The Better Humans Project

The Better Humans Project

A series of Podcasts that look at practical aspects of how your can make a transformation in your life and become a better human.

Episodes

April 6, 2025 12 mins
Fulfilling Life In this episode of The Better Humans Project Podcast, host Greg Pfeiffer explores the concept of 'Ikigai,' a Japanese term meaning 'reason for being.' Greg details how Ikigai, which combines passion, mission, vocation, and profession, can serve as a guiding compass in life. He discusses its origins, the four essential elements of Ikigai, and how it contributes to wellbeing and longevity. The episode includes practic...

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Understanding and Overcoming Self-Sabotage In this episode of The Better Humans Podcast, host Greg Pfeiffer explores why we develop self-sabotaging behaviours and maintain bad habits. He explains the concept of habits, how they form through repetition and reward, and why they're so hard to break. Cognitive dissonance and reinforcement theory are discussed as key reasons behind our tendency to cling to bad habits. Greg also provides...

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In this episode of The Better Humans Podcast, Greg Pfeiffer dives into the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade to highlight a massive communication breakdown in history, before exploring why communication often fails in our personal lives. Learn about the key components of communication, common pitfalls from both the sender and receiver's perspectives, and practical strategies to improve your communication skills. Whether it's ov...
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March 15, 2025 15 mins
In this episode of the Better Humans Project podcast, host Greg Pfeiffer discusses ways to tackle self-doubt, a common obstacle that holds many back. He explores the causes, such as past failures, fear of judgment, imposter syndrome, comparison, perfectionism, lack of support, and low self-esteem. Pfeiffer provides actionable strategies to overcome self-doubt, including recognizing negative thoughts, focusing on progress over perfe...
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Overcoming Setbacks Through a Growth Mindset | Better Humans Podcast In this episode of the Better Humans Podcast, host Greg Pfeiffer explores the importance of managing setbacks on a journey of self-improvement. Through the lens of Nelson Mandela's perseverance and the renowned psychologist Carol Dweck's research on growth and fixed mindsets, Greg discusses practical strategies for embracing challenges, learning from criticism, va...

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This episode looks at the history of the phrase "Trust the Process" and looks at what it means for personal transformation. Examples of how "Trust the Process" can help you to achieve transformation and behaviour change.

Practical Strategies for Trusting the Process

Psychological Benefits of Trusting the Process

https://realitypathing.com/how-to-trust-the-process-embrace-change-fully/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/strivin...

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This episode explores the 10 processes of change as described by James O. Prochaska, and how those processes can drive you through the stages of change to make a successful journey of personal transformation.

  1. Consciousness Raising – this involves building awareness
  2. Dramatic Relief – where you pay attention to emotions and feelings
  3. Self-Reevaluation – this involves creating a new self-image
  4. Environmental Reevaluation – where yo...
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This Podcast is designed to provide listeners with a structured understanding of the Transtheoretical Model of Change, also known as the Stages of Change Model. It provides practical tips on how they can apply this model to their own transformation process.

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This episode takes a dive into the skill of listening! In particular, ACTIVE Listening! Active listening is described and the elements and skills of active listening are studied.

4 distinct styles of listening

Hearing vs listening

Elements of active listening

Principles of active listening

Active listening skills you can develop

Barriers to active listening

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This episode discusses the negative human behaviour known as "chasing the snake".

Why we indulge in this behaviour and how it has a negative effect on us.

 

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The Better Humans Podcast: Unlocking the Power of Open and Closed Goals In this episode of The Better Humans Podcast, host Greg Pfeiffer delves into the intricacies of goal setting, contrasting the popular S-M-A-R-T (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound) goals with the often overlooked 'open goals.' Using the metaphor of climbing Mount Everest, Pfeiffer explores how open goals, characterized by their non-specifi...

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Episode 7 discusses habits and their importance in our daily life.  How habits form.

Habit loops.

Good and bad habits.

Ways to from new habits.

Why existing habits are so hard to break, even when they no longer serve us.

Referenced is Atomic Habits by James Clear

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Episode 6 talks about the life and journeys of aviator Bert Hinkler, and what lessons about our own personal journeys we can learn from Hinkler and his exploits.

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Episode 5 deals with the role of steps in your journey of life transformation. Firstly, the role of planning your journey and breaking the journey down into manageable steps. Secondly, into the role of taking that first step and the value of taking even small steps to gain momentum and motivation.

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July 7, 2024 24 mins

Episode 4 of the podcast deals with some of the barriers to starting your journey. In particular, dealing with the barriers to taking that first step!

In particular, the difficulty in letting go of the attachment to your current situation that is making you unhappy.

References are: Books on Neurolinguistic Programming by Tony Robbins Letting Go - The Pathway of Surrender by David Hawkins

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June 29, 2024 20 mins

Episode 3 of the podcast deals with another of the foundations of a personal transformation journey, and that is your readiness to commence the journey. This is done by asking yourself the important question of "Am I ready?"

You are encouraged to examine the Barriers and Constraints to starting your journey, and the internal and external factors.

Initial planning to overcome these barriers / constraints and seeing if it is possible...

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Episode 2 of the podcast deals with one of the foundations of a personal transformation journey, and that is establishing your starting point. This is done by asking yourself the important question of "Where do I currently stand?" To help with answering this question, a structured tool, the Life Assessment Tool, is introduced. This provides a template to answer the question of where you currently stand on your life journey. The to...

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June 17, 2024 21 mins

This podcast discusses the most important aspect of undergoing a personal transformation - what is your why? Why are you undertaking this process of transformation? The importance of your why Your why provides strength and direction A need vs a want Questions to ask to clarify and strengthen your why Please share this podcast with anyone you feel would benefit. It helps the podcast grow! Like and comment below, I love to hear your ...

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In this episode, Greg talks about his mental health issues and describes what it was like living with depression.

Greg also talks about what led up to his suicidal events, and the feelings associated with them.

The tiredness from holding up a positive façade. Various thoughts and feelings. Why sleep was good and yet bad. The slide into suicidal thoughts. Good times and bad times. Being medicated. This is the final episode of this ...

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This episode looks at the rise of superficial relationships, partly due to the effects of social media. Are we killing of quality deep relationships in order to have a greater quantity of superficial relationships? Are people changing their behaviour to get more "likes"? Are we seeking too many dopamine hits? Can we service all our connections? Do we spread ourselves too thin overt too many people to enable the development of deep...

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