Power in the Pain Podcast

Join bestselling author, NLP trainer, and transformation coach, Greg Pihs, as he explores thepowerful journey of turning adversity into triumph. In this raw, honest, and inspiring podcast,Greg shares his own personal stories of overcoming trauma, self-doubt, and fear, alongsidepractical NLP techniques that can help you do the same.With the help of his co-host, Catherine, Greg dives deep into the transformative power of themind, providing listeners with tools to break free from limiting beliefs, reprogram their minds,and create lasting change. Whether you're facing tough challenges or seeking to unlock your fullpotential, The Power In The Pain Podcast offers powerful insights and actionable advice thatwill inspire you to embrace your pain, heal, and step into your true power.Each episode blends personal stories, expert knowledge, and transformational techniques,leaving you equipped to make meaningful shifts in your own life. This is more than just apodcast – it's a movement o

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  Resilience Isn't Getting Back Up. It's Refusing to Quit.

  Aug 4, 202650 min

  Everyone thinks resilience is getting knocked down and getting back up. Greg Pihs says that definition is holding you back. In this episode of Power in the Pain, Greg reframes resilience as something that starts long before the knockdown: the decision to stay in the fight well past the point where a prudent person would call it logical to quit. By that definition, you don't need to get knocked down to be resilient, and every time you choose to stay in, even when it's hard, you're building the skill. From there he gets practical and raw. Why "trying" something quietly guarantees you'll quit the moment it hurts. Why your pain threshold is a warning light, not a stop sign, and how much runway you actually have left past it (the gas-light metaphor will stick with you). And how discipline, governing yourself to do the things you don't want to do, is the most freeing thing you'll ever build. Featuring Mike Tyson, Will Smith's treadmill, Arnold in Pump Iron, and Greg's own honest struggle with the 4 AM alarm. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:24 A word from our sponsor (Bryan Nale) 1:16 Welcome 1:37 Today's topic: resilience 4:31 Redefining resilience (it starts before the knockdown) 8:50 Which fights do you stay in? Trust yourself 13:21 Discipline equals freedom 21:27 Why "trying" robs you of resilience 24:17 Mike Tyson: everyone has a plan until they get punched 25:37 Will Smith and the treadmill 28:16 The gas-light metaphor 30:17 Your pain threshold is a warning, not a stop sign 35:13 Building resilience: govern yourself to do hard things 38:42 The 4 AM commitment (let it suck) 41:52 Pump Iron and the dopamine of hard work 44:50 Greg's ideal schedule 49:06 Recap KEY TAKEAWAYS • Resilience is the decision to stay in the fight past the point a prudent person would quit. You don't have to be knocked down first. • Every time you stay in past the logical quit point, you increase your resilience, even when the experience doesn't feel like it's serving you. • "Trying" something signals your nervous system to bail the moment it hurts. Commit instead. • Pain (physical, emotional, spiritual) is a warning light, not empty. You usually have far more runway than you think. • Discipline equals freedom. Govern yourself to do the hard thing, add one habit at a time, and let it suck at first. If this episode made you think of someone who needs to hear it, share it with them. Spread the Positive is shedding light on what's going right in the world. Greg's YouTube channel: Success After Trauma Like, subscribe, and we'll see you next week. #PowerInThePain #GregPihs #Resilience #MentalToughness #DisciplineEqualsFreedom #Mindset #SelfImprovement #Motivation #SuccessAfterTrauma #SpreadThePositive

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  Breaking the Mold: How to Escape the Box Your Past Built

  Jul 29, 202644 min

  The box everyone says to think outside of? It's your own mind, and Greg Pihs shows you how to break out of it. In this episode of Power in the Pain, Greg unpacks the "box" as your internal representation of the world: the thoughts you form about every experience, built automatically from your past. An event is just neutral data. The meaning you attach to it comes from an unconscious record of everything you've lived. Change the truths in that record and you change your entire life. He lays out the practical work: catch your negative thoughts and write them down as they happen, then carve out time to audit them like a ledger, line by line, tracing each one back to where you learned it. Greg walks through a real example from his own drive that morning, following a flash of road-rage all the way back to a scarcity belief he inherited from his father, and shows how seeing it clearly means you can never unsee it. Then he challenges the goal almost everyone names: "time and financial freedom." Because you're wired to be insatiable, freedom isn't the finish line. What you'd do with your time and money once you had them, that's what you actually want. And that's what pulls you forward. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:24 A word from our sponsor (Bryan Nale) 1:16 Welcome 1:20 Breaking the mold: what is the box? 1:37 The box is your internal representation 5:55 You are infinite; your past is finite 7:55 Auditing your past (line by line) 10:18 Wired to be insatiable 11:59 Why "time and financial freedom" isn't the real goal 16:31 Your RAS (reticular activating system) 17:47 The stop-sign story 20:41 Collect your negative thoughts 23:49 Auditing an inherited scarcity belief 41:10 When you're free, how will you give it away? 42:13 The mental dressing room KEY TAKEAWAYS • The "box" is your internal representation, the meaning you attach to neutral events, built from your past. • Events are just data. The emotional charge comes from your unconscious record of everything you've experienced. • Write down negative thoughts as they happen, then audit them later: trace each back to where you learned it. • Once you consciously see where a belief came from, you can't unsee it, and that changes your future. • "Time and financial freedom" isn't the real goal. What you'd do with it is. That's what magnetizes you forward. If this episode made you think of someone who needs to hear it, share it with them. Spread the Positive is shedding light on what's going right in the world. Greg's YouTube channel: Success After Trauma Like, subscribe, and we'll see you next week. #PowerInThePain #GregPihs #Mindset #SelfDiscovery #BreakingTheMold #ScarcityMindset #PersonalGrowth #NLP #SuccessAfterTrauma #SpreadThePositive

