263. Samantha Woo | What Other Leadership Books Don’t Tell You: How to Lead & Manage Highly-Emotional Employees

In today’s episode, we have the pleasure to interview Samantha Woo, author of What Other Leadership Books Don’t Tell You: How to Lead & Manage Highly-Emotional Employees. Samantha is a leadership coach, Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist, and founder of the E.M.B.R.A.C.E.® method. She blends neuroscience, clinical therapy, and trauma-informed coaching to help tech leaders and executives navigate the people problems no one talks about. In this episode, you’ll learn how trauma shows up at work—and why most leaders are unprepared for it, why emotional intelligence isn’t something you teach with a slide deck, and what it really takes to support both high-performing and hypo-aroused employees in today’s workplace. We hope you enjoy this incredible conversation with Samantha Woo. To Learn More about Samantha and buy her book visit: The Book: https://a.co/d/iJol27k Website/Socials: https://www.swnconsultingllc.com/ https://www.instagram.com/samantha.s.woo/ https://x.com/SWNconsulting Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:22 Why people live unhappy for 90,000 hours in their lives 3:07 Root causes of dissatisfaction at work 5:22 The impact of remote & virtual work 7:40 Empathy and recognizing not-work-related problems of your team 11:37 Practical tips for leaders to keep your team happy 13:05 Everybody’s overwhelmed in some way 18:19 Dealing with work-induced mental health problems 21:54 The rise of problems in the modern workplace 25:19 Talking about emotional intelligence & the EQ at work 30:41 The adoption of AI & its impact in business decisions 34:18 Exhale & step back to become more emotionally intelligent 36:27 What makes a good leader (The Growth & Spiritual Mindset) 41:02 Where to connect with Samantha and get the book 41:44 We’re all in this together ________________________________________________ Join the world's largest non-fiction Book community! https://www.instagram.com/bookthinkers/ The purpose of this podcast is to connect you, the listener, with new books, new mentors, and new resources that will help you achieve more and live better. Each and every episode will feature one of the world's top authors so that you know each and every time you tune-in, there is something valuable to learn. If you have any recommendations for guests, please DM them to us on Instagram. (www.instagram.com/bookthinkers) If you enjoyed this show, please consider leaving a review. It takes less than 60-seconds of your time, and really makes a difference when I am trying to land new guests. For more BookThinkers content, check out our Instagram or our website.