Burn From Within – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, I was interviewed by the Global NLP Conference about how to make big life decisions you won’t regret. Angela Wells, co-founder of the conference, asks some great questions which allows me to share:

• What key tools I personally use to make decisions to live a life true to myself and actually do it not just think it
• How you can shift from analysis paralysis and being stuck in life
• One killer NLP strategy to transform your motivation to take action 
• How to take back control when your career or life problems seem impossible to solve
• How to not sweat the small stuff and spend your time more wisely
• The commonalities between my guests on the Burn From Within podcast on how they made hugely successful life and career changing decisions
• How Covid has changed everything in people’s minds and why The Great Resignation is happening right now

Resources:

• Use my special discount code MATT10 when you register for the Global NLP Conference (and check out all the amazing speakers and sessions) here
• For those that want a free guide to making big decisions with no regrets, including audio clips sharing real strategies from people I interview as well as clips from Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos who use this framework, go to www.burnfromwithin.com/noregrets and I'll send you my audio guide free today!
• Connect directly with me directly on LinkedIn here - leave me a voice note to really get my attention (thanks Valerie Mekki for that tip!)
• Check out Tony Robbins' explanation of the NLP Dickens process here on YouTube - I've adapted this for career and life decisions. The foundational structure is truly powerful for motivation to take action!

To book a free 20-min confidential call with Matt to discuss any career or life change challenges you are having, go to www.burnfromwithin.com/call 

On this week’s episode, we have Valerie Mekki who used to be a retail buyer and product developer for major fashion brands for over 18 years and now she is a content writer and loves it! 

In this interview, Valerie fascinatingly shares her career pivots including becoming an entrepreneur, returning to a 9-5 and a lot more! We discuss:

• The false security of job security
• How accreditations and side projects can really help in your career transitions
• The mindset to handle your ego being crushed when working more junior roles in a new career
• How to deal with tough times during your career transition
• Practical ways to make money from your years or decades of previous career experience
• A golden mindset trick to becoming prolific in sharing what you do on social media
• How to restore balance during your transition so you don't burn out

Resources:

• Check out Valerie’s amazing blog about a career change for mid-life professionals at Oh Hello Work Life
• Connect directly with Valerie on LinkedIn here - listen to the end of the episode to learn how to send a LinkedIn message that gets her attention!
• To find out more about prototyping your next career, listen to this episode of the show here
• Book a free 20-min confidential call with Matt to discuss any career or life change challenges you are having here
• Check out more inspiring interviews with full transcripts to scan quickly for career and life change nuggets on the Burn From Within website here

On this week’s episode, I have Damon Cart, who has a huge career and life turnaround story. Only a few years ago Damon suffered from depression running his own life insurance business as a State Farm agent while his marriage also broke down. 

Looking for ways to relieve his depression, he found NLP and began a tremendous journey of self discovery over several years training with some of the world’s most renowned NLP Trainers including Robert Dilts and Steve Andreas. He’s now burning from within, recently happily married to the love of his life, fulfilling his dream of being able to travel while running his business and now training and transforming individuals rapidly with some of the most powerful models that have changed his own life, including changing your own self-concept.

. In this episode, we discuss:

• Spotting signals in life that you are on the wrong career path
• Damon’s experience of depression from spending all day in a business he hated
• Lifting depression in one hour with NLP versus over a year in traditional therapy
• Finding an interest that developed into a passion that became a business
• Finally being able to make tough but congruent life decisions by shifting limiting beliefs
• The importance of building your life from your own values not ones imposed by others
• The self concept model and transforming your highest values into a quality of who you are
• What’s the one thing that’s made Damon Cart burn from within?

Resources:

• Take the Career Assessment right now from Damon’s Self Concept Research Group here
• Steve Andreas’ book, Transforming Yourself, about his self-concept model, now rolling out across the world by Damon Cart and his business partner 
• Hundreds of videos about NLP on Damon Cart’s highly-popular YouTube channel here

On this week’s episode, I have Michael Legge, who is a former actor best known for playing teenage Frank McCourt in Allen parker’s 1999 movie Angela's ashes and you might also know him from other TV shows like Shameless. Since being famous in the acting world for over two decades, he has now transitioned into a new career, having extensively studied self-development, various forms of therapies, and coaching. Now he is the founder of the mind health coach, helping actors and performing artists with anxiety and achieving their peak performance to excel in their career. We actually met in India, a few years ago at a neuro-linguistic programming retreat and got on very well.  I had to get him on the show as he made quite a career change and talks openly about it. In this episode, you will discover:

• How Michael made the decision to leave his successful career in acting of almost 20 years and the gradual transition to a new passion of coaching
• How solving his own persistent level of anxiety in acting fuelled helping other actors with this common challenge in the profession
• What skills from a long and successful career in acting transferred into coaching?
• How Michael’s purpose changed as his career changed and the realisation of shifting from his ego to operating at the level of contribution to others
• How to tackle anxiety in your career and during Covid-19
• What’s the one thing that’s made Michael Legge burn from within?

