Organizations love stretch goals: they sound ambitious, motivate rallies, and make leadership feel visionary. This episode performs a forensic audit of the phrase stretch goals to expose when targets are genuinely catalytic versus when they are an excuse to shift unrealistic work onto the same bandwidth. Dr Disruptor skewers the motivational theater that turns quarterly OKRs into weekend projects; The Survivor offers empathy-first tactics listeners can use immediately. You will get three diagnostic questions to evaluate whether a stretch goal has budget, defined tradeoffs, and an owner; a quick triage flow for accepting, negotiating, or refusing a stretch ask; and three copy-paste scripts (gentle, neutral, assertive) to protect time and preserve reputation. Practical, humane, and satirical-light, the episode ends with a one-page 'Stretch Goal Reality Check' listeners can grab at the show site.