370 – The Energy You Broadcast Is the Business You Build

Is your voice betraying your nervous system? Because there’s a good chance it is, and it’s worth paying attention to.

This week’s episode is part of the ongoing business series, and we got into one of the most honest signals our bodies give us: voice. Not whether you sound polished or professional. Where your voice is actually sitting when you present. Whether it’s up in your throat or whether it’s dropped into your body. Whether it has that ebb and flow (prosody) or whether it’s flat or stuck.

Here’s what we covered:

How fight-or-flight literally raises your vocal pitch, and what that’s communicating to potential clients before a single word lands. The difference between regulated excitement and dysregulated high-energy, and why only one of them builds something sustainable. How mirror neurons mean your audience isn’t just hearing your content — they’re sensing your nervous system state. What it actually costs you to present from dysregulation: cortisol, adrenaline, and the difference between regulated tired and depleted. The concept of faulty neuroception, and why something healing can feel totally overwhelming when your system isn’t ready for it yet. And, most importantly, why all nervous system states are good.

If this episode resonated with you, I recommend Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana. This is the book that goes deepest on everything we were talking about — the three states, prosody, neuroception, what regulation actually feels like from the inside. Deb Dana is one of the clearest writers on Polyvagal Theory out there, and this particular book is accessible even if you don’t have a clinical background. If you want to understand why your voice does what it does, why certain things feel threatening even when they’re safe, or why you keep attracting a certain kind of client energy, this is where to go next. Order a copy here. This is an affiliate link which doesn’t cost you anything extra and helps support my work.