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Tracy Tutty
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This podcast is dedicated to the art of joyful living. More than being happy, rediscover that soul filled joy moment by moment. Fall back in love with your work or find work that feeds your soul.

  1. 2d ago

    The Meeting After the Meeting

    IntroductionTwo hours after a boardroom decision is made and the room has moved on, the mind is still replaying six seconds of it. In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy Tutty explores why a meeting can end and keep running anyway, why overthinking isn't actually the mechanism at work, and what it takes for an experience to physiologically register as over rather than just intellectually resolved. In This EpisodeTracy walks through what's really happening when a conversation replays long after it's finished: the fast, pre-conscious activation that runs before a stressful moment is even consciously registered, why losing a room's attention trips the same alarm as an actual threat, and the difference between correcting a moment in real time and completing it physiologically. The conversation moves through neuroception, the nervous system's background scan for safety, the reconsolidation window that opens every time a memory is replayed, and why repeating the same six seconds can entrench a pattern rather than resolve it. Tracy also shares two concrete, in-the-body ways to signal completion without leaving the room, and why more preparation was never going to be the fix. This Episode Is For You IfThis one is for the leader who delivers exactly what the room needed and still finds herself replaying the moment hours later, at the stove, in the shower, anywhere except where the meeting actually happened. It's for anyone who has assumed that overthinking a conversation is a character trait rather than a nervous system waiting on information it hasn't received yet, and for anyone ready to understand the difference between knowing something is fine and a body that has actually registered it. About Tracy TuttyTracy Tutty is a Neuro-Identity Coach, Medical Herbalist, and leadership thought leader working at the intersection of subconscious transformation, nervous system coherence, and biology-informed leadership evolution. Drawing on her own background in corporate leadership as a Chartered Accountant, Tracy supports intelligent, high-performing women who have built success through precision, responsibility, and overperformance, helping them lead from a place that no longer costs them their health, identity, or sense of safety. Share This EpisodeSend this one to a colleague who's still replaying her own six seconds after everyone else has moved on. Connect With TracyWebsite: www.projectjoyful.com Instagram: @tracyctutty LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracytutty Ready to Go Deeper?Join Tracy for When Preparation Isn't the Problem, a closer look at what's really running underneath the moments that go well and still don't feel finished: tracytutty.com/preparationisnttheproblem

    The Meeting After the Meeting

  2. Sep 5

    Can You Let It Be Easy Now?

    In This EpisodeTracy unpacks the pattern that shows up right after you deliver something big at work: the flat, restless feeling that arrives instead of celebration, the urge to manufacture busyness on a day that doesn’t need it, and the identity underneath it all. Drawing on the neuroscience of prediction and threat detection, the hypothalamus and amygdala sequence that decides safe or unsafe before your rational mind gets a vote, Tracy explains why your system can treat a quiet calendar the same way it treats an actual threat, and how the exact same mechanism that trained you to run on demand can be retrained to let you rest in its absence. This Episode Is For You If•          You’ve just delivered something big at work and instead of celebrating, you feel oddly flat •          You find yourself creating urgency on days when none actually exists •          A quiet calendar makes you more uneasy than a full one •          You’ve built real mastery at holding more, and want to build the matching skill of holding less •          You’re ready to understand the nervous system pattern underneath overperformance, without shame attached to it About Tracy TuttyTracy Tutty is a Neuro-Identity Coach, Medical Herbalist, and the host of Project Joyful. Drawing on more than two decades in corporate leadership as a Chartered Accountant, Tracy works at the intersection of nervous system science, subconscious identity work, and biology-informed leadership to help high-achieving women lead and succeed without chronic self-abandonment. Her work sits at the heart of what she calls the Biology of Leadership, the understanding that sustainable leadership is shaped as much by physiology as it is by strategy. Share This EpisodeIf this episode named something you’ve never quite had language for, share it with a woman in your life who’s just come off the back of something big and can’t quite let herself rest in what comes next. Connect With TracyWebsite: www.projectjoyful.com Instagram: @tracyctutty LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tracytutty Work With TracyRevitalise is Tracy’s private one on one coaching experience, twelve weeks of working directly with the nervous system and identity structures underneath how you lead. Learn more and apply below. Revitalise: tracytutty.com/revitalise

    Can You Let It Be Easy Now?

