A Path to Self-Healing with Chris Leather

Are you living your own life, or just following a script written in your childhood?   What if you could consciously choose your attitude, regardless of your past conditioning?   Most of us aren’t living our own lives, we’re living our conditioning. Before the age of seven, your foundational habits, fears, and internal scripts were given to us from a young age. In this episode, we’re clea...

Are you constantly walking on eggshells, feeling utterly drained, and trapped in a relationship loop that leaves you questioning your own reality?   Escaping psychological manipulation requires pulling back the curtain on the confusing tactics used by toxic personalities and finding the strength to walk away. Author, podcaster, and survivor Saige Whitney joins the podcast to share the raw rea...

What do you do when the version of yourself you have known for years suddenly feels like a complete stranger?   A major narrative disruption, whether it is a painful breakup, a divorce, or a massive lifestyle shift—forces an intense identity crisis, leaving you to grieve not just the loss of a partner, but the loss of who you were alongside them. In this special panel episode of APTSH, I am j...

Are you facing a devastating health crisis, severe burnout, or a dark season in life that leaves you feeling like you have completely run out of options?   Overcoming profound physical adversity requires moving past basic survival to create a mindset that actively refuses to let suffering dictate your future. Speaker, entrepreneur, and former Georgetown City Council member Ty Gipson joins me...

Are you trapped in a painful loop of chasing unavailable love, repeating toxic relationship patterns, or struggling to navigate anxious and avoidant attachment styles after a devastating breakup?   Dealing with deep heartbreak or complex relational trauma requires moving past surface-level advice to understand the profound psychological blueprints that dictate how we love. Psychotherapist wit...

Are you holding yourself back from your true potential because of silent self-doubt, anxiety, or a lack of clear direction?   Achieving an elite mindset requires moving past superficial motivation to master the actual physical and psychological mechanics of human performance. Peak performance mindset coach, global keynote speaker, and former professional footballer Matt Young joins the podcas...

Do you feel like you are constantly carrying an invisible weight, feeling unsafe even when everything around you is perfectly fine?   Trauma is rarely the loud, dramatic movie-style event we imagine; more often, it is a collection of small, quiet wounds that slowly rewrite how you trust, love, and navigate your day-to-day life. Hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner, and Mnemodynamic Therapist Beck...

Are you battling burnout, anxiety, or the heavy pressure to have it all figured out as a man today?   The modern expectations placed on men often breed silent isolation, severe stress, and a dangerous stigma around asking for help. In this episode, I sit down with my business partner Charles, a 27-year-old entrepreneur, and my mate James, a 45-year-old tiler and former artist, to dismantle th...

Are you feeling completely isolated while trying to understand the overwhelming, turbulent feelings of losing a parent?   Grief is a uncertainty, yet the creeping presence of guilt, anger, and numbness can leave you feeling entirely disconnected from the world and others around you. In this deeply personal episode, I share the pivotal moment of losing my father, reflecting on how processing t...

Are you struggling to scale your business while staying focused on the goals that actually move the needle?   Transitioning from the corporate world to running a high-growth business requires a complete shift in psychological resilience and strategy. Entrepreneurial digital marketing expert and owner of We Are Forefront Digital, Charles Down, joins me to unpack the raw reality of building a l...

Do you struggle to quieten your mind when anxiety and chronic negative thoughts take over?   Anxiety is not an illness; it is a direct neural signal from your body indicating that your internal threat system is overloaded. Therapist and Midlife Coach Sue Ashford joins me to break down the physical mechanics of chronic worry, examining how anxiety physically alters the amygdala and hippocampus...

Navigating adult friendships in a noisy, distracted world is incredibly complex. Midlife Coach Sue Ashford joins me to break down what it actually takes to build connections that matter, handle relational conflict with maturity, and recognise the exact moment a friendship is no longer supporting your emotional wellbeing.   We move past the generic social advice to look at the practical psycho...

Major life transitions often cause our true identity to get completely swallowed up by new roles and societal expectations. Experienced hypnotherapist and life coach Beckie Sorby joins me to break down how to reclaim your sense of self-identity after monumental shifts like becoming a mother, and how to protect your emotional wellbeing from the constant comparison trap of social media.   We mo...

Overcoming a life-altering diagnosis requires a profound shift in how you process fear, identity, and inner strength. Mindset coach and cancer survivor Natalie Riede joins the conversation to share the raw reality of her survival journey and how she moved past clinical frameworks to find true empowerment through holistic healing.   We strip away the generic toxic positivity to look at the pra...

Building a digital agency that actually scales requires moving past generic marketing playbooks. Charles Down, founder of Forefront, joins the conversation to break down his transition into full-time entrepreneurship and how leveraging high-intent SEO, custom website design, and raw brand authenticity drives genuine business growth.   We cut through the standard entrepreneurial fluff to exami...

Midlife shouldn't feel like a crisis or a slow fade, but the sudden shift in identity, rising stress levels, and emotional fatigue can make it feel exactly like that. High-performance midlife coach and master hypnotherapist Sue Ashford joins the conversation to break down how to stop simply managing stress and start actively redesigning your next chapter.   We strip away the generic self-help...

Men are taught to hide the strain until the cracks are too wide to ignore. In this episode, Tom and I look directly at the hidden isolation running through men's mental health, the impact of social media on self-esteem, and what it actually takes to build a bulletproof support network.   We cut through the standard, polite mental health talking points to share raw personal stories and listene...

Losing my father was the exact moment the ground fell out from underneath me. It forced me to look directly at my own anxiety, confront deep stress, and find out what it actually takes to build true emotional resilience when life completely breaks your narrative. I'm Chris Leather, and in this solo episode, I share the raw, unfiltered journey of how that profound loss drove me to master hypnothera...