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Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
Cyndi Bennett
38 episodes
5 days ago
What happens when you stop protecting your progress and start sharing it? This episode explores the powerful shift from building community to co-creating through collaboration—and why this matters deeply for trauma survivors navigating career development. If you've spent years learning to trust yourself, the idea of sharing control can feel revolutionary or terrifying. But collaboration isn't about losing your authentic identity—it's about bringing your full self to the table and allowing wh...
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What happens when you stop protecting your progress and start sharing it? This episode explores the powerful shift from building community to co-creating through collaboration—and why this matters deeply for trauma survivors navigating career development. If you've spent years learning to trust yourself, the idea of sharing control can feel revolutionary or terrifying. But collaboration isn't about losing your authentic identity—it's about bringing your full self to the table and allowing wh...
Show more...
Careers
Education,
Business,
Self-Improvement,
Health & Fitness,
Mental Health
Episodes (20/38)
Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
2026 Word of the Year: Collaboration | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 38
What happens when you stop protecting your progress and start sharing it? This episode explores the powerful shift from building community to co-creating through collaboration—and why this matters deeply for trauma survivors navigating career development. If you've spent years learning to trust yourself, the idea of sharing control can feel revolutionary or terrifying. But collaboration isn't about losing your authentic identity—it's about bringing your full self to the table and allowing wh...
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6 days ago
15 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
When the World Celebrates and You Clock In | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 37
If you're heading into work while everyone else is opening presents or sitting down to holiday meals, this episode is for you. We're talking about the invisible weight shift workers carry during the holidays—and why it's completely valid whether you're missing celebrations you wish you could attend OR feeling relieved to have a legitimate reason to skip triggering family dynamics. I'm breaking down what makes holiday shift work particularly challenging for trauma survivors, how to create mea...
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3 weeks ago
14 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
Why Performance Reviews Trigger Trauma Responses | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 36
Traditional performance management wasn't designed for the 61% of employees who've experienced trauma. In this episode, we explore why annual reviews, feedback sandwiches, and stretch goals often backfire with trauma survivors - and what trauma-informed performance management looks like instead. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Hook: Why performance reviews trigger trauma responses 01:30 - The hidden trauma-performance connection 03:45 - Why traditional approaches backfire 03:45 - #1: The annual revie...
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1 month ago
19 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
Decision Paralysis or Trauma Response? | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 35
Are you stuck on a business decision, unable to tell if you're being strategic or if your nervous system is activated? In this episode, we explore how to distinguish between strategic thinking and trauma responses that disguise themselves as due diligence. You'll learn the specific characteristics of each, which types of decisions are most likely to trigger trauma responses, and practical strategies for moving forward when you're stuck. This episode is essential listening if you find yoursel...
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1 month ago
21 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
Taking a Career Break for the Holidays Permission Granted | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 34
If you're exhausted just thinking about the holidays while everyone else seems to be celebrating... this one's for you. In this episode of Your Trauma Wise Career Guide, I'm giving you explicit permission to take a career break during the holidays - not because you're failing, but because it might be the most strategic career move you can make right now. What We Cover: 🎯 Why career breaks feel forbidden for trauma survivors (and why your nervous system makes rest feel dangerous) 🎯 What a "c...
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1 month ago
16 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
Redefining Success: A Trauma-Informed Approach | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 33
What if the success you're chasing was never designed for someone like you? During one of my recent open houses, someone asked me: "How do you define success?" It's such a simple question, but the answer is anything but simple—especially for those of us who've been through trauma. Most success metrics we see in the professional world weren't created with trauma survivors in mind. They measure achievement without accounting for the energy it takes just to show up. They celebrate advancement ...
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1 month ago
13 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
Career Building: What Does Being Trauma Wise Mean? | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 28
What if your healing journey has already given you some of the most valuable professional skills most people spend years trying to develop? Welcome to Your Trauma Wise Career Guide, where we explore how trauma survivors can build authentic, sustainable careers that honor both their ambitions and their healing needs. In this episode, we're breaking down what it really means to be trauma-wise in your career building—and why it's completely different from traditional career advice. 🎯 WHAT YOU...
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1 month ago
11 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
The Hidden Cost of Unprocessed Trauma | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 31
If you're working twice as hard as your colleagues but getting half the recognition, your trauma responses might be costing you more than you realize. In this episode, we're diving deep into the hidden career costs of unprocessed trauma and what it really takes to move from survival mode to sustainable success. 🎯 IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL DISCOVER: * The three main ways unprocessed trauma shows up in your career (and why they're so hard to see) * Why hypervigilance, people-pleasing, and perfe...
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1 month ago
17 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
How to Verify LinkedIn Connections Safely | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 30
If you've ever stared at a LinkedIn connection request for 20 minutes trying to decide if it's real or a scam, you're not overthinking it—you're being smart. Your distrust of LinkedIn isn't paranoia; it's intelligence. In this episode, I'm sharing a systematic approach to verifying LinkedIn connections and job opportunities that honors both your need for safety AND your need for professional connections. 🎯 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: • How your two assessment systems (intuitive and analytical) work ...
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1 month ago
12 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
When Workplace Relationships Break Rupture & Repair | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 32
It took you six months to believe your coworker was safe. It took six seconds for your nervous system to decide they weren't. Building professional trust when you carry trauma isn't casual—it's architecture. The patient, anxious work of constructing something you desperately want but have every reason to believe will eventually collapse. And when that carefully built relationship experiences a rupture? The trust doesn't just crack—it shatters. In this episode, I'm breaking down why workplac...
