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Project Joyful
by Tracy Tutty
This podcast is dedicated to the art of joyful living. More than being happy, rediscover that soul filled joy moment by moment.Fall back in love with your work or find work that feeds your soul.
Episodes
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When Leadership Starts to Feel Natural
Introduction Leadership can look completely composed from the outside and still feel like two separate jobs running on the inside, the actual leading, and the ongoing work of managing how it's landing. In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy Tutty explains why so many highly capable leaders…
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When Competence Doesn't Feel Like Confidence
You know you're good at this. Nobody in the room is questioning it. So why, in the half second before you speak, does some part of you still check? In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy Tutty looks at what happens when competence and confidence stop matching up, and why proving it again was...
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You're Not Working. So Why Are You Still Working?
The laptop is closed. Nobody's messaged you. And still, some part of you hasn't actually stopped monitoring. Tracy Tutty explores standby, the physiological state hiding underneath rest that doesn't restore you, and why closing your laptop was never the same as your body receiving permission to...
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Why Being Left Off the Email Bothers You
Introduction Being left off an email you think you should have seen can trigger a surprisingly physical reaction: a tightened jaw, a rush of heat, a reply that comes out sharper than intended. In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy Tutty unpacks why an empty cc field can land as a direct hit on...
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The Meeting After the Meeting
Introduction Two hours after a boardroom decision is made and the room has moved on, the mind is still replaying six seconds of it. In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy Tutty explores why a meeting can end and keep running anyway, why overthinking isn't actually the mechanism at work, and…
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Can You Let It Be Easy Now?
In This Episode Tracy unpacks the pattern that shows up right after you deliver something big at work: the flat, restless feeling that arrives instead of celebration, the urge to manufacture busyness on a day that doesn’t need it, and the identity underneath it all. Drawing on the neuroscience of...
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Why Your Capacity Changes Under Pressure
There are days when you walk into a meeting and every answer is right there, and other days when the exact same meeting leaves them reaching for words that were easy to find yesterday. Nothing about their role, their skill, or their experience has changed. Yet the day itself feels completely...
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The Leadership Patterns Women Learn Early
Introduction Tracy Tutty traces a habit almost every high-achieving woman recognises, softening a strong idea into a smaller, safer version of itself, back to where it was actually built. Not in a boardroom. In a single ordinary childhood moment, decades before any meeting existed. This episode...
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Why I Craved Chamomile Before I Got Sick
Introduction Tracy Tutty craved a tea she doesn't usually like. Three days later, she understood exactly why. In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy shares the story of a chamomile craving that arrived before a stomach bug did, and uses it to explore something bigger: what it looks like when…
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The Leadership Cost of Constant Mental Anticipation
Most conversations about overthinking focus on managing it. Breathing techniques. Time blocking. Telling yourself to stop. This episode goes somewhere different. Tracy explores what is actually happening in the body before anything has gone wrong. The paragraph reread three times. The meeting...
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Why High-Achieving Women Become Hyper-Responsible
You gave clear instructions. She said she understood. So why are your hands already fixing her work before you've decided to? Here's what's really happening. In this episode, Tracy unpacks the redo. That quiet, automatic moment where you take a task back from someone rather than naming what...
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What Regulated Leadership Actually Looks Like
Most of us were taught that regulated looks like calm. Even voice, steady face, nothing rattling you in the room. But Tracy has sat across from a CEO who looked entirely composed during a restructure and wasn't. And she's coached someone who cried on a call with her own team, then spent days...
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What Happens in the Body Before You Speak Up
There's a moment right before you speak in a meeting where you can feel it building, and then it doesn't come out. Or it comes out smaller than it was in your head. In this episode, Tracy explores what's actually happening underneath that half second, the gap between the impulse to speak and the...
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How Herbal Medicine Supports Sustainable Leadership
What if the missing layer in your leadership wasn’t a strategy, a skill, or a mindset shift, but something happening inside your body that no leadership programme has ever addressed? Most leadership development focuses on what you do and how you think. Very little of it considers the biological...
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The Nervous System Side of Executive Presence
Most conversations about executive presence focus on what you do. Speak with confidence. Hold eye contact. Command the room. Control your body language. This episode goes somewhere different. Tracy explores what is actually happening inside the leader while she is doing all of those things.…
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What High Performers Misunderstand About Energy
You're doing the things: yoga, meditation, maybe magnesium on the bedside table and a sleep-tracking app telling you you're getting enough rest. Yet there's still a low-level hum of anxiety that doesn't seem to shift. This episode explores why. The answer isn't in the practices themselves. It's…
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Why Your Body Knows You're Over Capacity Before You Do
Have you ever found yourself crying over a spreadsheet, snapping at an email, or feeling completely depleted by something that wouldn't normally bother you? What if the problem wasn't the spreadsheet? What if your body had been trying to get your attention long before that moment arrived? In this...
