Bad Bosses, Great Leaders

From Burnout to Breakthrough: Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out

Season 1 Episode 23

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What if your biggest leadership challenge isn’t strategic; it’s emotional?

In this powerful and eye-opening episode, clinical hypnotherapist and former ICU nurse Leslie Thornton joins Rebecca to explore what keeps high-performing leaders stuck. 

Spoiler alert: it’s not a lack of intelligence. It’s disconnection from your body, your emotions, and your worth.

Leslie unpacks why traditional goal setting, productivity hacks, and “thinking your way out of it” often fail for high achievers. Instead, she guides us toward emotional mastery, identity healing, and nervous system regulation as the real unlock for sustainable leadership.

You’ll learn:

✔️ Why perfectionism and people-pleasing sabotage your growth
✔️ How suppressed emotions affect decision-making and relationships
✔️ Why burnout is often masked by high performance
✔️ What hypnosis actually is (and what it’s not)
✔️ How to finally stop white-knuckling your way through change

Whether you're battling food obsession, self-doubt, or feel numb at the end of every day, this episode offers a science-backed, deeply compassionate roadmap to help you reconnect with the leader and human in you.

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