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What if resilience isn't about pushing through—but learning how to come back into relationship with yourself?

In this episode, I sit down with Hollie Rottman, Executive Coach and Leadership Consultant, to explore what it means to choose aliveness in a culture that often rewards disconnection, overwork, and endurance.

For high-achieving people, burnout can be difficult to recognize. We become skilled at functioning, performing, producing, and meeting expectations—even when something inside us is asking for a different way of living.

But the body keeps communicating.

Hollie's work brings us back to that intelligence.

Drawing from more than 20 years of experience in leadership, organizational culture, executive coaching, and somatic practice, Hollie helps people reconnect with their bodies, emotions, boundaries, and inner wisdom. Her approach integrates somatic intelligence, Internal Family Systems (IFS), breathwork, relational intelligence, and leadership development to help people move beyond reactivity and toward a more grounded, sustainable way of being.

Together, we explore the relationship between the nervous system and resilience, why boundaries are something we embody rather than simply communicate, and what becomes possible when we stop overriding ourselves in the name of productivity or success.

We also look at leadership through a different lens—not simply as strategy, authority, or performance, but as the capacity to remain present, connected, and responsive when life becomes difficult.

Because renewal isn't necessarily about becoming a better version of the person who learned to survive.

Sometimes it's about recovering the parts of ourselves we had to disconnect from along the way.

And ultimately, choosing aliveness means learning to inhabit our lives more fully.

In this episode, we explore:

• What it means to choose aliveness
• The body as a source of intelligence and information
• Recognizing burnout in high-functioning, high-achieving people
• Somatic approaches to resilience and renewal
• Moving beyond pushing through and overriding ourselves
• How the nervous system influences the way we respond to stress
• Embodied boundaries and why boundaries are more than words
• Reconnecting with emotions and inner wisdom
• The relationship between somatics and leadership
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) and understanding our different inner parts
• Moving from reactivity toward grounded choice
• Breathwork as a pathway into greater awareness
• Navigating high-stakes career and life transitions
• Sustainable, values-aligned leadership
• Generative conflict and relational intelligence
• Building trust without abandoning ourselves
• Creating a life that doesn't merely function—but feels alive

About Hollie Rottman

Hollie Rottman is an Executive Coach and Leadership Consultant specializing in burnout prevention, embodied boundaries, and transformative leadership during high-stakes life and career transitions.

She brings more than 20 years of experience designing leadership programs, shaping organizational culture, and building markets across global financial firms, national health initiatives, and nonprofit boards.

Hollie is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation, a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), and holds a Master's degree in Human Resources Management. She is Strozzi Somatics® certified, has completed Internal Family Systems training, is certified in The Leadership Circle Profile, and facilitates healing breathwork through the School of Prana in Lisbon.

Through Rottman Consulting, Hollie also co-leads work on generative conflict with her partner, Jim Rottman, bringing together somatics, leadership development, and relational intelligence to help i