The Be A Brilliant Human Podcast (2024)

09/07/2024

I'm hugely excited to let you know that an all new live online event is happening at the beginning of August and registration is now open!

https://www.thenpaacademy.com/thecravingcrusher

It's all about releasing unhealthy cravings, compulsions, addictions, urges and longings... in a unique, powerful and quick way.

It's called The Craving Crusher and at this event you'll be learning an advanced NPA tool called The NPA Craving Frame.

The only other place I teach this is in NPA Mastery (our NPA practitioner certification programme). It's such an amazingly quick intervention and, amongst our Certified NPA Practitioners, it's a natural go-to tool when clients are caught in the thrall of cravings.

To tell you all about it, I've done a video and you can watch it right now here:

https://www.thenpaacademy.com/thecravingcrusher

There's an aspect of cravings, compulsions, addictions, urges and longings that most approaches ignore.

The trouble is, that can create additional resistance and pressure in clients which can add to the sense of hopelessness and failure they already feel.

In the video I lay out what's being ignored and how, when you acknowledge it directly, the whole process can go a lot more smoothly - for the client and for you as the facilitator!

And, of course I give you all the details you need about the event.

Plus, right now (until Sunday, Jul 21st) you can attend the live, online Craving Crusher event with me at a fantastic 80% off the ticket price.

I'm really looking forward to sharing this work with you Joel and I think you're gonna love it.

Click the link to watch the video, get all the deets and register with 80% off (until July 21st):
https://www.thenpaacademy.com/thecravingcrusher

01/12/2022

EPISODE 149: Your Super Sensitive Self: Curse or Superpower? (with Belinda Noakes) www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/149

If you’re a super sensitive person then you probably feel that growing up in this world can be brutal.

Perhaps you've even felt like your sensitivity is a curse?

But what if there was a way to turn everything on its head?
What if you could channel that sensitivity in a way that meant it became your superpower?

Well, on today’s episode we’re talking with Belinda Noakes, founder of TinyBrave where you get to do just that!

In this in-depth conversation you’ll hear:

👉🏻 Belinda’s heart-rending story of growing up as a super sensitive human
👉🏻 How the death of her sister brought on an internal lock down
👉🏻 The moment she had a deep realisation that turned her life around
👉🏻 What Belinda discovered about the phenomenon of ‘Heart Lock’ in highly sensitive people
👉🏻 What a ‘heart lock map’ is and how you can unlock yours
👉🏻 How your sensitivity can become your superpower
👉🏻 And much more

Whether you feel you are a super sensitive person, a highly sensitive person, an empath, an over-giver or simply someone on the awakening path - however you define it, if your sensitivity is causing a challenge in your life right now, there are truly healing insights in this episode.

So get CLICK the link and let’s dive in to:

Your Super Sensitive Self: Curse or Superpower? (with Belinda Noakes) | BABH S2Ep149
SHOW NOTES: www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/149

Watch on YouTube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mILhp_XsxJc

24/11/2022

EPISODE 148: Finding Authenticity | The Freedom To Be Yourself www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/148

🤔 What does being authentic look like in the world today?

🤔 What influence does the world around us play in your self-expression?

🤔 How can you find the freedom to be yourself; to be who you are rather than who you think you’re supposed to be?

These are questions I explored in a group call last week.

It’s a discussion full of insight and I wanted to share a section of it with you here.

Dive deeply with us into the topic of finding authenticity and having the freedom to be you.

We explore Maggie’s inner wrangling around how she shows up in the world on social media and in her writing. There are gems on being authentic that can help anyone facing the challenges of societal ideals vs true expression.

Plus, we delve into Chris' mind and discover the difference between helpful and unhelpful questions to ask yourself when exploring your authenticity.

So click the link yourself comfortable and let’s dive in!

Finding Authenticity | The Freedom To Be Yourself | BABH S2Ep148
SHOW NOTES: www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/148

If you want the visuals, you can watch on YouTube HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq_x8IKD5Q4

08/11/2022

EPISODE 147: What Is Success? https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/147

If you missed the live interview I had with Neil Thrussell, don't worry, I've shared it for you in this weeks episode...

You can listen to it now RIGHT HERE:
https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/147

I was asked by my friend Neil Thrussell if I would participate in his live, online, 48 hour exploration on the question,

“What is success?”

Neil spoke to dozens of leaders in their fields and I wanted to share my turn in the hot seat with you.

In this episode you will:

👉🏻 Get a nuanced and non-personal perspective on what constitutes success from me
👉🏻 Hear Neil delve into my past to discover how different my views were when I was young
👉🏻 Discover the one skill that matters most when it comes to achieving success in your endeavours.
👉🏻 Hear my views on whether or not it's important it is to step out of the box for success and...
👉🏻 What does love have to do with it?

