In this conversation with Bizzie Gold, founder of Break Method and creator of brain pattern mapping technology, Karena explores how childhood experiences create predictable patterns that shape your relationships, career, and mental health—and how understanding your source belief pattern can help you break free from self-deception and build a healthier life.

How do you rewire the brain patterns formed in childhood that still control your life today?

Understanding your source belief pattern is the first step toward breaking free from self-deception and building the life you actually want.

(02:05) Brain Pattern Mapping & Bypassing Your Story

1. How Bizzie created a predictive algorithm with 98.3% accuracy
2. Understanding childhood experiences as a "distortion filter"
3. Helping people see their own blind spots

(06:16) The Sweet Spot of Trauma That Makes Great Entrepreneurs

1. Why childhood instability creates self-trust and self-efficacy
2. Developing situational awareness to stay safe and how it translates to business
3. Being able to "think five rings down" when others can't see what's coming
4. Attracting chaotic people because you have too much empathy
5. Why workaholism is easier than intimate relationships for abandonment patterns

(13:47) Enmeshment Patterns & The Right Side of the Spectrum

1. The struggle with self-trust and decision-making
2. Why enmeshed patterns need to learn to disappoint people
3. Understanding why some people can't say no

(27:18) Self-Deception & Why Your Brain Lies to You

1. How childhood patterns create self-deception mechanisms
2. Why Bizzie keeps giving chances to people with bad intentions
3. The lesson: don't let empathy destroy your business from the inside

(40:33) Growing Up with Psychiatric Illness & Finding Your Drive

1. Bizzie's experience with an unstable, abusive childhood
2. Activities and achievement as a distraction from chaos at home
3. Why self-preservation instincts don't come naturally for some patterns

(49:08) Self-Care for Workaholics & Pattern Opposition

1. Why self-care is actually mental health work for go-go-go people
2. Doing things that make you feel accomplished in self-care
3. For avoidant patterns: the opposition is to just do it messy and commit

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