Youtube

Landing pages - ChatGPT Image Jun 2_ 2026_ 12_03_00 PM

The Weight of High Performance: What We've Been Carrying All Along

There comes a point when carrying more no longer feels like a choice.

Responsibility becomes routine. People rely on you because you've always been the one who steps in, finds a ...solution, and keeps moving forward.

Over time, that way of living becomes so familiar that endurance begins to feel like the measure of success.

What often goes unnoticed isn't everything we're doing.
It's everything we've been carrying.

The conversations that ended too soon. The disappointments we learned to move past. The losses we never slowed down long enough to acknowledge. Little by little, those experiences become part of how we lead, communicate, make decisions, and respond to the world around us, often without realizing how much influence they have.

We've been taught that resilience means becoming stronger.
What if it also means becoming more aware?

That question invites us to look at high performance through a different lens. One that recognizes success is not measured only by what we accomplish, but also by our relationship with ourselves. Because what we carry internally has a way of shaping everything we create externally.

This LIVE explores a question that many professionals rarely have the opportunity to ask:
What have we been carrying all along... and what begins to change when we finally become curious about it?

What We Will Discuss
• Why high performers often become disconnected from the experiences quietly shaping the way they lead, communicate, and make decisions
• How grief, pressure, and life's challenges can become sources of insight rather than experiences we simply learn to outwork
• What ancient wisdom and nervous system science reveal about resilience, self-awareness, and living with greater intention
• How understanding what we've been carrying can deepen our relationships, strengthen our leadership, and influence the impact we have on others

Our Guest-perts:
Dave Roberts has spent more than two decades helping individuals and families navigate grief following the death of his eighteen-year-old daughter, Jeannine. Through counseling, education, writing, and speaking, he offers a compassionate perspective that reminds us grief is not something to overcome, but an experience that can deepen our understanding of love, loss, and what it means to live with intention.

James Kealiʻiʻilani Kawainui is a Kahu and keeper of a twenty-plus generation Kahuna lineage. Through the living practice of pono, he guides leaders and high achievers toward greater balance, helping them recognize that pain is not the problem, but a messenger pointing them back to harmony, integrity, and a deeper relationship with themselves.

Together, Dave and James invite us to reconsider one of the greatest misconceptions about high performance: that carrying more is the same as living well.

Their perspectives remind us that some of our greatest growth begins when we become willing to understand what we've been carrying all along.

🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6070954301456384Show More

The Weight of High Performance: What We've Been Carrying All Along

There comes a point when carrying more no longer feels like a choice. ...

The Heartbeat of Business: Where Somatics, Leadership, and Human Connection Meet

Most professionals have been taught to lead from the neck up. Analyze ...

Most professionals have been taught to lead from the neck up.
Analyze the data. Read the room, make the decisions, and keep moving.

Yet the body is participating in every one of ...those moments.

Before a difficult conversation begins, something tightens. Under pressure, the breath changes and attention narrows. We sense when trust is present, when a room feels guarded, or when something is off long before we can explain why.
We often dismiss those responses as stress, instinct, or emotion.
What if they are also information?

That question opens a much bigger conversation about the way we lead, communicate, and connect.

Because business is never just strategy meeting strategy. It is one nervous system meeting another, with each person bringing their history, expectations, internal patterns, and capacity into the room.

How we show up is what makes the impact in our lives and others.
It can influence whether someone speaks honestly or stays silent, whether tension escalates or settles, and whether a team simply performs or has enough trust to think creatively, challenge ideas, and grow.

This is where The Heartbeat of Business begins.

Not with another leadership formula, but with a closer look at the human signals shaping decisions beneath the surface.

This LIVE brings together two distinct perspectives that rarely share the same stage: the physical heart and the lived experience of the body in business.

Together, we'll explore the intersection of somatic awareness, leadership, pressure, and human connection, looking at what becomes possible when professionals stop relying solely on intellectual intelligence and begin recognizing the information their bodies have been communicating all along.

