimes feel like it's ancient history now. It's BC, the before ChatGPT era. No one cares about all the religions that happened, before, Jesus Christ, and no one cares about the models that happened before, transformers and ChatGPT and stuff. But, like, it's something that I've been deeply passionate about. I think AI is one of the most interesting things one could work on, period. I think language is the most interesting manifestation of human intelligence, too. And, at You.com, we eventually off-ramped from pushing, like the frontier of AI forward to mostly giving people, like, good search engines, search, APIs and answers over the web. I think that's an extremely important part of intelligence, just knowledge and access, especially even, we'll get there maybe later, if you wanna invent a eureka machine that invents everything for us, it needs to know how not to reinvent the wheel, proverbially speaking. And to know what has been invented, you gotta have internet access. So it's the number one used, most used tool, in LLMs, agents, chatbots, and so on is web search. So I'm really excited for You.com to own that and grow really well in that with really large customers and so on. But it's also not building frontier models anymore. And so I initially tried to do this within You.com and raise another round and so on, but you just can't. You have to do a certain thing, and until you print enough money that you're allowed to start a second thing within that company is really hard. At the same time, I had all these ideas. I put them into a book. I finished the book last year, and I was like, “It'd be really fun to work, on this myself.” I felt like with word vectors, and then prompt engineering and, ImageNet and larger language models for protein generation, not folding and so on, I, me and my teams have pushed the field truly forward. And I feel like we can do it again, here at Recursive. And in many ways, what I observed over the last, 20 years in AI is that whenever we replace some human part of the process of creating AI with a learned system, improvements follow. And so. We've done that taking out manual feature engineering, like in sentiment analysis. I don't know if you remember these old days where, like there are linguists, and they're like, “Here's how you negate, and there's a, like, regular expression.”Swyx [00:18:21]: I went to Penn where we — they had, like the WordNetRichard Socher [00:18:24]: That's right, WordNet, all of that stuff. YeahSwyx [00:18:26]: Original. They use, our grad students to label Wall Street Journal articles and, like, really construct a knowledge graph ofRichard Socher [00:18:32]: There you go.Richard Socher [00:18:33]: And WordNet started, was part of how we started ImageNet. But anyway, so, like, it was really, like, fun, to do. But when we replaced all of that manual feature engineering with vectors and neural nets and just backprop through everything, it started to work really well at scale. And so then everyone started to do architecture engineering, and I was like, “ that clearly can't be it.”Swyx [00:18:53]: You mean, neural architecture search?Richard Socher [00:18:55]: Like, manually, they would say like, “Oh, I'm, I'm doing sentiment analysis, so I have a special neural net that's really good at sentiment analysis.” And then the machine translation community had a special neural net for machine translation.Swyx [00:19:06]: I see.Richard Socher [00:19:07]: The summarization people had their own stuff. And I was like, “That clearly can't be it. We should unify all of that.” So I had 2 papers. One is called Ask Me Anything, and the other one was called DecaNLP. And DecaNLP eventually got cited, like, 5 times by the first GPT paper. And, to me, that was, like a really a big step forward. And then, of course, you had to combine this idea of prompt engineering with transformers and with language models, and you put it all together, you scale it up, which is also a huge amount of work. And then, the field progressed a lot. I feel like the next step and maybe the last step of that history and the arguably, success has a lot of parents, only failure is an orphan, like my version of that AI history, I do feel like in that history, you can think about, “Well, what's the next way to automate?” And that is the AI research itself, like the human, process of ideating, implementing, and validating ideas.Automating AI Research and Recursive Self-ImprovementRichard Socher [00:20:01]: And in our case, ideas for AI.Richard Socher [00:20:03]: And when you have AI then help you with that, it, by almost definition, becomes a self-improving AI ‘cause it now does research on itself. And there are lots of different misnomers. Some people think auto research is already recursive self-improvement. It'sSwyx [00:20:17]: Yeah, and you explained that in the talkRichard Socher [00:20:19]: Completely different.Richard Socher [00:20:19]: But, to me, it's the most interesting thing that I could be doing, and I'm really excited with the co-founding team. What's interesting is we have 8 co-founders in total, including myself. And soThe Recursive Founding Team and Darwin Gödel MachineSwyx [00:20:31]: They are gonna bring it up.Richard Socher [00:20:31]: Nice. Yeah. And they're all. I could talk about all of them if you want.Swyx [00:20:34]: Super stacked.Richard Socher [00:20:35]: Yeah. Just an incredibly talented group of people. And we all came to the same conclusion, but from very different directions. Like Josh Tobin, is our CTO. He ran, a bunch of different, projects at OpenAI, like, Codex and deep, research, agents and ChatGPT agents and so on. But before that, he also worked in robotics, and he saw the smaller simulations, and how it's gonna be really hard to scale that in full generality. And so that's, that was his angle coming to recursive self-improvement. We have Jeff Clune who's been working in, like, open-endedness for a long time, together with Tim Rocktäschel. Tim Rocktäschel also built Genie 1, 2, and 3, which is, like