Catching The Octopus Podcast

About Catching The Octopus Podcast

The 'Catching the Octopus' podcast has been created as a platform to help leaders, business owners and achievers tap into the inner secrets to success. It aims to showcase not only successful strategies and mindset that lead to shifting from good to great, but also how influential our own inner connections are at propelling us there. Strategies and mindset give us clarity on what to do in order to achieve, but it is who we become that elevates us to the highest possible level. Although this is not a wellbeing podcast, it will touch on aspects of how success is not always just pushing forward, but also how it relies strongly on reflection inward. It will be reframing success and achievement to become more than just a desired shift from surviving to thriving and will focus on how we can develop a business, career or life that is flourishing in all aspects.

Publisher

Niomi Hurley

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Jun 2023

Latest episode

15 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

124 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Sept 2026

   S2E36 – Love & Light: Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Ego?

   S2E36 – Love & Light: Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Ego? What does it really mean to live with love and light and when can spirituality become another form of ego? In this episode, we explore the deeper meaning of love and light, spiritual ego, high and low vibrations, shadow work, subconscious programming and why true healing often requires us to illuminate the parts of ourselves we would rather keep hidden. "Love and light" is usually shared as an expression of compassion, kindness and connection. But when spirituality becomes a way of seeing ourselves as more awakened, evolved or enlightened than others, it can create the very separation that spiritual practice is meant to dissolve. We also explore spiritual bypassing. That is, using positivity or spiritual beliefs to avoid anger, grief, fear, hurt or uncomfortable truths, and why experiencing difficult emotions does not make someone less spiritual or "low vibration." Using the analogy of lighting a candle in a dark room, we look at darkness not simply as something negative, but as something that has not yet been illuminated. This leads into Carl Jung's concept of the shadow and how childhood programming, emotional wounds and subconscious beliefs can remain hidden while continuing to influence how we think, feel and behave. In this episode you'll learn: ✔️ What "love and light" can really mean ✔️ How spiritual ego can disguise itself as enlightenment ✔️ Why being "high vibration" doesn't make someone superior ✔️ How spiritual bypassing can interfere with healing ✔️ The spiritual concept of the soul as energetic and non-physical ✔️ Why darkness and light are powerful metaphors for healing ✔️ What shadow work actually means ✔️ How childhood programming creates subconscious patterns ✔️ Why emotional triggers can reveal what still needs attention ✔️ How curiosity and self-awareness help illuminate what has been hidden Perhaps love and light isn't about avoiding the darkness. Perhaps it is about bringing love with us while shining light on the parts of ourselves we were previously unable or unwilling to see. #SpiritualEgo #SpiritualBypassing #SpiritualHealing #HealingJourney #SubconsciousMind #SubconsciousProgramming #EmotionalHealing #SelfAwareness #SpiritualGrowth #InnerWork #HighVibration #Consciousness #SelfLove #PersonalGrowth #EnergyHealing #ShadowSelf #ToxicPositivity #CatchingTheOctopus Hosted by Niomi Hurley, a human behaviour researcher and clinical hypnotherapist who integrates psychology with energy-informed healing approaches. With experience in corporate environments and individual practice, and through her work at Get Up and Grow Consulting, Niomi works with organisations and individuals to build capacity by addressing the behavioural, emotional, and subconscious factors that influence wellbeing and performance. Niomi Hurley (Host) Contact Details: Niomi Hurley Email Niomi Hurley LinkedIn Profile Get Up and Grow Consulting Website Get Up and Grow Consulting LinkedIn Profile Get Up and Grow Consulting Facebook Profile Get Up and Grow Consulting Instagram Profile

2. 

   8 Sept 2026

   S2E35 – You Were Sold this Belief: How Advertising Programmed What You Think is Normal.

3. 

   1 Sept 2026

   S2E34 – If Love Requires Sacrifice, Is It Really Love?

   S2E34 – If Love Requires Sacrifice, Is It Really Love? We've been taught that relationships require sacrifice but if someone truly loves you, why would they need you to become smaller for them? And if you're willing to sacrifice your identity, values, growth or purpose to keep someone else, is that love or self-abandonment? In this follow-on episode of Catching the Octopus, we go deeper into the conversation about unconditional love by challenging another deeply embedded belief: that sacrifice is proof of love. Relationships require compromise. Sometimes one person will need more support than the other. Sometimes we willingly inconvenience ourselves because we care about someone. But that is very different from sacrificing something fundamental to your wellbeing, identity, values, growth or purpose just to preserve a relationship. So where does that belief come from? Why are we taught that good partners put the other person first, that marriage requires sacrifice, that good mothers sacrifice everything for their children, or that if we really love someone we should be willing to give something up for them? And what happens when those messages become subconscious rules for how we experience love? In this episode, we explore: ✔️ The difference between sacrifice, compromise and freely chosen giving ✔️ Why sacrifice can become confused with proof of love ✔️ How childhood experiences can subconsciously shape adult relationships ✔️ The achiever, carer, support seeker and rebel patterns discussed by Marisa Peer ✔️ How people pleasing can become a strategy for maintaining connection ✔️ Why fear, obligation and rejection can masquerade as love ✔️ The difference between attachment and genuine love ✔️ Why resentment can signal that giving is no longer freely chosen ✔️ How self-worth influences what we are prepared to give up ✔️ Why someone else's growth shouldn't threaten a healthy relationship ✔️ The difference between relationship compromise and self-abandonment ✔️ How subconscious programming can teach us to put ourselves last ✔️ Why two people can love each other and still become misaligned ✔️ How spiritual ideas around forgiveness and relationships can sometimes be misunderstood ✔️ Why unconditional self-love is demonstrated through behaviour, not simply positive thoughts One of the most powerful questions we can ask ourselves is: If there were absolutely no possibility this person would reject me, leave me, become angry or withdraw their love — would I still make this sacrifice? Because there is a difference between: "I choose to do this for you." and "I have to do this so that you will continue to love me." Healthy love doesn't require two incomplete people to negotiate which pieces of themselves they need to surrender to remain connected. Perhaps it's two whole people walking alongside each other — supporting one another to grow, expand and become the fullest expression of who they are. And sometimes, two people can genuinely love one another and still discover that the lives they need to live are no longer aligned. That doesn't necessarily mean the love failed. Sometimes staying would be the sacrifice. 🎙️ Catching the Octopus explores psychology, subconscious programming, spirituality, energy, healing and the patterns influencing how we experience ourselves, our relationships and the world around us. #LoveAndRelationships #SelfLove #SelfWorth #HealthyRelationships #PeoplePleasing #SelfAbandonment #RelationshipAdvice #SubconsciousMind #Healing #CatchingTheOctopus Hosted by Niomi Hurley, a human behaviour researcher and clinical hypnotherapist who integrates psychology with energy-informed healing approaches. With experience in corporate environments and individual practice, and through her work at Get Up and Grow Consulting, Niomi works with organisations and individuals to build capacity by addressing the behavioural, emotional, and subconscious factors that influence wellbeing and performance. Niomi Hurley (Host) Contact Details: Niomi Hurley Email Niomi Hurley LinkedIn Profile Get Up and Grow Consulting Website Get Up and Grow Consulting LinkedIn Profile Get Up and Grow Consulting Facebook Profile Get Up and Grow Consulting Instagram Profile

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

2,702

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100

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Quality

67

Social presence

91

YouTube

68

Engagement

60