Personalization Outbreak
A podcast about the collapse of traditional corporate standards in today’s more personalized world. Leadership strategist, author, contributor to Forbes and founder of the Leadership in the Age of Personalization Movement, Glenn Llopis interviews executives across multiple sectors to find out how the balance between standardization and personalization can exist.
Personalization Outbreak
Burnout and Success: The Cycle of High Achieving Individuals
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"I think a lot of these high performers mistake endurance for strength. And they believe that if they just keep on going, I hear this all the time, "I just got to keep going. " There's restructuring, reorganization, and they just say, "I just need to keep pushing through." And that is endurance, but that's not strength."
Burnout isn’t always caused by too much work.
Sometimes it’s caused by becoming someone you were never meant to be.
On this season of Personalization Outbreak Podcast, Glenn Llopis shares a thought - conviction isn't a given, it's earned. Earning Conviction kicks off with Dr. Suzan Song—psychiatrist, researcher, and author of Why We Suffer and How We Heal. Dr. Song joins Glenn Llopis to explain:
🧠 Why so many high performers confuse endurance with strength
⚠️ The hidden reason successful people still feel empty
🎭 How workplaces reward overfunctioning—and call it leadership
👀 Why most “personalization” efforts at work still feel superficial
💥 How leaders lose trust when they become performative under pressure
🌱 What healing, alignment, and sustainable leadership actually require
If your success is costing your identity, it may be time to rethink what winning means.
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Video Content:
0:00 Intro
03:07 The Story That Changed Everything
5:55 Stability Is a Myth
10:12 The Power of Pausing
14:24 Why Workplace Personalization Feels Superficial
16:33 Endurance Is Not Necessarily Strength
18:43 How Leaders Lose Their Identity
23:30 Breaking Out of Identity Crisis
26:50 The Impact of Chronic Instability
31:46 Human Leadership Is Now Strategic
37:14 What Leaders Must Learn and Unlearn
41:24 Why We Suffer and How We Heal: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593581539
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🎧 Listen now and learn how to lead, work, and live with more clarity and wholeness.
📺 Full episode available on YouTube
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