The Expansion Room

Shervon Laurice
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Welcome to The Expansion Room, a sacred space where inner work becomes embodied impact. This podcast is for the conscious leader, entrepreneur, creative, or visionary who has done the work and still feels something is missing. You have built the business, done the therapy, read the books. And yet there is a version of yourself you keep sensing but have not fully stepped into. You are not stuck because you lack information. You are stuck because transformation is not just intellectual. It is soul-deep. If you are navigating an identity shift, outgrowing an old story, or feeling the quiet tension between who you have been and who you are becoming, you are in the right room. Hosted by Shervon Laurice, transformational coach, psychospiritual guide, and psychedelic integration coach with over 23 years of experience, The Expansion Room bridges mental wellness, spiritual embodiment, nervous system healing, and consciousness expansion into one integrated conversation. Each episode explores what it actually takes to become the person you already sense you are meant to be, including how to move through identity shifts without losing yourself in the process, how to regulate your nervous system so your body can hold the expansion your mind already knows is possible, how to build a business, life, and leadership presence that reflects who you are now, and how to close the gap between knowing and doing through embodied transformation. You will experience intimate solo episodes, guided inner work practices, and powerful conversations with conscious healing experts, spiritual teachers, mental wellness innovators, and thought leaders at the intersection of science, energy, and spirit. Whether you are expanding, unraveling, or realigning, The Expansion Room is your home for rooted, soul-level transformation. Breathe deeper. Listen inward. Become who you already know you are.

  1. 1d ago

    Unburdened Leadership: Release the Weight You Were Never Meant to Carry

    Unburdened leadership starts with releasing weight that was never yours to carry. In this episode of The Expansion Room, we explore why so many women leaders are running on empty, and what it actually takes to lead from a regulated, grounded place. We talk about the emotional and spiritual burden women accumulate over years of leading and serving others, why nervous system regulation, not willpower or strategy, is the real foundation for sustainable leadership, and what becomes possible when a woman reconnects with her healed, authentic voice. This is a conversation about getting unstuck from the identity of the overextended leader and returning to leadership from a grounded place, not a depleted one. Get in touch with Tarinna Terrell: Email: info@tarinnaterrell.com Website: tarinnaterrell.com IG: @tarinnaterrell CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 1:08 Meet Tarinna Terrell and The Soul Collective 2:00 Tarinna's Origin Story in Service and Faith 5:24 The Culture of Overworking in Women 6:23 The Wounded Healer and Learning to Reconcile Rest 9:47 The Body Speaks First, Getting Unstuck Begins 10:35 The Question That Silenced a Room, 30 Years of Putting Herself Last 12:05 Soul Tired, The High Achiever's Hidden Exhaustion 13:48 Hustle Culture and the Pandemic Pause 16:04 Feeling Lighter, Recognizing the Weight of Constant Motion 23:52 Getting Regulated and Redefining Identity 24:55 Unpacking the Soft Life and Where We Store Tension 26:18 The Eye Twitch, When the Body Signals Dysregulation 28:06 Environment, Relationships, and Physical Symptoms 34:54 What Is the Unburdened Lab? 37:53 Community Healing and the Butterfly Metaphor 39:07 The Gut Brain Connection and Somatic Healing 40:37 Making Room for Play and Joy 41:44 Leading Without Losing Yourself 45:02 Naming the Weight, Closing Reflections 45:47 Where to Find Tarinna Terrell 46:52 Outro ______________________ 🔹 Work with Shervon ~ Book an Alignment Call: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/alignmentcall-sl Download "Why Insight Isn’t Enough": https://elevatewithshervon.com/insights The Expansion Room Community → https://the-expansion-room.circle.so/c/start-here/ Newsletter: Expansion Room Insights → https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-expansion-room-insights-7378408432644628480 🔹 Connect with Shervon: Website → https://shervonlaurice.com Instagram → http://instagram.com/shervonlaurice LinkedIn → http://linkedin.com/in/shervonlaurice #GettingUnstuck #UnburdenedLeadership #WomenWhoLead #NervousSystemRegulation #AuthenticVoice #SpiritualLeadership #RestorativeLeadership #SoulCollective #BurnoutToBalance #GroundedLeadership #SovereignLeadership #TheExpansionRoom

