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To help people who help people, the organization needs to be healthy and have practices in place that consider the trauma of those they serve. Lauren Spigelmyer and Jessica Doering have helped thousands of people who help people all over the world. Each week they'll explore tools, insights, and stories to help you lead and live with more clarity, calm, and connection. If you’re looking for support as you grow your organization’s capacity for caring for staff and the community, we would love to be part of that journey.
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Episode 2: Authority Without Fear
In this episode, Lauren continues the Leading Under Pressure series by exploring how authority and power shape the nervous system and why leadership is never neutral. She unpacks how fear based practices drive compliance, silence, and burnout, while regulated authority builds safety, clarity, and trust.
This episode offers insight into shifting from control to connection, showing how presence, tone, and timing shape safety more than policy. Lauren closes with a simple reminder to pause before you release and lead with intention.
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Other related resources from Five Ives:
Blog Post:
- Why Traditional Employee Wellness Programs Fail (And What Works Instead)
- Survive Mode: Recognizing When Your Organization is in Crisis
- What are the Five Ives?
Podcast:
- Episode 1: What Stress Does to Decision Making
- The Pause Between Now and Next
- Leading From a Regulated Core
- Designing Rhythms that Regulate
- When Culture Dysregulates
- Growth & Feedback Without Fear
- Onboarding as Co-Regulation
- Policy as a Nervous System
- Why Women in Leadership Micromanage
- The Regulated Organization: What it Means to be a Regulated Organization
- Retain: Sustaining Staff, Culture, and Capacity
- Reset: Moving from Relief to Real Transformation
- Hive- The Last Stage of the Five Ives
- Thrive- The Fourth Stage of the Five Ives
Our Online Programs:
- Behavior Breakthrough
- Policing Under Pressure
- Board Governance Training
- University of Pennsylvania Behavior Breakthrough Accredited Course
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- Five Ives Website website
- The Behavior Hub blog
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