Fences & Flowers

About Fences & Flowers

Fences & Flowers is a podcast about the patterns that shape us, the protection beneath them, and the possibilities that become available when conscious choice returns. Hosted by Sushma Manda, MD, neurologist, founder of PotentiaYou™, and creator of Nervous System Diplomacy™. Through intimate, unscripted conversations, applied neuroscience meets lived experience, relationships, family, work, creativity, high performance, and Vedic wisdom. Together, we explore: • Why capable people repeat patterns they did not consciously choose • What those patterns may be trying to protect • Why knowing better does not always mean we can find that knowing when life changes tone • How ordinary internal wars shape our choices, relationships, and success • What becomes possible when protection is no longer the only voice in the room This is for people who carry responsibility, care deeply, and want to build lives that their nervous systems can finally breathe inside. Patterns. Protection. Possibilities. Explore PotentiaYou™ and begin with the resources that meet you where you are: https://potentiayou.com/ Nervous System Diplomacy™ is an educational methodology and is not medical diagnosis, treatment, or psychotherapy. Nothing shared here creates a doctor-patient relationship. For informational and educational purposes only. Not medical advice. Nothing shared here creates a doctor-patient relationship. If you are in crisis please contact a licensed healthcare provider or emergency services.

Publisher

Dr. Sushma Manda

Category

education · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 May 2026

Latest episode

5 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

7 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Sept 2026

   S2 E1: The Conversation You Have Been Waiting For

   Send us Fan Mail You did everything right, but something in your body still whispers that something is missing. This opening First Light™ conversation helps you witness that feeling without rushing to fix it. Continue the Free - First Light: Three Conversations With Your Nervous System https://potentiayou.com/first-light This episode opens the First Light journey by exploring the quiet ache that can live underneath achievement, caregiving, parenting, ambition, immigrant responsibility, and hi...

2. 

   26 May 2026

   EPISODE 5: "The Gate Is Open"

   Ready to Go Deeper? Explore the Course 👉 Nervous System Diplomacy™ The self-paced course that teaches you to build homes, relationships, and success that nervous systems can finally breathe inside. Four blueprints. One methodology. Your pace. The fences kept you safe. But they also kept the flowers out. Dr. Sushma Manda closes the welcome series with the real invitation. This is where it begins. You built fences. Really, really good fences. And they worked. They ...

3. 

   26 May 2026

   EPISODE 2: "The Almond Running Your Life"

   Your amygdala doesn't know the difference between a tiger and a deadline. Dr. Sushma Manda breaks down the neuroscience behind why you snap, shut down, and can't switch off. You are not a bad parent. You are not a weak leader. You are not broken. You are a highly intelligent human being whose threat detection system has been running on high alert for so long that emergency has become your baseline. In this episode, Dr. Sushma Manda goes deep into the neuroscience of high achiever burnou...

4. 

   26 May 2026

   EPISODE 1: "Why Your Alarm Is Lying To You"

   You wake up already behind. That's not a mood. That's your nervous system. Dr. Sushma Manda explains what's actually running your life. Welcome to Fences and Flowers. If you are a high achiever, a physician, an immigrant parent, a founder, or someone holding everything together while quietly running on empty, this show was built for you. In this first episode, Dr. Sushma Manda, neurologist and founder of PotentiaYou, introduces the central thesis of everything she does: the operating system t...

5. 

   26 May 2026

   EPISODE 4: "The Gap Nobody Is Standing In"

   Between the hospital policy and the therapist's office lives a gap where millions of high performers are falling through. Dr. Sushma Manda names it, claims it, and explains why nervous system regulation is about to appear on your resume. There is a gap that nobody has named until now. On one side, the system. The hospital. The corporation. The immigration structure. Built for output, not for humans. On the other side, the therapist's office. Sacred work. One room at a time. In between? ...

6. 

   26 May 2026

   EPISODE 3: "Arjuna Had A Nervous System Too"

   The Bhagavad Gita described nervous system collapse 5,000 years before neuroscience had a name for it. This is where ancient wisdom and modern science finally share a sentence. On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Arjuna drops his bow. His body fails. He cannot move. Modern neuroscience would call this dorsal vagal shutdown. Krishna called it mistaken identity. In this episode, Dr. Sushma Manda weaves together the Bhagavad Gita, A Course in Miracles, and cutting-edge neurophysiology to show tha...

7. 

   13 May 2026

   This is not your typical Mother's Day post.

   🌸 This is not your typical Mother's Day post. This one is for the toughest and somehow also the softest goddess inside every mother. For every dad holding that same motherly space. And for the women still praying, still hoping, still aching to become mothers one day. 🩺 For physicians, clinicians, and high performers — and the people who love them. 🎁 Free nervous system diagnostic 👉 https://www.potentiayou.com/gift ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ In this video: ✅ Why your child doesn't first need your a...

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings