The Brain Language Podcast

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  EP-98 NLP Timelines: The Mapping of Your Past and Future 30.08.2026 45min

  Send us Fan Mail Susan and Morgan explore how NLP timelines shape the way we remember the past, experience the present, and build the future. We also guide a simple timeline exercise that helps us step into a future outcome, send messages across time, and think clearly about legacy. • why timelines show up across NLP as a core concept rather than a single technique • how submodalities code time and help us know what was “yesterday” versus “years ago” • common timeline layou...
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  EP # 97 Part 2: How To Build Wealth With Better Beliefs And Better Systems 10.07.2026 40min

  Send us Fan Mail We lay out why money doesn’t stick without the right identity, beliefs, skills, and habits, even for people who earn a lot. We connect practical personal finance strategy to NLP tools so you can shift scarcity thinking, manage emotional risk, and build systems that make wealth sustainable. • money beliefs working alongside strategies, capabilities, and behaviors • using immersion learning through books, podcasts, and mentors to change perceptual filters • ch...
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  EP #97 Part 1: Escape The Money Trap 10.07.2026 45min

  Send us Fan Mail Wanting a richer life can quietly turn into a money trap: vague goals, emotional language, and habits that feel productive but never add up to real progress. We dig into why “I want more money” is one of the fastest ways to confuse your brain, and how NLP can help you build a well-formed outcome that’s specific, realistic, and tied to action you can actually repeat. We also get practical about the part most people skip: the math. Big purchases and “dream upgrades” don’t end ...
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  EP #96 The NLP Anatomy Of Illness And Recovery 05.05.2026 1h 6min

  Send us Fan Mail We break down illness as a structured experience and show how NLP tools can help you move from diagnosis shock to a clear path toward health. We connect outcomes, beliefs, emotions, and self-efficacy so you can stay engaged through plateaus and make better decisions with your health team. • defining a well-formed outcome and desired state for health • using neurological levels to map where the problem lives • changing submodalities to shift state and motivat...
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  EP #95 Motivation: From Willpower Myths To NLP Strategies 25.03.2026 46min

  Send us Fan Mail Motivation isn’t missing—it’s miswired. We dive into a practical, humane way to rebuild drive by treating motivation as a system you can design, not a feeling you wait to feel. Drawing on decades of NLP practice, we unpack why willpower fizzles, how vague goals quietly sabotage action, and what to change when progress plateaus. Along the way, we contrast corporate SMART goals with a richer approach that connects outcomes to values, identity, and clear sensory language your br...
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  EP #94 Reclaiming Control With NLP: Overcoming 5 Common Traps That Keep You Stuck 19.02.2026 45min

  Send us Fan Mail From an NLP perspective, what are some of the common ways we get stuck in experiences or behavior patterns because we aren’t exercising as much conscious control as we really have? 1. Holding Onto Limiting Beliefs Tips to overcome this: An easy way to begin to loosen the effects of a belief is to do Sleight of Mouth. Ep 51, 53. Take the belief statement with a cause/effect or meaning, and write out the pattern of SOM to change it. This will weak...
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  EP #93 Podcast Short - A Look Back to Look Forward 08.01.2026 8min

  Send us Fan Mail In this podcast short, Susan Stageman shares insights on effective goal-setting and reflects on a helpful exercise she completed in December. She encourages listeners to review their past accomplishments and connect them to current goals, emphasizing the importance of valuing and aligning goals with personal interests. Susan also discusses the value of setting goals outside of work and recommends the book "Orbiting the Giant Hairball" by Gordon McKenzie for those seeking to n...
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  Ep #92 The Deep Breath Before the Plunge: 10 ways to get ready for 2026 08.01.2026 56min

  Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Brain Language Podcast, Susan and Morgan discussed strategies for managing stress and resetting for the new year. They explored various techniques, including outcome focus, the Circle of Excellence exercise, deep breathing, meditation, and being present. Morgan shared insights on using breath modulation to manage anxiety, while Susan emphasized the importance of setting realistic standards and boundaries. They also discussed the impact of sugar and alco...
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  EP # 91 Anchor Away! Everything about Anchors 21.10.2025 59min

  Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we explore anchors and anchoring, a simple to complex process in NLP designed to change our moods and states. Discussed are the different types of anchors, stimulus-response, how anchors work, the importance of anchors, the use of kinesthetic anchors for change, and where to start. Included is an example of a collapsed reality: adding a resource to a problem experience. Support the show
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  EP #90 The Dance of Communication: A deep dive into Matching, Pacing, and Leading 29.08.2025 58min

  Send us Fan Mail It seems you can lead the horse to water and it will drink! You need patience! Patience is what is necessary to influence and persuade: taking people's maps into new territories. Matching, pacing, and leading are foundational concepts in NLP, crucial for establishing rapport, understanding another person’s model of the world, and guiding them towards desired outcomes. It’s an important part of many NLP methods and processes, and can often be the key skill to making thos...
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  EP #89 Guiding Change and Shifting Gears 08.07.2025 39min

