Habits and Hustle
Episode 441: Peter Crone on Breaking Mental Prisons + How To Dissolve Limiting Beliefs in Seconds
Tue, 15 Apr 2025
Ever wonder why some people seem stuck in the same patterns while others break free and thrive? In this Habits and Hustle podcast episode, I am joined by Peter Crone, known as "The Mind Architect," to discuss how our deepest subconscious beliefs create invisible prisons that limit our potential. We dive into the invisible prisons of our subconscious mind and how they limit our potential. We also discuss why simply changing behaviors often fails, how to dissolve rather than solve problems, and the physics of how our perception shapes our reality. Peter Crone has worked with professional athletes, celebrities, and business leaders to help them break free from mental and emotional limitations. Former personal trainer to Tom Cruise, Peter has delineated the "10 prisons of the subconscious" that constrain human potential. Through his masterminds, live events, and Freedom membership program, he helps people dissolve the limiting beliefs that create suffering. What We Discuss: (03:50) Mind Architect's Actor Training Journey (11:11) Overcoming Limiting Beliefs for Success (17:17) Understanding Subconscious Patterns for Personal Growth (25:03) Unpacking Subconscious Patterns for Healing (30:00) Facing and Transforming Limiting Beliefs (42:48) Embracing Humanity and Self-Responsibility (54:03) Understanding Primal Emotional Needs (57:31) Releasing Lies and Embracing Authenticity (01:01:58) Exploring Self-Love and Healing (01:09:56) Uncovering Lies for Personal Freedom (01:19:32) Exploring Physics and Personal Transformation (01:25:47) Exploring Mind-Body Connection and Abundance …and more! Thank you to our sponsors: Therasage: Head over to therasage.com and use code Be Bold for 15% off TruNiagen: Head over to truniagen.com and use code HUSTLE20 to get $20 off any purchase over $100. Magic Mind: Head over to www.magicmind.com/jen and use code Jen at checkout. Air Doctor: Go to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code HUSTLE for up to $300 off and a 3-year warranty on air purifiers. Bio.me: Link to daily prebiotic fiber here, code Jennifer20 for 20% off. Momentous: Shop this link and use code Jen for 20% off Find more from Jen: Website: https://www.jennifercohen.com/ Instagram: @therealjencohen Books: https://www.jennifercohen.com/books Speaking: https://www.jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagement Find more from Peter Crone: Website: https://www.petercrone.com/
Chapter 1: Who is Peter Crone and why is he called the Mind Architect?
Okay, it says here, you're a mindset coach, speaker and writer known for your work as a well in personal development, performance optimization and spiritual well being. You're referred to as the mind architect and focuses on helping individuals, athletes, business leaders break free from mental and emotional limitations and reach their full potential. Does that like kind of?
I mean, it's pretty cool. I'd meet that guy.
Me too. That's why you're here. I wanted to meet that guy. First, let's start with why do you call yourself or who calls you a mind architect and what is that?
So I sort of generated the moniker just by virtue of what I call, you know, necessity being the mother of invention, right? Meaning that there wasn't any other title that seemed to be sufficiently appropriate. Like I'd been called a spiritual teacher or a performance coach or even once a hitman for the ego, a happiness guru. Oh, I like that one. Those are good. They're okay.
Yeah.
But I always was fascinated with architecture and particularly if you look at some of these sort of sci-fi type movies, which I love, like Inception and Matrix and Doctor Strange and sort of the architecture of time and space. And really what I recognized what I was actually doing was reorienting people's inner thinking space. So really redesigning who you are for yourself.
So the architecture seemed accurate and where was I doing it?
predominantly in the mind being as that's the interface between you know our unmanifest self and manifest self so like how did you get into this because i like you talk about a lot about the subconscious and how like we have our limiting beliefs and what we thought of our like it's so deep rooted and that and then we act and our behavior is based on these ideas and thoughts of ourselves that we're not even aware of correct yeah right yeah but you're not a psychologist are you
Not trained. No, no. Like I don't have a certificate on my wall. No.
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Chapter 2: What personal experiences shaped Peter Crone's journey into mindset coaching?
I mean, I went through a lot of my own sort of personal story as a human from a young age. Like I was only child. My mom passed of cancer when I was seven. So that was obviously pretty significant for a little boy. And then so it was me and my dad. And then at 17, so 10 years later, he went to work. He works on the boat. So go between Dover and England, Dover and France and England.
Dover being the southeast part of England. And then Dover and Zeebrugge, which is in Belgium. So they're ferry liners that carry cargo to people with caravans going on vacation, whatever. And that boat capsized. And so sadly he passed. So my dad went to work one day and I never saw him again. So they were both obviously significant. So seven and 17, mom and dad gone. I had a stepmother.
She wasn't married to my dad, but she'd moved in. So she was there for like the last four or five years prior to that. So she came in when I was about 12 or 13 or so. And so, you know, there was a semblance of some sort of adult figure taking care of stuff. But that really forged me into this, you know, more exacerbated form of survival that I saw every human being has.
Like we as mammals, our primordial imperative is just to make it. We just want to survive.
Right.
And so mine got obviously heightened at that point, didn't know where I was going to go. I eventually went to college, did very well. I actually skipped a year because my grades all got affected.
Where did you go to college? Back in London?
Back in the UK. Back in the UK. So a place called Loughborough, which was renowned more for sort of its athletic prowess, but it was sort of top five, you know, Oxford and Cambridge of the world, equivalent to the Harvards and stuff. And then sort of in the top five, it was a great school. And so that was an amazing, I did three years undergrad. I did a post-grad for a year, stayed on.
And then I very soon after that came to the States originally just for an experience. Like they did, you know, exchange programs where they pay 50 bucks a month or something to come and coach entitled kids tennis.
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Chapter 3: How do limiting beliefs and subconscious patterns affect performance and potential?
Okay, you don't, this is great. I was called for Tom Cruise many, many years ago, but are you a Scientologist?
No. No, not at all. No.
Because he was only hiring it at some point, like only Scientologist.
Yes, that was after I had left at the time. And a lot of the stuff was, but I wasn't. And a lot of stuff weren't, you know, but I guess he changed that afterwards.
So wait, so what movies did you do for him?
There were a lot. I was with him for five years.
Okay, I want to know. By the way, Mission Impossible is my favorite movie of all time. All of them. The whole series.
And I'm obsessed with them. These were early. I don't know if it was the very first one, but it was a couple. After we were two and three, we did a couple together. Moulin Rouge with Nicole. We did The Others. We did Minority Report. I can't remember. We did The Blue Room in London and New York, which was a Broadway show that Nicole had done. Yeah, it was amazing. I lost track of all the movies.
Jerry Maguire was on the back of that. He was just finishing that. She had done Peacemaker with George Clooney. Yeah, so it was five years. But anyway.
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Chapter 4: What are the 10 prisons of the subconscious and how do they limit us?
Same. Just smart. We're all athletes. We're all performers at the end of the day. You know, you're a mom, you have a show, you have a business, you know, you're a performer, right? And so I work with corporations and I look at the corporate athlete. You know, it's the same thing, right? Like what is your discipline, your dedication, how clear are you on what you're wanting to accomplish?
You know, where are your big audacious goals that you're trying to get to? Same with everybody. Yeah.
Then how do you help somebody break free from that, like their limited belief? Like what if they don't know it themselves? Like what's the process? Can you walk me through what like the process is to even begin really knowing what's in your subconscious mind?
Yeah, it's quite insidious. And for that reason, it's like kind of fine surgery. You know, Michelangelo was asked, how did you create this beautiful sculpture of David out of a piece of marble? And he said, I didn't. David was already in there. I just chipped away everything that wasn't David, right? Which is beautiful. So I think...
You know, early on in life, we take big chunks off the corner, right? You can maybe just see the corner of a shoulder. But what I'm working on is sort of the details around the eyelids and the nostrils, right? So it's very subtle.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it's sort of brain surgery a little bit, quite literally. Right, literally. So the process is you're a human being, whoever I'm working with, whatever walk of life. And you know you feel some constraints, some resistance, some frustration. There's a degree of you're not fulfilling on your version of potential or life isn't the way you want it.
Or, you know, further down the line of imbalances, you're sick or you have anxiety or depression or addiction, right? Most of my people are pretty robust. They have successful lives. They just want to go to the next level. But it runs the gamut, right? People to the point of like, I've helped people who are suicidal, you know, and help them understand they're actually not.
That's just a part of their subconscious that is asking to be relinquished. So they don't want to die, part of the software that no longer serves them wants to die. And that distinction alone has saved many lives, right?
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Chapter 5: How can we identify and dissolve subconscious limiting beliefs?
Yes. Okay.
So say that again.
This isn't the snicker bar like version.
This is not that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. I got to really laser focus.