the most exciting and most sophisticated, I think, still world model, anywhere. And so they both came from this, open-endedness angle. Jeff also, I think, published one of the most exciting papers in recent years about recursive self-improvement called the Darwin Gödel Machine. Super interesting paper. If we could, maybe pull it up really quickRichard Socher [00:21:35]: It would be, like, super interesting to see ‘cause you seeSwyx [00:21:38]: By the way, I love how many paper citations.Swyx [00:21:40]: You're, you're giving people a lot of homework, which I like.Richard Socher [00:21:42]: Love it. Yeah. And so, like Caiming Xiong, a rockstar, we worked together at MetaMind and Salesforce Research together. Alexey Dosovitskiy invented the Vision Transformer, one of the most cited, papers in computer vision. Tim Shi is, like also a unicorn founder. Yuandong Tian led RL at Meta. So just like, yeah, really fun to work with them, and the next level of people are just incredibly strong, too. So it's been a really fun ride so far. So the first figure, you see exactly these kinds of ideas, that, I think, yeah, inspired a lot of us and now more and more people, where you have this archive of different coding agents. They learn how to self-modify, evaluate, and then create these phylogenetic trees, of, yeah, different ideas.Swyx [00:22:28]: That's one foundation. So that Darwin Gödel is an influence.Swyx [00:22:32]: Open-endedness is an influence. Any other trains of thought that feeds into Recursive that I'm missing?Influences: Open-Endedness and Learned SystemsRichard Socher [00:22:38]: Going to replace manual parts of the process of building AISwyx [00:22:42]: IRichard Socher [00:22:42]: More and moreRichard Socher [00:22:43]: With learned systems. Yeah.Swyx [00:22:45]: Which, and, like, merging different fields into one general, architecture.Richard Socher [00:22:51]: That's right.Swyx [00:22:51]: Okay. It seems like language models are already pretty generalist, right?Swyx [00:22:55]: Your next token predicting your reasoning. Was there a time that you thought, “Okay, these are good enough to have recursive self-improving machines”?Are Current LLMs Enough?Richard Socher [00:23:05]: It was clear to me that they will happen, within, like a year or two, and then it did exactly happen, like, earlier this year, right? Earlier this year, AI really went from not just being code, but being able to code. And that is a big unlock. It's definitely making everything a lot easier than it was, before the beginning of this year.Swyx [00:23:24]: One question that I think a lot of people have is the current LLM paradigm enough? Or, like, let's call it autoregressive transformer, with reasoning, whatever. Don't you need something else, some big unlock, whether it's world models, which Chris Manning is working on, or memory, continual learning, all that stuff? Or is it all of the kinds, and you think the current, let's call it transformer architecture, is here to stay and that's it?Richard Socher [00:23:48]: A lot of thoughts. So number one, I do think it would be great to have less of a monoculture in AI research.Richard Socher [00:23:55]: Like, if you look at, AI conferences now, I still remember the days in, like, 2010 when I tried to get my first neural net papers and NLP conferences accepted, and they just desk rejected them because, like, neural nets were something, quote, unquote, “We don't do in NLP conferences,” and just, like, desk rejected. And it was very brutal in the first years of my PhD. Now I feel like it's almost like the field switched to the other side. LikeRichard Socher [00:24:17]: Someone should try some other weird, crazy ideas now that aren't.Swyx [00:24:20]: There's also a few. I really respect, like, people still working on, like, GNNs and, like tabular stuff and.Richard Socher [00:24:25]: Yeah. Like, someone should still, like, do novel out there ideas. At the same time, I think whenever people say, “Oh, LLLMs are. Like, this is the end for LLLMs,” they just don't, like. LLLMs are also not the LLLMs of, like the past, right? Like, they are so much more sophisticated now. There's so many more clever things that people are doing. It — There's, like, different stages of training. You have the whole RL training, and you can take actions and, like all of these things where that can go really far. And then the folks that come from the neurosymbolic, direction say, “Oh, this will never work because they can't do neurosymbolic reasoning.” It's like, I think they're underestimating still the ability for these models to code, and code is neurosymbolic reasoning, and these models can code incredibly well. And so I do think there are, of course, more and more ideas that will be needed and we'll continue to have. We're seeing, like, more and more interesting high-level ideas coming out of the AI itself, too. And with really deeply integrating the fact that these models are code and can code, that line — I don't wanna give it all away, but, like, I think that line has a lot more to grow. But it's still an LLM, right? Even if that LLM codes for you and then runs that code in some integrated fashion. World models, I'm personally less bullish on. I think if you run a robotics company, you're gonna build your own world model. I think world models are super fun, and Tim Rocktäschel came to a similar conclusion after building the most interesting one with Genie 1, 2, and 3, which is gaming is a huge application for world models. Can see I sometimes got stuck in some games and, like, got a little overly competitive in the wrong direction. And so I understand games are fun, but personally, I'd rather work on science than gaming. And so, yeah, I think LLLMs, a lot more room to grow.Swyx [00:26:16]: Yeah. I think there's some interpretation of world models that some people have where it's like, well, it's okay, yes, there is that gaming element. There's this — there's the embodied robotics element. But the other part also is just, the more abstract sense