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Dr. Jenny Prohaska

-High Performance Psychologist- Creating an Anti-Fragile Workforce- Performance Under Pressure - Licensed Psychologist

12/11/2025

Fridays in the office always remind me of something:
You only see the final message.

What you don’t see are the hours that come before it. Like the dozens of reps, the rewrites, the do-overs, and the editing.

Or the discipline it takes to keep going when you’d rather do literally anything else.

Great team cultures are built the exact same way.

Not through one big initiative or one dramatic moment, but through the micro-reps repeated over time:
✅ One intentional action.
✅ One hard conversation.
✅ One standard held.
✅ One failure used (instead of ignored).

Those smaller repetitions are what shape a team culture that people want to be a part of when stuff gets really hard.

What’s your great team culture example?

12/09/2025

More people are entering the workforce with 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 than previous generations 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 the demands of the job continue to rise.

Recent national data shows higher rates of anxiety and depression, more reports of poor mental health, and a steady increase in stress-related symptoms year over year.

In other words: many people are already depleted before the workload even begins.

When a rising load meets a declining baseline, the outcome is seemingly predictable: slower recovery from stress, more errors, more irritability, and a workforce that feels overwhelmed far earlier in their careers than ever before.

But to be clear- this isn’t entirely an individual failure. And it’s also not simply a “system” failure either.

I firmly believe that it is the 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 that creates the gap.

You can’t reduce the demands of modern work enough to eliminate that gap. So, at some point, the baseline has to rise. Both individually and collectively.

𝐈’𝐦 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐬:
Where is the gap between rising demands and declining baseline capacity most obvious to you?

12/04/2025

I’m really glad I didn’t see the blood until the next morning… a travel story.

Two weeks ago I had one of those travel days that just goes sideways.
My first flight was delayed so I missed my connection.
Hundreds of us got stranded in Houston overnight.
Every hotel nearby was booked.
The airline couldn’t get me my luggage.
And the hotel I finally found?
…let’s just say it wasn’t on anyone’s “Top 10 safest neighborhoods” list.
By the time I got up at 4:30am to get back to the airport, I was tired, annoyed, and ready to be done.
And then… as I was leaving the room… I happened to notice something on the carpet I 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 see the night before:

What looked like a decent amount of dried blood.

Human, I’m guessing.

And here’s the wild thing:
I was genuinely grateful I didn’t notice it earlier.
Because knowing would’ve changed nothing except my ability to sleep.

And second… it was a reminder.
𝐈𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝’𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞.
𝐈𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝’𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝒎𝒚 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝.
That’s perspective.

Here’s the point:
You don’t have to love the moment you’re in.
You don’t even have to pretend it’s fine.
But you 𝘤𝘢𝘯 choose how you think about it.
And that choice can turn a miserable situation into a manageable one.
This isn’t a story about making the most of things.
𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥.

Most situations aren’t “good” or “bad.”
They’re just moments waiting for you to decide the story you will tell about them.

12/02/2025

We’ve replaced real attachment with social-media attachment.

It’s the psychological equivalent of fast food:
quick, stimulating, and emotionally empty.
You get the feeling of connection without any of the substance.
We’ve built a world where you can be hyper-connected and completely unseen at the same time.

And then you wonder why you feel lonely even while the friends list grows online.

Humans don’t thrive on surface-level interactions.
We need depth.
We need variety.
We need relationships that challenge us, support us, and let us be fully known.

The problem isn’t that we’re disconnected.
It’s that we’re connected in all the wrong ways.

You don’t fix loneliness by adding more people.
You fix it by pursuing deeper, high quality connections.

And if we don’t make this a regular cultural norm soon, we will lose the historical memory of what it even looks like.

Once you learn the difference, you start relating to people differently.
You will feel differently, and so will they.

This idea is a major pillar in the preventative work I’m building.

If you want anti-fragile people who can withstand stress, you have to rebuild the quality of their connections.

07/14/2025

Resilient people know their values.
But even more importantly, they know how to calibrate them.

Loyalty without boundaries becomes burnout.
Courage without reflection becomes recklessness.

Under stress, our strongest traits can also become our blind spots.

When I teach about “Values” (one of the 6 elements of Tactical Longevity), It’s about knowing what is most important to you, and knowing when to shift gears without abandoning your core values entirely.

✅ What do you default to under pressure?
✅ When has a strength of yours backfired?

Knowing your values is where we start.
We uncover when that value can be your superpower.
Then we help you identify when they can backfire.

07/12/2025

Wanna know what’s extra frustrating in today’s world?

Having a resiliency company and trying to grab attention in a social media world that rewards complaining and negativity.

Where the more you rile up your base and point fingers, or capitalize on how horrible something is, and just leave it open ended right there with no plans for improvement or finding a way out - THAT is what gets you the most engagement.

Or where pandering to the victim mentality and “your life is so hard/your job is so hard” is where people just want to stay. They want to complain, not fix it. Or they don’t take that hardship on as an honor- an opportunity to do what others can’t or just aren’t strong enough to do.

I get it. People are tired. Life is really tough. But no one is coming to save you. The only thing that will save you is you.

07/08/2025

Some “rules of thumb” when I teach people how to work with clients in high-stress, high-stakes careers:

✅ If they had the answers to their own problems, they wouldn’t be here. Quit taking so much time to try get them to solve their own problem. Point out what hasn’t worked quickly. And if they come up with a dumb idea. Say so.

✅ You’ve got the first 10 min for you to win their trust. There won’t be a second shot. Get it right. Yes, that’s pressure. If you can’t handle it, find another group to work with.

✅ Take the lead early. Inevitably they will try to take the lead out of habit, but clearly that hasn’t worked so far.

✅ 9x out of 10 validation comes across as patronizing and is a waste of time and words. The people who go into these types of high-stakes, high-stress roles don’t need validation like “normal” people do. They got to their positions in life by just trusting their gut and just doing.

⭐️Get in. Get clear. Get them moving.⭐️

06/20/2025

When you ask ChatGPT what it’s like working with me…this is what it came up with.

Exact ChatGPT prompt: “Create an image of what it is like talking to me every day.”

Tactical Longevity

05/15/2025

🔍 4 Primary Problems in Recruit Training (Last 5 Years)
1️⃣ Poor Spatial Awareness / Geography Learning
🧭 Reliance on GPS is replacing internal navigation skills. Recruits struggle to mentally map their environment.
2️⃣ Hesitancy with Physical Contact
🤝 Cultural shifts post-Me Too have created caution—even when physical contact is necessary and lawful (e.g., searches, control tactics).
3️⃣ Communication Adaptability Issues
🗣️ Difficulty adjusting tone, posture, and approach to match dynamic field situations. Social nuance feels less intuitive.
4️⃣ Report Writing Deficits
📝 Trouble organizing thoughts, articulating observations, or translating real-world events into clear, defensible documentation.

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Overland Park, KS

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+19136526668

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http://insightpublicsafety.com/, http://www.tacticallongevity.com/

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