  3. Aug 29

    Why Your Capacity Changes Under Pressure

    There are days when you walk into a meeting and every answer is right there, and other days when the exact same meeting leaves them reaching for words that were easy to find yesterday. Nothing about their role, their skill, or their experience has changed. Yet the day itself feels completely different to move through. In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy explores why capacity isn't the fixed trait so many high-achieving women assume it to be. Drawing on the neuroscience of the window of tolerance and the body budget of reserve, repair and recovery running quietly underneath every day of leadership, she unpacks what's actually happening in the nervous system when the same task feels effortless one day and impossible the next, and why it has nothing to do with discipline or standards slipping. In This Episode•          Why two people can face identical pressure and have a completely different capacity to meet it, and what that reveals about how the nervous system actually works •          The neuroscience of the window of tolerance: the zone where leadership, thinking and judgment stay available, and what happens the moment pressure pushes you outside it •          The body budget of reserve, repair and recovery, and why leadership can start to feel harder even when nothing about your week looks any different from the outside •          A shame-free reframe for the days your capacity dips, one that has nothing to do with willpower and everything to do with physiology This Episode Is For You If•          You've noticed you're sharp and decisive some days, and strangely slow to find your words on others, with no clear reason why •          You've caught yourself reacting more strongly than a moment actually called for, and known, almost immediately, it wasn't really about what just happened •          You're the person everyone relies on, and you're beginning to feel what that reliance actually costs you •          You want to understand the biology underneath your capacity, rather than being told again to simply manage your stress better About Tracy TuttyTracy Tutty is a Neuro-Identity Coach, Medical Herbalist and the host of Project Joyful. Drawing on her background as a Chartered Accountant in corporate leadership, Tracy works with high-achieving women who want to lead and succeed without the chronic pressure, perfectionism and self-abandonment that got them here. Her work sits at the intersection of subconscious identity, nervous system coherence and embodied leadership, what she calls the Biology of Leadership. Share This EpisodeIf this episode landed for you, share it with a leader who needs to hear it, or leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps this work find the women who need it most. Connect With TracyWebsite: tracytutty.com/revitalise Instagram: @tracyctutty LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tracytutty

    Why Your Capacity Changes Under Pressure

  4. Aug 22

    The Leadership Patterns Women Learn Early

    IntroductionTracy Tutty traces a habit almost every high-achieving woman recognises, softening a strong idea into a smaller, safer version of itself, back to where it was actually built. Not in a boardroom. In a single ordinary childhood moment, decades before any meeting existed. This episode follows that moment from the back seat of a car to the leadership table, and names exactly what it costs to keep running an old rule in a room that no longer needs it. In This Episode●        The childhood scene that quietly taught a “check first” reflex, and why a six or seven year old has no way to question a rule like it ●        How being praised for being easy to manage can become a lifelong equation between ease and love ●        What actually happens in the body in the seconds before you soften a sentence, disagree, or ask permission with your tone ●        Why the idea was never the problem, and what changes when delivery stops apologising for the content underneath it ●        A biology-informed reframe for hyper-responsibility and people pleasing that treats them as intelligent adaptations, not personality flaws This Episode Is For You If●        You've caught your own voice lifting into a question at the end of a sentence you meant as a statement ●        You watched someone else say your idea flatter than you did, and get heard for it ●        You've been called easy to work with and felt something more complicated than flattered ●        You're ready to understand where hyper-responsibility actually comes from, not just manage the symptoms of it About Tracy TuttyTracy Tutty is a Neuro-Identity Coach and Medical Herbalist working at the intersection of subconscious transformation, nervous system coherence, and biology-informed leadership. Drawing on her background as a Chartered Accountant in corporate leadership, Tracy helps high-achieving women move from performance-based leadership into embodied leadership that no longer requires chronic self-abandonment to sustain. She is the host of Project Joyful, approached through the Biology of Leadership lens, and the creator of Revitalise, her private one on one coaching experience. Share This EpisodeIf this episode named something you recognised, share it with a woman who needs to hear that the pattern isn't a personality flaw. It was built a long time ago, by someone doing the best she could with what she had. Connect With TracyWebsite: https://www.projectjoyful.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyctutty LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracytutty

