Dr Brian Pennie, neuroscientist and host of the Change Is Possible podcast, and Kellie Fennell, a hugely successful coach, speaker and host of The Kellie Fennell Podcast, explore why some people are able change their lives and circumstances while others simply stay stuck.

Learn why awareness comes before change, how to design your environment so you are not relying on willpower, if any of us actually has any agency in the world and why the same choice is not the same choice for everyone.

Brian also explores addiction, recovery and conditioning, and Kellie explains avoidance, community, nature and burnout.

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Chapters:

00:00 Holding Two Opposed Ideas At Once

03:07 Why Is Changing Your Identity So Hard?

06:57 Why Awareness Comes Before Change

08:26 How Avoidance Becomes A Pattern

13:50 Self-Deception And The Support System

18:33 Why Self-Reflection Feels Like An Attack

21:28 Is It Getting Easier To Ask For Help?

24:54 Doing The Right Things, Same Suffering

27:15 Why Everyone Wants The Easy Fix

32:49 The Hidden Biology Behind Decisions

39:26 Routine Vs Spontaneity: Finding Balance

46:00 Managing Expectations And Contentment

48:55 Do We Have Less Agency Than We Used To?

51:38 Does Everyone Really Have A Choice?

54:45 When Does A Choice Stop Being A Choice?

57:36 Addiction Or A Trauma Problem?

59:07 The Drivers Most People Can't Access

1:03:05 Conditioning And The Faulty Framework

1:05:48 Why Brian Wouldn't Take It Back

1:09:18 Chasing The Details, Missing The Basics

1:12:16 Loneliness, Connection And Community

1:16:55 Kellie's Story Of Honouring The Deer

1:21:47 A Hunting Trip As A Connection Piece

1:26:12 The Connection We Have Lost

1:29:17 Nature As A Healer, Wherever You Live

1:31:07 Giving To Others Vs Fixing Yourself

1:34:43 Create, Not Consume: Making Space

1:36:53 Growth At All Costs And Burnout

1:38:13 Do People Need To Hit Rock Bottom?

1:41:06 Create Space To Be Bored

Gary Fox, host of The Entrepreneur Experiment, more than 500 episodes interviewing successful founders, explains why some entrepreneurs quit while others succeed, and why the answer is simpler than most people expect.

Learn why founders run out of enthusiasm before they run out of money, whether grit can be learned, and how to tell if you're being gritty or naive.

Gary also shares how COVID wiped out his property business, how to ask busy people for advice, and what recording over 500 episodes taught him about outlasting others.

00:00 Founders Run Out Of Enthusiasm First

00:41 "It Was Me That Was Going To Fail"

01:45 Two Buckets, Energy Credits And Systems

04:57 Survivorship And The Chaos Of Year One

08:00 What Separates Founders Who Make It?

10:32 Can Grit Be Learned?

15:24 Naive Or Gritty: Persist Or Pivot?

21:52 Passion, Delegation, The Messy Middle

24:48 What He'd Do Differently In Property

29:47 Ask Someone One To Three Steps Ahead

34:24 Finding Mentors: Just Get Coffee

36:26 Why It's Never Been Easier To Stand Out

41:03 Bias To Action And Low-Energy Days

43:52 Knowing What You Don't Want

48:40 How To Filter Business Advice

51:59 Body, Brain And Bandwidth

55:54 The Founder Formula

1:01:32 Money, Happiness, The Messy Middle

1:06:51 Getting Past The PR Version Of A Guest

1:08:30 How He Picks Guests

1:11:49 The One Lesson From 500 Episodes

1:13:40 The Decade Anchor And Comparison

1:15:49 Growth Hacks Vs Business Goals

1:18:43 The Podcasting Work Nobody Sees

1:20:20 What Clipping Did And Didn't Do

1:24:56 COVID, Cabins And Buying A Forest

1:29:30 How COVID Nearly Killed The Podcast

1:31:42 Learning About Yourself Through Others

1:34:15 What Founders Should Focus On Next

1:38:39 Platforming Irish Founders

Why does life feel like it's flying by, and where do the years actually go? We dig into why time seems to speed up: body clocks, dopamine and the brain's "frame rate", and how our constant scrolling is literally stealing time while distorting our perceptions. The importance of presence to feel more of your life, and how little it feels we're actually 'here' for.

We discuss why "I can't switch off" is often running from a feeling and why slowing down feels boring before it feels better, and we don't agree on whether just noticing is enough.

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Chapters:

00:00 Why Life Feels Like It's Flying By

02:56 Age, Body Clocks And How We Sense Time

06:22 Why You Don't Remember What You Scrolled

09:53 Dopamine And The Brain's "Frame Rate"

12:54 Why Last Week Is A Blur

16:50 Why Time Disappears In This Studio

17:52 Switching Off, Or Escaping A Feeling?

21:20 Needing Intensity To Feel Present

24:38 Modern Life And The Loss Of Boredom

28:27 From Optimising Time To Slowing Down

32:57 Living Against Your Natural Rhythms

35:05 The Trap Of Over-Optimising

39:50 Why So Few People Are Actually Present

44:48 Pulled By The Feed, Pushed By Feelings

48:33 What Might Slow Life Down

51:57 Your Phone And Getting Minutes Back

54:15 Organising Your Day Around Being Human

57:51 Death, Turning 40 And Being Here For It

59:36 The Grief Of Becoming Present

1:04:43 All We Have Is Right Now