How to Manage the Voice in Your Head – Dr Ethan Kross
A New Way of Being
Simon Mundie
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Ethan Kross is a world-leading expert on the mind and author of Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It. In this episode, we explore what happens when the inner voice turns against us — and how to relate to it differently.
Ethan shares the personal story that kickstarted his research, and offers simple, science-backed tools to help reduce mental noise and regain perspective — including third-person self-talk, rituals, awe, and better support systems.
This is a practical conversation about taming the voice in your head — not by silencing it, but by learning how to listen more skilfully.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a new way of being. This conversation is all about chatter, where the voice or voices in the head increase in volume and causes distress and distraction. |
| 0:12.4 | My guest is the author of the excellent book called Chatter. His name is Dr. Ethan Cross. He's a world leading experimental psychologist and neuroscientist |
| 0:22.9 | renowned for his expertise when it comes to managing the conscious mind. He says too much chatter |
| 0:29.0 | can impact our work, which seems obvious, as well though our relationships, our mood, |
| 0:35.0 | and even our physical health. So he shares some really good tips on calming |
| 0:39.5 | that voice down. Overthinking and feeling stuck in the head is something people frequently talk to me |
| 0:45.7 | about in my one-to-one coaching sessions and getting space from our thoughts and then tapping into |
| 0:51.5 | our intuition is a key aspect of what I do. So if you'd like to |
| 0:56.2 | explore working with me, you can book a free consultation by clicking the link in the show notes. |
| 1:02.2 | But first, here's Ethan Cross. |
| 1:09.9 | Ethan Cross, how are you? |
| 1:11.9 | I'm great. How are you, Simon? |
| 1:13.6 | I'm good. I am really excited to talk to you. |
| 1:16.4 | We've just been having a little bit of chat before we started recording. |
| 1:18.8 | As you know, huge fan of your work. |
| 1:22.0 | It's amazing. And some of the nuggets, I really sincerely believe that one in particular, |
| 1:27.3 | but several within this are going |
| 1:29.0 | to blow people away. |
| 1:30.9 | Well, it's very kind of you to say, Simon, and I'm a huge fan of the show and what you're |
| 1:35.0 | trying to do with it. |
| 1:35.8 | So it's just a delight to talk to you and looking forward to getting into it. |
| 1:40.2 | So you are described as one of the world's leading experts on controlling the conscious mind, |
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