In this first guest episode, Farya Barlas, a Psychologist, sits down with freedom-first leadership and business scaling coach Nata Salvatori, whose work sits right at the intersection of identity, leadership, and sustainable success. Together, they explore the deeper mechanisms behind why high-achieving women struggle to delegate, trust support, or step into true CEO leadership, even when they’re exhausted, burnt out, or quietly resentful of how much they’re holding.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- Why high achievers feel safest doing everything themselves even when they say they want support
- The identity shift that must happen before strategy, systems, or delegation can actually work
- The surprising reason delegating often triggers anxiety, guilt, or control
- How over-responsibility forms in childhood and why it shows up so strongly in entrepreneurship
- The difference between working a lot from expansion vs. working a lot from fear
- How Nata built multiple businesses and avoided burnout by rewiring her leadership identity
- A powerful reframing around money and undercharging that lifts the shame and reveals the real block
About Our Guest: Nata Salvatori
Nata Salvatore is a Freedom-First Leadership & Business Scaling Coach and the founder of Accidental CEO. She helps high-capacity entrepreneurs step out of chronic over-responsibility and into leadership grounded in clarity, trust, and ease. A multi-business owner, speaker, educator, and creator of the RETURN Framework, Nata specializes in guiding founders from overwhelmed operator to embodied CEO, without the burnout that usually comes with growth.
Find her at accidentalceo.co/coaching, on Instagram @accidentalceo.co, and on Substack accidentalceoco.
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