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In This Episode
Tracy unpacks the pattern that shows up right after you deliver something big at work: the flat, restless feeling that arrives instead of celebration, the urge to manufacture busyness on a day that doesn’t need it, and the identity underneath it all. Drawing on the neuroscience of prediction and threat detection, the hypothalamus and amygdala sequence that decides safe or unsafe before your rational mind gets a vote, Tracy explains why your system can treat a quiet calendar the same way it treats an actual threat, and how the exact same mechanism that trained you to run on demand can be retrained to let you rest in its absence.
This Episode Is For You If
• You’ve just delivered something big at work and instead of celebrating, you feel oddly flat
• You find yourself creating urgency on days when none actually exists
• A quiet calendar makes you more uneasy than a full one
• You’ve built real mastery at holding more, and want to build the matching skill of holding less
• You’re ready to understand the nervous system pattern underneath overperformance, without shame attached to it
About Tracy Tutty
Tracy Tutty is a Neuro-Identity Coach, Medical Herbalist, and the host of Project Joyful. Drawing on more than two decades in corporate leadership as a Chartered Accountant, Tracy works at the intersection of nervous system science, subconscious identity work, and biology-informed leadership to help high-achieving women lead and succeed without chronic self-abandonment. Her work sits at the heart of what she calls the Biology of Leadership, the understanding that sustainable leadership is shaped as much by physiology as it is by strategy.
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Website: www.projectjoyful.com
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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tracytutty
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Revitalise is Tracy’s private one on one coaching experience, twelve weeks of working directly with the nervous system and identity structures underneath how you lead. Learn more and apply below.
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