Mind Hacks: Casey Beros

All In The Mind

ABC Australia

Life Sciences, Science, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to All in the Mind's little sister: Mind Hacks. In this episode, health journalist and author Casey Beros on managing your inner critic, balancing competing appetites for more and less in life, and filtering out the external voices to chart your own course in life.

Each week on Mind Hacks, we're bringing you bonus content with special guests, featuring rapid fire questions about their mental health tips and pet peeves. It's like a psychology version of eff, marry kill!We're testing this format out over the next few weeks, so let us know what you think, or if there's a guest you'd like us to invite back on the program for Mind Hacks. As always, you can reach us on allinthemind@abc.net.auAnd don't worry, regular All in the Mind episodes will keep dropping every Sunday.

Guest:

Casey BerosHealth journalistAuthor, Next of Kin

Credits:

Presenter/Producer: Sana Qadar
Senior Producer: James Bullen
Producer: Rose Kerr
Sound Engineer: Micky Grossman

Relevant All in the Mind episodes:

You can catch up on more episodes of the All in the Mind podcast with journalist and presenter Sana Qadar, exploring the psychology of topics like stress, memory, communication and relationships on ABC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	ABC Listen, Podcasts, Radio, News, Music, and more.
0:10.8	Hello, I'm Sana Khadar, and this is Mind Hacks, all in the Mind's midweek mini episode,
0:16.9	where we catch up with the experts we've spoken to in our main show
0:20.5	and ask them a few simple
0:21.9	questions about the mental health tools they use in their own lives. What do they love,
0:26.2	hate, and what do they avoid? Today it is health journalist and author of next-of-kin, Casey Barros.
0:32.6	Hi, Casey. Hi, thanks for having me. Thanks for coming back. Okay, love, what is one mental health tool, strategy or practice or piece of advice that has made a real difference to you?
0:45.0	It would have to be self-compassion, but probably through a slightly different lens.
0:50.7	And I'm going to borrow from mindset coach Ben Crow here.
0:56.1	He talks about this idea of our inner critic versus our inner fan. For me, that that vernacular, the inner critic,
1:02.8	inner fan, that doesn't really work for me. So it kind of taken it and given it my own spin,
1:06.9	which is the builder and the heckler. So I spend a lot of my time on stage with a microphone.
1:13.4	And I think about these two different types of people in the audience.
1:16.7	One is the heckler up the back.
1:18.5	And one is the supporter, the builder, the person who really needs to be in the room
1:24.4	and is sitting there gobbling up every little bit of wisdom that you've
1:27.5	got. And so I have been asking myself, who has the microphone right now? Whoever has the
1:33.7	microphone has the loudest voice. And so I've started kind of imagining physically taking
1:40.3	the microphone off of the heckler and handing it to the builder and saying heckler,
1:46.2	you're not in charge today. The builder's in charge. And so that's just my version of kind of
1:51.6	asking ourselves, who is the person that is speaking to me right now? Is it a person who is in support
1:57.8	of me or is it a person who's trying to tear me down? I'm going to use that. I'm going to steal that. Okay, hate. What is the biggest
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