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  • EP 486: Author of The Secret of Letting Go: You Cannot Satisfy a Fear with Guy Finley

    EP 486: Author of The Secret of Letting Go: You Cannot Satisfy a Fear with Guy Finley
    Oct 20 2026
    Ready to turn your gift for helping people into a real coaching career? Visit: https://riseandthriveglobal.com/positive-psychology-coaching/ At seven or eight years old, Guy Finley was riding in the Hollywood Christmas parade, where his father was the honorary marshal, sitting on the lap of one of the biggest stars of the day. He remembers thinking, what’s wrong here? Everybody was so fearful, so angry and so anxious. Born into a show business family, he grew up with a contradiction he could not reconcile. That question, what is this pain, set him on a path he has walked for almost 70 years, and he says he is still just beginning. Today Guy is the Founding Director of Life of Learning Foundation, a nonprofit centre for spiritual discovery, and the acclaimed author of The Secret of Letting Go and more than 50 other books and audio programmes, translated into 30 languages. Not the problem, but the mirror Letting go, Guy says, is an inside story. We tend to look out at the world as the party responsible for the pain we are in, and he believes it is just not true. You cannot separate the experience of life from the nature having that experience. When he has a problem with another person, that person isn’t the problem. They are here to show him where parts of him are still clinging to certain ideas and demands. He calls them secret agents of God. And the work, he says, is done by seeing into our consciousness, not by fighting with it. You cannot satisfy a fear So why do we chase validation? Guy believes that affirming qualities we do not have only leaves us living in fear of proving we are what we imagine ourselves to be. He remembers being 12 at his father’s business meetings, in a suit and tie, his left shoulder hurting so badly he wanted to cry. Even that child, already conditioned to want approval, was afraid he would not get it. You cannot satisfy a fear, Guy says. You can dope it up or distract yourself from it, but until you understand the nature of fear itself, you will live in it. In his words, people bother us for only one reason: what we want from them. The circle of self Guy describes it as dominoes. Desire gives rise to image, image to identity, identity to attachment, attachment is dependency, and dependency is fear. He calls it the circle of self, and he is clear that a conditioned nature cannot free itself from its own conditioning. What can help is a light that reveals where we are conditioned. Escaping desire, he says, is lunacy. We are here to transcend the nature that believes it can complete itself through its desire. Relationship is revelation Why are we drawn to anyone at all? Guy believes we discover ourselves through relationship. At first everything is oh yeah. Then oh yeah turns into oh no, and we meet the part of us that wants to blame the other person for not loving us the way they said they would. There is no bad revelation, he says. He is just as clear that trying to change the world is, in his words, egotism of the worst kind. You don’t change a rose. Guy has been with his wife for 46 years, and says he has never once raised his voice to her. The dragon never had any teeth From around 18 to 25, Guy lived a celibate life, almost in a cave, only to find he still got angry. Awakening, he came to see, isn’t some sudden aha. It is the gradual recognition that who and what you are cannot be defined by any experience the mind wants to create. He tells the story of a knight who puts down his sword and shield and leaps into the dragon’s mouth, only to find it never had any teeth. It was all gums. For Guy, that is what an awakening is: the collapse of a false identity that produces false shadows in order to be the slayer of them. Guy left us with three shiny golden nuggets, gathered into one practice he calls Stop, Drop, Endure. Stop: the moment you feel a fear or an anxiety, come to a stop, as present as you can in your body. Drop: catch the thoughts that rush in to explain why you feel the way you do, and be the observer of your consciousness rather than its servant. Endure: be willing to stay with what you feel, without reaching for a time to come when the pain will be gone. Useless suffering, Guy explains, believes escape is coming. Conscious suffering stays and watches. Watch the full conversation on YouTube Find Out More About Guy Finley Website: https://www.guyfinley.org Instagram: @guyfinleyofficial YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/GuyFinley Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/guyfinleyofficial/ Ready to turn your gift for helping people into a real coaching career? Visit: https://riseandthriveglobal.com/positive-psychology-coaching/
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    1 ora e 12 min
  • EP 488: The Overthinker Is Not a Flaw, It’s a Bodyguard