So grab a cuppa and let’s dive in.

What Is Success? | BABH S2Ep147
https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/147

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=974ru_ycyMQ

25/10/2022

EPISODE 146: Time For A Process Or Time For A Decision? www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/146

I’m a great believer in the power of process work and I don’t believe it ever loses it’s value, wherever you are on your journey.

Never-the-less, I’ve found that, for many people who do a lot of self-development work, there comes a time where doing a process can become the poison rather than the medicine; it becomes a distraction; a distraction from making a fundamental decision, one that involves deep risk and real change.

This issue came up in one of my group calls and I wanted to share it with you here.

So the first half of this episode is the conversation I had with Chris in the group and then I offer you some questions and practices you can use yourself to find out if you’re on this precipice and holding yourself back from the leap you’ve been longing to make.

So click the link, grab a cuppa and let’s dive in.

Time For A Process Or Time For A Decision? | BABH S2Ep146
SHOW NOTES: www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/146

If you want the visuals, you can watch on YouTube HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgwmo8ypuWw

12/10/2022

EPISODE 145: Receiving Love (Meditation And Satsang) www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/145

In this episode I’ve reached into the vaults and found a Satsang event I did in Spain back in 2011.

From that I’ve taken a meditation and a facilitation on receiving love when you’ve been pushing love away.

Please remember to only do the meditation in a safe environment… ie not driving or working heavy machinery 😏

Receiving Love (Meditation And Satsang) | BABH S2Ep145
SHOW NOTES: www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/145

27/09/2022

EPISODE 144: Why Nothing Is Personal (And Why We Take Things Personally) www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/144

This week I want to share my answer to a very common question about NPA.

The NPA Process offers the perspective that “It’s not personal”.

A not uncommon reaction to that is: “It bloody well is”, or maybe “It feels bloody personal” or some version of that objection.

Normally, a direct experience of the process generates an intuitive understanding of the power of the non-personal perspective.

But the confusions and questions around it do arise and I was reminded of this by a post by one of our practitioners-in-training in the NPA Mastery Facebook group.

She wrote:

“I was having a conversation today with a friend and we did a bit of NPA when she said

‘I really cant get my head around things not being personal, because I believe that I manifest everything good or bad in my life so how can that be non personal.’

Answers on a postcard please 😂 I would love your view on this, and anyone else that wants to chime in.”

My ‘postcard’ came in the form of a FB Live video to the group which I did on the fly while driving home after helping my daughter move house and that’s what I’d like to share with you on the podcast today.

Now before we dive in I wanna let you know it’s rough and ready and the 4G got iffy in places… but I think it’s a good summary and I hope it helps your understanding, maybe intrigues you and perhaps get’s you thinking deeper about the nuances of non-personal awareness.

So enjoy - click the play button and let’s get into it!

Why Nothing Is Personal (And Why We Take Things Personally) | BABH S2Ep144
SHOW NOTES: www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/144

06/09/2022

EPISODE 143: How Do You React When You Don’t Feel Good Enough (with Gulara Vincent) www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/143
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Feeling not good enough seems to be a cultural epidemic in the 21st century.

The impact on our lives, our relationships and our general well-being can be devastating.

The thing is, the sense of “I’m not good enough” breeds all sorts of behavioural strategies and reactions that just add to the problem.

They wreak havoc and sabotage the things that truly matter to us.

No wonder we get confused, frustrated and depressed!

Well, this week international bestselling author Dr Gulara Vincent returns to the show to shine a light on the topic.

And because the first step is awareness, today she’s generously sharing The Reactivity Map for when you don’t feel good enough.

👉🏻 The map will lay out the four reactions we have to feeling not good enough
👉🏻 Just how deep the not good enough feeling can go
👉🏻 Your steps on the healing process
👉🏻 And what you can do when a reaction grabs you so you don’t have to follow that path anymore.

So click that link, settle in and let’s dive in to:

How Do You React When You Don’t Feel Good Enough (with Gulara Vincent) | BABH S2Ep143
www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/143

30/08/2022

EPISODE 142: Are You And Your Life Aligned (with Diane Beck) www.beabrillianthuman.com/142

I’ve got another guest for you this week and this time it’s the wonderful Diane Beck who’s a former actress who trained at RADA.

She had success on stage and screen and yet realised, despite fulfilling her childhood dream, her life was out of alignment.

In this episode we chat about her breakdown and ultimate breakthrough and how what she discovered about being out of alignment and getting back on track brought her to create The Aligned Life Process and refocus her life to help people like you get your life aligned.

