I've Spent $50K On Self Development... WAS IT WORTH IT? Welcome back to "In The Moment"with Alex Manzi... and yes, as you've read in the title I have in fact spent about 50.000 pounds (about 60.000 in US dollars) in self development in the last 3 years, and in this episode I'm going to tell you all about it. There's a lot of wrong information and m…

What I Learned From Interviewing 100+ Artists. Welcome to In The Moment with me, Alex Manzi, your friendly neighborhood mind sherpa. This is a special episode of the podcast for me. We're closing soon on 300 episode and I wanted to reflect an all the interviews that I made from 2017 until now. I've interviewed for this pod (that was initially calle…

The TRUTH Behind Extraordinary Results. Hello dear listeners, welcome to another episode of In The Moment with Alex Manzi! I'm your friendly neighborhood mind sherpa. I was thinking recently that... most people see some extraordinary results, achievements, and think that they're something supernatural. Out of this world. In fact, extraordinary. I h…

WAITING VS CREATING: How Embracing Action Has Changed My Life. There's a substantial difference between living while waiting and living with creating. I spent many years of my life waiting. Waiting for something to happen, for my business to grow, for myself to change in someone better. And I was frustrated. Then I understood how creating, action, …

From Burnout To Breakthrough: The Power Of Taking A Break. Are you sure you're taking the quality Time Out that you need? I, for one, was convinced that was resting when actually... what happened was: I was spending all my free time thinking about the tasks I needed to do during my Time In. But we need real rest to achieve what we want. Maybe, some…

It Changed My Life: Shifting Your Self Perception For Personal Growth. Welcome back to In The Moment with me Alex Manzi, your friendly neighborhood life coach! This time I want to tell you a story that may be useful to change your life, like it did mine. A few years ago I was pivoting towards coaching - from being a social media producer at the BBC…

Hello everyone, in this episode of In The Moment I'd like to give all of you some tools to get out of anxiety and depression, and I want to start from my own life story. I can't believe it was 10 years ago when I was living constantly in depression. Like a fish in the sea, I didn't know what water is... I was just living in it, in my depression, be…

The Truth About Communication In A Relationship: Unlocking One Key Secret. People often say that you need to "communicate more" in a relationship, either a romantic one or with friends, a relative or at work. Is it true though? I actually don't believe it is. Let me explain... it all depends to where you're coming from. 00:00 Intro 01:10 From the i…

How 1,000 Pieces Of Lego Taught Me To Love The Creative Process. And here we go dreamers, this is Alex, back with a new episode and... here I want to tell the story of how I fell in love with the creative process. Believe it or not, Lego, and in particular building a pirate ship of 909 pieces (yes, not really 1,000 but that looks better in the titl…

Hello everyone, I'm back after a bit of a pause after years of this podcast. It's been a moment of change for me, my career and life as a life coach is giving me a lot that I'd been searching for all my life and... I've decided now that I want to give you guys some of the lessons I learned all these years. For starters a hot take: I recently stoppe…

On this week's episode I chat with the amazing Trist Taylor: he's a successful Business & Branding Consultant, but more importantly he's a friend who recently changed his life and his business after a difficult moment earlier this year. Together, we chat about our biggest learnings of 2022, about our difficulties, about the need to change and to al…

On this week's episode I chat with the great Jon Prince, who is a Mindset Coach and Mentor. Jon recently got 100K followers on Instagram and has an interesting past as a poker player, along with a MSc in Psychology. He has coached CEOs, athletes and also volunteers to help people with depression. Together we talk about the self, about changing your…

On this week's In Focus session I discuss how the Self can often seem like two separate things: the spiritual side, infinite and connected to everything, and the personal side, which is finite and more connected to our wants and life purposes. Even if these two may seem separated, they're actually one thing appearing as two, and this gives us the f…

This week's episode is a bit different from the usual. This episode comes from an interview that I did for someone else’s podcast that didn’t go out... but there was so much value here that I needed to put this out myself. I talk about my story, my journey from depression to being a coach, and what interviewing 200 plus guests in my podcast in the …

On this week's In Focus session I discuss how we often need to clear out our mental loft, in order to create new things. Clearing out means making room in our minds to allow us to see the opportunities around us. When we get stuck on some ideas, some stories that we believe about ourselves, that we consider permanent in our life... these can often …

On this week's episode I chat with the amazing Andrew Murnane, which you may know from his TikTok account (where he reached 1 million followers), or as the co-host of the Dualistic Unity podcast. In this conversation with Andrew we discuss happiness, the labels that limit our reality, being in the moment and finding your freedom in life. In this ep…

On this week's In Focus session I discuss how to create the "easy" in your life. If you want to do new things, or change something in your life that isn't working, or create more opportunities for yourself... you've got to stop making it harder than it is. A thing is harder -or easier- than something else only because we believe it is, because our …

