Get Clarity with Jamie Smart

What you're about to hear is the recording of a talk I did in September at the Richmond NLP group called 'The Principles Behind Transformational Change'.    I was booked to speak at the Richmond NLP group, and lots of people were curious about how the principles behind clarity would go down with an audience steeped in NLP & Hypnosis, so I promised to record the talk for this podcast.   My idea for...

Do the principles represent the the future of psychology? I'm Jamie Smart, and what you're about to hear is me being interviewed by the author Amir Karkouti, the creator of the  What The F*#$ Are The Principles?  group -  https://www.facebook.com/groups/299806010361726/   In this conversation I make the case for why the principles behind clarity (as realised & articulated by Syd Banks) represent t...

In this episode, you're going to hear a conversation I had on the subject of happiness and wellbeing with one of my dear friends and colleagues, Rita Shuford. And here's how I met Rita... In 2011, I kicked off a one-year programme called '3 Principles University'. We had a wonderful group of students, and every month or so, we had a different principles teacher spend the weekend with us, sharing t...

What you're about to hear is an excerpt from a Masterclass I did a few years back during the Clarity Certification Training. You're about to discover something mind-blowingly weird: it's quite literally the strangest fact about your perception, and it blows me away every time i think of it. And it's going to be particularly useful to you if you've ever said, "I know it's just my thinking but…" - I...

This episode is a brief coaching demo. In fact it got turned around in under 7 minutes. Basically, a few weeks ago I did a coaching demo with one of my clients, Mary, around what she described as 'impostor syndrome'.   She told me that whenever she started to make progress, she'd get to a certain point, then fall back.   She wanted to be able to 'put herself out there'…   She wanted to be able to...

So that's what I did. I started with a question: "What is body image?" And we took it from there. The talk ranged from puppies to epistemology… from toddlers to your true identity… And at one point it occurred to me to ask a question that had never occurred to me before (this is the brain-teaser)… "If you were to wake up tomorrow morning and discover that your body image had improved, like it was...

in this episode of the get clarity podcast, you're going to hear a conversation I had on the subject of relationships with two of my dear friends and colleagues, Jan and Chip Chipman. I recorded this interview with Jan and Chip at the same time as we were recording material for ClarityPro. Claritypro is our low-cost membership programme for people who want to share the principles like a pro with a...

This episode features a coaching demo I did with Clarity Coach Trevor Hartwick. And here's one of the interesting things about it: We did the demo at the end of a virtual session where we only had 7 minutes left. What you're going to hear is just how quickly it's possible for someone to experience a profound shift when you're working with an understanding of the principles behind clarity.   Trevor...

In this episode of the podcast, you're going to be hearing a conversation I had with a good friend and colleague, Nick Bottini. Over the past couple of years he's gone from being the music teacher in a school to being a bestselling author, speaker and coach who's passionate about sharing the inside-out understanding with musicians. And while hundreds of thousands of people are now exploring and ha...

A simple solution to stress, pressure and burnout in the NHS. this episode is one we've been trying to organise for a while, because it's with Louise O'Dalaigh, a woman who's been working to introduce the principles behind clarity into he National Health Service (NHS).    As you may know, the issue of stress and burnout is pretty much an epidemic in the world of healthcare, so it's one of the plac...

A conversation with a good friend and Clarity Coach Christine Mitchell.  In this episode of the Get Clarity podcast, you're going to be hearing a conversation I had with a good friend and colleague, Clarity Coach Christine Mitchell. Christine works with people who arrive with a variety of challenges and objectives, particularly around anxiety, stress and OCD. And one of the interesting things abou...

Are formless principles too 'woo-woo' for a corporate lawyer? In this episode of the get clarity podcast, we're going to be answering this question about subtractive psychology: are formless principles too 'woo-woo' for a corporate lawyer? Here's the back story. You may recall that I conducted a 3-day Clarity 1:1 Coaching Intensive with a corporate lawyer named Andy, in front of a live audience of...

