STOP 2 THINK

STOP 2 THINK PodcastWhat if the answers you are looking for are not found in doing more, but in stopping long enough to think?The Stop to Think Podcast is a space for reflection in a world that rarely slows down. Hosted by Pete Cohen, speaker, coach, author, and explorer of human potential, this podcast invites you to pause, step back, and reconnect with what truly matters.Through honest conversations, personal reflections, and thought provoking interviews, Pete explores the challenges we all face navigating change, uncertainty, loss, relationships, work, wellbeing, and the constant pre

STOP 2 THINK is a health podcast hosted by Pete Cohen, with 32 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Pete Cohen hosts STOP 2 THINK, a health show with 32 episodes published.

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  Episode 33 : Stories, States & Sentences

  Aug 17, 202653 minS3

  This is one of the most personal and revealing conversations Ray and I have recorded. We talk about fear, grief, loss, health, getting older and something I’ve only recently begun to recognise about the way I’ve lived much of my life. For years, I became very good at helping other people change their lives while often avoiding some of the things going on inside my own. In this conversation, Ray challenges me to look at that and at the extraordinary difference between living your life from the outside in and from the inside out . The fear that can exist beneath busyness and achievement Why helping others can sometimes stop us looking at ourselves What grief has taught me about slowing down Learning to be kinder to yourself Why the hardest journey can be the journey within What can arise when we finally give ourselves permission to stop Pull quote: “What I’m looking for isn’t out there. It’s in here.” This conversation gave me a lot to think about. I hope it does the same for you. Maybe the most important question is: what might you discover if you stopped long enough to really listen to yourself? Follow us here. Follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/petecohen_/ Subscribe to The STOP 2 THINK Newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/stop-2-think-newsletter-7474223126868918272/ Follow Ray on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drraysylvester/ Watch Hannah’s Story: https://petecohen.com/hannah Visit Pete’s website: https://petecohen.com/

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  The Day I Stopped Resisting Life - An Interview With Scott Edwards Jimena

  Jul 28, 202657 minS2

  When Scott Edwards Jimena reached out to me, I had no idea just how much this conversation would stay with me. Like Hannah, Scott is living with glioblastoma. But this isn’t really a conversation about cancer. It’s a conversation about what happens when life forces us to STOP. Scott shares, for the first time publicly, the childhood trauma he carried in silence for more than thirty years and how confronting it completely changed the way he sees himself and the world around him. We talk about identity, vulnerability, fatherhood, purpose, spirituality, healing and why so many of us spend our lives wearing masks. What struck me most wasn’t Scott’s diagnosis—it was the peace he has found despite it. His story is a reminder that sometimes the greatest transformation begins when we stop resisting life, stop running from ourselves, and have the courage to discover who we really are. I genuinely believe this is one of the most honest and courageous conversations I’ve ever recorded, and I hope it encourages you to stop, reflect and perhaps see your own life a little differently. I hope you enjoy it. Follow Scott on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/scott_edwards_jimena/

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  Episode #31

  Celebrate The Journey - Episode 31

  Jul 25, 202644 minS1

  Celebrate the Journey As the first series comes to a close, Ray asked me a question I had never quite asked myself before. Not how do I celebrate Hannah, but how do I celebrate the whole journey, including who I used to be. We recorded this one walking an old railway path in South Buckinghamshire, looking back across thirty one episodes and ten months of raw, unscripted conversation. It started with a walk round Ray's Indianapolis neighbourhood just days after Hannah's funeral, and it has brought me all the way to a recent, unguarded conversation on Davina McCall's podcast. This is the episode where the whole series comes full circle, and where celebration finally turned inward, toward me. In this episode: What I finally understood, ten months on, about celebrating in your suffering The moment on Davina McCall's Begin Again that changed how I share my own story Why an overactive nervous system can run for years before you even notice it is happening Purging, and how I use sauna, journaling and meditation to deliberately release the old me The harder question Ray finally asked me, how do you celebrate the old Pete, not just Hannah Pull quote: "This transition from old Pete to new Pete deserves celebration. Celebrating the old Pete, because without the old Pete, this narrative wouldn't exist. So nothing is wasted." That is the first series of Stop 2 Think, complete. If you have walked the whole way with me and Ray, thank you. Go back to Episode 1 and hear where it all began, or reach out and tell me what has stayed with you. Follow us here. Follow me on Instagram here: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/petecohen_/⁠ Subscribe to The STOP 2 THINK Newsletter on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/stop-2-think-newsletter-7474223126868918272/⁠ Follow Ray on LinkedIn here: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/drraysylvester/⁠ Watch Hannah's Story: ⁠https://petecohen.com/hannah⁠ Visit Pete's website petecohen.com

