Ep 194 - How somatic awareness improves leadership and decision-making

About this episode

Jess Jasch discusses how somatic awareness affects leadership and decision-making.

What if your leadership challenges are just as much physiological as they are strategic? In this episode of Get Jasched, Jess Jasch explores how somatic awareness — your ability to notice what’s happening in your body — directly impacts leadership presence, stress regulation, and decision-making. Drawing on research in embodied cognition and interoception, Jess breaks down why leadership skills require this nervous system skillset. You’ll learn: How your body signals stress before your mind c...

People in this episode

Host: Jess Jasch

Topics covered

• somatic awareness
• leadership
• decision-making
• stress regulation
• embodied cognition

Keywords

• leadership presence
• physiological challenges
• nervous system
• stress signals
• cognition

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Get Jasched, embodied cognition, interoception

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