Farah Ragheb

Farah Ragheb is a strategist and mindset partner working with founders, executives, and investors across 22 global markets.

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Hilmarie Hutchison

Farah Ragheb

Strategist, Mindset Partner & Founder of The Simplified Model

Farah Ragheb is a strategist and mindset partner working with founders, executives, and investors across 22 global markets. With a career spanning the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and North America, Farah brings a rare blend of commercial leadership experience and deep inner-game mastery to modern leadership development.

After growing up in Canada and completing her MBA in Barcelona, Farah led major retail expansions across the Middle East with global brands such as Topshop and Topman. Her exposure to high-growth environments, combined with her own experience of burnout, revealed a consistent truth: strategy alone does not create sustainable success. Mindset does.

This insight led her to create The Simplified Model, a framework designed to help leaders build clarity, emotional resilience, and grounded confidence in an increasingly fast-paced and high-pressure world. Today, Farah works closely with C-suite leaders and high performers to help them navigate complexity, avoid burnout, and lead with purpose, humanity, and long-term impact.

About this Episode

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In this powerful and grounding episode of The Matrix Green Pill Podcast, host Hilmarie Hutchison speaks with Farah Ragheb about why mindset is becoming the true competitive edge for today’s leaders. Drawing on two decades of global leadership experience, Farah explains why so many leaders are over-strategised yet under-equipped internally — and how this imbalance fuels stress, burnout, and disengagement at the top.

Farah breaks down the subtle warning signs of burnout that even high-performing leaders often miss, from memory lapses to constant fight-or-flight mode, and explains why the body “whispers before it shouts.” She challenges outdated leadership models that reward control, ego, and rigidity, and contrasts them with a more human, grounded approach rooted in clarity, self-awareness, and trust.

The conversation explores universal leadership patterns across cultures, the illusion of impostor syndrome, and why slowing down is not a weakness but a strategic advantage. Farah shares how leaders unknowingly sabotage their own success through unexamined beliefs and fear-driven decision-making — and how small mindset shifts can create transformational results both professionally and personally.

Farah also introduces the 7-3-3 practice, a simple yet powerful daily tool designed to help leaders reduce reactivity, build clarity, and stay grounded in high-stakes environments. From redefining legacy to trusting uncertainty during career-defining moments, this episode is a compelling reminder that sustainable leadership starts from the inside out.

This conversation with Farah Ragheb prompted a deeper executive perspective on a recurring leadership pattern: when decisiveness shifts from clarity into defense.

The accompanying executive analysis examines how speed, certainty, and constant action can quietly become avoidance mechanisms at senior levels — and why unexamined urgency often produces exhaustion rather than momentum.

“What I consistently noticed was that what differentiated a leader who was successful versus one who wasn’t really came down to mindset.”

Farah Ragheb

“When you think about operating from an inner world and mindset that is clear and confident and knows itself versus one that is not so much that, the difference in how they show up is really something you can see and feel.”
Farah Ragheb