    EP 488: The Overthinker Is Not a Flaw, It’s a Bodyguard
    Nov 3 2026
    Have you ever had an argument in the shower, and won it? Have you written a message, deleted it, rewritten it, and then sent “no worries at all”? Can you replay something you said years ago, word for word, and still wince? Do you say “I just need to think about it”, mean it every single time, and somehow never finish the thinking? Is there a sentence you have been carrying for years that the person it was meant for has never once heard? If more than two of those landed, this one is about you. In this Moment of Awe, we explore the AstroPsychology of the inner voice: why the third house is not about how well you talk, what Lev Vygotsky, Paul Trapnell, Jennifer Campbell, Dana Crowley Jack and Matthew Lieberman can tell us about the conversation that never stops, and three ways to say the sentence you have been rehearsing. The Third House Has Two Doors The third house belongs to Gemini, and it is ruled by Mercury, the messenger. On the surface, it describes communication: talking, writing, learning, the everyday exchanges with the people closest to us. But the third house has two doors. One faces out towards the conversations you have with other people. The other faces in, towards the conversation you have with yourself all day, every day. In the 1930s, Lev Vygotsky noticed that small children talk out loud to themselves while they play, and he argued that this private speech does not disappear as we grow up. It goes underground and becomes the voice in your head. Which means your inner voice did not begin as yours. It began as a conversation with other people. So the question of the third house is not “are you a good communicator?” It is: whose voice is doing most of the talking in there? I once drafted an email to a colleague eleven times over three evenings. I prepared for every possible reply. I finally sent it close to midnight, and she replied the next morning with four words: “Of course, thank you.” I had spent three evenings preparing for a war that was only ever happening in my own head. The Overthinker Is a Bodyguard The archetype that lives in this house is the overthinker, the analyst. Its purpose is to use analysis to avoid deep emotional engagement. Its secondary gain is control: if I can understand it, I can manage it, and if I can predict every reaction, nobody can surprise me. What it protects you from is the fear of emotional vulnerability, and the fear of being caught not knowing. The overthinker is not a flaw in your thinking. It is a bodyguard. The trouble is that it cannot tell the difference between the conversations that might hurt you and the ones that might free you. So it stops all of them. Exploring or Being Chased In 1999, Paul Trapnell and Jennifer Campbell pulled apart two kinds of self-focus that look identical from the outside. Rumination is driven by threat. Reflection is driven by curiosity. Same subject, completely different motives. Rumination travelled with anxiety and distress, and reflection with openness to experience. Much of this work is correlational, so it does not settle every question about which came first. But here is the useful part: the overthinker always believes it is reflecting, and most of the time it is ruminating. You can tell the difference by the feeling, not the content. Reflection feels like exploration. Rumination feels like being chased. The Voice You Silence Goes Inward In 1991, Dana Crowley Jack described a pattern she called silencing the self: holding back thoughts, feelings and needs to keep a relationship safe. It creates a divided self, an outer self who keeps the peace and an inner self who is anything but peaceful. The sentence you do not say does not vanish. It moves into the third house and keeps talking, only now you are the one person who hears it. And here is the part I find genuinely beautiful. In 2007, a team at UCLA led by Matthew Lieberman found that simply naming a feeling reduced activity in the amygdala. Not solving it, not analysing it. Just naming it. For a long time, the sentence I could not say was “I do not agree.” The first time I said it plainly, in a room full of senior people, there was a long pause. Then somebody said, “Thank goodness, neither do I.” Three Ways to Quiet the Loop Catch the loop. When you find yourself replaying or rehearsing a conversation, ask: am I exploring, or am I being chased? If you are being chased, stop asking why and ask how. How could I respond? The why keeps you circling. The how gives you somewhere to go. Talk to yourself by name. Ethan Kross and his colleagues found that people who coached themselves through a stressful moment using their own name instead of “I” felt less anxious and performed better. “Catherine, what do you actually want to say?” That little distance gives you a choice. Say one unrehearsed, true sentence. Something small, to one person, without drafting it first. “I feel left out.” “I am tired.” “I do not agree.” Every time...
