Most leadership advice skips the body entirely. Scott Eblin doesn't. The executive coach and author of Overworked and Overwhelmed has spent 25 years helping C-suite leaders perform better, and his starting point isn't strategy. It's neurobiology.

The reason so many leaders feel reactive, depleted, and like they have no agency isn't a character flaw. It's physiology. When you're running on chronic fight or flight, your frontal lobe (the part responsible for values, discernment, and intentional response) is competing with your amygdala. And the amygdala usually wins.

If you manage people, work with people who manage people, or you're the person in the C-suite wondering why everything feels like a threat, this conversation is for you.

In this episode, you'll hear:

Why self-management comes before everything else in leadership

What chronic fight or flight actually does to your decision-making

How the parasympathetic nervous system works and how rhythmic movement activates it

The Life GPS framework Scott and his wife built in the 90s

Why knowing your 100% optimal makes a 25% day easier to navigate

What Scott's MS diagnosis in 2009 taught him about temporary states

The dance floor vs. the balcony concept, and why leaders need both

Martin Seligman's disputation technique for breaking a pessimistic thought loop