Notes from the Edge
by Gamut Podcast Network
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What is the Cost of Competence? Non-Visible Illness with Lisa Lacy
What is the Cost of Competence? Non-Visible Illness with Lisa Lacy
About this podcast
Notes From the Edge is where polished stories end and the truth begins. Hosted by writer, trauma educator, executive advisor, and author Lisa Lacy, this globally ranked podcast explores survival, identity, trauma, addiction, recovery, leadership, relationships, and reinvention through raw, deeply human conversations. No scripts. No small talk. Just the stories we were taught to hide, the roles we performed to survive, and the truths that set us free. What did you perform in order to survive? Welcome to the edge. www.lisalacy.com
Episodes
The newest 50 of 157 episodes
- What is the Cost of Competence? Non-Visible Illness with Lisa Lacy · 13 min · Episode 155What happens when everyone depends on your strength, but nobody considers what it’s costing you?In this deeply personal solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy explores…
- Edge Note: Can You Leave Prison Behind? · 27 min · Episode 154What Happens When Your Survival Identity Has a Name?What happens when prison takes away your identity and survival requires you to create another one? Host Lisa Lacy sits down…
- Is Death Really the End? Consciousness After Death with Richard “Rick” Senninger · 44 min · Episode 153What if the beliefs shaping your life were never yours to begin with?What can 10,000 funerals teach us about living? Lisa Lacy sits down with Richard “Rick” Senninger, clinical…
- What Happens When Survival Becomes Your Greatest Battle? Mental Health Support with Richard Spiegel · 31 min · Episode 152What happens when everyone depends on you, but nobody notices you’re falling apart?Richard Spegel is back for round three on Notes From the Edge, and we’re going straight into…
- What If Being Strong Is Breaking You? Grief and Gratitude with Laura Bratton · 37 min · Episode 151Can You Grieve and Still Feel Joy?What happens when the life you expected disappears, but the world still expects you to be strong? Diagnosed with an eye disease at nine and…
- Can You Escape Your Past? Poverty & Addiction Recovery with Jerry Brazie · 45 min · Episode 150How does a boy who grew up hungry, surrounded by violence and addiction, become a multimillion-dollar entrepreneur without losing himself along the way?Jerry Brazie grew up in…
- Is Being Seen Worth Losing Yourself? Authentic Brand Visibility with Sarah Snyder · 36 min · Episode 149What if the biggest obstacle to being seen isn’t your message, but the person you think you have to become to deliver it?Why do so many accomplished leaders feel compelled to…
- Edge Note: Why Going No Contact Is BS. · 12 min · Episode 148Why is going no contact treated like the only way to heal from narcissistic abuse? The truth is, sometimes it’s simply unrealistic. When children, family relationships, finances…
- Edge Note: What If They Mistook Disability for Inability? · 23 min · Episode 147What happens when other people decide what you’re capable of? After a spinal cord injury at 20, Ken Kunken returned to Cornell University in a wheelchair, only to find a campus…
- What If Your Adoption Was Never Legal? Black Market Adoption with Patricia Knight Meyer · 44 min · Episode 146What if your adoption was never legal? Patricia Knight Meyer was handed over as an infant along a Texas hospital curb without an agency, a judge, or legal adoption paperwork. At…
- What If Being Strong Is Breaking You? Masculinity, Burnout & Leadership with Dave Rossi · 47 min · Episode 145What happens when everything you’ve worked so hard to achieve starts costing you your health, happiness, and sense of self? Dave Rossi built a multimillion-dollar business, had…
- What If Trauma Could Be Released? Trauma Healing Methods with Dr. Judith Swack · 43 min · Episode 144What if healing from trauma didn’t have to take years? What if the patterns keeping you stuck weren’t just in your thoughts, but in your body? Biochemist, immunologist, and…
- What If Looking Fit Is Hurting You? Sustainable Men’s Fitness with Kevin Gomes · 37 min · Episode 143What happens when you look healthier than ever but feel worse than ever? Former competitive bodybuilder and men’s health coach Kevin Gomes knows that contradiction firsthand…
- What Is Your Voice Hiding? Vibrational Voice Healing with Heather Schmid · 45 min · Episode 142What if your voice is still carrying the pain you never had permission to express?International recording artist, opera singer, and creator of Vibrational Voice Healing, Heather…
- Edge Note: Can Betrayal Trauma Change Your Brain? · 13 min · Episode 141What happens to your brain when the person you trusted most becomes the source of your greatest pain? Betrayal trauma doesn’t just break your heart. It can fundamentally alter…
- Edge Note: What If Being Right Is Keeping You Stuck? · 32 min · Episode 140Why is saying “I don’t know” so uncomfortable? Australian osteopath, educator, and Uncomfortably Curious podcast host Aidan Mill joins Lisa Lacy to explore curiosity, cognitive…
