Badass Confidence Coach | Your Personal Trainer for Your Mind
The Badass Confidence Coach is your go-to podcast for high-achieving women and men ready to step into their full potential. Hosted by Anna Marolin, therapist, life coach, and 20-year triathlete, this show is not your average therapy session. Anna is on a mission to empower everyone to overcome their self-doubt, crush their goals, and live their most badass lives.
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Badass Confidence Coach | Your Personal Trainer for Your Mind
272. Manifestation Is Not a Strategy
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What if the thing everyone swears by… just isn’t backed by science?
Manifestation is everywhere right now. Vision boards. Law of attraction. “Think it, feel it, receive it.” And Anna has thoughts. Not anti-dreaming thoughts. Not anti-spirituality thoughts. But grounded, evidence-based, therapist-who’s-done-the-work thoughts.
Join Anna and Tim as they unpack the difference between comforting beliefs and real behavioral change. They talk about the shame loop that can come from “you didn’t believe hard enough,” the grift creeping into parts of the coaching industry, and why hope without a plan is not empowerment. This episode breaks down what actually works, instead of fantasizing about the win.
This Episode Covers:
- Why manifestation is widely criticized as pseudoscience.
- The difference between dreaming and training.
- The “shame loop with a vision board” and how it disempowers people.
- Cognitive restructuring and how to challenge self-defeating stories.
- WOOP: wish, outcome, obstacle, plan.
- Why positive fantasizing can actually reduce effort.
- Rehearsing the hardest 30 seconds instead of visualizing the win.
- Why behavior is the receipt, not the vision board.
Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.
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