Diane shares

➡️ The three key steps of her process
➡️ How to spot if your life is out of alignment
➡️ What you can do start aligning your life today
➡️ And a whole lot more!

So grab a cuppa and let’s dive in to “Are You And Your Life Aligned (with Diane Beck)”

Are You And Your Life Aligned (with Diane Beck) | BABH S2Ep142
SHOW NOTES: www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/142

PS. Find Diane’s JOY Meditation in the show notes (It’s free with no email required)

23/08/2022

EPISODE 141: Parenting For The Sensitive Child (What You Haven’t Learned Yet) with Jen Harrison www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/141

This week I’m delighted to share a conversation with you that I had with my friend Jen Harrison. Jen’s an amazing lady who’s documented a 99% success rate in helping parents reduce their child’s anxiety and anger related issues in a matter of weeks!

If you’re a parent who’s struggling with the challenges of a sensitive child, Jen shares what you need to know right now and what you haven’t learned yet that will make all the difference; this is a must-listen episode!

And let’s face it, there’s a sensitive child in all of us that we get to parent every single day - so there’s pearls of wisdom for us all here!

We talk about:

💎 The power of a parents influence and how that influence never stops!
💎 How a brave 8 year old boy changed Jen’s life and why what he said is a lesson for us all.
💎 How a sensitive child makes sense of the world and the mistakes that get made when their meanings are missed.
💎 How Jen helps parents look through a new lens.
💎 And more…

Whether you’re a struggling parent or are just figuring out how to managed your own sensitivity, in this episode Jen will help you stop the self-blame, realise you’re not alone and point you to the tools and help you need.

So click that link and let’s dive in.

Parenting For The Sensitive Child (What You Haven’t Learned Yet) with Jen Harrison | BABH S2Ep141
SHOW NOTES: www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/141

16/08/2022

EPISODE 140: Power Up Your Positive Memories With NPA https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/140

In this episode, I’m continuing to offer you a Non-Personal perspective on memories.

Having looked at using The NPA Process to heal your painful memories last week, today we’re switching our focus to those great memories you have.

Those memories are a gold mine, but so often, without realising it, you use them like a vault and lock away so much of your potential.

So in this episode I’m going to share how, with a little NPA, you can power up your positive memories to expand your happiness, open to greater abundance and unleash your forgotten potential.

So click that link and let’s dive in.

Power Up Your Positive Memories With NPA | BABH S2Ep140
SHOW NOTES: www.BeABrilliantHuman.com/140

09/08/2022

EPISODE 139: Healing Your History with NPA https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/139

NPA (and Non-Personal Awareness in general) allows you to address and shift the identifications that you’ve taken up in life; so they go from limitations to freedoms.

A large part of how you take up these identities (and hold on to them) comes from your relationship with your history.

Another way to say that is that you can get stuck in the past and your memories become your masters.

In this and next weeks episodes I'm offering you a Non-Personal perspective on memories.

This week we're looking at healing your painful memories and next week how to make the most of your positive ones.

In today’s episode I’ll be going over the mechanisms that allow your past to haunt you, and give you some practical steps you can use to set yourself free with NPA.

So click that link and let’s dive in.

Healing Your History with NPA | BABH S2Ep139
SHOW NOTES: https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/139

19/07/2022

EPISODE 137: Why Do The Same Issues Keep Coming Up? https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/137

Have you ever found yourself doing a ton of work on some core issue and feeling like you’d nailed it…. Only for it to come back again?

And have you found yourself saying “I thought I’d dealt with this sh*t!?”

Then you wonder if you maybe missed something,
you didn’t quite get to the core of it,
maybe you keep sabotaging yourself for some inexplicable reason…
or perhaps even asking “Am I fundamentally broken?”

You speak with your well meaning spiritual friends and personal development friends only to have them collude in that self blame - pointing with that judgement-dressed-as-kind-wisdom to your failure and the inadequacy of your process work…

Oh. My F-ing. God!

This is something that is guaranteed to get me on my rant box…

And it came up in a recent group call…
Twice!
So I figured it’s in the ethers for a lot of you right now.

And in today’s episode I thought I’d share those conversations from the call and hope, with all my heart, that my perspective on this topic offers an alternative and, in my opinion, a more useful and human approach to this situation.

Plus, as part of these conversations, you’ll get a demo of The NPA Process in action using one of my favourite NPA approaches to help you let in whatever characteristics you see in others and feel you lack.

How cool is that in the middle of this heatwave in the UK?

So click that link and let’s dive in.

