📌 Main Topics & Takeaways:

✔️ The Neuro-Identity Shift – How conscious self-awareness leads to lasting transformation

 

✔️ Healing from Burnout – The hidden cost of high-performance culture (and how to rebuild yourself)

 

✔️ Conscious Leadership – Why authentic leadership begins with inner work, not outer image

 

✔️ The CEB Technique – Alex’s cognitive, emotional, behavioral method for rewiring your reality

 

✔️ The Power of Belonging – Creating safe spaces where true connection and growth can happen

 

 

💬 Standout Quotes:

🗣️ “The messy middle isn’t failure. It’s the becoming.” – Jenny Infante-Reyes (quoted during the episode)

 

🗣️ “Healing your identity isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about remembering who you are.” – Alex Terrey

 

🗣️ “You’re not meant to fit in. You’re meant to belong.” – Sarah Jordan Ross

 

 

⏳ Key Moments in the Episode:

⏱️ 00:00 – Welcome & Introduction: Meeting Alex Terrey

 

⏱️ 01:30 – Global Businesses, Burnout & Identity Shifts

 

⏱️ 06:10 – Navigating Loss, Infertility, and Grief

 

⏱️ 08:30 – The Awakening: Personal Growth After Rock Bottom

 

⏱️ 10:00 – Noticing the Need for Change: Signs from Within

 

⏱️ 13:00 – High-Performance Culture and the Hidden Mental Toll

 

⏱️ 18:40 – The Birth of the CEB Technique

 

⏱️ 26:00 – Conscious Leadership & Healing the Workplace

 

⏱️ 32:00 – Belonging vs. Fitting In: The True Power of Community

 

⏱️ 39:00 – What Conversations We Need to Have More Of

 

⏱️ 43:00 – Closing Thoughts: Authenticity, Courage & the Road Ahead

 

 

🌟 Notable Guest:

Alex Terrey

• Founder of The Mentoring Effect
  
   
• Leadership and identity coach
  
   
• Speaker at Leadership Week and Total Disruption events
  
   
• Creator of the CEB Method for conscious leadership and personal growth
  🔗 Find her links and upcoming speaking engagements in the show notes!
  
   

 

 

📢 Call to Action:

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