Angela Mondor explains why habits stick: the subconscious drives about 80% of behavior. She draws on her own story, including childhood trauma and her brother's death, to show how deep patterns resist change even when you know better.
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It was a combination of both. I'm like, you know, when you have a podcast, most people have a podcast because they want to get business. My podcast guests got business from me. Like, that was kind of like how it was, you know? Like, oh, I want to try that. I want to try that. Like, oh, that looks good. That— not, not 100%, but, but it was just kind of funny because it was the reverse where it was like people would come on my podcast and I'd become a customer of them because I was interviewing people that were so So incredible. And so for me, I've had so much childhood trauma, and it started when I was in the womb. And like, my biological father was very physically and verbally abusive to my mother and my older siblings, and he died when I was 18 months old. So while I have zero memory of that, it is stored in our, in our subconscious mind. Wow. Unconscious. Some people say unconscious. I like to say subconscious. Mm-hmm. Um, and, and so as I started to learn, you know, because I was in— oh my gosh, I mean, I had so much childhood trauma, and then my brother died when I was 12, and like, you know, it was just so much. And I was going through therapy, and I felt better. I got, I got better. I felt better about myself. Things, things got good. But then it was— there's still these behaviors, and it was driving me crazy because I couldn't get rid of it. Like, nothing was working, and I was getting frustrated. I'm like, I know that I have control over my brain, but I don't know how to control it because our subconscious mind, what most people don't recognize is it runs the show 80% of the time. Yes. 80%. So