#15 When Strategy Stops Working

If your strategy looks solid but feels stalled, this episode unpacks the hidden tension: a misaligned identity can sabotage the smartest plan. Time to recalibrate at the root.

You’ve done the planning. You’ve mapped the vision. But deep down, something’s not clicking — and it’s not your execution. It’s your identity.

In this episode, we explore why the best strategies fall flat when you’re building from an outdated or externally-constructed identity. You’ll hear how recalibrating at the identity level unlocks momentum, alignment, and peace.

This isn’t about mindset or motivation — it’s root work. Identity-Level Recalibration goes deeper than coaching, therapy, or self-help because it shifts who you believe you are. That’s when everything else starts working again.

What We Explore in This Episode:
• Why strategy fatigue is often a symptom of identity misalignment
• How “identity foreclosure” creates invisible pressure and performance drag
• The story behind Julie’s rebrand, pause, and realignment — and what it taught her
• What high-level investors get wrong when they cling to past versions of success
• How founder Ken Griffin made bold recalibrated moves during market disruption
• The nervous system’s role in strategic clarity
• Why ILR is the root-level shift that makes every other tool effective
• How to lead from alignment without burning everything down

Today’s Micro-Recalibration
Where are you still executing from a version of yourself you’ve outgrown?

Ask yourself:
 • What part of this plan no longer reflects who I am?
 • Who was I when I made this decision?
 • What is my nervous system trying to tell me now?
 • What would a strategy rooted in who I am becoming look like?

You don’t have to overhaul everything today.
 Just name what’s no longer true.
 That’s how the shift begins.

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This isn’t therapy. This isn’t coaching. This is identity recalibration — and it changes everything.