What Six Years of Pressure Has Done to Your Leaders
What Six Years of Pressure Has Done to Your Leaders July 8, 2026 Do the math with me for a second. Then 2021. Then 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025. Count it out on your fingers. That’s six years. Six years since the world tilted, since the pandemic became what executive advisor Christy Rutherford calls a pivotal […]
The Leadership Loneliness Nobody Talks About
The Leadership Loneliness Nobody Talks About July 1, 2026 There’s a moment that happens to most executives somewhere on the climb up. You close a big deal. You land the promotion. You finally get the title you’ve been working toward for years. The team is celebrating. Champagne, maybe. Congratulations flooding your inbox. And then you […]
Why Your Brain Sabotages Your Vacation: The Deep Dive
Why Your Brain Sabotages Your Vacation June 24, 2026 This week, Alex and Emily are discussing what summer actually reveals about executive burnout and why the most driven leaders are often the worst at resting. They walk through the four most common traps that turn executive vacations into relocated stress, from the “I’ll check in […]
You’re Not Resting. You’re Relocating Your Stress.
You’re Not Resting. You’re Relocating Your Stress. June 24, 2026 Summer is almost here. And for most executives, that means one of two things. Either they’re genuinely looking forward to stepping away — and quietly terrified they won’t actually be able to. Or they’re already planning how to “stay productive” while they’re gone. Both are […]
Your Meetings Are Lying To You: The Deep Dive
Your Meetings Are Lying To You June 17, 2026 This week, Alex and Emily are discussing one of the most normalized and quietly costly dynamics inside executive teams: meeting culture. They dig into why most organizations spend the bulk of their meeting time in passive information-sharing sessions, and how little of that time translates into […]
Your Meetings Are Lying to You
Your Meetings Are Lying to You June 17, 2026 Let me ask you something. When was the last time you walked out of a meeting feeling like something actually got done? Not scheduled. Not discussed. Not tabled for the next meeting about the meeting. Actually done. If you had to think about it for more […]
Why Stuck Is Worse Than Busy: What CEOs Need to Know About Burnout in 2025
Why Stuck Is Worse Than Busy: What CEOs Need to Know About Burnout in 2025 June 10, 2026 Most people think burnout hits when the workload becomes unbearable. Too many meetings. Too many decisions. Too many fires. But here’s the thing — that’s not usually what breaks a CEO. What breaks them is doing the […]
Why High Performers Get Structurally Stuck: The Deep Dive
Why High Performers Get Structurally Stuck June 10, 2026 This week, Alex and Emily are discussing one of the most misunderstood dynamics in executive burnout, the difference between being overwhelmed and being stuck, and why stuck is often the more dangerous of the two. They explore what it really looks like when a CEO keeps […]
You Don’t Have a Time Problem. You Have an Energy Problem.
You Don’t Have a Time Problem. You Have an Energy Problem. May 23, 2026 I used to think I was bad at time management. I had the calendar. I had the systems. I had the assistant who guarded my schedule like a hawk. And still, I would end most weeks feeling like I had run a marathon in flip-flops. Exhausted, […]
Manage Your Energy Not Your Time: The Deep Dive
Manage Your Energy Not Your Time May 23, 2026 This week, Alex and Emily are discussing one of the most underrated blind spots in executive burnout prevention: the difference between managing time and managing energy. They dig into why the typical productivity playbook fails senior leaders, and what a simple weekly practice called the energy audit can […]