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Your Income Ceiling Isn’t a Mindset Problem. It’s Inherited.
May 1, 2026
21m 52s
Gloria Chow on PR, Visibility, and Why “Is It Enough?” Is the Real Question
Apr 24, 2026
46m 04s
Why You're Not a Workaholic (And The Question That Changes Everything)
Apr 16, 2026
27m 20s
Why I Built The Method™ , And Why Nothing Else Was Enough
Apr 8, 2026
32m 30s
Finding The Courage To Start Again: The Queen of Reinvention Ft. Tracy Matthews
Mar 31, 2026
28m 15s
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| 5/1/26 |  Your Income Ceiling Isn’t a Mindset Problem. It’s Inherited. | The advice has been everywhere for years. Charge your worth. Know your value. Just raise your prices. And for a certain kind of individual, capable, intelligent, already successful on paper, none of it lands. The pricing stays the same. The contraction stays the same. The private question stays the same: why can’t I do the thing I know I should be able to do. In this episode, Farya reframes the entire conversation and explains why the standard advice isn’t just incomplete. It’s active... | 21m 52s | ||||||
| 4/24/26 |  Gloria Chow on PR, Visibility, and Why “Is It Enough?” Is the Real Question | Visibility is often sold as a strategy, the right pitch, the right platform, the right followers. But underneath every visible business is a person deciding whether it’s safe to be seen. In this episode, Farya is joined by Gloria Chow, award-winning PR strategist, former US diplomat, and founder of a movement helping overlooked founders land features in outlets like Vogue, Oprah Daily, and Business Insider without pay-to-play. They go beyond PR tactics into the psychology of visibility: inter... | 46m 04s | ||||||
| 4/16/26 |  Why You're Not a Workaholic (And The Question That Changes Everything) | We hear these self-development concepts everywhere, burnout, boundaries, self-care, work-life balance. And we adopt them as universal truths without ever asking: does this actually apply to me? In this episode, Farya challenges the habit of borrowing frameworks without self-understanding first. Through a personal story about being called a workaholic, she explores why two people can look identical on the outside and be in completely different internal realities, and why the origin of a ... | 27m 20s | ||||||
| 4/8/26 |  Why I Built The Method™ , And Why Nothing Else Was Enough | In this episode, Farya shares the full story of why she built The Method. After training across eight therapeutic modalities and over two decades in clinical practice, she kept seeing the same gap: healing alone didn’t lead to expansion, and action alone didn’t address what was actually keeping people stuck. Through one client’s story, she reveals what happens when intergenerational programming runs underneath a person’s success ceiling and why no single approach was ever designed to fi... | 32m 30s | ||||||
| 3/31/26 |  Finding The Courage To Start Again: The Queen of Reinvention Ft. Tracy Matthews | What happens when reinvention isn’t a branding decision, but a survival strategy? In this episode, I sit down with my dear friend Tracy Matthews to explore what it really takes to evolve when your identity has been built around resilience. We talk about: Growing up in chaos and becoming “the responsible one.”How early trauma can turn into high-achieving driveLosing a multi-seven-figure business overnightWhy reinvention can feel both empowering and destabilizingThe identity crisis that... | 28m 15s | ||||||
| 3/24/26 |  Why Mindset Work Fails High Achievers (It's Your Nervous System, Not Your Thoughts) | In this episode, Farya explores why many high performers feel stuck despite doing everything the personal development world recommends. Through the story of a successful entrepreneur, she reveals how what looks like procrastination, avoidance, or self-sabotage is often a nervous system protection response rooted in earlier experiences. This episode reframes the mindset trap and shows why lasting change requires capacity, safety, and deeper identity-level work, not just better thoughts. What Y... | 27m 02s | ||||||
| 3/17/26 |  Why Identity Work Is Not Working For You. | Identity work is everywhere. But what if the identity that helped you succeed is now the very thing limiting your growth? In this episode, Farya explores why many high performers feel stuck despite doing the “right” mindset work. The identity that built your success was not consciously chosen, it was engineered for survival, belonging, and safety. Through the lens of subconscious contracts, nervous system patterns, and inherited rules, this episode reframes imposter syndrome as identity c... | 20m 41s | ||||||
| 3/11/26 |  Why nervous system regulation isn't enough — and what goes deeper | Nervous system regulation has become one of the most talked-about tools in high-performance spaces. But what if you can be deeply regulated and still capped at the same level of success you’ve already outgrown? In this episode, Farya explores the difference between a regulated nervous system and a reorganized one, and why many high achievers unknowingly regulate themselves back into familiarity right when expansion begins. Why nervous system regulation can improve well-being without necessari... | 22m 30s | ||||||
