Crappy to Happy

Mindset Episodes

How your thoughts, perspectives, assumptions and worldview shape your behaviour, and the ways you can make shifts which support your growth and wellbeing.
Sept. 24, 2025

How Your Expectations Create Your Reality (Prime yourself to succeed)

Our expectations shape our experience of the world, influencing not just our perceptions but even our physiology. In this episode, I'm talking about the Expectancy Effect. Our brain acts as a prediction machine, constructing ...
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How Your Expectations Create Your Reality (Prime yourself to succeed)
Sept. 4, 2025

How You Can Be Powerful AND Likeable with Dr Kate Mason

Dr. Kate Mason unpacks the false dichotomy that suggests women must choose between being liked and being respected, and explains how this mindset leads to self-doubt and diminished confidence. Kate shares practical strategies...
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How You Can Be Powerful AND Likeable with Dr Kate Mason
July 1, 2025

How to Build Self-Trust: Stop Second Guessing & Start Truly Living

This week, we are kicking off a new 8-part series in the Beyond Happy subscriber-only podcast, focused on how to build self-trust so you can stop second guessing and start living freely and authentically, knowing you've got y...
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How to Build Self-Trust: Stop Second Guessing & Start Truly Living
May 21, 2025

Hidden Factors that Cause Burnout: Are You Contributing?

Today, we're diving into the ever-relevant topic of burnout, which has become a pervasive issue for many people. I want to unpack how personal traits such as perfectionism, people-pleasing tendencies, and unrealistic self-exp...
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Hidden Factors that Cause Burnout: Are You Contributing?
Jan. 22, 2025

How to master your mind to win at life with Alexis Fernandez

Cass is joined by Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa, a neuroscientist, best-selling author and host of the incredibly popular "Do You F*cking Mind?" podcast. The conversation explores how Alexis discovered her love for cognitive neuro...
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How to master your mind to win at life with Alexis Fernandez
Jan. 14, 2025

Kickstart Your 2025: Setting Goals That Matter

As the new year unfolds, it brings a fresh opportunity to reflect on what will truly make you happy. This episode of Crappy to Happy offers a guiding light for anyone looking to set meaningful goals in 2025 and give yourself ...
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Kickstart Your 2025: Setting Goals That Matter
Sept. 19, 2024

Full commitment but no attachment

Cass explores the concept of being fully committed to goals while remaining unattached to the outcomes. She discusses the balance between giving your all and not letting the results define your self-worth. Through examples an...
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Full commitment but no attachment
Sept. 2, 2024

Do you have an "Upper Limit Problem"?

In this solo episode, Cass discusses the concept of upper limit problems as described in the book 'The Big Leap' by Gay Hendricks. Upper limit problems refer to self-imposed limitations that prevent individuals from achieving...
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Do you have an "Upper Limit Problem"?
June 27, 2024

Setting Goals: What do you want and WHY do you want it?

In this solo episode, Cass discusses the importance of goal-setting, but understanding why you want the things you want when you're aspiring to achieve or create something in your life. She talks about the trap of attaching y...
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Setting Goals: What do you want and WHY do you want it?
May 27, 2024

How to stop second guessing yourself

In this solo episode, Cass discusses the fear of making the wrong decision and the desire for certainty. Cass emphasises the importance of taking action as a way of gaining clarity, as well as the importance of getting comfor...
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How to stop second guessing yourself
Feb. 1, 2024

How change happens

If you're trying to break a habit, start a new one or achieve a goal, there are some very predictable stages everyone goes through during the process.In this episode, Cass shares the stages of change to help you identify wher...
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How change happens
Dec. 14, 2023

Discovering your Best Possible Self

In this solo episode, Cass reflects on the importance of self-reflection. She shares two exercises for self-reflection and visualisation, guaranteed to inspire you to be your best self and live your best life, as we begin to ...
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Discovering your Best Possible Self
July 31, 2023