What We Will Discuss:
• Why the body often responds before we have words for what we're experiencing, and what we may miss when we keep pushing past those signals
• How nervous system awareness can help us understand our reactions during pressure, conflict, and difficult decisions
• The impact our internal state has on the people around us, and how presence can shape trust, communication, and the way others experience our leadership

Our Guest-perts
Teresa Palmer brings a rare perspective shaped by her work as a cardiology nurse and her own spiritual journey. Years spent close to the physical heart have deepened curiosity about human connection, inner awareness, and the experiences that shape how we relate to ourselves and those around us.

Thomas works with business leaders through a somatic lens, helping professionals recognize how the body and nervous system influence leadership, decision-making, communication, and performance under pressure.

Their work approaches the human experience from different directions, yet meets around a compelling question:
What are we missing when we try to lead, grow, and connect without listening to the body carrying us through it all?

Join Us Live
📅 Thursday, July 9
🕑 2:00 PM EST | 11:00 AM PST
📍 Live on LinkedIn and YouTube
, and

🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6070954301456384Show More

Regulated Ecosystem: When you're holding it all

When you're the one everyone depends on, it can become easy to carry ...

💪The Work Beneath The Work ~ Beyond Effort, Into Transformation

The Work Beneath The Work Beyond Effort, Into Transformation Most ...

The Work Beneath The Work
Beyond Effort, Into Transformation

Most people are familiar with effort, work harder, and learning more.
Trying a different strategy.
Pushing through resistance.
Yet there comes a point when effort alone ...no longer creates the change we are seeking.

The same challenges continue to surface, frustrations return, and the same results find a way to repeat themselves.

At some point, the question becomes less about what we are doing and more about what may be shaping our experience beneath the surface.

✨This is where the conversation shifts.

Beneath every habit, reaction, belief, and decision is a deeper layer influencing how we move through life.

Patterns formed through experience.
Stories we learned to believe.
Responses that became familiar long before we questioned whether they still serve us.

Most people never see this layer.

They only experience the outcome.
The hesitation.
The frustration.
The recurring challenge.

The feeling of knowing something needs to change without fully understanding why it hasn't.

❤️‍🔥Transformation often begins here.

Through recognizing the hidden patterns that quietly influence our choices, relationships, leadership, confidence, and sense of possibility.
When that awareness begins to grow, something remarkable happens.

Perspective changes.

New pathways become available.
The way forward becomes easier to recognize.
What once felt stuck begins to move.

This LIVE opens a conversation about the work beneath the work.
The place where lasting change begins long before it becomes visible to the outside world.

What We Will Explore
• The hidden patterns that continue shaping outcomes despite effort and good intentions
• Why awareness often creates more change than willpower alone
• How the brain and nervous system reinforce familiar responses and what helps create new possibilities
• What becomes available when transformation begins beneath the surface rather than at the level of behavior alone

Our Guest-perts
Amy "Shine" McClain is a hypnotherapist who helps professionals move beyond repeating patterns and access new ways of thinking, responding, and creating change.

Aura Martinez is a Self-Discovery and Empowerment Coach whose work helps individuals gain greater clarity, well-being, and purpose through deeper self-awareness and practical action.

Together, Amy and Aura bring a conversation that explores what happens when growth moves beyond effort and into transformation.

Join Us Live
📅 Thursday, June 25
🕙 10:00 AM PST | 12:00 PM CST | 1:00 PM EST | 6:00 PM UK
📍 Streaming on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook

A Question to Carry Forward:
If effort alone could have created the change you wanted, would it have happened by now?
What might become possible if the answer lies somewhere deeper?Show More

❤️‍🔥From the Boardroom to the Bedroom: The Nervous System's Role in Connection, Trust, and Intimacy

Most people think connection begins with communication. Finding the ...

