liberated

david michael titeu
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welcome to liberated. this is your space to pause, let go of who you think you need to be and feel at peace with who you are. i’m david michael titeu, mindset coach and recovering hustler. each week, we unpack what’s beneath success and why it never feels like enough. we’ll dive deep into psychology, identity, purpose, philosophy and healing - the deeper human stuff that shapes how you lead, love and live. this isn’t another grind podcast. whew. it’s a sanctuary to slow down, explore the inner work behind self-worth and help you remember there was never anything wrong with you to begin with.

  1. 21h ago

    ep 41: why do you still not feel free?

    📺watch and subscribe on youtube you've done the work. the therapy, the breathwork, the meditation, the retreats. and you're better.. you know you're better. the anxiety has softened, the reactivity has come down and yet something still doesn't feel quite free. maybe it’s a ceiling you keep bumping into. in this episode i get into that gap (the one between being better and being free) and why it's the most confusing and least talked about place in the entire healing journey. i share my own experience of flying to bali for my eat pray love moment at a breathwork and meditation retreat during one of the hardest periods of my life, having a profound somatic release and still coming home feeling like something hadn't shifted. this one goes to the root. enjoy 💙 what we explored this episode 00:00 welcome welcome! 01:24 the gap between being better and being free 03:54 my eat pray love moment 06:54 why healing moments alone aren't enough 09:54 the identity ceiling 12:54 who are you spending time with? 15:54 the belief that ease is something only other people get to have 18:24 what genuine freedom actually feels like and how to close the gap show notes — research references and thought leaders Bruce Lipton — author of The Biology of Belief. The environment is constantly signalling the nervous system. Internal shifts must be matched by changes in environment, relationship, and daily practice to hold. → www.brucelipton.com Dan Siegel — author of Mindsight. The self is a process, not a fixed thing. Identity can be updated with intention, repetition, and the right neurological conditions. → www.drdansiegel.com Stephen Porges — developer of Polyvagal Theory. The nervous system co-regulates. The people you spend the most time with are either regulating your nervous system upward or pulling it back toward the familiar. → www.stephenporges.com Maxwell Maltz — author of Psycho-Cybernetics. The internal self-image sets the ceiling on everything. Without updating the image, behaviour reverts. Bob Proctor — referenced for the concept of the identity as the strongest force in the personality — the thermostat that keeps recreating the same results regardless of external change. connect with me 👉save your seat: the root cause workshop free live workshop - monday 24 august, 6pm aest, 90 minutes. we find the pattern that's been running you, work out why everything you've already tried didn't hold, and then actually move it. about a third of it is done with your eyes closed rather than in a slide deck. replay goes to everyone who registers, so sign up even if you can't make it live. 👉free resources practical tools, guided practices and resources to help you create more clarity, confidence and alignment - all 100% free. no catch - just high-impact support for high performers & purpose-driven humans ready to grow. enjoy!  👉need more support? if you’re interested in coaching programs and more support. 👉linkedin 👉facebook 👉instagram 👉tiktok 👉youtube 👉website lots of love, david 💙