  2. 6d ago

    IF AI CAN DO MORE OF YOUR JOB, DO THIS NOW

    Your job title can survive while the value inside your job quietly moves somewhere else. If AI can already do part of your work, the real question is not "Is my career safe?" The real question is: which part of my value is getting cheaper, and which part is becoming more important? In this episode of The Expansion Room, I walk you through the AI Career Pre-Flight, a practical six-step framework to help you get unstuck from generalized fear and start gathering real evidence about your own work. Fear is a terrible career strategy. Information is where agency begins. You'll learn how to: ✔ Break your job into tasks AI can do, tasks AI can help with, and tasks that still need you ✔ Identify where your value is moving across four layers: execution, judgment, context, and accountability ✔ Run a replacement test on your own work and grade it like a professional ✔ Decide whether to retrain without chasing a "safe" job that keeps shifting ✔ Build a Plan A for adaptation and a Plan B for mobility ✔ Choose one 30-day move that turns anxiety into action You don't need certainty about 2030. You need better evidence about what to do next Monday. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Question You Should Be Asking About AI 1:10 Why AI Career Anxiety Is Rising 2:55 Introducing the AI Career Pre-Flight 3:15 Pre-Flight #1: What Is AI Actually Taking From Your Job? 4:15 Example: The Communications Manager 5:40 Pre-Flight #2: Where Is Your Value Moving? 6:40 The Four Layers of Value 8:30 Pre-Flight #3: Run a Replacement Test 10:30 What Will You Do With the Time AI Gives Back? 11:30 Pre-Flight #4: Don't Retrain Blindly 13:45 Pre-Flight #5: Build Your Plan A and Plan B 15:40 Pre-Flight #6: Your Next 30-Day Move 17:30 Getting Unstuck From the Wrong Question 18:50 Your Next Step WATCH NEXT If your deeper question is "What am I worth now?", watch: If AI Can Do Part of Your Job, What Are You Worth Next? FEELING STUCK IN YOUR OWN TRANSITION? If you're a leader or entrepreneur standing between the identity you built and the one that's emerging, let's talk. Book your Alignment Call: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/alignmentcall-sl CONNECT WITH SHERVON Website: https://shervonlaurice.com ELEVATE: https://elevatewithshervon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/shervonlaurice LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shervonlaurice Subscribe for more on the human side of AI, without fear or denial, just real information. ______________________ 🔹 Work with Shervon ~ Book an Alignment Call: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/alignmentcall-sl Download "Why Insight Isn’t Enough": https://elevatewithshervon.com/insights The Expansion Room Community → https://the-expansion-room.circle.so/c/start-here/ Newsletter: Expansion Room Insights → https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-expansion-room-insights-7378408432644628480 🔹 Connect with Shervon: Website → https://shervonlaurice.com Instagram → http://instagram.com/shervonlaurice LinkedIn → http://linkedin.com/in/shervonlaurice #aiandcareers #futureofwork #careertransition #aijobs #careerstrategy #leadership #gettingunstuck #theexpansionroom #shervonlaurice #nervoussystemregulation #transformationalcoach #embodiedleadership #entrepreneurship #spiritualentrepreneur #soulpreneur #identityshift #mindset

  3. Sep 29

    The Fight You Keep Having Isn't About What You Think

    Most couples aren't stuck because they lack communication skills. They're stuck because they're having the same conversation on repeat, just wearing a different outfit each time. Money one week, parenting the next, who forgot to handle something the week after that. Different topic, same fight. In this episode, we explore why certain conflicts never fully resolve, no matter how many times a couple tries to talk it out, and what's actually happening underneath them. We look at the gap between being able to navigate hard conversations professionally and going silent or shutting down in the conversation that matters most at home. And we talk about why the answer usually isn't a better argument or a smarter fix, it's learning to recognize the pattern itself. If you've ever felt capable everywhere except in your closest relationship, this conversation will help you see what's really going on underneath the repeat fight, and why naming the pattern is often the first real step toward getting unstuck, together. If you’re interested in contacting Amber about her work you can visit her website or email her: https://battlesinsights.com, amber@battlesinsights.com ______________________ 🔹 Work with Shervon ~ Book an Alignment Call: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/alignmentcall-sl Download "Why Insight Isn’t Enough": https://elevatewithshervon.com/insights The Expansion Room Community → https://the-expansion-room.circle.so/c/start-here/ Newsletter: Expansion Room Insights → https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-expansion-room-insights-7378408432644628480 🔹 Connect with Shervon: Website → https://shervonlaurice.com Instagram → http://instagram.com/shervonlaurice LinkedIn → http://linkedin.com/in/shervonlaurice #theexpansionroom #shervonlaurice #nervoussystemregulation #transformationalcoach #embodiedleadership #entrepreneurship #spiritualentrepreneur #soulpreneur #identityshift #mindset #gettingunstuck #consciousrelationships #innerworkouterimpact #relationshippatterns #soulledliving

