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As a high-achieving woman, you may one day find yourself having achieved every goal you’ve evet set for yourself and still feel like something is missing. You may find yourself asking the big questions: Is this all there is? Who am I? What do I really want to do with my life?

That’s what happened to me 4 years ago, and I’m still asking myself these questions. Recently, they led me to Human Design and then to today’s guest on the podcast: Caroline Harris.

Caroline Harris, founder of Direction Aligned, knows these questions firsthand. After 18 years delivering large-scale transformation programs in banking, she decided to pivot and create a career that was more aligned with her design.

In our conversation, Caroline breaks human design down in a skeptic-friendly way: not a belief system, not a rulebook, but an experiment you can run on your own life.

We cover the most useful starting points (type, strategy, authority), why emotional authority can mean taking time to reach a true yes, and how one-size-fits-all advice like rigid five-year plans can push you further from alignment. We also connect the dots to leadership, collaboration, and building work that won’t burn you out, especially as AI and modern work keep changing the rules.

You can learn more about Caroline and connect with her here:

• Website: https://www.directionaligned.com/
• Substack: https://carolineharris.substack.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-harris-7a791117/

You can also find me here:

• Blog: Humans Leading | Jillian Bybee
• Instagram: Jillian Bybee, MD (@lifeandpicu)
• LinkedIn: Jillian Bybee, MD | LinkedIn
• Threads: @LifeandPICU
• Website: Contact — Jillian Bybee, MD (jillianbybeemd.com)

If you’re ready to kickstart your journey (or your team's journey) to a less stressed life, I’m ready to help you! You can get in touch about 1:1 coaching or inviting me to facilitate a workshop for your group, get in touch via my website.

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The most frustrating part about rest isn’t learning that you need it. It’s realizing you might be the one blocking it.

Today, I’m bringing a quick, practical mini-episode inspired by a recent post I made on Instagram that hit a nerve: the person most often standing in the way of you taking a break is you.

If that made you feel called out, good. Not because you should feel bad about it, but because you have the power to change it.

On today’s episode, we dig into why guilt, perfectionism, and “I don’t have time” can sound like facts even when they’re just stories your brain creates and repeats.

Then I teach a simple 3-step framework I call The Shift that can help you navigate these thoughts and get you on the road to taking the break that you need.

If you’ve been waiting for permission to pause, consider this your sign.

If you'd like to go deeper, this free stress management workshop that I ran in the Spring can help.

Looking for more resources?

• 3 simple stress management tips to help you start feeling better today: Grab the download and access to my new business newsletter
• 1:1 stress management and life design coaching: to help you overcome burnout and start living a life you love.
• Stress management workshops: to help you learn to weave helpful practices throughout your day
• Over 150 posts to help you get started on transforming your life: Humans Leading Archive

You can also find me here:

• Blog: Humans Leading | Jillian Bybee
• Instagram: Jillian Bybee, MD (@lifeandpicu)
• LinkedIn: Jillian Bybee, MD | LinkedIn
• Threads: @LifeandPICU
• Website: Contact — Jillian Bybee, MD (jillianbybeemd.com)

If you’re ready to kickstart your journey (or your team's journey) to a less stressed life, I’m ready to help you! You can get in touch about 1:1 coaching or inviting me to facilitate a workshop for your group, get in touch via my website.

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At any moment, whether we have a title or not, we are leading ourselves. And, as today’s guest Dr. Jess Bunin reminds us in this conversation, “at all times, we are leaders and followers.”

However, leadership is not an innate trait. It’s not something that we have or don’t have. It’s something that we need to work on if we want to get better.

In this episode of the Humans Leading podcast, Dr. Bunin shares her journey to leadership, the importance of having a feedback partner, the 4 categories she uses to handle feedback, developing self-awareness, the importance of trust, and her new book, “Self-Awareness and Trust: Leading Healthcare Teams from the Inside Out.”

This conversation was so energizing for me, and I know that you’ll love it too.

You can find more about Dr. Bunin here

• Website
• Speaker page
• All Levels Leadership
• LinkedIn

I have an exciting offering opening up this fall called The Realignment.

It’s a 12-month coaching program designed for women who are ready to stop dreaming of being less exhausted and start creating the lives they love.

If you’re interested in a structured, supported 12-month process of excavating who you actually are, what actually lights you up, and how to build a life and career around that — with enough consistency to create real change, you can find more informati

You can also find me here:

• Blog: Humans Leading | Jillian Bybee
• Instagram: Jillian Bybee, MD (@lifeandpicu)
• LinkedIn: Jillian Bybee, MD | LinkedIn
• Threads: @LifeandPICU
• Website: Contact — Jillian Bybee, MD (jillianbybeemd.com)

If you’re ready to kickstart your journey (or your team's journey) to a less stressed life, I’m ready to help you! You can get in touch about 1:1 coaching or inviting me to facilitate a workshop for your group, get in touch via my website.