In this episode, Dr. Brittany McGeehan discusses why high-achieving women are taught to suppress emotion—and how that strategy quietly leads to burnout, instability, and loss of clarity at the top.

Using Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour documentary as a real-world case study, Dr. Brittany breaks down the difference between emotional suppression and emotional integration, and why elite performance actually requires the ability to feel without losing control.

She introduces the Up & Out method—a precise, repeatable system for completing stress cycles, restoring nervous system regulation, and returning to task without carrying emotional residue into work, leadership, or family life.

This episode is for high performers who have been told emotions are a liability—and are ready to use them as an asset instead.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• How Taylor Swift models emotional precision: knowing when to feel, where to feel, and how to return to execution without spiraling
• Why high-performing women are often rewarded for suppression early on—and how that eventually leads to burnout, crashes, or disconnection
• How to recognize the early signs you’ve hit an emotional “boulder” (before it hijacks your focus or relationships)
• A simple, repeatable 90-second process to metabolize emotion in real time without losing authority, clarity, or momentum
• How learning to regulate without shutting down increases sustainable output, confidence, and leadership presence

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In this episode, Dr. Brittany McGeehan breaks down why high-performing women often feel confident and decisive at work but scattered and stuck at home—and how emotional precision and the Yours/Mine/Ours framework closes the identity split that’s quietly draining their cognitive capacity, connection, and peace.

High-performing women often look confident, decisive, and capable in high-stakes environments, yet feel disconnected, uncertain, and emotionally overwhelmed behind closed doors. This episode unpacks why that happens and why it’s not simply “overfunctioning” that drains you. It’s the identity split—the internal dissonance of being one version of yourself at work and another at home.

You’ll learn a practical skill Dr. Brittany calls emotional precision and a fast decision-tree framework—Yours, Mine, Ours—to stop absorbing other people’s emotional energy, close the mental tabs that keep you stuck, and reclaim cognitive capacity for leadership, relationships, and actual joy.

What you’ll learn:

• Why dissonance is the real cognitive leak (not just being competent)
• How “I’m an empath” can become a trap that turns you into the room’s emotional regulator
• The difference between what’s theirs, what’s yours, and what belongs in the shared container
• How to build emotional precision so you can regulate quickly in high-stakes rooms without disappearing

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In this episode, Dr. Brittany McGeehan explores how well-intentioned, high-performing parents can unintentionally erode a child’s self-efficacy—and how learning to tolerate discomfort instead of fixing it builds resilient, capable kids.

High-performing women are incredible at anticipating needs, solving problems, and keeping everything running smoothly—but those same strengths can quietly work against our children.

In this episode, Dr. Brittany McGeehan unpacks the concept of self-efficacy—a child’s belief that they can handle challenges—and why overprotecting, over-managing, and over-functioning can slowly strip kids of that belief. Drawing from developmental psychology, nervous system science, and real-life parenting moments, Dr. Brittany walks through how discomfort is not the enemy, why suffering isn’t trauma, and how learning when not to intervene is one of the most powerful parenting skills there is.

This conversation is especially for parents who feel the urge to jump in, smooth things over, or fix the moment—because your child’s confidence isn’t built in comfort, it’s built in experience.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Why constantly fixing discomfort teaches children to doubt their own capability
• How to tell the difference between a moment that requires intervention and one that builds confidence
• What high-performing parents can do instead of over-functioning to raise resilient, self-trusting kids

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Dr. Brittany discusses why healing often reshapes your friendships—surfacing where you shrink, overgive, or feel unsupported—and how to build sturdier, more honest community without resentment.

Dr. Brittany discusses what happens when your private healing work starts changing your friendships. She breaks down why you may suddenly feel like you’re outgrowing certain circles, why you shrink around specific women, and why “having a lot of friends” can still feel lonely when you don’t have anyone you’d actually call in a hard moment. She also explains how childhood relational wiring shows up in adult friendship dynamics, why many high-achieving women become the “villager” without receiving real care back, and how to build community in a way that feels sturdy, mutual, and emotionally safe.

What you’ll learn:

• How childhood patterns quietly shape adult friendships
• The difference between having a network and having support
• A practical way to stop overgiving and start building real community

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Dr. Brittany discusses how identity is formed, why high-performing women often outgrow the roles that made them successful, and what it actually takes to build a new identity that your nervous system can sustain—without waiting to feel ready.

