The Hidden Suffering of the Over-Giving CEO

What if the suffering you feel as a CEO is not a sign that you are failing, but a sign that your business is trying to help you heal? In this episode of The CEO Shift, Shawndel Spader talks with Sarah Stokes, founder of The Juicy Good Life, Business Joy Coach for the over-giver, and author of Worth the Squirm: How Our Business Helps Us Heal.

Sarah has scaled three companies to multiple millions and has helped thousands of women build more sustainable and successful businesses. She shares the story of a successful CEO who thought she was being negative when she was really being strategic, explains why over-giving founders often want more for their team members than those team members want for themselves, and describes how Brené Brown’s reminder that clear is kind can reset expectations on both sides.

Sarah also walks through her Two Doors exercise, a nine-minute guided vision practice that helped one client move from heart palpitations and a pitch-black first door to the lake house and grandbabies she had only imagined, and Shawndel reflects on what came true after she did the exercise herself.

Connect with Sarah Stokes

Website: https://www.thejuicygoodlife.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-juicy-good-life

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheJuicyGoodLife

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juicygoodlife