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EPISODE · May 15, 2026 · 32 MIN

#01 The Drift Begins: What Chronic Pressure Really Does to Leaders

from The Forge Conversations · host Alain Coadou

You're still answering emails. Still hitting targets. Still showing up. From the outside, everything looks fine.But what if the most dangerous moment in a leader's trajectory isn't burnout, but the long stretch before it? When everything still functions. When no one raises a flag. Not even you.In this first episode, Alain Coadou explores how chronic organizational pressure progressively reshapes the brain, body, and decision-making process of high-performing leaders, and introduces the FORGE framework as a path toward recalibration before collapse occurs.Topics include the neuroscience of threat response, the performance illusion, Selye's three phases of stress, and the five movements of FORGE: Focus, Overcome, Reinvent, Grow, and Excel.For leaders who recognize that running harder to stay in the same place is not a strategy.Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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