Welcome to a special series on the Bossway podcast. I'm Natalie Ellis and I'm joined this week by two women I deeply respect and admire.

Alexi Panos and Emily Gallagher for a raw and honest five-part series we're calling Red Flags Every Boss Babe Needs to Know.

We are dropping one episode every single day for the next five days and each one is going to shine a light on the patterns

that so many high achieving women have normalized until their bodies, relationships or businesses

start sending signals that something is off. These are the red flags that high performers tend

to override. We keep pushing, performing and producing, telling ourselves it's just a busy season

when really we have disconnected from our own truth, intuition and vitality. This series is here to

interrupt that cycle, not in a shame-based way, but with clarity, compassion and the kind of perspective

that makes you stop and ask, do I actually want to keep

doing it this way? So in each episode, we're not just naming the red flag. We are breaking down

the symptoms. We are sharing our own lived experiences as uncomfortable and vulnerable as that

can be and offering really implementable tools to start shifting the pattern right now. We are also

inviting you into a masterclass where we're going to take this even deeper. Because the truth is,

awareness is just the beginning, but embodiment is the goal. Today we're starting with a really

big one, the overwhelmed loop. If you have ever been called high capacity while secretly living

in a state of overthinking, urgency and anxiety, I think there's ever been called high capacity while secretly living in a state of overthinking,

urgency and anxiety, I think this episode is really going to hit home for you.

Let's get into it.

I'm so excited that we're doing this because, yeah, think about 2018.

We did that podcast series together.

And I feel like that's when all of us were in that full hustle mode, which I look back and I'm so grateful to that version of myself.

But seeing, oh my goodness, the difference of just like all of our lives. And should we start there of where we all were? I can go first. Maybe we'll talk about where we all were and what the journeys looked like. But for me, so it was seven years ago, which was so interesting, I feel like I was in the thick of the business really taking off. And it was happening. I describe it as like a magic carpet, right? It was just happening so fast. We moved into a we work office. Yes. Alexi, we obviously shared office. It was like two doors down. Yeah. And it was just every

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