The Catherine Plano Podcast
by Catherine Plano
Your ultimate resource for expanding your mind and accessing more of your brain, while experiencing unparalleled ‘aha’ moments with guaranteed radical shifts to your learning and growth. Catherine’s goal is to help you become the very best version of yourself - to live an extraordinary life by reaching your fullest potential, with self-coaching strategies to boost your confidence, make better decisions, create new habits, kickstart your motivation, get extraordinary results and build lasting change for a meaningful life that you will absolutely love! Get inspired and energised with your weekly dose of new ideas and insights.
Episodes
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EP 487: 50 Years on the Spiritual Path: I Created My Own Misery with Asha Nayaswami
Ready to turn your gift for helping people into a real coaching career? Visit: https://riseandthriveglobal.com/positive-psychology-coaching/ Asha Nayaswami lost interest in Stanford after about two weeks. From then on, she made A’s when she went to class and F’s when she didn’t, and within a year...
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EP 486: Author of The Secret of Letting Go: You Cannot Satisfy a Fear with Guy Finley
Ready to turn your gift for helping people into a real coaching career? Visit: https://riseandthriveglobal.com/positive-psychology-coaching/ At seven or eight years old, Guy Finley was riding in the Hollywood Christmas parade, where his father was the honorary marshal, sitting on the lap of one…
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EP 485: Quantum Biology Doctor: Your Body Is an Antenna, Not a Machine with Dr Catherine Clinton
Ready to turn your gift for helping people into a real coaching career? Visit: https://riseandthriveglobal.com/positive-psychology-coaching/ Well over 20 years ago, Catherine Clinton was in naturopathic medical school when the long hours caught up with her and she was diagnosed with two…
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EP 484: My Celebrity Clients Manifested Beautiful Lives and They’re Miserable with Latha Jay
Ready to turn your gift for helping people into a real coaching career? Visit: https://riseandthriveglobal.com/positive-psychology-coaching/ Latha Jay works with celebrities and politicians who, from the outside, have manifested beautiful lives. People look at them and wonder how they could...
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EP 483: You Are Not What You Produce
Have you ever apologised to furniture? Do you reread a message you sent four hours ago, checking the tone? When someone praises your work, do you find the floor for them before they can get to it? Did you feel guilty resting the last time you were unwell? If more than two of those landed, this…
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EP 482: Women Have Bought Into a Very Old Programme About Being Chosen with Christine Hassler
Ready to turn your gift for helping people into a real coaching career? Visit: https://riseandthriveglobal.com/positive-psychology-coaching/ Christine Hassler sees so many high-achieving, emotionally intelligent, spiritually focused women going from shaman to astrologer to course, trying to work...
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EP 481: At 29 My Biological Age Was 37. Meditation Reversed It with Tom Cronin
Ready to turn your gift for helping people into a real coaching career? Visit: https://riseandthriveglobal.com/positive-psychology-coaching/ Tom Cronin will tell you that thinking is very overrated, and he has 26 years on a trading floor to explain why. He is an international keynote speaker,...
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EP 480: You Are Not the Mask You Wear
Have you ever been called the strong one so often that being tired now feels like a betrayal? Do you use a slightly different voice for your mother than you do for everyone else? Is there a version of you that only exists in the car, in the ninety seconds before you walk into a room? If any of…
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EP 479: Mushrooms Have Taught Me So Much About Death and Dying with Alli Schaper
Ready to turn your gift for helping people into a real coaching career? Visit: https://riseandthriveglobal.com/positive-psychology-coaching/ Alli Schaper will tell you that the most important things she knows about living, she learned from mushrooms, including how to die. She is the CEO and...
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EP 478: Dr Bruce Lipton: Your Genes Don’t Control You, Your Mind Does
Dr Bruce Lipton will tell you that the most dangerous idea in modern health is also the most widely believed one. That your genes control your life. He is a world-renowned stem cell biologist, former medical school professor, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and now Beyond Darwin, and...
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EP 477: The Grief That Has No Name Is Often the Heaviest Kind
Have you ever grieved something that no one else could see? A friendship that quietly dissolved. A version of yourself you left behind. A relationship that is still technically intact but has become unrecognisable. And wondered why it hurt so much when, on paper, nothing had actually ended? There...
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EP 476: You Never Get to Choose Your Trauma Response with Annalie Howling
Annalie Howling will tell you that shame is the hardest emotion in the room to name, and that this is precisely why it runs so much of our lives. Ask a group who is feeling anxious, and every hand goes up, and each person can list what they are anxious about. Ask about shame, and you get silence....