Why Do The Same Issues Keep Coming Up? | BABH S2Ep137
SHOW NOTES: https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/137

05/07/2022

EPISODE 136: Breaking Up With Bad Habits (Manda Webster asks for a Non-Personal Perspective) https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/136

One of the things I’ve been asked for on the podcast is a good overview of non-personal awareness and NPA.

Diving back into the archives I found this conversation with my good friend Manda Webster from way back in 2015.

I liked it because she asks some great questions to tease out some of the underlaying NPA principles including some great inquiry into how we look at habits from a non-personal perspective.

We also discuss:

👉🏻 Don Don Miguel Ruiz’ Second Agreement
👉🏻 The Work of Byron Katie and
👉🏻 The best advice I’ve ever been given.

So click the link, hit that play button and let’s dive in…

Breaking Up With Bad Habits (Manda Webster asks for a Non-Personal Perspective) | BABH S2Ep136
SHOW NOTES: https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/136

21/06/2022

EPISODE 135: Why Striving To Rid Yourself Of Your Karma Is A Fools Game https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/135

It breaks my heart to see the un-intended suffering that’s caused by some ideas that are supposed to direct you to the absence of suffering.

In this episode I answer a question about Karma and address the unnecessary fear and suffering that comes from a very popular spiritual idea.

Prepare for some 21st century heresy and little colourful language and, if you’ve ever found yourself beating yourself up or caught in bind on the back of a Spiritual ideal… then prepare for some genuine freedom!

So click that link and let’s dive into it!

Why Striving To Rid Yourself Of Your Karma Is A Fools Game | A Non-Personal Dialogue with Joel Young | BABH S2Ep135
SHOW NOTES: https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/135

14/06/2022

This week I’m delighted to introduce you to my friend Maureen York. She’s an expert who can help you if you find you’ve somehow lost yourself in life and want to rediscover your spark and who you really are.

In our chat we covered some deep stuff which, I think, has something for us all.

We looked at:

👉🏻 How we can lose ourselves in the labels of life and what it takes to shake free of those attachments
👉🏻 Why we get so attached to our labels and the things we think they give us
👉🏻 What are the subtle blocks (and not so subtle blocks) that make us afraid to let go
👉🏻 The hidden cost of staying lost and how to find the courage to let go
👉🏻 And why you don’t have to undertake this journey alone

As ever you can find the show notes and all the links mentioned in the interview at BABH / 134

Maureen is such a beautiful Soul who’s been on this journey herself and is committed to helping you find yourself again.

So click that link and let’s dive into it!

Finding Yourself Again (When You’re Feeling Lost In Life) with Maureen York | BABH S2Ep134
SHOW NOTES: https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/134

07/06/2022

EPISODE 133: Surrender And Intimacy (Creating Closeness In Relationships) https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/133

This week I’ve collated a few of my thoughts on surrendered intimacy, looking at the challenges and the joys when it comes to creating closeness in relationships.

Rather like the 7 Spiritual Questions I answered in Episode 129, you can think of these thoughts as a series of contemplations (or meditations even); there’s even a chime between each one!

While they’re focused on those intimate relationships, remember that life is full of relationships and there are many levels and many meanings to intimacy; it isn’t all about the sexual side of togetherness!

So, as you listen, consider how these may apply to all the relationships in your life.

We’ll be looking at:

*Surrender & Intimacy
*The Dance Of Masculine And Feminine
*Rage & Tenderness
*Creating Safety In The Midst Of Conflict
*Fear Of Loss In Love
*Remembering Your Lover Is Not Your Source
*The Art Of Powerful Words
*What Really Matters About Who You Surround Yourself With

So click link and let’s dive in.

Surrender And Intimacy (Creating Closeness In Relationships) | BABH S2Ep133
SHOW NOTES: https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/133

31/05/2022

EPISODE 132: Mind, Heart And Instinct (Balancing Your Senses For Wholeness) https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/132

This episode is an invitation to embrace the human mechanisms of experience.

We have a tendency to raise one particular aspect of ourselves to dominance and demonise the rest…  in other words making the others somehow ‘less than’.

This can reduce the fullness of our experience.

One of the traps I see in the modern Spiritual and Personal Growth landscape is that an ‘arrogance of the heart’ can emerge, where the mind and instincts become denied.

This can be as debilitating as the more prevalent trend on the planet;  that of promoting the mind and mental faculties over the others.

In this episode I’ll share some scenarios to help you get a sense of what some of these traps can look like in experience.

Plus I’ll offer some suggestions on steps you can take to free yourself and move towards wholeness.

So click that link and let’s dive in.

Mind, Heart And Instinct (Balancing Your Senses For Wholeness) | BABH S2Ep132
SHOW NOTES: https://www.beabrillianthuman.com/blog/132

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