Mind Your Lens: The NLP Experience

16 years cancer-free... and this episode is about far more than being a cancer survivor, it's about being a cancer THRIVER.
It’s about claiming your voice.
In this episode, I share my thyroid cancer journey not as a story of loss, but as a moment of initiation, one that shaped how I lead, speak, and stand in my truth today.
When the very center of communication is challenged, something profound happens: you learn what your voice is really for. This conversation explores what it means to:
- Develop a voice rooted in self-trust
- Speak from alignment instead of approval-seeking Lead with clarity, presence, and conviction
- Express who you are without over-explaining or shrinking
I don't want to focus on what happened to me. It’s a reflection on what was forged through me.
Over the past 16 years, my voice has evolved. This episode is an invitation to examine your own voice: how you use it, when you hold it back, and what becomes possible when you stop negotiating your truth.
If you’re ready to speak more clearly If you’re ready to be heard without force If you’re ready to lead from authenticity instead of performance, this episode will meet you there.
Your voice isn’t something you find.
It’s something you decide to use.

In this episode, Aubrie explores the psychology of coaching through the lens of perception, presence, and understanding. At the heart of meaningful change is the ability to recognize how people experience their own inner world... and how that experience shapes behavior, choices, and communication.
This conversation focuses on the skill of active listening as a form of perceptual awareness. By listening deeply, tracking language, and noticing emotional shifts, we gain insight into how someone understands themselves and their situation. From this level of understanding, change becomes accessible and self-directed.
In this episode, you’ll explore:
How people communicate their inner world through language
The role of subjective experience in shaping behavior
Active listening as a foundational coaching skill
How questions guide awareness and support insight
Working within another person’s model of the world
Supporting change through presence, perception, and trust
This episode is for coaches, leaders, facilitators, and anyone who values depth, clarity, and meaningful connection in conversations that matter.
✨ When understanding deepens, change unfolds naturally.
 
🌐 Book a call to talk about the NLP Academy → https://nlpwillonlychangeeverything.com/nlppractitioner
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📲 Follow on Instagram → @itsaubrieee
🎧 Listen to More Episodes → Mind Your Lens: The NLP Experience is streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more!

This episode is a recording from a free webinar series!
In this episode, Aubrie explores what a mental spiral really is, why it feels so automatic, and how NLP gives us practical tools to interrupt it before it takes over our nervous system. This is not about suppressing emotions or “thinking positive.” It’s about understanding how emotions function as energy-in-motion... meant to be received, interpreted, and redirected.
You’ll learn why the brain doesn’t distinguish between what’s real and what’s vividly imagined, how emotions can be borrowed from the past or projected into the future, and why repeated emotional patterns become faster and more intense over time. From a neurological perspective, spirals are a trained sequence.
This episode also introduces two powerful NLP interventions used to regain choice in real time:
The Swish Pattern, which retrains the brain’s automatic responses
State Anchoring, which allows you to access resourceful emotional states when it matters most
Together, these tools show how change comes from working WITH the way the mind and nervous system are already designed.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
What a mental spiral actually is (and why logic alone can’t stop it)
How emotions become amplified through memory, imagination, and repetition
Why spirals feel uncontrollable once a state is activated
How NLP works at the level of imagery, language, and physiology
Practical tools to reset your state in high-pressure moments
How to move from emotional reactivity into choice and self-leadership
This episode is for anyone who wants to respond differently in the moment.
✨ When you can reset your state, you can change your response, and when your response changes, your life does too.
Ready to go deeper?
If this episode resonated and you want to learn how to apply these tools consistently, you’re invited to explore the next step.
🔹 Join the NLP AcademyOur 12-week NLP Certification Training begins January 17 and teaches you how to work with emotional patterns, nervous system states, and communication at a deep, practical level.https://nlpwillonlychangeeverything.com/nlppractitioner

This episode is a recording from a free webinar series!
Why do smart, capable people still struggle to follow through on what they say they want?
In this episode, Aubrie goes beneath surface-level mindset work and into the real architecture of human behavior. Instead of asking “How do I get more motivated?”, we explore a far more powerful question: “How is motivation actually created?”
Drawing from NLP and applied psychology, this conversation reframes motivation as an internal state shaped by perception, meaning, identity, and nervous system safety... NOT willpower or discipline. You’ll learn why self-sabotage isn’t a personal flaw, but a protective strategy rooted in past conditioning, and how familiar patterns can quietly override conscious goals.
We also explore the idea of liminal spaces, the subtle moments between stimulus and response, intention and action, where real choice and transformation live. As Viktor Frankl famously said, “Between stimulus and response, there is a space.” This episode reveals why that space is where NLP does its most powerful work.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
Why motivation fluctuates and why that’s not a failure
How meaning and internal representation drive behavior
The hidden positive intention behind self-sabotage
How early programming can shape what feels “safe” vs. what’s actually aligned
How NLP helps you work inside the liminal spaces where behavior is formed
This episode is for you if you’re ready to stop forcing change and start understanding how change actually happens in yourself and in others.
✨ Insight is powerful. Skill is transformational.
 
🌐 Book a call to talk about the NLP Academy → https://nlpwillonlychangeeverything.com/nlppractitioner🎤 Book Aubrie to Speak → www.AubriePohl.com📲 Follow on Instagram → @itsaubrieee🎧 Listen to More Episodes → Mind Your Lens: The NLP Experience is streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more!