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EP 475: Oxford Neuroscientist: Your Brain Is Not Shrinking with Dr Sarah McKay
Dr Sarah McKay will tell you that the most common question she hears from women is also the least useful one. What is wrong with my brain? She is an Oxford-educated neuroscientist, founder of Think Brain and The Neuroscience Academy, presenter on ABC Catalyst and the author of The Women’s Brain...
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EP 474: You Were Not Made to Fit In, You Were Made to Belong
Have you ever made a decision that, on reflection, made no sense? Stayed in a job you hated, a relationship that was wrong, a group that did not value you? And wondered why you could not just leave? The answer is not weakness. The answer is biology. We are wired to belong. Not as a preference…
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EP 473: Fearless Isn’t the Game, Brave Is (How to Fear Your Fear Less) with Judi Holler
Judi Holler will happily tell you she is one of the biggest fraidy cats you will ever meet. She is afraid of all the things. She is also a keynote speaker, USA TODAY bestselling author of Fear Is My Homeboy and a self-described professional experimenter who has spent nearly twenty years treating...
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EP 472: This Generation Does Not Have a Short Attention Span with Heather Parady
Heather Parady never set out to build a brand. Growing up in the Southern Christian Bible Belt of the USA, she wanted one thing from the time she was a little girl: full-time ministry. That was what you did if you loved the Lord. But a series of events left her in an empty, dark place, and it was...
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EP 471: The Identity Gap: The Quiet Anxiety of Not Being Who You Really Are
Have you ever felt a quiet unease you couldn’t quite name? Your life looks fine, maybe even good. Nothing is technically wrong. And yet something follows you, a sense that the person you present to the world and the person you actually are, are not quite the same. That distance has a name. I call...
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EP 470: The Day She Tore Up Her Scripts And Chose To Live with Dana Grant
Dana Grant has built her work around helping people align with universal principles, but she is the first to tell you she did not start there. She was the woman setting unbreakable corporate sales records while, behind the curtain, she was quietly dying. Saturated with enough medication to, in…
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EP 469: You Were Never Protecting Your Peace with Tania Khazaal
Tania Khazaal has built her work around healing families, but she is the first to tell you she did not start there. She was the child who cut off her own mother and went no contact, certain she was protecting herself. She grew up in community housing, later lost her job and her home and lived out...
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EP 468: What Burnout is Actually Telling You
Have you ever looked completely fine on the outside while feeling completely hollow on the inside? High functioning, high achieving, praised for holding it all together, and yet quietly evaporating within. What if that exhaustion you keep pushing through isn’t a sign that you need to try harder,...
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EP 467: Your Story Is Creating the Life You Keep Trying to Fix with Steffani LeFevour
It Has Been Decided: How Steffani LeFevour Rewrote Her Story and Manifested a Dream Book Deal Steffani LeFevour has built a life and a career around happiness, but she is the first to tell you she did not start there. She grew up without her father, an alcoholic who left the family, and she was...
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EP 466: The NFL Star Who Walked Away and Became an Astrologer (What Your Chart Reveals) with Ricky Williams
What happens when you reach the summit of everything you were told to want, only to find the view strangely empty? For Ricky Williams, that moment arrived in an NFL locker room, at the height of a career most people spend their lives chasing. He had the fame, the success, the money. And sitting...
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EP 465: The Manifestation Block Nobody Talks About (And Why Doing More Won’t Fix It) with Emma Mumford
What if doing more is the very thing that has been holding you back? What if the desires you have been chasing for years are not waiting on the universe but on you? What if true manifestation is not about attracting something new, but about becoming safe enough to receive what your heart already...
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EP 464: The Hardest Thing Isn’t Chasing the Fire. It’s Sitting Inside It with Mariana Atencio
What if confidence has been the wrong goal all along? What if the armour you have spent years building to survive the world is the very thing standing between you and the life you were meant to live? What if the most radical act available to you right now is simply giving yourself permission to…
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EP 463: She Was Losing Her Mum, So She Learned to Speak to Her Soul with Stephanie Banks
What if the person you love most was still right in front of you, but you could no longer reach them? What if the words you had spent your entire career mastering suddenly became useless with the one person who mattered most? What if the only way to stay connected was to abandon everything you...
