Uncharted & Unfiltered: The Journey Back to You

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

Send us a textWhat 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.Support the showPlease rate and review with your honest opinion. Subscribe and share with your colleagues especially if you have worked with me and found value in the work we’ve done together. Connect with me in my favourite places, LinkedIn and Instagram and my website is: https://www.cynthiajamiesoncoach.ca/ Book a FREE Call to Explore Coaching Meet Me On The Arc Join the Free Community Join the Membership Make it a great week!Cynthia Jamieson 🧡🌱 Leadership Coach | Creator of The Self-Trust Arc™ | Intuitive Intelligence® Guide | 🎙️ Host | Helping Leaders Lead From Self-Trust, Presence, and Truth

E179: The Quiet Crisis of Leadership (and the Return to Self-Trust)

Send us a textWhat if the real work of leadership isn’t finding better answers—but learning how to trust your own?In this week's episode of Uncharted & Unfiltered, Cynthia Jamieson reflects on completing five powerful coaching journeys and the pattern that changed everything: every leader came in looking outside themselves for clarity—and left knowing how to find it within.In a world that’s louder, faster, and more confusing than ever (especially in the age of AI), Cynthia makes a bold case for why connected leadership is no longer optional. This episode explores how self-trust is built, where leaders unknowingly leak power, and why curiosity—not certainty—is the capacity that carries us forward.You’ll also be guided through a 7-minute “Connected Leader” practice to help you reconnect with your voice, values, and inner authority.This is an invitation to stop outsourcing your power—and come home to yourself.Support the showPlease rate and review with your honest opinion. Subscribe and share with your colleagues especially if you have worked with me and found value in the work we’ve done together. Connect with me in my favourite places, LinkedIn and Instagram and my website is: https://www.cynthiajamiesoncoach.ca/ Book a FREE Call to Explore Coaching Meet Me On The Arc Join the Free Community Join the Membership Make it a great week!Cynthia Jamieson 🧡🌱 Leadership Coach | Creator of The Self-Trust Arc™ | Intuitive Intelligence® Guide | 🎙️ Host | Helping Leaders Lead From Self-Trust, Presence, and Truth

E178: Endurance Or Integrity (Why Staying Capable Can Cost Your Truth)

Send us a textAre you enduring more than you’re living? Waiting for clarity before making the change you know is calling you?In this episode of Uncharted and Unfiltered, I explore the difference between endurance — staying because you can — and integrity — choosing what truly aligns with who you are now. She breaks down how your body, your emotions, and even your identity give you signals that it’s time to step into alignment, and how confusing endurance with integrity keeps us small.You’ll hear:Why waiting isn’t neutral, and what it costs youHow your body signals misalignment before your mind even noticesWhy identity shifts can feel scarier than facing the shadowsHow to return to the part of you that’s been whispering, nudging, and waitingIf you’re ready to stop negotiating with yourself and take real action, book your free consult call here. This is your chance to explore what’s next and step fully into alignment with the life you’ve been waiting for.Listen now and start walking toward yourself — not alone.Support the showPlease rate and review with your honest opinion. Subscribe and share with your colleagues especially if you have worked with me and found value in the work we’ve done together. Connect with me in my favourite places, LinkedIn and Instagram and my website is: https://www.cynthiajamiesoncoach.ca/ Book a FREE Call to Explore Coaching Meet Me On The Arc Join the Free Community Join the Membership Make it a great week!Cynthia Jamieson 🧡🌱 Leadership Coach | Creator of The Self-Trust Arc™ | Intuitive Intelligence® Guide | 🎙️ Host | Helping Leaders Lead From Self-Trust, Presence, and Truth

E177: A Pause, A Choice, and a Christmas Message

Send us a textAfter a couple of quieter weeks, I’m returning to the microphone with clarity rather than urgency and with truth rather than explanation.This episode is an orientation.I share why I chose to pause, what was reorganizing beneath the surface, and how this moment reflects what I call post-institutional leadership:  the phase that arrives after years of leading inside systems where authority was external, and you’re asked to lead without that scaffolding.I talk about why this kind of leadership often shows up later, not right away; why I’m choosing depth over volume with the podcast going forward; and what it means to be locatable rather than everywhere.I also share how I’m simplifying my work in a way that feels more honest and sustainable — and offer a Christmas and year-end message for anyone who feels tired of bracing, performing, or holding it all together.This episode isn’t about doing less.It’s about choosing more honestly.No rush.No pressure.Just a place to pause and listen.Support the showPlease rate and review with your honest opinion. Subscribe and share with your colleagues especially if you have worked with me and found value in the work we’ve done together. Connect with me in my favourite places, LinkedIn and Instagram and my website is: https://www.cynthiajamiesoncoach.ca/ Book a FREE Call to Explore Coaching Meet Me On The Arc Join the Free Community Join the Membership Make it a great week!Cynthia Jamieson 🧡🌱 Leadership Coach | Creator of The Self-Trust Arc™ | Intuitive Intelligence® Guide | 🎙️ Host | Helping Leaders Lead From Self-Trust, Presence, and Truth

E176: Self-Trust Begins When The Story Ends

Send us a textIn this powerful behind-the-scenes episode, I take you into a six-month coaching journey that reveals something universal about leadership, self-trust, and the stories we tell ourselves.My client — an accomplished, caring, highly capable leader — came into coaching believing that every tense meeting, every system glitch, and every emotional reaction from her team meant something about her. Like so many high-achieving leaders I coach, she wasn’t overwhelmed by the work. She was overwhelmed by her interpretation of the work.What unfolded next was nothing short of transformational.In this episode, you’ll hear how she learned to:Stop taking responsibility for everyone else’s feelingsReplace “I don’t know” with the far more powerful “I can figure this out”Shift from pressure → presence, chaos → clarityRegulate her emotional landscape instead of absorbing everyone else’sLead with compassion, integrity, boundaries, and inner steadinessRecognize that self-trust isn’t about having the answer — it’s believing she can find oneYou’ll also hear truths I shared with her — the kind that disrupt old patterns and open the door to identity-level transformation:You’re not responsible for everything.Uncertainty is not failure.Chaos doesn’t mean you’re ineffective.And your story is not the truth.By the end of our work together, she wasn’t trying to “perform” leadership anymore.She was inhabiting it — fully, authentically, intentionally.If you are a leader who finds yourself overthinking, over-owning, or overwhelmed by the emotional climate around you… this episode is for you.You’ll walk away with three powerful invitations:Where are you confusing chaos with inadequacy?Where are you picking up emotional weight that isn’t yours?Where can you shift from “I don’t know” → “I can figure this out”?Because coaching isn’t about becoming someone better.It’s about becoming someone truer.If this episode resonates and you’re ready to lead from clarity, steadiness, and self-trust instead of pressure and perfection, I invite you to book a clarity call through the link in the show notes.Breathe deeply.Lead gently.And trust yourself more than you think you can.Support the showPlease rate and review with your honest opinion. Subscribe and share with your colleagues especially if you have worked with me and found value in the work we’ve done together. Connect with me in my favourite places, LinkedIn and Instagram and my website is: https://www.cynthiajamiesoncoach.ca/ Book a FREE Call to Explore Coaching Meet Me On The Arc Join the Free Community Join the Membership Make it a great week!Cynthia Jamieson 🧡🌱 Leadership Coach | Creator of The Self-Trust Arc™ | Intuitive Intelligence® Guide | 🎙️ Host | Helping Leaders Lead From Self-Trust, Presence, and Truth