What if the thing you've been calling a character flaw was just a skill nobody ever taught you?
Jennifer Dechaine spent over two decades in sales — thirteen years selling, ten leading teams — and burned out twice along the way. That's not a footnote in her story; it's the reason for her work. She's the founder of Congruent Projects and creator of the Human Foundations framework, built on one sharp idea: we recruit driven, capable people, assume they already know how to regulate themselves under pressure, and then call it a personal failing when they break under the weight of skills no one ever named.
What we get into:
Leading a 100-person homebuilder through COVID while absorbing four roles — and the moment her body started shutting her down
The turn most people miss: watching her own team burn out modelling her, and realising "this ends when I say it does"
Why hard work and hustle have a dark side — "it's not a question of if, it's a matter of when"
The regulation-timing method: literally measuring the gap between a stressor and readiness to problem-solve, and shrinking it from two hours to ten minutes
Confidence as a learnable skill, not a personality trait you're born with or without
The external-validation trap — and how needing the pat on the back leaves you open to being controlled
Why the freeze before the offer isn't a flaw to fix — it's a gap to fill
Plus — Shaun on why the freeze at the offer is a releasable charge, not a verdict on who you are.
Find Jennifer: her free resource, the Confidence Ladder, is at join.congruentprojects.com/confidence-ladder.
Go deeper: my free guide Go Three Levels Deep → zenright.com.au/go-three-levels-deep
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