About this episode

The episode explores the importance of emotional awareness for leaders and high-performing men, discussing how emotional numbness can hinder effective leadership.

What is the real value of founders, leaders and high-performing men being in close contact with their emotions? And how can becoming aware of what’s happening inside of us, and learning to lead ourselves through it, not weaken our leadership but actually strengthen it over time? Welcome back to this episode in the Founders Series, a 6-part journey exploring the challenges founders, business professionals, and high performing men face today, and supporting them in evolving from high functioning stress into embodied and integrated leadership. A form of leadership that allows you to stay clear and calm under pressure by aligning who you are with how you lead. In this conversation, Bjoern and I explore a common issue we see among many high performing men: Disconnection, disembodiment, and emotional numbness. For many, success has come at the cost of losing touch with their bodies and shutting down their emotional experience. Most of us were taught that strength means staying in control and not showing weakness or humanness. Over time, this didn’t make us stronger. It hardened us. It built emotional armor that keeps us functioning, but prevents us from being deeply connected to…

People in this episode

Host: Alex Lehmann

Guest: Bjoern Keune

Topics covered

• emotional leadership
• founders challenges
• high-performing men
• emotional awareness
• leadership under pressure
• disconnection
• emotional numbness

Keywords

• emotional leadership
• founders
• high performance
• stress management
• intimacy
• emotional avoidance
• leadership challenges

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