It's Me. Your Brain. | The mind behind your decisions

The Smartest Thing Nobody Said   Why Your Team's Best Thinking Never Makes It Into the Room Every team has a meeting where the outcome is less than the sum of the people in it. Where the best thinking stays unspoken. Where the right question never gets asked. Where someone knew something important, and said nothing. That gap isn't a communication problem. It's a neurological one. In th...

When AI Helps - And When It Doesn’t What Your Brain Actually Needs to Think Well in an AI-Accelerated World AI is speeding up work. But the human brain doesn’t scale with speed. In this episode, Virginia Palm explores what actually happens inside your cognition when AI compresses time, increases output, and quietly intensifies decision-making. Why does work feel heavier inside supposedly “smarter”...

The Human Layer of AI: Why So Many Transformations Struggle AI is being rolled out across organizations at speed. New tools, copilots, and automation layers promise efficiency and scale. And yet, many leaders notice something quieter happening beneath the surface: more output, but less clarity more activity, but thinner judgment more speed, but heavier cognitive load In this episode of  It’s me. Y...

You’re not suddenly “worse at deciding.” Your decisions feel heavier because your brain is being asked to operate under increasing speed, pressure, and visibility, with less time to recover in between. In this episode of  It’s me. Your Brain. , Virginia explores why decision-making feels more effortful in modern work environments, and how speed, complexity, and constant demands quietly change the...

Why Your Brain Hates Constant Context Switching (and What It’s Costing You) You’re not distracted because you lack discipline. You’re tired because your brain is being asked to switch contexts all day long. In this episode of  It’s me. Your Brain. , Virginia explores why constant interruptions, emails, messages, meetings, notifications, and mental to-do lists, quietly exhaust the brain and degrade...

Staying Clear When Everything Is Urgent Back-to-back meetings. Shifting priorities. Decisions arriving faster than you can fully process them. Nothing is technically wrong, but your thinking feels narrower, your patience thinner, and everything takes more effort than it should. This is the state many leaders operate in for large parts of the day. In this episode of  It’s Me. Your Brain. , Virginia...

Most high-performing leaders don’t wake up unmotivated. They wake up mentally overbooked. In this first episode of  It’s Me. Your Brain . , Virginia explores why mental clarity isn’t about discipline, willpower, or optimizing your morning, it’s about how regulated your nervous system is before the day even begins. You’ll learn: Why your brain goes into “reactive mode” the moment you reach for your...