Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

Rookie to World Champion in 1 Year: The Moonshot Mindset 

Start from zero knowledge and land a world title in one year? Yes. This self-help path proves mindset beats lack of experience.

The radical shift: converting vague hopes into a calendared system of milestones. This personal development playbook turns a Wildly Improbable Goal (WIG) into a repeatable success cycle.

You will learn the secrets to accelerated achievement:

• Rookie ...

Protect Your Jump: Setting Boundaries & Reframing Results as Data (Not Identity) 🐍

A world jump competition, a snake delay, and a coach pushing catastrophe talk at the ramp. This is a masterclass in mindset under pressure.

This self-help playbook for courage teaches you to set a firm boundary and protect your fragile dreams. When the fuse is lit, you commit to the ride and choose your thoughts precisely.

You will learn:

• The Ca...

What Are Ya Afta?: The Single Question That Unlocks Audacious Living & Purpose 🧭

Tired of knowing only what you don't want? The simple Australian question, "What are you after?," is the daily reset that pulls you into deliberate living.

This self-help playbook overcomes vague wishes by teaching emotional granularity (aiming for mastery or novelty, not just joy) for sharper decisions.

You'll discover the secret...

Upgrade Your Greeting: How 5 Words Can End The 'Scrolling Humans' Trap 

Hack Your Hello: End Autopilot, Build Real Connection 🗣️

Stuck on "Good morning... I'm fine"? This script drains your spark.

Our self-help playbook from Australia reveals how simple, curious greetings (e.g., "How goes it?") shatter the law of habituation, force presence, and unlock real connection.

Upgrade your first five words f...

The Next Best Step: Performance Under Pressure & The Power of Adaptation 🇨🇦🇦🇺

Wheels Lost? The Single Question for Performance Under Pressure 🇦🇺

A 30-hour travel haul ends in disaster: a world-class team's wheelchair wheels are missing at the World Water Ski Championships.

This self-help playbook for high-stakes setbacks shows how one mindset shift—"What's the next best step forward?"—replaced a blame spi...

Look For The Newness: Reset Your Energetic Thermostat with Micro-Adventures 🧭

Is your daily routine draining your spark? Stuck in the sameness of Monday?

This self-help playbook uses a simple Australian micro-adventure (a hidden alley, jasmine-scented courtyard) to teach you how to escape habituation and revive creative drive.

Learn to raise your energetic thermostat and overcome the "wall of tired" without a vacation:

• T...

Little by Little: Beat Panic, Master Big Goals, and Conquer the Mountain (Living Lucky® Podcast)

A dream trip turned into a 30+ hour endurance test became our self-help playbook for managing anxiety and any big goal. Discover the mindset shifts and micro-wins that transform the doom loop of negativity into grounded resilience.

You'll master:

• Silence the ANTS: How to stop Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTS) from amplifying pani...

Future Gratitude: The Mindset Hack to Turn Doom Loops into Momentum ✨

Stuck in worst-case forecasting? Shift focus to turn your doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle!

This self-help episode reveals Future Gratitude: thanking life for what hasn't happened yet. Rehearsing the desired feeling state calms your nervous system and nudges aligned action, making wins inevitable.

• RAS Alignment: Your reticular activating...

The Non-Dominant Hand Hack: 30-Day Challenge to Silence Clutter & Find Your Inner Voice ✍️ 

The fastest way out of mental clutter and the doom loop of negativity is through your other hand.

This self-help episode introduces the powerful mindset hack: Write one short affirmation with your non-dominant hand for 30 days.

The science of the awkward:

• Awkwardness is the Doorway: Fine-motor focus on shaky letters forces mental noise t...

The Five-Year Question: Break the Loop and Achieve Meaningful Growth with TFA 

Will your next five years be meaningful growth or just time passed? This self-help episode is the practical playbook for escaping the doom loop and creating an upward success cycle in life and finance.

Master the essential formula for change: Thoughts > Feelings > Actions (TFA). Keeping them the same guarantees stagnation. Learn to shift just one lev...

Stop StressLaxing: Use Turtle Steps to Master Procrastination 🐢 (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Is your brain panicking during downtime? That's StressLaxing—the guilt-fueled mashup of rest and anxiety keeping you in a doom loop.

This self-help episode gives you the mindset shifts to turn conflict into steady progress (using avoiding taxes as the perfect example!).

• Reframe Language: Call tasks a "challenge" (or privilege), ...

Say "No," End Guilt Trips: The Boundary Hack You Need 🛑 

Does a simple "no" trigger guilt and debate? This self-help episode uses a real-life conflict to show you how to say "No is a sentence" without collapsing your boundaries.

Stop the pressure to over-explain your way out of commitments. Learn to be direct, kind, and brief to protect your time, energy, and self-respect.

Master two mindset shifts for p...

Survival, Gratitude, & The Grit We Forget We Have: Lessons from 127 Hours 

Aaron Ralston's survival saga is a masterclass in resilience and grit, transforming a doom loop into an upward success cycle with mindset shifts.

This self-help episode reveals the deeper lessons: counting small wins for momentum, how surrender clears mental space, and why a vivid vision unlocks strength when willpower thins.

Hear his epiphanies on gra...

Prove Yourself To Yourself: The Simple Practice That Ends Waiting & Builds Momentum

Waiting for your "ship to come in"? Stop! This self-help episode reveals the game-changing practice to flip the doom loop: Prove yourself to yourself with one action.

We expose the hidden comfort of waiting—a defense mechanism that erodes self-trust. Get the timeless wisdom of Jim Rohn and Zig Ziglar on why discipline over delay is the o...

Just My Luck: The Subconscious Hack to Train Fortune & End the Doom Loop (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Ever wonder why some people are magnets for opportunity? This self-help episode reveals a game-changing shift that turns luck into a repeatable pattern.

Inspired by Mind Power author John Kehoe, we share the hack to reprogram your subconscious mind:

• Good event? Say “Just my luck.”
• Setback? Ask “How lucky am I?”

These cues train ...

Grace Under Pressure: Turning Setback into Team Strength (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Grace Under Pressure: Crisis to Competitive Edge 🥇 (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Dream slide out of reach? Our visually impaired teammate, Katie, broke her ankle weeks before World Championships. She flipped the doom loop by returning on crutches, choosing grace and humor.

This self-help episode reveals the power of response over reaction in crisis. Her compos...

Show Up For The Champion In You: Discipline Over Mood (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Battling the snooze button and starting behind? This self-help episode is your blueprint for unstoppable momentum. The secret: I am greater than my feelings.

Discipline is a radical act of self-trust. Learn the micro decisions and habit stacking that stop the doom loop and build an upward success cycle, even when motivation is zero. Discover how to act befo...

Reframing Adversity: The Toolkit for Turning Crisis into Catalyst (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Critical equipment broke days before a major event? That was our week! This self-help episode is a masterclass in reframing adversity. Learn the mindset shifts to stop catastrophic self-talk and launch an upward success cycle.

We share the exact process: sourcing a welder, navigating micro-setbacks, and transforming crisis into momentum and sync...

Share Your Dream, Or Guard It? The Inner Decision That Triggers Synchronicity ✨ (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Tired of circling a goal without traction? The pivot point isn't when to speak your dream—it's the inner decision you make first.

This self-help episode resolves the debate on sharing dreams, moving you from the doom loop of wishing to an upward success cycle of specific action. Learn how this choice sharpens your focus, ...