the anxious CEO

What if the anxiety you've been fighting is actually your greatest strength? the anxious CEO™ is hosted by Hayley Roffey, Co-CEO of Global Fund for Children. With over 20 years of experience building and leading organisations, Hayley has spent much of that time navigating the very thing so many of us are quietly carrying and rarely naming. Anxiety doesn't stay in one part of life. It shows up in the office and in the kitchen, in the moments before we speak up and the moments we stay silent instead. It touches the way we parent, the way we love, the way we show up for ourselves when no one's watching. This podcast is for anyone who has felt that particular weight. The overthinkers. The ones who feel everything deeply. The ones who have built extraordinary lives while quietly wondering if today is the day it all falls apart. We will talk about what anxiety actually feels like from the inside, in leadership and far beyond it, and why the thing you've spent years trying to manage might actually be the most useful thing in the room. Real conversations. No toxic positivity. No performance of calm. Your anxiety is your edge . Here is where we prove it.

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  Episode #6

  What I've learned from 5 episodes of the anxious ceo podcast

  Aug 31, 202617 minS1

  <p>In this reflective episode of the anxious CEO, Hayley looks back on the first five conversations of season 1 and pulls together the biggest lessons about anxiety, leadership, and what it really means to feel calm under pressure. From the body’s role in anxiety, to the idea that some of what we carry belongs to the room, to the importance of trust, honesty, and redefining success, this episode brings the threads together in a thoughtful and deeply human way.</p><p></p><p>Instead of offering a five-step fix, Hayley invites listeners to stop fighting anxiety, start listening to it...

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  Episode #4

  Anxiety is rarely yours alone - the truth leaders need...with a little side of tenderstem broccoli

  Aug 24, 202649 minS1

  <p>What if the anxiety you think is yours is actually coming from the room, the team, or the system around you? Ceylon, Deputy Chief Executive and scholar of system psychodynamics, reveals why leaders often absorb the emotional weight of everyone else - and how that invisible pressure shapes decisions, relationships, and burnout.</p><p></p><p>From projection and transference to valency, unconscious attacks, and negative capability, this conversation turns anxiety from a private struggle into a powerful lens on leadership. Ceylon shares how her own competitiveness, tenderness, and tendency to cry at work became clues, not flaws, and...

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  Anxiety is your edge - if you stop dismissing it

  Aug 17, 20261h 7mS0

  <p>Anxiety can make you a sharper leader, but only if you know how to use it without letting it use you. Seyi Akiwowo reveals what it really takes to lead under scrutiny, set boundaries that actually hold, and stop mistaking burnout for success.</p><p></p><p>Hayley Roffey sits down with the former CEO of Glitch, author of How to Stay Safe Online, and one of the most influential voices in online harm and care as infrastructure. What unfolds is a candid, practical conversation about the hidden cost of being visible, the pressure on women and Black leaders...

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  Episode #3

  How three minutes a day can rewire an anxious nervous system

  Aug 10, 202659 minS1

  <p>Anxiety is not a leadership flaw - it is often your nervous system predicting threat, and the real problem is what happens when you never come back down.</p><p></p><p>In this episode, Rob Rea reveals how high performers can stop fighting anxiety, use it as data, and lead with more clarity, creativity, and control. Hayley opens the conversation with the question every anxious leader needs answered: what is the truest thing you know about anxiety? Rob reframes it from the start, explaining anxiety as physiology rather than psychology, a prediction process in the body that can...

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  Episode #2

  What teeth grinding revealed about anxiety, leadership & control

  Aug 7, 202653 minS1

  <p><b>Britta shares the counterintuitive truth that can transform anxiety from something to hide into a leadership advantage.</b></p><p></p><p>If<b> </b>anxiety shows up as teeth grinding, spiraling thoughts, boardroom panic, or that awful feeling you need to keep it together, this conversation will feel uncomfortably familiar and incredibly useful. Brita reveals why the real shift is not getting rid of anxiety, but changing your relationship to it.</p><p></p><p>Hayley and Brita dig into the moments that made anxiety impossible to ignore, from a dentist spotting severe tooth grinding during a...

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