On this week's episode I'm happy to share this amazing conversation with author, podcaster and entrepreneur Daniel DiPiazza. Daniel has his own podcast "The New Wave Podcast". He has an eclectic mind and together we discuss opening our minds to different levels of consciousness, in particular through our experiences with mushrooms and psychedelics,…

On this week's In Focus session I discuss how we experience the world around us, our life, through the lens of our thoughts. It's like everyone is constantly wearing a pair of "VR Goggles of Thought", seeing only what's in our thinking. However, we often don't even realise that this is happening. On this episode I discuss: How you're only ever expe…

On this week's episode I'm delighted to bring you this amazing conversation with Dr. Amy Johnson. She's a Life Coach, a psychologist, and she's the author of several incredible books that I've read more than once recently, like: 'Just a Thought: A No-Willpower Approach to Win Self-Doubt and Make Peace with Your Mind' and 'Being Human'. She's also a…

On this week's In Focus session I discuss how to forgive yourself and live free from the past and judgement of yourself. In this episode I read some extracts from a Syd Banks audio, something that I've already done in other In Focus sessions. This week, I breakdown the audio "Forgiveness And The Power Of Thought", in which Syd Banks explains how no…

On this week's episode I chat with Olivia Wynne, international Life Coach and founder of OA Coaching. Olivia is a good friend of mine, and has made her life's goal to live fearlessly. She has worked very hard to put the traumas of her past behind her, realise her full potential and is now helping other people to do the same. On this episode we disc…

On this week's In Focus session I discuss about how abundance is everywhere, and how our mind creates limitations. This episode is the third that comes from the insights that I've had in this past month of coaching retreats. This time, I'm talking about abundance and opportunities being around us, and how our mind creates limitations that don't all…

On this week's In Focus session I discuss how we often suffer needlessly. This episode is the second that comes from the insights that I've had in this past month of coaching retreats. This time, I'm talking about how we create our own suffering, and how this suffering doesn't have to be. Because It's our thinking that separates our feelings in goo…

On this week's In Focus session I discuss how to adjust the speed of your life. This episode comes from the amazing insights that I've had in this past month of coaching retreats. In particular, here I'm discussing the need that we have to adjust the speed of our lives. We can't drive in gear 5 all the time. Sometimes we have to accept the fact tha…

On this week's episode I am joined by my friend and coach Sachin Sharma in the second of a series of podcasts in which we will be sharing our insights and experiences through our day-to-day lives. In this episode we are breaking down the notes we made while sitting in on a private 1:1 coaching session from our mentor, Dr Keith Blevens PHD. If you e…

On this week's In Focus session I discuss who is the 'self' you're trying to develop? In a lot of the personal development world, we talk about developing the 'self' but when we take a deeper look at who this 'self' is, it makes less and less sense to focus on developing it. I believe this world of growth is a subtractive process, yet when we are l…

On this week’s episode I am joined by Sundance Robson who is a men’s coach and ceremonial leader as well as being a good friend of mine. I first connected with Sundance at the men's immersion I attended in November and was drawn in by his aura and story. In his life Sundance has overcome a lot in his life; from addiction to abuse to systemic discri…

On this week's In Focus session I am breaking down Syd Bank's 3 Principles lecture from a Conference in Hawaii in the early 90's. Syd Banks, was an ordinary working man, not searching for truth or wisdom or even aware of much beyond his day-to-day life. At the age of 43 he had a profound spiritual experience that revealed to him three, long-lost, d…

On this week’s episode I am joined by Morgan who is a 22-year-old singer/songwriter and someone whose career started from a very early age when she was touring the world with Rudimental as a teenager. Now she’s stepping out into her own lane and releasing great music in her own style. We had a very interesting conversation around balancing mental h…

On this week's In Focus session I discuss the difference between application and implication. In a lot of the personal development world, people are offering 'How To' or steps to achieve things. While I don't see this as a bad thing, I do think there is something bigger at play. That, is understanding the implications of your personal learnings rat…

On this week's episode I am joined by my friend and coach Sachin Sharma in the first of a series of podcasts in which we will be sharing our insights and experiences through our day-to-day lives. In this episode we are exploring the idea of everything in life coming from nothing, it all comes from zero. As humans ‘zero’ is our natural state. It’s o…

On this week's In Focus session I am breaking down a talk from one of my greatest teachers in life, Syd Banks. Syd Banks, was an ordinary working man, not searching for truth or wisdom or even aware of much beyond his day-to-day life. Over 35 years ago, he had a profound spiritual experience that revealed to him three, long-lost, divine principles …