- What If Your Personality Is a Survival Strategy? Trauma Anxiety Resolution with Cedric Bertelli · 48 min · Episode 139What if the anxiety, fear, or emotional patterns you’ve accepted as your personality are actually survival strategies from the past? Lisa Lacy sits down with Cedric Bertelli…
- What if Staying Safe is Keeping You Stuck? Overcoming Self-Doubt with Carlene Marie · 52 min · Episode 138What if the version of you that once kept you safe is now keeping you stuck? Lisa Lacy sits down with Carlene Marie, Master Mindpower Coach and author of Enough Already, to…
- What If Thinking Harder Is Keeping You Stuck? Overcoming Decision Paralysis with Brent Lupia · 44 min · Episode 137What if the very intelligence that helped you succeed is now keeping you stuck? Lisa Lacy sits down with Brent Lupia, Performance and Clarity Coach and creator of Externalized…
- What If Success Isn’t Enough? Conscious Living Practices with Steve Farrell · 47 min · Episode 136What happens when you achieve everything you thought you wanted, only to discover it isn’t the life you were meant to live? Lisa Lacy sits down with Steve Farrell, Silicon Valley…
- What If Being Seen Isn’t Being Known? Authentic Brand Visibility with Drew Gerber · 43 min · Episode 135What if being seen isn’t the same as being known? In a world obsessed with personal branding, social media visibility, artificial intelligence, and polished public images…
- Edge Note: What If Rehab Rejects You? · 12 min · Episode 134What happens when you voluntarily seek help for addiction, trauma, and mental health challenges, only to be told your anger is beyond a rehabilitation center’s ability to handle?…
- Edge Note: What If Your Success Is Hiding Your Burnout? · 34 min · Episode 133You can look successful, productive, and completely put together while quietly falling apart behind the scenes. In this Saturday Edge Note of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits…
- What if different is your power? Self-acceptance with Coach Willie Blake · 43 min · Episode 132What if the very thing you spent your life trying to hide was actually one of your greatest strengths?Coach Willie Blake, entrepreneur, speaker, podcast host, and…
- What If Grief Begins Before Goodbye? Suicide Loss, Mental Illness & Healing with Suzanne Sherman · 45 min · Episode 131What happens when you begin grieving someone you love long before they’re gone?In this deeply personal episode of Notes From the Edge, host Lisa Lacy sits down with Suzanne…
- What If AI Became Your Next Employee? AI Workforce Revolution with Jon Rossiter · 32 min · Episode 130What if artificial intelligence could give us more time to be human?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, host Lisa Lacy sits down with Jon Rossiter, entrepreneur and…
- The Money Monster Within: Managing Yourself Before You Manage Your Money | Part 2 with Doug Lynam · 1 h 6 min · Episode 129What if your biggest financial obstacle isn’t your money, but the unconscious patterns controlling your decisions?Financial advisor, former monk, and bestselling author Doug…
- What If One Bed Could Change Everything? Purpose Driven Leadership with Luke Mickelson · 46 min · Episode 128What happens when the life you’ve worked so hard to build no longer feels like the life you’re meant to live?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, host Lisa Lacy sits down with…
- Edge Note: What if the thing destroying your peace is control? · 13 min · Episode 127In this Edge Note solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy gets personal about Bipolar I, trauma, uncertainty, and the exhausting need to control outcomes when your nervous…
- Edge Note: What if your mind understands the trauma, but your body is still surviving it? · 31 min · Episode 126You can understand your patterns. You can know where they came from. You can spend years learning the language of trauma and healing, and still find your body reacting as if the…
- What if it's still not enough? Achievement Addiction, Human Performance & Finding Meaning with Dr. Jack Groppel · 46 min · Episode 125What happens when you achieve everything you thought you wanted and discover it still doesn’t feel like enough?Dr. Jack Groppel is a pioneering sports scientist and co-founder of…
- What If Pushing Through Is the Problem? Burnout, Autoimmunity & Healing with Kristen Renee Appleby · 41 min · Episode 124What happens when the thing that made you successful, your ability to push through, perform, achieve, and keep going, becomes the very thing your body can no longer sustain?In…
- What If Being Capable Doesn’t Mean You’re Okay? Chronic Illness & Survival with Jenna Schutt · 48 min · Episode 123What happens when the strength everyone sees is actually survival mode?Jenna Schutt, former cardiac registered nurse and stem cell transplant survivor, joins Lisa Lacy for a…
