When calm feels out of reach, it's not a lack of willpower. It's biology. In this episode, Tracy Tutty explores why high-achieving women often equate movement with safety, and how to teach your nervous system that stillness can be safe too. Discover what happens when calm becomes your most valuable currency and how to invest in it without slowing down your success.

Stillness sounds simple, but for many leaders it feels risky. In this episode, Tracy Tutty reveals the hidden economy beneath busyness; how dopamine, oxytocin, and inherited survival wiring keep us trading calm for control.

You'll learn: • Why your body confuses stillness with danger, and how to change that • The subconscious exchange rate between calm, control, and credibility • How to work with your nervous system to restore coherence and clarity • Why calm isn't a luxury; it's capital that compounds • Simple physiological cues to rebuild trust with your body and your brilliance

Whether you're leading a team, a business, or a family, this episode is your gentle reminder that calm was never out of reach. It was simply waiting for you to remember where it lives.

If this conversation resonated, follow Project Joyful, leave a quick review, and share it with a friend who leads with heart and high standards. It helps this calm corner of the internet reach the people who need it most.

Connect with Tracy Tutty • Website: projectjoyful.com

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So, how are you, really?

In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy Tutty explores what happens when your brilliance outpaces your biology. We look at the subtle ways high-performing women say "I'm fine" while their nervous system is quietly braced for impact, and why rest can feel more like risk than relief.

You'll hear how control masquerades as calm, how adrenaline disguises itself as productivity, and how to begin showing your body that ease isn't earned, it's remembered.

Tracy shares the hidden cost of performing composure, the science behind "I'm surviving" disguised as "I'm fine", and practical ways to restore coherence between your mind, body, and leadership.

If you've ever wondered why slowing down feels unsafe, or why peace only appears once everything is done, this conversation will change how you understand power, rest, and presence.

In this episode you'll discover: • Why your body can look calm while still running on stress chemistry. • The biological link between control and safety. • How over-performance narrows creativity, empathy, and vision. • Practical micro-shifts to retrain your nervous system for sustainable ease. • What leadership looks like when calm becomes your new baseline.

Listen now to decode the illusion of ease and remember what true calm feels like.

Links & Mentions For coaching and upcoming masterclasses, visit tracytutty.co.nz

You don't need a sabbatical - you need a nervous system that trusts your success.

If you've ever felt the quiet edge beneath achievement - the sleepless nights, the inbox brace, the holiday cold that hits the moment you finally stop - this episode is your invitation to recalibrate.

Tracy Tutty unpacks what's really behind high-functioning fatigue and why control feels safe… but isn't the same as being regulated. You'll discover how biology and identity intertwine, why retreats don't create lasting change, and what happens when your nervous system begins to believe that ease is safe.

This conversation isn't about burnout recovery. It's about evolution - from self-regulation to collective regulation. Tracy reveals how coherence in your body becomes safety in your team, and how leading from regulation transforms performance into presence.

By the end, you'll understand: • Why you get sick at the start of your holiday - and what your body's really doing. • How your nervous system learns to equate control with survival. • What "coherence" looks and feels like in real-world leadership. • How servant leadership begins in the body - not the boardroom. • And why your next level of success doesn't require you to push harder - only to breathe deeper.

You get to experience leadership that feels like coherence: sharp, grounded, unshakeably alive.

💎 Work with Tracy

Revitalise - Tracy's private 1:1 Neuro-Identity programme - is now open for enrolment. It's where subconscious re-patterning meets physiological calibration, so your power no longer costs your peace. Apply via the link in the show notes or visit https://www.tracytutty.co.nz/ApplyNow

🔗 Connect with Tracy

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In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy Tutty explores herbal approaches to stimulating GLP-1 - a key metabolic hormone widely known through medications like Ozempic. But there's more to this story than injectables. Tracy explains what GLP-1 does in your body, how it's linked to metabolic syndrome, and how bitter herbs like ginger, chen pi, feverfew, wormwood, and gentian can naturally support GLP-1 activity.

