Leadership Inside Out

Issue 76

What’s driving you forward? fear or love?

April 19, 2025

This weekly newsletter is all about helping you create the internal changes that support your desires for positive growth- be that in your career or how you show up for your hopes and dreams.

Lots of theories and science exist exploring human motivation.

For the past eight weeks I’ve been taking a continuing education class on the Neuroscience of Change, which is expanding and confirming my own theories of what creates long-lasting internal change.

There is a common assumption that fear and pain is the most powerful driver in change. And yes – we are inclined to resist what doesn’t feel good or anything our brain interprets as a threat. But that is not the whole story when it comes to change.

Operating out of chronic fear and anxiety reduces your ability to generate creative solutions, manage difficult realities, and maintain your physical health.

However, through supportive connections, we can courageously choose to operate from a place of love and commitment – from this more positive place we can build resilience, mental flexibility, and the ability to integrate new experiential learnings, i.e. meaningful change.

By understanding what’s happening in your brain and body when you can’t seem to get yourself to, “Just do the thing”, you can then make empowered conscious choices to direct your life and achieve incredible transformation.

Register for my FREE online class to learn what’s keeping you stuck.

Of course, we face real frustrations and worries that our nervous system and brain tells us to focus on, a lot. HOWEVER, as conscious humans, we can choose to care for our nervous system and fuel ourselves with the emotional energy of love, gratitude, and courage.

Now, if this was an easy thing to do, everyone would be doing it. Who doesn’t want to have more energy and experience more joy?

The truth is, making this internal shift from fear to love is a process and a practice. Consciously choosing how you show up as a leader requires a mental fitness, emotional capacity, and embodied awareness.

Committing to the C.H.A.N.G.E process within my ​Leadership Atlas​ framework helps you build these transformational internal skills.

Investing time and energy into your internal experience can feel like, “one more thing I should be doing”. But I want to offer that it is the one thing that IS in your control and it changes everything.

Reflection:

  • Do I know what it feels like in my body when I’m reacting vs responding?
  • How much of my day is spent living in worry and fear vs, motivated and energized by what I love?

YOU’RE INVITED:

Now is the time to focus on what is in our control and energize yourself with the habits and practices that keep you rocking and rolling in our mission and work.