- SPECIAL EDITION: Mental Health Awareness Week | The Psychotic Trifecta · 21 min · Episode 128What happens when your mind creates a reality so convincing that everyone else can tell you it isn’t real, and you still know what you saw, heard, felt, and lived?In this Special…
- What if success isn’t something you chase, but something you build? Self-Worth, Self-Belief, and Consistency with Amy Lenius · 57 min · Episode 122What if sustainable success has less to do with talent, motivation, or doing more and more to do with self-worth, self-belief, and consistency?In this episode of Notes From the…
- Can Chronic Back Pain Be Rewired? Back Surgery Alternatives with Dr. Eric Anderson · 37 min · Episode 121What if the pain you feel and the damage seen on an MRI aren’t always the same thing?Lisa Lacy sits down with neurologist Dr. Eric Anderson, MD, PhD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer…
- Edge Note: What if positivity is keeping you stuck? · 10 min · Episode 120We are told to look for the good, raise our vibration, practice gratitude, forgive, move on, and trust that everything happens for a reason. But what happens when positivity…
- Edge Note: What Happens When You Stop Searching Outside Yourself · 37 min · Episode 119What if the answers you’ve spent your whole life searching for aren’t somewhere out there, but waiting for you to finally turn inward?In this Edge Note of Notes From the Edge…
- What Stories Are You Waiting Too Long to Ask For? Preserving Family Stories with Brad Koch · 32 min · Episode 118What stories disappear when the people we love are no longer here to tell them?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with entrepreneur, business coach…
- SPECIAL EDITION; The Unbroken Conversation with Liam Beville · 43 min · Episode 117Why a special edition? Because every once in a while, a conversation happens at the Edge that feels too important to wait its turn on the calendar. This is one of those…
- How Do You Know When Work Becomes Trauma? Toxic Work Culture with Natalie Holder · 50 min · Episode 116What happens when the workplace you once worked so hard to succeed in becomes the place you no longer recognize yourself?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits…
- How do you stop performing in your marriage? Somatic Healing in Intimate Relationships with Natalie Vartanian & Glenn Nielsen · 50 min · Episode 115What happens when the roles you learned to play in relationships start costing you yourself?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with relationship and…
- What Happens When You Stop Fighting Your Diagnosis? Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health Recovery & Acceptance with Reza Ghaemi · 39 min · Episode 114What happens when accepting a diagnosis stops feeling like surrender and becomes the beginning of recovery?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with author…
- Can You Regulate a Craving Before It Becomes a Relapse? Addiction Recovery, Relapse Prevention & Nervous System Regulation with Dr. Deborah Rozman · 45 min · Episode 113What happens inside your body in the seconds between a trigger, a craving, and a choice?Dr. Deborah Rozman is a behavioral psychologist and President/Co-CEO of HeartMath. In this…
- Edge Note: What If Telling the Truth About Your Mental Health Could Cost You Everything? · 15 min · Episode 112What happens when telling the truth about your mental health could cost you your credibility, your career, or the way people see you forever?In this solo episode of Notes From…
- Edge Note: Are You Strong or Just Surviving? · 36 min · Episode 111Licensed marriage and family therapist and educator Renée Calhoun joins Lisa Lacy to unpack a deceptively simple question: when does “being strong” stop being resilience and…
- What Happens When “Fine” Becomes a Mask? High-Functioning Depression, Immigrant Identity, Motherhood & Survival Roles with Dr. Nneka Oluoha · 33 min · Episode 110What happens when being capable becomes the very thing that keeps people from seeing you’re struggling?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with…
- What Happens When Trauma Becomes Your Identity? Sexual Assault, Trauma Healing, Reclaiming Your Power, Boundaries & Consent with Amy McKiernan · 36 min · Episode 109What happens when something that happened to you starts defining who you are?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with author and survivor advocate Amy…
- Who Are You Without the Role? Survival Performance, Masculinity, Midlife Reinvention & Narrative Liberation with Jon Symes · 45 min · Episode 108What if the person you became to survive is no longer the person you want to be?In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with speaker and leadership consultant…
- What Does the FBI Teach You About Being Human? From Pastor to FBI: Faith, Trauma, Survival & Human Behavior with Eric Robinson · 41 min · Episode 107What happens when a pastor trades the pulpit for a 24-year career inside the FBI?Eric Robinson spent 12 years in Christian ministry before becoming an FBI Special Agent…