  2. Aug 13

    ep 40: the masks we wear

    Calum Marshall has Combined-Type ADHD, and is an ADHD Coach who's passionate about helping people stop fighting their minds and start working with them. Calum helps adults with ADHD build the foundations that make life easier: regulation, structure, discipline, purpose, and self-belief, so they can create sustainable change and become the person they know they're capable of being. connect with Calum W: growingwithcalum.au I: @growingwithcalum F: Growing with Calum ~ 📺watch and subscribe on youtube Calum Marshall has worn a lot of masks: the promoter, the entertainer, the guy who had it together.. and underneath all of it was a kid who grew up with a complicated, fractured relationship with his dad, spent years numbing out in the club scene, and eventually found his way to boxing and ADHD coaching as the two things that finally gave him somewhere to put all that energy. in this episode we get into what it actually costs to live multiple versions of yourself, what ADHD really is beneath the diagnosis, how boxing became a doorway to emotional release and self-respect, and what happens when you finally stop running and start feeling. raw, real, and worth every minute. enjoy 💙 what we explored this episode 00:00 from club promoter to coach 04:53 the cost of living multiple lives 09:11 what love and genuine acceptance actually feel like 13:53 why understanding your emotions is the beginning of everything 19:29 the lonely kid and what got buried early 24:41 what ADHD actually is beneath the label and why most people get it wrong 29:49 unhooking your identity from achievement 39:17 the hardest and most necessary thing for an ADHD brain 44:39 gratitude as a practice not a platitude 50:36 boxing as release, discipline and proof of what you're capable of 56:44 what liberation looks like for Cal some takeaways wearing multiple masks for multiple audiences is exhausting in ways that don't show up until everything stops ADHD is not a deficit — it is a different operating system that conventional structures were never built for the loneliness of childhood gets stored in the body and shows up in adult patterns until it is finally seen and felt unhooking your identity from achievement doesn't mean abandoning ambition — it means no longer needing the result to feel okay slowing down is not the opposite of momentum for an ADHD brain — it is the prerequisite for genuine clarity and direction boxing, movement, and physical discipline can be one of the most direct pathways to emotional regulation and self-respect for men who don't yet have the language for their feelings gratitude is not a bypass — it is what becomes available when you stop running long enough to actually look at what is here liberation is awareness — catching the pattern, seeing the mask, and choosing differently in that moment connect with me 👉take the root cause audit free five minute assessment - answer a few honest questions about what's showing up in your life right now. i'll personally review your responses and send you back a detailed breakdown of the specific emotional pattern driving your behaviour within 48 hours. no call and no pitch. just clarity on what's actually keeping you stuck. 👉free resources practical tools, guided practices and resources to help you create more clarity, confidence and alignment - all 100% free. no catch - just high-impact support for high performers & purpose-driven humans ready to grow. enjoy!  👉need more support? if you’re interested in coaching programs and more support. 👉linkedin 👉facebook 👉instagram 👉tiktok 👉youtube 👉website lots of love, david 💙

  3. Aug 6

    ep 39: a practice to feel your own body again (NSDR)

    most of us live entirely in our heads. it works.. right up until the day it stops working. this episode is different. there is no story, no framework, no research breakdown. just a 25 minute guided NSDR practice - non-sleep deep rest, also known as yoga nidra - designed specifically to rebuild the one skill that everything else in healing sits on top of: the ability to feel your own body from the inside. scientists call it interoception. it is the foundation of emotional regulation, knowing what you need, and catching stress before it catches you. do not listen to this while driving. find somewhere you can lie down safely, put your phone on do not disturb, and give it the full twenty minutes. the pauses are the practice. enjoy 💙 what this practice covers 00:00 what NSDR is and why the pauses are the practice 01:14 the practice begins (settling and arriving) 22:00 closing and returning a note on this practice this is not a relaxation track, although you will probably feel relaxed. what it is actually doing is training interoception (the ability to sense and interpret what is happening inside your body). most of us lost this somewhere along the way. living in your head is a survival strategy.. it works until it doesn't. nothing is an answer. if you go to a part of your body and feel nothing at all, that is real information. do not manufacture a sensation. notice the nothing and move on. stay awake if you can. and if you drift off, that is fine too. your body took what it needed. come back to this practice whenever you need it. every time you do it, you get better at feeling your body, and everything else in your life is downstream of that. what is NSDR? non-sleep deep rest is a science-backed protocol developed from the ancient practice of yoga nidra. it uses guided body awareness and breath to bring the brain into a theta-dominant state - the same brainwave state associated with deep learning, subconscious reprogramming, and nervous system recovery - without requiring you to fall fully asleep. research from Stanford neuroscientist Dr Andrew Huberman and others has shown that regular NSDR practice can restore dopamine levels, improve cognitive performance, accelerate motor learning, and support nervous system regulation. it is one of the highest return-on-time practices available. → learn more about NSDR and the neuroscience behind it: hubermanlab.com→ learn more about yoga nidra and interoception: www.irest.org→ the science of interoception: www.bodymindcentre.com.au connect with me 👉take the root cause audit free five minute assessment - answer a few honest questions about what's showing up in your life right now. i'll personally review your responses and send you back a detailed breakdown of the specific emotional pattern driving your behaviour within 48 hours. no call and no pitch. just clarity on what's actually keeping you stuck. 👉free resources practical tools, guided practices and resources to help you create more clarity, confidence and alignment - all 100% free. no catch - just high-impact support for high performers & purpose-driven humans ready to grow. enjoy!  👉need more support? if you’re interested in coaching programs and more support. 👉linkedin 👉facebook 👉instagram 👉tiktok 👉youtube 👉website lots of love, david 💙

