From Trauma To CEO

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  Connection Is the Strategy | The Psychology Behind Communities That Grow Businesses, with Linda Sidhu 10.09.2026 46min

  We like to think we choose our businesses consciously. After more than two decades as a psychologist, Farya Barlas has come to understand something different: our businesses are often unconscious biographies. They reflect our nervous system, our unmet needs and our values as much as our skills. What looks like strategy from the outside is very often adaptation on the inside. Farya is joined by Linda Sidhu founder of the Mixermind to talk about what that looks like in practice, how unmet needs...
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  You've Done the Work and Nothing Has Changed | Why Integration, Not More Information, Is the Missing Ingredient in Success 03.09.2026 27min

  Most ambitious women don't have an information problem. They have read the books, listened to the podcasts, taken the courses, gone to therapy, worked with mentors and filled notebooks with insight. And still there is an enormous distance between what they understand and what they are actually able to live. In this solo episode, Chartered Psychologist and trauma expert Farya Barlas names the missing ingredient: integration. Integration is the process through which an insight stops being somet...
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  You Can Be Visible and Still Be Hiding | Why More Content Won't Make You Known 27.08.2026 24min

  We think visibility means people seeing us. So we put our ideas out into the world, and we assume that makes us visible. In this episode, Farya draws a distinction most of the business world has collapsed into one word. Exposure is how many opportunities people have to see you. Visibility is what they actually get to encounter when they do. You can dramatically increase the first while changing nothing about the second. She traces the pattern to where it actually starts, which is ...
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  Your Body Has Been Talking This Whole Time | Why High Achievers Override the Signals That Cap Their Success, with Ruth Cummings 21.08.2026 59min

  Why do high achievers override their bodies until it costs them? Farya Barlas and body-mind coach Ruth Cummings decode the physical signals behind overwhelm, overthinking, and the success your body can't yet hold. In this episode, Farya is joined by her friend Ruth Cummings, body-mind coach, speaker, and founder of Athletic Touch Therapeutic Massage and Coaching. Together they trace how high performers build their early success precisely by overriding the body, the all-nighters, the over-deli...
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  When You've Outgrown Your Life: What Happens When Your Old Identity No Longer Fits. 13.08.2026 22min

  There's a season that arrives without warning. Nothing is wrong. Your life might even look good from the outside, you've built the things a younger version of you once longed for. And yet something has gone quiet. The goals feel strangely flat, the old motivation has thinned, and when someone asks what you actually want now, you find you don't know. We don't have the language for outgrowing our own lives, so we call it being lost. In this deeply personal episode, Farya reframes that restlessn...
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  Your Clients Can Feel That You Don't Trust Yourself | Why Indecision Is Costing You Sales 09.08.2026 22min

  Why do qualified prospects say "let me think about it"? Farya on the Projection Principle, how self-distrust leaks into your sales and quietly stalls your deals. We treat indecision like a personality flaw. You go in circles on the decisions that actually matter, the offer, the price, the pivot, the hire, gathering one more opinion, sleeping on it one more night, and you conclude you're just bad at this, that other people got a certainty gene you didn't. So you go looking for a better system....
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  Why You Are The Way You Are? How Childhood Shapes Your Business & Identity. 30.07.2026 23min

  What if the person you believe yourself to be… isn't actually who you are? In this episode, Chartered Psychologist Farya Barlas dismantles the idea that we are born with an identity. Rather, we build one. And most of us are running our adult lives, our businesses, and our leadership through an identity constructed by a child answering one question: Who do I have to become to be loved, to belong, and to be safe? Farya takes you inside how identity is actually formed, not by what happened to yo...
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  Why Success Keeps Slipping: The Difference Between Receiving and Holding Wealth with Anna Lozano 24.07.2026 1t 8min

  In this episode, Farya sits down with Anna Lozano, serial entrepreneur and brand builder for a conversation that never stayed on the surface. Anna has built companies, exited one, spent three years in what she calls the void, and is now raising capital to launch her next venture. She has done the inner work. She is self-aware, articulate about her patterns, and still, in a live session with Farya, uncovered a receiving wound so early and so buried that she couldn't have found it alone. What c...
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  The Best Month of Her Life, and She Cried in the Bathroom | Why High Achievers Self-Sabotage After a Win 16.07.2026 21min

  We all know the story we're supposed to tell about success. You hit the number, you celebrate, you build on the momentum. So when the opposite happens, when the best month of your business leaves you flat, exposed, or crying somewhere private, you assume something is wrong with you. And when your revenue quietly slides back to its old number a few weeks later, you reach for the only explanation anyone ever gives you: self-sabotage. In this episode, Farya takes that word away from you, a...
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  The Visibility Challenge That Made $6 Million. What a psychologist sees that marketers don't 09.07.2026 33min

  There's a visibility challenge sweeping the internet. It has made its creator around six million dollars, and it asks one simple thing: film yourself, every day, and post it. In this episode, chartered psychologist Farya Barlas, twenty-three years in the field, explains what is actually happening in the body of the woman who cannot press record. Farya turns her clinical eye on the biggest visibility trend of the moment and finds, underneath the marketing, one of the most important psychologi...
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  When Ambition Becomes a Trauma Response: Healing High-Functioning Burnout with Ashley McDonald 02.07.2026 55min

