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The Quiet Drift Killing High Performers. | Blaine Bartlett
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- The Dov Baron Show
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- May 10, 2026
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Summary
The Quiet Drift Killing High Performers. | Blaine Bartlett: What if the version of success you've been chasing has not, in fact, delivered the life you were promised? Most leaders don't fail because of strategy. They fail because somewhere along the climb, they stopped being conscious participants in their own lives. They're hitting every mark, pleasing every stakeholder, performing the role flawlessly, and underneath it all is a question they stopped asking a long time ago: whose life is this? In this episode, Dov sits down with Blaine Bartlett, global leadership development master, CEO of Avatar Resources, six-time author, and the man behind the international bestseller Compassionate Capitalism and his newest book, Stop Drifting, Start Living. . Blaine has personally delivered programs to more than 300,000 leaders, and what he's watched, room after room, is the same quiet pattern: brilliant, decorated executives who have built entire identities around producing results, and somewhere along the way lost the soulful spark that put them in the room in the first place. . Blaine opens up about the moment his own life cracked open. . This is a conversation that interrogates the version of success that gets you applauded right up until the moment you realize you've been running someone else's program. Inside this conversation: The somatic intervention Blaine ran on a brilliant executive who was being passed over for the boardroom because of how he was sitting in his chair, and what changed in 18 months Why anything that becomes a center of accumulation turns toxic in your business, your relationships, and your soul, and what nature taught Blaine about being a center of distribution instead The reality check about why, in life and in business, summer never lasts, why high pe…