EP 646: Why High-Achieving Women Still Feel Empty: Healing the Success Wound with Brooke Taylor

Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice

Dr. Morgan Anderson

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

You've built a career. You hit the milestones. You look great on paper. So why does it still feel like it's never enough?

Today I'm sitting down with executive coach and author Brooke Taylor whose book Healing the Success Wound was just named one of Cosmo's best self-love books of the year alongside Glennon Doyle and Elizabeth Gilbert, and y'all, this conversation cracked me open.

Here's what we cover:

What the "success wound" is and how to know if you have it
The 5 types of unfulfilled achievers (and which one you are)
Why your self-worth in work always shows up in dating
How to take tiny steps toward change when you're too exhausted to start

If you've ever felt empty after hitting a goal you worked so hard for, this episode is going to give you a name for that feeling — and a way through it.

Connect with Brooke Taylor:

📖 Pre-order Healing the Success Wound: https://brooketaylorcoaching.com/successwound/

🎯 Take Brooke's free Success Wound Quiz: https://brooketaylorcoaching.com/quiz/start-quiz/

🌐 Website: https://brooketaylorcoaching.com/

📲 Instagram: @brookevtaylor

Ready to do the deeper work? If you're tired of watching yourself push away the very thing you actually want, I'd love to support you inside the Empowered. Secure. Love. Private 1:1 Coaching Intensive. Right now, we only have a few spots left for the Secure Relationship Reset Spring Sale, and this is genuinely the best time to do this work..

Apply in two minutes at www.drmorgancoaching.co/esl-breakthrough

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🔗 Additional Episode Links:

Take the Free Attachment Style Quiz → https://drmorgancoaching.com/quiz
Follow me on IG → @drmorgancoaching
Grab my book: Grab my best selling book Love Magnet

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan Anderson, psychologist, relationship coach, attachment theory expert, creator of the ESL relationship method, author of Love Magnet and Athletic Wear Connoisseur. My mission is to help you raise yourself worth, have great relationships, and step confidently into the next level of your life.
0:22.2	Each week, two episodes will air featuring expert advice, live coaching, and tips, showing
0:28.1	you exactly how to improve your life and attract a healthy relationship.
0:32.1	You deserve to feel empowered, secure, and love.
0:36.2	Buckle up and let's get vulnerable. Welcome to Let's Get
0:43.2	Vulnerable. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan. Today we have a very special guest, Brooke Taylor. She's
0:50.6	an executive coach, an author, and the woman behind the book that is about to crack open
0:56.5	a whole lot of us. Her book is Healing the Success Wound. If you are a high achieving, get it done,
1:05.1	she's so impressive kind of woman who quietly wonders why you still feel empty at the end of the day.
1:12.4	Buckle up because Brooke has built her entire career on that exact gap.
1:17.7	Cosmo just named her book one of the best self-love books of the year right alongside
1:23.0	Glennon Doyle and Elizabeth Gilbert.
1:25.1	And once you hear her talk, you're going to understand why.
1:28.4	We're getting into childhood roots, the party girl to entrepreneur pipeline, and how this
1:34.7	wound can wreck your love life and what it actually takes to heal it. Brooke, welcome to Let's Get
1:42.7	Vulnerable. Thank you for having me.
1:45.0	We have a lot we can get into.
1:47.3	Yeah.
1:48.1	Your book is coming out, May 26th.
1:50.1	And it is healing the success wound, align your ambition and lasting career fulfillment
1:58.6	and end the cycle of never enough.
2:00.7	Yes. I love saying that subtitle it's it's so
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