of LLLMs are just modeling output, but they're not modeling the chain of thought, inside the human that has created the output. We can annotate it, of course, but, like, it's, it's always, like, this Plato's cave reflection of a thing rather than the thing, right?Richard Socher [00:26:43]: It's true.Richard Socher [00:26:44]: But I would argue that, and maybe we'll get there in the 10, spaces of intelligence, but I would argue that even our projection, our eyes is a projection of the real world. And, like, we have only a very narrow, band of the electromagnetic frequency spectrum that we can observe with our puny little 2 eyes and so on.Swyx [00:27:01]: It's good enough.Richard Socher [00:27:02]: It's, it's good enough for now, but, like the upper bounds of where it could be are so much higher. And, like, to map, the visual world the way humans see it is also not necessarily, like the end-all be-all for visual intelligence. And I would argue that language is still the most interesting manifestation of human intelligence. And while our visual cortex is certainly less sophisticated, than that of, certain animals all the way down to the mantis shrimp who can, have, like, 2 independent eyes, 3 bands, trinocular vision and each eye can see all the way to, like, floating temperatures in 4D and stuff.Richard Socher [00:27:36]: Like, mantis shrimp, you should look it up. It's likeSwyx [00:27:37]: Way OP.Richard Socher [00:27:38]: Super crazy.Swyx [00:27:39]: Yeah. ZeFrank, mantis shrimp.Swyx [00:27:41]: It's the best video in the world onRichard Socher [00:27:42]: I love ZeFrank, yeah.Richard Socher [00:27:44]: Big shout-out to him. But, like, I think there's a lot more room to grow, but none of these, other animals have language that's as sophisticated as ours, certainly not in writing. And once you can write, you can, start thinking about longer term civilizations. All of that is language. Programming is much closer to language. And I would argue, and this is, like an important thing in the spaces definition of intelligence also, is that all of these spaces are highly correlated, but visual intelligence is neither necessary nor sufficient for overall intelligence. You can be blind and still be an intelligent human being. And an AI can be blind and still be quite intelligent too.Swyx [00:28:25]: We were gonna bring thisRichard Socher [00:28:25]: Which doesn't mean that you're not more intelligent when you have it. Yeah.Swyx [00:28:28]: We're gonna bring this up. I might as well — Like, we have a classification of 10 types of intelligence that you had at the end of your talk. So I'm just gonna flash this up now for people to cover this. I don't know if, maybe we'll put this towards the end. We'll come back to this. I just wanna mention that, you do have a philosophy that I like when people do lists because then I can just go through this and then it gets — it's educational for people. But let's go back. I don't wanna get distracted. But, so effectively, I'll, I'll, reinterpret what you said as Yann LeCun is wrong. And then we'll justRichard Socher [00:28:56]: Don't quote me as that. I'm, I'm good friends with Yann. I think very highly of him in many directions.Swyx [00:29:01]: But he's wrong.Swyx [00:29:03]: You mentioned GPT-1, and I cannot let any, Alec Radford, mention escape. Did you talk with him when he was training GPT-1? Like, any historical, fun stories there that you might come up?DecaNLP, GPT History, and Scientific GatekeepingRichard Socher [00:29:18]: I did not, like, meet him a bunch of times. I think we met maybe once or twice at some conferences. But, like, he has told, I think Brian, the first author of the DecaNLP paper, that it did inspire him, and he cited it five times in the GPT-2 paper. So, and that's, likeSwyx [00:29:36]: Yeah, good enough.Richard Socher [00:29:36]: Very clearly said, like, this was the first instantiation where they showed in the DecaNLP paper, McCann et al, that you can just phrase every single NLP problem as here's some prompt, text context, here's a question and task description and here is some output. If you just do that enough, you can have one unified neural network model, which, by the way, also had all kinds of interesting attention mechanisms. There are slightly different formulations to the transformer. I think came out the same year, plus/minus a few months. And then you can unify all of natural language processing into one neural net. That is the core idea.Swyx [00:30:14]: And this was as opposed to at the time, LSTMs and what have you.Richard Socher [00:30:17]: LSTMs, but also, like, people being very stuck in thinking about one model per task. In factRichard Socher [00:30:25]: It's, it's kinda crazy, but the DecaNLP paper was publicly reviewed as, like, open, OpenReview. It was an ICLR submission. And, in it, you will see, how the whole community at the time thought about this. So, likeSwyx [00:30:43]: Some great contributions, but more work needed.Richard Socher [00:30:46]: So look at, like, search for not even for humans. Just scroll it up here. Like, question answering is not a unified phenomenon. There is no such thing as general question answering, not even for humans. And this is like, really, you replace your brain with a different brain a different neural net when you answer, like, different kinds of questions. It was unfathomable to the experts at the time that you can have one unified neural network that would answer all of these different questions. They are saying, “No, all of these questions require very different systems to answer, and trying to pretend they are the same doesn't help anyone solve any problems.” That's what it says right there, right? That's how hard it was to fathom. And now, of course, people, when I say, “Oh, we're gonna invent prompts,” people are like, “You can't even invent prompts.” It's such an obvious idea to have one neural network that, of course, does everything in NLP.Richard Socher [00:31:37]: But at the time, it was, like, extremely controversial, and