"We're not human doings. We're human beings."

Most of us have heard a line like that. Dr. Brian Paris actually lived the cost of forgetting it.

This week Isabel does something a little different on the show. She usually talks about women, healing, and burnout, but this conversation zones in on something we rarely make room for: how men are really doing underneath all the achievement.

Dr. Brian Paris built a multi-million dollar healthcare company, a five thousand square foot facility, fifteen employees, the whole picture of success. He was also, in his own words, very good at looking good. Behind it was burnout, addiction, a divorce, and a marriage where he and his wife would lie back to back at night hiding their phones from each other. He calls it being the fish in the bowl, so deep in the water that he didn't know there was another way to live.

When his chiropractic career ended, he went looking for everything he had missed and landed deep in neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and nervous system regulation. Now he coaches executives, entrepreneurs, and especially men on how to actually feel what they feel and still lead.

A few of the things they get into:

• Why so many of us are good at looking good while it's messy under the carpet
• Achievement versus fulfillment, and why you don't have to pick one
• The "I am" trap, and how our words cast spells on other people and on ourselves
• The neuroscience of emotions, and why shame is the one we most often overlook
• Why men need support, not solutions, and how that plays out at home
• Survival mode versus actually living, and how to tell which one you're in
• What Google's Project Aristotle found is the number one ingredient of a great team
• The simple morning practice Brian swears by before he ever touches his phone

There is also a moment that ties the whole thing together. The same gut feeling Isabel taught her daughter to trust, that little signal that something is off, turns out to be the exact loud whisper this show is named after.

"Name it to tame it."

Loud Whisper: Reignite Your Voice is a podcast for anyone who is tired of performing and ready to come home to themselves. Hosted by Isabel Draughon: coach, speaker, and author.

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