Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#512 Use HYPNOSIS to Unlock Deeper Confidence and Uncover Hidden Subconscious Blocks with Todd and Gina Goodwin
Tue, 15 Apr 2025
Get ready for an unforgettable deep dive into the subconscious with my longtime friend and board-certified hypnotist, Todd and Gina Goodwin. In this episode, Todd and I reveal the behind-the-scenes of how he helped me overcome deeply rooted fears — including the time I suddenly developed driving anxiety during COVID — and how his unique blend of hypnosis and NLP unearths the real cause behind stubborn habits. Todd shares how rewriting our subconscious programming is faster and more effective than trying to muscle your way through problems with willpower or years of talk therapy. We dig into the “why” behind your habits, fears, and even people-pleasing, so you’ll walk away with clarity and fresh tools to elevate your confidence, dissolve anxiety, and break through whatever’s holding you back. And don’t miss the exclusive bonus at the end — an easy, real-time resource that will set you up for immediate wins. This is one conversation that just might spark the quantum leap you’ve been waiting for! In This Episode You Will Learn Uncover hidden subconscious blocks undermining your goals. Acquire rapid, lasting relief from deep-seated anxiety. Discover powerful self-hypnosis methods for immediate mindset shifts. Transform past traumas into forward-moving fuel. Elevate confidence, authenticity, and aligned personal growth. Resources + Links Find out if hypnosis is a good fit for you - take the 62 second survey at goodwinhypnosis.com/survey Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/monahan Download the CFO’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning at NetSuite.com/MONAHAN. Want to do more and spend less like Uber, 8x8, and Databricks Mosaic? Take a free test drive of OCI at oracle.com/MONAHAN. Get 10% off your first Mitopure order at timeline.com/CONFIDENCE. Get 15% off your first order when you use code CONFIDENCE15 at checkout at jennikayne.com. Call my digital clone at 201-897-2553! Visit heathermonahan.com Sign up for my mailing list: heathermonahan.com/mailing-list/ Overcome Your Villains is Available NOW! Order here: https://overcomeyourvillains.com If you haven't yet, get my first book Confidence Creator Follow Heather on Instagram & LinkedIn
Chapter 1: Who are Todd and Gina Goodwin and what is their approach to hypnosis?
And then they're gonna physiologically react and they're gonna start sweating and their heart's gonna beat faster and they're gonna have a shortness of breath and they're gonna sometimes just wanna get the hell out of there or avoid the situation altogether. And that's where phobias and panic kind of come in. So one, the first thing I would say is figure out where you're doing harm
And it's not your fault. This is an automatic process. But you can figure out where you're doing it, what might be triggering it, and then ask yourself, what would a more constructive or empowering alternative way of thinking about it be? And then you just practice doing that in your mind, especially if you're in situations which previously triggered the opposite.
I mean, that's one way of doing it.
I think it also helps to bring up a feeling too, you know, when you're picturing the goal you want and the outcome you want, instead of just picturing it, trying to make it as real as you can, you know, um, including how you would feel once you're there, you know, so bringing up that feeling is a good way to like connect the thought and the feeling together so that when you're actually there and that experience that was troublesome before, it feels like you've already done it.
Meaning bring up the feeling of the fear or bring up the feeling of the positive feeling of the way that you want it to go. The positive feeling, like how you'd feel once you get there and make it strong and make it real. Because the mind doesn't know the difference between something real and something imagined.
So the more you can make it real, including feeling how you would feel once you're there, the more convinced your mind can be that you've already accomplished it, which means it should be easy to do. Wait, now I just, this just triggered a memory for me.
Two things. One, you used to have me hold two fingers together and that was like the signal of that's the good feeling. That's the positive feeling. And I can launch that feeling anytime that I want. That's one thing I just remembered when you said that, Gina. And the other thing is I remember, and don't cancel me for this one, guys. This is five years ago.
There was a Kanye song that I loved and you said, okay, does it make you feel powerful? Does it make you feel great? Yes, it did. Okay. When you're driving in the car before you practice the visualization, you know, you can launch the positive feeling that you're strong and powerful. Also marry that to the music while you're driving.
And these were just all different levers I could pull so that I had tools that I remember when I was in the car that could help me.
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Chapter 2: How did Heather Monahan personally benefit from hypnosis with the Goodwins?
Because as long as she had those strong memories, emotionally charged memories, her subconscious had proof that she wasn't good enough or that she wasn't worthy of love or whatever beliefs she picked up. Once the emotional energy is drained from that memory, and this is just one of a number of tools we use, but once that happens, It's like the world is open to someone thinking differently.
And that's where a lot of the hypnosis comes in at that point, is helping to change their underlying belief. We do that through everything from visualizations to hypnotic storytelling to all kinds of different things. And most of the time, the change sticks. And it's really amazing and it's just wonderful that
Even though we wish we were people's, you know, their first option, we often see people after they've tried antidepressants or anti-anxiety meds, after they've been in months or years of therapy, after they've tried to force themselves to change. But we all have the ability to learn very quickly. We just have to use the right tools.
It's so interesting that I worked on a variety of issues in my subconscious with you that have been resolved. But sitting here right now, I'm thinking to myself, I'm in a serious relationship right now for the first time in years. And when I'm hearing you describe this, I'm like, oh, my gosh, I was so triggered by him a couple of weeks ago because of something so stupid had nothing to do with him.
But I'm thinking, I'm like, oh, my gosh, I need to resolve that. Like, why did I? Why am I? I'm just, I ignored it like, oh, that was stupid. I won't do that again. But now that I'm listening to this, obviously that's a result of something in my subconscious that's from a past relationship, from something that was negative. I don't want to allow that into my life again now.
So, you know, it makes sense to your point, especially when these things can be resolved so quickly. And I know one of the things that I had,
a lot of success with work much for me that really helped condition my mind was a lot of these tracks that you put me on that i still use to this day and i know that you actually have a track for everybody listening today yeah do i mention that now or yeah i'd love it if you could mention that yeah so so the way we work so gina and i during covid you know we shifted out of necessity to seeing people by zoom and
Once we figured out how to compensate for whatever disadvantages there are of not being in the same room with people, there are also advantages. But we were able to neutralize those disadvantages for the most part. So now, since then, we see people exclusively by Zoom, wherever they are, time zone permitting,
and it's just as effective as it ever was in the same physical office space but the way we do it which is different from a lot of hypnotists is that we meet with the person for you know however long half hour or 40 minutes just to figure out you know what's improved over the last week since the last session whatever and then make sure we're on the same page about what we're going to address this time and then we disconnect we use our studio quality microphone we record
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