(Ep. 20) The Compassion Method in the Marketplace

What if your boss has quietly become your parent — and every performance review is really a child asking, "Am I enough?"In this episode of Triggered & True, Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise take the Compassion Method into the place many of us spend half our waking hours: the workplace. Because your heart goes with you wherever you go, the same triggers, unmet needs, and childhood wiring that shape your relationships show up at your desk too. Often disguised as ambition, performance, or a healthy-looking drive to succeed.Laura and Brian explore why the marketplace is such fertile ground for our deepest triggers around worth and enough-ness: your boss becomes the closest stand-in for a parent, and a bad quarter can drop you straight back into a little kid trying to prove they matter. They talk about the difference between being enough for who you are versus what you produce, how entrepreneurs can chase a false sense of safety through the balance sheet, why "blame-free business" and personal responsibility are so freeing, and how showing up as your true self — your "purple cow" — is what you uniquely bring that no one can replicate. The takeaway reframes the whole workday: instead of "what can I do more?", ask "How can I be more of who I am?"In this episode: 🔹 Why your boss can trigger you like a parent — and why a poor quarter can feel like life or death 🔹 Being enough for who you are versus what you produce — and why the number is never the last number 🔹 How entrepreneurs chase false safety through the balance sheet — and the opportunity when it's threatened 🔹 "Blame-free business": why you can be okay whether your boss or employee ever changes 🔹 Bringing your "purple cow" to work — how leading with your true self is your real competitive edge📩 Get your free Weekly Dose of Compassion — two short notes in your inbox every week. One to speak over yourself. One from Laura: https://www.lauraduncan.com/pl/2148814868🔗 Learn more: https://triggeredandtrue.com https://lauraduncan.com