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Speaker 1: is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul
Speaker 1: Fello Aledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode seven forty one. Today we're talking about biohacking. Now,
Speaker 2: before you roll your eyes and picture someone drinking green
Speaker 2: powder at four am while they're standing in a cold
Speaker 2: plunge in Iceland, stay with me. This episode is not
Speaker 2: about supplements longevity. It's not about turning yourself into a machine.
Speaker 2: This is about something leaders almost never talk about. How
Speaker 2: to biohack your leadership, not your body, your leadership. And
Speaker 2: I want to give you a framework today that I
Speaker 2: think is different from most of what you've heard, because
Speaker 2: leaders spend enormous amounts of time trying to improve decisions
Speaker 2: while ignoring the operating system making those decisions. You think
Speaker 2: about this. Two leaders walk into the exact same problem,
Speaker 2: same staff, same budget, same email, same crisis. One response calmly,
Speaker 2: makes a great decision and builds trust. The other overreacts,
Speaker 2: gets defensive and damages relationships. Same inputs, different outputs. Why,
Speaker 2: Because leadership is biological before it is strategic. Your leadership
Speaker 2: style lives inside your nervous system. Nobody talks about that.
Speaker 2: People think leadership is personality. I think leadership is often physiology.
Speaker 2: And let me explain. I want you to imagine that
Speaker 2: inside it. Every leader there are four hidden dials. Very
Speaker 2: few people intentionally adjust them. The leaders who do become
Speaker 2: disproportionately effective. Dial Number one is breathing speed. This sounds
Speaker 2: too simple, it isn't. Your breathing pattern tells your brain
Speaker 2: whether you're safe or under threat. When leaders get stressed,
Speaker 2: they often shorten their breathing without realizing it. Your body
Speaker 2: interprets that as danger. Danger changes decision quality, Danger reduces listening,
Speaker 2: danger increases certainty. Danger makes people interrupt, Danger makes people
Speaker 2: defend bad ideas. I learned this years ago in emergency
Speaker 2: services and later saw it reinforced in aviation. The people
Speaker 2: who look calm under pressure are not magically calm. Many
Speaker 2: of them are controlling inputs. So try this before difficult conversations,
Speaker 2: before meetings, before presentations, before employee discipline sessions. Take sixty seconds.
Speaker 2: Slow your breathing, not meditation, not affirmation. Simply lower the
Speaker 2: RPMs you are not calming emotions, you are changing systems settings.
Speaker 2: Dial number two visual field. This one blows my mind.
Speaker 2: Researchers have found that stress narrows visual attention, and that
Speaker 2: makes sense. Survival mode wants tunnel vision. Leadership requires wide
Speaker 2: angle vision. Ever, notice that overwhelmed leaders start focusing on
Speaker 2: one employee, one complaint, one problem. Their leadership literally narrows.
Speaker 2: So here's the hack. When stress hits, physically expand your
Speaker 2: field of view. Stop look across the room, notice objects,
Speaker 2: Lift your eyes, widen your attention. This sounds ridiculous until
Speaker 2: you realize your brain interprets wider visual awareness as lower threat.
Speaker 2: You become more strategic. I started doing this before major meetings.
Speaker 2: I found myself less reactive, more curious, and less trapped.
Speaker 2: Dial number three is body position. Most people think confidence
Speaker 2: changes posture. I think posture changes confidence. Watch leaders during
Speaker 2: hard moments. Shoulders collapse, heads drop, eyes go down, movement,
Speaker 2: get smaller energy contracts. Your team reads that instantly. Your
Speaker 2: nervous system reads it too, So try this before entering
Speaker 2: a meeting. Physically move with intentions, stand to slow down,
Speaker 2: slightly open your shoulders, place both feet on the floor
Speaker 2: before speaking. Not for appearance for regulation. You're sending signals
Speaker 2: in both directions, from your mind to your body and
Speaker 2: from your body back to your mind. Dial four is
Speaker 2: micro novelty. This one might be the most overlooked. Leaders
Speaker 2: become predictable. Wake up, same drive, same chair, same lunch,
Speaker 2: same route, same meeting, same thoughts. Your brain becomes efficient.
Speaker 2: Efficient can become stale. You stop noticing, you stop questioning,
Speaker 2: you stop seeing opportunities. So here's the leadership biohack. Introduce
Speaker 2: controlled novelty. Sit somewhere different, walk a different route, take
Speaker 2: a meeting, standing up, ask one question you've never asked.
Speaker 2: Read outside of your industry. Change your sequence. Tiny changes
Speaker 2: force attention, and attention drives awareness. Awareness improves leadership. And
Speaker 2: here's the part that nobody wants to hear. You cannot
Speaker 2: outstrategize an exhausted nervous system. You cannot outmanage poor recovery.
Speaker 2: You cannot out policy constant overload. You cannot spreadsheet your
Speaker 2: way out of biology. Leaders tell employees to rest, Then
Speaker 2: they operate like machines. They tell employees to think strategically.
Speaker 2: Then they answer emails at midnight. They tell employees to communicate,
Speaker 2: Then they show up. Emotionally unavailable. Your team learns more
Speaker 2: from your state than your speech. That might be one
Speaker 2: of the biggest leadership lessons that nobody teaches. Your energy
Speaker 2: enters the room before your words do. So here's there's
Speaker 2: your challenge for the next seven days. Don't read another
Speaker 2: leadership book, don't download another productivity app. Instead, audit your biology.
Speaker 2: Ask how fast am I breathing? How narrow is my focus?
Speaker 2: What does my body communicate? Where has my routine made
Speaker 2: me blind? Because leadership improvement may not start with learning
Speaker 2: something new, It may start with removing friction from the
Speaker 2: operating system that you already have. Your body is not
Speaker 2: separate from your leadership. It may be the dashboard. And
Speaker 2: the best leaders are not always the smartest. Sometimes they
Speaker 2: are simply the ones who learned how to adjust the dials.
Speaker 2: So this week, I want you to try one of
Speaker 2: these biohacks for seven intentional minutes per day and watch
Speaker 2: what changes. Not because you became a different leader, but
Speaker 2: because you became easier for your best leadership to access.
Speaker 2: Your next breakthrough might not come from a seminar, a book,
Speaker 2: or another meeting. It might come from understanding the machine
Speaker 2: behind the mission. This has been the seven Minute Leadership Podcast,
Speaker 2: and I thank you for listening.
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