So think about it this way. So this house that we're in, beautiful house can only exist because of the foundations, but we can't see the foundations, but nonetheless, the house could not exist if it weren't for them, nor could we build a bigger house relative to the size of foundation. Right. So think of the foundations like the subconscious.
Yep.
So everything that happens in this house is directly commensurate with the foundations that allow for it.
Yes. I'm following you. Yes.
So likewise, someone's personality and their conscious thoughts and the words they say can only exist to the degree that their foundations of their subconscious allow.
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Chapter 6: What role do ego and responsibility play in personal growth and freedom?
Yeah, that I haven't even looked at. Okay, so like I want to, there was a line, something like, you know, you help people go from where they are to where they think they should be.
Yeah.
Like, because I think that where we think, like where we think we should be versus where we actually are is why people get so frustrated and depressed and upset because they always think they should have had a different life that they have right now.
Yeah, and it's one of the things I do live events now, and I spoke recently at one of them talking about how it's incredible the amount of energy a human being exerts and puts into trying not to be where they are.
That's, I think, what social media has done, though, too, right?
It certainly contributed to it. Social media in and of itself is not doing anything. It's just appealing to these mechanisms of one of the fundamental prisons where we think that the way our life is isn't it, but we're getting there.
Right.
But you can never get there because you're never in the future. There's only the proverbial now that Eckhart Tolle has been talking about for 40 years.
Oh my God. By the way, am I the only person who talks to you that has to like really listen intently to like, it's not just me.
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Chapter 7: How does language and self-talk influence our subconscious programming?
Right.
Which actually allows me, I think, to perform even better because I don't have these limiting feelings of inadequacy or judgment and self-pity and woe that a lot of people do where they beat the shit out of themselves because I should have done this. I'm like, no, I'm pretty chill.
You're pretty chill about that. It's true because you seemed pretty chill when you walked in here. Much more chill than I thought you were going to be. But then again, I barely know you. Because you were telling me about the buckets for women, where the patterns are. What are the buckets and patterns for men that you see a lot?
Well, I said women more about the insecurities. So men, it tends to be more about performance. So women, obviously the primordial focus is on appearance and beauty, right? These are like deep in DNA, right? The prettiest girl wins the alpha male. So this is how you continue the species, right? This is deep, deep, deep DNA stuff. So for men, it's more around performance, right?
Like whether that be sports, sex, business, money, like, you know, that's where men struggle, right? Is that they're scared that they're not going to be doing something well enough. And so those are just big generalizations. But sometimes men can feel scared. I mean, I've helped a lot of guys who their dad was mercurial and really angry. And so they're scared too.
You know, they tend to cower if it's somebody of status or a boss or same thing. You can still have that same feeling of insecurity. Yeah.
So how do you work with someone like that to kind of get over the need to outperform?
But again, tracing it back to what is the underlying root narrative in their subconscious, like where did that start? Where was the first time you thought that being you wasn't enough and how you had to compensate was be the best or get the A or whatever it is?
And so you normally, people can remember, sometimes they forget, but when I'm having a conversation with them, they'll remember, wow, I can... the first time I came home with my sister, my grade card and she got all A's and I got a B and my dad, I could see he was really disappointed, something super benign.
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Chapter 8: How does Peter Crone help people transform through masterminds and live events?
No, no, no, no, no. No, that's why the quote again, Carl Jung was so beautiful because he said, until you make the unconscious, I call subconscious, conscious, it will drive your life, meaning it's what's informing, but you'll call it fate. So all behavior, like I said earlier, the words that you say, the genesis of them are these blind spots. So we think, oh, it's just bad luck.
No, it's the energetic signature that you occupy in the way that you see yourself at the deepest level that creates your energetic way of relating to everything in life. So there's no coincidence.
Is this like frequency and vibrate?
Everything is frequency and vibration, language, words, and even Tesla said, right? You want to understand the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration. Yes.
So how can you change, and how does someone change that frequency or that energy?
By recognizing if they're living in a prison based on linguistic, like what I call prisons, right? You say you have 10 of them too, right? Yes, but it gets more complex and- Oh God. Yeah. Well, because each one has got a shadow side too. So I'll give you an example. So someone who thinks they're not good enough, typically that becomes an adaptive way as a coping strategy.
So if someone is in an environment where they think they're not good enough, fill in the blank, because one of my baseball players, he could go four for five in a baseball game, which is amazing. He got four hits out of five at bats.
Amazing.
But he was still miserable in the locker room. People don't understand why, because as a kid, his dad would always tell him, well, what happened to the fifth at bat? So that's still the continuation of that feeling that he still wasn't enough.
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