Why Your Nervous System is Blocking Your Success | with Natalie Hummel and Emily Duncan

EMBody Radio

Emily Duncan

Embodyradio, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Nutrition, Health, Bikinicompetitions, Education, Wonderwomanmentality, Npcbikini, Fitness

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

What if your drive for perfection is actually the thing holding you back? In this powerful episode, I sit down with high-performance nervous system coach Natalie Hummel to unpack how unresolved nervous system patterns can limit success, even in the most disciplined and ambitious women.

Natalie shares her journey from Olympic equestrian dreams to body shutdown, and how nervous system healing became the missing link in achieving real performance breakthroughs. This is the conversation every high achiever needs to hear…especially if you're tired of doing all the right things but still feel stuck at the same level.

You’ll learn:

What the “nervous system set point” is and how it blocks success
How ego-based perfectionism can keep high performers stuck
Why nervous system capacity (not motivation) is the key to next-level performance
How to identify your emotional “set point” and safely expand it
Practical tools to build resilience, emotional safety, and flow state on demand

Whether you're an entrepreneur, athlete, or leader, this episode will show you how to stop self-sabotaging and start operating from embodied excellence.

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0:00.0	If you know how to sit with an emotion, you are limitless.
0:05.0	Welcome to Embody Radio, the premiere podcast for ambitious women ready to elevate their body, mind, and life to the next level.
0:12.0	On this show, we've used high performance, wellness and aesthetics, and self-mastery into a real-world blueprint for personal excellence.
0:19.0	Each week, you'll get real, grounded strategies and
0:21.7	unfiltered conversations with high performers who walk the talk, no fluff and no fake hype.
0:26.5	Because excellence isn't an accident. It's embodiment. And this is Embody Radio.
0:32.8	Girl, what's up? Welcome back to Embody Radio, the premiere podcast for high performing humans
0:37.4	looking to
0:37.9	truly embody their happiest healthiest highest selves i'm your host emily duncan we are in for
0:43.6	a treat of a show today this is for all of my high performance excellence obsessed girlies
0:51.4	that also have a holistic lens, aka you're interested in the nervous system
0:59.2	stuff. You're interested in the nervous system stuff, not just in the sitting in a prayer circle
1:06.1	and singing kumbaya kind of way, but like, hey, how do I use this stuff to go beyond and to perform
1:12.3	better, faster, higher, whatever, whatever your desired outcome is. Today's guest is absolutely
1:20.0	no stranger to the relentless pursuit of excellence. Natalie Hummel didn't just study peak performance.
1:25.9	She's lived it. As a top-level equestrian
1:28.2	athlete with Olympic dreams, Natalie had those dreams crushed when her body and her nervous system
1:32.6	snapped, keeping her stuck at the same level of performance and confused where her body didn't
1:37.0	seem like it was on her side, even though she was doing all the right things. Fast forward to 2025,
1:42.7	Natalie has turned her own struggle into passion and purpose.
1:45.8	Her work isn't about motivation. It's about transformation. With the deep foundation in
1:50.4	neuroscience, somatic intelligence, and high performance psychology, she guides her clients
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