The Dov Baron Show Podcast

The Trait That Keeps You Stuck (And the Antidote Youve Never Tried) | Dr. Philip Agrios

What if the very thing keeping you stuck, personally, professionally, and emotionally, is something you were born with?
And what if switching it off was as precise and predictable as flipping a light switch?

What You'll Discover in This Episode:

In Part 2 of this hard-hitting conversation, Dr. Philip Agrios, the disruptor of the self-help industry, returns to reveal:

• The three stress switch positions that sabotage you without your awareness

• Why perfectionism is actually a coping mechanism of your Inborn Trait

• The real reason therapy, journaling, or positive habits might not be working for you

• How to use the Antidote Trait to disarm conflict and navigate high-stakes business dynamics

• Why almost every high-achiever unknowingly loops through their own sabotage scriptand how to break it instantly

Who is Dr. Philip Agrios?

A former functional medicine and chiropractic doctor turned Self-Sabotage Specialist, Dr. Philip Agrios, created the T-NOW Method after a life-altering injury forced him to shut down his 15-year practice.

He discovered a universal Inborn Sabotaging Trait and its precise Antidote, redefining how leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries break free from repetitive failure patterns.
His work has transformed boardrooms, marriages, and internal monologues.

Timestamp:

00:03:22 Why we keep solving the wrong problem with the right tools
00:17:45 The switch moment that breaks subconscious sabotage loops
00:23:11 How Dr. Phils divorce revealed the one thing he couldnt out-achieve
00:39:00 Is your success coming at the cost of your inner peace?
00:48:06 The one question you must ask before trusting your instincts
00:53:15 Why being a good leader is sometimes your biggest blind spot

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LinkedIn: Dov Baron
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Dr Philip Agrioss work: TheTNowMethod.com

If this episode hits you in the gutin the way only truth doesheres your next step:
Book a private diagnostic session with Dov to uncover your Emotional Source Code and break your loop once and for all DovBaron.com

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Part 1 of 2: 🔥 “Why You Keep Sabotaging Your Success (And the Hidden Trait Behind It All)” | Dr. Philip Agrios.

Guest: Dr. Philip Agrios | Creator of the T-NOW Method

👤 Who is Dr. Philip Agrios?

Dr. Philip Agrios is a former physician turned elite performance strategist who discovered the Inborn Sabotaging Trait—a biologically hardwired behavior pattern that unconsciously blocks success. After a forced career shutdown due to chronic illness, he developed the T-NOW Method, a 5-step system that helps individuals instantly transform their sabotaging trait into a Success Trait.

His method has been used by CEOs, high-performing entrepreneurs, and trauma survivors alike to remove deep, invisible barriers and radically realign their lives from the inside out.

🔥 For Listeners Who…

• Secretly feel like no matter how much they accomplish, something inside always pulls them back

• Are you tired of mindset hacks and need a neuroscience-backed method that actually sticks

• Carry the burden of being “the strong one” in their families, businesses, or communities.

• Want transformation without fluff—and performance without burnout.

🧠 About the Episode:

You’ve probably never heard this before:
You’re not sabotaging yourself because you’re broken.
You’re doing it because a trait you were born with is still trying to protect you.

However, what protected you as a child is now undermining your fulfillment, health, and results.

In this episode, Dr. Philip Agrios joins me to reveal how your Inborn Sabotaging Trait is the core driver behind recurring business blocks, relationship breakdowns, and inner turmoil. We explore how this biological glitch, combined with your learned identity, keeps high performers trapped in invisible cages.

More importantly, we explore how to flip that trait into its opposite: your Success Trait.

This episode isn’t about self-help. It’s about self-interrogation.

🧭 Timestamp:

03:40 – Why being "the strong one" may be your greatest liability
09:12 – The day Dr. Agrios shut down his 15-year medical practice
17:58 – What is the Inborn Sabotaging Trait?
23:45 – The T-NOW Method explained (in 5 exact steps)
32:10 – How control issues often mask a biological need for survival
38:47 – Dov challenges “spiritual bypassing” in trauma language
41:22 – The link between gut health, leadership decisions, and emotional patterns
47:55 – A live mini-diagnostic of a Success Trait transformation

