Reach out! You don't have to explain how crazy she was. We believe you!!!

🎙 Episode Notes

In this episode of Beyond Mommy Dearest, host Noelani Pearl Hernandez, trauma-informed executive coach, sits down with Brittanni Hendricks, MBA, ACC (ICF Associate Certified Coach), ICF-certified Leadership Alignment Coach, speaker, author, and creator of the Playful Power Method.

Together, Noelani and Brittanni unpack why workplace dynamics can feel eerily familiar for adult daughters of narcissistic, emotionally immature, or unsafe mothers. They name how survival mode follows us into leadership, why gaslighting at work is so destabilizing, and how high performers often confuse self-abandonment with resilience.

This conversation is for the overachievers, the emotional regulators, and the leaders who carry the invisible load. 

🧠 Topics We Cover in this Episode

• Why narcissistic family dynamics show up so clearly in workplaces and leadership environments
• What workplace gaslighting sounds like and why it destabilizes survivors
• Overfunctioning, people pleasing, and “masking” as professional survival strategies
• Why high performers burn out from responsibility without alignment
• Emotional load: what it is, how it builds, and why it compounds over time
• Conflict cycles at work: overexplaining, self-editing, avoiding hard conversations
• The hidden cost of silence: the price of not having the conversation
• Body signals of misalignment (brain fog, sleep disruption, tension, numbness, stomach aches)
• Why peace can feel unfamiliar after chronic chaos
• Recalibration vs pushing through: how to rebuild self-trust
• The Playful Power Method: reclaiming joy, playfulness, and agency without force

You are not broken.
You adapted.
Alignment is available.

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⭐ Guest Bio: Brittanni Hendricks

Brittanni Hendricks, MBA, ACC (ICF Associate Certified Coach), ICF-certified Leadership Alignment Coach, is a speaker, author, and creator of the Playful Power Method. With more than 15 years of leadership experience in talent development and organizational effectiveness, Brittany supports leaders and working parents carrying a high emotional load. Her work centers high performing humans who are not lazy, broken, or unmotivated. They are often misaligned, and ready to stop compensating and start leading from clarity, peace, and power.

Brittanni is the author of It’s My Turn, a part memoir, part manifesto for people who have performed perfection long enough and are choosing alignment over approval.

🔗 Connect with Brittanni Hendricks

Website
https://www.brittannihendricks.com

Instagram
@playfulprofessional

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