Regulating your team's nervous system, with Dana Hargus
About this episode
Dana Hargis discusses the impact of nervous system dysregulation on workplace dynamics and personal well-being.
Dana Hargis is a mental health counsellor of 25 years and co-founder of Restore of Ada, a practice built around one idea: reset the nervous system and you change the quality of a person's life. Dan and Pia bring her on to unpack why so many workplace problems — burnout, conflict, broken teams, leaders who can't be reasoned with in a crisis — trace back not to bad character or bad strategy, but to a dysregulated nervous system that never learned to calm itself down. What shifts the conversation is Dana's insistence that this is fixable, and mostly through small, unglamorous levers: noticing your own triggers, breath, sleep, blood sugar, grounding. She reframes self-destructive behaviour not as weakness but as a (misguided) attempt at self-regulation, and pushes the idea further into systems — a team, a family, a company is only ever as regulated as the people leading it. Improve yourself, and you pull the whole system up with you; decline, and it drags the system down too. Key Themes & Takeaways Dysregulation isn't a mood, it's a mechanism — Dana argues nervous system dysregulation is behind failed marriages, custody battles and workplace breakdowns alike, because an…
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