Practical NLP Podcast

Andy Smith

NLP demystified for personal development and business success! English NLP trainer Andy Smith shares with you useful tips and principles from NLP that you can use to get clear on what you really want, accelerate your success, and be more effective in your work, life, and relationships.

  1. 24/11/2025

    Using Logical Levels in Coaching: Interview with Sarah Makinde

    Interview with psychologist and NLP Trainer Sarah Makinde about using the Logical Levels model in coaching, how she blends psychology and NLP, how she grew a successful Facebook community, and more

    Using Logical Levels in Coaching: Interview with Sarah Makinde

  2. 08/05/2024

    Interview with Duff McDuffee - gurus, learning from mistakes, and how to pattern-interrupt money fears

    In this episode of the Practical NLP Podcast I interview Duff McDuffee, one of the most thoughtful people in modern NLP. He specialises in helping creative and neurodivergent people who ‘think different’, as that classic Apple ad used to say. In our wide-ranging conversation we talk about: Duff's first introduction to NLP - as for many people, it was via Tony Robbins What it was like working for Ken Wilber What it was like working for Steve and Connirae Andreas (very different) The two 'paradigms' (or ways of seeing the world) A technique for reducing the pain of learning from your mistakes Reframing failure The importance of joy in motivation An easy 'pattern interrupt' process for loosening fears around money or getting yourself out of a stressful state ... and much more! This episode is sponsored by Duff's Transforming Money Fears Masterclass, that starts on 18 May 2024.In this live class on Zoom, you'll learn specific methods for transforming any fears you have around money. The goal is to go from feeling worried and stuck to feeling safe and optimistic!And when you feel good about money, you're more likely to try things that will bring in more money. This is especially helpful for those of us who are entrepreneurs, as we create our own fortunes. So hopefully this class will pay for itself! Links mentioned in the podcast: Duff's website: boulderhypnosisworks.com Free instructions and demo for the 'Clear Your Money Fears' exercise Duff described in the podcast The 'Resolving Grief' process by Steve and Connirae Andreas Transcript of the interview (generated by Riverside.fm, and only very lightly edited. Its transcript AI is pretty good, although it struggled with 'Connirae') Duration: 1h 16m 32s How to Listen or Subscribe to the Practical NLP Podcast Listen and/or subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts here If you want to subscribe using something other than Apple Podcasts (e.g. if you have an Android phone), here’s the RSS feed:  https://nlppod.com/feed/podcast/ Finally, it would really help me out if you review the podcast on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you found this podcast, if it takes reviews) to raise its profile so more people can benefit from it! Thanks.

  3. 15/12/2022

    How NLP Can Help With the Amygdala Hijack (Practical NLP Podcast Episode 90)

    NLP has a number of ways to help people get over traumatic incidents. Let's delve into them to see how they work.

  4. 26/09/2022

    Finding Your Direction: Interview With Andy Smith

    Everyone wants tips on how to get what they want, but it's more important to find your direction so you get to the right place. This interview with Andy Smith tells you how!

    Finding Your Direction: Interview With Andy Smith

  5. 03/10/2021

    Practical NLP Podcast: Interview with Margaret Nash

    https://youtu.be/6aYnXIGWpPk This is the video version - listen / subscribe to the podcast version below Andy Smith in conversation with NLP Trainer, coach and author Margaret Nash. Here are some of the things we talk about: Why smoking cessation or maybe weight loss is the thing to specialise in if you want to make money as a hypnotherapist, and helping people with deeper problems is probably a terrible business model My theory about how 'manifestation' actually works (when it does work) How to improve your performance and be your best self more often with self-modelling - three easy steps The crucial importance of exploring your 'recovery strategy' (if there's something you think you're not good at, maybe it's because you don't have one in that context!) Why 'Good job!' should be the start of the conversation when a team member does something you like, rather than then end as it so often is (hat tip to Marcus Buckingham here) 'Uptime' and 'downtime' - and why you need to be in 'uptime' when you're talking with a client or presenting to an audience The importance of persistence (this reminded me of Carol Dweck's work on 'mindset') How Margaret 'found her Zen' as a coach, and some tips on how you can too, as described in her latest book The difference in approach between coaching and 'classic' NLP changework. Here's my take on the three steps of 'self-modelling', to improve your performance and be your best self more often: Think of something you do well. And really examine in detail what you're doing when you perform that skill - not just what you do and say, but what you're thinking about, what you're saying to yourself, how you're feeling, how you're standing, how you're breathing, what feedback you're looking for that tells you if you're doing well or badly - everything.In particular, what's your recovery strategy if you're knocked off track? (for example, if you're doing an important presentation and there's a technical failure on your PowerPoint) Now do the same thing with a skill you want to improve. Notice the differences between all these aspects of how you do this, your recovery strategy, etc, and the way you do the thing you're good at. Now map the qualities of the way you do the thing you're good at over to the thing you're not so good at. What happens if you start doing this thing with the same confidence, internal dialogue etc that you use with the thing you're good at? Then try it out! You can contact Margaret here: margaretnashcoach.com Margaret has written seven books on various aspects of personal development, managing the stages of your life, and coaching - you can find them at her Amazon author page. Duration: 44m 07s https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id551693038 Listen and/or subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts here If you want to subscribe using something other than Apple Podcasts (e.g. if you have an Android phone), here’s the feed:  https://nlppod.com/feed/podcast/ Finally, it would really help me out if you review the podcast on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you found this podcast, if it takes reviews) to raise its profile so more people can benefit from it! Thanks.

