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Dina Scippa and guest Dara Steinberg discuss the connection between nervous system regulation and women's leadership, emphasizing the importance of feeling safe to trust oneself.

In this episode of Embracing Enough , Dina sits down with nervous system and embodiment expert Dara Steinberg , founder of Slow Down to Become , for a conversation about one of the most overlooked leadership skills: feeling safe enough to trust yourself. Together, they explore why so many high-achieving women mistake chronic stress, overperformance, and people-pleasing for ambition - and how those patterns often stem from messages they received long before they entered the workplace. Rather than framing confidence as something women need to build, they challenge listeners to consider whether confidence naturally emerges when the nervous system finally feels safe. The conversation dives into the connection between nervous system regulation, leadership, and decision-making, unpacking why women often struggle to trust their instincts, say no without guilt, or have difficult conversations without second-guessing themselves. Dara shares how chronic tension, burnout, hypervigilance, and even physical symptoms can be signs that the body has been operating in survival mode for years. Dina connects this work to her research on the confidence cliff girls experience around age nine, arguing…

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