042: Building Emotional Sustainability in Business with Nicole Lewis Keeber
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In this episode, Nicole Lewis Keeber delves into the intricacies of our nervous system, explaining its primary function - to keep us alive. She explores the concept of the nervous system constantly interpreting our environment, deciding what is safe and what’s not.
Touching upon how it anticipatively breaks down a room full of people, Nicole elaborates on its unseen yet profound role in our daily existence.
Nicole is the business therapist. She's also the author of How to Love your Business and creator of the Do No Harm program for trauma conscious entrepreneurs. She's passionate about the impact of small T trauma on businesses and combines therapeutic processes with business coaching to really help entrepreneurs build emotionally sustainable, financially stable, businesses. She's trained and certified with Brene Brown's Dare to Lead methodology and has been featured on media outlets like Fast Company and NPR. We talk about:
[0:00] Intro
[4:05] Shifting from social work to her work in the business community
[6:30] Why she wrote her book
[8:10] How your business can reflect your relationships with others
[13:55] Helping leaders understand emotional patterns behind trauma
[16:05] Adapting to trauma
[17:20] Nervous system 101 and why leaders need to understand it
[20:55] The impact of dysregulated leaders
[23:55] Advice for those who may feel like their inner child plays no role in what they do in their business
[26:30] Navigating a group of people through something they don't fully buy into
[30:30] Recognizing you are not only your work
[34:45] Putting money at the center of our worth
[36:15] Finding safety from within
[42:10] Rapid fire questions
I invite you to tune in to this insightful episode and gain further wisdom from Nicole's expertise. You can find the full transcript on my website, along with more information about Nicole and her work.
Thank you for being a part of my podcast community, and remember to stay tuned for more inspiring episodes to come!
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