What Will You Learn?

• Why stress is highly contagious and how it spreads in teams, meetings, and relationships.
• The importance of recognizing personal stress triggers and how awareness is already most of the solution.
• Saeed’s three-step approach for managing stress (recognize triggers, observe patterns, flip the narrative).
• Pitfalls to avoid: hero syndrome, overworking, and silencing stress—all sabotaging your leadership and team well-being.
• The role of rest and recovery in authentic workplace performance, including actionable meeting hacks and modeling resilience.
• How self-leadership, presence, and intentional pacing create trust, clarity, and sustainable growth—for yourself and your team.

Key Timestamps

• 0:00- Stress is contagious; people notice your state and it spreads quickly.
• 2:14- Leadership energy in meetings: Calmness vs. tension and the resulting outcomes.
• 6:19- Recognize your stress—awareness is already most of the solution.
• 7:00- Coaching story: How a CEO’s stress affected his team and decisions.
• 9:16- Leaders act as a thermostat; set the pace and stability for the team.
• 12:24- Three-step approach to stress: identify triggers, observe behavior, flip the narrative.
• 16:10- Importance of modeling recovery: why ending meetings early promotes team well-being.
• 18:31- Pitfalls to avoid: hero syndrome, always-on mentality, and silence around

Saeed closes with a powerful reminder: The best leaders excel not just in strategy, but in understanding people and mastering their own state of mind. Leadership begins with self-leadership—making your own well-being the anchor for a healthier, high-performing workplace. 

Subscribe and share this episode with a leader who inspires you, because stress is contagious—and so is positive energy and growth.

 Connect with Host Saeed Alghafri:

• Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/saeedalghafri/
• Youtube : @yuwabconsulting
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• Spotify    : https://open.spotify.com/show/2vfcZCdwnXkiMdEvNVF9HH  

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