(Ep. 30) CM in the Marketplace - Do Our Protectors Increase Our Performance?

What if the pain-driven drive that made you successful is the very thing keeping you from your next level?In this episode of Triggered & True, Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise return to the marketplace — and ask a question that top performers rarely stop to consider: our protectors help us perform, so do we even want to heal them? Brian kicks it off with an observation from the business world: so many legendary founders were driven by a deep, childhood-rooted sense of inferiority — a real pain propelling their success, often at the cost of their health, families, and relationships. So if that wound got healed, would the drive disappear?Laura's answer reframes the whole idea of ambition. Yes, pain can fuel performance — but a protector can only ever help you maintain, never truly grow, because the energy spent managing it is energy stolen from your actual gifts. She and Brian get personal about Brian's own "doing" protector, why "doing is the enemy of the visionary," and how performing to look good in front of others quietly caps what you can build. The episode lands somewhere unexpectedly freeing: your true self can accomplish more in a minute than your triggered self can in a lifetime — but success was never the real reason to heal. You're worth it, even if nothing ever comes of it.In this episode: 🔹 Do protectors help us perform — and would healing them cost us our edge? 🔹 The founder's paradox: childhood inferiority as rocket fuel, and what it costs 🔹 Why a protector can only help you maintain, never grow — the hidden ceiling on performance 🔹 "Doing is the enemy of the visionary" — how staying busy crowds out who you actually are 🔹 Why your true self outperforms your triggered self — and why that's still not the point📩 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