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The Hidden Difference Between Being Busy and Being Activated
You finish the meeting. The presentation went well. The emails are handled. And yet your brain is still moving. Still scanning. Still preparing. Still holding what has not happened yet. In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy explores the hidden difference between external busyness and internal...
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Why Your Brain Keeps Solving Problems After Hours
Your body leaves work, but your mind never fully does. You finish the meeting, drive home, make dinner, and technically stop working… while part of your brain is still replaying conversations, mentally organising tomorrow, and anticipating what needs attention next. In this episode, Tracy…
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When Success Stops Feeling Like Success
There comes a point for many high-performing people where success no longer feels the way they thought it would. The career is working. The mortgage gets paid. You’ve built a life younger you once dreamed about. And yet internally, something feels different. Not because you’re failing. Not…
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Why High-Achieving Women Stop Responding to “Self-Care”
Sometimes high-achieving women become incredibly good at doing restorative things… without actually feeling restored by them. The yoga classes. The supplements. The meditation apps. The herbal teas. The massages squeezed into lunch breaks while mentally rehearsing tomorrow. And somewhere…
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Why You Can’t Switch Off Anymore
There’s a point where the day is done… but your mind isn’t. Everything has been handled. Conversations have landed, decisions have been made, and on the surface there’s nothing left that requires your attention. And yet, something in you is still moving. Still replaying. Still stepping ahead into...
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The Cost of Holding It All Together
Have you ever had a moment where you stop and think, I’ve created this incredible life… but do I actually want to keep doing what it takes to maintain it? This episode explores a quieter layer of leadership that often goes unnoticed. Not the level you operate at, but what it requires of you to...
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The Leadership Stand Down Signal
Episode Insight There’s a version of responsibility that most high-performing women never question, because it has worked for so long. It becomes how you lead. And then, quietly, it becomes something your body carries. This episode explores the pattern beneath high-functioning leadership. The one...
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When Responsibility Lives in Your Body
here’s a version of responsibility that most high-performing women never question. It looks like leadership. It feels like capability. It’s the reason you’re trusted, relied on, and known as the one who holds everything together. But underneath that, there’s a pattern. One that lives in your…
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The Vigilance Pattern
Episode Insight “Vigilance often looks like excellence, but there comes a point where it stops being something you use and starts being something that is always running.” “You might notice that part of you is always thinking ahead, anticipating, calibrating, even in moments where nothing is...
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Herbal Ally Series - Valerian Root - More than a Sleep Herb
In this episode of Project Joyful, we explore Valerian root (Valeriana officinalis) as more than a natural sleep aid. Yes, valerian is a powerful herb for supporting sleep. But its real value lies in how it helps your body transition out of a state of activation. It supports your nervous system,...
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When Sleep Stops Working
Sleep is one of the most common concerns women bring into clinic. For some, sleep has always been fragile. For others, sleep worked reliably for years and then gradually began to change. Falling asleep becomes harder, waking during the night becomes more common, or mornings arrive without the…
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The Restoration Gap
Episode Summary Why do so many high-performing leaders still feel tired even when they rest? In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy Tutty introduces a concept she calls The Restoration Gap. It is the space between stopping work and your biology actually restoring. Many leaders do everything…
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When What Used to Work Stops Working
There’s a season in leadership that almost nobody names. It’s not burnout. It’s not failure. It’s not a loss of edge. Everything still works. You’re still capable. Still respected. Still producing at a high level. And yet something about the way you’ve been operating no longer feels expansive. In...
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The New Standard
Coherent Leadership, Cortisol and Sustainable Success There is a version of leadership that looks exceptional from the outside and feels quietly expensive on the inside. If you are composed, capable and the one who doesn’t wobble, yet sometimes you’re awake at 3:07am feeling wired and tired, this...
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Tulsi - The Adaptogen for Modern Stress
Cortisol is not the bad boy it’s being made out to be. It isn’t just about stress. It’s about anticipation. In this first Herbal Ally episode of 2026, Tracy explores Tulsi, also known as Holy Basil, through the lens of Western Herbal Medicine. This is medicine first. Then leadership. Modern…
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Why Leadership Capacity Isn’t a Time Problem
Some days leadership feels straightforward. Other days, the same role, the same workload, feels harder to carry. In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy explores why that difference isn’t about time, motivation, or discipline, and why creating more space in your calendar doesn’t always bring the...
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Regulation Is the New Authority in Leadership
There’s a quiet shift happening in leadership, and a lot of people are missing it, not because it’s complex, but because it’s subtle. In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy explores why regulation, not suppression, is becoming the real marker of authority in modern leadership. For years,...
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Why High Performers Lead from Stress Without Realising It
High performers don’t deny stress. They manage it well. They carry responsibility, stay prepared, and keep delivering results. But what if stress isn’t just something you handle, but something that’s quietly shaping how you lead. In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy explores why so many...
