Power in the Pain Podcast

About Power in the Pain Podcast

Join bestselling author, NLP trainer, and transformation coach, Greg Pihs, as he explores the powerful journey of turning adversity into triumph. In this raw, honest, and inspiring podcast, Greg shares his own personal stories of overcoming trauma, self-doubt, and fear, alongside practical NLP techniques that can help you do the same. With the help of his co-host, Catherine, Greg dives deep into the transformative power of the mind, providing listeners with tools to break free from limiting beliefs, reprogram their minds, and create lasting change. Whether you're facing tough challenges or seeking to unlock your full potential, The Power In The Pain Podcast offers powerful insights and actionable advice that will inspire you to embrace your pain, heal, and step into your true power. Each episode blends personal stories, expert knowledge, and transformational techniques, leaving you equipped to make meaningful shifts in your own life. This is more than just a podcast – it's a movement of transformation, healing, and empowerment.

Publisher

STP Productions

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 May 2025

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

63 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   Cereal With Water: Parents on OxyContin, Selling Drugs for College, and Connect or Die | Jim Morris

   Content note: This episode includes discussion of opioid addiction, a parent's suicide threat, and drug dealing. "I need you to give me $500 or I'm gonna kill myself." Greg Pihs sits down in the Spread the Positive studio with Jim Morris, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, host of the Impact Effect podcast, founder of Human Touch Publishing, and author of Connect or Die: How to Survive AI. Jim's father fell off a telephone pole at work. Six months later his mother had part of a lung removed. Both were prescribed OxyContin, and both became addicted. Jim moved seven times before he was 18, ate cereal with water because there was no milk, and found out from a friend that his dad was buying pills on the street. Then his father came to him with the sentence above. Jim swung at him, missed, and punched a hole in the wall. From that day he felt like the parent in the house. With no money for college, Jim paid for it in cash by selling drugs while holding a full-time salaried job. His supplier was his high school rival. He wore a suit by day, managing accounts for Boston hospitals, and lived a second life by night until the dissonance had his hands sweating so badly he got 86 Botox shots. When his girlfriend got jumped and he was robbed of $5,000, he walked away for good. The conversation goes deep on what connection actually is. Jim's three circles: acquaintances, allies, and confidants. The triple H: does this person need to be heard, helped, or hugged? Why conflict in a marriage is connection. Why he'd rather wipe out a line in the sand and draw a new one when he learns something. And the kitchen-table night he rolled coins while crying, and what his wife said when he finally told her. Jim also shares why he left a successful real estate business to chase impact, how an ex-employee's question put him on stage, and why he now helps other people write their books. His closing advice for anyone who feels disconnected: it starts with hello. And if you want to be the greatest version of yourself, you can't do it by yourself. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00   "Give me $500 or I'm gonna kill myself" 0:27   Intro 0:51   A word from our sponsor (Bryan Nale) 1:43   Welcome, Jim Morris 2:58   Both parents prescribed OxyContin 5:05   Cereal with water 5:50   Finding out from a friend 7:49   "$500 or I'm gonna kill myself" 8:07   Punching a hole in the wall 9:17   Integrity: holding the wheel 9:58   Selling drugs to pay for college cash 11:55  Connection to disconnection 15:51  Cash tuition, full-time job, no safety net 18:10  Driving to community college three days in a row 20:11  Dr. Massey's four developmental phases 22:50  Being real: the R in BRAVE 24:19  Conflict with your spouse is connection 25:43  Compassionate curiosity 27:04  Front pocket, back pocket 29:04  "The learners will inherit the earth" 29:08  The rival who became the supplier 31:18  86 Botox shots in his hands 34:42  Walking away for good 36:57  Three circles: acquaintances, allies, confidants 38:31  "My spouse is not my confidant" 39:02  Rolling coins at the kitchen table 40:29  Who do you borrow belief from? 42:10  The triple H: heard, helped, or hugged 45:17  Separating identity from money and status 46:22  Why writing your story heals you 48:03  "You did it exactly the way you needed to" 49:14  Why do you want to be a speaker? 53:16  Am I living up to my capacity? 57:21  "No one's actually connecting in Nashville" 59:36  "We weren't coming because we were paid" 61:19  Impact Effect, keynotes, and Human Touch Publishing 63:18  How to be a guest, publish a book, or book Jim 65:31  The real Jim Morris 66:50  "It starts with hello" 68:08  "What are you doing online?" 69:03  Outro 💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS • Integrity is holding the wheel. You'll veer. The question is whether you notice and correct. • Sort your people into acquaintances, allies, and confidants, and you'll stop being heartbroken when an acquaintance leaves. • Heard, helped, or hugged. Figure out which one someone needs before you respond. • Conflict handled with compassionate curiosity is connection, not the opposite of it. • Telling your story out loud lifts a weighted jacket off your shoulders. • It starts with hello. You can't become the greatest version of yourself by yourself. Guest: Jim Morris, author of Connect or Die: How to Survive AI (on Amazon) Podcast: Impact Effect (apply at impacteffectpodcast.com) Publishing: humantouchpublishing.com Speaking: therealjimmorris.com Watch the video version on YouTube: Success After Trauma If this episode made you think of someone, share it with them. 🌱 Spread the Positive is shedding light on what's going right in the world. 👉 Like, subscribe, and we'll see you next week. #PowerInThePain #GregPihs #SuccessAfterTrauma #JimMorris #ConnectOrDie #ImpactEffect #Connection #Addiction #Opioids #Resilience #SpreadThePositive