🗝️ You’ll Walk Away With…

• Clarity on how your unconscious identity still governs your life

• The 5-step formula for rewiring your nervous system using the T-NOW Method

• Awareness of the emotional triggers that activate your sabotaging trait

• Insight into how Nature’s One Law governs all patterns of breakdown and breakthrough

• A proven strategy to shift from self-betrayal to sustainable inner power

🧨 In This Episode, We Explore:

• Why your body wants you to sabotage yourself—and how to override it

• How biology and belief get entangled in your survival identity

• The emotional cost of being “the one who keeps it together”

• What it means to unhook from your past without abandoning your humanity

• Why high achievers often mistake over-functioning for healing

💬 Listener Highlight:

“This episode wasn’t just insightful—it was surgical. I finally understand why I kept self-sabotaging the moment things started going well. Dr. Agrios and Dov cracked open something I didn’t even know was there.”
— Cynthia M., Senior Tech Executive

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🎯 Call to Action:

📣 Follow & Connect:
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LinkedIn: Dov Baron
Website: dovbaron.com
Dr Philip Agrios’s work: TheTNowMethod.com 

Ready to decode your hidden patterns and stop sabotaging your own success?
👉 Subscribe, rate, and share this episode. Then DM me your top takeaway.
And don’t forget—this isn’t self-improvement. This is your awakening.

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🎙️ The Dov Baron Show | Episode 3 of 3
You May Have to Break Your Own Heart: The Truth About Boundaries, Grief, and Radical Self-Worth, with Juliane Taylor Shore

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  What if your fear of conflict is really just a fear of facing the truth within yourself?
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  What if every boundary you avoid setting is a betrayal—not of others—but of the child inside you who still thinks they need to earn love?

In this raw and revelatory finale, therapist, author, and brain-based boundary whisperer Juliane Taylor Shore returns for the third and final installment to shatter the myths around boundaries and uncover why the real work of setting them demands grief, courage, and radical compassion.

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💥 What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

• Why boundaries aren’t walls, or rules, but acts of sacred self-protection

• The hidden grief every boundary requires… and why it’s a good thing

• “Pigeoning”: The hilarious and heartbreaking metaphor that will change how you view pushback forever

• Why saying “no” often means breaking your own heart to honor your inner child

• How unresolved regret holds the key to who you actually want to become

• The real reason most forgiveness doesn’t stick—and what to do instead

• How childhood conditioning still hijacks your adult decisions (yes, even you, high achiever)

• How to move from reactivity to true integration in love, leadership, and legacy

🧠 About Our Guest:
Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT, SEP, is a therapist, teacher, and author of “Setting Boundaries That Stick.” Known for bridging cutting-edge neuroscience with profound relational insight, she helps people heal their brains and claim their worth through grounded, compassionate practice. Once a mechanic, now a mind-mechanic—Jules is the truth-teller you didn’t know you needed.

🎯 Listener Challenge:
Are you protecting yourself, or performing for someone else’s approval?
Stop. Pause.
Ask yourself:
“What boundary am I not setting because I’m afraid of losing someone I’ve already outgrown?”

🔥 For Serious Listeners Only:
If this episode hit you in the gut… good. That means you’re ready.
Go back. Listen again. Take notes. And then take action.
Because the real boundary is the one you set with the parts of you still clinging to a life that no longer fits.

🎧 Listen. Reflect. Share.
And remember…
"Those who control the meaning for the tribe also control the movement of the tribe."
Ready to move yours?
Then own your meaning. Start with your boundaries.

📱 Follow & Subscribe:
Apple | Spotify | YouTube | Amazon | wherever you get your podcasts.

📢 Leave a review. Share with your tribe. Tag @TheDovBaronShow.
This isn’t just a podcast. It’s a movement.
And it starts with you.

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#JulianeTaylorShore #EmotionalSourceCode #NeuroLeadership #TraumaHealing #SomaticIntelligence #ConsciousLeadership #BoundariesNotWalls #ExecutivePresence #TrainThePause #SelfCompassionScience #AttachmentRepair #RewireYourBrain #LeadershipRevolution

If you think you're calm, logical, and in control... neuroscience says otherwise.
Your brain scans for threats approximately 4–5 times per second.
And if you're not training the pause, you're reinforcing the panic!

In Part 2 of this raw and revelatory series, therapist and relational neuroscience expert Juliane Taylor Shore joins Dov Baron to dismantle the myth that change is solely about mindset.

