Resentment might be the clearest early warning sign of burnout—and most people completely miss it.

In this episode, we break down why resentment shows up, why it sticks around, and how it quietly drains your energy, focus, and performance.

Resentment isn’t weakness. It’s a signal that something feels wrong and you don’t feel able to resolve it.

Left unchecked, it keeps your nervous system on high alert, fuels overthinking, and blocks recovery.

You’ll learn:

• What resentment actually is (and why it repeats)
• How stress and perceived threat amplify it
• Why it makes you feel stuck and powerless
• The hidden cost of “being right”
• Practical steps to release resentment and regain control
• How emotional intelligence replaces reaction with leadership

This isn’t about suppressing how you feel.

It’s about understanding it—and using it to take your power back.

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Listen if you’ve ever wondered why you perform best under pressure, struggle with consistency, or feel like your focus doesn’t always match your ambition.

In this episode, Dex explores a common but often unspoken pattern among high-performing leaders — traits associated with ADHD — and how they show up in leadership, performance, and burnout.

This is not about diagnosis. It’s about recognising a leadership operating style, understanding its strengths, and learning how to work with it more effectively.

Dex walks through:

• Why this pattern shows up in high achievers
• The strengths that often drive success
• The hidden costs that can lead to inconsistency and burnout
• Practical adjustments to improve performance and sustainability
• How to protect recovery and build a leadership style that works with your mind, not against it

Key takeaway:
Energy management is leadership performance. Precision matters more than intensity.

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Content Warning
This episode includes discussion of depression and suicidal ideation. If you are currently in distress, please seek support from your local crisis services before listening.

Dr Tim Strauman outlines an exciting new approach to tackling teen depression. We dive into how schools, hospitals, and social services can work together to prevent suffering before it escalates, empower teens to understand their own emotional patterns, and build real-world skills to support mental well-being.

Dr Strauman shares how innovative technologies and programs can help teens:

• Recognize early signs and patterns of depression
• Develop skills to manage emotional challenges
• Normalize conversations about mental health among peers
• Boost agency and self-confidence
• Track progress and measure outcomes
• Access coordinated support from schools, health services, and social networks

If you’re interested in how science, technology, and community can intersect to change the trajectory of teen mental health, this episode is packed with insights and actionable ideas.

Self-System Therapy - to understand how you're evaluating yourself, ask:
What do I want?
What am I doing to try to get it?
What's going wrong?
What can I do differently?

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Contact Dr Tim Strauman: tjstraum@duke.edu

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What will leadership actually look like in 2026?

Technology is accelerating everything, but the leaders who win won’t simply be the most technical or the fastest decision-makers. They’ll be the ones who know how to lead people well in an environment of constant change.

In this episode, Dex Randall breaks down five leadership traits that separate high-performing leaders from the rest: human-centred performance, AI fluency, disciplined focus, decisiveness under pressure, and the ability to create purpose and meaning for teams.

Because while AI may scale systems, great leadership still scales people—and trust can’t be automated.

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Dex Randall explains how chronic stress keeps the body in survival mode through ongoing cortisol activation, damaging brain function, health, and longevity even when you feel “fine” today.

He contrasts normal stress (fight/flight followed by reset) with chronic stress (no reset).

Over the long term, stress dysregulates the nervous system, increases inflammation, accelerates aging, and is linked to diseases including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, depression, and neurodegeneration.

He outlines strategies to re-regulate the nervous system at work (boundaries, priorities, stopping after hours) and at home (morning daylight, movement, eating early, delaying caffeine, slow breathing, social connection, “no emotional escape,” and vagus-nerve box breathing.)

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Refs
#1 https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/61405/20260303/hidden-impact-stress-what-stress-science-reveals-about-cortisol-effects-mental-health-biology.htm
#2 https://thriveworks.com/help-with/feelings-emotions/dysregulated-nervous-system/
#3 https://www.brainzmagazine.com/post/workplace-stress-impact-on-your-nervous-system
#4 https://www.healthline.com/health/telomeres#significance
#5 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-human-brain-may-contain-as-much-as-a-spoons-worth-of-microplastics-new-research-suggests-180985995/

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Anxiety is not a flaw — it’s a future-focused alarm system that can become a learned habit in the brain and body.

In this fast, practical episode, Dex breaks down what anxiety really is, why it becomes chronic, and the hidden loops that keep it alive.

You’ll learn why logic alone can’t switch it off, what makes it addictive, and how early environments shape your threat response.

Most importantly, discover simple, real-time ways to calm your nervous system, regain sovereignty, and retrain your brain for safety, connection, and grounded leadership — at work and at home.

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What if high-performance habits didn’t require more willpower?
Learn a practical 5-step system for leadership change—starting with identity, shrinking habits into micro-behaviours, engineering your environment, rewarding consistency, and focusing on one keystone habit that creates a ripple effect.
Stop forcing new behaviours and start becoming the leader your goals demand.

Fasttrack your leadership skills with Dex AI Coach: https://app.coachvox.ai/share/DexRandall

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Overview
Emotional intelligence is one of the most sought-after — and least taught — leadership skills. Learn how high-achieving professionals become trusted leaders through emotional awareness, authentic connection, and stronger communication.

Key Takeaways

• Why the solo high-achiever mindset doesn’t scale to leadership
• Simple ways to stay calm and non-reactive during conflict
• Why psychological safety drives engagement and performance

Refs

The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety — Timothy R. Clark
Doug Noll on emotional de-escalation
Mastering Difficult Conversations

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