Episode-by-episode discussion of The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest — self-sabotage, why you do it, and how to turn the mountain into the path. Each episode takes one chapter and turns it into something you can use today. Part of The Mindset Podcasts.
8 episodes listed below. All 14 are on Apple Podcasts, free, no signup.
The series opener. Brianna Wiest's premise lands hard: the obstacle you keep blaming is usually not the obstacle. An honest look at what it means when the same problem keeps finding you in different clothes.
Wiest on the particular mountain each person is given — the one thing that keeps showing up until it is dealt with. How to identify yours, and why climbing it is not optional.
The reframe the whole book turns on. Wiest argues that self-sabotage is not weakness or laziness — it is an unmet need being served in the only way you know. Once you ask what it is protecting, the fight changes shape.
Wiest on the reactions that feel wildly out of proportion, and the fact that they are the clearest map you have to the thing underneath. How to follow a trigger down instead of apologising for it.
The emotional intelligence chapter, kept practical. Naming what you feel, letting it move through, and the difference between processing an emotion and marinating in it for a week.
Wiest on release — not forgetting, not forgiving on command, but stopping the rehearsal. Why the past keeps its grip through the story you repeat about it, and what she offers for loosening that.
Wiest turns forward. Building a future from a clear picture rather than from escape, the small daily structures that hold it up, and why vision without habit collapses within a month.
The season finale. Everything Wiest has built pulled into one shift — what self-mastery actually looks like on an ordinary Tuesday, and the version of you waiting on the other side of the climb.
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14 episodes in this show, 1,100+ across the whole network, and a new one every day.
More chapter-by-chapter shows: 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think · The Secret · The Greatest Secret · The Power of Now · A New Earth · The Four Agreements
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