248 | The Most Powerful Leadership Skill No One’s Talking About with Keri Ford
The Business of You with Rachel Gogos
Release Date: 12/09/2025
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248 | The Most Powerful Leadership Skill No One’s Talking About with Keri Ford
The Business of You with Rachel Gogos
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246 | Don’t Scale Your Business Without Hearing This Franchise Model with Bennett Maxwell
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What happens when business growth outpaces the guardrails that keep it sustainable? This week, I sit down with Bennett Maxwell, serial entrepreneur, investor, and founder of Franchise KI—best known for scaling Dirty Dough Cookies from one store to over 450 franchises sold in just two years. After experiencing both the highs and the chaos of hypergrowth, Bennett now helps entrepreneurs build wealth through franchising the right way: with systems, structure, and staying power. How To Grow Fast Without Burning Out Bennett reveals the critical mistakes founders make when scaling too...
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info_outlineWhen success starts to feel like stress, what if your body could tell you why?
For high-achievers, it’s easy to push harder, hustle faster, and ignore the quiet signals of exhaustion. But for Keri Ford, those signals became her greatest teachers.
A former Creative Director turned award-winning CEO, Keri discovered that the real key to high performance isn’t found in strategy or mindset — it’s found in the nervous system.
Through her groundbreaking Somatic Success® method, Keri has helped elite women — from celebrity clients like Alison Sweeney and Kaley Cuoco to powerhouse founders — transform how they lead by transforming how they feel.
In this episode, Keri unpacks the most overlooked leadership skill of all: emotional regulation. You’ll learn how to listen to your body before burnout hits, rewire success from the inside out, and expand your capacity for peace, profit, and purpose.
How the Body Leads Before the Mind
Keri’s journey began with a deeply personal revelation — supporting her son through sensory processing challenges introduced her to the world of nervous system regulation.
That experience sparked her passion for understanding how our bodies seek safety and how dysregulation affects everything from relationships to revenue.
Through Somatic Success®, Keri teaches leaders to work bottom-up — training the body to communicate safety, trust, and resilience. She explains how physical sensations like tightness, heat, or tension can reveal misalignment long before the mind catches up. Learning to attune to these cues allows us to make better decisions, prevent burnout, and sustain long-term success.
Her approach transforms “high performance” from a mindset into a state of being — one that balances peace and productivity instead of trading one for the other.
Embodiment, Faith, and the Future of Leadership
As Keri tells Rachel, elite people don’t struggle because they lack skill — they struggle because their nervous systems can’t keep up with their ambition. The higher they rise, the more pressure and isolation they face. Through her boutique coaching company, retreats, and signature program, The Champagne Club, Keri helps women expand their capacity for leadership without losing their humanity.
She also shares how faith plays a quiet but grounding role in her work. Whether helping clients manage big business decisions or simply breathe through uncertainty, Keri’s focus is the same: creating safety from within.
By teaching embodied leadership, she’s rewriting what success looks and feels like — showing that true power comes not from pushing, but from presence.
Enjoy this episode with Keri Ford…
Soundbytes
11:26 – 11:58 “It’s automatic because we have an autonomic nervous system where the body goes into a self-protective response automatically… apply that to things like intimacy, really amazing money, higher levels of visibility — things that can seem quite dangerous if we haven’t been there in our growth journey as a leader. It can feel like there’s a fire.
19:54 – 20:07 “When success amplifies, everything amplifies with it, including not-so-great things. But the ability, despite that, to be calm, curious, and alert — that’s how you know you can metabolize stress really well.”
Quotes
“Your nervous system becomes the nervous system that your clients attune to. You have to embody it before you can create real change.”
“The higher you go, the more you feel misunderstood — but having a support system makes all the difference.”
“If your body isn’t prepared to hold that level of success, the pressure becomes too much.”
“We want to expand the window of tolerance — to grow your capacity for what feels safe to be with.”
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From Our Guest
Website: https://elevatewithkeri.com
Connect with Keri Ford on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kerifordofficial
Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamkeriford/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kerilynn.ford
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