Dr. Brittany discusses identity formation from a psychological and nervous system lens—specifically how identity is built through belonging, repeated relational responses, and nervous system “pairing” that teaches you who you have to be to stay safe. She breaks down why “this is just who I am” is often a learned survival pattern, not a personality trait, and she shares the three most common signs you’re living from an identity you’ve already outgrown: recreating stress even when life is stable, feeling disconnected despite external success, and struggling to rest or receive support without guilt. Dr. Brittany closes with a practical framework to map your origin identity and begin building a new one through micro-reps that create real evidence for your body.

What you’ll learn:

• Identity isn’t who you are—it’s who your nervous system learned it had to be to stay safe.
• If you keep recreating stress even when life is good, your identity hasn’t caught up to your reality.
• Identity change happens through evidence + repetition—small reps your body can actually tolerate.

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A high-performing approach to 2026 goal setting that starts with nervous system safety so your targets are driven by capacity, not pressure.

As we enter 2026, high-performing women are doing what we do best: audits, planning retreats, dashboards, and goal-setting sprints. The problem is that a lot of goal setting is quietly driven by nervous system pressure, not desire.

In this episode, Dr. Brittany McGeehan breaks down why so many high-achieving women don’t actually feel safe inside their success, how that fuels over-functioning and burnout, and what it looks like to set goals from regulation instead of fear.

You’ll learn a practical 3-step process to calm the body first, name the fear underneath your goals, and rewrite your plan from safety so your 2026 goals are sustainable, aligned, and actually enjoyable to live inside.

What You'll Learn:

• Why opening your 2025 data can trigger pressure, even when you “should feel proud”
• The hidden driver behind burnout
• How childhood wiring turns achievement into adrenaline, not security
• The difference between discipline and self-abandonment (and why high performers confuse them)
• Signs your goals are coming from fear
• The “identity lag” that shows up after fast growth (and why it creates imposter syndrome)
• A 3-step nervous-system-based goal-setting process:

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A vulnerable, deeply honest episode where Dr. Brittany shares what it was really like to walk through the end of her marriage, what she learned about identity, control, self-trust, and how these tools can help you rebuild your own life from the inside out.

In this raw and intimate episode, Dr. Brittany opens up about one of the hardest seasons of her life - the death of her first marriage and the rebirth of the second. She walks you through the psychological collapse, the aloneness, the identity unraveling, and the deeply spiritual work of letting an old version of your life burn so something healthier can grow.

You’ll hear how this season intersected with everything she and Dr. Brad White discussed in Episode 16: letting go of control, facing reality instead of fantasy, and navigating the messy middle of relational growth. She explains exactly how she moved through grief, shock, and fear, and gives you the same exercises she used to rebuild her identity and learn how to choose herself in a way she never had before.

This episode is for any woman who has ever wondered, “Is this relationship still aligned with who I’m becoming?” or who has felt the loneliness of carrying a partnership on her back and feared what would happen if she stopped. You’re not alone and the path through is both messy and holy.

What you’ll learn

• Why every long-term relationship experiences a “reckoning” and what it really feels like to be in that moment.

• The difference between capability and capacity and why most high-performing women confuse the two.

• Why letting go of control feels like death and how your nervous system responds when you stop rescuing.

• How to get into reality instead of fantasy so you can make decisions with clarity instead of fear.

• The exact grieving ritual Dr. Brittany used to emotionally release the first version of her marriage.

• How to rebuild self-trust during the darkest season and what it means to create a “second marriage” rooted in truth and partnership.

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How to use AI as a real-time relationship support tool that helps high-performing women regulate, communicate clearly, and stop repeating the same fights on loop.

In this episode, Dr. Brittany challenges the fear that AI is “killing intimacy” and shows you how to use it to deepen connection instead of replacing it.

She breaks down why high-performing women and couples get stuck in the same arguments over and over, what your nervous system is actually doing in those moments, and how a well-trained AI support (like Dr. Brittany AI) can act as a bridge between the trigger and the repair.

You’ll learn exactly what to feed your AI: your childhood patterns, attachment style, recurring conflict loops, and relationship goals, so it can reflect back what’s happening, offer language you can actually use, and help you regulate enough to come back to the conversation as your adult self instead of your 8-year-old self.

This isn’t “AI as therapist.” This is AI as an on-demand co-regulator and translator for high-stakes relationships, especially for women who carry the emotional and financial weight at home and at work.

Resources:

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