    The Leadership Patterns Women Learn Early

  5. Aug 15

    Why I Craved Chamomile Before I Got Sick

    IntroductionTracy Tutty craved a tea she doesn't usually like. Three days later, she understood exactly why. In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy shares the story of a chamomile craving that arrived before a stomach bug did, and uses it to explore something bigger: what it looks like when the body already knows what it needs, long before the conscious mind catches up. As a Medical Herbalist, Tracy also breaks down chamomile's specific physiological actions, the compounds behind its antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory, and calming properties, and why this plant did so much more than settle a stomach. This episode is part of the Herbal Ally series inside Project Joyful. In This Episode●        A chamomile craving that showed up two days before Tracy got sick, and what she did with it ●        What actually happens in the body during a stomach bug, and why chamomile met the moment so precisely ●        The specific phytochemicals in chamomile, apigenin, bisabolol, and chamazulene, and the roles they play as an antispasmodic, carminative, anti-inflammatory, and calming herb ●        Why the body often communicates in ways the conscious mind isn't yet equipped to hear ●        What it means to notice a signal and not act on it straight away This Episode Is For You If●        You've ever had a craving you couldn't quite explain ●        You're curious about herbal medicine and want to understand the actual mechanisms behind traditional remedies, not just what they're said to be good for ●        You're interested in the relationship between body and mind, and how each communicates in its own language ●        You want a gentler way to listen to your body, without turning it into another thing to get right About Tracy TuttyTracy Tutty is a Neuro-Identity Coach, Medical Herbalist, and the host of Project Joyful. She works at the intersection of subconscious transformation, nervous system coherence, and herbal wisdom, helping high-achieving women build a more embodied, sustainable relationship with their health, leadership, and life. Share This EpisodeLoved this episode? Share it with someone who could use a reminder that their body knows more than they think. Connect With TracyWebsite: https://www.projectjoyful.com Instagram: @tracyctutty LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracytutty Herbs for HealthWant to build a real relationship with plant medicine, one herb at a time? Herbs for Health is Tracy's free monthly email. Each month is built around a single herb, its traditional and medicinal uses, how to make a remedy at home, growing tips, and important safety guidance. Join here: https://tracytutty.com/herbs4health

    Why I Craved Chamomile Before I Got Sick

  6. Aug 8

    The Leadership Cost of Constant Mental Anticipation

    Most conversations about overthinking focus on managing it. Breathing techniques. Time blocking. Telling yourself to stop. This episode goes somewhere different. Tracy explores what is actually happening in the body before anything has gone wrong. The paragraph reread three times. The meeting rehearsed twice before it happens. The sentence rewritten and quietly put back exactly as it was. Because two versions of this pattern get treated completely differently, one is called self-doubt and the other is called diligence, and Tracy makes the case that underneath both, the same system is running. In This EpisodeWhy one piece of feedback, about one specific thing, can get rewritten into a verdict about everything else you have delivered and everything you have not started yet. What is actually happening physiologically when a mind treats an old, unproven verdict as though it were current fact. Why familiar reads as safe to your nervous system, even when the familiar thing is a belief that was never true. How attention gets primed to find evidence for whatever identity is already running underneath, and why that is not a character flaw. The real difference between preparing for something and quietly trying to control an outcome that has not happened yet by exhausting yourself in advance. Why calling this imposter syndrome misses what is actually happening, and what recalibration at the identity and nervous system level actually makes possible. The Central DistinctionPreparation is not the problem. It is the disguise. The work is not learning to prepare less. It is learning to tell the difference between getting ready for something, and defending against a verdict your system decided on a long time ago. This Episode Is For You IfYou reread something that was already finished, looking for what someone else might find wrong with it. You rehearse conversations before they happen, more than once, until they feel safe enough to survive. You have called this being thorough for years and never questioned whether it was something else. You sense there is a version of your competence that does not need to be re-proven every time, and you want to understand what would actually let you rest in it. About Tracy TuttyTracy Tutty is a Neuro-Identity Coach, Medical Herbalist, and leadership thought leader working at the intersection of subconscious transformation, nervous system coherence, and biology-informed leadership evolution for high-achieving women in corporate leadership. Through her private coaching experience Revitalise, Tracy helps women recalibrate the subconscious, identity, and nervous system patterns beneath overperformance, creating embodied, sustainable leadership from the inside out. Share This EpisodeI would love it if you could share this episode with a woman who quietly rereads her own work more than she needs to. She might be a peer, a colleague, someone whose name came to mind while you were listening. Send it to her. Because this conversation belongs in more rooms than the one it is currently in. Connect With TracyWebsite: www.projectjoyful.com Instagram: @tracyctutty LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracytutty #ImposterSyndrome #WomenInLeadership #NervousSystemLeadership #BiologyOfLeadership #NeuroIdentityCoaching

