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Leading Awake

In high-stakes leadership, the problem is rarely that you don’t know what to do, it’s that you can’t see what’s actually happening. When the pressure rises, inner noise, ego, and mental distortion bend your perception. And when a leader’s lens is distorted, everyone downstream pays the price.Leading Awake features "mask-off," human conversations with senior leaders, founders, and executives about the moments where leadership actually counts, the decisions, conversations, and responses that can’t be taken back.Your Host: Gilan Gork, CEO and Founder of PeakAwake, brings a unique perspective to these dialogues. Drawing on his background as an internationally acclaimed mentalist, Gilan has spent over two decades decoding the mechanics of the human mind, influence, and perception. He uses this "mind authority" to move past shallow platitudes, helping leaders identify the subtle mental interferences that cloud judgment in demanding situatio

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    In high-stakes leadership, the problem is rarely that you don't know what to do. It's that you can't always see what's actually happening. When pressure rises, your perception narrows and your mind gets busy. When a leader's lens is distorted, everyone downstream pays the price.Leading Awake is a roundtable podcast for mask-off conversations with senior leaders, founders, and executives on the inner experience of leading, the part most leadership content leaves out.Your host, Gilan Gork, founder of PeakAwake, draws on two decades as a mentalist working with leaders in 40+ countries (clients from NATO to Fortune 500 teams) to ask the questions most interviewers don't, and hear what most leaders don't usually say.See clearly. Connect deeply. Respond wisely.peakawake.com

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

In high-stakes leadership, the problem is rarely that you don’t know what to do, it’s that you can’t see what’s actually happening. When the pressure rises, inner noise, ego, and mental distortion bend your perception. And when a leader’s lens is distorted, everyone downstream pays the price.Leading Awake features "mask-off," human conversations with senior leaders, founders, and executives about the moments where leadership actually counts, the decisions, conversations, and responses that can’t be taken back.Your Host: Gilan Gork, CEO and Founder of PeakAwake, brings a unique perspective to these dialogues. Drawing on his background as an internationally acclaimed mentalist, Gilan has spent over two decades decoding the mechanics of the human mind, influence, and perception. He uses this "mind authority" to move past shallow platitudes, helping leaders identify the subtle mental interferences that cloud judgment in demanding situatio

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In high-stakes leadership, the problem is rarely that you don’t know what to do, it’s that you can’t see what’s actually happening. When the pressure rises, inner noise, ego, and mental distortion bend your perception. And when a leader’s lens is distorted, everyone downstream pays the...

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Leading Awake is created and hosted by Gilan Gork.
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