How to Make Life-Changing Decisions Without Fear – Joe Hudson : 1314
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
How do you make tough decisions? How do you make them without fear or lying? This episode shows you how unresolved emotions disrupt decision-making, relationships, and functioning in peak brain performance. You’ll learn tips to rewire your nervous system for decision making, optimizing emotional intelligence, and regulating your body for high-level clarity, energy, and resilience. Discover biohacking techniques that use emotional release and somatic awareness to boost mitochondria, activate neuroplasticity, and achieve lasting personal transformation.
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Host Dave Asprey talks with Joe Hudson, a world-renowned executive coach to unicorn founders and billion-dollar leaders. Joe works with a select group of top performers to unlock emotional clarity, leadership mastery, and deep personal change. His methods combine neuroscience, trauma healing, somatic therapy, and conscious coaching to help people perform at their highest level while becoming more authentic, fulfilled, and connected.
You’ll learn:
• How emotional repression affects brain function, metabolism, and decision-making
• Tools for nervous system regulation and emotional healing that drive high performance
• Why most people fail without emotional intelligence and internal safety
• How somatic awareness can optimize your energy, focus, and relationships
• The science of fear, trauma release, and how to turn discomfort into growth
• How to coach yourself out of stress, shame, and negative self-talk
This is essential listening for anyone serious about emotional intelligence, high-performance coaching, biohacking, somatic healing, trauma work, executive leadership, nervous system regulation, brain optimization, functional medicine, and building unstoppable inner resilience.
Dave Asprey is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, founder of Bulletproof Coffee, and the father of biohacking. With over 1,000 interviews and 1 million monthly listeners, The Human Upgrade is the top podcast for people who want to take control of their biology, extend their longevity, and optimize every system in the body and mind. Each episode features cutting-edge insights in health, performance, neuroscience, supplements, nutrition, hacking, emotional intelligence, and conscious living.
Episodes are released every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday (audio-only) where Dave asks the questions no one else dares, and brings you real tools to become more resilient, aware, and high performing.
Keywords: Joe Hudson, Dave Asprey, emotional intelligence, nervous system regulation, somatic therapy, trauma healing, executive coaching, biohacking emotions, brain optimization, emotional mastery, making tough decisions, fear or failure, leadership development, negative self talk, childhood trauma, personal transformation, smarter not harder, stress relief tools, leadership listening
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Timestamps:
0:00 — Introduction
2:42 — Why We Struggle with Fasting
6:28 — Identity and Control Patterns
11:56 — The Nervous System and Decision-Making
23:33 — Letting Go vs. Forcing Change
28:09 — Rebuilding Every Organ with Anti-Aging Work
33:51 — How to Actually Feel Emotions (Without Getting Stuck)
39:18 — Upgrading the Subconscious
45:02 — Final Thoughts and Takeaways
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| 1:31.3 | I oftentimes say that one of my love languages triggering people. |
| 1:33.5 | When I get triggered, I am so excited. |
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