Medical Herbalist, Tracy Tutty, shares the traditional and scientific insights behind these herbs, explains the mechanisms of action (in plain English), and unpacks how your genetic makeup may affect your sensitivity to bitter compounds. This episode offers a refreshing, holistic view of how to support your metabolism, digestion, and appetite without sidestepping science or subscribing to one-size-fits-all solutions.

You'll learn:

• What GLP-1 is and why it matters beyond weight loss

• How metabolic syndrome develops - and its links to menopause and male aging

• What bitter herbs are, how they've been used traditionally, and why they're still relevant

• How compounds in herbs like chen pi and gentian stimulate GLP-1 and support digestion

• Why genetic differences impact how you respond to bitter herbs

• How to work with herbs like ginger, feverfew, and wormwood safely and effectively

Tracy also shares her favourite way to make a fresh ginger tea, the truth about how bitter your herbs really are (with a bitterness index table!), and an invitation to join her free Herbs for Health series.

Resources & Links:

• Sign up for Herbs for Health monthly email series: https://www.tracytutty.co.nz/Herbs4Health

• Learn more about Tracy and her coaching work: https://www.tracytutty.co.nz/WorkWithTracy

Subscribe & Review: If you're enjoying Project Joyful, please follow, rate, and review the podcast. It helps more high-performing women discover how to reconnect with their vitality and lead from a place of deep alignment.

You're brilliant at staying calm under pressure. But what happens when your body doesn't feel calm - even when everything on the outside looks fine?

In this episode, Tracy dives into the neuroscience behind the thought-emotion loop and explores why leading from the neck up is no longer enough. You'll discover how your body feeds your brain critical information, and how ignoring that intelligence quietly drains your energy, clarity, and leadership presence.

We'll unpack the hidden cost of disembodiment, challenge the myth of work/life balance, and show why emotions aren't a liability - they're strategic insight. Tracy also shares how Neuro-Identity Coaching helps high-performing women leaders shift from override to resonance.

What You'll Learn:

• The neuroscience behind how your body communicates with your brain (and why it matters for leadership)

• How subtle signs of fatigue and numbness may be rooted in disconnection, not overwork

• Why your presence is more powerful than your words

• How your nervous system becomes your most trusted leadership technology

• A new definition of success that includes your joy, your clarity, and your body

Resources Mentioned: - Book a call with Tracy: https://www.tracytutty.co.nz/Clarity

If you enjoyed this episode: Please rate and review on Apple Podcasts. It helps more women leaders discover Project Joyful.

Connect with Tracy Tutty: - Website: https://www.tracytutty.co.nz/

• Instagram: @tracyctutty

• LinkedIn: https://nz.linkedin.com/in/tracytutty

In this episode, Tracy continues the series on The Hidden Costs of High Performance with a powerful and deeply personal exploration of what it means to be "The Reliable One."

High-performing women are often the first to show up, the last to flinch, and the ones everyone depends on. But what's the hidden cost of holding it all together?

Tracy unpacks how this identity forms, why it persists, and how it can quietly erode your presence, intuition, and connection - both with your team and yourself.

What You'll Learn:

• Why being dependable became your identity - and what it might be costing you now

• The subtle signs of emotional disconnection and self-suppression

• How reliability can morph into a quiet, unconscious script

• Why the strongest leaders do flinch - and what they do with it

• How your presence can reset your team's culture and unlock deeper trust

This episode is for you if:

• You pride yourself on being calm, capable, and composed - but feel quietly disconnected

• You've noticed a flattening of joy, creativity, or clarity in your leadership

• You want to feel as good on the inside as you look on the outside

If you're ready to lead from presence - not just performance - this conversation will meet you exactly where you are.

Resources & Next Steps:

• Ready to explore a different kind of leadership? Learn more about working with Tracy at https://www.tracytutty.co.nz/WorkWithTracy

• Share this episode with a fellow high-performing woman who might need to hear it

• Subscribe for more conversations on identity, leadership, and embodied power

High-performing women often hold the emotional weight of their teams and organisations - quietly, constantly, and at great personal cost. In this episode, Tracy Tutty dives deep into the hidden world of emotional labour at work.