Most people think connection begins with communication.
Finding the right words. Having the conversation. Saying what needs to be said.
Yet there are moments when the words are present, but something still ...feels out of reach.
A difficult conversation gets postponed.
A boundary feels hard to express.
A desire goes unspoken.
An important need remains hidden beneath the surface, even when the longing and willingness are present, because the connection itself feels harder to access. These experiences are often viewed as communication challenges.
Their roots frequently reach much deeper.
The nervous system plays a powerful role in how safe we feel being seen, heard, understood, and vulnerable with another person.
That influence extends far beyond our closest relationships.
It shapes how we navigate conflict. How we establish trust, lead, collaborate, and connect.
This is where the conversation shifts.
Connection is rarely created through words alone.
Safety creates the conditions for honesty, and trust creates the conditions for openness.
A regulated nervous system creates the conditions for deeper connection.
When those elements are present, conversations begin to change. Relationships become more authentic. People feel more comfortable bringing forward who they truly are.
This LIVE opens a conversation about the relationship between nervous system safety, communication, trust, and intimacy.
A look at what becomes possible when connection is supported by something deeper than effort alone.
________________________________________
What We Will Discuss:
• Why safety plays such a significant role in communication, trust, and emotional connection
• How nervous system patterns influence the way we show up in relationships, leadership, and everyday interactions
• What creates the conditions for honest conversations, healthy boundaries, and meaningful connection
• How greater awareness can support stronger relationships both personally and professionally
________________________________________
Our Guest-pert
Irene Fehr, MA, CPCC, SEP is a Sexless Marriage Recovery Coach who helps couples rebuild desire when love is present but connection has faded.
Drawing from both professional expertise and personal experience, Irene works at the intersection of emotional intimacy, nervous system awareness, and human connection. Her approach helps people understand the hidden patterns that create pressure, disconnection, and distance while offering practical pathways toward greater trust, closeness, and authenticity.
Her forthcoming book, Desire Under Pressure: A Practical 12-Step Guide to Wanting—and Enjoying—Sex Again, explores how modern life influences connection and what helps restore it.
________________________________________
Join Us Live
📅 Thursday
🕙 10:00 AM PST | 1:00 PM EST | 6:00 PM UK
📍 Live on LinkedIn and YouTube
________________________________________Show More

Guided Meditation When Something Feels Heavy

When something feels heavy, the body often asks for space before it ...

When Something Feels Heavy: A Guided Meditation for Nervous System Regulation

There are moments when the weight of life feels difficult to name. ...

The Culture You Carry ~ Shapes Performance, Leadership, and Growth

The Culture You Carry ~ How Environment Shapes Performance, ...

The Culture You Carry ~
How Environment Shapes Performance, Leadership, and Growth.

Most people think culture belongs to an organization.
Something written on a wall, shared during onboarding, or included in a mission ...statement.

Yet culture has a way of revealing itself long before anyone reads the values.
It lives in the conversations we have with ourselves. It shows up in the standards we accept, the way we respond under pressure, and the expectations we place on the people around us.

Over time, those moments shape more than performance.
They influence relationships. They affect trust. They determine whether people feel valued, supported, and connected to something bigger than themselves.
The impact can be felt.

A team begins communicating differently.
People become more engaged.
Accountability becomes something people embrace rather than avoid.
This is where the conversation shifts.

Leadership is often associated with position or title. The deeper influence comes from the culture we create through our daily interactions, the way we listen, the way we communicate, and the example we set for others to follow.

This LIVE opens a conversation about the relationship between culture, leadership, communication, and human potential.

A look at what becomes possible when people intentionally create environments that bring out the best in themselves and those around them.
________________________________________
What We Will Discuss:
• How environment influences mindset, performance, and the standards we live by
• Why connection and communication often determine the strength of a team more than talent alone
• What leaders can do to create trust, accountability, and engagement that lasts
• How culture shapes confidence, growth, and the ability to reach our potential
________________________________________
Our Guest-perts:
Keith Mercer and Dr. Stephanie Duguid bring powerful and complementary perspectives to this conversation.

Keith's journey from adversity to Division I Football Champion, leadership speaker, educator, and founder of Mercer Elite has given him firsthand insight into the role mindset, accountability, and personal standards play in creating lasting success. His work helps students, educators, leaders, teams, and organizations recognize their potential, raise their standards, and develop the confidence needed to thrive.