  4. Sep 24

    Afraid AI Could Replace You? Start Here.

    Are you worried that artificial intelligence could replace your job or change your career faster than you can adapt? Don’t start with panic. Start with evidence and a plan. Licensed clinical professional counselor and Coach Shervon Laurice offers a practical framework for workers and experienced professionals concerned about AI job displacement, changing job responsibilities, automation and the pressure to continuously upskill. Rather than promising that “everything will be fine,” this video shows you how to examine what is actually changing in your work and begin building an adaptation strategy. In this video: • How to identify exactly what you’re afraid AI may change • Why headlines shouldn’t become your personal career forecast • How to break your job into tasks and assess potential AI exposure • How to distinguish automation from AI-assisted work • How to identify where your professional value may be moving • Why you don’t need to “learn AI” you need to learn the AI capabilities relevant to your work • How to run a small AI experiment using a task you already understand • How to avoid “adaptability panic” and unfocused upskilling • Why you should create both an adaptation plan and a mobility plan • A practical 30-day starting plan Pew Research Center found that 52% of U.S. workers surveyed were worried about future AI use in the workplace, and 32% believed AI would result in fewer job opportunities for them over the long term. More recent 2026 research from ETS, based on more than 15,000 U.S. adults across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., found that 78% of U.S. workers agreed that job security no longer exists without continuous adaptation, while 85% said upskilling or reskilling is necessary. Broad workforce statistics cannot predict what will happen to your individual job. Your strongest starting point is understanding: YOUR ACTUAL WORK. YOUR ACTUAL SKILLS. YOUR ACTUAL EXPOSURE. YOUR ACTUAL OPTIONS. AI may change your work, your role or even your career. Change is not the same thing as helplessness. Start with reality. Then make the next decision. RELATED VIDEO: If AI Can Do Part of Your Job, What Are You Worth? Subscribe for practical, evidence-informed conversations about AI job anxiety, career adaptation, AI skills, future of work, professional identity and navigating workplace change. —- Chapters 00:09 – Introduction: Panic Is Not a Career Strategy Naming your specific fear instead of holding a vague, helplessness-inducing one. 02:39 – Step 2: Stop Using Headlines as Your Career Plan Pew's 32% stat, and moving from "AI is changing work" to "this is how AI is changing my work." 04:45 – Step 3: Break Your Job Into Tasks Sorting your responsibilities into four categories, including the useful "I don't know yet." 08:58 – Step 4: Identify Where Your Value Moves Domain expertise plus AI fluency plus human judgment, and the self-inventory questions to ask. 10:45 – Step 5: Find the Two or Three AI Capabilities That Matter Most Why "learn AI" is too broad a goal, with examples by role (communications, finance, people management). 12:57 – Step 6: Run One Small Experiment Testing AI on one task this week and evaluating time saved, accuracy, and what still needed your judgment. 14:44 – Step 7: Don't Carry the Whole Transition Yourself Reasonable questions to bring to your employer about tools, training, and how AI use will be evaluated. 17:05 – Steps 8 and 9: Watch for Adaptability Panic, Then Build Two Plans Recognizing busyness as anxiety in a costume, and building an adapt-in-place plan alongside a mobility plan. 19:08 – Don't Confuse the Market Value of a Task With Your Worth as a Person Why the market can shift without devaluing who you are. 21:12 – The 30-Day Starting Plan Week by week: list your top 10 tasks, test one AI use case, identify three capabilities, have one real conversation. 23:26 – Closing: Wrapping the Series and Next Steps Series recap and the invitation to book an Alignment Call: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/alignmentcall-sl ______________________ 🔹 Work with Shervon ~ Book an Alignment Call: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/alignmentcall-sl Download "Why Insight Isn’t Enough": https://elevatewithshervon.com/insights The Expansion Room Community → https://the-expansion-room.circle.so/c/start-here/ Newsletter: Expansion Room Insights → https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-expansion-room-insights-7378408432644628480 🔹 Connect with Shervon: Website → https://shervonlaurice.com Instagram → http://instagram.com/shervonlaurice LinkedIn → http://linkedin.com/in/shervonlaurice #aijobs #careerchange #futureofwork #aiatwork #careerdevelopment #theexpansionroom #shervonlaurice #nervoussystemregulation #transformationalcoach #embodiedleadership #entrepreneurship #spiritualentrepreneur #soulpreneur #identityshift #mindset

