Episode notes
Dr. Brittany McGeehan trained as a pediatric neuropsychologist before deciding kids were the harder audience. Now she works exclusively with high-achieving women, guiding them through nervous system regulation, identity work and the patterns they've mistaken for personality.
Brittany starts with the body and what to actually do when you're wired, flatlined, or holding rage you haven't named. From there, she walks through her framework for staying out of other people's emotional weather in hard conversations and gets to her most unpopular opinion: that the empathy you call your strength might be something else entirely and what it's actually costing you to keep holding everyone together.
Key Timestamps
[00:00] Meet Dr. Brittany McGeehan
[01:54] From pediatric neuropsychology to retreats
[04:17] Why successful women are hitting a wall right now
[06:11] The myth of fierce independence
[06:53] Why retreats, not just one-to-one
[10:45] How to regulate your nervous system, tool by tool
[13:51] The You, Me, We framework for hard conversations
[17:53] Empathy as a trauma response
[20:05] Where identity actually gets built
[23:08] Raising kids without passing down the same patterns
[25:33] Decoding your pressure points
[30:31] The real cost of not doing the work
Memorable Quotes
"Leading with that empathy is usually a trauma response." — Dr. Brittany McGeehan
"I wish more women were talking about the genuine cost of not doing the work." — Dr. Brittany McGeehan
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Connect with Dr. Brittany McGeehan
Website: https://drbrittanymcgeehancoaching.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbrittanymcgeehanphd/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-brittany-m-a81ab0145/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drbrittanymcgeehan
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