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EP 462: The Hidden Reason You Keep Making the Wrong Decisions (And How to Stop) with Dan Ariely
What if the voice you’ve been trusting your entire life was never qualified to guide you? What if every snap judgment you’ve ever made about a person, a relationship, or a career was based on a feeling that never had enough information to be accurate? What if the very thing you call intuition is...
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EP 461: Your Mind is Protecting a Version of You That No Longer Exists with Jim Curtis
We all want to change. We read the books, do the courses, sit in the meditation. And yet somehow, we keep circling back to the same patterns, the same reactions, the same version of ourselves we swore we had outgrown. So what if the problem was never a lack of willpower or awareness? What if the...
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EP 460: Put Your Mind on a Leash Before It Takes Over Your Life with Dr Steven C. Hayes
For most of us, the mind feels like the most trustworthy part of who we are. It’s the voice that plans, decides, judges, remembers, and tells us who we are. But what if that voice isn’t quite the friend we thought it was? What if the very organ we rely on to solve our problems is the same one...
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EP 459: The Invisible Reason You Can’t Stick to Your Habits with Monica Packer
What if the reason you can’t stick to your habits has nothing to do with willpower, motivation, or discipline? What if the methods you’ve been handed were never designed for the life you’re actually living? For so many of us, habit advice arrives in the same shape: wake at five, follow the…
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EP 458: What Your Dreams Are Really Trying to Tell You (The Science Behind It)
Have you ever woken from a vivid dream and thought, what on earth was that about? Maybe you were flying, falling, or running through places you’ve never been that somehow felt strangely familiar. What if those wild dreamscapes aren’t random nonsense at all, but your brain speaking its most honest...
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EP 457: A Chiropractor Told Her “Your Body Wants to Be Stuck.” It Changed Everything with Inna Segal
Most of us grow up believing that when something hurts, you go to a professional, they tell you what’s wrong, and you get on with your life. But what happens when the pain keeps coming back? When no practitioner, no pill, and no treatment can make it stick? What if the body isn’t broken at all…
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EP 456: The Emmy Award Winner Who Left It All to Follow Consciousness with Frank Elaridi
What if the career you worked so hard to build, the identity you constructed piece by piece, was never really yours to begin with? What if the version of you that shows up every day, doing the job, earning the title, ticking the boxes, is simply the most convincing role you have ever played? For...
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EP 455: Your Mood Isn’t Random: How Colour Quietly Shapes Your Emotions, Decisions and Happiness
Have you ever walked into a room and instantly felt calmer, more energised, or strangely unsettled, without being able to explain why? What if the colours surrounding you right now aren’t just decoration, but a silent language speaking directly to your nervous system, shaping how you feel, what…
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EP 454: You Were Never Broken, So Why Are You Still Stuck in the Healing? with Gabi Kovalenko
What if the version of you that you’ve been trying to fix was already whole this entire time? What if the endless journaling, the shadow work, the inner child workshops, the breathwork retreats, and the constant quest to “do the work” have actually become the very thing keeping you from stepping...
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EP 453: Your Children Aren’t Here to Be Fixed, They’re Here to Wake You Up with Dr. Shefali
Your Children Aren’t Here to Be Fixed, They’re Here to Wake You Up What if every argument with your child, every slammed door, every moment of frustration has nothing to do with them and everything to do with a wound you never healed? It’s a confronting question. And for most parents, the…
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EP 452: When Your Identity Shatters: A Therapist’s Journey Through Suffering with Dr. John W. Price
When Your Identity Shatters: A Therapist’s Journey Through Suffering What if the moment your entire identity falls apart isn’t a breakdown but a sacred initiation? What if the culture that taught you to pathologise your pain has stolen your capacity to transform through it? For over 28,000 hours,...
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EP 451: Stop Forcing Your Life to Work – Here’s Why You’re Stuck with Brett Baughman
What if the reason you’re exhausted, frustrated, and stuck isn’t because you’re not working hard enough, but because you’re forcing your life instead of flowing with it? In this transformative episode, nationally recognised executive coach Brett Baughman shares 25 years of wisdom about…
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EP 450: Why You REALLY Procrastinate (It’s Not Laziness, It’s Emotional Protection)
Have you ever stared at your to-do list, felt that familiar dread, and suddenly decided that reorganising your sock drawer was the most important task in the world? What if that delay you keep shaming yourself for isn’t laziness at all—but your mind trying to protect you from something it…
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EP 449: I Share My Feelings for a Living (And Left My VP Job to Do It) with Case Kenny
What if the reason you feel like a stranger to yourself isn’t that you’re lost, but because you’ve been performing for so long, you forgot what authenticity looks like? From childhood, so many of us learned that success meant following the script: get the degree, climb the ladder, earn the title,...