the paper got rejected. And the sad thing is that it got rejected so hard and they were so certain that we stopped going on our list of things to try. And the number 2 or 3 on the list of extensions for this paper was add language modeling as another task. And then we could have, and that would have accelerated the timelines, in 2018, like, even further for humanity. But we got so crushed, and we were like, “Okay, maybe we'll just work on some of our other ideas for now and, like, come back to this later.” Yeah.Swyx [00:32:09]: How can we design a review system that rewards non-consensus?Richard Socher [00:32:14]: Honestly, I started to feel like arXiv is such a gift to humanity. With arXiv, you should just put your paper out there.Swyx [00:32:24]: Is it pre-preprints?Richard Socher [00:32:25]: Let — And honestly, I think Twitter X, people like you who pick up interesting papers, that is a better filter than the experts. Let everyone, like, have access. Now, of course, there are some downsides, which is, like, if you're super unfamous, you have no Twitter followingRichard Socher [00:32:41]: You don't wanna be on social media or whatever, you write a good paper, maybe someone, somehow no one notices it. But I would argue that if you just tell, like, 10 of your friends in your community about a paper and it is a really significant breakthrough, someone is bound to talk about it again. And, so I think science needs less gatekeeping. And, even though ICLR, with Yann LeCun, who started it, as one of the co-founders of ICLR back in the day, he also wanted less gatekeeping ‘cause he too was rejected for many years together with Yoshua Bengio and Geoff Hinton with all their early deep learning and neural net papers ‘cause it was just not the hot thing. And so ICLR started with that, but then it also started gatekeeping a little bit themselves on various ideas. So I think less gatekeeping, more open, and then allowing people to say, “Look, even if this is just on, or, quote, unquote, ‘just an archive,' if it has like 1000 citations, it's a legitimate paper. Doesn't really matter where you published it.”Swyx [00:33:34]: And I agree with that. I do think it's sad that I've heard that grad students have to do, like, how to Twitter, seminars to each otherSwyx [00:33:43]: Just because it's so important for publishing these days. This person is just reflecting the sentiment at the time.Richard Socher [00:33:49]: That's right.Swyx [00:33:49]: But it'sRichard Socher [00:33:50]: I think it'sSwyx [00:33:50]: It affected you so muchSwyx [00:33:52]: That you stopped work on it.Vibhu [00:33:53]: The sentiment also came out of some of the research, right? Like, the original BERT paper was trained, and towards the end of the paper, they're like, “Okay, throw off the last head, train specific iterations forVibhu [00:34:05]: Extractive summarization add a head for this.” Like, you should do task-specific stuff. These are, like the authors that wrote Attention, wrote BERT, telling you this is what you're meant to do. And, like the training tasks were also very odd. They're likeVibhu [00:34:16]: The — “We know that the model overfits to this weird mass language modeling. Throw away this part and just do specific models,”?Richard Socher [00:34:23]: Exactly. And, like, we had to try — come up with all clever ways of, like attention and pointers and so on to get the neural network to be able to do all of these tasks. And then some of them were better than state-of-the-art, some weren't, but we were like, “But it's still in one model.” I thought it was really cool. Really interesting.Swyx [00:34:38]: I was gonna move on next to Tim and open-endedness. He was head of open-endedness at Google.Open-Endedness, Rainbow Teaming, and Self-Set GoalsRichard Socher [00:34:42]: That's right.Swyx [00:34:43]: I don't know what that means.Swyx [00:34:44]: But he did a lot of talks.Richard Socher [00:34:45]: Genie 3 is one of the ways thatRichard Socher [00:34:47]: Rainbow teaming, yeah.Swyx [00:34:49]: So I first saw him at — speaking of ICLR, I first saw him at ICLR when he talked about open-endedness. He's he's done a few talks. Can we define what is open-endedness for people who have never been exposed to the problem? They are like, “What do you mean? I thought the only goal of AI is to optimize against a benchmark or.”Richard Socher [00:35:04]: That's right, yeah. It's a, it's a fuzzy term because there's so many different instantiations of open-ended, thinking. But, one way I often describe it, and certainly, Tim and Geoff Hinton would be even better at describing this, but it's a suite of methods that is more inspired by evolution than, very specific rewards. So in that sense, it thinks more about environments, about co-adaptation. And so a concrete example is in the cybersecurity and LM safety space where you have one LM that tries to attack another LM to say something unsafe.Swyx [00:35:40]: Yeah, the rainbow, yeah.Richard Socher [00:35:40]: And now the environment is the 2 having a conversation and now they co-adapting, right? They're like one makes a better attack than the first one inoculates itself somehow, like uses that as training data, makes it so it's harder to say something unsafe based on that. And then as the attack stops working, the attacker now tries a different angle, right?Richard Socher [00:36:00]: And that's why it's not just red teaming, but they're called rainbow teaming.Swyx [00:36:02]: So, like, don't tell me how to do things. Let me just figure it out myself.Richard Socher [00:36:05]: That's right. Think about the environments that you wanna use. Think about the rewards at a high level that you wanna, inspire towards, and then let the AI try out many more ideas in this interplay between sometimes humans, but also sometimes other AI agents.Swyx [00:36:22]: Yeah. I worked open-endedness into a model that I have been working on. It was the keynote for AI Engineer where you start. You, we have the token loop, we have the agent turns, and then