    The Leadership Cost of Constant Mental Anticipation

  7. Jul 31

    Why High-Achieving Women Become Hyper-Responsible

    You gave clear instructions. She said she understood. So why are your hands already fixing her work before you've decided to? Here's what's really happening. In this episode, Tracy unpacks the redo. That quiet, automatic moment where you take a task back from someone rather than naming what actually went wrong. Why this rarely has anything to do with the person who got it wrong, and everything to do with a nervous system that learned, a long time ago, that absorbing the gap was safer than naming it. Tracy traces hyper-responsibility back to where it actually started. A clever adaptation, the girl who noticed what was needed before anyone asked, who kept the people around her happy, and safe, by quietly handling things herself. What that pattern costs a woman's body and leadership decades later, when it's still running in a boardroom instead of a childhood home. And what a mana enhancing conversation, and how naming what's true without diminishing the person hearing it, can offer instead. This episode is for the woman who has ever caught herself fuming quietly at her desk over something she could have just said out loud. And for the leader who's ready to discover what her team becomes capable of once she stops absorbing everything herself. Tracy is currently opening registration soon for a free event, When Preparation Isn't the Problem: Why you still second-guess yourself when you're the most prepared person in the room. If you've ever walked into an important meeting knowing your material inside out, yet still found yourself rehearsing your opening, reading the room, or leaving wondering whether you showed up at your best, this briefing will explain why. Details coming soon, keep an eye on Instagram and LinkedIn below. Connect with Tracy: Instagram: @tracyctutty LinkedIn: search Tracy Tutty, or visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracytutty/ hyper-responsibility, high-achieving women, women in leadership, nervous system coherence, executive coaching, embodied leadership, corporate leadership, neuro-identity coaching, biology of leadership, overperformance

    Why High-Achieving Women Become Hyper-Responsible

  8. Jul 25

    What Regulated Leadership Actually Looks Like

    Most of us were taught that regulated looks like calm. Even voice, steady face, nothing rattling you in the room. But Tracy has sat across from a CEO who looked entirely composed during a restructure and wasn't. And she's coached someone who cried on a call with her own team, then spent days convinced she'd failed as a leader in that moment, when her body was actually doing something closer to the opposite. Two people. Two very different reactions. And only one of them was actually regulated. In this episode, Tracy breaks down what regulation actually feels like in the body, why it doesn't look the same for everyone, why tears in a boardroom can be the nervous system working exactly as it should, and why the composed, unbothered version of leadership we've been taught to aim for might be the one furthest from the truth. You'll hear:• Why a team can feel the difference between a regulated leader and a dissociated one, even when both look calm from the outside. • What co-regulation actually is, and why your nervous system is always reading the room whether you notice it or not. • The difference between constriction and expansion as a felt experience, and why there's no universal picture of what regulated leadership looks like. • Why the embarrassment that follows an emotional moment at work usually has nothing to do with your body, and everything to do with a manual you never agreed to. This episode is part of Tracy's ongoing exploration of the Biology of Leadership, the physiological and subconscious patterns beneath how high-achieving women lead, perform, and experience success. Follow Project Joyful for weekly conversations on nervous system coherence, embodied leadership, and the recalibration of overperformance in high-achieving women. #ProjectJoyful #BiologyOfLeadership #NeuroIdentityCoaching #NervousSystemCoherence #EmbodiedLeadership #WomenInLeadership

    What Regulated Leadership Actually Looks Like
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This podcast is dedicated to the art of joyful living. More than being happy, rediscover that soul filled joy moment by moment. Fall back in love with your work or find work that feeds your soul.

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  • Creator
    Tracy Tutty
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    252
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Tracy Tutty
  • Show Website
    Project Joyful