  There is a version of success that looks completely put together from the outside and is held up entirely by pressure on the inside. In this episode, Farya is joined by Ashley McDonald, therapist, speaker, and host of Shamelessly Ambitious, for a conversation about what ambition actually is underneath the achievement. Ashley shares her own story from a traumatic, chaotic childhood to becoming a student, published academic, and multiple-time founder and the moment she realised her drive ...
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  The Relationship You Tolerate Is the Ceiling on Your Business | How Your Personal Life Shapes Business Success 24.06.2026 22min

  We're told to keep it professional. Leave your personal life at the door. Don't let what's happening at home bleed into the business. And we repeat it like it's obvious, without ever asking whether it's even true. In this episode, Farya takes apart the myth that your personal relationships and your business are separate things. Through the story of a high-achieving finance director who insisted her difficult relationship had nothing to do with her work, she reveals why every relationship you ...
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  When Visibility Was a Mask: The Hidden Cost of Performing Success ft. Beth Nydick 21.05.2026 37min

  There is a particular kind of success that looks extraordinary from the outside. Book deals, national television, Oprah, Forbes, a growing audience, an expanding business. And underneath — grief, medical crisis, a death that reshapes everything, a body quietly unravelling while the social media feed stays curated and bright. This episode is a conversation about what happens when the very qualities that built a career — capability, independence, an instinct to perform under pressure — become t...
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  Why You're Still Stuck After Doing the Work: What Coaching, Therapy, and Nervous System Regulation Are Missing 14.05.2026 18min

  After 23 years of clinical practice across seven therapeutic modalities, Farya shares what she has not said publicly before, the personal story of her own disillusionment with individual modalities, and what she discovered when she stopped choosing between them and started combining them. This episode names the structural gap in the coaching, therapy, and personal development industry that leaves high-achieving people cycling through programmes, gaining awareness, and still hitting the ...
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  Your Income Ceiling Isn’t a Mindset Problem. It’s Inherited. 30.04.2026 21min

  The advice has been everywhere for years. Charge your worth. Know your value. Just raise your prices. And for a certain kind of individual, capable, intelligent, already successful on paper, none of it lands. The pricing stays the same. The contraction stays the same. The private question stays the same: why can’t I do the thing I know I should be able to do. In this episode, Farya reframes the entire conversation and explains why the standard advice isn’t just incomplete. It’s active...
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  Gloria Chow on PR, Visibility, and Why “Is It Enough?” Is the Real Question 23.04.2026 46min

  Visibility is often sold as a strategy, the right pitch, the right platform, the right followers. But underneath every visible business is a person deciding whether it’s safe to be seen. In this episode, Farya is joined by Gloria Chow, award-winning PR strategist, former US diplomat, and founder of a movement helping overlooked founders land features in outlets like Vogue, Oprah Daily, and Business Insider without pay-to-play. They go beyond PR tactics into the psychology of visibility: inter...
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  Why You're Not a Workaholic (And The Question That Changes Everything) 16.04.2026 27min

  We hear these self-development concepts everywhere, burnout, boundaries, self-care, work-life balance. And we adopt them as universal truths without ever asking: does this actually apply to me? In this episode, Farya challenges the habit of borrowing frameworks without self-understanding first. Through a personal story about being called a workaholic, she explores why two people can look identical on the outside and be in completely different internal realities, and why the origin of a ...
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  Why I Built The Method™ , And Why Nothing Else Was Enough 08.04.2026 32min

  In this episode, Farya shares the full story of why she built The Method. After training across eight therapeutic modalities and over two decades in clinical practice, she kept seeing the same gap: healing alone didn’t lead to expansion, and action alone didn’t address what was actually keeping people stuck. Through one client’s story, she reveals what happens when intergenerational programming runs underneath a person’s success ceiling and why no single approach was ever designed to fi...
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  Finding The Courage To Start Again: The Queen of Reinvention Ft. Tracy Matthews 31.03.2026 28min

  What happens when reinvention isn’t a branding decision, but a survival strategy? In this episode, I sit down with my dear friend Tracy Matthews to explore what it really takes to evolve when your identity has been built around resilience. We talk about: Growing up in chaos and becoming “the responsible one.”How early trauma can turn into high-achieving driveLosing a multi-seven-figure business overnightWhy reinvention can feel both empowering and destabilizingThe identity crisis that...
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  Why Mindset Work Fails High Achievers (It's Your Nervous System, Not Your Thoughts) 24.03.2026 27min

  In this episode, Farya explores why many high performers feel stuck despite doing everything the personal development world recommends. Through the story of a successful entrepreneur, she reveals how what looks like procrastination, avoidance, or self-sabotage is often a nervous system protection response rooted in earlier experiences. This episode reframes the mindset trap and shows why lasting change requires capacity, safety, and deeper identity-level work, not just better thoughts. What Y...