Who Are You Without the Role? Survival Performance, Masculinity, Midlife Reinvention & Narrative Liberation with Jon Symes

2026-09-24 · 45 min · episode 108 · 14 entities

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What if the person you became to survive is no longer the person you want to be? In this episode of Notes From the Edge , Lisa Lacy sits down with speaker and leadership consultant Jon Symes to explore the unconscious stories we build around identity, masculinity, success, leadership, and survival. Jon calls this work Narrative Liberation: recognizing the roles and beliefs we adopted to navigate life, then deciding which ones still belong to us. They talk about the cost of being “the strong one,” the provider, the good guy, the high performer, or the person who always has it together. Jon also shares how early survival adaptations can begin, including changing the way he walked as a boy to avoid social judgment and carrying that performance for nearly twenty years. Together, Lisa and Jon explore midlife reinvention, masculinity, people-pleasing, leadership, family roles, authenticity, and what happens when the identity that once protected you starts costing you pieces of yourself. In this episode: • Survival performance and identity • Narrative Liberation • Masculinity and provider pressure • Midlife reinvention • The “good guy” mask • People-pleasing and self-abandonment • Leadership and authenticity • Family roles and inherited stories • Reclaiming the parts of yourself you learned to hide Connect with Jon Symes: https://www.wholeandfree.me Connect with Lisa Lacy: https://www.lisalacy.com What did you perform in order to survive? Welcome to the Edge. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .