Mental Matters Hosted By Asekho Toto

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The World is changing. This Podcast will help you to thrive. Self improvement and spirituality wisdom from global global thought leaders. Want to be a guest on Mental Matters Hosted By Asekho Toto? Send Asekho Toto a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/1604880114184x746605277921114400

  1. Aug 7

    Dr. Crystal Harell - I Almost Died Chasing Corporate Success: Why Joy Is a Choice, Not a Reward

    Dr. Crystal Harell is a motivational speaker, life coach, and co-founder of Seven Sisters, a holistic health and beauty company built with her sisters. Most people think success looks like a stable job, a degree, a title — check the boxes and happiness follows. But here's the problem: Crystal did all of it, and her body started shutting down. She kept getting sick. She felt more trapped in corporate America than she ever did growing up with nothing. It took her three days to know she was misaligned, and thirty more to finally walk away — a decision that came after years of unprocessed grief from losing her father at eleven, and a rock-bottom moment at twenty-three that forced her to finally start healing. Expect to learn why joy is a choice but never an easy one, why Crystal's corporate job was making her physically sick and what her body was trying to tell her, how she found the courage to quit without a backup plan, what surrendering to the unknown actually requires versus what people assume it means, why doing inner work doesn't mean abandoning the people or the work you love, what shadow work really is and why the word "shadow" gets an unfair reputation, why heartbreak has a real, measurable effect on the body, why Crystal doesn't believe in failure and calls it redirection instead, how detaching from outcomes lets you actually enjoy the process without losing your drive, and much more. This conversation will challenge how you think about success, failure, and what it actually costs to keep chasing both.

  2. Jul 31

    Nicole Poulton - Why Sobriety Was Never About the Drug

    Nicole Poulton is a sobriety coach who survived childhood sexual abuse, years of addiction to prescription pills, cocaine, and alcohol, and a near-fatal overdose before rebuilding her life from the ground up. Most people think addiction is about the substance. But here's the problem: it's not. Nicole spent years using drugs and alcohol to numb pain she didn't even know she was carrying, until an overdose forced her to confront just how far she'd drifted from herself. Her conclusion is uncomfortable — addiction isn't a moral failing or a character flaw, it's self-soothing that got away from us. And until you deal with the root, no amount of willpower will fix it. Expect to learn why addiction is really just an unhealthy coping mechanism and not a personality defect, how childhood trauma shapes the nervous system long before we have language for it, why some people convince themselves a habit is "fine" simply because it's legal, what the concept of leverage has to do with getting — and staying — sober, why shame and guilt keep people trapped in the same destructive cycles, how to substitute a harmful coping mechanism without just ripping it away, why sobriety doesn't have to be a daily fight and can actually be joyful, what role community and who you surround yourself with plays in recovery, and much more. This conversation will challenge how you think about addiction, trauma, and what it actually means to heal.

  3. Jul 6

    Jim Marshall - The 35 Hidden Scales That Predict Every Human Being's Behavior

    Jim Marshall is a polymathic intellectual, a Human Development Engineer with a Bachelor of Science cum laude from City University of New York, and the discoverer of Septemics — a body of natural phenomena he spent 25 years developing into the book Septemics: Hierarchies of Human Phenomena. Most people believe personal growth is unpredictable — that you either "figure yourself out" over years of therapy or you don't. But here's the problem: Jim spent decades running biofeedback-guided sessions with clients, quietly recording the outcome of every conversation before it happened. What he found was unsettling — every human being operates on a set of measurable, seven-level scales they don't know exist, and almost every problem people face traces back to one thing: they don't know the next level up. Jim calls it the gradient problem, and he says it's been sabotaging human progress for 6,000 years. Expect to learn how Jim discovered 35 seven-level scales hidden inside decades of client sessions, why finding your exact level on a scale produces an instant, involuntary realization, what the "gradient problem" is and why most people fail to change because they try to skip levels instead of climbing them one at a time, how Hitler's basic purpose sitting at the lowest level of that scale explains his otherwise inexplicable wartime decisions, why Jim believes mental health professionals could use this system as a diagnostic tool without ever naming a client's level out loud, how a parent can use a single scale to help a struggling child improve their grades without a tutor or a cent spent, why Jim refuses to ever tell another living person where they fall on any scale, how to read the basic purpose of public figures — living or dead — just by observing how they speak and choose, and much more. This conversation will challenge how you think about therapy, self-improvement, and whether human behavior is really as unpredictable as it seems. Follow Jim Marshall: Instagram: @septemics Website: septemics.com

