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The Well with Mandy Balak

by Mandy Balak

Ambition isn't the problem. How you've been resourcing it is.

The Well is a show about capacity: how leaders build enough of it to want the life they're actually building, and what happens when they don't.

Host Mandy Balak has founded three companies, exited two, built a community of 250k+, and runs The Gathering, a 12,000-member festival for brand and marketing leaders. She's also the author of Chasing Enough: The High Achiever's Guide to Sustainable Success. She built most of it while getting her father out of a Colombian prison, which is the part that taught her everything the wins didn't.

Each week she sits down with founders, executives, and the occasional person who has been through something, for conversations about the mechanics of doing ambitious work without paying for it with your life.

What you'll get:

🌊 Capacity you can feel, not manage. The difference between resting and actually recovering.

🌊 Clarity under pressure. How to make good decisions in the quarters where there's no room.

🌊 Leadership that doesn't run on your depletion. Because your team is already living inside your patterns.

🌊 Language for the thing you haven't been able to name.

This is for people who are good at what they do and would like to still be good at it in ten years. If you have hit the goal and felt almost nothing, this show will make sense to you faster than most.

More from Mandy: mandybalak.com
Instagram: @mandybalak and @thewell___

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