Before you can lead a team, a business, or a family, you have to learn how to lead yourself. In this episode of Got Your SiX, Dr. Traci sits down with entrepreneur, wife, mother, and self leadership coach Jenna Wahl to explore one of the most overlooked leadership skills of all: learning how to reconnect with yourself before burnout, overwhelm, and survival mode take over.
Before you can lead a team, a business, or a family, you have to learn how to lead yourself.
In this episode of Got Your SiX, Dr. Traci sits down with entrepreneur, wife, mother, and self leadership coach Jenna Wahl to explore one of the most overlooked leadership skills of all: learning how to reconnect with yourself before burnout, overwhelm, and survival mode take over.
Jenna works with career-driven women who appear successful on the outside but often feel disconnected from themselves on the inside. Together, she and Dr. Traci unpack the hidden pressure of balancing entrepreneurship, motherhood, marriage, personal growth, and identity in a world filled with endless expectations and constant noise.
This conversation dives into the realities many women silently carry. The pressure to do it all. The guilt that comes from slowing down. The endless stream of advice telling you who you should be and how you should live.
Jenna shares how she learned to stop chasing everyone else's expectations, quiet the noise, regulate her nervous system, prioritize what truly matters, and build a life that feels aligned instead of exhausting.
If you've ever felt burned out, overwhelmed, overstimulated, or unsure of who you are beneath all the roles you carry, this conversation will remind you that leadership begins with the relationship you have with yourself.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
We talk about:
00:00 Leadership begins with how you lead yourself
03:00 Meet Jenna Wahl and her mission to help women reconnect with themselves
04:30 Motherhood, entrepreneurship, and navigating competing identities
06:00 What "having it all" actually means
08:00 Why so many women stop taking care of themselves
09:30 Survival mode, burnout, and resentment at home
11:00 The identities and personas we create to fit expectations
14:00 Why authenticity matters more than perfection
16:00 Rebuilding routines that support your goals and your family
18:00 Self-care, nervous system regulation, and releasing guilt
20:00 The danger of information overload and constant consumption
24:00 Why consuming more can keep you stuck
25:00 The surprising sourdough lesson about confidence and growth
28:00 How to remove noise and trust yourself again
30:00 Burnout, overwhelm, and the power of slowing down
33:00 Jenna's new program for helping women leave survival mode behind
35:00 Presence, gratitude, and noticing the small things
37:00 Why expectations often keep us from growing
41:00 The clarity framework that changed Jenna's life
44:00 Leadership starts with your habits, thoughts, and daily choices
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