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Your Leadership Style Is a Nervous System Pattern
Leadership doesn't usually fail because of strategy, skill, or capability. More often, it feels heavy, draining, or costly for reasons that are harder to name, even when everything is working on paper. In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy Tutty explores leadership through a biological lens.…
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Rest As a Strategy, Not a Luxury
In our final episode of 2025, we close the year with something most leaders rarely give themselves: a spacious, grounded moment to breathe. This conversation is a gentle exhale. A remembering. A subtle but powerful shift from pushing to presence. If you have ever found yourself checking work…
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The Return to Yourself: Leadership When You Are No Longer Who You Used to Be
As we close out this year, today's episode offers a gentler kind of leadership conversation. A spacious one. The kind that invites you to pause and notice the quiet truth that often arrives before you name it. You have evolved. Yet your leadership identity may not have caught up. In this episode,...
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The Quiet Reset: Micro-Shifts That Change Your Entire Nervous System
As the year begins its gentle descent, your body starts preparing for completion long before your calendar does. Yet your mind, especially the part of you shaped by professionalism and responsibility, may still be pushing toward the finish line. In today's episode, we explore the subtle yet...
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Milk Thistle The Herbal Ally for the Season of More
In this Herbal Ally episode, Medical Herbalist, Tracy Tutty, explores one of her favourite seasonal herbs, Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum). As we enter the season of more, with more celebration, more travel, and more richness, our bodies work quietly behind the scenes to keep us in balance. In…
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The Currency of Calm: When Stillness Feels Expensive
When calm feels out of reach, it's not a lack of willpower. It's biology. In this episode, Tracy Tutty explores why high-achieving women often equate movement with safety, and how to teach your nervous system that stillness can be safe too. Discover what happens when calm becomes your most…
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The Hidden Stress Behind "I'm Fine"
So, how are you, really? In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy Tutty explores what happens when your brilliance outpaces your biology. We look at the subtle ways high-performing women say "I'm fine" while their nervous system is quietly braced for impact, and why rest can feel more like risk...
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You Don't Need a Sabbatical — You Need a Nervous System That Trusts You
You don't need a sabbatical - you need a nervous system that trusts your success. If you've ever felt the quiet edge beneath achievement - the sleepless nights, the inbox brace, the holiday cold that hits the moment you finally stop - this episode is your invitation to recalibrate. Tracy Tutty...
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Herbal Options For Stimulating GLP-1
In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy Tutty explores herbal approaches to stimulating GLP-1 - a key metabolic hormone widely known through medications like Ozempic. But there's more to this story than injectables. Tracy explains what GLP-1 does in your body, how it's linked to metabolic...
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You Can't Think Your Way to Calm: Why Your Leadership Needs Your Body
You're brilliant at staying calm under pressure. But what happens when your body doesn't feel calm - even when everything on the outside looks fine? In this episode, Tracy dives into the neuroscience behind the thought-emotion loop and explores why leading from the neck up is no longer enough....
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The Hidden Cost of Being the Reliable One
In this episode, Tracy continues the series on The Hidden Costs of High Performance with a powerful and deeply personal exploration of what it means to be "The Reliable One." High-performing women are often the first to show up, the last to flinch, and the ones everyone depends on. But what's the...
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The Invisible Impact of Emotional Labour at Work
High-performing women often hold the emotional weight of their teams and organisations - quietly, constantly, and at great personal cost. In this episode, Tracy Tutty dives deep into the hidden world of emotional labour at work. You'll discover how hyper-empathy, people-pleasing, and unconscious...
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When Strategy Becomes Self-Protection
Are you using your strategic brilliance to hide? In this episode of the Project Joyful podcast, Tracy Tutty explores how high-level thinking can quietly become emotional avoidance - especially for high-performing women in leadership. We often think strategy keeps us on track. But when strategy...
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Schisandra: The Five-Flavour Adaptogen for Aligned Leadership
In this episode of Project Joyful, Tracy Tutty, Neuro-Identity Coach and Medical Herbalist, explores the adaptogenic power of Schisandra chinensis. Traditionally known as the "five-flavour berry," Schisandra has long been used to enhance vitality, endurance, and stress resilience. Now, science...
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Sustainable Power - What High Performance Looks Like Without the Crash
What if your sharpness didn't have to come at the cost of your sanity? What if your power didn't have to spike, crash, and burn? In this episode, we're reimagining what high performance actually looks like - beyond the sprint-recover-repeat cycle. Tracy unpacks the invisible cost of leading from...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This podcast is dedicated to the art of joyful living. More than being happy, rediscover that soul filled joy moment by moment.Fall back in love with your work or find work that feeds your soul.
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Tracy Tutty
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This podcast is dedicated to the art of joyful living. More than being happy, rediscover that soul filled joy moment by moment.Fall back in love with your work or find work that feeds your soul.
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