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   13 Oct 2026

   Still Here: Dystonia Took His Body, Not His Purpose | Nolan Kashat on Power in the Pain

   =========== "I've been through so much in my life, and I'm still here. I never give up." Greg Pihs sits down with his friend Nolan Kashat, a coach, speaker, and author living with severe, progressive dystonia, a condition that causes involuntary movements and muscle spasms throughout his body. Nolan was diagnosed at five. Within a month he went from walking to a wheelchair. At nine, brain surgery gave him back full mobility and independence, and for a couple of years he had it all. Then came complications, revisions, and a final surgery that was supposed to restore his arm control. He woke up worse than before. At 16, after years of being told to keep hoping, Nolan felt defeated. He watched everyone his age graduate, start careers, and build relationships while he played video games and watched TV. At the end of 2020 he hired a coach who had a physical condition of his own and was living confidently and happily. Nolan figured if that man could, so could he. That was the start of his personal development journey, and a year or two later, the start of his coaching business. Greg and Nolan talk about what actually anchored the shift: therapy, focusing on what he can do instead of what he can't, remembering the times his body was far worse, and thinking about the people suffering more than he is. They talk about the constant battle in an entrepreneur's mind, and why Nolan fights that battle on top of the daily fight with his own body. And Nolan is honest that he's only a few steps ahead of the people he coaches, not better than them. Nolan's book is called Still Here. You can download it free on his website, book a free discovery call, or DM him the word POWER on Instagram for his Breaking the Loop PDF, a simple gratitude exercise for the thoughts that run on repeat. His closing words: the bad days will pass the same way the good ones did. Keep faith. Don't let the opposition win. 💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS • A setback is just a setback. It's not set in stone. • Focus on what you can do and what you do have, not on what you can't and don't. • Seeing someone like you living confidently can be the proof you need that you can too. • Gratitude gets anchored by remembering when things were worse, and who has it harder now. • You can be a few steps ahead of someone without being better than them. • The bad days will pass the same way the good ones did. Keep faith. Guest: Nolan Kashat, coach, speaker, author of Still Here Web: nolankashat.com (free book PDF, free discovery call) Instagram and Facebook: Nolan Kashat. DM the word POWER on Instagram for the Breaking the Loop PDF. Watch the video version on YouTube: Success After Trauma If this episode made you think of someone, share it with them. 🌱 Spread the Positive is shedding light on what's going right in the world. 👉 Like, subscribe, and we'll see you next week. #PowerInThePain #GregPihs #SuccessAfterTrauma #NolanKashat #StillHere #Dystonia #PainIsPower #Gratitude #Purpose #Resilience #SpreadThePositive

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   6 Oct 2026

   "Wait Till Tomorrow": A Navy Veteran's Mission to Give Heroes a Reason to Live

   Content note: This episode includes frank discussion of suicide, combat, violence, and cancer. If you are struggling, call or text 988. Veterans can press 1, or text 838255. "If you're thinking dark thoughts, wait till tomorrow." Greg Pihs sits down in the Spread the Positive studio with his friend Richard [LAST NAME], Navy veteran, podcast host, and founder of the nonprofit Minutes Wisely. Greg was one of the first guests on Richard's show five years ago. This time Richard is the one telling his story. It started with his grandfathers, both World War II combat veterans. One was a Purple Heart recipient with the 30th "Old Hickory" Division who cried every time Richard asked about the war. That question, what does a teenager carry for the next sixty years, became a podcast. In the first year, guest after guest told him about the night they almost ended it. One relative put the rifle down and said, "I'll do it tomorrow." The next morning a battle buddy was gone. A shipmate mailed Richard a $1,000 check he didn't ask for, and Minutes Wisely was born: "Minutes are worth more than money, so spend them wisely." The nonprofit sends veterans, first responders, and Gold Star family members to once-in-a-lifetime events with the red carpet rolled out. The goal is to give them something to look forward to and a spark to make it to the next day. Richard goes deep on his own story. He was a kid so quiet a relative said he never spoke a word. He lost a daughter he didn't meet again until she was 25. He asked his wife out a hundred times before she said yes. Then his mother died at 52, and he spent five years in a depression that wrecked his health, until a doctor told him to start living the way she would want. That night she came to him. You'll want to hear the rest in his words. He also shares his own cancer fight, the moon over the hospital door, how that changed the mission to include families facing childhood cancer, and the day a little boy named DJ Daniels got a police escort down an empty Detroit interstate. 💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS • Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely. • Giving someone something to look forward to can be the spark that gets them to the next day. • Take care of the people who take care of us: veterans, first responders, and the Gold Star families left behind. • Grief can wreck your body. Start living the way the person you lost would want you to live. • Give the heavy stuff to God. Either way, you win. • If you're thinking dark thoughts, wait till tomorrow. Guest: Richard [LAST NAME], founder of Minutes Wisely Web: minuteswisely.org (nominate a veteran, first responder, or Gold Star family member) Podcast: Minutes Wisely: Tomorrow Needs You, on YouTube and all major platforms Watch the video version on YouTube: Success After Trauma If this episode made you think of someone, share it with them. 🌱 Spread the Positive is shedding light on what's going right in the world. 👉 Like, subscribe, and we'll see you next week. #PowerInThePain #GregPihs #SuccessAfterTrauma #MinutesWisely #TomorrowNeedsYou #Veterans #FirstResponders #GoldStarFamilies #SuicidePrevention #CancerSurvivor #SpreadThePositive

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