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Guaranteed Human.

Brooke Taylor is a former Google marketing lead and the author of the new book,

Healing the Success Wound,

where she explores how high achieving women can align their ambition with fulfillment

instead of burnout. Brooke, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me.

Excited to talk to you. Well, I'm so excited to talk about this topic. This is one that my

listeners are fully aware would be very aligned for me.

I've definitely been through phases of burnout and just having a demanding job. I think a lot of women

can really relate to that. But I love this idea of success wounds. And they're being more to this,

by, you know, the backstory to the drive and the ambition that we're

seeing everyone live by. So let's just start with the basics. I just want to jump right in.

What is the success wound in simple terms? In simple terms, the success wound is the pain that

comes from mistaking success, productivity, and achievement for self-worth. It's the sneaking belief that our worthiness

of love and belonging is contingent upon what we produce and achieve and do rather than the

inherent goodness of who we are. And as an executive coach, I have had so many high-achieving

women come to me when I asked them the

question, like, what are the issues in your career as you see them? They'll name all the common

women's issues like burnout, low confidence, imposter syndrome, perfectionism. But actually what I

saw was that these kind of typical behaviors are actually symptoms of this deeper success wound,

of this habit of tying what we do to who we are. And we need to address that root cause in order

to see a change in our other ways of working. Why do you think so many high achieving women tie

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