• The Career Challenges No One Prepares You For (But Every High Performer Faces)

    The Career Challenges No One Prepares You For (But Every High Performer Faces)

    When Career Growth Stops Being About Skills Most careers start with a simple equation: Do good work → get better → move up. But at some point, that equation breaks.…

  • The Lesson Many High Performers Learn Too Late

    The Lesson Many High Performers Learn Too Late

    The most striking thing about our conversations with Gerben Abbink isn’t how much he lost. It’s how familiar his story feels to people who are still “doing fine.” Because Gerben’s collapse didn’t begin with…

  • The Red Flags We Learn to Ignore

    The Red Flags We Learn to Ignore

    On ambition, burnout, and listening before the body forces you to Burnout rarely looks dramatic at first. It looks like functioning.Delivering.Keeping things together. It looks like saying “I’m fine” — and meaning…

  • When Success Stops Working

    When Success Stops Working

    On change, courage, and choosing your next era There is a particular kind of discomfort that doesn’t look dramatic from the outside. You’re functioning.You’re delivering.You’re doing what’s expected. And yet,…

  • The Golden Cage: When Success Stops Feeling Like Success

    The Golden Cage: When Success Stops Feeling Like Success

    There was a moment when everything looked right. The career was moving forward. The salary was good. The title made sense. From the outside, it was the kind of life…