PODCAST BY VIRGINIA PALM
It's Me,
Your Brain
NOW STREAMING
Short-form episodes on attention, decision fatigue, and the real cognitive costs of leading in high-pressure environments. Honest, grounded, and without the hype.
ABOUT THE PODCAST
The mind behind
your decisions -
explored without the noise.
Most conversations about leadership and performance stay at the level of behavior - what to do differently, how to communicate better, which framework to apply. Very few go deeper and ask why the brain keeps slipping out of good behavior under real pressure.
That is the question this podcast exists to answer. Not with academic theory or motivational content - with clear, honest thinking about what is actually happening in the nervous system when the load goes up and the stakes are real.
Each episode is short, specific, and built to be useful on a commute, between meetings, or at the end of a long day when you have ten minutes and want something that actually helps.
WHAT THE PODCAST COVERS
01
How cognitive load accumulates — and the specific moments in a working day where it quietly crosses the line from engaged pressure into something harder to recover from.
02
Decision fatigue - why leaders feel more decisive as their decision quality degrades, and what to do about it before the warning signs appear in results
03
What AI is doing to human attention spans - and why the productivity gains organizations are measuring are often masking a deeper cognitive cost
04
Why teams go quiet under pressure - the neuroscience of psychological safety and what actually has to change for honest conversation to come back
05
The gap between what leaders know they should do and what they actually do under pressure - and the biology behind it
EPISODE THEMES
Three areas the podcast
keeps returning to.
THEME ONE
The brain
under load
What sustained cognitive pressure actually does to the brain — and why the standard advice about managing stress consistently misses the point.
Why pushing harder stops working
The prefrontal cortex and what you lose first
Cognitive load - what it is and how to measure yours
Recovery as a performance strategy, not a reward
THEME TWO
Teams and
trust
The nervous-system conditions that determine whether a team can be genuinely honest with each other — and what erodes those conditions before anyone notices.
Why your team has gone quiet
Psychological safety is not a vibe
The meeting where everyone agreed - and nothing changed
What conflict avoidance is really costing you
THEME THREE
AI and the
human system
What the acceleration of AI is doing to human cognitive capacity — and why organizations measuring AI ROI in productivity gains are often missing the real story.
What AI is doing to your attention span
The human cost of always-on availability
Why your AI rollout is a human problem
Brain capital - the metric your AI strategy is missing
HOSTED BY
Virginia Palm,
Augment Mind
The podcast is an extension of the work Virginia does with leaders and organisations — a way of bringing the same thinking into a format that is accessible outside of an engagement. The questions she explores in episodes are the same ones she works on with clients: why does performance degrade under pressure, what is the brain actually doing in those moments, and what can be done about it.
Episodes are deliberately short - most under 20 minutes - because the people this podcast is made for do not have an hour to spare. They have a commute, a gap between calls, or ten minutes at the end of a day that went too long. That is enough.
Virginia brings the same directness to the podcast that she brings to client work. No motivational content. No generic resilience advice. Just clear thinking on what is actually happening and what actually helps.
LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE
Available on all
major platforms.
New episodes released regularly. Subscribe on your platform of choice so you don't miss one - episodes go quickly and stay short.
Spotify
Apple Podcast
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TAKE IT FURTHER
The podcast is the beginning.
The work goes deeper.
If the questions in the podcast feel relevant to your leadership, your team, or your organisation - a 30-minute conversation with Virginia is the right next step.
Also on this site
The podcast sits alongside a full advisory practice - working with individual leaders, leadership teams, and organisations on the same problems the episodes explore.
If you arrived here through the podcast and want to understand what the work looks like in practice, the best place to start is the ‘What We Do’ page.