Bouncing forward in business, body and motherhood with Tiff Hall

It's a full circle moment on Crappy to Happy as Tiff Hall returns to join Cass behind the mic. This time, not as a cohost but as guest, to reflect on the last few years of challenges: including bouncing forward post babies, b...
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Bouncing forward in business, body and motherhood with Tiff Hall
May 29, 2023

Creating more time with Melissa Ambrosini and Nick Broadhurst

Melissa Ambrosini is the bestselling author and host of the podcast, The Melissa Ambrosini Show. Named a 'self-help guru' by Elle Magazine, Melissa is on a mission to inspire women to create the most exciting and meaningful l...
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Creating more time with Melissa Ambrosini and Nick Broadhurst
Feb. 27, 2023

How you can reframe your thoughts to ease your imposter syndrome

Do you often find yourself feeling like you've fluked your way to the success you've achieved? Do you feel like the rug may be pulled from under you at any time... that everyone is about to find out about the 'fraud' you real...
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How you can reframe your thoughts to ease your imposter syndrome
Feb. 20, 2023

Embrace your inner perfectionist with Katherine Morgan-Schafler

In this episode, Cass in joined by Katherine Morgan-Schafler, a psycho-therapist based in New York City. Katherine's work history includes being an onsite therapist at Google, but now focuses on working with ambitious and per...
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Embrace your inner perfectionist with Katherine Morgan-Schafler
Nov. 28, 2022

Standing up for your beliefs with Dami Im

In this episode, Cass is joined by Dami Im, who captured all of our hearts when she won The X-Factor Australia in 2013. Dami began her singing career playing to grandmas in Korean churches before her life was forever changed ...
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Standing up for your beliefs with Dami Im
Nov. 7, 2022

Avoidance vs. Approach - Whats your style?

Are you motivated by the pursuit of pleasure or the avoidance of pain? In this episode I explain the difference between avoidance and approach style behavioural responses, what the implications are for each, and how you can a...
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Avoidance vs. Approach - Whats your style?
Oct. 3, 2022

How to worry less with Brigid Delaney

During the COVID-19 lockdowns of the past few years, Brigid Delaney went searching for ideas that might help us feel a bit better. She stumbled across Stoicism, an ancient Greek philosophy which is all about how not to sweat ...
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How to worry less with Brigid Delaney
May 29, 2022

Build a Healthy Mindset with Nick Bracks

Nick Bracks has struggled with low self-esteem and anxiety since he was a kid. His mental health struggles hit a low point when in 2007 he was in a drink driving car accident while his father Steve was the Premier of Victoria...
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Build a Healthy Mindset with Nick Bracks
May 15, 2022

Owning your power with Kemi Nekvapil

Coach Kemi Nekvapil wants women to feel powerful. In this chat with Cass she talks about feeling powerless growing as a black child in white foster families, how she connects with her own power now as an adult, plus she unpac...
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Owning your power with Kemi Nekvapil
Nov. 29, 2020

Owning your truth with Layne Beachley

Cass Dunn talks to Aussie surfing champion Layne Beachley about her extraordinary achievements in and out of the water and the emotional struggles she had to overcome before she could truly enjoy success and experience real h...
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Owning your truth with Layne Beachley
Oct. 18, 2020

Happy and other ridiculous aspirations with Turia Pitt

Cass Dunn catches up with Turia Pitt for the second time - in this chat they discuss everything Turia has learned about happiness while researching her latest book, "Happy and Other Ridiculous Aspirations". Turia's own upbeat...
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Happy and other ridiculous aspirations with Turia Pitt
Sept. 15, 2019

Not giving a f*ck with Mark Manson

He’s a widely successful author with a New York Times best-selling books ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ and ‘Everything is F*cked’. Cass Dunn chats with Mark Manson about the so called nay sayers who tell him he’s an i...
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Not giving a f*ck with Mark Manson