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Back to EpisodesThe Hidden Link Between Trauma and High Achievement in Women with Farya Barlas
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What if the reason you can't stop overworking has nothing to do with ambition and everything to do with survival?
In this episode, I sit down with chartered psychologist and trauma expert Farya Barlas, founder of The Method, for one of the most intellectually rich and personally resonant conversations I've had on this show.
Farya has spent over 20 years working with high-achieving women, and what she's identified is a pattern that most of us don't even recognize in ourselves: the way early survival strategies become the invisible architecture of our businesses — and why that architecture eventually becomes a ceiling.
We get into:
- Why the most damaging trauma is the kind that gets rewarded — and why high achievers are especially vulnerable
- The difference between trauma-led success and reparative success (this one will stop you in your tracks)
- Why your nervous system might be sabotaging your expansion — even when you want what you're building toward
- How identity conditioning from childhood shows up as pricing, hiring, and visibility decisions in your business
- The visualization exercise Farya uses with every new client that reveals exactly where your internal capacity needs to grow
Farya is also the host of the From Trauma to CEO podcast, which I highly recommend — her framing is unlike anything else out there.
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