A keynote I did at the Popup Business School in Westminster. In November of 2018, I was invited to speak to 100 students at the PopUp Business School in Westminster, London. The founders of Popup created it as a response to traditional startup advice, because they felt that stuff was completely inaccessible to some of the people they wanted to inspire... - Unemployed people - People doing jobs the...

Jacquie Forde interviews Jamie Smart for her Unashamedly Human podcast. In this episode of the get clarity podcast, you're going to hear a conversation I had with an old friend of mine, Jacquie Forde, but it was a conversation with a difference. Jacquie was interviewing me for her podcast, Unashamedly Human, and we had a really open and honest conversation. So I thought you might like to hear what...

In this episode of the get clarity podcast, you're going to hear a conversation I had with two of my dearest friends, colleagues and mentors – these are people who've had a profound impact on my work and in my life, so I'm really excited to share them with you. And a few pieces of housekeeping before we start:   First of all, this is the final podcast before we pause for the holidays, so I just wa...

In this episode of the get clarity podcast, you're going to hear a keynote speech I gave at the Resilient Young Minds conference recently. The conference was attended by Teachers, school leaders, Youth Workers, Charity workers, Coaches, Parents, Business owners and a number of young people who joined us. The conference set out to demonstrate that young people: - Are not broken - Do not need to be...

In this episode of the get clarity podcast, I'm going to be speaking with my friend and colleague, Dr Bill Pettit, so just a couple of things before we get to that. You may already be aware that my team and I have been clarifying our message about who we are as a company and what we're doing in the world. This is already having an impact on how we're spending our time. And one of the things we've...

In this episode, you're going to hear a coaching session that's going to be particularly relevant to a lot of people in light of this week's mid-term elections in the USA, because the client, Kathleen, is feeling frightened and anxious about the social, economic and political climate. At one point in the conversation, you'll hear me ask what may strike you as a strange and bizarre question: Are yo...

This weeks episode is an excerpt from module 2 of this year's Clarity Coach Training. The reason I chose this clip is that at this point in the session there was a feeling in the group that was just incredible and what I'm going to suggest is that it was because of the direction we were looking in. What I am pointing to is something that is beyond the words. Enjoy! To listen to more shows visit ht...

In this episode we are doing something a little different. This past Sunday (Sep 30th) was international Podcast Day and so to celebrate it we are re-releasing the most popular episode of any of our podcasts. The original episode went out on the Results Mindset Podcast a year ago and it's a keynote that I did at the unlimited conference in Finland called 'The Search is Over (except when it isn't)....

In this episode, you're going to hear an interview I did eight years ago with a good friend and colleague – Sandy Krot. At the time I was very early in my own journey into exploring the principles behind Clarity and Sandy had been sharing these principles with individuals and with corporate clients for over 30 years. So as you're listening to this now it's getting on for 40 years that Sandy has be...

This week's episode is a re-release of one of the interviews I did to coincide with the release of my Sunday Times best-selling book - Results. The interview is with Ian Selby - a company director who did a 3 day 1 to 1 coaching intensive with me (and later joined me on Clarity Coach Training). The reason that Ian was featured in my book Results was because our 1 to 1 intensive gave rise to what I...

In this episode you're going to hear a keynote speech I gave to the employees of two companies, Online Mortgage Advisors and Create Finance. Two of the founders of these companies had already been impacted from exploring the principles behind clarity so they wanted to share it with their teams. Most of the 80 people who attended were unfamiliar with this work, and with the world of 'personal devel...

This episode is a coaching session I did with a client who was struggling with so-called "impostor syndrome", self-doubt and lack of self-belief. And these are such common issues for people that I thought it would be a really useful one to share with you. Emma Broome is an elite performance coach, with a background in elite performance herself as an aerial skier. But when she first reached out to...

In this episode of Get Clarity you will hear a coaching session which was recorded during a Clarity Community call (a monthly call I do for those in my community that have been on one of my programmes). Doreen is a coach from Belfast who works with people who want to improve their lives and improve their relationship with money. As you'll hear Doreen has recently finished the Thriving Coaches Blue...