Superpowered Mind Podcast is for enquiring individuals who are tired of the struggle for peace, happiness and clarity. You no longer want to be stuck in the endless cycle of stress, confusion, and seeking happiness in areas where it can’t be found. You need more than actionable tips and tricks, it’s time for a completely transformational change of perspective about the power of your mind. You've known for a long time that something is missing and life can feel futile. You are ready to move i ...
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This podcast is a space to explore the profound connection between our inner world and our work in the world. We dive deep into the heart of what it means to live and work from a felt knowing of our essential selves – aligned, alive, and fully expressed. We’ll play at the intersection of business, spirituality, consciousness, and growth. Through intimate conversations with thought leaders, change-makers, authors, and humans just like you and me, you’ll hear real stories of transformation and ...
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When we are looking to solve a problem, one of the most difficult elements of a problem can be regret. It’s that thought, if only I'd done something differently when I had the chance, then this problem wouldn't be here. If I had or hadn’t done something at a certain moment in time, that would have changed everything about the past from that point o…
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141 Making It Weird on Purpose: Creativity, Content & Confidence with Jillian Richardson
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43:46What happens when you stop trying to follow the rules, and start sharing your voice as it really is? In this lively and inspiring conversation, I sit down with writer, ghostwriter, and community builder Jillian Richardson, whose viral “Make LinkedIn Weird” post reminded thousands that authenticity beats polish every time. We explore the beauty of g…
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140 Funny Little Human: Lightening Up & Loving More | Fiona Lukeis
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42:16What if the thing that’s been getting in the way is actually just a funny little part of being human… not a flaw to fix? In this episode, I’m joined by Fiona Lukeis—relationship specialist, founder of Relatable, and author of the newly released Funny Little Human. We talk about how seeing our humanness with lightness and love can shift everything—f…
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139 We Are Not the Wind: Learning to Catch Life’s Momentum
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16:10What if momentum, success, and creativity weren’t something you had to force? In this solo episode, Barb shares a transformative insight that changed the way she approaches business, creativity, and life: we are not the wind—we catch it. Through personal stories, client examples, and reflections from decades of experience, she invites you to stop p…
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138 Living in Imagination vs. Life? Dr. Amy Johnson on Thought, Self & Presence | Amy Johnson
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46:52What if so much of what we think is “real” is actually just imagination? In this conversation, my friend and colleague Dr. Amy Johnson explores the nature of thought, the illusion of self, and the felt truth of what’s here beyond the mind. We talk about the subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways we live in imagination—how our minds narrate, label, and int…
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137 From Panic to Peace: How Lily Sais Turned Anxiety into a Global Movement | Lily Sais
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58:20In this episode of The Innerverse of Business & Life, I sit down with Lily Sais—founder of Peace From Within, former school psychologist, and TikTok creator whose videos have touched the lives of millions. Lily and I explore her deeply personal journey with anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and panic attacks—and how those experiences ultimately opened a…
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This month’s episode is an introduction to our May programme, which is all about the intelligence of the mind, how it is liberated and how it comes into its full potential as the most miraculous and capable organ on the entire planet. Basically, all our programmes are looking at how the mind becomes more sane. One of the ways in which the mind beco…
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136 Why We Shrink Ourselves (and How to Stop)
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18:48Have you ever found yourself living in a smaller version of your life—not because you want to, but because of all the thoughts, rules, and self-protections you’ve piled up along the way? In this short episode, I reflect on what it means to unknowingly “hoard” thoughts and beliefs that limit us. Inspired by a client story and my own insights, I expl…
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135 Is Your Mind Working for You or Against You? A Conversation | Clare Dimond
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41:17Is your mind working for you or against you? In this insightful conversation, Barb Patterson and Clare Dimond explore how our thoughts shape the way we experience business, leadership, and creativity. Clare shares how years of self-consciousness and overanalyzing kept her stuck in mental loops—until she saw the mind in an entirely new way. In this …
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134 The Path of Least Resistance: Trusting What Life Brings | Rohini Ross
