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Gina Cavalier joins Amy Lynn Durham to discuss the hidden costs of workplace burnout and emotional masking, exploring how healing can transform leadership and personal well-being.

What happens when success becomes a performance of survival instead of a reflection of alignment? Gina Cavalier joins Amy for a deeply vulnerable conversation about workplace burnout, emotional masking, suicidal ideation, nervous system overwhelm, and the hidden cost of carrying unresolved trauma into high-pressure professional environments. After years working inside demanding entertainment industry spaces with Warner Brothers, Disney, Fox, and Netflix, Gina began recognizing how achievement, perfectionism, and emotional suppression were disconnecting her from herself. Together they explore executive presence, energetic awareness, self-love, grounding practices, leadership identity, and the emotional exhaustion that comes from constantly “holding it together.” The conversation moves through healing, regulation, creativity, self-worth, and the possibility of creating a life rooted less in survival and more in freedom. By the end, what emerges is a powerful reminder: healing changes not only how we feel, but how we lead, connect, and move through the world. Moments That Create Momentum: The Hidden Cost of Holding It Together – Explore how emotional masking and unresolved trauma…

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Host: Amy Lynn Durham

Guest: Gina Cavalier

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Organizations: Warner Brothers, Disney, Fox, Netflix

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