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Muscle Intelligence

Why Elite Performers Still Self-Sabotage (And How to Stop)

Muscle Intelligence

Ben Pakulski

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.7761 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The proven system 1000+ men use to stay lean, strong, clear, and capable.
 
What if your biggest performance problem isn't strategy, discipline, or effort, but subconscious resistance you can't see? In this episode, Ben sits down with high-performance coach and regression hypnotherapist Elliot Roe to break down how elite performers remove the "brakes" that keep them stuck below their potential. You'll learn how subconscious patterns form (often between ages 5–10), why talk therapy can miss the root programming, and how physical sensations like tightness, nausea, or dread can reveal the exact block that needs work. If you've ever known what to do but couldn't make yourself do it, this conversation will change how you see your mind.
 

5 Bullet Points:

  • How subconscious "programs" drive self-sabotage
  • Why fear is behind most performance blocks
  • The cube-to-ball metaphor for elite optimization
  • How to spot your blind spots fast
  • A simple self-audit to reveal resistance

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About Ben

Ben Pakulski is the Chief Performance Officer to elite executives, successful entrepreneurs, and top athletes.With over 25 years of experience, he coaches high achievers to build the physical, psychological, and metabolic resilience required to lead at the highest level. As the creator of the Muscle Intelligence framework, Ben specializes in aligning biology and behavior to drive sustained peak performance. His mission is to redefine what's possible for people in their prime and push the boundaries of human potential.

 

Guest Bio

Elliot Roe is a high-performance coach and regression-based hypnotherapist known for helping elite performers remove subconscious resistance and access consistent flow. He works with CEOs, professional athletes, traders, and other top-tier operators who are already successful but feel an invisible ceiling: hesitation, self-sabotage, anxiety, fear of failure, or fear of success.
Elliot's approach blends deep meditative trance work with targeted emotional reframing to identify the root memories driving a pattern, then overwrite the emotional charge so the trigger no longer fires. He's also the founder of Prime Mind, an app offering guided hypnotherapy audios designed to improve performance, confidence, and emotional regulation.

 

Time Stamps:

00:00 - Mindset & Elliot Rowe
01:53 - Regression Therapy Explained
04:05 - How Hypnotherapy Works
05:53 - Childhood Roots of Belief
15:07 - Reaching Elite Performance
25:44 - From Self to Global Impact
28:31 - Parenting & Emotional Wiring
31:32 - Fear and Self-Sabotage
34:13 - Authenticity vs Imposter Syndrome
36:14 - Finding Subconscious Blocks
38:00 - Coaches vs Therapists
40:47 - What Makes a Great Therapist
42:00 - Mindset vs Life Coaching
45:29 - Defining True Freedom
47:39 - Resources & Where to Start

Transcript

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0:00.0

Mindset always leads the way in success. And today I'm interviewing the world's number one mindset

0:06.2

authority in my opinion. I've been incredibly blessed to be able to work with Elliot Rowe for a few

0:11.7

years now as well as sending some of an incredibly high net worth clients to Elliott and see

0:16.9

nothing but remarkable changes. Truly life-changing things that we talk about here in the

0:21.9

podcast. And if I'm honest, before meeting Elliot, I was a bit skeptical about all mindset experts

0:27.6

because it seems a little subjective. It's a bit woo. It's a bit squishy. I didn't really have

0:32.4

a good context for understanding what mindset coaching actually was until I met Elliot Rowe.

0:38.1

Elliot gives you so many unique insights and applicable golden nuggets to optimize your mind today

0:44.5

and for the future.

0:45.6

And if you don't already know, if you're not exactly where you want to be right now, it's

0:50.3

absolutely your mind that's limiting you.

0:52.3

Sometimes your body can limit you, but oftentimes it's our own limiting beliefs,

0:56.3

whether that be things we've formed recently

0:58.0

or all the way back into our childhood.

0:59.8

And Elliot talks about how he uses regression therapy

1:02.8

and allows you to go back and rewrite those patterns,

1:07.0

rewrite your beliefs,

1:08.0

and ultimately create clarity and vision for your future.

1:11.6

You're going to love this podcast with my great friend Elliot Roe.

1:15.6

I know you've been up to so much in your life and so much has changed.

1:28.3

You're growing your business.

1:30.3

And I think the biggest impact you continue to make on my life is by supporting my clients.

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