#203 – Dr. Albert Bramante: Breaking through Self-Sabotage & Imposter Syndrome

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Lawrence Dunning

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Albert Bramante has spent two decades at the intersection of entertainment, psychology, and transformative education. As a talent agent, psychology professor, and author, Albert has spent years helping actors, students, and educators overcome performance blocks—combining hypnosis, NLP, and mental strategies to sharpen focus and build resilience.

0.00: Alberts background in helping actors avoid self-sabotage

6.00: Common blocks through fear and how to overcome fear

10.00: Subconscious fears of success through money

14.00: Fear through auditions

20.00: The power of reframing

25.00: Fear of putting yourself out there (publishing a book)

31.00: Using hypnosis for better performance

35.00: Working on keeping your focus

Until next time, love and good vibes.

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0:00.0	A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts. Get ready to enter the
0:16.0	Lionheart with your host Warren Stunning.
0:22.3	Abba, so great to have you,
0:24.0	and I love your specialty about just helping people
0:26.7	break through barriers and deal with their internal resistance
0:29.8	and performance blocking in general.
0:32.6	I think there's not a personal life
0:34.5	who doesn't want to be better in whatever element of their life
0:37.3	they want to perform better in. element of their life they want to
0:37.6	perform better in. So maybe we could start a little bit with how you got involved in
0:41.8	specializing in that field. Sure. Well, it all started with my work with actors. And so I work
0:49.2	as a talent agent in New York City where I represent actors for film, TV, theater, commercial voiceover.
0:56.7	And I've been doing that ever since, you know, since 2004.
1:01.8	And the one thing that really popped up, the scene that kept recurring,
1:07.6	especially when they're first starting out was just self-sabotage.
1:11.1	The actors were a lot of times self-sabotized and getting an almost way.
1:15.8	And so that kind of like really led me to study this.
1:18.8	Now I also have a background in psychology.
1:21.2	So I decided to, for my doctoral thesis or dissertation, was to focus on, you know, self-defeating and self-sabotaging behavior in performing artists. Well, that's so interesting because I was just having this conversation with my wife. The point of what I was, we were talking about, because she's a therapist, and I was saying it's just so interesting, and it's so much easier when we're on the outside, right? When we're in the middle of it, it's hard to see. But when you're on the outside looking at people, I just see that self-sabotaged behavior. Like I've said so many times, you know, whoever I'm talking about, you know, they seem like they're their own worst enemy. And if they could just change, it's not really their situation, it's just the mindset and the way they see their situation. If they could just change
2:05.0	that. So you focused on, you know, like you said, you're working with actors. But I mean,
2:09.1	this is way more general, right? It's so many people are their own biggest problem in whatever
2:13.7	they're trying to do. Right. They're all worth enemy, essentially.
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