Episode — The Real Story Beneath Your Relationships

with Lisa De Nicola

What if the relationships you’re struggling with aren’t the problem, but the old patterns running beneath them?

In this episode of The Underlayer, leadership and executive coach Lisa De Nicola takes us below the surface to uncover how childhood strategies shape the way we speak up at work, choose partners, maintain friendships, and set boundaries, and how rewriting those strategies starts with small, honest shifts.

What begins as a conversation about relationships becomes a blueprint for reclaiming your voice, your energy, and the parts of yourself you’ve hidden to stay safe.

You’ll hear:

• The moment two mentors reflected a buried childhood wound back to Lisa, and how that realization reshaped every relationship in her life

• How trauma-informed therapy and spiritual guidance accelerated her healing and restored emotional expression as a leadership superpower

• Why “success” in relationships has nothing to do with years together, and everything to do with authenticity, growth, and energy

• How curiosity can resuscitate long-term relationships that have fallen into assumptions and stale stories

• Practical tools to navigate conflict in real time: ask for the hour you need to regulate, name your emotions clearly, and stop expecting people to read your mind

• How small, honest steps prevent the quiet resentments that erode teams, partnerships, and friendships alike

By the end, you’ll understand why healing happens both alone and in partnership, why your patterns are not your identity, and how changing tiny relational habits can transform your confidence at work and at home.

🎧 The Underlayer — Where the Real Story Lives.

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