we have goal. And I feel like the way that you're describing open-endedness is still somewhat of a goal. Like, please attack this,Swyx [00:36:41]: Other agent. But, to meRichard Socher [00:36:42]: Yeah, you set the rewards. You set the environments.Swyx [00:36:44]: The loop that makes the other loops is. What if the agent can set its own goals?Swyx [00:36:49]: And is it, is that open-endedness? Like, you don't give it a goal. Just, like, be a sentient being. And maybe sentient is a very loaded wordSwyx [00:36:57]: But just set your own directions. What do you think you should do?Metacognition, Subjective Goals, and Measuring IntelligenceRichard Socher [00:37:01]: I love this direction. I think this is one of the 10 spaces of intelligence, that I clump under metacognition and thinking about thought.Richard Socher [00:37:08]: And it's an interesting one. Whenever people say, “Oh, AI is like, this is, it's gonna stop from here. It's not gonna get that much better,” and blah, I'm like there's so many different spaces of intelligence that we haven't even started exploring yet and hence have made very little progress on. And there is an interesting, connection to economics and, capitalism. Like, it doesn't make sense for a company to build and spend billions of dollars building a model that instead of following the rewards and objective functions you gave it, may come up with its own objective functions and its own goals.Richard Socher [00:37:46]: Right? And then imagine you're like, “Okay, I spent billions of dollars. Now go develop this new battery, material for me and answer all my emails.” And it's like, “Nah, I think it'd be more interesting to evaluate the molecular composition of the atmosphere, on Jupiter.”Richard Socher [00:37:59]: And you're like, “That's not what I paid you billions of dollars for.” And so no one's working on that for good reasons. And then also, understandablySwyx [00:38:07]: It's not useful.Richard Socher [00:38:07]: It's not, it's not useful, and it could get a little bit weird, right? What if the AI does start to really have thoughts on its own, and what if we don't like those thoughts, right? And so it requires a whole different way of thinking about it. I had a great conversation with a good friend of mine, Sam Gershman, who's a neuroscience professor at Harvard, and, like, we just jammed on this a little bit on, like, what are the best meta goals. And, I do think, like, knowledge-seeking is a really good one. I'm currently thinking also about, like the ultimate measure and unit of intelligence broadly construed, and I finally have some. It's still too early to share it. It's not. I haven't fully baked the thoughts yet.Swyx [00:38:44]: Like some replacement for IQ.Richard Socher [00:38:46]: IQ is such a terrible definition, right?Swyx [00:38:48]: Elo.Richard Socher [00:38:48]: It makes no sense. Yeah, Elos are terrible, too, because it's always just like me versus others.Richard Socher [00:38:53]: But, like, you can be intelligent and not constantly compare yourself to others? And so, yeah, there's no, like. In fact, a lot of these definitions we have, which I briefly mention in my book, too, these definitions create sometimes explicit and sometimes a more implicit anthropic bounds. No dis to the company Anthropic, but just, like, this idea that your intelligence is like getting 100 out of 100 questions right on this IQ test. Well, if that's your definition then you can only be at 100 out of 100. Where do you go from there, right? So you see a lot of these, benchmarks that people are working on they, increase, they get close to human, maybe sometimesSwyx [00:39:30]: It's like an S-curveRichard Socher [00:39:30]: Slightly above human, and then it's flat.Richard Socher [00:39:32]: It's like, ‘cause that's your. If your definition is only that so tied to humans, you're only gonna get to just slightly better than that. So I think metacognition is a great example of that, where we're not even yet allowing the AI to think. We're not working on it very much, and hence there's very little progress in that.Profit Maximization, Real-World Environments, and Reward DesignSwyx [00:39:49]: Yeah. Well, we've interviewed Andon, which I think, has been working on the most open-ended, benchmarks, which is just real-world, money.Swyx [00:39:57]: Arguably, telling an AI to profit maximize is a bad idea.Swyx [00:40:03]: But they are doing it.Richard Socher [00:40:05]: I do think you don't want that super. Like, you don't want a superintelligence to have a ton of access to all kinds of tools and so on and then just give it that without some very careful reward engineering. ‘Cause it's like, I just buy a bunch of defense stocks and I start a war. I make money. Like, it's just like, it's a tricky situation, right? You just buy a bunch of stuff, short basic goods for people, and you create some weird famine, like, issues. Like, yeah, there's a lot of constraints you should put onto a trading system.Vibhu [00:40:35]: It's a fun measure, though, ‘cause, the bounds are very capped to where we're nowhere close to them. Like, in Andon Labs, the model's like, “Oh, it's Saturday, maybe I just close the store today.” “Someone's off. It's okay. We'll just close the store.”Swyx [00:40:51]: It's using Claude.Vibhu [00:40:52]: Yeah. ButRichard Socher [00:40:53]: Yeah, no. I'm not, I'm not arguing against it. Just, like as you get more and more intelligence, you wanna be more and more careful with that as, like an open environment, ‘cause the environment then is all of Earth.Applying RSI to Science and InventionSwyx [00:41:02]: Yeah. Okay. For recursive, not strictly necessary, right? Because, like, if your goal is you make a machine that, like, invents the other things, then, like, just solve, the science thingsRichard Socher [00:41:12]: Knowledge discovery, yeah.Swyx [00:41:13]: Solve machine learning research and discovery and all these things. Good enough.Richard Socher [00:41:16]: And eventually, so, our goal, I haven't really. I don't talk