In this episode, we explore the truth that energy isn’t personality — it’s behaviour you choose.

You’ll learn how we already shift our energy automatically and how to use intentional micro-gestures to move from Red → Amber → Green with purpose.

We break energy down into a simple, memorable framework:

· Red → Rest / Reset

· Amber → Activate (or Align, Awaken, Amplify, Adjust, Awareness)

· Green → Go

You’ll also learn why introverts and extroverts both have access to green energy, why your body is the fastest way to shift your state, and how choosing your energy changes the room before you even speak.

In this 9-minute episode, we reframe one of the most common confidence blockers: Imposter Syndrome.

You’ll learn why it’s more accurate — and far more empowering — to call it the Imposter Experience, and how to use a growth mindset to turn self-doubt into evidence of growth.

We unpack:

· Why almost everyone feels like an imposter at key moments

· Carol Dweck’s “Not Yet” mindset and how it rewires confidence

· Stephen Bartlett’s reframe: inexperience ≠ inability

· A 45-second Jimi Hendrix story that explains mastery beautifully

· Why mantras and affirmations actually work (hello myelination and neural pathways)

· One practical question that instantly shifts your thinking

· A short mantra you can use every day

In this episode, we explore B.L.A.S.T. — Breathe. Label. Ask. Silence. Talk.

A simple, science-backed tool that helps you stay in control and intentional during moments of tension. You’ll learn how emotional waves move through the brain, how to interrupt the stress cycle in under 30 seconds, and how to use this framework to strengthen trust with clients, teams, and the people you care about.

In this opening episode of Nine To Shine, Matt Robinson introduces the nine-minute format and the foundation of powerful communication: a grounded nervous system.

This week’s skill — the 9-Second Reset — is a simple breath pattern that interrupts stress, calms the body, and restores access to the clear-thinking part of your brain.

Matt explains how stress triggers an amygdala hijack, why we lose clarity under pressure, and how this tiny tool reactivates the parasympathetic nervous system, lowers cortisol, and brings the prefrontal cortex back online.

9toShine is a nine-minute reset for humans living in a demanding world.

About the time it takes to make — or enjoy — your morning coffee.

Hosted by Matt Robinson, former professional actor and global personal impact coach, this podcast explores the human skills that help us navigate work, pressure, relationships, and change.

Breath. Presence. Confidence. Voice. Energy. Resilience. Authentic influence.

Each short episode offers one practical tool — grounded in leading neuroscience and made simple, usable, and real.

This podcast is for anyone who is human — leaders and frontline workers, teachers and nurses, creatives, career professionals, and those finding their way through uncertainty.

Nine minutes. One pause.

Time to Shine.