Sep 22, 2026 · 39 min · 10 segments
You did the work, the business is growing, someone said yes, and the calendar is full of things you once prayed for. So why are you procrastinating, picking fights, overthinking, and saying yes to…
Stacey LucesHost
How do we live more authentically for the season of life that we're in? And I think this is such an important one.
How do we lead more courageously in our own lives, our businesses, our communities and around the world, right? And so if you've been listening for the past couple of episodes, and certainly I feel like I've arced in the last year and a half, almost two years I've been doing this, we talked about a few different things breadcrumbs leading up to some of these tougher self-reflection kind of growth conversations.
We've talked about not living up to your full potential and what does that feel and look like? What's the texture of that? We've talked about knowing better and still not doing better.
We've talked about achievement and what we do with everything that we've accumulated.
What next? What's next? What's the next frontier? So I think this conversation sits right in the middle of many of those other things.
I think high achievers, as high achievers, we're really vulnerable to this, you guys, because we get good at the chase.
Now I'm going to like dig in, right? So a lot of us for the past couple of decades have done a really immaculate job of trying building our identities this way.
We learn how to push, how to operate when things feel uncertain, how to survive, right, in environments that have never been built for some of us, how to make something out of no thing or very little.
And while these are extraordinary capabilities and they've gotten us very, very far, I don't want to like pathological, you know, I don't want to like diminish those.
But what I really want all of us to become more curious about is honestly, the skills that we harnessed and grew and perfected to get us here aren't necessarily what we need to go there or to stay there, right? Like getting the promotion, Might require proving yourself.
How do we live more authentically for the season of life that we're in? And I think this is such an important one.
How do we lead more courageously in our own lives, our businesses, our communities and around the world, right? And so if you've been listening for the past couple of episodes, and certainly I feel like I've arced in the last year and a half, almost two years I've been doing this, we talked about a few different things breadcrumbs leading up to some of these tougher self-reflection kind of growth conversations.
We've talked about not living up to your full potential and what does that feel and look like? What's the texture of that? We've talked about knowing better and still not doing better.
We've talked about achievement and what we do with everything that we've accumulated.
What next? What's next? What's the next frontier? So I think this conversation sits right in the middle of many of those other things.
I think high achievers, as high achievers, we're really vulnerable to this, you guys, because we get good at the chase.
Now I'm going to like dig in, right? So a lot of us for the past couple of decades have done a really immaculate job of trying building our identities this way.
We learn how to push, how to operate when things feel uncertain, how to survive, right, in environments that have never been built for some of us, how to make something out of no thing or very little.
And while these are extraordinary capabilities and they've gotten us very, very far, I don't want to like pathological, you know, I don't want to like diminish those.
But what I really want all of us to become more curious about is honestly, the skills that we harnessed and grew and perfected to get us here aren't necessarily what we need to go there or to stay there, right? Like getting the promotion, Might require proving yourself.
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