EPISODE #156
Beyond the Fix-It Mentality: Starting From Whole & Complete
with Barbara Patterson
About This Episode
Have you ever felt like you’re a project in need of fixing? Like if you could just conquer that flaw, stick to that habit, or find the right formula, you’d finally arrive? For years, Barb lived inside that story, and it left her with a constant hum of dissatisfaction and self-doubt.
In this solo episode, Barb shares how the self-improvement path opened incredible doors, yet also kept her locked in a cycle of striving. What began to shift everything was the realization that she was never broken to begin with, that our true starting point is whole and complete.
Through personal stories and real-life examples, she explores how this fix-it mentality sneaks into business, creativity, and leadership, and what changes when we begin to relate to ourselves from wholeness instead of lack.
If you’ve been caught in endless self-analysis or always trying to “get better,” this conversation is an invitation to stop repairing and start creating, to inhabit your life and business fully, quirks and all, from the wholeness that’s already within you.
Show Notes
- [00:00] – Introduction to The Innerverse of Business and Life Podcast
- [00:54] – The Illusion of Self-Improvement
- [03:54] – Breaking Free from the Fix-It Mentality
- [06:22] – Discovering Wholeness Beyond Fixing
- [09:27] – Embracing Our Essential Nature
- [12:17] – The Power of the Unknown
- [15:11] – Shifting Perspectives on Growth
- [18:15] – Living from Wholeness, Not Brokenness
- [21:40] – Thank you for listening!
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Meet Your Host
Barbara Patterson is the owner of a global coaching and consulting company helping entrepreneurs, leaders, and those who serve them access more clarity and creativity, have greater impact, build powerful relationships, and experience higher levels of fulfillment in work and life. She is the founder of Innerverse Academy, a global platform and community designed to point people to the source of human potential and the relationship between their inner world and their work in the world.
You can follow Barb on Linkedin and Instagram. You can also learn more about Barb and her decades of work here.