Dr. Stephanie Duguid brings more than three decades of experience as a teacher, athletic trainer, administrator, and leadership culture strategist. Her work focuses on helping organizations strengthen communication, build trust, and create cultures where people feel connected, valued, and supported.
Together, they offer a powerful perspective on the relationship between environment, leadership, and the impact culture has on both personal and professional growth.

A Question to Carry Forward:
What culture are you creating through the way you show up each day?

#LivingWithIntention #HoundsOfBusiness #LeadershipGrowth #TeamCulture #LeadershipDevelopmentShow More

Regulated Ecosystem: A Guided Meditation When you feel pressured to perform

Regulated Ecosystem | Guided Meditation for Stress, Overwhelm & ...

💸The Cost of Uncertainty :What Becomes Possible When Clarity Returns

Most people do not think of uncertainty as something they carry. Yet ...

Most people do not think of uncertainty as something they carry.
Yet it can shape the way they move through an entire day.
Attention gets pulled in different directions.
Simple decisions begin to ...feel heavier.
Questions linger longer than they should.
➜ Revenue.
➜ Growth.
➜ Direction.
Those questions rarely stay at work.
Attention becomes divided. Decisions carry extra weight. Mental energy gets spent filling in the blanks.
The body feels this.
Pressure lingers.
This is where the conversation shifts.
Financial clarity reaches far beyond the numbers.
Confidence grows. Decisions become easier to navigate. Leadership feels more grounded.
Clarity creates room to think, lead, and grow with greater intention.
This LIVE opens a conversation about the relationship between uncertainty, confidence, leadership, and growth.
A look at what becomes possible once the guesswork begins to fade and a clearer picture starts to emerge.
________________________________________
What We Will Discuss:
• The hidden cost of uncertainty and how it influences far more than finances
• Why confidence often grows from clarity rather than certainty
• What shifts in leadership when assumptions are replaced with visibility
• How understanding the numbers can create more space for growth, creativity, and meaningful impact
________________________________________
Our Guests
Kirsten Graham and Jeanne Willson are the Co-Founders of Love Your Profit.
Together, they bring a refreshing perspective to a topic many business owners would rather avoid.
Their work goes far beyond bookkeeping.
Together, they help entrepreneurs gain visibility into what is happening behind the scenes of their business so decisions become clearer, confidence grows stronger, and attention can return to the work that truly requires their gifts.
The result is more than organized finances.
It is a greater sense of trust in the numbers, a clearer understanding of what is driving growth, and the freedom to spend less time wondering and more time leading.
Through Love Your Profit, Kirsten and Jeanne support business owners in creating the clarity, systems, and financial confidence needed to make informed decisions, strengthen leadership, and build sustainable growth.
________________________________________
Join Us Live
📅 Thursday, June 4
🕙 10:00 AM PST | 1:00 PM EST | 6:00 PM UK
📍 Live on LinkedIn and YouTube
________________________________________
A Wider Lens
One of the things I appreciate most about the Hounds of Business community, founded by Mike Ashabraner, is the opportunity to have conversations like this.
What begins as a conversation about finances often reveals something deeper: confidence, leadership, and the impact uncertainty can have on daily life.
That is the value of community.
Kirsten and Jeanne are wonderful examples of the professionals found within Hounds of Business, helping entrepreneurs gain clarity, confidence, and momentum that creates lasting impact.
This same principle is woven throughout the Bali retreat experience.
Space creates perspective.
A change in environment often creates a shift in awareness.
Stepping away from the constant demands of daily life allows the body to soften, the mind to settle, and a different level of clarity to emerge. Priorities become easier to recognize. Decisions feel less tangled. Energy returns to what matters most.
If you feel called to explore that experience, I would love to connect with you.
________________________________________
A Question to Carry Forward
If clarity suddenly arrived in the area of your business that feels the most uncertain, what would become available to you that feels out of reach today?Show More

Regulated Ecosystem When you feel Emotionally Heavy

Regulated Ecosystem: When You Feel Emotionally Heavy | Guided ...

Regulated Ecosystem: A Guided Meditation When You Need To Reset

A grounded reflection on nervous system regulation, burnout recovery, ...