If you’ve ever thought:

·       “Why do I keep attracting the same kind of chaos?”

·       “Why do I freeze in moments where I should speak up?”

·       “Why do I feel unsafe… even when everything looks fine?”

This episode is your blueprint for breaking that unconscious cycle. Permanently.

🧠 What You’ll Learn (and feel in your nervous system):

·       The Real Reason You’re Reacting, Not Responding:
How scanning for threat hijacks your prefrontal cortex (rational brain), and how to take it back.

·       How to Train the Pause (Not Just Hope for It):
A somatic gesture practice that rewires reactivity into presence.

·       Self-Compassion Is Not Woo-Woo:
Discover the neuroscience behind why compassion, not grit, is your most potent leadership tool.

·       Why Most Boundaries Are Just Rules in Disguise:
And how to build neuro-informed boundaries rooted in self-worth, not fear or control.

💥 Dov Gets Personal:

You’ll hear Dov’s own gesture, emotional wiring, and the “love surge” moment that brought him to tears mid-show. This isn’t theoretical. This is embodiment.

🔥 This Episode Is for You If:

·       You’re a CEO, leader, or parent who keeps replaying conversations, wondering, “Why did I blow up?”

·       You crave relational depth but keep hitting invisible walls

·       You’ve done the work, but still find yourself fawning, freezing, or raging

💎 Listener Challenge:

What’s your pause gesture?
Tag @TheDovBaron and share it. Let’s rewire the leadership landscape—one nervous system at a time.

🎧 Coming Next in Part 3:

·       Boundaries vs. rules—why most people weaponize them

·       How to set boundaries that increase trust, not division

·       And the secret ingredient to finally stop self-abandoning in high-stakes moments

Missed Part 1? Start there.
Ready for more? Part 3 drops next week.

🧠 Quote of the Episode:

“Boundary work is love for self and love for other in action.” — Juliane Taylor Shore

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Part 1 of 3: 🔥 “What if You’re Not Calm. You’re Numb. | Juliane Taylor Shore on Trauma, Boundaries & Belonging”

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Your body remembers how to love… once it feels safe.

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You were never broken. You were brilliantly wired... to survive pain.
But if you’re still running that survival code?
You’re not in control, your nervous system is.

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In this explosive first episode of a 3-part series, I sit down with Juliane Taylor Shore, author of "Setting Boundaries That Stick." Juliane is a psychotherapist who’s equal parts neuroscientist, somatic decoder, and relational badass. She’s spent the last two decades rewiring the hearts and brains of people stuck in trauma loops, people who look "successful" but are secretly terrified of being known.

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Jules has trained in EMDR, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Relational Life Therapy, and Somatic Experiencing…
But what she’s best known for:
Mapping your survival code, and showing you how to stop running it.

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This isn’t self-help fluff.
This is primal, embodied science for people who want to lead without losing themselves.

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🧬 Who Is Juliane Taylor Shore?

Juliane Taylor Shore is an expert in Interpersonal Neurobiology, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, and Relational Life Therapy, and has created and developed The STAIR Method to help high-functioning individuals finally feel safe enough to be themselves.

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With a master’s in counseling from St. Edward’s University and post-graduate training in attachment, systems theory, and neurobiology, she’s synthesized the most cutting-edge science with the deepest human truth:
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Your body remembers how to love… once it feels safe.

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🧠 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• Why you think you’re calm, but are actually shut down

• The 3-part model of Mapping History, Mapping Identity, and Mapping the Nervous System

• How high-functioning trauma gets rewarded—and reinforced—in leadership

• The difference between managing someone’s emotions and creating real connection

• What your caregivers’ nervous systems taught you before you even had language

• Why trauma is not what happened, but what your body had to do to keep you alive

• How to track “boundary collapse” through sensations, not thoughts

• Why we confuse safety with performance—and how to reclaim your truth

• How your nervous system becomes “the storyteller of your worth”

🚨 Why This Episode Matters Now:

In a world worshipping performance, this is your permission to get real.
If you're tired of showing up strong and feeling alone, this conversation could change everything.

🎯 Call to Action:

💡 Share this with someone who’s outgrown their emotional survival code.
🎧 Subscribe, review, and follow for Part 2—where we go even deeper.
🔗 Visit: dovbaron.com
 connectednest.org

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