  4. Jul 30

    ep 38: your difference is your strength

    Jasmine Batra is an entrepreneur and Chief Catalyst who has spent nearly two decades building businesses, backing founders and connecting innovation across Australia and India. After moving to Australia with a suitcase, ambition and no established network, Jasmine went on to co-found what is now one of the longest standing independent digital marketing agencies. She also launched The Big LEAP, a cross-border platform helping startups navigate new markets, cultures and commercial opportunities. Her work sits at the intersection of mindset, leadership and growth. She is particularly interested in what enables people to take bold action before they feel fully ready, adapt when the original plan stops working and keep moving when progress is uncertain. Jasmine draws on her own experience as a first-generation migrant, founder and advisor to explore resilience, self-belief, cultural intelligence and the habits that turn ideas into momentum. Known for combining practical strategy with honest reflection, she brings a grounded perspective on ambition, reinvention and the courage required to build something meaningful. connect with Jasmine → jasminebatra.com  ~ 📺watch and subscribe on youtube Jasmine Batra arrived in Australia 22 years ago with an MBA, a background in tech and fintech, and a vision of what her life could look like. what followed was rejection after rejection, a call centre job selling credit cards, three promotions in six months, a redundancy, and eventually the founding of Arrow Digital — one of Australia's leading digital growth agencies, going strong since 2007 with clients including Telstra and the Queensland Government. in this conversation we get into the silent that tax migrants pay, what it actually takes to shift from survival mode to building something meaningful, how frustration became the fuel behind the Big Leap Accelerator, the moment a client went into liquidation and $28,000 disappeared overnight, and what liberation really means when you've spent years proving yourself to a world that wasn't always ready to see you. warm, honest, and full of wisdom. enjoy 💙 what we explored this episode 00:00 arriving in australia and hitting rejection immediately 02:27 decoding a new culture, new language and unsaid rules 05:33 from entitlement to putting in the hard yards 08:12 cold calling credit cards and the skills it built 10:54 connecting the dots in reverse 14:08 necessity as the mother of invention 16:55 the rise of the web and writing your own job description 18:45 the redundancy that became the propeller 22:03 how migrant frustration becomes entrepreneurial fuel 25:39 bridging australia and india through skills not just markets 29:27 the inner challenges of looking different, sounding different and still belonging 34:06 loosening the grip of the ego and shifting from entitlement to empathy 38:12 gratitude journaling, meditation and quieting the reptilian brain 40:00 your difference is your strength (from proving to being secure) 41:22 the $28,000 liquidation letter and what leadership required in that moment 46:02 finding optimism when the switch doesn't come automatically 49:21 richard branson and getting out of your own head 52:05 letting go of control and trusting something bigger 54:27 what liberation means to Jasmine connect with me 👉take the root cause audit free five minute assessment - answer a few honest questions about what's showing up in your life right now. i'll personally review your responses and send you back a detailed breakdown of the specific emotional pattern driving your behaviour within 48 hours. no call and no pitch. just clarity on what's actually keeping you stuck. 👉need more support? if you’re interested in coaching programs and more support. 👉linkedin 👉facebook 👉instagram 👉tiktok 👉youtube 👉website lots of love, david 💙

