Discover the surprising science behind conscious leadership with Rachel Russo, who reveals how a simple pause and breath can activate your brain’s logic center and shift your leadership style from reactive to responsive. Fitness leaders will learn how journaling daily not only calms the mind but improves immune function and creativity. Plus, explore how self-awareness builds trust and collaboration in fitness teams where knowing your body meets leading your people. Ready to transform your leadership muscle and tackle your blind spots? This episode is packed with powerful insights and practical tools to help you lead with clarity and compassion.
Key highlights from the episode:
- Conscious leadership is about responding (not reacting) by engaging your prefrontal cortex through mindful pauses and breathing.
-Journaling daily enhances creativity, reduces stress, improves immune function, and helps leaders get into their subconscious for better self-awareness.
- Building trust starts with knowing yourself deeply and extends to creating a psychologically safe environment that fosters collaboration and courageous conversations.
Curious about the future host of Fitness Business Podcast? That's Zoe, the host JT's daughter!
Know the SECRET codeword? Submit it here for the chance to win a $100 Amazon Gift Card!* https://www.fitnessbusinesspodcast.com/codeword
Ready for more:
- Become an FBP Insider and get 7 days FREE to start! Learn more on Patreon: https://patreon.com/FitnessBusinessPodcast
- Our FREE LIVE online events created specifically for fitness business owners, managers, and coaches who want to sharpen their skills and grow their business - Learn More: https://fitnessbusinesspodcast.com/onlineevents
- Leave us a voicemail: https://fitnessbusinesspodcast.com/leave-us-a-voicemail/
- Leave a rating on Spotify or Apple Podcasts: https://fitnessbusinesspodcast.com/review/
Quotes:
"Conscious leadership is learning how to respond, not react." - Rachel Russo
"When you breathe, you signal to your body that you’re safe and you turn on your prefrontal cortex." - Rachel Russo
"Many of your reactions as a leader are literally you as a child responding as an adult." - Rachel Russo
Resources:
- Become an FBP Insider on Patreon: https://patreon.com/FitnessBusinessPodcast
- Fitness Business Podcast’s LinkedIn Community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9878228/
- Mystery Shopping for Fitness Businesses: https://mysteryshoppingforfitnessbusinesses.com.au/
Our Guest:
Rachel Russo, Founder of Conscious Arc Co
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-russo-4315b140/
Instagram:https//www.instagram/rachelrusso1
Website: https://consciousarcco.com
The Art of Awareness Journal: https://amzn.to/47vo6My
Merch Sponsor:
Be a Merch Sponsor - https://fitnessbusinesspodcast.com/merch/
REX Roundtables:
Website: www.REXRoundtables.com
Email: Eddie@REXRoundtables.com
REX Roundtables Trusted Suppliers:
- Power Systems: your one stop shop for equipment, functional training, recovery and storage https://www.power-systems.com/shop
- Les Mills: offering group fitness classes and solutions. https://www.lesmills.com/
- Instinctive Insights: Profit driven marketing using data science. https://www.instinctiveinsights.com/
- HireBob.Ai: Sell memberships, service existing customers and provide motivational fitness support. https://www.hirebob.ai/
- Eleiko: supplying premium strength training equipment
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Cardiac Cowboys
The heart was always off-limits to surgeons. Cutting into it spelled instant death for the patient. That is, until a ragtag group of doctors scattered across the Midwest and Texas decided to throw out the rule book. Working in makeshift laboratories and home garages, using medical devices made from scavenged machine parts and beer tubes, these men and women invented the field of open heart surgery. Odds are, someone you know is alive because of them. So why has history left them behind? Presented by Chris Pine, CARDIAC COWBOYS tells the gripping true story behind the birth of heart surgery, and the young, Greatest Generation doctors who made it happen. For years, they competed and feuded, racing to be the first, the best, and the most prolific. Some appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, operated on kings and advised presidents. Others ended up disgraced, penniless, and convicted of felonies. Together, they ignited a revolution in medicine, and changed the world.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.