EPISODE · Jun 9, 2026 · 44 MIN
#105 Cedric Bertelli: Why Do You Keep Reliving The Same Fear?
from Serves You Right · host Andrew Roy
If you think you're managing your anxiety, your anger, or that low hum of dread that follows you into work, you're probably doing the one thing guaranteed to keep it alive. Most of us were trained from childhood to control emotions…and every coping mechanism quietly tells your brain the threat is real. Cedric Bertelli, former Ritz-Carlton restaurant director turned founder of the Emotional Health Institute, spent years studying the neuroscience of emotion and somatic resolution to prove the harder truth: an emotional difficulty is just an outdated prediction your brain is replaying on loop. Expect to Learn:Why every emotion is engineered to expire in under 90 seconds, and what keeps yours aliveThe hidden "instant" inside a trauma that actually creates your patternWhy bartenders function as the first therapist, and the coping mechanism the industry hands you for free\The single question Cedric asks clients that cuts straight past their excuses to the real fearThe surprising thing 75% of his clients are secretly struggling with, no matter what they came in forLinks:Emotional Health InstituteUseful Not True — Derek SiversService starts now.Follow the show: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTubeI talk to people in and around the service industry space. I'm looking to hear from the people I wish I could have talked to when I was coming up in bars. Said another way: I am trying to make sense of this wild, beautiful mess that can be a life working in bars, and help others that are feeling similarly confused and/or lost. Check out the Podcast Website Here and get in touch with me!Classic Episodes You May Like:Doug Frost MW MSJeffrey MorgenthalerET: Entrepreneur (and creator of Surfer on Acid)Edward Slingerland's Masterful work on IntoxicationAndrew Hurley of Vegas.WineChris Tunstall of A Bar AboveTony Abou-GanimBobby "G" GleasonAs always, I’m just here taking notes, trying to figure out what it all means.Cheers
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If you think you're managing your anxiety, your anger, or that low hum of dread that follows you into work, you're probably doing the one thing guaranteed to keep it alive. Most of us were trained from childhood to control emotions…and every coping mechanism quietly tells your brain the threat is real. Cedric Bertelli, former Ritz-Carlton restaurant director turned founder of the Emotional Health Institute, spent years studying the neuroscience of emotion and somatic resolution to prove the harder truth: an emotional difficulty is just an outdated prediction your brain is replaying on loop. Expect to Learn:Why every emotion is engineered to expire in under 90 seconds, and what keeps yours aliveThe hidden "instant" inside a trauma that actually creates your patternWhy bartenders function as the first therapist, and the coping mechanism the industry hands you for free\The single question Cedric asks clients that cuts straight past their excuses to the real fearThe surprising thing 75% of his clients are secretly struggling with, no matter what they came in forLinks:Emotional Health InstituteUseful Not True — Derek SiversService starts now.Follow the show: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTubeI talk to people in and around the service industry space. I'm looking to hear from the people I wish I could have talked to when I was coming up in bars. Said another way: I am trying to make sense of this wild, beautiful mess that can be a life working in bars, and help others that are feeling similarly confused and/or lost. Check out the Podcast Website Here and get in touch with me!Classic Episodes You May Like:Doug Frost MW MSJeffrey MorgenthalerET: Entrepreneur (and creator of Surfer on Acid)Edward Slingerland's Masterful work on IntoxicationAndrew Hurley of Vegas.WineChris Tunstall of A Bar AboveTony Abou-GanimBobby "G" GleasonAs always, I’m just here taking notes, trying to figure out what it all means.Cheers
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