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Are you leading your business, or is your business leading you? Answer YES or NO to each question based on how you’ve felt over the past month. YOUR SCORE: 0–4 YES: Strategic Leader You’re maintaining perspective and making intentional choices. Keep protecting this headspace. 5–8 YES: Juggling Mode You’re managing, but the cracks are showing. […]

You’re at dinner with old friends. Someone complains about their boss. Another vents about office politics. You nod, you smile, but inside there’s a gulf widening. You can’t explain the weight of payroll uncertainty, the 3am decision spirals, or why missing a family event wasn’t a choice but a necessity. You leave feeling more alone […]

You’ve spent years building your career. Late nights, strategic moves, sacrifices that “would pay off later.” And they did. The promotions came. The recognition followed. Your LinkedIn profile shows someone who sets big goals and achieves them perfectly. So why does it feel empty? Here’s what nobody tells high performers: the same discipline that built […]

You made it through another day just surviving. The presentations, the decisions, the fires you put out with under high pressure. You drove home rehearsing tomorrow’s agenda, walked through the door, and then… nothing. Your partner asks how your day was. Your child shows you a drawing. And you’re physically there, but emotionally? You’re not. […]

You’ve built a career most people dream about. The promotions came. The travel perks are excellent. Your calendar is a testament to how much you’re valued at work. But here’s what no one warned you about: the person you come home to is starting to feel like a roommate. Or worse, a stranger. You’re not […]

This assessment is designed to help you recognize signs of exhaustion that may be affecting your performance, health, and wellbeing. As a business owner or high performer, you may normalize pushing through fatigue, but recognizing exhaustion early is crucial for sustainable success. Take a few moments to honestly evaluate your current state. Instructions: Answer each […]

Three months ago, I sat across from a VP of Operations who told me something I hear constantly: “Our leadership team spends 18 hours a week in meetings, and we still can’t make a decision.” He looked exhausted. His team was brilliant, experienced, credentialed. But every strategic conversation devolved into what he called “intellectual wrestling […]

You’ve trained your team. You’ve documented the processes. You’ve delegated the tasks. And yet, at 11 PM, you’re still the one triple checking the deliverables, rewriting the emails, and fixing the “small things” that somehow only you can see. Sound familiar? Here’s the uncomfortable truth: You’re not just being thorough. You’re running an invisible script […]

Last month, a VP I work with confessed something she’d never said out loud: “I used to wake up with ideas. Now I wake up exhausted by the thought of my inbox.” She wasn’t depressed. She wasn’t unmotivated. She was physiologically bankrupt. And she thought it was her fault. If you’ve ever felt guilty for […]

Most business failures happen because we solve the wrong problems. We see a drop in sales and immediately blame our sales team. We notice high employee turnover and throw money at salaries. We experience quality issues and crack down on manufacturing. These solutions feel logical in the moment, but they rarely work because we are […]

We often hear that we should try to balance work and life, and that our days can be divided into two equal parts that stay separate. For entrepreneurs, that idea rarely fits. Our work is part of who we are. It shapes how we think, what we value, and the kind of life we build. […]

We’ve built our entire corporate culture around a lie. We tell people that career success equals life success. We reward long hours, celebrate those who sacrifice weekends, and promote the ones who respond to emails at midnight. Then we wonder why our top talent leaves, why engagement scores drop, and why people seem increasingly disconnected. […]