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Julie Hutchinson
CEO & Founder, Core Performance
In this conversation, Ahmad Ashrafi and Julie Hutchinson explore the often-overlooked aspects of entrepreneurship, focusing on the importance of self-regulation, mindset, and emotional well-being.
Success is an internal job. Julie's portfolio and paycheck looked great while her adrenal glands were shot — burnout taught her that the nervous system, not the balance sheet, is the real performance foundation.
Heart rate variability is the biohack that works. Coherent heart rhythms regulate the autonomic nervous system, unlocking the brain's higher thinking centers — trainable through heart-focused breathing paired with a renewing emotion like joy or gratitude.
80% of our thoughts are negative and 95% repeat daily. By age 35 we run on memorized habits; awareness plus daily 15-minute coherence sessions rewires the loop from survival to creation.
Data, not drama. Wearables like Whoop and Oura are friends, not judges: use HRV trends to ask better questions, prevent chronic disease, and retrain the body's addiction to stress.