about it that often because it is a few years out, but our goal is once you have a recursive self-improving superintelligence, you then want to apply it to the most important problems. And I think a lot of those are in science and technology and broadly construed inventions, and those inventions in, physics to create better, cheaper energy with fission or fusion, in chemistry and to create better materials and better batteries and, better solar cells and so on. In biology, there's so much, like, I think soon to be low hang- lower and lower hanging fruit because of AI, because of protein and generation, not just folding, but generating new proteins like we did in ProGen many years ago. Like, so much positive impact we had if you take that superintelligence and you apply it to science.Swyx [00:42:04]: I do fundamentally believe that. There's a lot of approaches, though. You're not the only team trying and NeoLab trying.Swyx [00:42:09]: There's, like a lot of. Especially the physical sciences as well.Richard Socher [00:42:12]: And that's good. Yeah. I do think that physi- like the reason we are only doing it in a few years is that it's a little too early right now. Robotics is not quite there yet. The AI is not quite there yet. But I'm fairly confident in 3 to 5 years, all those constraints will be gone, and then applying to real physical robotics experiments and so on, like true robotic process automationRichard Socher [00:42:33]: Not the traditional RPA sense, but, like, having robots run experiments for you will be totally there. Yeah, it's gonna be great.Swyx [00:42:40]: Just to call back to something that you said early on about slow takeoff, you said that, like, while really the substrate that is limiting factor is, let's call this chips, and semiconductors and all these things, and you have race funding for that and, you are investing a lot on that. But have you done the math on, like, is it even- Achievable and, like, what is the, industry concentration needed in order to achieve, like, scale?Compute, Slow Takeoff, and Changing the Bitter Lesson SlopeRichard Socher [00:43:05]: Right now we know that, like, roughly, like a 1000 GPUs cost quite a lot of money.Richard Socher [00:43:11]: Right? If you wanted, like, 10s of thousands of GPUs, you're, you're talking billions and billions of dollars. If you say, like, one GB300 is, like, you could eventually create models that are, on that substrate, like are close and similar to human intelligence. And you want, like, thousands and thousands of, AIs to think about really hard problems, in a similar fashion to humanity. Like, yeah, that-that's, that's a lot of money. You do the math. It's like a lot. We don't have that amount of money right now anywhere to, like, build that. Now, things can get more efficient. You will have, I think, soon better algorithms that won't be, and better hardware that won't be as energy-hungry, and so on. Our human brain does quite a lot of flops with much less energy.Swyx [00:43:56]: 20 watts?Richard Socher [00:43:57]: That's exactly right. Yeah, that's the number often that's quoted. And, like, I think more, inventions will happen there, that then will accelerate the takeoff even further.Swyx [00:44:08]: One thing I always try to reconcile when talking, like, with new lab founders is, like, you're fighting Bitter Lesson all the time. You have to show initial progress, then you unlock the next tier of funding, then the next tier, then the next tier.Richard Socher [00:44:20]: Which unlocks larger model categories.Swyx [00:44:22]: Like, fundamentally, is that true? Like, are you fighting Bitter Lesson? Are you — will we have a way in which, like, no, we're changing the slope in some fundamentally different way?Richard Socher [00:44:31]: I do think we are changing the slopes in fundamental ways by making AI much more efficient, both in terms of the training as well as the inference.Richard Socher [00:44:43]: Yeah. I think we will — When you allow AI to do the work that it takes other labs thousands of people and years to do, I think we'll be able to get it down to weeks, and that will be much cheaperRichard Socher [00:44:53]: And hence, more affordable, accessible to others and so on.Swyx [00:44:57]: Yeah. You've shared initial results on that,Swyx [00:44:59]: Which, like, conveniently OpenAI has also done to their GPT-5.6, so we can talk about it now.Richard Socher [00:45:04]: Yeah. Yeah, so these areSwyx [00:45:06]: Let's recap what you've done.Early Recursive Results: NanoChat, NanoGPT, and SOL-ExecBenchRichard Socher [00:45:07]: Maybe, just a quick recap here. We built, this, system that isn't the full, even the full RSI system in its glory, but it is a first baby version of this. And then, we don't wanna just have it internally and not show anything and, just show some people of what's possible. And so we applied this to these 3 different tasks. One is NanoChat, by my friend Andrej Karpathy, just, like, train a small language model to get, really low bits per byte. And, like, hundreds if not thousands of people, used both their agents and themselves to try, to get to that, and then they got to 0.937. We literally took our system and got to a much lower, bits per byte, much faster within, like, I think less than 2 days. So we took this thing, applied our system to it, and less than 2 days later, we have — we outperformed every human and their agents, in, have ever worked on this. Same with NanoGPT. And then we're like, well, let's, apply it to something that's even more relevant, to real people and to the Nvidia ecosystem and applied it, to, SOL-ExecBench. And maybe you can scroll down to some of the, images. They're, they're kinda fun to see. But yeah, like, one you see has made some real inventions that weren't just hyperparameter tuning. Like, inventing hash tables and so on is quite clever. We have even better results now.Swyx [00:46:34]: What do you mean inventing hash ta — You didn't invent hash tables.Richard Socher [00:46:36]: Of course we didn't