Trying Harder Is Why You Are Still Exhausted

Most business advice was never built for women. This show isn't either.

Women entrepreneurs are taught that control is the answer. We're rewarded for pushing, praised for our "good at managing it all" energy, and then we wake up one day unable to recognize ourselves in the mirror. Control becomes the cage we built ourselves—and the Alexander Technique reveals why.

In this episode, Serena Venditto shares how high-functioning anxiety masquerades as motivation until it doesn't. She introduces the Alexander Technique—a systematic practice for identifying the unconscious physical patterns that sabotage our performance and presence—and how letting go of control as we've been taught it actually gives us access to real capacity.

Katrina and Serena explore:

1. Why high-achieving women weaponize anxiety as a motivator (and what it costs)
2. The mind-body feedback loop that keeps you trapped in push-mode
3. How "trying harder" became the trap instead of the solution
4. The difference between self-critique and conscious awareness
5. Why surrendering your old definition of control is how you actually scale
6. What it means to reclaim yourself when you've forgotten who you are

This is about business architecture, not therapy. It's about the Female Intelligence Cycle's Awareness and Reflect phases—and what happens when you finally stop performing effort and start practicing presence.

Women don't need to shrink to scale.

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