Why Busyness Became a Badge

If your default answer to “How are you?” is “I’m fine, it’s just a busy season” (and that “season” has started to feel like winter in Alaska), this one’s for you. In this episode, we’re talking nervous system regulation for high-achieving women — the ones juggling all the things, smiling through the stress, and low-key running on fumes.

I’m joined by Michelle Grosser — nervous system strategist, podcast host, and former trial attorney — who now helps high-achieving women regulate from the inside out. We dig into why you can’t mindset your way out of burnout, how your body is sending four times more messages to your brain than the other way around, and what it actually means to live and lead from a grounded state instead of constant fight-or-flight chaos.

In this episode, we get into:

• The difference between playing an outside-in game (chasing success for validation) vs. an inside-out game (being who you want to be first, then acting from that place)

• Why your nervous system only cares about one thing — safety — and how that impacts your ability to create success, confidence, and fulfillment

• What really happens in your brain when you’re in fight, flight, or freeze

• The three daily nervous system regulators every woman needs: movement, stillness, and play — and why “high-intensity workout” isn’t always the flex you think it is

• How emotional suppression, weak boundaries, and crappy coping mechanisms quietly shrink your bandwidth and fast-track you to burnout

• What it actually feels like to be grounded 

• Back-pocket, in-the-moment tools for when shit hits the fan: the physiological breath, temperature shifts, and full-body shaking (yes, like your dog) to help your system reset

• How to stop confusing over-functioning with being “driven,” and start leading from a regulated, resourced version of you

Because you can read all the leadership books and take all the courses, but if your nervous system is fried, you’ll keep defaulting to hustle, panic, and perfectionism instead of clarity, creativity, and calm power.

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Connect with Michelle:

Website: www.michellegrosser.com

Nervous System Reset guide: www.michellegrosser.com/reset 

IG: https://www.instagram.com/itsmichellegrosser/ 

FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/themotherhoodvillage 

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