Welcome to the Authentic Leaders Rising Podcast, your gateway to unlocking true potential and redefining success on your own terms. Here, we dive beyond the surface to offer you genuine abundance in every area of your life.
Meet Your Host: Tammy Cho
Tammy Cho, your Chief Energy Officer, is a former patient care leader who has transformed into an international best-selling author, speaker, Face and Body Analysis Expert, NLP, and Energetic Self-Leadership coach. With her unique blend of expertise, Tammy is dedicated to helping high-achieving entrepreneurs and leaders transcend the limitations of traditional success metrics.
The Struggle of High-Achievers Leaders
Imagine a high-achieving entrepreneur or leader who outwardly seems to have it all—financial success, a thriving business, a dedicated team, peer recognition, and the proverbial white picket fence. Yet, beneath this facade lies a sense of emptiness, disconnection, and unfulfillment, compounded by exhaustion from maintaining the status quo. This was Tammy's reality, and perhaps it resonates with you too.
Why the Authentic Leaders Rising Podcast?
This podcast was created specifically for high-achieving entrepreneurs and leaders like you, aiming to unlock true potential by:
Our mission is to support you in moving from survival mode to becoming a confident, fulfilled, and thriving CEO of your business and life.
My vision is to start a movement that challenges old paradigms and structures, countering hustle culture and helping our audience break free from the cycle of needing to do more to achieve more happiness and fulfillment.
Beyond Mindset
Mindset alone isn't enough. Operating solely from an intellectual level can result in unsustainable change, leading to imbalances where financial success might be achieved, but areas like family connection and work-life balance suffer. Or everything looks good on paper but you are chronically overwhelmed and burned out and your body symptoms and health challenges do not match your external success Or perhaps you find financial success only to repeatedly hit a ceiling or struggle to hold your wealth. This is the trap of hustle culture, rooted in operating solely from the mind and through the energy of doing and needing to achieve more.
The Deeper Prescription: Authentic Energetic Self-Leadership
To achieve well-rounded success and true abundance, a new type of self-leadership is needed. Authentic self-leadership involves tapping into the body's wisdom and delving into the energetic level to create sustainable, universal success that encompasses emotional abundance and fulfillment.
What to Expect
Through insightful authentic conversations, stories, case studies, and practical guidance, we will explore a myriad of topics including:
Achieve Genuine Abundance
By mastering your inner game and aligning your energy, you'll discover that genuine abundance and success are created from within. This will propel you to new levels of personal empowerment and impactful leadership, allowing tangible results to flow with ease. To learn more about Tammy's work, visit https://pathtotheheart.com/links
Welcome to the Authentic Leaders Rising Podcast, your gateway to unlocking true potential and redefining success on your own terms. Here, we dive beyond the surface to offer you genuine abundance in every area of your life.
Meet Your Host: Tammy Cho
Tammy Cho, your Chief Energy Officer, is a former patient care leader who has transformed into an international best-selling author, speaker, Face and Body Analysis Expert, NLP, and Energetic Self-Leadership coach. With her unique blend of expertise, Tammy is dedicated to helping high-achieving entrepreneurs and leaders transcend the limitations of traditional success metrics.
The Struggle of High-Achievers Leaders
Imagine a high-achieving entrepreneur or leader who outwardly seems to have it all—financial success, a thriving business, a dedicated team, peer recognition, and the proverbial white picket fence. Yet, beneath this facade lies a sense of emptiness, disconnection, and unfulfillment, compounded by exhaustion from maintaining the status quo. This was Tammy's reality, and perhaps it resonates with you too.
Why the Authentic Leaders Rising Podcast?
This podcast was created specifically for high-achieving entrepreneurs and leaders like you, aiming to unlock true potential by:
Our mission is to support you in moving from survival mode to becoming a confident, fulfilled, and thriving CEO of your business and life.
My vision is to start a movement that challenges old paradigms and structures, countering hustle culture and helping our audience break free from the cycle of needing to do more to achieve more happiness and fulfillment.
Beyond Mindset
Mindset alone isn't enough. Operating solely from an intellectual level can result in unsustainable change, leading to imbalances where financial success might be achieved, but areas like family connection and work-life balance suffer. Or everything looks good on paper but you are chronically overwhelmed and burned out and your body symptoms and health challenges do not match your external success Or perhaps you find financial success only to repeatedly hit a ceiling or struggle to hold your wealth. This is the trap of hustle culture, rooted in operating solely from the mind and through the energy of doing and needing to achieve more.
The Deeper Prescription: Authentic Energetic Self-Leadership
To achieve well-rounded success and true abundance, a new type of self-leadership is needed. Authentic self-leadership involves tapping into the body's wisdom and delving into the energetic level to create sustainable, universal success that encompasses emotional abundance and fulfillment.
What to Expect
Through insightful authentic conversations, stories, case studies, and practical guidance, we will explore a myriad of topics including:
Achieve Genuine Abundance
By mastering your inner game and aligning your energy, you'll discover that genuine abundance and success are created from within. This will propel you to new levels of personal empowerment and impactful leadership, allowing tangible results to flow with ease. To learn more about Tammy's work, visit https://pathtotheheart.com/links

Have you ever felt stuck—even while you’re accomplishing everything on your to-do list? You’re showing up, leading your team, checking all the boxes, and yet, deep down, something feels off. It’s as if you're running on autopilot, moving forward but not truly progressing. In this episode of Authentic Leaders Rising, we’re diving deep into the concept of functional freeze—a hidden trauma response that keeps high achievers in motion while silently disconnecting them from their intuition, joy, and true power.
Many people associate "freezing" with inaction, but functional freeze is different. It’s what happens when we stay busy to avoid facing deeper emotions, when we push through exhaustion instead of listening to our body, and when we ignore our inner wisdom in favor of external validation. The truth is, just because you're productive doesn’t mean you're aligned. This episode unpacks how functional freeze manifests, why high performers are especially prone to it, and what you can do to break free.
In this powerful conversation, you’ll learn:
Why slowing down is the first step to transformation (and why high achievers resist it)
The surprising link between unprocessed emotions and feeling “stuck”—even when you’re outwardly successful
How to integrate deep self-awareness, presence, and intuition to unlock your next level of growth and impact
If you’ve ever felt like you’re meant for more but something invisible is holding you back, this episode will open your eyes to what’s really going on beneath the surface. Breaking free from functional freeze isn’t about doing more—it’s about reconnecting with yourself, trusting your intuition, and creating space for the clarity and confidence you’ve been seeking. Tune in now to learn how to shift from survival mode to true alignment, so you can lead with power, purpose, and presence.
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