  6. 20/08/2020

    The Only Advice You’ll Ever Need For Helping Clients Solve Their Problems – Practical NLP Podcast Episode 87

    https://youtu.be/4LEQl3Mu7jU A bit of a rant this week, inspired by the many, many posts I've seen on NLP forums from rookie NLP practitioners who ask what technique they should be using with a particular client problem. They're going about it all wrong, and their NLP trainers should have showed them the right way! Here's how to approach any client problem so you'll know what to do... (for SEO purposes I should probably mention that it's to do with strategy elicitation) You can find a transcript for this podcast, or pretty close anyway, here. Listen and/or subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts here If you want to subscribe using something other than Apple Podcasts (e.g. if you have an Android phone), here’s the feed:  https://nlppod.com/feed/podcast/ Finally, it would really help me out if you review the podcast on Apple Podcasts to raise its profile so more people can benefit from it! Thanks Mentioned in the podcast: my Kindle ebook, Practical NLP 5: Strategies (now in its second edition) Also worth reading: Magic In Action by Richard Bandler

  7. 11/07/2020

    Interview with Debra Heslin: Practical NLP Podcast 86

    Andy Smith in conversation with Debra Heslin, NLP Trainer, High Performance Coach, and Yoga teacher. Here are some of the things we talk about: Jack Canfield's work (you may know him as the Chicken Soup For The Soul guy) is mostly based on NLP Corporates can benefit from NLP (even something as simple as a representational systems test) There's some interesting real-time interactive technology out there now for corporate training 'Cause and Effect': reasons and excuses vs results What to do when you're hanging off a cliff and you can't find your next handhold All of a sudden, a decent online NLP Practitioner training is possible after all! An exercise for using submodalities to enhance a resourceful stateHow to use questions to influence someone's state A brief intervention from Dakota the golden retriever ... and much more! We talked extensively about submodalities for enhancing a resourceful state - here's a submodalities checklist you can download for visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic submodalities. (For more about submodalities, check out this introductory article) We mentioned a couple of previous interviewees - you can hear the interview with Doug O'Brien here, and Gemma Bailey of NLP4Kids here. You can find Debra, and details of her upcoming online NLP Practitioner training, at https://debraheslinwellness.com/. Duration: 32m 44s Listen and/or subscribe to this podcast via Apple Podcasts here If you want to subscribe using something other than Apple Podcasts (e.g. if you have an Android phone), here’s the feed:  https://nlppod.com/feed/podcast/ Finally, it would really help me out if you review the podcast on Apple Podcasts to raise its profile so more people can benefit from it! Thanks

    Interview with Debra Heslin: Practical NLP Podcast 86

  8. 24/06/2020

    Havening, Modelling, And Why Today’s NLP Practitioner Courses Are Too Short – Interview With Doug O’Brien: Practical NLP Podcast 85

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRQQA5StB1M&list=PLTPfitvHf-yqV6P9F4Lq2TrwiS-yGbBJW Andy Smith interviews coaching specialist and NLP and Ericksonian hypnosis trainer Doug O'Brien. In this interview: Doug tells us about NLP Practitioner training with Tony Robbins in the eighties Takes a dig at the shortness of most NLP Practitioner courses these days (compared to the 28 days they originally took) Shares the basics of one of his favourite client interventions, the 'Havening' technique Talks about modelling the skills of a great jazz pianist ... and much more! You can find Doug at https://ericksonian.com and his Essential Coaching Skills membership site is at https://www.essentialcoachingskills.com/ See Doug's introductory video about the Havening Techniques here (it also includes a good, accessible overview of the amygdala's role in how trauma responses are formed). Doug also has a new podcast, Essential Coaching Skills. (Episode 5, where he interviews Andy about using Appreciative Inquiry for coaching teams and individuals, is particularly good) It would really help me out if you review the podcast on Apple Podcasts to raise its profile so more people can benefit from it! Thanks.

    Havening, Modelling, And Why Today’s NLP Practitioner Courses Are Too Short – Interview With Doug O’Brien: Practical NLP Podcast 85
Ver todo (54)

Información

NLP demystified for personal development and business success! English NLP trainer Andy Smith shares with you useful tips and principles from NLP that you can use to get clear on what you really want, accelerate your success, and be more effective in your work, life, and relationships.

Ficha técnica

  • Creado por
    Andy Smith
  • Años en activo
    2025
  • Episodios
    54
  • Clasificación
    Apto
  • Derechos de autor
    © Andy Smith and Coaching Leaders 2012
  • Sitio web del podcast
    Practical NLP Podcast