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48:49In this deep and illuminating conversation, Rohini Ross shares the journey of her own evolution—from therapist to coach to transformational guide—exploring how our resistance to experience creates unnecessary struggle and how real change comes from allowing life to unfold. Together, we explore: The transition from therapy to coaching and the insigh…
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133 From Hesitation to Action: Moving Past Decision Paralysis
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13:47Have you ever found yourself stuck in decision paralysis—overanalyzing, second-guessing, and waiting for more certainty? In this solo episode, Barb Patterson dives into decision-making and why successful entrepreneurs embrace uncertainty rather than fear it. Through personal stories and insights, she explores how overthinking can slow momentum, why…
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132 Navigating Life’s Transitions with Inner Wisdom | Jacquie Moses
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41:59What if the secret to navigating life’s major transitions was already within you? In this episode, Barb sits down with Jacquie Moses to explore the profound connection between our inner world and outer experiences. Together, they discuss how tuning into our emotions, trusting inner wisdom, and embracing our life’s sacredness can help us face change…
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“Let go of the outcome” is such a modern mantra, isn't it? Let go of the outcome and just focus on the process. And that mantra gets very confusing, because why would we let go of an outcome that is highly achievable and highly beneficial either to us, or to others, or to the world? Think about the work of surgeons and what would happen if they let…
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131 When Surrender Brings Unexpected Clarity & Moves Us Forward | Kirk Souder
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50:56When Clarity Comes in Unexpected Ways & Moves Us Forward Sometimes, clarity arrives in ways we never see coming. In this powerful and deeply moving conversation, Kirk Souder shares his journey of navigating a life-changing decision—one that required deep trust, surrender, and the willingness to let go. Faced with years of complications from a past …
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The direct path is a spiritual approach which considers that the content of experience is a creation of the mind. And for the mind to be in truth, we should turn away from that content to what lies behind all of the experience of being, which is consciousness, intelligence, love. The direct path is completely solid and grounded, and that’s awesome.…
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130 Letting Go: From Toxic Productivity to Authentic Alignment | Ruthie Zerai
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47:13What happens when life disrupts our best-laid plans? When grief, transition, or uncertainty invite us to surrender instead of push forward? In this deep and inspiring conversation, Ruthie Zerai shares her journey of moving from corporate life to self-employment, navigating profound loss, and discovering the power of trust, play, and authenticity in…
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“Find your why” is a very common phrase that we hear in self-help circles. It's the idea that there is a higher purpose, a bigger meaning we can find, a deeper motivation that will inspire us, and that will keep us going through tiredness and frustrations. It’s a very powerful argument, and that power is incredibly problematic. Because, if our why …
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129 Grief, A Guitar & The Nonlinear Way Forward | Shawn Eagan
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Today, we’re going to explore the gift of the fun house. The title of this episode came about as I remembered how my son experienced the fun house at a yearly fair in our town. For two years in a row he was scared, running into the same mirror and getting bumps on his head, and then the third year he just thought it was boring. Boring is such a goo…
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128 From Overthinking to Aliveness: The Power of Direct Experience
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20:29"What if the key to feeling more alive and inspired isn't about doing more—but experiencing life more deeply?" In this solo episode, Barb explores how her tendency to analyze and interpret life can create an invisible barrier between her and a direct experience of life. From the cold waters of Scotland to hiking adventures—uncover how shifting from…
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127 The Inner Pivot: A High Achiever's Guide to Purpose & Fulfillment | Jaime Taets
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50:39What happens when you’ve reached the summit of conventional success, but something still feels missing? In this transformative episode, CEO and change expert Jaime Taets challenges the notion that external achievements alone lead to fulfillment. For high achievers who’ve mastered the external game, Jaime reveals why the next great adventure isn’t c…
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Welcome to our 50th episode! With almost 50,000 downloads so far, inspired by those fives, today we’re going to discuss five of my favourite quotes for life. Tune in to hear why I’ve chosen them and how they inspire and connect with the conversation around our Superpowered Mind. I hope they give you as much to reflect on as they give to me. "The re…
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Today we're looking at the driver to be seen. Everybody wants to be seen, to be heard, to be acknowledged. It provides the temporary feeling of validity, worth, and survival even. And that makes sense when looked at from the belief system of what we are as a separate entity, that can somehow find wholeness through attention and love, regard and res…
