{"podcast":{"title":"Hypnosis for Permanent Weight Loss","slug":"hypnosis-for-permanent-weight-loss-364130","podcast_index_feed_id":364130,"rss_url":"https://hypnosisforpermanentweightloss.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://hpwl.co","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/4/f/b/e4fb24bd0cc2277ad959afa2a1bf1c87/new_covor_size_1400-20251031-uk6zcapqm3.png","author":"Leslie M. Thornton","episode_count":347,"summary":"As a Hypnosis for Permanent Weight Loss Coach, I know how hard constantly dieting and exercising can be. That's why I'm giving you my top tips and tactics for getting free from the traditional diet mentality. Whether you've just started your journey to self-awareness, or you're already established and looking for new ways to let go of your anxieties and stress around food, you've come to the right place!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hypnosis-for-permanent-weight-loss-364130"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 346 His wife died last year...","slug":"ep-346-his-wife-died-last-year","published_at":"2026-05-25T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hypnosis-for-permanent-weight-loss-364130/ep-346-his-wife-died-last-year","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hypnosis-for-permanent-weight-loss-364130","url":"https://hpwl.co/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/hypnosisforpermanentweightloss/Ep_346_Mixdown_3.mp3?dest-id=1996010","summary":"In this deeply emotional and inspiring conversation, Leslie sits down with entrepreneur and coach Xander Fryar to explore how pain, purpose, faith, and emotional healing can completely transform a person's life. Xander shares the devastating experience of losing his best friend, AJ, to suicide and how that moment forced him to confront mortality, question society's definition of success, and ultimately leave his six-figure engineering career at Cisco to pursue a more heart-led mission. Together, Leslie and Xander discuss how so many people stay trapped in logic, overthinking, and emotional suppression while desperately searching for fulfillment through external success. The conversation dives deeply into meditation, subconscious healing, and why emotional processing is essential for both personal growth and physical health. Xander explains how meditation helped him stop operating from fear and instead take courageous action aligned with his intuition and heart. Leslie and Xander also unpack the connection between emotional avoidance and behaviors like overeating, emotional eating, addiction, and burnout. They discuss the importance of fully feeling difficult emotions instead of trying to \"positive think\" them away, and how emotional release creates space for clarity, peace, and authentic healing. Xander also opens up about one of the most traumatic experiences of his life — when his wife Maddie nearly died from internal bleeding after a miscarriage complication in Costa Rica. In a raw and vulnerable moment, he shares how he believed he was losing the love of his life, the profound spiritual experience he had while waiting outside the operating room, and how the experience deepened his understanding of faith, service, and the fragility of life. The story becomes a power…","meta_description":"In this deeply emotional and inspiring conversation, Leslie sits down with entrepreneur and coach Xander Fryar to explore how pain, purpose, faith, and em…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3104,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hypnosis-for-permanent-weight-loss-364130/episodes/ep-346-his-wife-died-last-year/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hypnosis-for-permanent-weight-loss-364130/ep-346-his-wife-died-last-year.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}