Petra Baumgart - Emotional Mastery & Behavioural Change

11/09/2026

Hey Guys,
I recorded this poddy with Jesse last week amongst all the formal chaos, check it out 😎

🚨NEW EPISODE DROPS TOMORROW🚨

⏰ Episode 133 goes live at 0500.

Tomorrow’s guest is Petra Baumgart an emotional mastery and behavioural change expert based in Cooran, and the proud daughter of veterans.

Using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), hypnotherapy and subconscious work, Petra helps people understand the emotional triggers behind their patterns and behaviours and what it takes to create genuine, lasting change.

Drawing from her own experiences with body-image struggles, eating disorders and domestic violence, Petra now works extensively across relationships, trauma and men’s mental health.

She has also established a monthly men’s support group, providing blokes with a safe, judgement-free environment to speak openly and begin working through what they’re carrying.

In this episode, we unpack:

🧠 How the subconscious influences our behaviour
🔁 Why we become attached to destructive patterns
💬 Why blokes struggle to understand and express emotion
❤️ Body image, trauma and relationships
💪 What lasting behavioural change actually requires

This is an honest and incredibly important conversation.

🎧 Available from 5:00 AM tomorrow on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.

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10/09/2026

Being misunderstood by someone you care deeply about is a quiet kind of heartbreak.
It’s not the loud arguments or the dramatic exits. It’s the soft, sinking feeling when the person who knows your laugh, your scars, your late-night thoughts still somehow sees a version of you that isn’t real. You try to explain. You choose your words carefully. You open the door wider. And still—they walk into a different room.
That gap between who you are and who they think you are can feel lonelier than actual distance. Because the person is right there. Close enough to touch. And somehow still unreachable.

We talk a lot about being abandoned, betrayed, or left behind. But we rarely name this particular ache: the pain of being misread by someone whose opinion of you still matters. The way it makes you question your own clarity. The way you start editing yourself, hoping the next version will finally land. The quiet exhaustion of repeatedly translating your heart into a language they keep mishearing.

It’s a grief without a funeral. No one brings casseroles for “they just don’t get me.” So we carry it silently, smiling through the disconnect, telling ourselves it’s fine.
But it isn’t fine. Being deeply known is one of the rarest forms of love. And when that knowing is incomplete—or worse, distorted—it leaves a specific kind of hollow.
Maybe the most honest thing we can do is stop pretending it doesn’t hurt. Name it. Sit with it. And, when we’re brave enough, keep offering the real version of ourselves anyway. Not because they’ll always understand… but because we deserve to be seen accurately, even if the seeing takes time.

Some of the deepest loneliness doesn’t come from being alone.
It comes from being misunderstood by the people who were supposed to understand.

08/09/2026

Birds of a feather, you know.

Eagles, pelicans, bush turkeys all have different attributes, like us humans. Some are ambitious, encouraging, supportive whilst others discourage, bring negativity and chop you down.

The people we hang around greatly impacts our self worth then success. Your environment and the people in it have a direct link to your mental health and wellbeing.

We out grow people, we’re meant to. The test is whether you continue with your growth or anchor to them in their stubbornness and resistance.

When you’re with your flock pay attention to how it feels. What use to work may no longer and that’s ok.

Choose to soar or be weighted down, it’s up to you. 🦅

08/09/2026

Some of y’all quit too often, some of y’all don’t quit enough. Don’t quit because it’s hard, quit because it sucks.

The constant need to justify or forcibly true and make something work is exhausting. The old square peg in the round hole scenario or vice versa.

Show yourself some grace. If it sucks the life from you, if it feels s**t or if it just solidly sucks - pull the pin.

The big wheel of life will keep turning and you’re likely to create momentum in organically making things better for yourself.

05/09/2026

Grateful files 26 - vol 36
Richard, the fam, support, Dal, the special day spent, incredible talent, celebration, Lala

04/09/2026

Amongst helping my clients improve their lives, we’ve had quite a lot going on in our personal lives 🙃.

Ts formal was one of those things and I reckon we absolutely nailed it 🥰.

I’m crossing fingers that we’re back to normal programming next week 🙃

02/09/2026

So yeh, hey book your appointment.

🙂

I have some availability left for the end of September and for those who don’t know, I work with the subconscious mind to better understand your emotions and the flow on effect into patterns / behaviours.

This work benefits everyone.

We have more control than we’re aware, until we’re aware.

Anywho, if you want an appointment slide into the DMs.

31/08/2026

Mourning the life you thought you wanted is way worse than mourning the person you’d have it with.

There’s a particular kind of grief that doesn’t get enough air. It’s not the sharp, named pain of missing someone’s laugh or the way they reached for your hand. It’s quieter, heavier, and far more disorienting. It’s the slow realisation that the future you built in your head—the one that felt so real you could almost touch it—has evaporated. And that loss cuts deeper than the person who was supposed to inhabit it with you.
Because people, for all their uniqueness, are still people. You can miss their presence, their habits, the private language you shared. But the life you pictured? That was yours. It carried your hopes for belonging, for stability, for the version of yourself you believed you’d become once the pieces finally locked into place. The house with the soft light in the evenings. The shared rhythms. The quiet certainty that this was the path that made sense of everything that came before. When that vision dissolves, it isn’t just a relationship ending. It’s an identity unraveling.

You don’t just lose them. You lose the story you were living inside. The one where the hard years were leading somewhere specific. The one that made certain sacrifices feel worthwhile. And unlike a person, a life you imagined doesn’t leave room for closure in the same way. There’s no last conversation that resolves it. No mutual decision that softens the edges. Just the empty space where the future used to live, and the strange work of realising you have to invent a new one from scratch—without the map you trusted.

It’s worse because it forces a deeper reckoning. You start to see how much of your peace was borrowed from a version of tomorrow that never arrived. You notice the quiet ways you shaped yourself around an outcome that was never guaranteed. And in that noticing, there’s a loneliness that feels more total: not just the absence of someone, but the absence of the self you thought you’d be by now.

Yet there’s something clarifying in that particular mourning, if you let it be. It strips away the illusion that happiness was waiting in a single configuration of people and plans. It asks harder questions about what you actually need, what you’re willing to build without guarantees, and who you are when the old story is gone. The person may have been the face of the dream, but the dream itself was always more about you—your longing for meaning, for home, for a life that felt chosen rather than endured.
Mourning that life hurts more because it is more intimate. It is the grief of outgrowing a version of yourself that felt safe. And while it doesn’t heal on a clean timeline, it does something the other kind of mourning sometimes doesn’t: it leaves you, eventually, with the unsettling and necessary freedom to want something else. Something that doesn’t require anyone else to complete the picture for it to be real.

30/08/2026

Grateful files ‘26 - vol 35

Success, ideas becoming reality, relief, true abundance, achievement, continued everything