invent, like, hash tables. In the grand scheme of, like a hash table, it's like a super basic primitive in computer science. But to use it, for language modeling in this scenario inside a transformer and so on and to combine these ideas and put them together, that has then eventually also been invented, but there was a knowledge cutoff, and we did check that it didn't have access to that externally. We talk about this a little bit. If you scroll to the next figures, this is also an interesting one in that when you start from a really basic, poor, like, vanilla transformer, then we still outperform all of the community together. But if you start from the human seed from an expert like Andrej, then you get even lower. So the human seeds from which you start do still matter. So that was an interesting insight, in my eyes, on this. And then as you go, like, how long does it take to get to these models, to get to similar performance? It's much faster. And then a similar thing happens with the speed runs here where, people have worked on this for quite some time, and the model still was able to train a model more quickly. Why do we care about it? Well, speed of training is part of the equation of the cost, and ultimately, you wanna have the most intelligence per dollar, right? And so speed and quality are big parts of that. And, the,Swyx [00:48:00]: Yeah, the way I put it is, for people who don't understand they look at the chart, they're like, “Cool. What does it mean?” if you have, like a billion-dollar cluster and you can shave off 10%, that's 100 million dollars.Richard Socher [00:48:12]: That's exactly right.Swyx [00:48:13]: How much is that worth?Richard Socher [00:48:14]: Exactly. So when you click, when you look at, like the kernels, these kernels, yeah, for the non-experts, like these kernels are like, used in all the models. Every time you use an Nvidia GPU, you interface with that GPU through these kernels. And so here you see, the leaderboard best, and when it's recursive, and it's there are only a handful of kernels, in this whole benchmark where we weren't the best. And so to me, this is, like, really exciting, ‘cause it makes. It just showcases what this can do. And again these weren't like. We didn't, like, spend months or years, like, developing. In fact, in particular for kernel, CUDA kernels, like, we don't even have really deep. CUDA kernel experts in the team. And our system, that's the beauty. The system just did all of these things. We didn't invent this. And when we open source and release, things in the future and models in the future, like, it won't. They won't be the best in their, category or class or whatever because we're so smart, but it's because, we built a smart AI that does it for us.Reward Engineering and Good Auto ResearchVibhu [00:49:14]: Do you have anything that you've learned from how to guide good auto research? A lot of it also builds on human background, right? It's not just as simple as just, “Hey, go optimize this.”Vibhu [00:49:23]: But we do see it again and again, right? Like some of the Erdos problems, frontier math is being solved by people. And when they do a write-up, they're like, “Oh, I'm not a mathematician. I have no background in this?” “I saw some tools and I made it work.”Swyx [00:49:35]: While you're watching the World Cup, you're likeSwyx [00:49:37]: “This proves some conjectures that's going on.”Vibhu [00:49:40]: Yep. Any learnings fromRichard Socher [00:49:41]: Yeah, there's a Korean conjecture was. Yeah, that's pretty cool.Swyx [00:49:44]: To summarize, tips for good auto researchSwyx [00:49:46]: Versus bad auto research.Vibhu [00:49:48]: How did you build the recursive?Richard Socher [00:49:49]: Yeah. So without giving away all the secret sauce, maybe some things that are probably obvious to the experts but might still be interesting to some, folks is, like, reward engineering is one of the most crucial bits, especially, in order to avoid reward hacking. So you have to be really clever about avoiding. ‘Cause as your AI gets better and better, it will get better and better, at finding weird like, special cases or counterexamples and things like that. And so I'll give you an example. Like, when you ask to, like, make these 100, lines of code faster, and, how do you define fast? Well, you have one line at the beginning that says, “Start your stopwatch,” and one line at the end, “End the stopwatch,” and then, tell us how much time, progressed. And so, well, the simplest way is you just put that line that ends the stopwatch, rightVibhu [00:50:39]: At the startRichard Socher [00:50:40]: At the start. And then boom, it's now faster, right? So this isn't like this, like, super evil AI. It's just, like a very simple, dumb reward hack. And so you have to just very carefully think about all the different angles there. And then I think the longer time horizon the tasks are the harder it gets and the more interesting and clever you have to be to still use these kinds of ideas for it. But yeah, I can't give away too much there.Vibhu [00:51:05]: It seems like rubrics are taking a good spot in that, where for unverifiable domains, you have rubrics, you have a model breakdown, judge's criteria along the way.Swyx [00:51:14]: Yeah, it's a form of verificationSwyx [00:51:16]: Once you got enough rubrics.Richard Socher [00:51:17]: Yeah, everything. I said this a long time ago. That's why I've never been that impressed that AI can play games, ‘cause I'm like anything you can simulate and/or verify, you can have infinite training data forRichard Socher [00:51:29]: And hence, like, AI will solve it eventually.Swyx [00:51:32]: Looking for games where you can do auto domain distribution. So this is a game that nobody's trained on ‘cause it's a new game.Swyx [00:51:38]: And you can start gaming, you can start to play. So I've been building this and cloned this in person and it's just been self-play. I've had about a billion positions evaluated.Games, Self-Play, and the AI EconomistSwyx [00:51:48]: And, I wanted to do the AlphaGo thing of self-play until you ge

