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Overwhelmed and burned out? You're not alone. This episode is for anyone running on empty who needs to stop but can't figure out how.

Sandy is 11 days out from a 10-day Vipassana silent meditation course. She has an active book campaign running, a Speak Brave cohort mid-flight, and a business that doesn't know it's about to lose its CEO. And she's going anyway.

This is Episode 4 — the final episode in the Going Silent series.

In this episode you'll learn:

— Why 75% of workers are burned out in 2026 and the real driver that might surprise you (DHR Global 2026 Workforce Trends Report)

— The honest conversation Sandy had with Kris about why she's really going — and the question about worthiness she'd never said out loud before

— The Silence Inventory exercise that creates powerful insight in just 5 minutes

— The Instant EQ Guided Reset — an 8 minute guided tool to shift you into a calm headspace quickly

— What Sandy is witnessing in her Speak Brave June cohort — and the question it's asking her

— The huge surprise that happened in the first hour of Sandy's Connected Conversations pre-order launch

Join the journey! Pre-order Sandy's new book, Connected Conversations at publishizer.com/connected-conversations before August 15th and get a whole bunch of bonuses. Sandy's free guided silence session and the Instant EQ Reset Audio tool are both inside the Best Chapter community on Skool. https://www.skool.com/bestchapter

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The EQ tool to help you pause before you react, that's what you're walking away with today. And once you understand how you're wired, you'll see why pausing has always been harder than it looks.

Sandy is 15 days out from a 10-day Vipassana silent meditation course. No phone, no talking, ten hours of meditation a day. She signed up curious and a little brave. Then she read three books about what she actually committed to. This episode is her honest, slightly panicked, completely real reaction to what she found.

This is Episode 3 in the Going Silent series.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Why you're wired to react — and what the Stanford marshmallow test reveals about how you're built
• Why Sandy's lowest EQ score is and what her Experience and Achievement Emotional Magnets have to do with that
• What observational non-reaction means and why it's the most confronting thing she's read about this course
• The connected conversation Sandy had with Kris on the beach in Tofino — and the one question that stopped everything
• Why everything that's ever scared Sandy has turned out to be the thing that changed her most
• The EQ Switch — the 3 step neuroscience backed tool to pause before you react

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How to quiet your inner critic isn't about positive thinking or pushing the voice down. It starts with understanding the two modes that keep feeding it — and most of us have been running both without knowing it.

Your brain cycles between craving — the reaching, the not yet, not enough, not there — and aversion — the avoiding, the deciding not to look at the thing directly. A monk spent a lifetime naming them. A CEO discovered the same truth with two questions he does every morning before he picks up his phone, and within weeks described a shift in how he leads, listens, and shows up at home.

This is Episode 2 in the Going Silent series. Sandy is 3 weeks out from a 10-day Vipassana silent retreat — no phone, no talking, ten hours of meditation a day — and she's bringing you along the whole way.

In this episode you'll learn:

• What craving and aversion are and how they show up in your job and your relationships
• Why your inner critic gets loudest the moment things go quiet
• What Thich Nhat Hanh calls Radio NST and why 30 to 50 percent of your day is running it
• What the first three days of Vipassana involve and why it starts with the nostrils
• The First and Last Thought practice: two questions that shifted everything for one CEO
• How to find out in 30 seconds what your mind is actually running right now