For business founders: how to dissolve subconscious conflicts
The internal and external pressures founders experience often trigger long-standing behaviour patterns - undermining success, relationships, and quality of life. Psychologist Alta Rens offers insights and examples, explaining how approaches such as BWRT can diffuse blocks relating to money, self-worth, business management, and connection.
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In ep. 254 of the weekly podcast series Calm, Clear & Helpful, counselling psychologist, team leader, leadership development consultant & trauma-informed practitioner Alta Rens touches on
pressures, internal and external, business founders face, including the need to earn and to prove that they deserve the founding role
Alta’s personal experience of founding businesses
general reasons for starting a business
behaviour patterns carried from earlier in life, e.g. ways of coping with pressure and avoiding failure
when a founder’s identity is fused with their business
delegating, decision fatigue, and grief related to pivots, layoffs, failed products, and even successful exits
what intake formulation entails
specific triggers that activate founders’ underlying patterns
what maintains a pattern, including lack of sleep, uncertainty and loneliness
interventions Alta uses, including BrainWorking Recursive Therapy, ACT, hypnotherapy, and nervous system regulation work
BWRT as a fast-acting, solution-focused approach using the brain’s natural processing patterns
working with bad situations relating to money
an fascinating case study of a founder working round the clock
the three options available during a strong threat response.
In this episode, Alta mentions Dr David Rock, director of the NeuroLeadership Institute.
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About Alta
Alta Rens is a counselling psychologist, team leader, leadership development consultant, and trauma-informed practitioner based in Suffolk, England. Her career spans more than 30 years. She works privately, and online, with business founders who find that building something great costs them more than they let on. Issues may include financial anxiety and the psychology of risk, identity and self-worth under pressure, decision fatigue and cognitive overload, and team conflict and trust breakdown.
Alta’s work is not coaching but psychologically deep, neurologically informed work that goes beneath the surface, addressing what's actually driving the pattern, the block, or the burnout.
Website http://www.rebootpractice.com/
Email alta@rebootpractice.com
LinkedIn: Alta Rens
Instagram: rebootwithalta
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About the host: Mariette Snyman is an award-winning South African journalist and host of the Calm, Clear & Helpful podcast. Learn more: https://www.mariettesnyman.co.za/llm
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Podcast music by Mart-Marie Snyman.
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