You'll discover how hyper-empathy, people-pleasing, and unconscious caregiving patterns may be shaping your leadership more than you think. Tracy reveals how this often-invisible emotional load can dull your edge, drain your presence, and distort your boundaries - not just with others, but with yourself.

We'll explore:

• Why emotional attunement makes you a powerful leader (until it doesn't)

• The real cost of "If they're okay, I'm safe"

• How mothering instincts leak into professional spaces and limit team growth

• Why boundaries are a nervous system recalibration, not a mindset hack

• What leadership looks like when emotional labour becomes a choice, not a compulsion

This isn't about fixing you. It's about freeing you.

So you can lead with clarity, connection, and a presence that feels fully yours.

Resources + Links: To learn more about working with Tracy, visit https://www.tracytutty.co.nz/WorkWithTracy

Subscribe & Review: If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who leads from the heart.

Are you using your strategic brilliance to hide?

In this episode of the Project Joyful podcast, Tracy Tutty explores how high-level thinking can quietly become emotional avoidance - especially for high-performing women in leadership.

We often think strategy keeps us on track. But when strategy becomes our default response, it can disconnect us from our instincts, our people, and even ourselves.

Tracy shares:

• Why strategic thinking sometimes masks deeper emotional fatigue

• How common leadership habits like overplanning or skipping one-on-ones reveal subconscious self-protection

• The hidden cost of living in your head and the energy leaks you might not even notice

• A personal story of when her strategic strengths began to cost her joy and presence

• How to reclaim your power without losing your edge

If you've ever felt like your mind is sharp but your energy is low, this episode is for you.

🎧 Listen now to reconnect with the part of you that doesn't need to perform to lead powerfully.

🔗 Links:

Book a free clarity session: https://www.tracytutty.co.nz/Clarity Subscribe to the Project Joyful podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-joyful/id1571076049

Connect with Tracy Tutty:

Website: www.TracyTutty.co.nz Instagram: @tracyctutty LinkedIn: https://nz.linkedin.com/in/tracytutty

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In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy Tutty, Neuro-Identity Coach and Medical Herbalist, explores the adaptogenic power of Schisandra chinensis.

Traditionally known as the "five-flavour berry," Schisandra has long been used to enhance vitality, endurance, and stress resilience. Now, science confirms what folklore always knew: this berry supports liver detoxification, mitochondrial energy, emotional balance, and mental clarity.

You'll learn:

• What makes Schisandra an elite adaptogen
• How it regulates cortisol and supports HPA axis function
• Why liver detox phases matter if you're taking medication
• How it boosts immune, lung, and cognitive performance
• The leadership lens on using herbs strategically - not just symptomatically

Plus, Tracy shares key safety considerations and how to use Schisandra wisely, especially if you're on prescription medication.

💌 Free Resource: Join our Herbs for Health email series. Each month, discover how one simple herb can support your leadership and wellbeing - without supplement aisle overwhelm.

Sign up at tracytutty.co.nz/Herbs4Health

What if your sharpness didn't have to come at the cost of your sanity? What if your power didn't have to spike, crash, and burn?

In this episode, we're reimagining what high performance actually looks like - beyond the sprint-recover-repeat cycle. Tracy unpacks the invisible cost of leading from pressure, the emotional toll of bringing overdrive home, and the subtle cues that reveal when your nervous system is stuck in performance mode.

You'll hear:

· The lived moments when work pressure quietly reshapes home dynamics

· Why leadership from overdrive isn't sustainable - and how it shows up in your body

· What changes when you no longer lead from adrenaline, but from presence

· The energetic shift your team and your family feel when you stop overfunctioning

This episode isn't a call to action. It's a call to resonance.

You don't have to prove your value. You don't have to perform your leadership. You get to remember who you are when you're not bracing for the next thing.

LISTEN NOW to reconnect with your power - the kind that doesn't cost you everything.

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