{"podcast":{"title":"Growth Hacking Culture","slug":"growth-hacking-culture-7025931","podcast_index_feed_id":7025931,"rss_url":"https://podcast.ivanpalomino.net/feed.xml","website_url":"https://podcast.ivanpalomino.net","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13648247/GHC_Logo_3_b6fvv.jpg","author":"Ivan Palomino","episode_count":100,"summary":"Most workplace advice treats people as the problem. Growth Hacking Culture starts from the opposite premise: if your best people are disengaged, burned out, or leaving, the system is broken, not them. Hosted by Ivan Palomino, this top 5% global podcast brings you unfiltered conversations with the people rewriting the rules of work: executives from Apple, Goldman Sachs, and Zappos, organizational psychologists, neuroscientists, and founders who’ve built cultures that perform without burning people down. No corporate wellness fluff. No recycled leadership clichés. Just the behavioral science, psychology, and uncomfortable truths behind workplace culture, employee engagement, and leadership that actually works. For HR leaders, CHROs, founders, and executives who suspect the standard playbook is the problem.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-21T20:20:00.709377+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growth-hacking-culture-7025931"},"episode":{"title":"The Shame Loop Keeping Smart People Stuck | Burnout, Executive Function & Breaking Free ft. Frankie Berkoben","slug":"the-shame-loop-keeping-smart-people-stuck-burnout-executive-function-breaking-free-ft-frankie-berkoben","published_at":"2026-06-21T18:05:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growth-hacking-culture-7025931/the-shame-loop-keeping-smart-people-stuck-burnout-executive-function-breaking-free-ft-frankie-berkoben","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growth-hacking-culture-7025931","url":"https://podcast.ivanpalomino.net/e/the-shame-loop-keeping-smart-people-stuck-burnout-executive-function-breaking-free-ft-frankie-berkoben/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/2stngdhrwqqpfrc3/riverside_magic_episode_01_ivan_palomino_s_stu_1_6f116.mp3","summary":"Burnout isn't a motivation problem. It's not a willpower problem. And if you're one of the smartest people in the room — it might be happening to you precisely because of how good you are. Executive coach Frankie Berkoben has spent years inside Google, Airbnb, and the most demanding startup environments in Silicon Valley. She works with engineers, founders, and product leaders who are genuinely brilliant — and burning out faster than anyone around them. In this episode of the Growth Hacking Culture Podcast, Frankie and host Ivan Palomino unpack the hidden loop that traps high performers: the shame cycle that shuts down executive function, destroys focus, and makes everything harder the more you try to fix it. This isn't a conversation about meditation apps or morning routines. It's about understanding why your brain works the way it does — and designing your life around that reality instead of fighting it. What you'll learn: The gap between your potential and your output doesn't mean something is wrong with you. It means there's a mismatch between your responsibilities and your capacity — and shame is making it worse. When high-potential people feel that gap, shame kicks in. And shame doesn't push you to perform better: it suppresses executive function, the exact cognitive system you need for planning, focus, follow-through, and emotional regulation. The harder you push, the more capacity you lose. Frankie introduces her framework of 7 types of bandwidth — creative, emotional, mental, physical, sensory, social, and values — and explains how to stop running on empty by going where your energy actually is, not where you think it should be. She also breaks down why nonlinear thinkers (roughly 25% of the workforce) are disproportionately at risk, and why interest-based mot…","meta_description":"Burnout isn't a motivation problem. It's not a willpower problem. And if you're one of the smartest people in the room — it might be happening to you prec…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2848,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/growth-hacking-culture-7025931/episodes/the-shame-loop-keeping-smart-people-stuck-burnout-executive-function-breaking-free-ft-frankie-berkoben/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growth-hacking-culture-7025931/the-shame-loop-keeping-smart-people-stuck-burnout-executive-function-breaking-free-ft-frankie-berkoben.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}