{"podcast":{"title":"The CEO Sage","slug":"the-ceo-sage-formerly-leadership-is-feminine-320766","podcast_index_feed_id":320766,"rss_url":"https://leadershipcoach.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.thevisionary.ceo/podcast/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/5/0/7/250750b5e4a6ffda16c3140a3186d450/The_CEO_SAGE_with_Kris_Plachy_Podcast_Cover_Image_.png","author":"Kris Plachy, Entrepreneurial Sage CEO Management Coach and Consultant","episode_count":368,"summary":"You're vitally important and completely invisible. You're performing in what you once dreamed. The thing you built to free you has become the thing you're trapped inside. You've built something real. A business that works. A reputation that precedes you. By every measure, you're succeeding. And something is wrong that you can't quite name. You've tried the frameworks. You've bought the courses. You've followed the gurus. And on some level you know that none of it is going to give you what you're actually looking for, because what you're actually looking for is yourself. This is The CEO Sage—a podcast for the woman who is ready to stop looking outside herself for the answer. Kris Plachy doesn't offer you recipes or tactics or the \"real way\" to scale your business. She offers you something more rare: permission to listen to what you already know. In intimate, unflinching conversations, she names the truths you've been waiting to hear aloud. That your wisdom matters more than the strategy. That your self-trust is the asset worth protecting. That what feels like failure might actually be an invitation to something better. If you've achieved the success everyone told you to want and di…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T20:19:46.709901+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-sage-formerly-leadership-is-feminine-320766"},"episode":{"title":"Stop Looking Outside","slug":"stop-looking-outside","published_at":"2026-06-08T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-sage-formerly-leadership-is-feminine-320766/stop-looking-outside","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-sage-formerly-leadership-is-feminine-320766","url":"https://www.thevisionary.ceo/blog/stop-looking-outside","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/leadershipcoach/The_CEO_Sage_002.mp3?dest-id=234856","summary":"Here's the thing people get wrong. When you see someone doing well, the instinct is to copy what they do. That job they have, that approach they take, that course they're selling. If it works for them, it should work for you, right? Wrong. In this episode, Kris walks through why mimicking someone else's playbook will never be your answer, and why the real issue is that you're looking in the wrong place. She shares her early sales career story, when she was surrounded by people killing it and she was, in her own words, \"pretty bad at it.\" She tried doing what they did and still failed. It wasn't until she stopped copying and started trusting her own instincts that things shifted. What she learned then became everything. The people who get results aren't successful because of what they do. They're successful because of who they are and what they believe. And that doesn't transfer. What you'll learn: — The difference between tactics and wisdom, and why wisdom wins every time — Why copying someone's recipe will always feel off — The ocean metaphor and the undercurrent beneath the noise — How to actually tap into what you already know instead of buying someone else's answer — What happens when you stop looking outside and start listening to yourself — Why you need to invest in your own mind, not the next $37 course The bottom line? You already know. Not in a vague, future-tense way. Right now. The answer lives in you. It might be uncomfortable. You might not like it. You might have already tried it. But you know. The work isn't finding the answer. The work is figuring out why you haven't taken action on what you already know. Connect with Kris - Be sure to hit the Subscribe button for this podcast so you don't miss new episodes. - If this episode landed for you, subscribe t…","meta_description":"Here's the thing people get wrong. When you see someone doing well, the instinct is to copy what they do. That job they have, that approach they take, tha…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":889,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-ceo-sage-formerly-leadership-is-feminine-320766/episodes/stop-looking-outside/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-sage-formerly-leadership-is-feminine-320766/stop-looking-outside.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}