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On today’s episode, we are live from Dallas interviewing our client, Jason Treu. (Excuse the background noise from the Sheraton lobby!) Jason helps successful leaders overcome management and career challenges within their organizations.

1. What are the most common pain points you find with your clients?
2. 1. Most of it stems from early childhood trauma.
   2. These traumas are holding them back.
   3. Jason helps them change learned behaviors from childhood that are no longer serving his clients.

1. How can managers deal with employee issues that may be personal?
2. 1. You have to get to know people personally to help with their work performance.
   2. No one can truly separate work and personal.
   3. Conversations about what people really want are important, too.

1. How possible is it for people to overcome traumas that happened during their early, formative years?
2. 1. You can do it quickly. Most things are just a slight shift.
   2. People have be willing to change.
   3. One person Jason helped was having sales issues, but it turned out to be a deeper reason of shame about her voice. He helped her overcome this, which turned her sales around!

1. What is the balance between being vulnerable and oversharing?
2. 1. You have to understand the moment and the people you are sharing with.
   2. People have to earn the right to hear your story.
   3. You don’t have to have it all figured out.
   4. Find like minded people in your life who you can relate to. That way you don’t have to explain the whole backstory.

1. What are some examples of questions a manager could ask to open up potential blocks?
2. 1. If you are leading, you have to be vulnerable with the people you are leading.
   2. Take advantage of ways to be honest about finances, etc.
   3. When you meet new people, be honest that you expect performance at a high level but that mistakes are okay.
   4. Encourage people to share their ideas before you share yours.
   5. Cards Against Mundanity helps people open up and get to know each other as people. It creates psychological safety.
   6. You have to create the culture in the company.
   7. Psychological safety causes people to be more emotionally invested and work harder.
   8. People want to show up and be seen.

1. How can managers show their staff that they are seen?
2. 1. You have to work on yourself first.
   2. You can’t deal with tough questions if you can’t deal with your own stuff.
   3. Everyone wants to be vulnerable, but only if someone else goes first. The leader has to go first to show they care.
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