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  Episode #30

  Stand Up For Your Authenticity - Episode #30

  Jul 24, 20261h 14mS1

  Over the past few episodes, Dr Ray and I have been exploring some of the biggest questions we can ask ourselves. Who am I? What am I attached to? What does it really mean to live authentically? This conversation brings those reflections together. Recorded during one of our final walks together in Indianapolis, this episode feels like a natural conclusion to everything we’ve been exploring. Looking back now, I can see these conversations weren’t simply discussions about identity. They were part of my own journey of rebuilding who I was after losing Hannah. For so much of my life, I had become attached to achievement, recognition, certainty and the stories I’d carried since childhood. It wasn’t until I was forced to stop that I began asking whether those stories were really true. One of the biggest insights from this conversation is something Ray says that has stayed with me ever since: We survive through attachment, but we thrive through authenticity. That single sentence changed the way I look at almost everything. It reminded me that while our attachments may have helped us survive, they don’t always help us become the person we’re capable of becoming. Together we explore how our earliest experiences shape the way we see ourselves, why so many of us continue living according to beliefs we never consciously chose, and how creating space to stop, think and reflect allows us to begin writing a new chapter. This conversation isn’t about rejecting your past. It’s about understanding it. It’s about recognising that you are more than what has happened to you. More than your successes. More than your failures. More than your attachments. In this episode, we reflect on: • Why attachment is essential for survival but authenticity is essential for fulfilment. • How childhood experiences quietly shape the stories we tell ourselves. • Why creating time for reflection is one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves. • The importance of updating the beliefs and narratives that no longer serve us. • What elite performers teach us about growth, resilience and human potential. • Why spending time alone helps us reconnect with who we truly are. • How grief, adversity and challenge can become opportunities for transformation. • What it really means to become the author of your own life. My hope is that these conversations encourage you to become curious about your own life. To pause. To reflect. And perhaps to ask yourself a different question. Not simply, “Where am I?” But, “Who am I becoming?” Thank you, as always, for stopping to think with us. Follow us here. Follow Pete on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/petecohen_/ Subscribe to The STOP 2 THINK Newsletter on Linkedin.https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/stop-2-think-newsletter-7474223126868918272/ Follow Ray on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/drraysylvester/ Watch Hannah's Story https://petecohen.com/hannah

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  Episode #29

  Who Are You, Really? Episode #29

  Jul 24, 202646 minS1

  There are moments in life when we’re forced to ask questions we’ve spent years avoiding. Not because we want to. Because life leaves us no choice. This conversation was recorded during my third visit to Indianapolis, shortly after Dr Ray Sylvester and I had spoken together at a global health and fitness conference in Los Angeles. Standing on that stage was a privilege, but what stayed with me wasn’t the applause. It was the conversation that followed. One simple question kept coming back to me: Who am I? Not what do I do. Not what have I achieved. Not what do other people think of me. But who am I beneath all of that? After losing Hannah, I realised how easy it is to become attached to things that temporarily comfort us. For me, that was sugar. It wasn’t really about chocolate. It was about trying to soothe emotions I didn’t want to feel. In this episode, I share that openly because I know I’m not alone. So many of us carry habits, attachments and coping strategies that quietly shape our lives. Rather than judging ourselves for them, perhaps the first step is simply becoming aware. Ray and I explore why we so often define ourselves by where we are instead of who we are, why external success can never replace inner peace, and why authentic relationships give us the courage to be honest about the struggles we would rather keep hidden. We also talk about the power of journaling, walking, slowing down and asking for help, because sometimes the most important breakthroughs don’t happen when we try harder. They happen when we finally stop. In this episode we explore: • Why where you are is not who you are . • The difference between identity and attachment. • Why success, status and possessions can never define your true worth. • How grief can lead us towards habits that temporarily numb emotional pain. • Why awareness always comes before change. • The power of asking for help instead of struggling in silence. • A simple exercise that can help you separate your circumstances from your identity. If this conversation resonates with you, I’d love you to share it with someone who may need to hear it. And if you’d like to continue the journey with us, please subscribe, leave a review and join us for the next episode of the STOP 2 THINK Podcast. Until then… Stay open to everything. Be attached to nothing. And remember… Where you are is not who you are. Thank you, as always, for stopping to think with us. Follow us here. Follow Pete on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/petecohen_/ Subscribe to The STOP 2 THINK Newsletter on Linkedin.https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/stop-2-think-newsletter-7474223126868918272/ Follow Ray on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/drraysylvester/ Watch Hannah's Story https://petecohen.com/hannah

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