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<v Speaker 1>Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of

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<v Speaker 1>performance through strong human relations, team building, and GOLAJV. This

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<v Speaker 1>is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul

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<v Speaker 1>Fello Aledo.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>It's episode seven forty one. Today we're talking about biohacking. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>before you roll your eyes and picture someone drinking green

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<v Speaker 2>powder at four am while they're standing in a cold

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<v Speaker 2>plunge in Iceland, stay with me. This episode is not

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<v Speaker 2>about supplements longevity. It's not about turning yourself into a machine.

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<v Speaker 2>This is about something leaders almost never talk about. How

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<v Speaker 2>to biohack your leadership, not your body, your leadership. And

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<v Speaker 2>I want to give you a framework today that I

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<v Speaker 2>think is different from most of what you've heard, because

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<v Speaker 2>leaders spend enormous amounts of time trying to improve decisions

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<v Speaker 2>while ignoring the operating system making those decisions. You think

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<v Speaker 2>about this. Two leaders walk into the exact same problem,

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<v Speaker 2>same staff, same budget, same email, same crisis. One response calmly,

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<v Speaker 2>makes a great decision and builds trust. The other overreacts,

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<v Speaker 2>gets defensive and damages relationships. Same inputs, different outputs. Why,

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<v Speaker 2>Because leadership is biological before it is strategic. Your leadership

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<v Speaker 2>style lives inside your nervous system. Nobody talks about that.

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<v Speaker 2>People think leadership is personality. I think leadership is often physiology.

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<v Speaker 2>And let me explain. I want you to imagine that

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<v Speaker 2>inside it. Every leader there are four hidden dials. Very

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<v Speaker 2>few people intentionally adjust them. The leaders who do become

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<v Speaker 2>disproportionately effective. Dial Number one is breathing speed. This sounds

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<v Speaker 2>too simple, it isn't. Your breathing pattern tells your brain

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<v Speaker 2>whether you're safe or under threat. When leaders get stressed,

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<v Speaker 2>they often shorten their breathing without realizing it. Your body

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<v Speaker 2>interprets that as danger. Danger changes decision quality, Danger reduces listening,

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<v Speaker 2>danger increases certainty. Danger makes people interrupt, Danger makes people

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<v Speaker 2>defend bad ideas. I learned this years ago in emergency

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<v Speaker 2>services and later saw it reinforced in aviation. The people

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<v Speaker 2>who look calm under pressure are not magically calm. Many

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<v Speaker 2>of them are controlling inputs. So try this before difficult conversations,

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<v Speaker 2>before meetings, before presentations, before employee discipline sessions. Take sixty seconds.

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<v Speaker 2>Slow your breathing, not meditation, not affirmation. Simply lower the

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<v Speaker 2>RPMs you are not calming emotions, you are changing systems settings.

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<v Speaker 2>Dial number two visual field. This one blows my mind.

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<v Speaker 2>Researchers have found that stress narrows visual attention, and that

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<v Speaker 2>makes sense. Survival mode wants tunnel vision. Leadership requires wide

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<v Speaker 2>angle vision. Ever, notice that overwhelmed leaders start focusing on

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<v Speaker 2>one employee, one complaint, one problem. Their leadership literally narrows.

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<v Speaker 2>So here's the hack. When stress hits, physically expand your

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<v Speaker 2>field of view. Stop look across the room, notice objects,

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<v Speaker 2>Lift your eyes, widen your attention. This sounds ridiculous until

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<v Speaker 2>you realize your brain interprets wider visual awareness as lower threat.

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<v Speaker 2>You become more strategic. I started doing this before major meetings.

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<v Speaker 2>I found myself less reactive, more curious, and less trapped.

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<v Speaker 2>Dial number three is body position. Most people think confidence

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<v Speaker 2>changes posture. I think posture changes confidence. Watch leaders during

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<v Speaker 2>hard moments. Shoulders collapse, heads drop, eyes go down, movement,

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<v Speaker 2>get smaller energy contracts. Your team reads that instantly. Your

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<v Speaker 2>nervous system reads it too, So try this before entering

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<v Speaker 2>a meeting. Physically move with intentions, stand to slow down,

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<v Speaker 2>slightly open your shoulders, place both feet on the floor

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<v Speaker 2>before speaking. Not for appearance for regulation. You're sending signals

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<v Speaker 2>in both directions, from your mind to your body and

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<v Speaker 2>from your body back to your mind. Dial four is

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<v Speaker 2>micro novelty. This one might be the most overlooked. Leaders

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<v Speaker 2>become predictable. Wake up, same drive, same chair, same lunch,

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<v Speaker 2>same route, same meeting, same thoughts. Your brain becomes efficient.

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<v Speaker 2>Efficient can become stale. You stop noticing, you stop questioning,

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<v Speaker 2>you stop seeing opportunities. So here's the leadership biohack. Introduce

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<v Speaker 2>controlled novelty. Sit somewhere different, walk a different route, take

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<v Speaker 2>a meeting, standing up, ask one question you've never asked.

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<v Speaker 2>Read outside of your industry. Change your sequence. Tiny changes

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<v Speaker 2>force attention, and attention drives awareness. Awareness improves leadership. And

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<v Speaker 2>here's the part that nobody wants to hear. You cannot

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<v Speaker 2>outstrategize an exhausted nervous system. You cannot outmanage poor recovery.

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<v Speaker 2>You cannot out policy constant overload. You cannot spreadsheet your

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<v Speaker 2>way out of biology. Leaders tell employees to rest, Then

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<v Speaker 2>they operate like machines. They tell employees to think strategically.

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<v Speaker 2>Then they answer emails at midnight. They tell employees to communicate,

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<v Speaker 2>Then they show up. Emotionally unavailable. Your team learns more

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<v Speaker 2>from your state than your speech. That might be one

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<v Speaker 2>of the biggest leadership lessons that nobody teaches. Your energy

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<v Speaker 2>enters the room before your words do. So here's there's

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<v Speaker 2>your challenge for the next seven days. Don't read another

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<v Speaker 2>leadership book, don't download another productivity app. Instead, audit your biology.

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<v Speaker 2>Ask how fast am I breathing? How narrow is my focus?

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<v Speaker 2>What does my body communicate? Where has my routine made

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<v Speaker 2>me blind? Because leadership improvement may not start with learning

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<v Speaker 2>something new, It may start with removing friction from the

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<v Speaker 2>operating system that you already have. Your body is not

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<v Speaker 2>separate from your leadership. It may be the dashboard. And

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<v Speaker 2>the best leaders are not always the smartest. Sometimes they

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<v Speaker 2>are simply the ones who learned how to adjust the dials.

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<v Speaker 2>So this week, I want you to try one of

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<v Speaker 2>these biohacks for seven intentional minutes per day and watch

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<v Speaker 2>what changes. Not because you became a different leader, but

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<v Speaker 2>because you became easier for your best leadership to access.

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<v Speaker 2>Your next breakthrough might not come from a seminar, a book,

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<v Speaker 2>or another meeting. It might come from understanding the machine

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<v Speaker 2>behind the mission. This has been the seven Minute Leadership Podcast,

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<v Speaker 2>and I thank you for listening.

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