Ep#57: The Neurochemistry of Leadership | Dr. Michael Frisina on Neuroscience & Self-Regulation

In this episode of the Healthy Leader Podcast, Dr. Michael Frisina is joined by Traci Fisher to dismantle the standard models of leadership and replace them with a powerful, neurobiological approach.

This conversation is a technical and personal guide to bringing your prefrontal cortex back "online". It’s a shift from status-quo training to a be-know-do philosophy where leadership isn't just a list of traits, but a practiced state of neurophysiological awareness.

In Today’s Podcast, You’ll Discover:

• The Neurochemical Bartender: Why leaders are responsible for the cocktail of chemicals they mix in their team's brains through their daily behavior.
• The Yerkes-Dodson Bell Curve: A visual map for understanding the Upper Brain of performance versus the Lower Brain of survival.
• The Allostatic Load: Identifying the exact tipping point where your brain hits capacity and shuts down your critical reasoning.
• Believe the Behavior: Why your actions are the only true measure of leadership and why the behavior doesn’t lie.
• The E+R=O Formula: How to ensure your Response capacity always stays higher than the magnitude of the Event.
• Tactical Pauses and Resets: Practical strategies like the 3 R's (Reframe, Recover, Reset) to pull yourself back from the edge of burnout.
• The 30-Second Gratitude Hack: A simple, science-backed way to force your prefrontal cortex back online in the middle of a high-stress meeting.
• Psychological vs. Physical Threat: Why your brain can’t tell the difference between a deadline and a predator, and how to manage that reflex.

🎧 Listen to the full episode, and consider this: Are you leading from your Upper Brain today, or is your leadership currently offline?

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