  5. Jul 23

    ep 37: the program running your life isn't yours

    📺watch and subscribe on youtube for most of my life i thought i was broken. no matter how many books i read, therapy sessions i sat through, or affirmations i wrote in my journal, i kept repeating the same patterns. shame, scarcity, never feeling enough, collapsing after every achievement. i was aware of all of it. i could name it, trace it, explain it and yet still it kept running. in this episode i get into what i finally understood.. that none of it was a character flaw. it was a program installed before i had any say in the matter, by parents who inherited it from their parents. i break down what the subconscious actually is in real scientific terms, why affirmations and positive thinking alone will never be enough to change it and a clear practical framework for how to actually begin reprogramming it. enjoy 💙 what we explored this episode 00:00 welcome welcome! 01:24 the patterns that kept running despite years of awareness and therapy 05:56 what actually shifted 08:39 what the subconscious actually is (scientifically explained) 10:24 why you live in loops 13:54 why two people in identical circumstances experience completely different realities 17:24 how to consciously hack dopamine 19:54 why you can't make wise decisions when triggered 22:24 your heart brain and gut brain 21:54 the missing piece that most personal development culture leaves out 27:24 where the programs come from 31:24 why “the secret” doesn’t work 34:24 ancient wisdom on the subconscious 37:24 seven practical steps to begin reprogramming your subconscious show notes — research references and thought leaders Bruce Lipton — author of The Biology of Belief. Children operate in theta brainwaves from birth to age seven, absorbing their environment as subconscious truth without any critical filter. → www.brucelipton.com Bessel van der Kolk — author of The Body Keeps the Score. Suppressed emotion is encoded in the body's tissue and fascia — the layer most personal development culture ignores. → www.besselvanderkolk.com Gay Hendricks — author of The Big Leap. The upper limit problem: the nervous system sabotages progress beyond the familiar threshold of success, love, and freedom. → www.hendricks.com David Bayer — mindset teacher. Referenced for the value and limits of conscious thought work in subconscious reprogramming. → www.davidbayer.com HeartMath Institute — research on vagal tone and heart rate variability. A toned vagus nerve creates the conditions under which new programming can land and take root. → www.heartmath.org Emon on the Brain — referenced for the neuroscientific framework of the subconscious as a network of brain systems. Vedic tradition — samskaras — deep impressions stored in the subtle body. An ancient description of what neuroscience now calls implicit memory and somatic storage. Yoga Nidra — ancient practice accessing theta brainwaves to install new intention directly into the subconscious. Buddhism — vasanas — latent tendencies dissolved through present-moment awareness, not force. Indigenous and shamanic traditions — healing through altered states, ceremony, community, and somatic experience. The body is always central. connect with me 👉take the root cause audit free five minute assessment - answer a few honest questions about what's showing up in your life right now. i'll personally review your responses and send you back a detailed breakdown of the specific emotional pattern driving your behaviour within 48 hours. no call and no pitch. just clarity on what's actually keeping you stuck. 👉free resources practical tools, guided practices and resources to help you create more clarity, confidence and alignment - all 100% free. no catch - just high-impact support for high performers & purpose-driven humans ready to grow. enjoy!  👉need more support? if you’re interested in coaching programs and more support. 👉linkedin 👉facebook 👉instagram 👉tiktok 👉youtube 👉website lots of love, david 💙