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1 month ago
21 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
Leading Through Change: A Trauma-Informed Approach | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 29
What if the very experience of surviving trauma has given you exactly what you need to lead others through organizational change? In this episode, we're exploring trauma-informed change management – and why trauma survivors often make the most effective change leaders. If you've ever felt like your heightened awareness of how change impacts people makes you "too sensitive" for leadership, this conversation will completely shift your perspective. We'll talk about: * Why your trauma-developed...
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1 month ago
20 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
Entrepreneurship As A Trauma Survivor Pt 2 | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 27
Entrepreneurship As A Trauma Survivor Pt 2 | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 27 What does it really take to build a business while healing from trauma? In this vulnerable follow-up episode, I'm getting real about the messy middle of trauma-informed entrepreneurship. After our first attempt at recording this episode where a protective part showed up and wouldn't let me be vulnerable, I came back to try again - this time with full transparency about what it's actually like to run a trauma-in...
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3 months ago
20 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
3 Signs Your Trauma is Sabotaging Your Career | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 26
Are you talented and hardworking but still struggling to achieve the career success you deserve? If you're a trauma survivor, the barriers to your professional growth might be more invisible than you think. In this episode of Your Trauma Wise Career Guide, I break down three common ways trauma can sabotage your career - and more importantly, how to transform these responses into professional superpowers. What You'll Learn: ✨ Why trauma survivors often struggle with workplace visibility (and...
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3 months ago
12 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
Stop Doing It Alone | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 25
Stop Struggling Alone: Why Trauma Survivors Won't Get Help for Career-Blocking Symptoms Are you battling anxiety, perfectionism, or triggers at work in isolation? Staying up until 2 AM researching solutions instead of getting professional support? This episode reveals why trauma survivors refuse help for the very symptoms keeping their careers stuck. In this episode, you'll discover: * Why trauma survivors isolate when career symptoms flare up * How attachment wounds prevent you from seeki...
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3 months ago
14 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
When Your Business Triggers Trauma Entrepreneurial Overwhelm | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 24
Are you a trauma survivor entrepreneur feeling overwhelmed by business challenges? Discover why traditional business advice fails trauma survivors and learn trauma-informed strategies for sustainable entrepreneurial success. In this episode, we explore: ✨ Why entrepreneurship hits differently for trauma survivors ✨ The three hidden patterns sabotaging your business (hypervigilance trap, perfectionism paralysis, people-pleasing business model) ✨ Essential strategies to redefine success on you...
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3 months ago
6 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
Why Ratio - Based Jobs Burn Out Trauma Survivors | Your Trauma Wise Career Guide Ep 23
Why Ratio-Based Jobs Burn Out Trauma Survivors | Trauma-Informed Career Advice If you're a trauma survivor working in childcare, healthcare, social services, or other ratio-based roles, this episode is for you. Discover why these essential jobs can be especially challenging for trauma survivors and learn practical strategies to build a sustainable, fulfilling career. What You'll Learn: ✨ What ratio-based work is and why it affects trauma survivors differently ✨ How to transform your trauma ...
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4 months ago
7 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
Entrepreneurship As A Trauma Survivor | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 22
Think leaving your corporate job will solve your workplace trauma triggers? Think again. Your trauma doesn't stay behind when you become an entrepreneur – and that's exactly what we need to talk about. 🚨 REAL TALK ALERT: This episode didn't go as planned, and we're sharing it anyway. In this raw, unfiltered conversation, trauma-informed career coach Cyndi Bennett gets interviewed by Holly Dillon about the harsh realities of entrepreneurship as a trauma survivor. What was supposed to be a vu...
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4 months ago
36 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
Regulation Practices for Shift Workers: Before, During & After Your Shift | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 21
Are you a shift worker who feels stuck in fight-or-flight mode at work? If you're a nurse, CNA, healthcare worker, or anyone doing shift work where you can't just step away to regulate, this episode is for you. After getting feedback from a listener in childcare, I realized most career advice is tailored for office environments - but what about those of us who work in hospitals, emergency rooms, manufacturing, retail, or other shift-based roles where you're "tied there" and can't easily get ...
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4 months ago
7 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
When Work Triggers Your Past: Surviving Trauma Time | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 20
Ever felt completely professional one moment, then found yourself crying in your car because a meeting triggered something deep inside you? You're not imagining things—you might be experiencing "trauma time." In this episode of Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide, I break down what happens when your nervous system gets stuck responding to current workplace situations as if they're past traumatic experiences, and most importantly, how to find your way back to the present moment where your actual po...
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4 months ago
10 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
Why Being Seen Feels Dangerous: The Cost of Staying Invisible | Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide Ep 19
Why Being Seen Feels Dangerous: The Cost of Staying Invisible Do you have expertise that could change lives, but find yourself hiding when it comes to visibility? You're not alone. In this episode, Cyndi shares her personal struggle with visibility and reveals why being seen feels terrifying for trauma survivors - even when it's exactly what we need to grow. What You'll Learn ✨ Why trauma survivors struggle with visibility in unique ways ✨ The "stone face wound" and how it shapes our rel...
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5 months ago
12 minutes

Your Trauma-Wise Career Guide
What happens when you stop protecting your progress and start sharing it? This episode explores the powerful shift from building community to co-creating through collaboration—and why this matters deeply for trauma survivors navigating career development. If you've spent years learning to trust yourself, the idea of sharing control can feel revolutionary or terrifying. But collaboration isn't about losing your authentic identity—it's about bringing your full self to the table and allowing wh...