Your insecurities aren’t proof that something is wrong with you... they’re invitations.
In this episode, we walk the path from insecurity to inner security and explore why the things you try to hide are actually the clearest doorway to real confidence (not the “fake it til you make it” version, but believe it until you become it, feel it until you real it).
We’ll get into the difference between self-confidence and self-esteem, how your subconscious mind quietly cancels out your worth, and why you might discredit yourself without even noticing. You’ll learn how certain thoughts, stories, and comparisons can collapse your sense of value, and more importantly, how to build a mindset where your worth isn’t fragile or conditional.
By the end of this episode, you’ll start to:
See your insecurities as feedback, not flaws
Understand your “model of the world” and how it’s been running your confidence
Choose new patterns, new stories, and new levels of inner safety
Hit play when you’re ready to stop invalidating yourself, and start embodying the version of you that’s already enough. 💫
🌟 Continue your journey with Aubrie
🧠 Become certified in NLP: https://nlpwillonlychangeeverything.com/
🎤 Book Aubrie to speak: www.aubriepohl.com
💫 Follow daily insights: Instagram @itsaubrieee

This episode of Mind Your Lens: The NLP Experience is all about the power of your story, the one you tell yourself every single day.
We don’t remember our past just to hold on to it... we remember it so we can predict what comes next. But here’s the twist: your memories are always being rewritten. They’re flexible, and that’s actually a gift.
Aubrie unpacks the art of re-narrating your life, shifting “contamination stories” (the ones that start good and turn bad) into “redemption stories” (the ones where you rise from the ashes). You’ll hear how the way you make meaning out of your pain affects your emotions, your identity, and even your biology.
 
✨ In this episode:
Why distortion in memory is actually an asset
How to find the turning point in your life story
The science behind storytelling and emotional healing
What it means to be both the main character and the author of your life
How meaning can matter more than happiness
If you’re going through a transition, a healing chapter, or just ready to upgrade your self-story, this episode will help you rewrite your internal script with more compassion, truth, and agency.
🪞 Watch, listen, reflect, and remember... you get to be the narrator.
✨ Stay Connected:
🌐 NLP Academy → https://nlpwillonlychangeeverything.com/
🎤 Book Aubrie to Speak → www.AubriePohl.com
📲 Follow on Instagram → @itsaubrieee
🎧 Listen to More Episodes → Mind Your Lens: The NLP Experience is streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more!

In this episode, Aubrie explores key ideas behind Neuro Linguistic Programming; including how perception shapes meaning and how language directs thought. She also shares a personal life update and how these concepts are playing out in real time.
✨ In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why awareness of your inner language transforms your external results
How NLP helps you break habitual thinking patterns
How to integrate personal growth even during life transitions
🎧 Tune in if you’re ready to:
Understand the deeper mechanics of NLP
Integrate mindset tools into daily life
Get inspired by Aubrie’s honest, behind-the-scenes reflections
🌟 Continue your journey with Aubrie
🧠 Become certified in NLP: NLP Academy – https://nlpwillonlychangeeverything.com/🎤 Book Aubrie to speak: https://aubriepohl.com/💫 Follow daily insights: Instagram @itsaubrieee

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In this episode of Mind Your Lens: The NLP Experience, Aubrie Pohl sits down with Bradley Davie, a wellness leader, strategist, and coach who developed a practice called Intentional Life Blueprinting.
What started as Bradley’s way of finding clarity during a challenging season has evolved into a living framework he continues to redesign every few years! Refining his purpose, mission, values, and goals to match each new stage of life.
 
Together, Aubrie and Bradley explore how blueprinting can help you:
    •    Clarify your life’s purpose and align with your deepest values
    •    Redefine your mission from the inside out and the outside in
    •    Create daily rituals that anchor resilience and focus
    •    Embrace transformation as an ongoing journey, not a one-time reset
This conversation is an invitation to design your life with intention... to live by design, not by default.

Welcome to "Mind Your Lens," the podcast dedicated to exploring the depths of our inner journey.
In this episode "The Realm of the Root: Shifting from Anxiety to Peace," we delve into the transformative power of understanding and reshaping our mental and emotional landscapes.
Join us as we sit down with Krystal Rose, a renowned rapid transformation therapy practitioner and transformation coach. Krystal specializes in rewiring the mind and body for lasting change, helping individuals move from states of depression and anxiety to discovering their true purpose and peace.
In this episode, we explore the definition of happiness and discuss the pivotal moments that signal it's time for change. Myself and Krystal share our personal journeys, and delve into the nature of depression and its effects, providing insights into how these experiences shape who we are today.
Tune in to inspire you to continue your path of transformation and fulfillment. Whether you're seeking to understand your own emotions or looking for ways to support others, this episode offers valuable perspectives and practical advice for anyone on the path to personal growth.

This special podcast episode is the recording of the Communicate with Confidence MASTERCLASS, hosted by myself and Lunden Souza. 
In this transformational 2-hour masterclass, we'll dive into the core principles that will empower you to express yourself authentically and effectively in any situation. 
Whether you're looking to enhance your public speaking, navigate challenging conversations, or simply communicate with more impact and clarity, this session will equip you with actionable strategies to amplify your voice and be truly heard. 
Interested in our immersive weekend VOICE OF IMPACT?
Register here:
https://www.lifelikelunden.com/voice-of-impact/
 
Thank you for being YOU.