  6. Jul 16

    ep 36: follow the crumbs

    Kate Helder is a speaker, mentor and social entrepreneur whose work explores what it means to navigate life's transitions with greater clarity, resilience and self-compassion. After more than three decades in private enterprise, a deeply personal journey of healing and self-discovery led her in a very different direction—one centred on emotional wellbeing, human connection and practical tools that help people reconnect with themselves. Kate is the Managing Director and co-founder of the Mind Heart Connect Foundation, a for-purpose organisation providing evidence-based wellbeing training for frontline professionals supporting traumatised communities. Through her mentoring framework, Inner Light Alchemy, alongside her speaking and writing, she invites people to rediscover their own inner wisdom, showing that meaningful change doesn't always require dramatic reinvention, often it begins with a single moment of awareness. connect with Kate Kate’s website: www.katehelder.com  Mind Heart Connect Foundation: www.mindheartconnect.org ~ 📺watch and subscribe on youtube Kate Helder spent years in the corporate world — fashion, family business, flying business class and numbing what she couldn't explain. then at 3am in a hotel room in Florence, she heard something that stopped her in her tracks. she didn't know what she was meant to be doing. she just knew she had to stop doing what she was doing. in this episode Kate shares what it actually took to walk away from a successful life that felt empty, how she found her way to EFT tapping through a friend who started tapping on her kitchen bench, the extraordinary story of Glenis in the Kimberley whose 20 years of grief began to lift through six months of clinical tapping, and what her mother's final words revealed about what it actually means to be liberated. enjoy 💙 what we explored this episode 00:00 success, partying and crumbling on the inside 02:08 the 3am voice in Florence that changed everything 05:19 sobbing for three days “i don't know what i'm meant to be doing” 08:36 navigating family disappointment and finding the courage to leave anyway 10:37 following the crumbs when you don't know where they lead 15:09 where inner trust actually comes from 17:59 from nutrition to sales to a friend tapping 21:10 the birth of Mind Heart Connect Foundation 23:55 how Dr Joe Dispenza ended up at their inaugural event 26:43 what reactivity actually looked like before tapping 28:59 the grace process 30:53 why forgiveness isn't about saying what happened was okay 33:32 how tapping is different to talk therapy 37:26 a real example of tap and breathe in crisis 39:46 the accumulative effect of tapping hourly 40:44 a live guided tap and breathe session (try it with us) 43:20 over 600 frontline workers trained 44:32 Glenis, Derby and Mothers of Angels 49:43 what happens when tapping discharges emotional charge from the body 54:00 taking signals from the body seriously (before it gets louder) 56:55 self-nourishment is not selfish (it's the whole point) 01:00:54 what liberation means to Kate (and what her mother said before she passed) connect with me 👉take the root cause audit free five minute assessment - answer a few honest questions about what's showing up in your life right now. i'll personally review your responses and send you back a detailed breakdown of the specific emotional pattern driving your behaviour within 48 hours. no call and no pitch. just clarity on what's actually keeping you stuck. 👉free resources practical tools, guided practices and resources to help you create more clarity, confidence and alignment - all 100% free. no catch - just high-impact support for high performers & purpose-driven humans ready to grow. enjoy!  👉need more support? if you’re interested in coaching programs and more support. 👉linkedin 👉facebook 👉instagram 👉tiktok 👉youtube 👉website lots of love, david 💙

  7. Jul 9

    ep 35: your nervous system never lies

    📺watch and subscribe on youtube there have been moments in my life where i knew something was wrong before i could explain why. maybe it was a job that looked perfect on paper and then i felt a tightness in my chest the moment i said yes. a music festival i'd already decided not to attend, where my body screamed no and i overrode it anyway. relationships and business decisions where my mind said yes and my body had already voted no. in this episode i get into what was actually happening in those moments and why it wasn't anxiety or irrationality. it was intelligence! your body has been reading the room, scanning for truth, tracking alignment and sending you signals your entire life. this episode is about learning to listen. enjoy 💙 what we explored this episode 00:00 welcome welcome! 01:24 the music festival and other decisions my body knew 04:56 what interoception actually is 07:51 why the nervous system scans for safety and threat 10:24 ancient wisdom on the body as intelligence 13:54 when the signal gets corrupted 17:11 technology and catastrophic news cycles 19:24 why familiar can feel safe even when it's harmful 21:54 regulation isn't about being zen 26:19 expansion versus contraction 29:24 the felt sense practice and how to begin developing this capacity 32:43 using the body as a lie detector show notes — research references and thought leaders Antonio Damasio — author of Descartes' Error. The somatic marker hypothesis: the body generates emotional signals that guide decision-making before conscious reasoning kicks in. People with damage to the brain areas that process these signals become profoundly impaired at making good decisions even when rational faculties remain intact. Stephen Porges — developer of Polyvagal Theory. Neuroception: the autonomic nervous system's unconscious scanning of the environment for cues of safety or danger, operating faster than conscious perception. → www.stephenporges.com Candace Pert — author of Molecules of Emotion. Neuropeptides and their receptors are found throughout the body including the gut, immune system, and fascia. Emotion is a whole-body event, not a brain event alone. Eugene Gendlin — developer of the Felt Sense practice. A structured method for accessing the body's knowing on a specific question or situation, later integrated into somatic and therapeutic modalities. Hawaiian tradition — na'au — the seat of intelligence, intuition, and deep knowing. In Hawaiian tradition wisdom comes from the gut, not the head. Aboriginal Australian tradition — the body and country are inseparable. Felt sense and tracking sensation in the land and body is a form of knowing that predates rational analysis. Hinduism and Ayurveda — prana — the life force moving through the body's energy channels. Tuning into its movement or blockage reveals information about one's state, direction, and alignment. Stoicism — Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus — attending to impressions before judgment, and distinguishing between what is up to us and what is not. The inner signal is always ours to attend to. connect with me 👉take the root cause audit free five minute assessment - answer a few honest questions about what's showing up in your life right now. i'll personally review your responses and send you back a detailed breakdown of the specific emotional pattern driving your behaviour within 48 hours. no call and no pitch. just clarity on what's actually keeping you stuck. 👉free resources practical tools, guided practices and resources to help you create more clarity, confidence and alignment - all 100% free. no catch - just high-impact support for high performers & purpose-driven humans ready to grow. enjoy!  👉need more support? if you’re interested in coaching programs and more support. 👉linkedin 👉facebook 👉instagram 👉tiktok 👉youtube 👉website lots of love, david 💙

