Anxiety is not a flaw, it's your brain trying to protect you, often in ways that no longer make sense.

Throughout life, we collect experiences that shape how we respond to the world. Sometimes those responses help us. Sometimes they create patterns of fear, anxiety or behaviour that no longer serve us.

Did you know research shows that most people would rather know for sure they’re going to receive an electric shock than sit and worry about whether they might? 

Uncertainty is woven into everyday life, and for leaders, that uncertainty is amplified.

Let's be honest. One of the biggest problems I see in leadership today isn't strategy, hiring or growth. It's energy. You can have success, money and opportunity, yet still wake up feeling exhausted and wonder why life feels harder than it should.

There’s a loneliness in leadership that creeps in quietly. It shows up even when you’re surrounded by people, leading meetings, signing deals, or being praised in the press. It has nothing to do with being alone physically. It’s about not feeling seen for who you are beneath the role, the title, the influence.

One of the most common issues my client have is that they feel that underneath they have a continuous hum of self-doubt? It frustrates them immensely and it is the things that when we get rid of it, that changes their lives the most. If you have wealth, influence, a public profile, you’ve got it all right? Well, no, life is still really hard sometimes.

I used to have nightmares almost every night until my late 30s. I had them so much that I just got used to them. I could remember them in great detail too. Now I rarely get nightmares and the worst is intense dreams when I'm hormonal. How did I crack it? Simply, I spent as long as necessary clearing out my unconscious mind.

We hear it all the time ‘It’s lonely at the top.’ In fact it’s a topic in my new book about being happy alone, but what if it’s not actually about your leadership status, or the fact no one gets you, what if it’s about something within you that’s missing? A disconnection from yourself that followed you all the way to the top?