  5. Sep 22

    It's About Time: A Boxer's Lesson on Grief, Faith, and Getting Unstuck

    What does a Golden Gloves champion know about grief that most of us spend a lifetime avoiding? In this episode of The Expansion Room, we sit down with author Mark Connor, whose life moves from the boxing rings of Saint Paul, where he became the Upper Midwest Golden Gloves lightweight champion at seventeen, to the quiet devastation of losing both parents, and the Catholic faith that held the space in between. Mark's book, "It's About Time," weaves together family, cultural identity, and the search for meaning through story and poetry, and this conversation goes even deeper into the discipline, loss, and reckoning behind the pages. This episode is about the gap between knowing and doing. It's about the procrastination that masquerades as "not being ready," the grief that reorganizes your entire relationship to time, and what it actually takes to stop waiting for permission to live. We talk about how physical discipline built in the ring can become a template for spiritual endurance, how faith holds pain without erasing it, and why the things we survive don't have to define us forever. If you've been circling the same unfinished thing for months, or years, telling yourself you'll get to it "when the time is right," this episode is your nudge. Time doesn't wait for readiness. Neither should you. This is a conversation about getting unstuck: from grief, from fear, from the stories that keep us waiting instead of living. In this episode: - How boxing discipline became a doorway to spiritual growth - What losing both parents taught Mark about the illusion of time - The role Catholic faith played in processing grief without bypassing it - Why procrastination is often fear in disguise, not laziness - The Sovereignty Shift: Energy Before Action, and how commitment creates momentum before motivation ever shows up - One concrete step you can take today toward the thing you've been avoiding If this episode moves something in you, that quiet nudge that says "I know what I've been putting off," let it be enough. You don't need more proof. You need to begin. Get Mark’s Book: Boxers & Writers Magazine – Boxing writing that pulls no punches and Amazon.com: It's About Time (Millions of Copies Sold for Dad) ______________________ 🔹 Work with Shervon ~ Book an Alignment Call: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/alignmentcall-sl Download "Why Insight Isn’t Enough": https://elevatewithshervon.com/insights The Expansion Room Community → https://the-expansion-room.circle.so/c/start-here/ Newsletter: Expansion Room Insights → https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-expansion-room-insights-7378408432644628480 🔹 Connect with Shervon: Website → https://shervonlaurice.com Instagram → http://instagram.com/shervonlaurice LinkedIn → http://linkedin.com/in/shervonlaurice #gettingunstuck #faithandresilience #griefjourney #embodiedaction #theexpansionroom #shervonlaurice #nervoussystemregulation #transformationalcoach #embodiedleadership #entrepreneurship #spiritualentrepreneur #soulpreneur #identityshift #mindset

  6. Sep 17

    If AI Can Do Part of Your Job, What Are You Worth?

