Patterns of Power with Craig Perra (habits, mindfulness, high-performance, self-leadership)
Patterns of Power is the essential playbook for MEN: high performers, executives, and leaders ready to dismantle the reactive habits that limit their potential and step fully into their POWER. Hosted by Craig Perra, world-renowned coach and creator of The Mindful Habit® System, this show utilizes a framework that evolved from treating the most severe addictions into a comprehensive leadership model. We recognize that for a leader, a distraction is not just a bad habit—it represents a massive cost to your focus, your influence, and your legacy. We move beyond the limited "addiction model" to a Leadership Model. We view every distraction—whether it is imposter syndrome, anger, gambling, shopping, procrastination, shutting down, doomscrolling, porn, alcohol, or overwork—as a failure of self-leadership, and an immediate opportunity to reclaim your power. From Chaos to Command: Craig’s methodology is forged in fire. Once a top corporate executive fired by billion-dollar companies while battling addictions to heroin, stimulants, sex, and work, Craig hit rock bottom. Diagnosed with PTSD and bipolar II, he realized traditional therapy and 12-step programs weren't enough. He rebuilt his life by engineering a new framework: The Mindful Habit® System. His expertise and transformation have been featured on The Steve Harvey Show, The Katie Couric Show, A&E's Digital Addiction, Good Morning Sacramento, and the BBC. Who This Is For This system has helped thousands of leaders in over 30 countries—including CEOs of global corporations, Olympians, professional athletes, and 7, 8, and 9-figure entrepreneurs —move from reactivity to radical self-ownership. Craig holds space for leaders at the highest levels, teaching them that any place where you are reactive is a place where you must lead. "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." Blending neuroscience, mindfulness, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and habit formation, this podcast delivers a science-based alternative to the "recovery" mindset, focusing instead on strategic self-governance. In each episode, you will learn to: Stop Coping, Start Leading: Transform reactive behaviors (getting defensive, checking out, acting out) into conscious, executive decisions. Command Your Physiology: Master the biology of stress and anxiety to maintain composure under pressure. Weaponize Your Story: Turn your deepest shame and worst patterns into your greatest assets for leadership. Establish Sovereignty: Build habits that align with your purpose, relationships, and performance, rather than your impulses.What started as a way to treat sex and porn addiction has evolved into a self-leadership model that helps men quickly step into and stay in their power. If you are a leader ready to stop hiding, start leading, and turn your chaos into clarity—Welcome to Patterns of Power. Visit www.mindfulhabitmastery.com to learn about hiring Craig to help change your life quickly and sustainably.
Episodes
In this episode of Patterns of Power, Craig Perra sits down with Alex Molden, former NFL first round draft pick, eight year NFL veteran, University of Oregon Hall of Famer, and leadership consultant.
Alex shares the identity crisis he faced after leaving the NFL and the brutal moment a job interviewer told him, “Football is what you did. I...
In this episode of Patterns of Power, Craig Perra sits down with Deepak Saini, a health, longevity, and performance expert who helps clients solve complex health challenges, reverse biological aging, and elevate performance.
After overcoming his own battles with an autoimmune condition, obesity, and a deb...
In this episode of Patterns of Power, Craig Perra sits down with Anat Peri, inner child expert, emotional intelligence speaker, and founder of Training Camp for the Soul, to explore how childhood experiences can shape the patterns we carry into adulthood.
They dive into people pleasing, overachieving,...
In this episode of Patterns of Power, Craig sits down with Eric and Cheri Plantenberg for a conversation about what it really takes to build a relationship that grows stronger over time.
They share the incredible story of how their relationship began, the lessons they learned through life's hardest seasons, and the practical principles that...
In this episode of Patterns of Power, Craig Perra sits down with Cruz Gamboa, founder of Ascend Growth Ventures, to unpack what happens when high-performing men r...
Craig Perra sits down with Joe Ciccolo -- nationally recognized expert in digital asset regulatory compliance, founder of BitAML, and Executive Director of the C...
In this episode of Patterns of Power, Craig sits down with Dan Purcell, founder of Get Your Marriage On, coach to hundreds of couples worldwide, host of a podcast with 1.7M+ listens, and creator of intimacy tools used by over half a million couples.
Together they unpack:
• Why ma...
In this episode of Patterns of Power, Craig sits down with Shay Doran, who specializes in helping men overcome sexual performance anxiety and erection problems. After experiencing these struggles himself, Shay has gone on to help men around the world regain confidence, impr...
This is not a shame-based conversation. It is a call for honesty. Craig breaks down how private patterns can slowly escal...
And you still end up in the same patterns. That’s not failure.
That’s a broken strategy.
Your behavior isn’t random — it’s the predictable output of a system that was built long before you understood it. Once you see it, everything changes.
Take the self-sabotage assessment Craig mentioned (takes 5 minutes):
https://mindf...
This isn’t just about grief… it’s about what it exposed.
In this episode, I break down the 3 lessons that hit me in real time — about triggers, pain, identity, and what actually matters when life hits you the hardest.
Most men think growth means the pain goes away.
That’s not how it works.
The real work is being ready when it comes back.<...
It’s not. It’s a health crisis.
In this episode, Craig Perra breaks down 6 shocking, research-backed facts about distraction that will completely change the way you think about your phone, your focus, and your one life.
From the 25-minute recovery tax your brain pays every time you get interrupted,
to the neuroscience showing that — for the first...
Drawing from thousands of years of faith traditions, modern psychology, leadership science, and neuroscience, Craig reveal...
It’s memory. Emotion. Identity. Survival.
In this episode, Craig sits down with Hannah Chapman to explore why money feels so charged — and how our earliest experiences quietly shape the way we earn, spend, save, and stress.
Hannah breaks down how emotional safety, childhood conditioning, and nervous system patterns influence our financial decisions, often without us reali...
They’re hiding, performing, people pleasing, and losing themselves one tiny lie at a time.
In this episode, I’m explaining a major shift:
my podcast is no longer called Sex Afflictions and Porn Addictions.
It’s now called Patterns of Power.
They’re driven, disciplined, respected — and deeply disconnected. Hiding behind busyness. Chasing validation. Terrified of stillness. Losing themselves one “successful” decision at a time.
Visit www.mindfulhabitmastery.com for powerful hel...
They’re stuck because they’re fighting the wrong battle.
In this episode of Patterns Of Power, I sit down with Niko Arapkiles, founder of Vision Expresso, to expose the real reason change doesn’t last for most men: they try to fix behaviors without changing identity.
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We bre...
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In this episode of Patterns of Power, I sit down with Dr. Robert Glover — therapist, coach, and author of t...
People Pleasing Is Lying: The Truth About Energetic Abuse, Boundaries & Your Voice w/ Melanie Singer
They’ve lost their spark, their purpose, and their voice — and they’re stuck people pleasing, hiding the truth, and calling it “love.”
In this episode of Sex Afflictions and Porn Addictions, I sit down with Melanie Spring — brand muse, international keynote speaker, and creator of Speak With Confidence — to talk about what auth...
What if that part isn’t your enemy at all… but your protector?
Buy The Book Altogether You: https://amzn.to/4rvtnex
In this groundbreaking conversation, Coach Craig sits down with trauma therapist and bestselling author Jenna Riemersma, whose book Altogether You bridges Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Christian faith in a way that is nothi...
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