{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"We Not Me","title":"Regulating your team's nervous system, with Dana Hargus","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2425,"description":"Dana Hargis is a mental health counsellor of 25 years and co-founder of Restore of Ada, a practice built around one idea: reset the nervous system and you change the quality of a person's life. Dan and Pia bring her on to unpack why so many workplace problems — burnout, conflict, broken teams, leaders who can't be reasoned with in a crisis — trace back not to bad character or bad strategy, but to a dysregulated nervous system that never learned to calm itself down.\nWhat shifts the conversation is Dana's insistence that this is fixable, and mostly through small, unglamorous levers: noticing your own triggers, breath, sleep, blood sugar, grounding. She reframes self-destructive behaviour not as weakness but as a (misguided) attempt at self-regulation, and pushes the idea further into systems — a team, a family, a company is only ever as regulated as the people leading it. Improve yourself, and you pull the whole system up with you; decline, and it drags the system down too.Key Themes & TakeawaysDysregulation isn't a mood, it's a mechanism — Dana argues nervous system dysregulation is behind failed marriages, custody battles and workplace breakdowns alike, because an unregulated nervous system shows up in every role a person holds.Trauma is inherited before birth — Dana points to research on maternal cortisol transferring to the fetus, meaning a person's baseline stress response can be shaped before they're born, by trauma they never directly experienced.Everyone has a \"favourite\" stress response — fight, flight or freeze — and the unproductive ones (like shutting down) get misread by colleagues as rudeness or disengagement rather than a nervous system in overload.A leader's regulation sets the ceiling for the team — \"a team as a whole will be no better than their leader,\" and an unhealthy system will actively push out anyone who tries to function well within it.Self-destructive habits are attempts at self-regulation, not moral failure — Dana's reframe: sugar,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/cTxm0uMo1AuvRTsg1GhIjdn998MJJQ_xMMLaqK_LTcA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zOTk3/MThmYWIxNDllNjc2/YzEwZjVhOWNmZjVm/ODNmNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}