    If artificial intelligence can perform part of your job faster than you can, does that make you less Valuable? For many experienced professionals, AI is raising a question deeper than job security: If technology can perform some of the work that helped establish my expertise, where does my professional value go next? Licensed clinical professional counselor and Coach Shervon Laurice examines the relationship between AI, work and professional identity and why your value should not be confused with a single task you currently perform. In this video: • Why AI can challenge professional identity as well as job security • The difference between a job task and professional value • How automation can change the meaning people attach to expertise • Four layers of professional value: execution, judgment, context and human consequence • Why human judgment and AI capability can become complementary rather than automatically competitive • Why “What can AI never replace?” may be the wrong question • How to build a personal AI-era Value Inventory • How experienced professionals can identify where their value may be moving The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 estimated that 39% of workers’ existing skill sets will be transformed or become outdated between 2025 and 2030. At the same time, the report identifies analytical thinking as the most sought-after core skill among employers and highlights resilience, flexibility, agility and leadership alongside rapidly growing technological skills such as AI and big data. The implication isn’t that human professional value is disappearing. It is that the combination of skills employers value is changing. Artificial intelligence may reduce the value of certain tasks, significantly change some roles and create new demands for workers. No one can responsibly guarantee which professions or tasks will remain unchanged. A more useful question is: WHERE DOES MY VALUE MOVE AS AI BECOMES MORE CAPABLE? Your professional identity doesn’t have to depend entirely on performing the same tasks forever. Adaptation begins by understanding what is changing, what remains valuable, what may become more valuable and what you need to learn next. WATCH NEXT: Afraid AI Could Replace You? Start Here. Subscribe for evidence-informed conversations about AI and professional identity, human value at work, career adaptation, workplace change and the psychology of the AI transition. —- Chapters 00:07 – Introduction: If AI Can Do It in 30 Seconds, What Are You Worth The personal question underneath the technical one, and why the answer is better questions, not reassurance. 02:18 – The Identity Trap: Confusing Tasks With Value A job contains tasks, but professional identity contains experience, reputation, judgment, status, and purpose. The 1,400 worker narrative study on displacement themes. 04:41 – The Subtle Loss and Why Value Can Move Creating becomes reviewing, drafting becomes editing, analyzing becomes validating. Why AI performing a task doesn't mean it replaced your value. The World Economic Forum's 39 percent skill shift projection. 07:09 – The Four Layers of Work: Execution Human judgment plus AI capability as the real combination, and the first layer, execution, the tasks becoming easier to automate. 09:30 – The Four Layers of Work: Judgment and Context Microsoft's numbers on quality control and critical thinking. What experienced professionals know that isn't visible in the task itself. 11:55 – The Four Layers of Work: Human Consequence and the New Question Who trusts, explains, and takes responsibility for a decision. Replacing "what can AI never do" with "where is my value moving to." 14:19 – Build Your Value Inventory The four-column exercise: tasks AI already helps with, tasks AI may change next, the value you create beyond the task, and what you need to learn next. 17:06 – The Bottom Line and What's Next Professional value is larger than a job description. Setup for the next video: a plan, not reassurance. ______________________ 🔹 Work with Shervon ~ Book an Alignment Call: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/alignmentcall-sl Download "Why Insight Isn’t Enough": https://elevatewithshervon.com/insights The Expansion Room Community → https://the-expansion-room.circle.so/c/start-here/ Newsletter: Expansion Room Insights → https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-expansion-room-insights-7378408432644628480 🔹 Connect with Shervon: Website → https://shervonlaurice.com Instagram → http://instagram.com/shervonlaurice LinkedIn → http://linkedin.com/in/shervonlaurice #AIJobs #FutureOfWork #ProfessionalIdentity #CareerDevelopment #ArtificialIntelligence #theexpansionroom #shervonlaurice #nervoussystemregulation #transformationalcoach #embodiedleadership #entrepreneurship #spiritualentrepreneur #soulpreneur #identityshift #mindset

