FLAME with Brad Hook
Stress Less, Achieve More: Emotional Mastery and Motivation
Business coach Daniel Tolson's work centres on a pattern he knows from the inside: high achievers sabotaging themselves at the exact moment things start working. A long, candid conversation about emotional mastery.
Daniel opens with his own story — including a wakeboarding episode of self-sabotage he's never forgotten — and builds from there into the mechanics of why we undermine our own success: the emotional set-points, inherited beliefs and unexamined identities that quietly cap performance.
The conversation covers emotional intelligence as a business skill, the resilience journey from setback to mastery, and the daily practices Daniel uses with clients across Asia and beyond. Long-form and generous — one for a proper walk.
In this episode
- Why high achievers self-sabotage at the brink of success
- Emotional set-points and inherited beliefs
- EQ as a hard business skill
- From setback to mastery — the resilience arc
- Daily practices for emotional regulation
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