  Send us Fan Mail Many people find that as they move through life that they have to shift gears…a new job, a new career, family, divorce, move. Many people are looking for that “new path” when they study NLP. As we prepare for these shifts, a great way to start is to develop a set of presuppositions and guiding questions to steer the change. This will ensure that the change will stay in place. This is the step before any planning or goal setting, or even belief changes. This episode is a...
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  EP #88 NLP for Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Regulation 21.05.2025 54min

  Send us Fan Mail NLP for Emotional Regulation What is Emotional Intelligence? Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the capacity to recognize, understand, and navigate your emotions and those of others. It includes Self-Awareness, Emotional Regulation, Motivation, Empathy, and Social Skills. What is Emotional Regulation? Emotional Regulation (ER) is a component of EQ strategies for managing their intensity and expression and intentionally creating emotional states you want. ER skills give you ...
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  EP #87 The Not-So-Subtle Art of Complaining 14.03.2025 50min

  Send us Fan Mail The Not-So-Subtle Art of Complaining Most of us complain, but is it good or bad? What makes it productive or toxic? Overview of what will be covered: Common language patterns of complainingThe benefits and downsides of complainingHow to shift from chronic complaining The Language of Complaints This was discovered by using AI to analyze posts on a social media platform that contained complaints. We then used the NLP Meta Model pattern to refine the...
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  EP #86 TimeLine and Goal Reaching 31.01.2025 1h

  Send us Fan Mail 1. What is TimeLine? A Timeline is a visual, linear experience of how someone codes and stores time. In NLP timeline is a term used to describe how we internally represent time. We internally represent the past, present, and future differently. The concept was originally laid out in the TimeLine Therapy and the Basis of Personality by Tad James and Wyatt Woodsmall. It was a project given to them by Richard Bandler. Timeline can be used to create goal ...
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  EP #85 Hunting for Treasure: Designing Treasure Boards that Work 11.12.2024 26min

  Send us Fan Mail Main Points: · Understand the goal-reaching process and what makes goals happen · Picture representation of goals for the coming year · Construct the boards for optimum effectiveness · Well-constructed boards that are ecological, align with values and Include 5 major areas of a person’s life: faith, fitness, family, friends, financial · Eyes move e...
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  EP #84 The Imposter Syndrome: The What, The How, The Way Forward 31.10.2024 49min

  Send us Fan Mail What is Imposter syndrome? Explaining away your accomplishments and success and doubting your abilities 1. What are common examples of imposter syndrome? 2. How can you assess if you have imposter syndrome Take the quiz: Do you chalk your success up to luck, timing, or computer error? Do you believe that if I can do it, anyone can? Do you agonize over small flaws in your work? Are you crushed by even constructive criticism, seeing i...
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  Ep #83 When Telling A Story Isn't Just Telling A Story: The Power of Metaphoric Communication 01.10.2024 56min

  Send us Fan Mail 1. What is important about stories, and metaphors in communication? When someone studies the great communicators, past and present, they all use metaphors and analogies to illustrate their points. Metaphors compare things that are less understandable to familiar things. They create new meanings, make complex ideas understandable, motivate interest, and influence ideas. They create images that people can understand rather than literal words 2.&nb...
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  EP #82 Breaking Patterns, Changing Beliefs, Communication: A Quick Review 03.07.2024 59min

  Send us Fan Mail How do we break patterns? Outcome, outcome, outcome Remember, that in the NLP model, all experience has structure. When you explore and change the structure, your experience changes, the perception, meaning, and feeling. NLP creates specific changes rather than random, trial-and-error changes. It changes things by adding resources, not taking away anything. Our experience and patterns are organized on a hierarchy of neurology from Environment, Behavior, Capability, Be...
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  EP #81 The Endless Merry-go-round. How do I Get Off? Ups and Downs of Success 13.06.2024 17min

  Send us Fan Mail This is a Podcast Short. It addresses the cycle of ups and downs that some people experience when building a business or learning something new. In the podcast, I tackle some of the challenges by using NLP session flow from creating a well-formed outcome to what to look for when modeling a mentor. I talk about the complexities of modeling, optimum strategies for success, the factors of genius, belief changes, and the Unified Field in NLP. The short version:...
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  EP # 80 Sleep Oh Wonderful Sleep! 23.04.2024 50min

  Send us Fan Mail I’m receiving more and more requests from people to help them with their lack of ability to fall asleep, stay asleep, and get restful sleep. So that they can wake up rested. Sleep is difficult because of the things we keep track of or have to take care of. Sleep is a big part of calming your nervous system to manage stress (EP 79). Hosts discuss why people can’t fall asleep. 1. How does NLP help us when it comes to getting a good night's sleep? Strat...