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The Light Watkins Show

296: How to Heal Your Nervous System and Finally Feel Like Yourself Again with Tom Cronin

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

What happens when success costs you your peace? Tom Cronin spent 26 years in high-stakes finance — making millions, closing international deals, and living the kind of life most people dream about. But behind the high-performance exterior was a man quietly falling apart. Years of chronic stress, sleepless nights, and panic attacks eventually brought him to a breaking point. And that’s when everything changed. In this episode, Tom shares the full arc of his transformation — from a nervous br...

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up to 10 years of that industry. So effectively all day, completely pumping deals, hundreds of

0:08.4

millions, up to billions of dollars a day in deals. So it's high adrenaline, high octane, high cortisol,

0:13.7

and then at nighttime we'd be out with our corporate amics cards, winding and dining the clients,

0:18.2

which is the bankers, and it was crazy times. So you'd be really

0:22.7

stretching your nervous system to maximum capacity day and day out, and this just accumulated

0:28.4

after time. And what happened for me was that my nervous system was really grappling with

0:33.6

this overload. And that culminated in my sort of late 20s with what was technically

0:39.1

diagnosed as a nervous breakdown. So extreme anxiety, panic attacks, depression, chronic insomnia.

0:45.3

And things really deteriorated that had been building and building over years. And so that was a really

0:50.6

dark night where I was having mental health leave from work. I was seeing doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, put on medication and really grappling with the will

1:00.8

to go on with life.

1:04.9

In this episode, you are going to learn how to navigate a career pivot without blowing up your

1:10.4

life. You're going to learn how to recognize when career pivot without blowing up your life. You're going to learn how to

1:12.1

recognize when your nervous system is calling for change and how to start trusting the subtle signs of

1:18.1

your inner voice. We also are going to talk about money specifically and why so many spiritual

1:24.2

people struggle to charge for their work and what to do about it.

1:28.5

And that's because I'm in conversation today with Tom Cronin, who shares the story of how he

1:33.4

went from a high-flying finance broker to a meditation teacher, to a filmmaker and a purpose-driven

1:39.3

entrepreneur.

1:40.5

Tom spent 26 years in the world of finance, making millions of dollars, traveling the world,

1:46.1

and doing whatever it took to stay ahead.

1:48.5

But behind the scenes, he was spiraling.

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