The Brain Language Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Wanting a richer life can quietly turn into a money trap: vague goals, emotional language, and habits that feel productive but never add up to real progress. We dig into why “I want more money” is one of the fastest ways to confuse your brain, and how NLP can help you build a well-formed outcome that’s specific, realistic, and tied to action you can actually repeat. We also get pr...

Send us Fan Mail We lay out why money doesn’t stick without the right identity, beliefs, skills, and habits, even for people who earn a lot. We connect practical personal finance strategy to NLP tools so you can shift scarcity thinking, manage emotional risk, and build systems that make wealth sustainable.  • money beliefs working alongside strategies, capabilities, and behaviors  • using immersio...

Send us Fan Mail We break down illness as a structured experience and show how NLP tools can help you move from diagnosis shock to a clear path toward health. We connect outcomes, beliefs, emotions, and self-efficacy so you can stay engaged through plateaus and make better decisions with your health team.  • defining a well-formed outcome and desired state for health  • using neurological levels t...

Send us Fan Mail Motivation isn’t missing—it’s miswired. We dive into a practical, humane way to rebuild drive by treating motivation as a system you can design, not a feeling you wait to feel. Drawing on decades of NLP practice, we unpack why willpower fizzles, how vague goals quietly sabotage action, and what to change when progress plateaus. Along the way, we contrast corporate SMART goals with...

Send us Fan Mail F rom an NLP perspective, what are some of the common ways we get stuck in experiences or behavior patterns because we aren’t exercising as much conscious control as we really have?   1.     Holding Onto Limiting Beliefs  Tips to overcome this: An easy way to begin to loosen the effects of a belief is to do Sleight of Mouth. Ep 51, 53. Take the belief statement with a cause/effect...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast short, Susan Stageman shares insights on effective goal-setting and reflects on a helpful exercise she completed in December. She encourages listeners to review their past accomplishments and connect them to current goals, emphasizing the importance of valuing and aligning goals with personal interests. Susan also discusses the value of setting goals outside of wor...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Brain Language Podcast, Susan and Morgan discussed strategies for managing stress and resetting for the new year. They explored various techniques, including outcome focus, the Circle of Excellence exercise, deep breathing, meditation, and being present. Morgan shared insights on using breath modulation to manage anxiety, while Susan emphasized the importanc...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we explore anchors and anchoring, a simple to complex process in NLP designed to change our moods and states. Discussed are the different types of anchors, stimulus-response, how anchors work, the importance of anchors, the use of kinesthetic anchors for change, and where to start. Included is an example of a collapsed reality: adding a resource to a problem exper...

Send us Fan Mail It seems you can lead the horse to water and it will drink!  You need patience! Patience is what is necessary to influence and persuade: taking people's maps into new territories. Matching, pacing, and leading are foundational concepts in NLP, crucial for establishing rapport, understanding another person’s model of the world, and guiding them towards desired outcomes. It’s a...

Send us Fan Mail Many people find that as they move through life that they have to shift gears…a new job, a new career, family, divorce, move. Many people are looking for that “new path” when they study NLP.  As we prepare for these shifts, a great way to start is to develop a set of presuppositions and guiding questions to steer the change. This will ensure that the change will stay in place. Thi...

Send us Fan Mail NLP for Emotional Regulation What is Emotional Intelligence? Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the capacity to recognize, understand, and navigate your emotions and those of others. It includes Self-Awareness, Emotional Regulation, Motivation, Empathy, and Social Skills. What is Emotional Regulation? Emotional Regulation (ER) is a component of EQ  strategies for managing their intens...

Send us Fan Mail The Not-So-Subtle Art of Complaining Most of us complain, but is it good or bad? What makes it productive or toxic? Overview of what will be covered:   Common language patterns of complaining The benefits and downsides of complaining How to shift from chronic complaining    The Language of Complaints  This was discovered by using AI to analyze posts on a social media platform that...

Send us Fan Mail 1.     What is TimeLine?  A Timeline is a visual, linear experience of how someone codes and stores time. In NLP timeline is a term used to describe how we internally represent time. We internally represent the past, present, and future differently. The concept was originally laid out in the TimeLine Therapy and the Basis of Personality by Tad James and Wyatt Woodsmall. It was a p...

Send us Fan Mail Main Points: ·       Understand the goal-reaching process and what makes goals happen ·       Picture representation of goals for the coming year ·       Construct the boards for optimum effectiveness ·       Well-constructed boards that are ecological, align with values and Include 5 major areas of a person’s life: faith, fitness, family, friends, financial ·       Eyes move easi...

Send us Fan Mail What is Imposter syndrome? Explaining away your accomplishments and success and doubting your abilities 1.     What are common examples of imposter syndrome? 2.     How can you assess if you have imposter syndrome Take the quiz: Do you chalk your success up to luck, timing, or computer error? Do you believe that if I can do it, anyone can? Do you agonize over small flaws in your w...

Send us Fan Mail 1.     What is important about stories, and metaphors in communication?  When someone studies the great communicators, past and present, they all use metaphors and analogies to illustrate their points.  Metaphors compare things that are less understandable to familiar things. They create new meanings, make complex ideas understandable, motivate interest, and influence ideas. They...

Send us Fan Mail How do we break patterns? Outcome, outcome, outcome Remember, that in the NLP model, all experience has structure. When you explore and change the structure, your experience changes, the perception, meaning, and feeling. NLP creates specific changes rather than random, trial-and-error changes. It changes things by adding resources, not taking away anything.  Our experience and pat...

Send us Fan Mail This is a Podcast Short. It addresses the cycle of ups and downs that some people experience when building a business or learning something new.  In the podcast, I tackle some of the challenges by using NLP session flow from creating a well-formed outcome to what to look for when modeling a mentor. I talk about the complexities of modeling, optimum strategies for success,  the fac...

Send us Fan Mail I’m receiving more and more requests from people to help them with their lack of ability to fall asleep, stay asleep, and get restful sleep. So that they can wake up rested. Sleep is difficult because of the things we keep track of or have to take care of. Sleep is a big part of calming your nervous system to manage stress (EP 79). Hosts discuss why people can’t fall asleep.   1. ...

Send us Fan Mail Morgan recently started a coaching and training business that  focuses on helping corporate leaders, professionals, and entrepreneurs control and reduce stress. This episode covers the problem with stress in society, what stress is, how it affects our body, and how to use NLP and other processes to reduce stress. It is estimated that 75-90% of all health problems are caused by or...

Send us Fan Mail Podcast #78    1.     What is the Score? The score is a process developed by Todd Epstein and Robert Dilts that creates an established pathway for change. It is part of the unified field theory developed by Robert Dilts. It is nestled between defining the problem state SOAR (State, operator, results) and the TOTE (test, operate, test exit), checks and balances along the pathway. 2...

Send us Fan Mail We are starting this new year with a star-studded program featuring none other than Rodger Bailey, developer of the LAB profile! If you are a student of NLP you will recognize this name.  Rodger developed a training program for managers to recognize a person's functional capabilities and motivational triggers using a simple linguistic interview, so managers can know which tas...

Send us Fan Mail Here is my prescription for a happy holiday if not a tolerable one… Set an outcome to have fun and enjoy the holidays.   Get plenty of rest    Sugar and alcohol place a huge strain on your biological system.    Taking care of yourself might also include meditation and prayer.    And exercise – even a walk every day or every other day brings positive benefits.   Another issue conne...

Send us Fan Mail Conflict is a part of life. But how we deal with it and resolve it is what helps us maintain harmony. NLP has an outstanding process to reduce or eliminate inner conflict at any logical level. 1.     Where does conflict occur? Areas in which conflict manifests Understanding conflicts of beliefs and values There are many types of conflict. Conflicts of beliefs and values are about...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever sat in a seminar or a talk about communication and heard the speaker use these statistics about communication? ·       7% are the words,  ·       38% is the way the words are said (para verbals) and  ·       55% of the communication is non-verbal  (body language) These often yet misquoted, out-of-context figures came out of the work of Albert Mehrabian, specifically,...