Episode 477:Jim Curtis: How to Rewire Your Brain, Break Mental Patterns, and Actually Change Your Life

Habits and Hustle

Jen Cohen and Habit Nest

Education, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.4 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Think you need to be broken to benefit from deep personal transformation work? Think again. In this episode of Habits and Hustle, I talk with Jim Curtis, a growth strategist and master hypnotist, who explains how even high-achieving, control-oriented people can become their most powerful selves. We dive into what he calls "mind traps" and how childhood trauma shaped his intuitive abilities. We also discuss why authentic masculine energy is desperately needed in today's world, and how hypnosis can rewire deep-seated beliefs in ways traditional therapy can't touch. Jim Curtis is a growth strategist, master hypnotist, and former VC executive who helps high achievers break through mental barriers and step into their most powerful selves. After overcoming a life-changing illness at 21, he discovered his gift for reading people and facilitating deep healing through a combination of practical psychology, NLP, and spiritual connection. What We Discuss: (01:52) How childhood trauma became Jim's superpower for reading people (05:59) What authentic masculine energy really means and why it's missing today (10:51) The neurolinguistic programming techniques that bypass your critical mind (14:21) How to tell what frequency you're operating at and raise it instantly (21:11) Mind traps: Why we create our own limiting realities (24:18) The "Costanza Effect" - doing the opposite to break confirmation bias (30:08) How hypnosis actually works (and why I couldn't be hypnotized) (38:18) The difference between affirmations and real transformation (46:23) Quantum leaping: How to rewrite traumatic memories through hypnosis (52:25) Past lives, karma, and why some people are "meant" for certain work (55:37) Shadow work: Making friends with your darker impulses …and more! Thank you to our sponsors: Momentous: Shop this link and use code Jen for 20% off Therasage: Head over to therasage.com and use code Be Bold for 15% off TruNiagen: Head over to truniagen.com and use code HUSTLE20 to get $20 off any purchase over $100. Magic Mind: Head over to www.magicmind.com/jen and use code Jen at checkout. 99designs by Vista: 99designs.com/jen20 – click "Claim my discount" to get $20 off your first design contest. Find more from Jen: Website: https://www.jennifercohen.com/ Instagram: @therealjencohen Books: https://www.jennifercohen.com/books Speaking: https://www.jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagement Find more from Jim Curtis: Website: https://jimcurtis1.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimcurtis1/?hl=en

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0:00.0	Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it.
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1:41.6	Jim Curtis is on the podcast. He's going to be doing his little magic mind shot. He says he loves them. Do you have them a lot? No, I haven't had them in a long time, but now I've remembered to have them.
1:44.9	They're really good. I'm going to give you a bunch. All right. So I've had like four. I'm not allowed to have anymore today. So you're going to take it. And I'm going to, I'm going to, I've remembered to have them. They're really good. I'm going to give you a bunch. Right. So I've had like four.
1:46.3	I'm not allowed to have anymore today.
1:47.5	So you're going to take it.
1:47.8	And I'm going to post this. And so everyone's going to see you do all these. They're all adaptogens. It's like. Yeah. If I have my glasses on it. I know. Tell me about it. it has a bunch of like it has a little bit of green tea. So for, you're gonna do it? Yeah, well, right now. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. It was such a lead-up. I thought you were doing more lead up. I was gonna do it, but I thought, well, okay, go ahead. There was such a lead-up, you're right. Do you like it? This is delicious.
2:24.0	All right. So Jim Curtis is joining us on the podcast today. So thank you very much for being here.
2:31.6	Jim, just so you know, he is, we just changed his name, actually. He's a growth strategist now.
2:32.0	Great.
2:52.8	And he was formerly a transformational coach, but we didn't really love that name because he's so much more than that. And we're going to get into it because he's also a master hypnotist. He's a lot of things. So anyway, now Jim is a growth strategist. I love it. I love it. See, you get stuff done. Literally. I'm an action-oriented person. I knew if anybody had to ask. You said, I don't really love that name. So let's figure out a new one we did in five minutes. In five minutes. And here we are. Because what do you call someone that does what I do. Does no name for it. There really isn't it. Well, that's the thing. Like, I find that what you do, it's vast, right? So, you know, people just go to the most, like, the easiest low-hanging fruit name. And it's like, it doesn't really, really define what work actually is. So how would you even define what you do? Like, what is the work that you do? Because with, you know, Jim and I actually met like 10 years
3:25.1	ago, just in full disclosure. And he was in the VC world, totally not doing this. He was like
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