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You call it high standards.
You call it excellence.
You call it leadership.

But underneath… it’s control.

In this episode of The Shadow Business Podcast, Sarah Berckenkamp exposes one of the most sophisticated defense mechanisms in high-achieving women: the need to grip, manage, oversee, fix, and hold everything together.

We go straight into:
 • The illusion of safety that control creates
 • The systemic roots of hyper-responsibility and perfection
 • Why your nervous system equates “letting go” with danger
 • How control quietly kills creativity, collaboration, and income
 • What it looks like to lead from self-trust instead of fear

And Sarah shares how she works with this inside her coaching containers; not by forcing delegation or mindset shifts, but by dissolving the deeper patterns that make control feel necessary in the first place.

If you’ve ever caught yourself micromanaging your team, rewriting captions five times, or feeling a spike of anxiety when someone else touches your business… this episode is going to hit home.

Control isn’t who you are, it’s who you became to survive.
But your business isn’t another battlefield.
It’s the place where you finally get to exhale.

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