| 2/24/26 |  To Be Visible Is To Be Revealed: A Conversation on Self-Trust with Anna Holtzman | In this episode, Farya sits down with licensed psychologist and coach Anna Holtzman to explore something most people think is a marketing issue, but rarely is. They talk about: Why being visible can feel threatening even when you’re highly capableThe subtle ways we perform instead of revealHow identity shifts create invisible frictionWhat happens when your nervous system doesn’t feel safe being seenWhy expansion often feels like pressure before it feels like freedomAnna shares her journey fro... | 45m 08s | ||||||
| 2/18/26 |  The Permission Paradox: Why The Most Capable People Struggle To Ask For Help | In this episode, Farya discusses a pattern she has observed over 23 years of working with high-performing individuals: the quiet strain carried by people who appear the most steady on the outside. Through client stories, this conversation looks at what happens when strength becomes automatic. You’ll hear about: Why external success doesn’t always quiet internal tensionWhat it means when switching off feels uncomfortable instead of relievingThe difference between pushing through and leading yo... | 19m 01s | ||||||
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| 2/11/26 |  From Hustling Through Life to Trusting Your Inner Knowing: A Different Way to Grow with Renee Bowen | In this conversation, Farya sits down with her close friend Renee Bowen to explore what actually happens under the surface when women are ready to expand, but their nervous system hasn’t caught up yet. They talk about: Why embodiment isn’t a buzzword and why it changes everything when growth starts to feel shakyHow trauma-led drive can look like ambition, resilience, or success (until it stops working)What happens when intuition asks you to leave everything familiar—without a clear planWhy so... | 40m 53s | ||||||
| 2/4/26 |  Part 4 of 4: Success Without Survival: The Shift Every High Achiever Eventually Faces | In the last episode, Farya talked about the moment where success stops holding you the way it used to — when rest feels strange, work feels flat, and slowing down feels more unsettling than staying busy. In this final part of the series, Farya talks about what comes after that moment. She introduces the idea of reparative success - a lived shift many high achievers arrive at without language for it. If you’ve ever felt restless when things finally slow down, or unsure who you are when you’re ... | 19m 16s | ||||||
| 2/4/26 |  Part 3 of 4: This is what keeps you tied to your work | In this episode, Farya talks about what’s actually happening when success is achieved and why slowing down can feel more uncomfortable than pushing. You’ll hear why: Rest can feel unsettling instead of nourishingLetting go of pressure can feel like losing your identityAnd why this stage isn’t a problem, it’s a turning pointThis conversation is for people who have done well, carried a lot, and are quietly wondering why success doesn’t feel the way they thought it would. FREE RESOURCES: Find ou... | 20m 36s | ||||||
| 1/28/26 |  Part 2 of 4: Why Slowing Down Doesn’t Feel Like an Option (Even When You’re Winning): A Psychologist’s Perspective on the Tony Robbins–Alex Hormozi Interview | Most people assume that relentless drive comes from passion, discipline, or extraordinary willpower. But what if that forward motion isn’t a choice at all? In this episode, Farya looks closely at a kind of success that doesn’t feel motivated, inspired, or even desired; it just keeps moving. Not because it wants to, but because stopping doesn’t feel like an option. Using the Tony Robbins–Alex Hormozi conversation as a lens, this episode explores what’s actually happening when achievement feels... | 26m 05s | ||||||
| 1/28/26 |  Part 1 of 4: What the Tony Robbins Alex Hormozi Interview Reveals About Trauma-Led Success (A Psychologist’s Perspective) | In this episode, Farya brings a psychologist’s lens on the now widely discussed Tony Robbins–Alex Hormozi interview, not to critique it, but to name the pattern many high achievers felt while watching it and couldn’t quite explain. Because what was described in that conversation isn’t a motivation issue. It isn’t a purpose problem. And it isn’t solved by slowing down or trying harder to feel grateful. This episode begins a 4-part series on trauma-led success: achievement driven by survival pa... | 22m 50s | ||||||
| 1/20/26 |  Playing Small vs Playing Personally: The Difference That Changes How You Experience Success | You're not confused about how to work harder. You're not afraid of challenges. So why does something still feel dense, even when things are going well? In this episode, Farya introduces a powerful reframe: You're not playing small. You're playing too personally. Discover what it means when your nervous system is still personally fused with outcomes, and why that matters more than you think. Learn the difference between carrying responsibility and internalizing every result as a reflection... | 21m 03s | ||||||
