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High Capacity – Nervous System Regulation, Stress Management, Burnout Recovery, Somatic Tools, Anxiety, Boundaries, Overwhelm

Michelle Grosser – Inspired by Mel Robbins, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Dr. Becky Kennedy

You"ve built a full life. The career, the family, the responsibilities, the goals — all of it.And the fuller it gets, the more stretched thin you feel.Not because you lack the discipline or drive to figure it out.But because your nervous system was never upgraded to match the life you"ve built.High Capacity is the podcast for ambitious women who are done just managing their stress and are ready to actually expand what they can hold.Hosted by trial attorney turned nervous system strategist Michelle

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424 - Why Capacity Expansion Is My Goal for 2026 (And...

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2026/01/07

Free Somatic Workshop - Experience the Shift >> REGISTER HERE << -- This year, I’m not setting goals around being calmer, more productive, snapping less, or being more disciplined. I’m focusing on one thing: expanding my capacity. Because I’ve learned that when your nervous system has more capacity, everything else follows. In this episode, I’m sharing why capacity expansion is the lens I’m using this year, how it’s grounded in nervous system science, and why it’s what so ma...

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423 - 3 Reasons Why Trying to Calm Down is Keeping...

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2026/01/06

Free Somatic Workshop Jan. 8 & 9, 2026 - >> REGISTER HERE << -- If you’ve ever told yourself to “just calm down” — and felt even more stressed afterward — there’s a reason for that. Most high-achieving women are trying to regulate stress from the top down: thinking their way into calm, forcing stillness, or pushing their body to quiet before it’s ready. And while that approach sounds logical, it often backfires. In this episode, I’m unpacking why trying to cal...

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19:57

422 - The Missing Step Between Knowing What to Do and...

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2026/01/05

Free Somatic Workshop - Experience the Shift >> REGISTER HERE << -- You already know what to do. You know you should slow down, breathe, set boundaries, and stop pushing so hard. And yet your body still feels tense. On edge. Braced. If calm feels like something you understand intellectually but can’t reliably access in your body, this episode is for you. In this conversation, I’m breaking down the real reason so many high-achieving women feel stuck between knowing and feeling. T h...

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421 - How Hypnosis Works on the Subconscious Beliefs...

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2026/01/02

If you’ve done the mindset work, built the awareness, and still feel pulled back into anxiety or overdrive, this episode will make sense of what’s happening. Because most of the time, it’s not your thoughts that are the problem. It’s the subconscious beliefs driving them. In this conversation, I’m joined by Tim Shurr, a master hypnotist with decades of experience helping high-achievers release the beliefs underneath anxiety, burnout, and perfectionism. We talk about why so many patterns...

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18:42

420 - Five Work Rituals to Anchor Your Energy in the...

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2025/12/30

(Free Somatic Workshop Jan. 8 & 9) - Experience the Shift >> REGISTER HERE <<) In this final episode of 2025, we’re talking about the soft work rituals that actually hold your life together — the small, nervous-system–aligned practices that protect your energy, clarity, and capacity when everything else gets busy. These aren’t luxuries. They aren’t “nice to have.” They’re foundational. In this episode, you’ll discover: ✔️ Why soft work rituals are the missing link for sustai...

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23:02

419 - 3 Somatic Techniques to Release Stress From...

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2025/12/26

Stress isn’t just something you think about. It’s something your body carries. Every interruption. Every transition. Every responsibility and unspoken emotional load. Your nervous system responds to all of it — and if stress never gets discharged, it doesn’t disappear. It settles. It accumulates. In this episode, we’re talking about why releasing stress from the body is non-negotiable — and how to do it in ways that are fast, practical, and deeply regulating. You’ll learn: ✔️ Why unreso...

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33:54

418 - 6 Signs High Cortisol Is Blocking Your Joy: How...

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2025/12/23

“Why can’t I just feel happier… when my life is actually good?” If you’ve asked yourself some version of this question - it isn’t a gratitude problem, it’s not a mindset failure, and it’s not that you’re “bad at joy.” It's what's happening in your physiology. Chronically elevated cortisol can quietly shift your nervous system into survival mode — and when that happens, joy becomes neurologically inaccessible, even when good things are happening. In this episode, we unpack: ✔️ The ...

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44:30

417 - Brain Mapping Could Be the Key to Understanding...

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2025/12/19

If you’ve ever been told you or your child has anxiety, ADHD, or both—but it never fully explained what was actually happening—this conversation will feel like a breath of fresh air. In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Giancarlo Licata, director of Vital Brain Health, to unpack what’s really going on in the brain beneath these labels—and why understanding how the brain is firing matters more than the diagnosis itself. We talk about anxiety, attention, and regulation through a neuroscience lens...

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28:18

416 - 5 Things I'd Do Differently If I Had to Start...

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2025/12/16

If I were starting my career over today — with everything I now know about ambition, the nervous system, and sustainable success — I would do it very differently. Not because I regret being driven or capable. But because I misunderstood what actually creates long-term performance, clarity, and well-being. In this episode, I’m sharing the five shifts I wish I had made earlier in my career — back when I was running a law practice, raising babies, and equating success with doing more, faster, an...

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24:57

415 - If I Wake Up Anxious & Overwhelmed, Here’s the...