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  The Power of Desire: Why You Don't Know What You Want — And How to Find It

  Jul 21, 202635 min

  Most people spend their whole lives running away from what they don't want — and never stop to discover what they actually DO want. In this episode of Power in the Pain, Greg Pihs breaks down the power of desire: the difference between "away" and "toward" motivation, why admitting "I don't know what I want" is actually the first step forward, and how to use your imagination to find the why that pulls you through the hardest days. Greg opens with a raw, unfiltered take on the Tony Robbins x Alex Hormozi podcast — what Robbins nailed about push/pull motivation, and exactly where Greg would've pushed back. In this episode: - Why you already know what you DON'T want — and how that keeps you stuck - "Away from" vs "toward" motivation (two people, one bear, two very different reasons to run) - The trap of borrowed goals like "time and financial freedom" you don't really mean - Trading time for money now so you can trade money for time later - The imagination exercise: if you had total freedom tomorrow, how would you spend your money — and your life? - Why NOT knowing what you want yet puts you ahead of most people If this one hit home, somebody in your life needs to hear it — tag them and send it their way. Like, subscribe, and check out the Spread the Positive platform for more podcasts like this one. See you next week. #PowerInThePain #GregPihs #Motivation #PersonalDevelopment #Mindset #GPMindGrowthAcademy #PowerOfDesire #TonyRobbins #AlexHormozi

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  Your Words Have Emotions (And They're Running Your Life)

  Jul 14, 202633 min

  Why does the word "a lot" make one person panic and another person shrug? In this episode of Power in the Pain, Greg Pihs breaks down a truth hiding in plain sight: your words carry emotional charges you never consciously chose. Those charges were installed in childhood, mostly between ages 0 and 14, based on the majority of experiences you had while learning each word. Decades later, your nervous system is still replaying that programming, whether or not it still applies to your life. Greg walks through where those emotional anchors come from, why your internal dialogue is quietly setting your emotional state, your body language, and the opportunities that come your way. Then he gets practical: how to consciously choose your words to change how you actually feel. To be clear, this is NOT about toxic positivity. Greg says it outright: he is not telling you to pretend, not telling you to just think positive, and not telling you to ignore problems. He's telling you to articulate your problems like you're in a courtroom, because when you're in logic, you're out of emotion. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:24 A word from our sponsor (Bryan Nale) 1:17 Words have emotions: unconscious emotional anchors 3:28 Every emotion is healthy until it goes unprocessed 4:45 We all think differently (pictures, video, sound, feeling) 6:21 The evergreen tree story: the white you couldn't see 9:00 Your internal dialogue is words, and it's setting your state 9:59 Where words get their emotions: childhood, ages 0-14 10:47 "A lot of snow": how one phrase becomes a threat 15:19 Why your neurology replays the first 20 years for the next 30 16:58 The fix: choose your words consciously 19:06 Unpacking "I hate my job" 20:51 "I need gas" vs "I want gas": need vs want 24:49 55% of communication is body language, and it's unconscious 26:21 This is NOT toxic positivity 27:07 The courtroom test: how would you articulate the problem? 27:39 "This sucks" vs "this situation is not favorable" 31:39 When you're in logic, you're out of emotion 32:01 Recap + how to use this today 💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS • Words carry emotional anchors set in childhood, based on the majority of experiences you had with them. • Emotions are always secondary to thoughts, and thoughts are made of words. • Your nervous system doesn't update on its own. It replays old programming until you consciously interrupt it. • Swapping "this sucks" for "this is not favorable" produces a genuinely different emotional response. • This isn't pretending. Articulate the problem like you're in court, and you shift from emotion into logic. If this episode made you think of someone who needs to hear it, send it their way. 🌱 Spread the Positive is shedding light on what's going right in the world. Like this episode? There are many more like it on the platform. 👉 Like, subscribe, and we'll see you next week. #PowerInThePain #GregPihs #WordsHaveEmotions #Mindset #PersonalDevelopment #NLP #SelfTalk #EmotionalIntelligence #SpreadThePositive #SelfImprovement

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  Creating and Releasing Anxiety

  Jul 7, 202633 min

  Anxiety isn't happening to you. Greg Pihs breaks down the three ingredients you use to create it, and how to stop. In this episode of Power in the Pain, Greg walks through the exact strategy your mind runs to produce anxiety: a thought, aimed at the future, about an outcome you don't want. He uses the "people aren't buying right now" moment every business owner knows, and points out you have plenty of proof people didn't buy in the past, and zero proof about the future you're bracing for. Then he gets into the part most people skip. Greg shares his own history of chronic anxiety, the daily heart-pounding "can they see this" feeling, three combat deployments and single-digit body fat that never felt as hard as forgiving his stepmother. His point lands hard: the hard thing isn't the stuff other people call hard. It's the change you keep avoiding, and avoiding it is what keeps the anxiety running. Who this is for: Anyone who feels anxiety before a sales call, a meeting, or a hard conversation, and wants a way to shift it instead of white-knuckling through it. In this episode: The three ingredients required to create anxiety, and how to remove one Why the word "not" is your early-warning flag What to do when you feel anxiety but can't name the thought behind it How running anxiety over and over builds it into a chronic neural pathway The link between chronic anxiety and the hard thing you're avoiding How Greg went from daily panic to seldom feeling anxiety at all Questions this episode answers: How do I actually create my own anxiety without realizing it? How do I stop anxiety before it starts? What do I do when I feel anxious but don't know why? Why do I have chronic anxiety even though I do hard things? Can you get rid of severe anxiety and panic attacks for good? Watch, find your anchor word, and start arriving in futures without anxiety. The Power in the Pain is part of the Spread The Positive Podcast Network. For more information about Spread The Positive check out spreadthepositive.net

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