E180: Your Nervous System Called; It Wants A New Boss

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What if the version of you that crushes the meeting isn’t the one truly leading? We open a candid look at the gap so many high performers feel—the calm exterior paired with a bracing, overclocked interior—and chart a practical route from pressure to presence. Rather than chasing more hacks or borrowed scripts, we explore how to rebuild the internal architecture of leadership so your choices align with values, not validation.

I walk through the “self-trust arc,” a five-phase framework forged from guiding hundreds of leaders beyond the quiet crisis: overdrive, awareness, choice, alignment, and embodiment. You’ll hear why fear often masquerades as responsibility, how that fuels over preparation and control, and what it takes to stop renting confidence from external answers. We ground the conversation in biology, not bravado, explaining why the sympathetic nervous system narrows your vision and how a regulated, parasympathetic state unlocks clarity, empathy, and creativity. The throughline is simple and demanding: clear leadership requires safety, and safety can be trained.

If you’re succeeding yet feel strangely absent from your own work, this conversation offers both language and method to shift course. You’ll gain tools to recognise fear’s voice, practise decision-making before certainty arrives, and return authority to your inner compass. We close with one catalytic question designed to end endurance patterns and start a new operating system—one built on self-trust and principled action. If this resonates, subscribe, share with a leader who needs it, and leave a review to help others find the show.

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Leadership Coach | Creator of The Self-Trust Arc™ | Intuitive Intelligence® Guide | 🎙️ Host | Helping Leaders Lead From Self-Trust, Presence, and Truth