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EP 448: The Age When Women Become Most Powerful with Marianne Williamson
What if everything you’ve been told about aging is a lie? What if your 50s and 60s aren’t about fading into irrelevance, but about finally becoming who you were always meant to be? In this transformative episode, bestselling author and spiritual teacher Marianne Williamson dismantles the cultural...
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EP 447: If You Felt Done With Everything in 2025, You Weren’t Breaking: Here’s What 2026 Actually Demands
Have you ever felt like everything in your life was quietly unravelling, and you couldn’t tell if you were transforming or falling apart? What if that restlessness you felt all through 2025 wasn’t you breaking—it was you shedding what no longer fit? In this powerful episode, we explore why 2025...
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EP 446: Why You Can’t Say No Without Feeling Guilty (Codependency Truth) with Lisa A. Romano
What if the reason you can’t say no isn’t weakness, but conditioning? From childhood, so many of us were taught that love had to be earned, that being good meant staying quiet, agreeable, and available. But somewhere along the way, that survival strategy became self-betrayal. In this powerful...
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EP 445: The Mental Health System Wants You Stable. I Want You Thriving with Gabe Howard
What if the mental health diagnosis you’ve been told limits you is actually the beginning of your most extraordinary life? What if stability isn’t the ceiling, but just the foundation? What if the system telling you to “just be stable” has been setting the bar far too low? Award-winning speaker…
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EP 444: How To Connect With Your Spirit Guides & Unlock Your Psychic Abilities with MaryAnn DiMarco
What if the psychic abilities you’ve been searching for have been within you all along? What if those gut feelings, intuitive hits, and inner knowing aren’t random occurrences, but your spirit guides leaving breadcrumbs for you to follow? What if the exhaustion from constantly working on yourself...
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EP 443: Decoding Consciousness: The Latest Scientific Breakthroughs in Understanding
Have you ever stopped and wondered how you are aware that you are aware? What if consciousness isn’t something you have, but something you are? In this mind-expanding episode, we dive deep into one of humanity’s greatest mysteries: consciousness itself. For centuries, philosophers called it the...
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EP 442: Stop Washing Your Clothes: Stylist’s Secret to Looking 10 Years Younger with Chellie Carlson
What if the reason you feel stuck isn’t about your mindset, your morning routine, or even your goals? What if it’s literally hanging in your closet? Every piece of clothing tells a story. Some from who you used to be, others from the person you are becoming. But when your wardrobe is filled with...
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EP 441: Why You’re Burned Out: Human Design Reveals Your Real Energy Type with Emma Dunwoody
What if the exhaustion you feel isn’t a personal failing, but simply your body fighting against a system it was never designed for? What if the burnout, the people-pleasing, and the relentless grind aren’t character flaws, but signs you’re running the wrong energetic blueprint? Human design…
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EP 440: The Invisible Number: The Neuroscience of What You Believe You’re Worth
Have you ever wondered why you keep hitting the same income ceiling no matter how hard you work? What if there’s an invisible number in your brain that’s been controlling your financial reality this entire time? In this groundbreaking episode, we dive deep into the neuroscience of self-worth and...
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EP 439: Your Gut Controls Your Hormones: The Overnight Food Trick That Changes Everything with Dr Mindy Patterson
Have you ever wondered why your menopause symptoms persist despite doing everything “right”—eating clean, exercising regularly, and following all the conventional advice? What if the solution isn’t about adding more to your plate, but about changing when and how you prepare the food you’re…
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EP 438: Your Ancestors’ Trauma Lives in Your Body: Healing Generational Pain with Sound with Eileen McKusick
What if the chronic pain you can’t shake, the anxiety that won’t quit, or the patterns you keep repeating aren’t actually yours? What if they belong to your father’s father, your mother’s mother, carried forward through generations in your electromagnetic field? While most health approaches focus...
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Your ultimate resource for expanding your mind and accessing more of your brain, while experiencing unparalleled ‘aha’ moments with guaranteed radical shifts to your learning and growth. Catherine’s goal is to help you become the very best version of yourself - to live an extraordinary life by reaching your fullest potential, with self-coaching strategies to boost your confidence, make better decisions, create new habits, kickstart your motivation, get extraordinary results and build lasting change for a meaningful life that you will absolutely love! Get inspired and energised with your weekly dose of new ideas and insights.
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