On this week's episode I am joined by my good friend and amazing photographer Adam Brazier. Adam is also the co-host of the Creative Rebels podcast so regular listeners will already be aware of his incredible work. Adam is someone who I really admire because he's very much creating the life he wants to live by doing the things that ultimately he ge…

On this week's In Focus session I am breaking down a talk from one of my greatest teachers in life, Syd Banks. Syd Banks, was an ordinary working man, not searching for truth or wisdom or even aware of much beyond his day-to-day life. Over 35 years ago, he had a profound spiritual experience that revealed to him three, long-lost, divine principles …

On this week’s episode I am joined by Lawrence Choto who is 19 year old content creator with over 320,000 followers on Tik Tok and he is someone who is undoubtedly wise beyond his years I first came across Lawrence during 2020 when this young man was sharing such hard hitting spiritual truths and really looking like he walked the walk of what he wa…

Jamal Edwards, the founder of the media platform SBTV, which helped to launch grime and a new wave of artists to a global audience, died on Sunday morning at the age of 31. Jamal is someone who I knew through my time spent in the music industry and saw as a real inspirational character. So it hit me really hard to hear that he had passed away at su…

On this week's In Focus session I am discussing how how to upgrade your money mindset and some of the shifts that I have had recently when it comes to money and my thinking around it. And whilst I continue to learn and upgrade my mindset - I've just started reading a new book which I'm super excited to see what I get out of it - these learnings in …

On this week’s episode I am joined by Julie McCammon who is a trained physiotherapist and specialises in myofascial release (MFR). This is a treatment which focuses directly on the fascia in the body (the connective tissue that runs throughout the body) and helps deal with chronic pain. What fascinates me most about MFR is that it has been proven t…

On this week’s episode I am joined by my friend, artist and co-host of the Creative Rebels Podcast, David Speed. I wanted to do something special for episode 250, so me and David jumped on Instagram live to answer your questions on personal growth, mindset, productivity and more. A special thank you to YOU for listening to this podcast because with…

On this week’s episode I am joined by singer/songwriter Elli Ingram whose single ‘Strange How Good Things Change’ has been blowing up online. After what has been a difficult couple of years for everyone involved in the music industry Elli joins me to talk about: Having to take part time job as her music career stalled during the pandemic Why she fe…

On this week's In Focus session I am discussing the best life-changing mindset habits you can create to smash your goals in 2022. With a new year ahead of us, it's an important time to question what goals you have and how you would like your year to plan out. Most of this comes down to the daily habits and routines you put in place in your life. On…

On this week's podcast I am joined by my friend and coach, Sachin Sharma, to talk about the biggest self development learnings I have made in the past 12 months. 2021 has been a huge year for me. I have invested in myself in ways I had never done before and so much of my internal world has shifted, which I want to share with you today. In this epis…

On this week’s episode I am joined by singer/songwriter Shakka, to break down some of the topics and themes in his debut album 'Road Trip to Venus' During this conversation, we spoke about: The role of the masculine & feminine in life Importance of expressing your emotions Why we should all be talking about our mental health And much much more Conn…

On this week's In Focus session I am discussing some of the biggest learnings I made whilst on Ankush Jain's 'Powerful Men's Immersion' retreat. We spent 7 days taking a deep dive into self development and personal growth. It was one of the most intense but loving events I've ever been a part of. In this episode I discuss: The importance of giving …

On this week’s episode I am joined by Sam Qurashi for the follow up to our conversation from a few weeks ago. In this episode we dive in deeper on some of the topics we discussed in part 1 and we also answer a few questions sent in to us from both of our audiences. During this conversation, we spoke about: Healing emotional wounds Supression & expr…

On this week's In Focus session I am discussing how dropping your ego allows you to experience life through more clarity and abundance. If you enjoyed this session and think there is someone you feel would benefit from hearing it then please make sure you share it with them :) thedreamersdisease.co.uk Follow Alex: IG: @IAmAlexManzi Tik Tok: @IAmAle…

On this week’s episode I am joined by Ankush Jain who is a coach and author, who coaches through the psychological understanding of The 3 Principles, which points to the truth that we experience life through our thinking and the feeling that is created through our thoughts. The 3 Principles are something that I have been understanding more for myse…

On this week's In Focus session I am discussing how change is the constant in life. Often we see transition periods in life as being something negative, but if we look towards nature at this time of year, we can learn something else. If you enjoyed this session and think there is someone you feel would benefit from hearing it then please make sure …

On this week’s episode I am joined by Dr. Sam Qurashi is a Writer, Entrepreneur, Instagrammer, and Youtuber. He worked as a Psychiatric Resident in an Addiction Hospital. Throughout that time, he had the opportunity to help over 10,000 patients. After seven years, he walked away from his medical career believing that there must be a more effective …