| 1/13/26 |  The Hidden Weight of Being the Capable One (How to Spot and Release It) | Even when your business is working, does it still feel like everything depends on you? Clients are coming in. Decisions are being made. Momentum is there. And yet, there’s a quiet sense that if you stop paying attention, something might fall apart. This episode isn’t about control, fear, or micromanaging. It’s about understanding the intelligence that built your success, and why it may no longer need to run the show. In this episode, Farya Barlas explores why so many successful businesses... | 21m 41s | ||||||
| 1/6/26 |  The Upper Limit Problem: Why Trauma Makes You Pull Back From Success | In this episode of From Trauma to CEO, Farya Barlas explores a pattern that quietly caps growth for high achievers, not through fear or failure, but through logic, responsibility, and “doing the right thing.” This isn’t about self-sabotage. And it’s not about mindset. It’s about what happens in the nervous system after success makes things real. Drawing from real client work and lived experience, this episode reframes the “upper limit problem” through the lens of trauma, attachment, and r... | 23m 18s | ||||||
| 12/31/25 |  Starting the New Year Without Pressure: A Different Way Forward | Growth doesn’t always announce itself with momentum. Sometimes it arrives as quiet. In this episode, we explore the unfamiliar space that opens when pressure, urgency, and the old internal push no longer drive you, especially at the start of a new year. And we name what this moment is really asking for: not more discipline or motivation, but a different relationship with movement, choice, and expansion. Why entering a new season without urgency does not mean you are behind, stuck, or lo... | 22m 10s | ||||||
| 12/23/25 |  Why High Achievers Miss This Phase of Growth | Success doesn’t always feel like fireworks. Sometimes it feels like fog. In this episode, we name the flat, unanchored feeling that can hit right after you finish something big, especially when life is finally working. And we explore what it may actually signal: not burnout, but an identity transition your nervous system needs time to integrate. Why this moment is often misread as burnout, boredom, or self-sabotage, even when nothing is actually wrongHow pressure can become a nervous sy... | 28m 55s | ||||||
| 12/15/25 |  When Awareness Isn’t Enough: What Actually Creates Real Change with Sally Davidson | You can understand your patterns perfectly and still keep repeating them. In this episode, Farya Barlas, a Psychologist, is joined by Sally Davidson for a powerful conversation about why high-functioning, high-achieving women often burn out without ever “falling apart.” This isn’t about mindset or motivation. It’s about what happens when success is built on survival, the body never feels safe enough to slow down, and insight alone stops working. If you’ve ever: Felt successful on th... | 49m 06s | ||||||
| 12/15/25 |  The Unspoken Rule Every Therapist Absorbs and How To Finally Outgrow It Ft. Dr. Nicole Nasr | You’ve built the skill. You’ve shown up for everyone. You’re the one people call when things fall apart. So why does the next level still feel impossible to picture? In this episode, Farya Barlas, a Psychologist, chats with Dr. Nicole Nasr about the invisible rules that keep even the most capable therapists, coaches, and founders operating out of survival. Dr. Nasr is living proof of a different path: a clinician who stepped into founder leadership without trading her ethics or her soul. ... | 40m 16s | ||||||
| 12/15/25 |  Why Capable People Burn Out Doing Everything Alone Ft. Nata Salvatori | In this first guest episode, Farya Barlas, a Psychologist, sits down with freedom-first leadership and business scaling coach Nata Salvatori, whose work sits right at the intersection of identity, leadership, and sustainable success. Together, they explore the deeper mechanisms behind why high-achieving women struggle to delegate, trust support, or step into true CEO leadership, even when they’re exhausted, burnt out, or quietly resentful of how much they’re holding. What You’ll Learn in Th... | 31m 30s | ||||||
| 12/15/25 |  From Survival Self to Chosen Self: The Identity Shift That Changes Everything with Fareda Barlas | Some conversations arrive like a hand on your shoulder — quiet, steady, and impossible to ignore. In this episode, Farya Barlas, a Psychologist, sits down with Fareda Barlas, sister, therapist, and founder of Hadley Wood Practice, for a deeply human conversation about the ways our past shapes not just what we do, but who we become. This is not an interview about techniques. It’s a conversation about the hidden rules we’ve lived by, the layers we keep protected, and the surprising tenderness... | 41m 37s | ||||||
| 12/15/25 |  The Self You’re Playing and the One Your Success Is Asking For | In this episode, Farya Barlas, a Psychologist, uncovers why deeply intuitive, highly intelligent, emotionally attuned women consistently underestimate their own brilliance, even when their entire life, career, and community prove otherwise. This episode opens a powerful door into the part of you who learned to hide long before she had language for why. Inside this episode, you’ll uncover: Why your most brilliant insights feel “obvious” to you and why that’s a trapThe tiny childhood in... | 22m 59s | ||||||
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