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S1E21: The Optimization Trap: Why You’ll Never Be Efficient Enough to Be Safe
You streamlined everything. Got faster. Sharper. More efficient. But instead of getting time back, you just got more work.
In this episode of Healing the Wounded Professional, we take a hard look at the myth of optimization—popularized by books like The Four-Hour Workweek—and ask: what really happens when you become highly efficient inside a traditional salaried role?
You’ll learn:
• Why time saved in a salaried job rarely becomes time reclaimed
• How systems quietly raise expectations as you become more efficient
• When optimization is truly wise—and when it’s just disguised self-erasure
🎧 Tune in and stop optimizing yourself into invisibility.
About the Author
Katherine R. Lieber is a high-performer strategist and the founder of TitaniumBlue LLC. With a background in analytics, leadership, and transformative coaching, she helps brilliant professionals break free from outdated workplace conditioning and reclaim their full power.
Her work blends deep systems insight with rebellious clarity, guiding high performers who feel stuck, overlooked, or burned out to step into strategic authorship and self-led success.
Katherine is also the creator of Healing the Wounded Professional, a podcast and movement devoted to unraveling the myths that keep top talent small—and replacing them with the frameworks that set them free.
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By Katherine R. LieberYou streamlined everything. Got faster. Sharper. More efficient. But instead of getting time back, you just got more work.
In this episode of Healing the Wounded Professional, we take a hard look at the myth of optimization—popularized by books like The Four-Hour Workweek—and ask: what really happens when you become highly efficient inside a traditional salaried role?
You’ll learn:
• Why time saved in a salaried job rarely becomes time reclaimed
• How systems quietly raise expectations as you become more efficient
• When optimization is truly wise—and when it’s just disguised self-erasure
🎧 Tune in and stop optimizing yourself into invisibility.
About the Author
Katherine R. Lieber is a high-performer strategist and the founder of TitaniumBlue LLC. With a background in analytics, leadership, and transformative coaching, she helps brilliant professionals break free from outdated workplace conditioning and reclaim their full power.
Her work blends deep systems insight with rebellious clarity, guiding high performers who feel stuck, overlooked, or burned out to step into strategic authorship and self-led success.
Katherine is also the creator of Healing the Wounded Professional, a podcast and movement devoted to unraveling the myths that keep top talent small—and replacing them with the frameworks that set them free.