You Can Only Grow as Far as Your Trauma Lets You

In this episode, Natasha dives into trauma — and why it quietly sets the ceiling on how far you can grow as a founder.She shares a powerful metaphor: trauma creates a “net” around us, and we don’t expand until we cut the cords. From perfectionism and people-pleasing to fear of conflict, abandonment, or “getting it wrong,” these patterns can look like business problems… but they’re often trauma responses.Natasha opens up about her own roots of perfectionism (hypervigilance, anger = danger, Catholic guilt), why it kept her agency the same size for years, and what she’s doing now to heal it (including hypnotherapy and using AI to catch belief patterns in real time).You’ll leave with a new lens: your “excuses” are often your beliefs — and your triggers are the doorway to freedom.