  4. Jul 3

    Nisha Srivastava - Why 80% of Healing Has Nothing to Do With Exercise

    Nisha Srivastava is a movement and manual therapist, Pilates and yoga specialist, and holistic health coach who works with clients navigating chronic pain, anxiety, and depression. Most people think healing is about finding the right exercise, the right stretch, the right treatment plan. Nisha spent years teaching Pilates before realizing something uncomfortable: movement is only 20% of the puzzle. The other 80% is diet, lifestyle, and — most importantly — belief. If a client doesn't believe the work will change anything at a deep, cellular level, nothing changes, no matter how good the program is. And most of that belief system was written decades ago, long before anyone chose it. Expect to learn why movement alone can't fix chronic pain, what the "name it, blame it, tame it" method is and how it uncovers the real root of physical symptoms, why 95% of human behavior runs on unconscious programming built in childhood, why having a dream, goal, or legacy is a non-negotiable part of healing and not just motivational talk, how to reframe pain as a teacher instead of an enemy, why acceptance — not forgiveness — is often the more realistic path forward, what Hippocrates' four doctors (Diet, Quiet, Happy, and Movement) still teach us about modern health, why sleep, nutrition, and hydration are the three foundational daily practices nothing else can substitute for, and much more. This conversation will challenge how you think about pain, healing, and what actually needs to shift internally before anything changes externally.

  5. Jul 1

    Janice Goldmintz - Your Parents Aren't Broken: Why "Successful Aging" Isn't About Staying Young

    anice Goldmintz is a gerontologist, caregiver advocate, and founder of Talk About Aging, and author of Getting Older But Not Old. Most families wait for a crisis before they start talking about aging. A fall, a diagnosis, an unopened stack of mail — and suddenly everyone's scrambling. But here's the problem: by the time you're reacting, you've already lost the chance to plan with dignity instead of panic. Janice has spent years working with the "sandwich generation" — people caring for aging parents while still raising their own kids — and her core message cuts against how most of us think about getting older: quality of life was never about staying young. It's about purpose, community, and one uncomfortable habit almost no family practices — actually talking about it before it's urgent. Expect to learn why society's obsession with looking young makes the conversation about aging harder to have, what the real difference is between being alone and being lonely, how to spot the early warning signs that a parent needs support during an ordinary visit home, why treating your aging parent like a child destroys the trust you're trying to build, what "high quality of life" actually means when physical or cognitive decline is part of the picture, how mindset — not circumstance — determines whether someone thrives or shrinks in later life, why every family should be discussing wills, care preferences, and end-of-life wishes decades before they're needed, and much more. This conversation will change how you think about the years you have left with the people you love. Follow Janice:Website: talkaboutaging.comLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/janicegoldmintz

  6. Jun 29

    Malumír Logan - Why Work-Life Balance Is a Myth and What You Actually Need Instead

    Malumír Logan is a leadership strategist, people-centered leadership advocate, and expert in intersectionality, neurodivergence, and ethical leadership across multiple industries. Most people think burnout is their fault. They download the wellness app, take the extra day off, try to "balance" better — and still crash. But here's what the research actually says: burnout is not an individual failure. It is an organizational one. And the concept of work-life balance, as most people understand it, may be making things worse — not better. Malumír has spent years leading teams and studying what actually makes people perform at their highest, and her answer cuts against almost everything we've been told about ambition, resilience, and what it means to live a good life. Expect to learn why work-life balance is a misleading concept and what to think about instead, what "ecological leadership" actually means and why it produces higher performance than traditional management, why burnout is the organization's fault — not yours — and what that changes about how to address it, how intersecting identities shape the experience of any workplace and why most leaders are blind to it, what systemic bias looks like in practice when you're a racialized or neurodivergent professional, why the meritocracy myth is genuinely harmful and what to replace it with, how to use the five-layer "what do I actually want" exercise to clarify your real goals, what micro-decisions are and how they accumulate into the life you either want or don't, how to do a pause-and-reflect practice that surfaces the quiet observations your brain is already making, and much more. This conversation will challenge how you think about ambition, leadership, and what a full life actually looks like.

