Embodied Equity: Managing Stress and Speaking Up with Amy Babish

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If speaking up for yourself in your career causes stress or nervous system activation (think increased heartbeat, sweaty palms, shortness of breath, or the urge to hide or run away), you are not alone.
In this episode, my guest Amy Babish and I discuss practical tools and techniques for managing stress and building nervous system capacity, so you can advocate for yourself as a high-achieving woman.
Amy Babish, a transformational coach with over 20 years of experience, shares her expertise in embodied equity, which is the impact of trauma on our nervous system. When trauma goes unaddressed, it can hinder our ability to confidently assert our desires and negotiate for ourselves in various aspects of our lives, both personally and professionally.
Amy explains that embodied equity work helps build resilience and capacity for personal, professional, and collective liberation by addressing historical and intergenerational traumas while fostering connections and helping us identify opportunities to speak up for ourselves.
You'll learn:

• What embodied equity is, and why it matters to high-achieving women who want to speak up, advocate, and negotiate for themselves - 03:39
• How microaggressions can lead to survivalist reaction - 09:07
• Practical tools for discharging stress and regulating the nervous system - 19:09
• How to differentiate between freeze response versus fight or flight response, and what to do about it - 28:05
• What to know when you've experienced burnout because you were in a toxic environment, or you were working with someone who was extremely biased and discriminatory in the workplace - 30:13
• Amy's guidance on bringing awareness into the body to manage stress response of fawning, for example in meetings - 34:07
• Why abuse of power in the workplace is never the victim's fault - 41:20

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• Follow Amy's substack https://amybabish.substack.com/ or instagram https://instagram.com/amybabish
• Check out her website https://amybabish.com/

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