  7. Sep 15

    Prevent Burnout: Energy Management, Not Time Management

    What if burnout isn’t a scheduling problem but a signal your nervous system has been sending you for months? In this episode, former systems engineer and Director of Performance Improvement Chris Vasiliadis shares how a multiple sclerosis diagnosis rewired her entire relationship with energy, mindfulness, and what it means to be well. Drawing on her background in human performance and her own health journey, Chris walks through how to recognize the early signs of nervous system dysregulation before they become full burnout, how to regulate in real time using practical mindfulness tools, and how to align daily energy with what actually matters instead of what feels urgent. This conversation challenges the belief that chronic exhaustion is the price of success, and offers a grounded alternative: empowered energy that honors your humanness and adapts to your current season of life. Whether you’re an entrepreneur or high-functioning professional who feels stretched thin, this episode offers a new lens for getting unstuck from hustle culture and reconnecting with sustainable, energized living. Want to learn more about Chris’s offerings? Check out her website: https://prioritywellness.com —- Chapters 00:09 – Introduction: Burnout Is an Energy Problem, Not a Time Problem. The real currency you spend all day isn't minutes, it's nervous system capacity. 01:53 – Chris's Diagnosis Story: From Systems Engineer to MS Two attacks within a couple of months, the diagnosis, and the decision to rebuild her relationship with energy from the ground up. 07:09 – Defining Burnout: Exhaustion, Cynicism, and Ineffectiveness The three-piece definition, the WHO's occupational syndrome framing, and why caregivers who aren't employed can burn out too. 09:50 – The Three Nervous System States: Ventral, Sympathetic, Dorsal. Fully resourced versus fight or flight versus shutdown and freeze. 13:01 – Why We Talk Ourselves Out of Noticing Dysregulation Chronic overworking, gradual onset, and how a coworker or loved one often notices before you do. 16:03 – Midlife, Perimenopause, and the Load Women Are Carrying Shervon's own fibromyalgia diagnosis story and why the 40 to 60 age range shows up so often in Chris's client work. 18:16 – Agency Without Self-Blame. Separating what's yours to regulate from what's a toxic work environment, and the simple check-in question: what state am I in right now. 20:32 – Regulation Techniques by Nervous System State Movement for dorsal shutdown, co-regulation and the hand-heart gesture for fight or flight, and breath counts for both, including Shervon's own 4-count inhale, 6-count exhale practice from her law enforcement years. 24:31 – Aligning Energy With What Actually Matters Planning ahead for what might go sideways, the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique, and re-grounding instead of abandoning yourself under stress. 28:13 – Building Grounding Into Mornings, Transitions, and Micro-Breaks. Morning rituals, using the space between meetings on purpose, and the pit-stop metaphor for why breaks make you more effective, not lazy. 33:17 – Embodiment: When Regulation Becomes How You Live Shervon's story of leaving her desk for lunchtime walks around the federal building, and how a narrow, stressed lens widens once you're resourced. 35:34 – The Weekly Check-In and Teaching Kids to Self-Regulate A 15-minute weekly alignment review, plus the Anita Baker story about a child already practicing emotional regulation. 39:34 – The Body as Ally: Where Emotions Show Up First Physical signals as a thermostat, and tuning in before you can even name the feeling. 42:19 – Closing and Where to Find Chris prioritywellness.com, LinkedIn, and her free monthly newsletter, Energizing You, at prioritywellness.com/free-report. ______________________ 🔹 Work with Shervon ~ Book an Alignment Call: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/alignmentcall-sl Download "Why Insight Isn’t Enough": https://elevatewithshervon.com/insights The Expansion Room Community → https://the-expansion-room.circle.so/c/start-here/ Newsletter: Expansion Room Insights → https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-expansion-room-insights-7378408432644628480 🔹 Connect with Shervon: Website → https://shervonlaurice.com Instagram → http://instagram.com/shervonlaurice LinkedIn → http://linkedin.com/in/shervonlaurice #energymanagement #burnoutprevention #nervoussystemregulation #mindfulleadership #sustainablesuccess #theexpansionroom #shervonlaurice #nervoussystemregulation #transformationalcoach #embodiedleadership #entrepreneurship #spiritualentrepreneur #soulpreneur #identityshift #mindset

  8. Sep 10

    AI Anxiety at Work: What’s Happening to Us Psychologically?

