S23 Ep8: Master your mind — the power of visualisation with Maya Raichoora, Mental Fitness & Visualisation Expert
Conversations of Inspiration
Holly Tucker MBE
5.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Maya shares how mental fitness and visualisation, a technique once reserved for the top 1% of elite athletes like Ronaldo, Serena Williams, Muhammad Ali and Tiger Woods, helped her overcome ulcerative colitis and thrive. She reveals daily practices that helped rewire her brain, like starting the day with the phrase “Show me how good it gets” and shares the secret to how that helps. She also explores how neuroscience can be the key to building resilience and shaping your mindset for a positive outcome.
They discuss reframing happiness as a journey, embracing all experiences and calming imposter syndrome, while sharing Maya’s bold pursuit of her dreams, including becoming Nike’s first mental fitness trainer. Maya encourages us to “live like a predator, not prey” pursuing our goals with courage, focus and determination.
This episode shows that our minds aren’t just something we have to accept — they’re something we can nurture, train and get curious about. With compassion, consistency and courage, we can all unlock our limitless potential — just like the top 1%. Want to know how? Listen now.
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| 0:00.0 | Your brain is a pattern-finding machine. |
| 0:03.9 | So if you are asking it, oh gosh, for what's going to go wrong today, |
| 0:07.0 | it will give you all the evidence to show you that, yeah, look, life isn't great. |
| 0:12.9 | I've just had an enlightening conversation with Maya Rachora, |
| 0:17.1 | who is an international speaker and author of Visualise. And she has recently made history as Nike's |
| 0:24.2 | first ever mental fitness trainer. That's right, a mental fitness trainer. She wants our mental |
| 0:32.5 | fitness to be as normal and essential to us as physical fitness. It makes sense, doesn't it? Actually, |
| 0:39.3 | don't you think some of the most wonderful people that I speak to, the ideas just make sense? |
| 0:45.3 | It was one of those conversations where it made me even more curious about this practice. I love |
| 0:51.7 | the idea of rewiring your mind, whatever age. She's done this with 80 year olds |
| 0:56.6 | and an 8 year old, refusing to let our limitations define us. And I promise you this conversation |
| 1:03.5 | with Maya is not one you're going to want to miss. You're going to need to have your notepad. |
| 1:08.0 | You're going to need to find a quiet moment of the day, you're going to need |
| 1:11.5 | to like lemons, more than that later, and actually you're going to need to believe that you |
| 1:18.4 | have the power all along to make all of the difference. Enjoy. |
| 1:23.6 | Bow your head and let your eyelids close on down where we're going you won't need to bring |
| 1:30.3 | your frown. |
| 1:31.3 | Hi, I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to my podcast Conversations of Inspiration. |
| 1:37.3 | I've reached out to founders and those who simply inspire me to share their hard-earned |
| 1:43.3 | wisdom with you. My hope is that collectively, |
| 1:46.9 | these remarkable realisations will help you on your own journey. I like to think of it as |
| 1:52.9 | inspiration for life. So let's begin this week's conversation of inspiration. |
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