From Trauma To CEO

About From Trauma To CEO

From Trauma to CEO is where ambitious, high-functioning women learn to turn survival wisdom into conscious leadership. Hosted by trauma-informed psychologist Dr. Farya Barlas, this podcast goes beneath “mindset” and into the nervous system, identity, and lived experiences that quietly shape how you work, lead, and succeed. Each episode unpacks the real psychology of high achievement, how your hardest seasons forged your brilliance, how old survival codes still run the show, and what it looks like to expand into a version of success that no longer costs you your wellbeing. Farya’s work is known for changing people at the level that endures, her clients carry her voice for years, making calm, powerful decisions that honour both their ambition and their nervous system. If you’re ready to understand why you are the way you are, and grow into a CEO of your own life with your soul, not your survival system, leading the way, this is where it begins.

Publisher

Farya Barlas

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Dec 2025

Latest episode

17 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

49 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Oct 2026

   Why the High From Motivational Events Never Lasts (and What Actually Creates Change)

   You leave the summit certain that this time you’ll go after the thing you’ve been putting off. Six weeks later nothing has moved, and you’re eyeing next year’s early-bird tickets. In this episode of From Trauma to CEO, Chartered Psychologist Farya Barlas explains why the high from motivational events, seminars and big-stage summits fades so quickly. She also covers why high achievers keep chasing the next one. This isn’t a discipline problem. It’s a nervous system pattern with roots in childh...

2. 

   8 Oct 2026

   You Don’t Have a Confidence Problem, You Have a Self-Worth Problem.

   We're told the answer is more confidence. Back yourself. Know your value. And so we build it, launch after launch, win after win, until we're the most confident woman in the room. And still, somehow, we don't believe we deserve to be in it. In this episode, Farya draws the line most high achievers never see: the difference between self-confidence and self-worth. Confidence is earned from evidence and is meant to grow. Worth is the floor you stand on before you've done anything, and it's meant...

3. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Why do high-achieving women who built a business for freedom end up responsible for everything in it? With Carly Clark Zimmer

   We were rewarded for it from the very beginning. Being the reliable one. The capable one. The one who anticipates everybody's needs, fixes the problem before anybody asks, and somehow always finds a way to carry more. It got praised at home, it got praised at school, it got promoted at work. So of course it came with us into the business. And at some point, what looks like exceptional leadership quietly becomes the thing keeping you trapped and the business you created for freedom becomes one...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

22 ratings

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