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    19 min
  • EP 489: Burned Out Three Times: Your Zone of Excellence Is a Velvet Cage with Felecia Hatcher

    EP 489: Burned Out Three Times: Your Zone of Excellence Is a Velvet Cage with Felecia Hatcher
    Nov 10 2026
    Ready to turn your gift for helping people into a real coaching career? Visit: https://riseandthriveglobal.com/positive-psychology-coaching/ Felecia Hatcher is the granddaughter of a Jamaican sugar cane and yam farmer and the daughter of a construction entrepreneur, and she says she has spent her entire life building things. Once told by a high school guidance counsellor that her low grades meant she wouldn’t make it, she went on to co-found the venture-backed food brand Feverish Pops and write five books, including Genius Jam and Start a Business on a Ramen Noodle Budget. Today she is the CEO of Pharrell Williams’ Black Ambition Opportunity Inc., where she has invested in over 157 entrepreneurs who have collectively raised more than $100 million. She is also the first to say she has been burned out three times. The night she didn’t get on the flight Felecia had raised millions of dollars in support of her work, and she was doing everything for everyone while not listening to her body. Getting ready to board a flight one night, she heard a voice louder than it had ever been: if you don’t sit down somewhere, you’re not going to make it through the night. This time she listened, and missed the event she was due to speak at. Resting for a few days, she finally opened a book she had been carrying around, Gay Hendricks’ The Big Leap. She went on to study with Gay and Kathy Hendricks for about two years. A process of elimination You can’t pull your genius out of thin air, Felecia says. You have to take yourself through a process of elimination. Your zone of incompetence holds the things you are worst at, and doing them causes more harm than good, because time is the one commodity none of us get back. Your zone of competence holds things you can do, but other people do better. Then come your zone of excellence and your zone of genius, where work flows so well that hours feel like minutes. To make it practical, she layers the Eisenhower framework over the top: do what sits in your genius, decide on what sits in your excellence, delegate what sits in your competence, and delete what sits in your incompetence. The velvet cage The zone that catches most high achievers, in Felecia’s view, is excellence. You have probably built your entire career there, and you can live a very comfortable life in it. That is exactly the danger. Your zone of excellence is a velvet cage, she says: you hit the target, but you never exceed the goal. Stay too long and you become complacent, and your body tells you, with an itch or a tension in your shoulders and back, that you are not doing the thing you are supposed to do. Her simplest test is trust. Ask yourself, do I trust myself in this? If you can honestly answer yes, you are in your genius. Get out of the way Even knowing her genius, Felecia has slipped out of it. Having run a gourmet popsicle company for seven years, she invested in a hip hop ice cream shop and did what she does best: the pitch deck, the partners, the messaging. Then, on opening day, she was at the front register trying to scoop ice cream until her business partner told her, Felecia, get the heck out of the way. She describes herself as a first quarter person in a relay race, the catalyst who comes off the block, and says too many of us hold a baton for far too long, often out of ego. Pass it on, she says, whether to a person or an AI tool, and stay in the part only you can do. Pretending to be a nobody Felecia offers a reframe on imposter syndrome: if you think that you are an imposter, then you are, because you are pretending to be a nobody when you have something of value. The same honesty shaped her recovery from burnout. Therapy helped her separate her identity from a company she had built for seven years, and her third burnout taught her that bath bombs and massages were not enough. Raise your hand, she says, and say something, even if it’s a whisper. Felecia left us with three shiny golden nuggets. First, do the zone of genius audit to understand your zones of incompetence, competence and excellence, and truly get to your genius. Second, write yourself a permission slip to come back into your body and rest, and to get clear on what you want without any external validation. Third, use rest as a reset strategy: audit your calendar in 30-minute increments and realign your time for more joy and freedom. As she puts it, burnout is not a badge of honour. Watch the full conversation on YouTube Find Out More About Felecia Hatcher Website: https://www.feleciahatcher.com/ Genius Gap assessment: https://geniusgap.ai Instagram: @feleciahatcher YouTube: @FeleciaHatcher Ready to turn your gift for helping people into a real coaching career? Visit: https://riseandthriveglobal.com/positive-psychology-coaching/
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    1 ora e 4 min
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