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This is not a metaphor.

This is developmental science.

My guest today is Dr. Aliza Pressman, a developmental psychologist and the author of The Five Principles of Parenting, and she's here to help us understand how childhoods shape the way that we show up today.

We break down her five R's, relationship, reflection, regulation, rules, and repair.

We also get into how they shape the way you manage teams, handle feedback, and build trust at work.

By the end of this episode, you'll know how to spot insecure leadership patterns, regulate yourself when the pressure is on, and understand why strong relationships are built on repair, not perfection.

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Aliza, welcome to Young and Profiting Podcast.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.

I'm excited for this conversation because it's very different from the typical business entrepreneurship conversation that I have because you're actually a child psychologist.

And you wrote a very popular book called The Five Principles of Parenting.

So I really want to reverse engineer our childhoods in this interview and really try to figure out what do we need to know about the way that we grew up and how does it impact leadership, business, running teams, and everything like that.

So tell me, my first question to you is, how does a child psychologist always end up in a room full of CEOs?

And when I was reading your work, I found out that a lot of our brain and the way that we operate our operating system really happens before we're 10 years old.

So talk to us about that.

What are the things that like form the way that we act as adults?

Well, that's good news.

Yeah.

We don't want to just be like stuck in our 10-year-old brain.