Healing the Success Wound with Brooke Taylor

If you've checked every box — the title, the salary, the accolades — and still find yourself lying awake wondering why it doesn't feel like enough, this episode was made for you. Denise sits down with Brooke Taylor, transformational career coach, former Google marketing lead, and author of the newly released Healing the Success Wound, for a clarifying conversation on ambition and identity. Brooke has coached thousands of leaders and what she's found consistently, across all of them, is a root cause that almost no one in professional development is willing to name directly. Brooke calls it the success wound. We get into the two power sources that drive ambition (only one of them is sustainable), the five archetypes of the success wound, and why the very strategies that made you successful may be exactly what's keeping you from the next level. We also talk honestly about what change actually requires — and why it usually involves hitting your knees before you're willing to do things differently. In this episode, you’ll learn: The root difference between the success wound, perfectionism, and imposter syndrome The two power sources of ambition: fear vs. the true self The 5 archetypes of the success wound — and how to spot yours Why 65% of adults never reach the self-authoring stage of development Why readiness is a decision, not a feeling You can find Brooke at @brookevtaylor and brooketaylorcoaching.com You can follow this podcast @toomuchwithdlh and Denise @deniselovehewett Brooke Taylor is a globally recognized transformational career coach, keynote speaker, and the leading authority on a phenomenon she pioneered known as the “Success Wound™.” With a career that began in the high-pressure hallways of Silicon Valley, Brooke spent years as a Marketing Lead at Google, where she was honored with the Google Global Sales Award. Despite her outward accolades, she experienced firsthand the "manic ambition" and burnout that often plague high achievers, leading her to a profound personal transformation and the eventual founding of her coaching practice.