Welcome to Let’s HEAL! with Beth Jones. I’m Beth, your leadership performance strategist and the HEALing Mentor. We’re still talking about healing our survival patterns, but this show is taking the conversation somewhere we don’t talk about it nearly enough.
The business world. Because we desperately need conversations about leadership performance and healing the survival patterns that keep us from achieving real success.
Our survival patterns don’t stay in our past. They follow us to work. They shape our leadership behavior and how we treat the people we are responsible for. And most of us have absolutely no idea it’s happening. It shows up as burnout despite success. As trauma responses in leadership that nobody has named yet. Decision-making under pressure that quietly erodes trust in leadership. Emptiness high achievers feel when everything looks right on the outside, but something still isn’t working inside. The higher the performance, the easier it is to look away from your wounds.
That is the conversation this show is stepping into now — and we are ready for it. The first fifty episodes of this show, raw, honest conversations with survivors, gifted healers, and people who have walked through the fire, built the foundation. Now we are taking everything we learned about healing into the room where it is needed most and asking the hard questions.
What happens when survival patterns run the show at work? How does healing our survival patterns make us more effective, more present, and more powerful as leaders? What does it look like to be forced into healing while you are still in the middle of your career? These are the conversations we’re having now. These are the conversations leaders need — and that organizations are not having.
I know one thing for sure: you, too, can heal. And when you do, you lead differently. Your team performs differently. Your decisions come from a different place. You love differently. You show up differently. This is how we build leadership effectiveness that lasts — and a life and legacy to match.
Come on, everybody. Let’s HEAL!
What Happens When a Leader Puts the Human First | Laura Roach
Laura Roach is a partner at McCathern and one of the most recognized family law mediators in Texas. In this conversation, Laura shares what her breakdown taught her about leadership, why she tells her young attorneys to go home to their families, and the business case for doing your own work: better talent, stronger teams, and more revenue.
Beth explores how Laura’s story connects to tone at the top—the leadership behavior that determines whether people feel safe to be human at work.
Chapters:
0:00 Cold Open
0:13 Intro
0:50 Who is Laura Roach?
4:05 The protector and the blunt truth-teller
8:20 Laura’s breakdown and the road to recovery
12:45 What vulnerability changed about her leadership
14:00 Why her team isn’t afraid to bring her problems
22:45 Fighting ego to get help
26:00 The people you lose and the people you find
29:40 “Go home to your babies” — human-first leadership in practice
32:40 Work-life balance vs. life-work integration
36:15 The ROI of recovery: revenue, talent, and the cycle that repeats
38:30 Close
Connect with Laura Roach: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-roach-09563467/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-roach-09563467/) | lroach@mccarthernlaw.com (mailto:lroach@mccarthernlaw.com)
Through The HEAL Framework™ — to Hope, Evolve, And Love, each as an action — Beth helps leaders, high-performers, and organizations understand that the survival patterns running leadership styles can be recognized, examined, and changed.
Connect with Beth: beth@empoweredsurvivors.com (mailto:beth@empoweredsurvivors.com) | http://empoweredsurvivors.com (http://empoweredsurvivors.com) | Substack: @bethjoneshealingmentor
2 Jun 2026
I Discovered I Am a Black Man at 19 | Rick Hightower
Rick Hightower grew up in an all-Black neighborhood in Atlanta, arrived at TCU (a university in Ft Worth, TX) at 19, and discovered for the first time what it meant to be a Black man in a predominantly white world. That discovery shaped his entire career. In this conversation, Beth and Rick explore the survival patterns that navigating race creates, Rick introduces the concept of aversive racism, and Beth shares her own unconscious bias story and asks whether it crossed into how she led. Today’s lesson: conscious living.
Chapters:
00:00 Cold open
00:10 Intro
00:45 Meet Rick Hightower
03:25 Two heart attacks and a wake-up call
05:20 The courage to speak up before retirement
12:00 Right under your nose but you don’t see
13:15 “I haven’t had any major trauma”
14:48 I discovered I was Black at 19
16:32 The calculus class that changed everything
20:00 Working harder and watching others get more
22:05 The false arrest at TCU
24:00 Black professionals and the exceptional standard
27:45 Conscious living and picking your battles
29:50 Prepare to be wrong
32:05 What navigating race costs your relationships
35:03 Seeking joy and setting boundaries
35:35 Beth’s unconscious bias story
39:56 Aversive racism explained
43:13 The mask, the pandemic, and conscious living
47:10 Close
Connect with Rick Hightower:
LinkedIn: / rick-hightower-3405bb179 (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFAxYjlQV0JpRWlCb3NMYTkxQUwxX2lZWkRUQXxBQ3Jtc0ttNjg2NllJbHEtZG1rd0RCUTd6WDVMb0dmWEpfbEk0OW9UTHlMNzJZZDhwcmplN1BJSHgtMXFCMmpweTM4ZWd4MXVaeldJVUhvVzZQamZUSVltdXY5Q1huNUItaHBWNGpBYU52V2JWMjNXWFQ3aUdJUQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Frick-hightower-3405bb179%2F&v=faNid_V6oXM)
Instagram: instagram.com/hightower_rick (http://instagram.com/hightower_rick)
Facebook: facebook.com/rick.hightower.7
(https://substack.com/@bethjoneshealingmentor)Website: therickhightower.com
(https://substack.com/@bethjoneshealingmentor)Connect with Beth:
beth@empoweredsurvivors.com
empoweredsurvivors.com
Substack (https://substack.com/@bethjoneshealingmentor)
19 May 2026
When Success Is the Wrong Fuel | Molly Moore Smith
What happens when the fuel running your entire career is a lack of self-worth, and you don’t realize it until the validation spigot turns off?
Molly Moore Smith spent over 25 years in the tech industry, rising from entry-level to VP while her entire identity ran on external validation. In this episode, Molly names the survival patterns that drove her leadership for two decades — perfectionism, people pleasing, control, and numbing — and shares the moment she uttered the scariest words of her adult life to her boss on a Zoom call.
Chapters:
00:00 Cold Open — “If success in this role means I have to spend 50% of my time doing these things, then I’m not the right person for the role”
01:02 Introduction: Molly Moore Smith
04:50 Where the Drive Began: Scarcity, Divorce, and the First Job That Rewarded Effort
06:27 External Validation as the Only Fuel
08:50 The Validation Spigot Turns Off
11:30 The Cost at Home: Mommy Guilt and the 80/20 Marriage
14:35 Naming the Survival Patterns: Perfectionism, People Pleasing, Control, Numbing
17:55 The 2019 Health Pivot
20:10 The Biggest Funk: Misalignment, Stopping Drinking, and the Zoom Call
23:00 The Scariest Sentence She Ever Said to Her Boss
26:40 What Healing Freed Up: Writing a Book, Spiritual Awakening, Energy Healing
30:20 The Emotion Code: How Trapped Emotions Drive Leadership Behavior
36:52 What Would You Say to Her?
39:42 You, Too, Can Heal
Connect with Molly Moore Smith:
http://nextbeststep.co (http://nextbeststep.co)
linkedin.com/in/molly-smith-cecp-24345712 (http://linkedin.com/in/molly-smith-cecp-24345712)
http://youtube.com//@mollypositivepants (http://youtube.com//@mollypositivepants)
Through The HEAL Framework™, Beth helps leaders recognize, examine, and change these patterns.
Connect with Beth:
beth@empoweredsurvivors.com (mailto:beth@empoweredsurvivors.com)
http://empoweredsurvivors.com (http://empoweredsurvivors.com)
Substack: @bethjoneshealingmentor
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