From Skydiving to Lung Cancer: What Neuroscience Teaches About Resilience | Linda Kneidinger

In this episode of Journey to Purpose, Pippa sits down with Linda Kneidinger — personal coach, author, and sports-psychology-trained mindset expert — for a conversation that moves from competitive athletics to skydiving to a recent lung cancer diagnosis, and what neuroscience actually has to say about facing fear.Linda's path started in sports psychology, and it shows: her coaching leans on how the brain actually processes threat, not generic positive thinking. She talks through the Anxious Mouse Method — her framework for working with, not against, the part of the brain that won't stop sounding the alarm — and how a solo skydive became a deliberate exercise in rebuilding self-trust. The conversation turns more personal when Linda talks about her recent lung cancer diagnosis, and relying on the same mindset tools she spends her career teaching other people.Pippa and Linda explore:Why sports psychology translates so directly into life coachingThe neuroscience of fear — and why understanding it beats trying to suppress itThe Anxious Mouse Method, explainedFacing a health crisis with the tools you've spent years teaching other peopleChoosing novelty on purpose to slow down how fast life feelsA grounded, science-backed conversation about resilience — from someone currently living it, not just teaching it.Connect with Linda Kneidinger: lindakneidinger.com | ultimateyou-coaching.com. Book: Your Best Year Yet (on Amazon). Email: [email protected] to Purpose is a personal transformation podcast featuring real conversations about mindset, trauma recovery, self-worth, spiritual awakening, resilience, and finding your life’s purpose. New episodes every week. 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Of0Na1qWovS8Aw2X2FU8M 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philippa.bagley/ 🌐 Website: https://philippabagley.com/ Subscribe and leave a review — it helps others find the show.About your hostPippa Bagley is a clinical hypnotherapist specialising in burnout and sleep, and the host of Journey to Purpose. Based in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, she is passionate about helping people reconnect with what truly matters — and build lives and careers that feel genuinely sustainable. Pippa is also studying for an MSc in the Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health at King’s College London. Find out more at philippabagley.com