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2025/12/11

If you open your eyes and instantly feel mentally crowded, emotionally tense, or already behind, this 15-minute morning practice is going to change everything about how your day begins. In today’s episode, I’m sharing the exact 15-minute sequence I use on mornings when I wake up anxious, wired, or overwhelmed — and the neuroscience behind why it works. Morning anxiety isn’t a mindset issue. It’s a physiological pattern driven by cortisol rhythms, overstimulation, and a nervous sys...

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30:30

414 - The 90% Rule: How to Make Aligned Decisions and...

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2025/12/09

You’re not overwhelmed because you’re doing too much — you’re overwhelmed because you’re committing to things that aren’t truly aligned. The 90% Rule is a deceptively simple framework that will help you stop overthinking, stop people-pleasing, and stop tolerating the 60–70% decisions that drain your bandwidth. When you learn to choose only what is deeply aligned — and release the rest — your entire life gets quieter, clearer, and more intentional. In this episode, I break down the neuro...

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42:27

413 - Emotion-Savvy Parenting: Navigating Emotional...

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2025/12/05

You know that moment where your kid says or does something, your nervous system spikes, and every parenting thing you’ve ever learned disappears from your brain… Today we’re talking about the huge gap between what we know about calm parenting and what actually comes out when we’re tired, stressed, and triggered. I’m joined by Dr. Alissa Jerud—clinical psychologist, DBT expert, and author of Emotion-Savvy Parenting. Dr. Jerud blends gold-standard, evidence-based tools with respectf...

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26:39

412 - The 4 Misaligned Boundaries That Quietly Drain...

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2025/12/02

What if the real reason you’re exhausted isn’t your schedule… but the boundaries you don’t even realize you’re breaking? If you’ve been feeling overstimulated, stretched thin, reactive, or like you’re carrying more than your share (mentally, emotionally, logistically)… this episode is the missing piece. Because high-capacity women don’t burn out from weakness. They burn out from misaligned boundaries — the subtle, invisible ones you don’t see until your energy is already leaking everywhere. A...

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29:51

411 - Feeling Overwhelmed? Here’s the Shift That...

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2025/11/28

What if the most powerful version of you isn’t the one who does more — but the one who gets crystal clear on what truly matters… and stops leaking energy on everything that doesn’t? Today’s episode is a grounded, science-backed reframe of overwhelm — not as a time problem, but as a capacity problem. When you understand what’s actually happening inside your nervous system, everything shifts: your clarity, your presence, your patience, your ability to breathe again. Inside, we’ll cover: ✔...

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410 - 3 Energy Leaks Every High-Achieving Woman Has...

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2025/11/25

There are three things silently draining your energy this week — and they have nothing to do with your schedule. They’re happening inside your nervous system. And once you learn to spot them, you can interrupt them in seconds. Holiday overwhelm isn’t random. It’s patterned. In today’s episode, we’re breaking down the exact mechanisms behind each pattern, why they intensify during the holidays, and how to use simple, science-backed somatic interrupters to reclaim your capacity in real time. ✨ ...

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409 - The Five Core Beliefs That Keep High-Achieving...

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2025/11/21

Ever notice how you can know what you need… yet still feel unable to follow through? That gap — between what you know and what you do — is almost never a mindset problem. It’s a nervous system pattern. And as we head into the holidays — a time that amplifies emotional labor, invisible load, family dynamics, and patterned responsibility — your body’s old beliefs tend to get louder, not quieter. Today’s episode uncovers five core beliefs that keep high-achieving women stuck, not because you’r...

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36:08

408 - 5 Signs You’re Operating Beyond Capacity — And...

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2025/11/18

Most high-achieving women don’t burn out because they’re incapable… they burn out because they’ve been conditioned to ignore their human capacity. Today’s episode is a look at what happens when you live beyond your limits for too long — the subtle, everyday ways your nervous system tries to warn you, and the clarity that emerges when you finally start honoring the margins built into your design. Inside this conversation, we explore: ✔️ The neuroscience of capacity — how allostatic...

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407 - Energy Drains Aren’t a Time Problem — They’re a...

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2025/11/14

If you’ve been feeling stretched thin, constantly “on,” or quietly resentful even while doing everything “right”… this episode is going to land. Because here’s the truth most high-capacity women were never taught: You can’t honor your energy without boundaries — and every time you override your limits, your nervous system pays the price. We’re dismantling the modern myth that energy is a mindset problem… and revealing the real reason you feel depleted, overwhelmed, or numb: nervous-system-bas...

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406 - 3 Reasons Why Play Might Be the Most Productive...

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2025/11/11

What if the thing you’re missing isn’t more discipline — it’s more play? Not structured play. Not “fun time” on your calendar. Not something productive or Pinterest-worthy. Real play. Pointless, joyful, silly, inefficient play. In this episode, we unpack: ✔️ Why a lack of play quietly fuels anxiety, irritability, and burnout ✔️ The neuroscience of how play expands creativity, resilience, and emotional regulation ✔️ How play restores executive function — the part of your brain responsible for ...

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405 - The Power of Self-Compassion in Navigating...

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2025/11/07

If motherhood ever cracked you open in ways you didn’t expect—old grief surfacing, worthiness wobbling, “Who even am I now?”—this conversation will feel like oxygen. I’m joined by Anna Seewald—Armenian-born educator, psychologist, and parenting & co-parenting specialist. After surviving the 1988 Spitak earthquake at 13 (losing her mother, home, friends, and community), Anna built a life and practice in the U.S. For the last 17 years she’s worked with parents in New Jersey as a...

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