The Catherine Plano Podcast

The Catherine Plano Podcast

Your ultimate resource for expanding your mind and accessing more of your brain, while experiencing unparalleled ‘aha’ moments with guaranteed radical shifts to your learning and growth. Catherine’s goal is to help you become the very best version of yourself - to live an extraordinary life by reaching your fullest potential, with self-coaching strategies to boost your confidence, make better decisions, create new habits, kickstart your motivation, get extraordinary results and build lasting change for a meaningful life that you will absolutely love! Get inspired and energised with your weekly dose of new ideas and insights.

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August 18, 2026 7 mins

Have you ever grieved something that no one else could see? A friendship that quietly dissolved. A version of yourself you left behind. A relationship that is still technically intact but has become unrecognisable.

And wondered why it hurt so much when, on paper, nothing had actually ended?

There is a kind of grief that has no funeral. No flowers. No one checking in to ask how you are holding up. Because nothing has technically end...

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Annalie Howling will tell you that shame is the hardest emotion in the room to name, and that this is precisely why it runs so much of our lives. Ask a group who is feeling anxious, and every hand goes up, and each person can list what they are anxious about. Ask about shame, and you get silence. She is an elite performance coach, a trauma specialist and c...

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Dr Sarah McKay will tell you that the most common question she hears from women is also the least useful one. What is wrong with my brain? She is an Oxford-educated neuroscientist, founder of Think Brain and The Neuroscience Academy, presenter on ABC Catalyst and the author of The Women’s Brain Book, Baby Brain and Brain Health For Dummies. She has b...

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Have you ever made a decision that, on reflection, made no sense? Stayed in a job you hated, a relationship that was wrong, a group that did not value you? And wondered why you could not just leave?

The answer is not weakness. The answer is biology.

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Judi Holler will happily tell you she is one of the biggest fraidy cats you will ever meet. She is afraid of all the things. She is also a keynote speaker, USA TODAY bestselling author of Fear Is My Homeboy and a self-described professional experimenter who has spent nearly twenty years treating fear as her most important advisor. That contradiction is pr...

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Heather Parady never set out to build a brand. Growing up in the Southern Christian Bible Belt of the USA, she wanted one thing from the time she was a little girl: full-time ministry. That was what you did if you loved the Lord. But a series of events left her in an empty, dark place, and it was there, through podcasts and YouTube channels she never knew existed, t...

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Have you ever felt a quiet unease you couldn’t quite name? Your life looks fine, maybe even good. Nothing is technically wrong. And yet something follows you, a sense that the person you present to the world and the person you actually are, are not quite the same.

That distance has a name. I ca...

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Dana Grant has built her work around helping people align with universal principles, but she is the first to tell you she did not start there. She was the woman setting unbreakable corporate sales records while, behind the curtain, she was quietly dying. Saturated with enough medication to, in her words, kill an elephant, living with irretractable migraines and a body breaking down, she reached a moment in her kitchen where she tor...

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Tania Khazaal has built her work around healing families, but she is the first to tell you she did not start there. She was the child who cut off her own mother and went no contact, certain she was protecting herself. She grew up in community housing, later lost her job and her home and lived out of her car, and moved through toxic relationships, heartbreak and heal...

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Have you ever looked completely fine on the outside while feeling completely hollow on the inside? High functioning, high achieving, praised for holding it all together, and yet quietly evaporating within. What if that exhaustion you keep pushing through isn’t a sign that you need to try harder, but a message asking to be heard?

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It Has Been Decided: How Steffani LeFevour Rewrote Her Story and Manifested a Dream Book Deal

Steffani LeFevour has built a life and a career around happiness, but she is the first to tell you she did not start there. She grew up without her father, an alcoholic who left the family, and she was only ...

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What happens when you reach the summit of everything you were told to want, only to find the view strangely empty? For Ricky Williams, that moment arrived in an NFL locker room, at the height of a career most people spend their lives chasing. He had the fame, the success, the money. And sitting there one ordinary day, a single question surfaced that he...

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What if doing more is the very thing that has been holding you back? What if the desires you have been chasing for years are not waiting on the universe but on you? What if true manifestation is not about attracting something new, but about becoming safe enough to receive what your heart already knows is yours?

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What if confidence has been the wrong goal all along? What if the armour you have spent years building to survive the world is the very thing standing between you and the life you were meant to live? What if the most radical act available to you right now is simply giving yourself permission to be?

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What if the person you love most was still right in front of you, but you could no longer reach them? What if the words you had spent your entire career mastering suddenly became useless with the one person who mattered most? What if the only way to stay connected was to abandon everything you thought you knew about communication and listen in a way no...

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What if the voice you’ve been trusting your entire life was never qualified to guide you? What if every snap judgment you’ve ever made about a person, a relationship, or a career was based on a feeling that never had enough information to be accurate? What if the very thing you call intuition is actually your biggest blind spot?

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We all want to change. We read the books, do the courses, sit in the meditation. And yet somehow, we keep circling back to the same patterns, the same reactions, the same version of ourselves we swore we had outgrown. So what if the problem was never a lack of willpower or awareness? What if the part of your mind that is supposed to protect you is quietly protecting a version of you that no longer exists?

In this episode, hypno-coa...

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For most of us, the mind feels like the most trustworthy part of who we are. It’s the voice that plans, decides, judges, remembers, and tells us who we are. But what if that voice isn’t quite the friend we thought it was? What if the very organ we rely on to solve our problems is the same one quietly creating most of them?

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What if the reason you can’t stick to your habits has nothing to do with willpower, motivation, or discipline? What if the methods you’ve been handed were never designed for the life you’re actually living? For so many of us, habit advice arrives in the same shape: wake at five, follow the routine, repeat daily, never miss. And when i...

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Have you ever woken from a vivid dream and thought, what on earth was that about? Maybe you were flying, falling, or running through places you’ve never been that somehow felt strangely familiar. What if those wild dreamscapes aren’t random nonsense at all, but your brain speaking its most honest language?

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