{"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":"What If It Could Be Better?","slug":"what-if-it-could-be-better","published_at":"2026-06-15T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-sage-formerly-leadership-is-feminine-320766/what-if-it-could-be-better","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-sage-formerly-leadership-is-feminine-320766","url":"https://www.thevisionary.ceo/blog/what-if-it-could-be-better","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/leadershipcoach/The_CEO_Sage_003.mp3?dest-id=234856","summary":"You built something incredible. You made a thing that didn't exist. You're running a multi-million-dollar business, and yes, that's magic. But somewhere along the way, the dream you chased became a box you're trapped in. Kris calls this the quiet crisis. You've achieved the success you set out to create, but now you're drowning in it. You can't leave because too many people depend on you. You can't pivot because you're afraid of losing the revenue, the security, the key people. So you stay, spinning on all the ways it could fall apart. Sound familiar? In this episode, she's talking to the woman who built her empire and is now wondering if this is it. Is this the whole thing? Can you ever be free? And she's offering a completely different way to think about it. What you'll learn: Why the very thing that got you here (risk and adventure) is what you need to keep moving forward How fear becomes the cage you lock yourself into Why losing something might be the best thing that ever happened (and the evidence that proves it) The question she asked herself that changed everything Why you're more trapped when you're too close to the weeds What happens when you reframe from protection mode to belief mode There's a moment early in the episode where Kris talks about Elastigirl from the Incredibles, stretched so far she can't move. That's you right now. Completely maxed out because you've painted such a terrifying picture of what happens if you let go. But what if you're not done building? What if you don't have to just protect what you have, but build something on top of it? The woman who started this business would believe that. Connect with Kris Be sure to hit the Subscribe button for this podcast so you don't miss new episodes. 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