You feel fine.

You handle your shit.

You make money. You lift. You “do the work.”

So why does life still feel like a fucking flatline?

In this episode, Mitch Webb and I rip the lid off a truth most men will die never knowing:

You’re not broken.

You’re not lazy.

You’re not unmotivated.

You’re frozen.

Stuck in a state where everything feels… muted. Dull. Like you’re watching your life through a dirty fish tank.

And because you’ve been that way for years – maybe decades – you think it’s just who you are.

It’s not.

It’s your nervous system.

And once you learn how to work with it — not bypass it, hack it, or think your way around it — you can come back online. Feel again. Want again. Live again.

But only if you’re ready to face the truth that mindset, meditation, and microdosing alone won’t save you.

In This Episode with Mitch Webb, You’ll Discover:

• The brutal myth that’s kept you stuck: “Maybe this is just how I am”
• The frozen prison you never knew you were in (until now)
• Why you’ve been trying to shit into a toilet that’s been blocked for 30 years
• The real reason ice baths, breathwork, and affirmations always wear off
• Why numbness isn’t weakness — it’s your nervous system screaming for help
• What “emotional deadlifts” taught Mitch about feeling everything again
• Why chasing peak states is just a high-class way to stay stuck
• How to finally feel alive again — without journaling your trauma or meditating it away

Let me ask you something:

What’s it costing you to ignore your body?

Burnout? Missed decisions? Lost money?

Because after five years of saying this stuff… I finally got through to one of the smartest, most skeptical blokes I know:

My mate Rob.

Sharp as a blade.

Zero time for fluff.

High-paid business consultant who can dissect a profit-loss sheet in seconds.

For five years, every time I mentioned the nervous system?

Instant eye-roll.

Words like “somatic,” “healing,” or “body wisdom”?

He’d sooner listen to a guy named Raven at a blindfolded breathwork retreat.

But then something shifted.

He messaged me from Portugal — while I was hiking the mountains here in Peru — and I literally laughed out loud reading it.

Why?

Because he finally saw the science.

A study out of London revealed this wild truth:

The most successful traders weren’t the smartest.

They weren’t the most educated.

They were the best at feeling their heartbeat.

Literally.

They had insane interoceptive capacity — the ability to detect their own internal states.

Another study looked at bankers.

Same thing.

The ones who stopped treating their body like a machine…

…and started listening to it like a partner?

They became more strategic, more creative, less reactive — and made better decisions under pressure.

And suddenly, Rob got it.

Not because it was spiritual.

Not because it was about “healing his inner child.”

But because it was quantifiable. Measurable. Tactical.

He said:

“This makes sense. It’s not vague or manipulative. It’s real. It’s data. Now I get what the hell you’ve been on about.”

He doesn’t care about trauma.

He’s not trying to “find himself.”

But performance? Leadership? Clarity?

That he can wrap his head around.

He’s finally realized:

This work isn’t about fixing you.

It’s about tuning the machine…

…getting it to work for you — not against you.

So if you’re pushing through the days on sheer willpower…

…grinding on autopilot…

…ignoring the inner signals until something breaks…

It might be time to stop trying to out-hustle your biology…

…and start learning how to master it.

Want to build your own interoceptive edge?

Listen to this episode.

In This Episode with John Wood, You’ll Discover:

• Why sensing your heartbeat could be the ultimate business edge (and why most ignore it)
• How to train your interoceptive capacity with nothing but your breath, body, and a chair
• The costly mistake most high performers make with their body (it’s burning them out)
• What if your stress, fatigue, and stuckness had nothing to do with mindset—and everything to do with disconnection?
• “Finally, it makes sense. It’s measurable. It’s real.” – A skeptical consultant’s unexpected conversion
• Why tomorrow’s top performers won’t just master data—but their own biology
• Why “feel your feelings” isn’t weak, feminine, or vague—it’s a tactical business decision
• Ignore this signal from your body and you might make less, crash harder, and burn out faster
• The bizarre way your need to pee could hold the key to better decision-making
• Ever feel off but can’t explain why? This one body-based skill could change everything

So instead of an interview today, I thought I’d do something a little different.

There are already a million podcasts out there interviewing experts. And yeah, I’ll still do more of those. There’s value in them.

But there are some things I want to talk about — things I don’t always get to go deep into when I’ve got a guest on.

And today, I want to talk about something I think is fucking cool (but may not seem like it on the surface).

Something I keep circling back to:

Safety.

Not safety like helmets and seat belts.

I’m talking about the kind of safety your nervous system needs to stop spinning out.

Because here’s the deal:

You can meditate.

You can journal.

You can do your breathwork, your cold plunges, your cacao ceremonies, your gratitude lists — but if you don’t know how to actually create a felt sense of safety inside yourself, none of that other shit really lands.

You’re just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

The loop — anxiety, rage, shame, freeze — it keeps spinning.

The real work is interrupting that loop...

...by learning how to feel, on a nervous-system level, safe.

I’ve written about this before, so it might not be brand new…

But it’s still the thing.

Hell, it's everything.

Because if you don’t have safety, nothing else sticks.

And if you do?

Everything changes.

So this is me riffing. No script. No guest. Just my perspective on what I think is the root issue in personal development, healing, growth — whatever you want to call it.

Let’s get into it.

In This Episode with John Wood, You'll Discover:

• Why your nervous system doesn’t give a shit about your positive mindset — and what it actually wants instead
• How to finally stop spiraling by creating real safety — inside your body, not just your brain
• What safety really means (hint: it’s not bubble baths or saying “I’m safe” a hundred times)
• WARNING: If you skip this one step, no amount of journaling or breathwork will ever fix you
• The terrifying truth about meditation: how it can actually keep you more stuck in survival mode
• Ever wonder why you still feel unsafe, even when your life looks totally fine on paper?
• The simple daily shift that starts telling your nervous system, “Hey, you’re safe now.”