May 29, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 13 segments
You think stress is making you successful… but what if it’s slowly destroying your mind, body, and performance? Welcome back, Alpha Squad, to The Alpha Talks Show — the #1 business and success show…
Alice LawGuest
Seif El HakimHost
Because you know, like some people, or even if you come and talk to me about stress, I'll tell you, like stress is like part of life.
And you go especially to, in the Middle East culture, as we spoke before the, uh, recording, if you're not stressed, then you're not moving, you're not progressing.
And then we relate it also to if you're inside of your comfort zone, of course you're not stressed.
So, and everybody says in order for you to grow and flourish, you need to be outside of your comfort zone.
So yeah, it's, it, so there's two sides to this, right? So stress, not all stress is bad.
I will preface that and say that, because stress, as its original intention, was a survival mechanism, right?
So back in cave times, a lion comes out of the bushes, your fight and flight stress response goes on automatically, floods your body.
... like the security system in your brain, scanning for threats all the time, will set your fight and flight off, and will tell your body, "Okay, let's go.
Because you know, like some people, or even if you come and talk to me about stress, I'll tell you, like stress is like part of life.
And you go especially to, in the Middle East culture, as we spoke before the, uh, recording, if you're not stressed, then you're not moving, you're not progressing.
And then we relate it also to if you're inside of your comfort zone, of course you're not stressed.
So, and everybody says in order for you to grow and flourish, you need to be outside of your comfort zone.
So yeah, it's, it, so there's two sides to this, right? So stress, not all stress is bad.
I will preface that and say that, because stress, as its original intention, was a survival mechanism, right?
So back in cave times, a lion comes out of the bushes, your fight and flight stress response goes on automatically, floods your body.
... like the security system in your brain, scanning for threats all the time, will set your fight and flight off, and will tell your body, "Okay, let's go.
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