Burnout, empathy, and resistance to change are a common challenge for leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives—but it doesn’t have to define their journey. With the right amount of inner work in personal and professional growth, performance and executive coach (Rachel Hamlin) believes that understanding your nervous system and embracing empathy can help you lead with resilience and confidence.

In episode 6 of the Strategy Ladders Podcast, Rachel shares her personal experiences with burnout and how it shaped her unique approach to leadership coaching. She explores how mindset, rooted in both emotional and physiological states, can be transformed to combat burnout and foster effective leadership.

From managing stress to maintaining focus under pressure — and harnessing unique solutions like somatic processing and therapeutic memory reconsolidation — Rachel provides practical tools and actionable strategies that every leader can use to reclaim the title of high-performer.

What you’ll learn:

→ Mindset Beyond the Mental: How leadership and decision-making don't just depend on mental frameworks, but create an important role for the nervous system in burnout that needs to be regulated for peak performance.

→ The Value of Empathy: How true empathy is about understanding and listening without necessarily solving every problem, and why practicing it with boundaries makes it a powerful leadership tool.

→ Somatic Techniques: How techniques like EFT tapping and breathing exercises can help interrupt stress responses, cultivate a constructive mindset, and help leaders stay grounded during high-pressure moments.

If you’re looking for practical, science-backed advice to shift your mindset, break free from limiting patterns, lead with empathy, and navigate burnout effectively, this is the leadership level-up you've waited for.

👉 Watch now to start building a truly resilient leadership style. Like, comment, and subscribe for more insights!