The Embodied CEO's Guide to Freedom and Legacy
by Renae Richardson
Unleashed: The Embodied CEO’s Guide to Freedom and Legacy is a leadership and personal development book for women founders, executives, and entrepreneurs navigating burnout, pressure, and responsibility. Blending neuroscience, nervous system regulation, embodiment, and feminine leadership strategy, Renae Richardson presents a new model for sustainable success, aligned business growth, and legacy-driven leadership.
This book offers a pathway beyond hustle culture, supporting women to reclaim clarity, power, and purpose while building businesses and careers that create freedom, impact, and generational change.
Unleashed: The Embodied CEO’s Guide to Freedom and Legacy
Too many capable, intelligent women are leading, building, and succeeding inside systems that quietly exhaust them. On the surface, everything appears functional — yet beneath it lies burnout, disconnection, and a constant demand to push through.
Unleashed is for the woman who knows this is not sustainable — and who is ready to lead differently.
Drawing on neuroscience, nervous system regulation, embodiment, and feminine leadership wisdom, Renae Richardson offers a new paradigm for women founders, executives, and professionals navigating responsibility, growth, and pressure. This book reframes burnout not as a personal failure, but as a signal — an invitation to restore alignment between mind, body, strategy, and purpose.
Rather than offering another formula for hustle or productivity, Unleashed guides readers into harmony: a state where leadership is grounded, decisions are clear, and success no longer requires self-sacrifice.
Inside, you’ll explore:
Why burnout is systemic, physiological, and deeply human — not a weakness
How nervous system regulation underpins sustainable leadership and decision-making
The role of embodiment in restoring clarity, capacity, and confidence
How feminine wisdom and strategic thinking work together — not in opposition
A pathway to building businesses, careers, and legacies rooted in integrity and longevity
This book blends evidence-informed insight with lived leadership experience, offering both depth and practicality. It is designed to be returned to — a reference for women who are no longer seeking permission, but alignment.
Unleashed is not about doing more.
It is about leading with intelligence, presence, and sovereignty.
For the woman who is ready to reclaim her power — and build a future that reflects her values — this is the beginning.
Renae Richardson, MBA is an author, neuro-informed leadership strategist, and the founder of Embodied CEO Coaching and Embodied CEO Press. With more than two decades of executive and leadership experience across health, education, and corporate sectors, Renae is recognised for her work at the intersection of embodiment, leadership, and sustainable success.
After witnessing — and personally experiencing — the impact of burnout in high-performing women, Renae dedicated her career to redefining how leadership, success, and power are understood and embodied. Her work integrates neuroscience, nervous system regulation, somatic intelligence, and feminine wisdom to support women leaders and founders to move beyond survival and into sovereignty.
Renae has coached, trained, and mentored thousands of professionals globally, supporting women navigating leadership pressure, identity transitions, and the responsibility of building businesses and careers with integrity and impact. She is the creator of the R.E.A.L. Harmony Framework™, a model designed to restore alignment between mind, body, and purpose while enabling strategic, values-led growth.
Her debut book, Unleashed: The Embodied CEO’s Guide to Freedom and Legacy, serves as both manifesto and methodology — offering a new paradigm for women ready to lead without self-sacrifice. Through Embodied CEO Press, Renae extends this work into publishing, creating a home for intelligent, evidence-informed, and soul-led leadership literature that contributes to cultural and systemic change.
Renae is deeply committed to the belief that embodied women create healthier businesses, stronger families, and more resilient communities. Her work continues to shape a future where leadership is grounded in wisdom, nervous system safety, and legacy-driven impact.
I am a life-long learner, creative, passionate leader that has a dream to impact millions of lives by changing the culture that perpetuates violence against women. I guide women founders and aspiring entrepreneurs from health and corporate leadership to find freedom in Harmony. I am currently building an ecosystem for the women I support which is a closed and capped 'Collective' Community which will support women throughout their journey.
Unleashed is not a business book, a self-help guide, or a neuroscience text — it is an integrated leadership framework for women operating under real pressure. Unlike traditional leadership books that prioritise performance without physiology, or self-help books that prioritise mindset without structure, Unleashed bridges nervous system science, embodiment, feminine wisdom, and strategic leadership into a single, actionable model. It reframes burnout not as personal failure, but as systemic and physiological dissonance — and offers a pathway to sustainable success that does not require self-sacrifice. What makes Unleashed distinct: It is evidence-informed, without being academic. It is embodied, without being vague or spiritualised. It is strategic, without replicating industrial-era productivity models. It is written by a practitioner who has lived both burnout and leadership responsibility. This book is designed for women who are no longer asking how to cope, but how to lead differently — with clarity, capacity, and legacy in mind. About the Author & Embodied CEO Press Renae Richardson, MBA, is an author, neuro-informed leadership strategist, and the founder of Embodied CEO Coaching and Embodied CEO Press. With more than two decades of executive and leadership experience across health, education, and corporate sectors, Renae’s work is dedicated to redefining leadership for women navigating responsibility, ambition, and impact. After experiencing burnout firsthand — and witnessing it repeatedly in high-performing women — Renae shifted her focus from traditional leadership models toward a more integrated, embodied approach. Her work bridges neuroscience, nervous system regulation, embodiment, and feminine wisdom with strategic leadership practice, offering women a pathway to success that does not require self-sacrifice. Embodied CEO Press was created as a natural extension of this work. The imprint exists to publish thoughtful, evidence-informed, and soul-led leadership literature — books that support women to lead, build, and create with clarity, integrity, and longevity. Each title is intentionally crafted to sit at the intersection of science, lived experience, and cultural change. What You’ll Find in This Store This store is home to books and companion resources designed for women who are no longer seeking quick fixes or surface-level inspiration. Here you’ll find: Leadership and business books grounded in embodiment and nervous system awareness Practical frameworks for sustainable success, freedom, and legacy Companion journals, guides, and resources that support real-world integration Future collaborative works amplifying the voices of women leading cultural change Every title published under Embodied CEO Press reflects a commitment to depth, integrity, and conscious leadership. This is not content designed to motivate you to do more. It is work designed to support you to lead differently — with presence, wisdom, and purpose. Welcome to the Embodied CEO Press collection.