Resources:1

• Michael’s MindPerfect Program - get back in control of your mind in just 10 weeks: https://themindhealthcoach.com/control-mindperfect-program/ 
• Follow Michael’s amazing tips and videos on Instragram @themindhealthcoach
• Angela’s Ashes - Michael’s first major movie when he was a child - watch it on Amazon Prime now
• Michael’s career as a successful actor laid out on Wikipedia

On this week’s episode, I have Lori Ann Arsenalt who is the founder and chief grounding officer of Freedom Within Wellness and certainly has made a huge career transition and life transition story too. Lori Ann was a human resources manager for 18 years over in Canada and in the government of Prince Edward Island and decided to change her life completely, and moved to Thailand and developed a career and business training TRE or trauma and tension release exercises. Freedom Within is a global wellness and coaching services company based in Chiang Mai Thailand, where I lived for about three years and freedom within offers Tre certification and training to people from all around the world.

On this episode, you will discover:

• How Lori Ann made the decision to leave her safe, secure government role of almost 20 years
• How she not only managed the transition of her career but her country and lifestyle too moving to Chiang Mai, Thailand
• What practice she has developed to fine tune her decision making and make great gut decisions continuously in career and life
• The concept of grounding and how it can help improve the clarity of your thought and relationships with others
• What’s the one thing that’s made Lori Ann Arsenault burn from within?

The full show notes and videos of other interviews are available at Burnfromwithin.com/interviews, so listen all the way through, and enjoy!

Resources:

• Monthly free TRE Facebook event with Lori Ann Arsenault (next one Sunday January 10th)
• Freedom Within Wellness: Facebook page and Website -  https://www.yourfreedomwithin.com/
• TRE founder David Bercili video for you to follow grounding exercises for free on YouTube

Contact:

• Book a free 20-minute laser-focused clarity call to support you in your next major career or life decision here 

In this episode, I talk to Tom Youngs who made the big leap from successfully starting a career in dentistry in a well-respected private practice in the UK, to jumping into entrepreneurship in tech startups. 

I met Tom over five years ago - a well-respected coach I had hired suggested he meet me and it was at the start of his career change journey. Five years later, after a few pivots,I noticed how happy he was from a LinkedIn post celebrating working with his team in the tech startup world. So I wanted to find out more about how his career change unfolded. 

This episode is particularly relevant for people who feel they have large sunk costs from being in a career for years or spending many years, and a lot of money, training in a profession. It’s also for those whose families are in the same profession as them. Tom ticks all these boxes and came out successfully in a new career he loves.

In this episode we discuss:

• The moment that hit Tom he was not in the right career for him after years of being focused and dedicated to achieving that goal
• Managing his career transition working in two tech startups while working at his dental practice
• Lessons he has learnt in hindsight from making his decision to change career
• How Tom knows this is the right career for him now
• Having a sense of freedom and a bubble bursting connecting him to the world
• What’s the one thing that makes Tom Youngs burn from within?

The full show notes and videos of other interviews are available at burnfromwithin.com/interviews - so listen all the way through and enjoy!

Resources:

• The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss - the book that influenced thousands, if not millions of people, including Tom Youngs and myself to delve into entrepreneurship and be able to do things they love

Contact:

• Here is Tom Youngs LinkedIn profile - connect with him there and feel free to ask any questions or share your reflections from watching this episode directly with him.

And if you want to book a free 20-minute consultation call with Matt Garrow-Fisher to help you on the One Thing to focus on next for your career change, click here.

This week, I discuss a topic that for some is taken for granted, for others neglected, and for all of us, whether we are young or old, is the true secret to not only happiness but living a long life.

And I’m not talking about anti-ageing creams, botox, ketogenic or paleo diets (although diet is a significant factor in longevity).

I’m talking about being involved in your community.

Resources: 

• Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life Kindle Edition - the book I recommend you all read detailing interviews of some of the oldest people in the world in Ogimi, Okinawa, Japan
• Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing - Bronnie Ware's book distilling wisdom from hundreds of people in a hospice sharing their biggest regrets when faced with their own imminent mortality
• Coworking Bansko - a community of freelancers, entrepreneurs and digital nomads living in the mountains of Bulgaria (including me) that I mention in the episode

Have you ever felt stressed, unhappy or going on an unsustainable path in life or at work?

We all have, as humans, at some point in our lives, right?

In this week’s episode, we explore 6 levels of human experience which, when we are consciously aware of them, can be tremendously useful when we feel stuck or misaligned in our lives. This is particularly true in our careers when figuring out and trying to pin26point why we are not happy.

Matt Garrow-Fisher shares insight from his conversations with Burn From Within show guests, examining their career and also lives at each of the following levels of human experience to identify where we can have misalignment:

Level 1 - Environment
Level 2 - Behaviour
Level 3 - Skills & Capabilities
Level 4 - Beliefs and Values
Level 5 - Identity (a powerful identity realisation is shared by Matt Harry in this episode)
Level 6 - Purpose

Instead of feeling stuck or unable to pinpoint the source of stress, unhappiness and that feeling that we don't want to carry on the career or life path we are on, we can investigate these levels to make changes so we have a clearer path for peace, joy, security and happiness.

Matt Garrow-Fisher examines the model inspired by Gregory Bateson (an English anthropologist) and developed by a pioneer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Robert Dilts called Neurological Levels of Change.

I hope you relate to the conversations shared in this episode and they help you to understand how you can start to use this model at each level in your own lives. Whether you feel internally misaligned in your career or in other life areas, to find opportunities to become more aligned and happy.

Resources:

• Michael Neill's explanation of the Neurological Levels of Change - this is a much more concise explanation of the model from the author of Supercoach and The Inside Out Revolution - Michael Neill
• Neurological Levels of Change from the creator Robert Dilts - this page goes deep into this model of human experience from the NLP pioneer that developed it. This is heavier reading that the resources below though, so prepare to go deep

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