    Artificial intelligence is changing the workplace but the transition isn’t only technological. For many workers, it’s psychological. If you’ve been feeling anxious, overwhelmed, uncertain about your job, or worried about falling behind as AI becomes more common at work, this conversation is for you. Licensed clinical professional counselor and Coach Shervon Laurice explores the human side of AI workplace change: why uncertainty about artificial intelligence can affect our sense of professional identity, competence, security and value and how to respond without denial or catastrophizing. In this video: • Why AI-related workplace uncertainty can feel so personal • The difference between legitimate concern and assuming the worst • Why professional identity can become connected to the work we perform • How rapid workplace change can leave people feeling less relevant or left behind • Three questions for turning AI anxiety into useful information • Why “Where does my value move?” may be a better question than “What can AI never replace?” • How deliberate adaptation can restore a sense of agency Research from Pew Research Center found that 52% of U.S. workers said they were worried about future AI use in the workplace. Thirty-three percent said they felt overwhelmed, while 36% said they felt hopeful. Those numbers don’t mean every worker will experience AI-related anxiety or that AI will eliminate someone’s job. They do demonstrate that workplace concern about AI exists at substantial scale. “AI anxiety” is used here as an everyday description of these concerns not as a psychiatric Diagnosis. The goal of this conversation is to understand what you’re experiencing, separate evidence from prediction, and make your next professional decision from greater clarity. WATCH NEXT: If AI Can Do Part of Your Job, What Are You Worth? Subscribe for evidence-informed conversations about AI, work, professional identity, workplace change, mental health and the human side of the AI workplace transition. —- CHAPTERS: 00:08 – Introduction: When AI at Work Triggers Anxiety The feeling is real, but the worst case scenario in your mind is not automatically your future. 02:31 – The Data: How Many Workers Are Actually Feeling This Pew, Microsoft Work Trend Index, and Deloitte numbers on fear, overwhelm, and hope around AI in the workplace. 04:59 – The Tension: Stick With What You Know or Learn AI Faster Why this tension can look like procrastination, resistance, exhaustion, or a mask of "it's fine." 06:41 – The Deeper Question: What Happens to Who I Am When AI can perform pieces of the work that helped build your identity as the expert, the writer, the strategist, the counselor. 09:03 – AI as a Human Transition, Not Just a Technology Transition The 2026 research on professional identity, devalued expertise, techno stress, and trust in human value. 11:26 – Feeling Less Relevant: The Need to Still Belong and Contribute Naming AI anxiety honestly without turning every uncomfortable reaction into a diagnosis. 13:54 – Turning Fear Into Information: Question One and Two What am I actually afraid of, and what is actually changing versus what am I predicting. 16:07 – Where Does Your Value Move To: Question Three Moving past "what can AI never do" toward judgment, context, accountability, and interpretation. 18:30 – Deliberate Adaptation and What's Coming Next Choosing clarity over denial or catastrophizing, and the setup for the next video: if AI can do part of your job, what are you worth. ______________________ 🔹 Work with Shervon ~ Book an Alignment Call: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/alignmentcall-sl Download "Why Insight Isn’t Enough": https://elevatewithshervon.com/insights The Expansion Room Community → https://the-expansion-room.circle.so/c/start-here/ Newsletter: Expansion Room Insights → https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-expansion-room-insights-7378408432644628480 🔹 Connect with Shervon: Website → https://shervonlaurice.com Instagram → http://instagram.com/shervonlaurice LinkedIn → http://linkedin.com/in/shervonlaurice #aiatwork #futureofwork #workplaceanxiety #artificialintelligence #careerchange #theexpansionroom #shervonlaurice #nervoussystemregulation #transformationalcoach #embodiedleadership #entrepreneurship #spiritualentrepreneur #soulpreneur #identityshift #mindset

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Welcome to The Expansion Room, a sacred space where inner work becomes embodied impact. This podcast is for the conscious leader, entrepreneur, creative, or visionary who has done the work and still feels something is missing. You have built the business, done the therapy, read the books. And yet there is a version of yourself you keep sensing but have not fully stepped into. You are not stuck because you lack information. You are stuck because transformation is not just intellectual. It is soul-deep. If you are navigating an identity shift, outgrowing an old story, or feeling the quiet tension between who you have been and who you are becoming, you are in the right room. Hosted by Shervon Laurice, transformational coach, psychospiritual guide, and psychedelic integration coach with over 23 years of experience, The Expansion Room bridges mental wellness, spiritual embodiment, nervous system healing, and consciousness expansion into one integrated conversation. Each episode explores what it actually takes to become the person you already sense you are meant to be, including how to move through identity shifts without losing yourself in the process, how to regulate your nervous system so your body can hold the expansion your mind already knows is possible, how to build a business, life, and leadership presence that reflects who you are now, and how to close the gap between knowing and doing through embodied transformation. You will experience intimate solo episodes, guided inner work practices, and powerful conversations with conscious healing experts, spiritual teachers, mental wellness innovators, and thought leaders at the intersection of science, energy, and spirit. Whether you are expanding, unraveling, or realigning, The Expansion Room is your home for rooted, soul-level transformation. Breathe deeper. Listen inward. Become who you already know you are.

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  • Creator
    Shervon Laurice
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    60
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Copyright 2026 Shervon Laurice
  • Show Website
    The Expansion Room