You Told Your Team You're Fine. Your Body Told Them Something Else. | Joel Elfman episode artwork

EPISODE · Aug 18, 2026 · 20 MIN

You Told Your Team You're Fine. Your Body Told Them Something Else. | Joel Elfman

from The Human Connection Podcast

"I say resiliency over perfection." — Joel ElfmanEvery executive we've ever had on this show is trying to optimize themselves the same way they optimize their org chart. Joel Elfman — hypnotist, performance coach, and 25-year veteran of NLP, tai chi, and somatic movement therapy — thinks that's exactly backwards. Before you can fix a team's trust problem, you have to fix your own relationship with the 65% of communication that isn't coming out of your mouth.Joel and Karl get into the exit-event emptiness nobody warns founders about, the "emotional muscle building" rep he teaches clients to do before they blow up in a board meeting, and the exact moment he had a client stand up and mentally bench-press "500 pounds of love and 500 pounds of money" to break a belief she didn't even know she was holding.What you'll get from this episode:Why the executives who look the most in control are usually the least connected to themselves — and what that costs the people reporting to themThe "emotional muscle building" drill Joel uses to help leaders catch a bad reaction before it becomes a bad reactionWhy "resiliency over perfection" is a more useful standard than the balance you keep telling your team you're modelingThe physical exercise that got a stuck client unstuck on a belief she'd been carrying for yearsWhat your body is broadcasting to your team right now, whether you meant it to or not#H2H #HumanConnectionPodcast #StartupLeadership #CompanyCulture #B2BRelationships===You can connect with Joel Elfman here:http://www.bodymindhypnotic.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-elfman-bodymind-hypnoticYou can connect with Karl Pontau here:www.vouchedconnections.comwww.thehumanconnectionpodcast.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kpontauhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUbf_bDWwB9KVrFn5Sj3u2w?sub_confirmation=1Please like, subscribe, and share this episode with somebody you care about!

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