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Regulate to Rise: Healing Identity, Grief & Burnout with Executive Coach Sam Willing
In today’s episode, Angelina welcomes Sam Willing, an executive coach, speaker, and strategic partner to corporate leaders with over 25 years in HR. Sam opens up about her lifelong struggle with perfectionism, people-pleasing, and tying her worth to work — and how her mother’s terminal cancer diagnosis forced her to reevaluate everything.
🔥 In This Episode, We Cover:
Sam’s early identity as “the easy child” and how people-pleasing shaped her adult life
Why achievement and perfection became her coping mechanisms
The moment she realized her identity was built on things she could lose
Her…
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