Keren Eldad is the author of Gilded: Breaking Free from the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More. She specializes in taking high achievers out of the futility of constant pursuit and into their greatest levels of success and fulfillment. Her coaching clients include Olympic athletes, politicians, Hollywood stars, supermodels, Special Forces operatives, and serial entrepreneurs. Keren is a former C-suite executive who has lived and worked in 17 countries and on four continents, and who now coaches leaders all around the globe in four languages: English, Spanish, Hebrew, and French. 

Mentioned on the Show

• Keren’s website: https://kereneldad.com/home/
• Connect with Keren on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keren-eldad
• Keren’s book, Gilded: Breaking Free from the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More: https://a.co/d/2D8JJGe
• The Status Game by Will Storr: https://a.co/d/4MgVu2J
• 10x is Easier than 2x by Dan Sullivan: https://a.co/d/7iQ0Hiv
• Richistan by Robert Frank: https://a.co/d/745PSeZ
• Good by Jocko Willink: https://youtu.be/IdTMDpizis8?si=Etj6h7iQx2X8BVcF
• The Man in the Arena, excerpt from Teddy Roosevelt: https://youtu.be/A311CnTjfos?si=tx-9Jz5zjllcRkcg

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Timestamps

(2:40) - Meet Keren Eldad.

(2:58) - How did you come to do the work that you do today?

(9:18) - Why are overachievers reluctant to admit they’re overachievers?

(10:38) - What’s the difference between healthy and unhealthy achievement?

(16:51) - What does it mean to want to become "nobody"?

(18:47) - How do you coach people to let go of status without losing the natural achiever desires?

(26:04) - How does a person rein in their ego and stop playing the status game?

(33:01) - What is and what isn’t self-acceptance?

(38:41) - How do you help people break up with anger?

(50:35) - What do people get wrong about happiness?

(54:25) - How do we cultivate more of a service mindset?

(55:03) - True purpose: Climbing the "second mountain".

(57:33) - Final thoughts for overachievers.