In this solo episode of It's Not That Deep, Dr. Meghna Dasani unpacks one of the most misunderstood traits in leadership: softness. Not the passive kind. Not the people-pleasing kind. But the strategic, regulated, biologically intelligent softness that makes leaders more effective, influential, and resilient.
We explore why softness is not the absence of strength, but strength without tension. When your nervous system is regulated, your brain shifts out of survival mode and into executive function — improving decision-making, communication, perception, and emotional intelligence. This is the foundation of biologic leadership, where presence carries more power than performance.
Dr. Dasani introduces the Responsive Leadership Loop — pause, regulate, read, respond — and shows how to apply it in real-world situations like team conflict, boundary-setting conversations, and high-stakes decisions. You'll also hear practical, ready-to-use scripts that regulate you first, then the room, allowing you to lead with clarity rather than control.
What You Will Learn:
Why softness is a sign of nervous system regulation, not weakness
How a regulated leader outperforms a reactive one in communication and decision-making
The four-step Responsive Leadership Loop and how to use it in real time
How softness de-escalates conflict while increasing authority
Simple language shifts that create boundaries without aggression
Why presence, not performance, is the most powerful leadership tool
About Dr. Meghna Dassani
Dr. Meghna Dassani is a high-performance strategist, biologically-driven leadership expert, and award-winning dentist who helps women stop living overwhelmed and start leading with clarity, strategy, and science.
For over two decades, she built and scaled a thriving dental practice, became a nationally recognized airway sleep expert, and trained thousands of clinicians across the world. But her deeper calling emerged in the conversations happening behind closed doors — with women doctors who were exhausted, overextended, and silently questioning whether this version of success was worth the cost.
Meghna saw a pattern:
Burnout wasn't a mindset issue.
It was a biology issue.
And leadership wasn't a personality trait — it was a learnable system.
That's when The Making of Her was born.
Today, Meghna blends neuroscience, physiology, business strategy, and real-world leadership to help women doctors and leaders operate at their highest level — without grinding themselves into the ground. Her frameworks support women in making better decisions, executing at a higher level, and reclaiming ownership of their time, energy, and results.
Through her mastermind, The Expansion Collective, her newsletter The Audacity Edit, and now The Making of Her Podcast, Meghna is on a mission to give women the tools, language, and systems to rise without burnout — and build the kind of lives they don't need a vacation from.
This isn't self-help.
This is science-backed leadership for women who are done settling.
Meghna lives in Houston with her husband and their two daughters who are her greatest reminders of legacy, courage, and possibility.
The Making of Her is where strategy meets real talk.
Where biology meets leadership.
Where women stop shrinking and start becoming the version of themselves they always knew existed.
Welcome home.
Connect with Dr. Meghna Dassani
Website: https://www.meghnadassani.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/healthysleeprevolution
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meghna_dassani/
