Running your career at peak capacity looks impressive from the outside, but if your internal components are quietly overheating, you are accelerating toward a catastrophic system failure. A shocking number of high-performing professionals hit every single corporate KPI on paper, yet drive home every night feeling completely stalled out, exhausted, and trapped by their own success.
In this episode, we sit down with Chris Woods, a Certified Professional Coach, four-time global C-suite executive, former Google sales leader, and author of Balls & Brains. Chris didn't just study performance in a textbook—he rose from a rough upbringing in Boston to the highest echelons of corporate leadership, only to literally flatline in a hospital bed at age 40. That life-or-death crisis forced him to completely re-engineer his definition of success.
Today, Chris deconstructs the invisible psychological brakes that hold ambitious people back, explains the difference between forcing success and letting it flow, and hands us a no-nonsense framework to align who you are with what you do.