What if your leadership didn't start with a strategy—but with your nervous system?

This week, we're joined by Dr. Natalie Underdown, organizational psychologist, executive coach, and founder of The Nu Company, for a conversation that flips the script on what it means to lead, evolve, and truly care for ourselves in high-stakes seasons of life.

Natalie brings a whole-person approach to executive coaching—one that fuses neuroscience, trauma healing, identity work, and performance psychology. After burning out in corporate and navigating a health crisis rooted in toxic mold exposure, she redefined her own path. Now, she helps other ambitious women do the same—from the inside out.

Together, we get real about:

• Why burnout isn't a badge—and how it often masks deeper misalignment
• How whole-person coaching helps you unlearn performance-based identity and reconnect with who you actually are
• What nervous system regulation has to do with emotional resilience, leadership, and even parenting
• The practical magic of shaking off stress (literally) and embracing somatic tools that work in real life—not just retreats
• Human Design as a tool for self-understanding and why it might explain your decision fatigue or energy dips

If you're sitting at the edge of reinvention, or just trying to lead with more integrity and less adrenaline, this episode is your invitation to pause, breathe, and get curious about the stories you're still telling yourself.

Links & Resources
👉 Dr. Natalie Underdown's Website – The Nu Company
👉 Follow Natalie on Instagram
👉 Our episode with Human Design expert Erin Claire Jones
👉 Book rec: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

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Today, we sit down with Anna Goldfarb—friendship journalist, author, and voice of wisdom on the quiet complexity of adult relationships. Together, we're unpacking why maintaining female friendships feels harder than ever, especially in motherhood, and what it actually takes to nurture the ones that matter most.

Through honest stories and thoughtful research, Anna helps us reframe what healthy adult friendship looks like today. They talk about the grief of friendships that drift, the courage it takes to initiate hard conversations, and why effort (not just history) is what keeps connection alive.

If you've ever found yourself missing someone who used to be in your daily life—or wondering how to deepen the friendships you still have—this conversation is a balm and a roadmap.

You'll Learn:

• Why nearly half of adults report shrinking social networks—and what that really means

• How motherhood reshapes our friendships, sometimes painfully

• The power of desire: why it matters that you want to show up

• What to consider before giving feedback in a friendship

• How to know when it's time to let go—and how to grieve a friendship breakup

• Why small gestures (a text, a meme, a voice note) are never really small

• What it means to treat friendship as a privilege, not a given

• How to reconnect with the people who make you feel most like yourself

Links & Resources Mentioned:

• Anna Goldfarb's website and writing: www.annagoldfarb.com

• Anna's book: Modern Friendship

• Related episode: Finding and Maintaining Meaningful Friendships During This Busy Season – E3

• HBR article: The Power of Work Friends

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In a world reshaping itself around how, where, and why we work, what does leadership actually look like—especially when you're also navigating motherhood?

In this episode, we sit down with Anna Squires-Levine, President of Industrious (and mama of three), to explore that question and more. Anna joined Industrious nearly a decade ago when it was just a few co-working spaces—and helped scale it to 300+ locations across 10 countries. Now, she's guiding the company into a new era after its acquisition by CBRE, all while welcoming her third baby.

Together, we talk candidly about:

• How to lead during life's most chaotic transitions

• The myth of balance and the radical act of choosing your kind of hard

• Why human-centered workspaces are more critical than ever—and how Industrious is redefining what it means to "go to work"

• The honest truth about ambition, identity shifts, and the emotional tug-of-war working moms face daily

• Practical questions to ask yourself when you're standing at a career crossroads

This one's for the moms holding it all—the dream, the diapers, the deadline. Anna's wisdom is both grounding and galvanizing, reminding us that the future of work isn't just flexible. It's human.

Links & Resources
👉 Learn more about Industrious
👉 Follow Anna on LinkedIn
👉 Jenn's essay on hustle culture: "My Career is My Refuge"
👉 Book rec: The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

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