From Trauma To CEO

Episod

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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 1j 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...
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  Why Identity Work Is Not Working For You. 17.03.2026 20min

  Identity work is everywhere. But what if the identity that helped you succeed is now the very thing limiting your growth? In this episode, Farya explores why many high performers feel stuck despite doing the “right” mindset work. The identity that built your success was not consciously chosen, it was engineered for survival, belonging, and safety. Through the lens of subconscious contracts, nervous system patterns, and inherited rules, this episode reframes imposter syndrome as identity c...
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  Why nervous system regulation isn't enough — and what goes deeper 10.03.2026 22min

  Nervous system regulation has become one of the most talked-about tools in high-performance spaces. But what if you can be deeply regulated and still capped at the same level of success you’ve already outgrown? In this episode, Farya explores the difference between a regulated nervous system and a reorganized one, and why many high achievers unknowingly regulate themselves back into familiarity right when expansion begins. Why nervous system regulation can improve well-being without necessari...
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  To Be Visible Is To Be Revealed: A Conversation on Self-Trust with Anna Holtzman 24.02.2026 45min

  In this episode, Farya sits down with licensed psychologist and coach Anna Holtzman to explore something most people think is a marketing issue, but rarely is. They talk about: Why being visible can feel threatening even when you’re highly capableThe subtle ways we perform instead of revealHow identity shifts create invisible frictionWhat happens when your nervous system doesn’t feel safe being seenWhy expansion often feels like pressure before it feels like freedomAnna shares her journey fro...
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  The Permission Paradox: Why The Most Capable People Struggle To Ask For Help 17.02.2026 19min

  In this episode, Farya discusses a pattern she has observed over 23 years of working with high-performing individuals: the quiet strain carried by people who appear the most steady on the outside. Through client stories, this conversation looks at what happens when strength becomes automatic. You’ll hear about: Why external success doesn’t always quiet internal tensionWhat it means when switching off feels uncomfortable instead of relievingThe difference between pushing through and leading yo...
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  From Hustling Through Life to Trusting Your Inner Knowing: A Different Way to Grow with Renee Bowen 10.02.2026 40min

  In this conversation, Farya sits down with her close friend Renee Bowen to explore what actually happens under the surface when women are ready to expand, but their nervous system hasn’t caught up yet. They talk about: Why embodiment isn’t a buzzword and why it changes everything when growth starts to feel shakyHow trauma-led drive can look like ambition, resilience, or success (until it stops working)What happens when intuition asks you to leave everything familiar—without a clear planWhy so...