How to Think Like a CEO Before You Become One (Without Losing Yourself) | Sacha Romanovitch

Yeah, there's actually so much I want to hone in on there.

I feel like you're speaking directly

to me when you talk about

being a people pleaser and almost this perfectionist in having to do everything to your top ability.

I think if you know you can do it, it's almost...

Me, and I'm sure it's the same with you, it's like, if I know I can do it to this standard, I have to.

Yes.

Even if it doesn't make that much difference to someone else.

If I'm looking at something, and it could be a PowerPoint presentation I'm making for a pitch, and all the page numbers have to be perfect, the fonts have to match,

and no one would even care,

but I care.

So I'm really intrigued to understand...

Have you overcome that level of people pleasing or have you just found a way to use it to your ability? Sometimes it can be.

quite draining or time consuming energy consuming

it's

hard to know when to take a step back and you know not be

working till 12 a.m on a pitch deck yeah I'm sort of like my my my my successor at fair for all finance I used to drive her nuts with the like that shade is not the exact shade of our brand palette.

And she messaged me the other day, I was doing a PowerPoint presentation.

She goes, you would have been horrified by it.

And I was almost like, send it to me.

So I think there is, and it's interesting actually, because I think that actually some of it, I think now is merged into there are some things that I care about that I can control.

And sometimes just actually having that degree of, you know, visual, how things look and stuff, it matters to me and I can control that.

And that's a little bit of this chaotic world that I can control.

And as long as that's not too horrid for everyone else working around me, and they do give me feedback, I can manage that.

But I think the broader people pleasing, I think I've got much, much better at actually And I think this was the journey in terms of standing up for your values and really discovering about like, what do I care about in the legacy I leave for this world? What do I think are the standards I hold myself to? Who will I choose to work with and who do I choose not to work with? And so I think I'm just much, much stronger about that now and probably also sort of very happily embodying middle-aged woman energy.