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126 Breaking Free: The Hidden Patterns Blocking Your Next Level | Alyssa Nobriga
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59:58What if the biggest thing holding you back isn’t your strategy but the unconscious patterns running beneath the surface? In this powerful episode, founder & CEO of The Institute of Coaching Mastery, Alyssa Nobriga, reveals how breaking free from our conditioned mind can unlock unprecedented levels of growth and success. Through vulnerable storytell…
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125 Awaken To Your Innerverse: How Your Inner World Informs Your Work & Life
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17:54In this 2.0 evolution of the podcast and the inaugural episode of The Innerverse of Business & Life, Barb sets the stage for an exciting journey of exploration and transformation. After a pause from podcasting, Barb returns with a renewed vision and intent: to dive into the rich, multidimensional inner world that profoundly shapes how we live, work…
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048 Nice Eyebrows - What Compliments and Insults Reveal
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17:29Today, we're looking at the difference between a mind that is claiming doership and source accountability. We're going to take a story from a beauty salon to explore the mind’s confusion about being a separate doer that’s making things happen, and the state of mind that is sane, inquiring and settling back to truth about what we are and what is rea…
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Last week, we looked at one horrible question to ask ourselves in the midst of resentment: What is my equivalent? This week we're looking at an even more horrible question: What is the benefit? It is a horrible question because on the surface, it has the potential to be really dangerous. We need to understand its full power when we are in situation…
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Today we're looking at one of the most powerful, humbling and liberating questions that we can ever ask ourselves. It's a question that comes into its full power in the moments when we are feeling resistance or resentment to someone. The question is: What is my equivalent? It’s a horrible question, because in those moments when we want someone to c…
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Because we’re starting a new year, today we're looking at the phrase “New Year, New You.” You can see it throughout all of social media, all of the products, fitness plans, health kicks and diets - all selling the idea that you can create a new “you” through different behaviours. But is that true? Can going on a diet or giving up alcohol really mak…
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Discover the Freedom of a Quiet Mind: Transform Your Mental Health in January 2025 https://claredimond.simplero.com/page/589461 As Christmas is approaching, let’s dedicate today’s conversation to the greatest gift of all. There is enormous conditioning around the holiday season. It looks like at Christmas, we want to have all of the things we are t…
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Today, we're looking at the difference between peace and alignment, and the shift that happens when finding fake peace is no longer interesting. We have all experienced a strong urge and motivation to find and somehow keep our peace of mind. But if our entire experience of reality is based on our ego identity, on the idea of a separate “me”, it pro…
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042 You Create Your Own Reality. Why That is a Problematic Phrase
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15:30Today we're looking at the phrase you hear a lot in spiritual circles - You create your own reality. This is a really interesting one, because it all depends on what that “you” is. How we understand that “you” will determine whether this phrase sends us into complete confusion, more frustration, more insanity, more stress, or whether it's a portal …
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Efficiency is my favourite subject to talk about, because of my upbringing and what I've seen the people in my life having to do with very limited resources. When there are situations like illness in the family, one really needs to step up and become incredibly efficient to organise and run everyday life. Because I’ve seen that being done so brilli…
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We live in a culture where we are learning all the time that our ego identity can be secured by someone else saying the right thing or doing the right thing to make us feel worthy. For example, if someone says we are beautiful or we are a great worker, it gives us a high like a drug. But the problem is that the high is temporary and it’s always fol…
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Alignment is a word that we use quite a lot on this podcast and in this conversation. But what is really alignment and how can we recognise it or reach it? In this episode, we are going to look at alignment in three areas - dealing with misalignment to settle into the truth, behaviour changing as a result of understanding how our mind really operat…
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In today’s episode, we’re looking at how we can make better choices. But in order to even start talking about choices, we must acknowledge that there is categorically no chooser. There's no independent entity that exists to choose anything, even though it looks so obvious that “we”, as a separate identity, are choosing our actions and behaviours. W…
