The Recalibration
The Recalibration is a daily podcast for driven professionals who aren’t falling apart, but are quietly tired of holding everything together.
A space for nervous system informed identity recalibration before burnout forces the issue.
The Recalibration with Julie Holly is a daily podcast for high-performing professionals, leaders, and driven humans who are successful on paper, but feel worn down, disconnected, or quietly misaligned inside.
Often, this isn’t because something is wrong.
It’s because their nervous system has been carrying more than it was designed to hold.
This show is for people who:
Keep functioning at a high level, even when it costs them.
Feel tired of hacks, habits, and strategies that no longer work.
Aren’t in crisis, but know something isn’t sustainable.
Sense clarity slipping even though effort remains strong.
This isn’t mindset work.
It isn’t productivity advice or performance optimization.
The Recalibration introduces Identity-Level Recalibration, a psychology-backed, nervous-system-informed, faith-rooted pathway that realigns who you are at the root so your decisions, relationships, leadership, and energy begin to work again without pressure or self-erasure.
Hosted by Julie Holly, researcher, coach, and creator of the Identity-Level Recalibration Pathway, each episode blends psychology, nervous system science, leadership insight, philosophy, and faith-forward reflection.
The goal is simple and honest.
To help listeners understand why success can keep working while something inside feels off, and how to recalibrate before burnout, disconnection, or collapse force the issue.
What you will hear across the podcast:
The difference between burnout and identity misalignment.
Why nervous system fatigue disguises itself as motivation or discipline problems.
How pressure erodes clarity, even for capable leaders.
What aligned leadership, parenting, and relationships actually feel like.
How to move from effort to alignment without losing your edge.
How the podcast evolves by season:
Season 1, Episodes 1 through 86.
Foundations.
What Identity-Level Recalibration is, why performance eventually stops working, and how identity drives behavior.
Season 2, Episodes 87 through 170.
Integration into life.
Applying recalibration to relationships, boundaries, leadership, faith, and daily decision-making.
Season 3, Episodes 171 through 254.
For high performers.
Focused recalibration for driven professionals navigating pressure, exhaustion, and internal dissonance, even as success continues.
Season 4, Daily.
Practicing the recalibration.
A lived, embodied season walking through the recalibration process each week.
Recognition.
Release.
Reclamation.
Reinforcement.
Renewed momentum.
All applied to real relationships and real life.
If you are not falling apart, but you are quietly tired of holding everything together, this podcast is for you.
The previous 581 episodes are preserved as a living record, not of perfection, but of my own recalibration in real time as identity, faith, leadership, and nervous system alignment deepened over the years.
The Recalibration
Ep114 Brian Briscoe & Julie Holly on How to Be a Great Podcast Guest!
What Makes a Great Podcast Guest?
Since recording well over 50 interviews for my podcast and being featured more than a dozen myself, I’ve been on both sides of the mic and can help you shine!
Podcasting is bounds of fun, especially when the conversation is vibrant!
- Engage the host. For your recording session, the host is your friend, your confidant. Imagine you’re having a conversation at a local hang out.
- Be Relaxed- You’re in good hands! Your host is there to make you shine! Because your host has ample experience with interviewing/conversing with many guests, you can trust that they will lead you well.
- There aren’t a ton of recording slots available. Consider how many podcast slots your host has...YOU’RE ONE OF THEM. ONE. For example, I host a weekly podcast which means I have 4- F.O.U.R. slots each month to spotlight superstars! Don’t allow that to make you nervous- leverage it! You’re a VIP!
- Look for the set-up so you can rock the layup! A good host will set you up with open ended questions that can lead to excellent follow-up questions. This is where you get to shine as the expert! It might become granular allowing you to speak richly into the niche and prove your expertise.
- Don’t fear the flop! I get it, you’re nervous. You’re still new and feel the weight of “going on stage”. You might be thinking, “If I say something stupid people will replay it over and over again and I’ll be doomed….” Okay, maybe that’s just me….Here’s the reality: I’ve had guests reach out to me afterwards, “I spoke with my business partner who isn’t comfortable with the details I shared on xyz.” Such things are often easy edits. If you catch yourself saying something you don’t want to simply say immediately, “Please edit that out.”
- Pause. But not too long. If you give just a HINT of a pause between verbal exchanges IF something needs to be edited it created clear margins to splice.
- Speak Clearly. Okay, don’t sound goofy, but be aware that transcripts will be made of your episode (more than likely). The clearer you speak, the better the transcripts.
- Be camera ready. I KNOW not all podcasts are intended as a video offering as well, but things are leaning that way. More than likely both audio and video are being recorded. Be camera ready and let your host know you’re comfortable with them promoting the episode with a video clip. Who knows, you might give the host courage to expand in a new way!
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