# Why High Achievers Self-Sabotage (And What's Actually Going On Underneath) with Leslie M. Thornton

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Published: 2026-06-11T21:18:25+00:00
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## Resource

What do a broken website button, a fear of being visible, and the urge to self-sabotage right after a successful launch have in common? They all trace back to the same place: the unconscious mind. In this episode, Raquel sits down with Leslie M. Thornton, founder of Hypnosis for Permanent Weight Loss, former ICU nurse, NLP and hypnosis trainer, and host of a top 1% globally ranked podcast with over a million downloads. Leslie has built a global movement helping career-driven, high-achieving women end the mental obsession with food, body, and weight for good and the tools she uses translate far beyond the dinner table. Together, Raquel and Leslie dig into the invisible barriers that keep brilliant, capable founders from showing up fully: why self-sabotage isn't a character flaw, what fight-flight-freeze (and flop) actually look like in an entrepreneurial context, and how the unconscious mind, which drives roughly 95% of our behavior and is either running the show or getting in the way of it. They also explore the fear of visibility that shows up for so many business owners, the surprising reason it's often rooted in something much older than your last launch, and what it actually takes to build a strong bounce-back rate when things go sideways. This one is equal parts psychology, strategy, and permission to stop being so hard on yourself.

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