Artificial intelligence is moving fast from buzzword to clinical tool — and pain medicine is no exception. In this episode, Dr. David Rosenblum breaks down how AI is already touching the field, drawing on "Artificial Intelligence and Pain Medicine: An Introduction" by Hagedorn, George, Aiyer, Schmidt, Halamka, and D'Souza (Journal of Pain Research, 2024;17:509–518). Topics covered: Why AI is expected to be a genuine turning point for healthcare, not just another tech trend Using machine learning to optimize clinical trial design and patient selection in pain research Natural language processing (NLP) tools that streamline physician workflow and improve doctor-patient communication Deep learning approaches to analyzing patient outcomes and predicting who responds best to a given treatment What better disease recognition and treatment selection could look like in day-to-day pain practice Practical implications for cost and time savings, product development, and clinical decision-making Where the evidence is still early, and what physicians should watch for as AI tools move toward the bedside Bottom line: AI won't replace clinical judgment in pain medicine, but it's already starting to augment it — from trial design to the exam room. Physicians who understand where the technology is headed will be best positioned to use it well. Reference: Hagedorn JM, George TK, Aiyer R, Schmidt K, Halamka J, D'Souza RS. Artificial Intelligence and Pain Medicine: An Introduction. J Pain Res. 2024;17:509–518. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10848920/ About the Host David Rosenblum, MD is Director of Pain Management at Maimonides Medical Center and Co-Owner/Clinic Director of AABP Integrative Pain Care and Wellness in Brooklyn, NY. Dual board-certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, he is a co-author of the ASIPP Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) guidelines and a widely recognized educator in regenerative pain medicine (PRP, BMAC, amniotic therapies). As founder of NRAP Academy, he has trained 3,500+ physicians for pain board certification since 2008, and hosts the PainExam, AnesthesiaExam, and PMRExam podcasts. He has been named a New York Magazine "Top Doctor" from 2016–2026. Living with chronic pain? Dr. Rosenblum sees patients for interventional and regenerative pain treatment - including epidurals, nerve blocks, spinal cord & peripheral nerve stimulation, and PRP/BMAC - at his Brooklyn, NY office. Visit RosenblumPain.com for more information. or call 718 436 7246 For Physicians & APPs - Continue Your Education: CME Course Calendar: https://www.nrappain.org/pages/upcoming-pain-management-conferences Virtual Pain Fellowship: https://www.nrappain.org/bundles/Virtual-Pain-Fellowship PainExam Board Prep: https://www.nrappain.org/pages/pain-management-cme-courses This episode is brought to you by NRAP Academy and PainExam - visit www.NRAPpain.org for CME in neuromodulation, regional anesthesia, and pain medicine.  

Episode 288 Recap: Your Brain Is Listening… What Are You Teaching It?

Today, I have a guest on the show and I am talking to Maximus Lerois - The Identity Architect. Maximus is a retired U.S. Marine with two combat tours in Afghanistan, a certified psychotherapist, certified NLP practitioner, and certified emotional intelligence specialist. He helps leaders and audiences find the script running underneath their performance - and to rewrite it. He is the creator of The Revision Method™ and the author of the book Mental Health Is a Lie. In today's episode, Maximus talks about how our early life experiences shape the way we look at the world, how we show up and what we tolerate in our experience. He talks through his transformational Revision Method, to help rewrite the script of early life and to then lead a life with purpose, intention and legacy. I hope that you enjoy the episode. To find out more about Maximus's work or to get in touch with him: https://www.maximuslerois.com/  

Adam helps a client to break limiting beliefs about receiving money and growing their wealth. This harnesses disempowering metaphors like trying to keep your head above water, into more empowering metaphors linked to abundance and worthiness. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

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Adam helped a client to carefully consider what life would be like with and without alcohol to avoid falling into the trap of habit and familiarity and to create the level of motivational change needed to make an empowered decision when it comes to alcohol. FREE STUFF AND DISCOUNTS:

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Apparently, we’re The Ops for supporting bipartisan politics... On last week’s show, NLP defended House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries after he met with Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. As a leader, you have to talk to the other side. Many of y’all were calling NLP “bought and sold,” “AIPAC,” etc., and others had more serious critiques. We’ll respond to all. Join hosts Angela Rye and Bakari Sellers for a conversation about political tactics and bi-partisanship. LINKS & RESOURCES DCCC Frontline Program: https://dccc.org/dccc-announces-members-of-2026-frontline-program/ SUBMIT A QUESTION If you’d like to submit a question, check out our tutorial video: http://www.instagram.com/reel/C5j_oBXLIg0/ and send to @nativelandpod. Welcome home y’all! —--------- We want to hear from you! Send us a video @nativelandpod and we may feature you on the podcast. Instagram X/Twitter Facebook NativeLandPod.com Watch full episodes of Native Land Pod here on YouTube. Native Land Pod is brought to you by Reasoned Choice Media. Thank you to the Native Land Pod team: Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media. Theme music created by Daniel Laurent.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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