  7. Jun 8

    Rachel Friedman - Your Body Has Been Trying to Heal You All Along: Yoga, Breath, and the Science of Mental Wellbeing

    Rachel Friedman is a yoga practitioner, breathwork facilitator, and mental wellness coach with over two decades of experience helping people use movement and mindfulness to transform their emotional and psychological health. Most people think yoga is about flexibility. They see the poses, assume it's not for them, and never discover what actually makes it powerful. But here's the thing: the postures are almost beside the point. What yoga really teaches you is how to listen to your body — and your body has been communicating with you this entire time. It's been telling you where your anxiety lives, where your trauma is stored, and exactly what it needs to heal. You just haven't been taught how to hear it. Rachel has spent twenty years helping people learn that language, and what she's found is that most of us are one conscious breath away from a completely different relationship with our own minds. Expect to learn why you have between 60,000 and 90,000 thoughts per day and why most of them are the same negative loops on repeat, how breathwork physically changes the structure of your brain and can even alter the way your DNA expresses itself, why the mind-body split is one of the most damaging myths in modern wellness, how to use your body's physical sensations as a real-time early warning system for anxiety and stress, why the yoga philosophy of self-compassion and non-judgment is one of the most research-backed mental health tools available, how short-term dopamine hits from sugar, social media, and alcohol are quietly undermining your long-term emotional stability, why community and co-regulation are arguably the single most important factors in mental health recovery, how to start listening to your body with as little as two to three minutes of stillness a day, and much more. This conversation will change the way you think about what healing actually requires — and how much of it is already available to you.

  8. Jun 5

    Paul Voss - The Autism Diagnosis No One Prepares You For: One Father's Journey Through Fear, Faith, and Natural Healing

    Paul is a father of eight children, autism advocate, and natural healing researcher who turned his family's neurodivergent diagnosis journey into a complete lifestyle transformation. Most conversations about autism focus on the child. The parent — the one awake at 2am Googling survival strategies, questioning every doctor's recommendation, and silently asking "why my child?" — almost never gets a seat at the table. But here's the thing: the mental and emotional toll of raising a neurodivergent child is its own hidden crisis. Paul has a son with ADHD and a daughter on the non-speaking autism spectrum. He's navigated the fear, the grief, the Adderall side effects no one warned him about, the sleepless months, and the moment he stopped asking "why her?" — and started asking "what now?" His answers took his entire family off the conventional medicine path entirely. Expect to learn what it actually feels like to receive your child's autism diagnosis when you have almost no understanding of what autism is, why a father's and mother's reaction to a diagnosis can be completely different and what that tension looks like in real time, how diet changes alone — going gluten-free and dairy-free — eliminated all ADHD symptoms in his son without medication, what grounding and earthing actually did for his non-speaking daughter's sleep, why Paul believes his son's Adderall prescription nearly cost his family everything, what the MTHFR gene mutation is and why it changes the entire conversation about vaccines and neurodevelopment conditions, why Western medicine's reactive model keeps families managing symptoms instead of addressing root causes, how to celebrate small wins when the big milestones feel impossibly far away, and what Paul would say to his daughter — now almost six — if he could speak to her future self today, and much more. This conversation will challenge the assumption that the medical system has all the answers when it comes to raising a neurodivergent child.

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The World is changing. This Podcast will help you to thrive. Self improvement and spirituality wisdom from global global thought leaders. Want to be a guest on Mental Matters Hosted By Asekho Toto? Send Asekho Toto a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/1604880114184x746605277921114400

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