  8. Jul 2

    ep 34: the energetic millionaire

    Tim Thomas is a former Special Forces Commando who teaches people how to switch off stress and take back control of their energy using their breath. After battling PTSD, addiction and chronic exhaustion, he discovered the off-switch wasn’t out there, it was already inside him. Now he helps people sleep better, feel more, and reconnect with themselves. Because most people aren’t just tired…they’ve forgotten how to feel human. connect with Tim + Breathwork in Bed App - iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6575362285?pt=127061224&ct=BIB50K&mt=8 App - Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.breathworkinbed.bibsleepapp20&hl=en Website & Socials https://breathworkinbed.com.au/  https://www.instagram.com/breathworkinbed/  https://www.facebook.com/breathworkinbed  https://www.tiktok.com/@breathworkinbed  https://www.linkedin.com/in/bettersleepbetterworld/ ~ 📺watch and subscribe on youtube Tim Thomas left home at 17 to work on remote cattle stations, became a professional fighter in Australia's early MMA scene, and joined the special forces after the Bali bombings. he survived a near fatal ambush in Afghanistan and a shark attack off the coast of Sydney. but the war zone that nearly broke him wasn't overseas. it was the divorce that followed, the 2am nights on his parents' couch and the stress that had taken over his mind. in this episode Tim shares how one breath, repeated finger by finger, pulled him back from the edge, what breathwork actually does to the nervous system that thinking cannot and his concept of becoming an energetic millionaire instead of someone living off twenty cents. we even do a live breathwork exercise together. enjoy 💙 what we explored this episode 00:00 from cattle stations to special forces 01:29 surviving an ambush in Afghanistan  06:48 the divorce and warzone of the mind 09:08 finger by finger, breath by breath 11:39 two golden windows that shape your entire day 14:10 why breathwork outranks the thinking mind 16:46 the permanency test 19:23 a live guided breathwork exercise 24:19 why we look outside ourselves for what was always inside 27:10 the energetic millionaire mindset 32:27 how breathwork helped process shame 35:52 isolation is the real pain 41:11 the shark attack and what near-death taught him about connection 50:55 what liberation means to Tim after everything he has survived connect with me 👉take the root cause audit free five minute assessment - answer a few honest questions about what's showing up in your life right now. i'll personally review your responses and send you back a detailed breakdown of the specific emotional pattern driving your behaviour within 48 hours. no call and no pitch. just clarity on what's actually keeping you stuck. 👉free resources practical tools, guided practices and resources to help you create more clarity, confidence and alignment - all 100% free. no catch - just high-impact support for high performers & purpose-driven humans ready to grow. enjoy!  👉need more support? if you’re interested in coaching programs and more support. 👉linkedin 👉facebook 👉instagram 👉tiktok 👉youtube 👉website lots of love, david 💙

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welcome to liberated. this is your space to pause, let go of who you think you need to be and feel at peace with who you are. i’m david michael titeu, mindset coach and recovering hustler. each week, we unpack what’s beneath success and why it never feels like enough. we’ll dive deep into psychology, identity, purpose, philosophy and healing - the deeper human stuff that shapes how you lead, love and live. this isn’t another grind podcast. whew. it’s a sanctuary to slow down, explore the inner work behind self-worth and help you remember there was never anything wrong with you to begin with.

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  • Creator
    david michael titeu
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    42
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