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Sheila Pride is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Moksha Group, where she works with organizations and executives worldwide to create conscious leadership and transform toxic workplace cultures. As both a therapist and organizational consultant, she specializes in using neuroscience-based approaches to build psychological safety, improve communication, and help teams stay connected despite their differences. In this conversation, she reveals why most workplace culture efforts fail and shares practical frameworks like the “depletion vs. renewal grid” and structured dialogue techniques that actually work.
This episode is essential for CEOs, team leaders, managers, and anyone struggling with workplace dysfunction, difficult conversations, or toxic team dynamics. Listeners will learn evidence-based strategies for creating psychological safety, facilitating productive meetings, handling feedback effectively, and building teams that thrive under pressure. By applying Sheila’s neuroscience-backed methods, you’ll transform not just how you show up at work, but how you communicate in every relationship—creating ripple effects that improve your leadership, reduce stress, and help you build the collaborative, high-performing culture you’ve always wanted.
00:00 – Introduction and Welcome
00:49 – What is Moksha Group?
02:13 – Why Culture Work is Still Needed
02:28 – The War Brain vs. New Brain
04:43 – The Spillover Effect of Workplace Stress
05:07 – Depletion vs. Renewal Framework
07:16 – Multiple Entry Points for Change
10:19 – The Business Case for Team Development
11:25 – Live Exercise: Great Leadership Qualities
16:31 – The Neuroscience of Belonging
19:08 – Bad Leadership and Its Impact
22:06 – The Tsunami Story: Psychological Safety in Action
26:24 – Why Difficult Conversations Are So Hard
32:14 – When Good People Leave and Teams Go Silent
36:08 – Leading from Any Level
40:17 – Staying Connected Despite Differences
43:18 – The Universal Need to Be Seen and Heard
45:49 – Live Demonstration: Structured Dialogue
54:24 – Skills We’re Never Taught
55:52 – The Importance of Repair Processes
57:00 – The Challenge of Apologizing
01:00:10 – Creating Safe Spaces for Mistakes
01:03:02 – Teaching the Fundamentals
01:05:39 – Being Real, Open, and Vulnerable
01:08:07 – The Need for Coaches and Continuous Learning
01:11:58 – Self-Compassion as Foundation
01:13:27 – Living Practice vs. Dead Practice
01:14:08 – How to Connect and Work Together
01:15:12 – Closing Gratitude and Reflection
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“The difference between traditional talk therapy and EMDR is that traditional talk therapy is kind of what I was talking about—the superficial level of learning skills to manage the symptom—whereas EMDR gets rid of the symptoms.”
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“What we’re really trying to create here is generational change. And when the kids are in our facility, seeing their moms doing this work, it shows them a completely different path. That, and to no fault of their moms. It just, it never seemed possible. So we’re possibility creators.”
“You can only lead as far as you’ve healed, because until you start to recognize that, you will perpetuate the same mistakes that got you there before, either yourself or the leader that you were under. And that’s why the healing part is so important, because it comes up again and you’re like, okay, wait, this is what this is.”
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