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You Built a Mask and Never Removed It | Hayden Brown | SC
Hayden Brown is a human behaviour specialist.
He has dealt with a range of different clients but he excels with those experiencing narcissism, self-deprecation and self-sabotage.
Hayden is on the show today to ease the stress of common psychological issues everyone deals with. We have used scenarios when possible to make the information more digestible and the emotion throughout this episode is very raw.
Chapters;
00:00 - We love Self-Sabotage
04:17 - Is the Remedy The Hidden Cause
08:15 - Why Athletes can't handle Pressure
12:56 - Make Sure Pain isn't in the Car
18:50 - Hayden's Journey
32:44 -Your Problems might Family Problems
38:17 - The Difference in Healing and Letting Go
Hayden;
https://haydenbrown.com.au/
https://www.instagram.com/haydenbrownofficial/
30 Sept 2026
Why Change Is So Much Harder Than You Think | Noah Laracy | SC
Psychologist Noah Laracy explains why change is so much harder than most people expect, and why understanding your triggers or attachment style often isn't enough to actually move forward in life.
Noah breaks down "terminal uniqueness" — the belief that you need a special solution just for you — and why staying stuck often feels safer than being ordinary.
Chapters;
00:00 - Be More Ordinary
02:11 - The Obscurity Window
06:48 - Why is Noah a Psychologist?
09:18 - Don't Let Therapy Get Soft
14:12 - Working on Skid Row
18:57 - Toxicity and Anxiety Love Each Other
21:05 - You Might Not Have Anxiety
26:11 - Embarrassment
28:03 - Crumbling as a Person
32:12 - How to find what's holding you back in life
The conversation covers the neuroscience and psychology of anxiety, including how exposure and response prevention therapy helps people override fear responses tied to OCD and anxiety disorders, and why the real challenge isn't the first step but staying consistent weeks later.
Noah also explains why people self-sabotage right when life starts going well, describing the internal backlash that pulls people back into old belief systems just as they start to make progress.
Drawing from his own experience getting sober and working as an outreach worker on Skid Row, Noah shares a practical three-question exercise to identify what's actually keeping you stuck in your job, relationships, or health, and what to do about it.
If you're interested in psychology, anxiety, behavior change, self-sabotage, or why personal growth feels so much harder than it should, this conversation offers real, research-backed insight without the usual motivational fluff.
Find Noah Laracy on TikTok and Instagram, and read his newsletter, Dangerous Living, on Substack.
21 Sept 2026
Neuroscientist | This Is YOUR Brain During Depression | Devin Effinger | SC
Neuroscientist, Devin Effinger breaks down exactly what happens in the brain during depression and anxiety.
Devin explains the neuroscience behind negative thought loops and rumination, why your brain treats imagined future threats the same as real danger, and how chronic stress physically reshapes the regions responsible for emotional regulation and memory.
Drawing on his own experience recovering from a traumatic brain injury and decade-long drug addiction,
Devin shares why "hitting rock bottom" isn't actually necessary — or even healthy — for change, and introduces RISE, a practical technique (Reflect, Interrupt, Shift, Engage) for breaking out of negative thought spirals before they spiral into full depressive or anxious episodes.
Chapters;
00:00 - The Brain during Depression
06:55 - Head Injuries and CTE
15:45 - Devin's Addiction
26:44 - Phones are as addictive as Heroin
31:23 - How to snap out of Negative Thought Loops
34:23 - Rock Bottom is a lie
38:22 - Ketamine + Exposure Therapy
Devin;
https://www.instagram.com/deffinger/?hl=en
ASG;
https://www.instagram.com/asg_simple
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