{"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":"The Courage to Stop A New Chapter in Leadership and Life","slug":"the-courage-to-stop-a-new-chapter-in-leadership-and-life","published_at":"2025-11-24T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-sage-formerly-leadership-is-feminine-320766/the-courage-to-stop-a-new-chapter-in-leadership-and-life","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-sage-formerly-leadership-is-feminine-320766","url":"https://www.thevisionary.ceo/blog/the-courage-to-stop-a-new-chapter-in-leadership-and-life","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/leadershipcoach/November_24_2025_-_The_Courage_to_Stop_A_New_Chapter_in_Leadership_and_Life.mp3?dest-id=234856","summary":"What if the bravest act of leadership is knowing when it's time to pause? In this deeply personal episode, Kris invites listeners into the raw, honest crossroads she's currently navigating—one marked by completion, uncertainty, and a longing for deeper, more human connection. After nearly 400 episodes, thousands of hours of recording, and decades spent teaching leaders how to lead, she shares the truth many high-achieving women rarely admit out loud: sometimes the thing we've mastered is the very thing we're meant to release. Kris reflects on how leadership hasn't fundamentally changed—and on the bittersweet realization that she has said everything she came here to say. She talks openly about shifting away from the isolating online model that has defined the last several years and into work that brings her back into rooms, back into community, back into the presence she craves. She also guides listeners through a powerful reframing of accountability—not as pressure, but as profound self-care. Because when we don't follow through on the promises we make to ourselves, the weight of that avoidance becomes its own burden. Here's what we explore in this episode: The emotional and practical reality of feeling \"complete\" in a long-standing body of work Why accountability to yourself is one of the highest forms of self-care The difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it The discomfort, fear, and liberation of honoring the commitments you've ignored What it means to pause with integrity, clarity, and agency This episode is a pause, not a goodbye—a moment of truth-telling, gratitude, and trust in what comes next. Contact Information and Recommended Resources If you'd like to stay in touch to receive updates about what we've got coming up, visit www.thevisionary.…","meta_description":"What if the bravest act of leadership is knowing when it's time to pause? 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