
About this episode
You gave clear instructions. She said she understood. So why are your hands already fixing her work before you've decided to? Here's what's really happening.
In this episode, Tracy unpacks the redo. That quiet, automatic moment where you take a task back from someone rather than naming what actually went wrong. Why this rarely has anything to do with the person who got it wrong, and everything to do with a nervous system that learned, a long time ago, that absorbing the gap was safer than naming it.
Tracy traces hyper-responsibility back to where it actually started. A clever adaptation, the girl who noticed what was needed before anyone asked, who kept the people around her happy, and safe, by quietly handling things herself. What that pattern costs a woman's body and leadership decades later, when it's still running in a boardroom instead of a childhood home. And what a mana enhancing conversation, and how naming what's true without diminishing the person hearing it, can offer instead.
This episode is for the woman who has ever caught herself fuming quietly at her desk over something she could have just said out loud. And for the leader who's ready to discover what her team becomes capable of once she stops absorbing everything herself.
Tracy is currently opening registration soon for a free event, When Preparation Isn't the Problem: Why you still second-guess yourself when you're the most prepared person in the room. If you've ever walked into an important meeting knowing your material inside out, yet still found yourself rehearsing your opening, reading the room, or leaving wondering whether you showed up at your best, this briefing will explain why. Details coming soon, keep an eye on Instagram and LinkedIn below.
Connect with Tracy:
Instagram: @tracyctutty
LinkedIn: search Tracy Tutty, or visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracytutty/
hyper-responsibility, high-achieving women, women in leadership, nervous system coherence, executive coaching, embodied leadership, corporate leadership, neuro-identity coaching, biology of leadership, overperformance
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