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We often find ourselves in a situation, a partnership, a friendship, or a job where we're feeling stressed, anxious and frustrated. And then we ask ourselves the question: should I stay or should I go? This is a great question for us to explore, because any situation in which there is stress is an opening space of inquiry for the superpowered mind.…
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It’s time for us to get really clear about what the Ego is. The ego definition that we usually encounter, particularly when we talk about someone having a ‘big ego’ is that they think they are better than other people. But actually - they might in many respects be better at doing certain things. Recognising talent, ability and strengths of a body m…
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Sign up for a FREE Webinar - Introduction to Will and Intention on Wednesday, October 23rd at 20:30 GMT https://claredimond.simplero.com/page/571715 What are we actually discussing in the question - is there free will? And then, where do our intentions really come from? And how can wants and desires be the means through which the power of the mind …
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Sign up for a FREE Webinar - Supporting the Enquiring Mind on Wednesday, October 16th at 20:30 BST https://claredimond.simplero.com/page/571707 Today we’re looking at what we can expect to happen or to change from an exploration about reality, self and identity. Right in there is the biggest irony. On one hand, it's guaranteed through this explorat…
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Today, we're looking at the difference between cause, symptom and cure. If your role or level of responsibility involves working with other people and helping them with their problems, this episode is for you. It is so easy to override or spiritually bypass the actual cause of why someone is behaving the way they do, and keep them unintentionally i…
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This episode is called “The Brick Wall”, because we're talking about a dead end and a complete full stop to the wants and needs to secure which cannot be secured. And that’s the identity. Identity relies on the belief system of being a separate, controlling entity. It's the attempt to control the experience of being, to control what we think of our…
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031 Home Truths - 5 Questions of True Power
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19:00What does it really mean when you want to tell someone a few “home truths”? Even if you resent someone’s behaviour and you feel called to put them right, does it really make you powerful or is there something else going on? Today, we’re going to dive into what “home truths” are and how they drive you to actually miss true power. We’re also going to…
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Many of us find ourselves wanting to do something, for example to write a book, or to get fit, or to build a business, but we just can’t get ourselves motivated to start on it. Where does our motivation come from? How can we get more motivation to do the things that we want to do? It's a great question that opens up the whole area of mind, desire, …
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This week, we are looking at healthy boundaries, and how the conversation about identity, self and reality can have an enormous effect on the sanity of our boundaries. One of the main dangers in setting healthy boundaries is that the confrontation involved in maintaining those boundaries and establishing deep relationships can be too much. If our e…
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Today’s topic is around focus, and in order to talk about focus, let’s first consider what focus is. Focus is pure attention. It is also called flow, the gap, deep presence, immersion and other names, but it is the fullness of attention given to something. So, focus has an object that our conscious mind illuminates like a spotlight. But what is the…
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027 Burnout or Re-Energised: Understanding Capacity
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19:13Join our FREE Webinar on CAPACITY on Wednesday, August 28th at 8:30pm BST https://claredimond.simplero.com/page/567506 In this episode, we are looking at what capacity is and why it is the foundation of all experience of being. Capacity is the availability of resources from moment to moment. Resources such as attention, energy, compassion, enduranc…
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026 Is There Such a Thing as Constraints?
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17:43Are constraints that we perceive real? It’s a vital question to explore, because our brilliant human mind, with its capacity for creating concepts and psychological devices, can very easily exit itself from reality. Our very ego is built on constraints and limitations. However, what we want is freedom to dive deeper into reality, we want to engage …
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Welcome to our 25th episode! To celebrate 25, we’ll look at maturity, because the age 25 is the year when the frontal cortex reaches full maturity. Twenty five is also celebrated in many cultures as officially marking the move into adulthood. However, spiritual maturity happens throughout our life, and is an ongoing invitation right up to moments b…
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024 Self-Esteem is the End of Self-Reference
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16:30Today we are looking at self-esteem and why it is the end of self-reference. This flies in the face of what the entire self-help industry is telling us. From what we read and hear, self-esteem comes from a focus on me, my confidence, my sense of being, my purpose in life and what I contribute. So it looks like to have high self-esteem, everything h…
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