S5E4 Expand Your Capacity For Success with Jakob Gricar

About this episode

Do you sabotage your success? Is there an invisible ceiling you won't let yourself break through in business or relationships? And could your nervous system be the main culprit?

Join Amanda and her incredibly wise and emotionally intelligent guest, Jakob Gricar, a successful trauma-informed transformational coach who uses a wide range of techniques from IFS to CBT to somatics and nervous system science for a high-level conversation on creating space in your nervous system to hold the emotions necessary to achieve your greatest dreams.

Jakob and Amanda take a deep dive into:

🔥The definition of capacity and what drives us to stay safe in our current capacity instead of broadening it

🔥How behaviors that cause pain are actually providing a payoff and satisfying a need, causing resistance to change

🔥Creating space in the nervous system is achieved with mindset, then somatic work, then integration

🔥Parts that you judge as "bad" and want to get rid of must be welcomed, witnessed, and loved instead of shamed

🔥The common misconception in the personal development world that we can serve all of our own needs; we need partnerships in order to fill needs we will never be able to fill ourselves (definition of true sovereignty)

🔥The three parts of secure attachment: Self to Self, Self to Others, Self to Source

🔥For men: What the healthy expression of the Divine Masculine looks like and how finding safety in your nervous system will aid you in fulfilling your innate desire to protect and provide

About Jakob

Jakob Gricar is a trauma-informed transformational coach who blends more than a decade of mastery in somatic work, internal family systems, ontological coaching, NLP, CBT, breathwork, polyvagal theory, and indigenous ceremony to catalyze profound inner change. From high-impact entrepreneurs navigating million-dollar decisions to purpose-driven creatives taking their very first steps in business, he guides clients to create a capacity in their nervous systems to handle all of life, dismantle limiting identities, and remember the unshakable truth beneath the noise. Jakob's sessions are an alchemy of precise nervous-system science as taught to him directly by pioneers in somatics, mix of modalities from CBT, IFS, NLP and more to fierce ontological accountability.

His own journey began at 13, when healing a chronic illness through relentless spiritual disciplines proved that the body can be a doorway to the miraculous. That spark ignited years of radical exploration: seasons of homelessness that forged unfiltered humility; near-death initiations that clarified what truly matters; yogic study in India's ashrams; and deep plant-medicine studies with Shipibo, Mestizo, Yawanawa and Huni Kuin medicine keepers in the Amazon rainforest. Along the way, he built a retreat center in Guatemala and co-created a conscious community and event space in Mexico, while learning from Judith Johnson, an 83-year-old pioneer in somatic work.

Today Jakob collaborates with world-renowned coaches, and facilitates in their online and in person containers, mentors other business leaders, and guides deep in-person experiences through Vortex Retreats and co-runs a high-touch online coaching program for women.

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