Architects of Sovereignty
You've built something most people only imagine. The enterprise, the team, the income, the calendar that's yours to command; you constructed it piece by piece with an intelligence and a drive that genuinely sets you apart. And somewhere inside all of that, something shifted.
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She Had a Multi-Seven-Figure Year. Then She Shut Down Every Program. w/Sara Connell (opens the original)
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Sara Connell ’s company closed 2024 with a multi-seven-figure year. A few months into 2025, she shut down all her flagship programs. Nothing was broken. For almost 20 years, Sara and her team have helped more than 2,000 women write books, give TED talks, and build their voices. She planned to do it for the rest of her life. Then, in her words, the light changed. Clients who used to want the whole year-long container started saying it was too much. And something in Sara knew a change was coming t
Ep. 87 -You Built a Business That Needs You to Survive. (opens the original)
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You didn’t build it wrong. You’ve documented the processes and hired people who do their jobs well. The systems work exactly the way you built them to work, and that’s the problem, because you built them to need you. Every decision still finds its way back to your desk. And it’s not an accident. It’s the design. Adrienne Dorison joins me this week. She hosts Sorta Bossy, and we’re working the same problem from two different ends: she through operations, I through identity. The conversation runs
Ep. 86 She Sold Her $2.5B Company. Then Her Body Collapsed. (opens the original)
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She built a $2.5 billion company from nothing, sold at 39, and moved to Paris. On the last day of her celebration trip with her family, she had a panic attack and was rushed to a Caribbean hospital, thinking she was dying. This is a different kind of episode than I usually release. What you’ll find is a raw, off-the-record research interview we did for my forthcoming book, The Founders Reckoning: the moment when a founder’s identity architecture runs out, and something new has to be reconstructe
Ep. 85 - Why Founders Burn Out Even When the Business Is Winning w/Annie Wright, LMFT (opens the original)
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Founder burnout doesn't always look like failure. Sometimes it looks like a profitable, multi-state, multi-million dollar business that is quietly costing you your health, your marriage, and your identity. In this episode, licensed psychotherapist and relational trauma specialist Annie Wright, LMFT, joins Makhosi for a raw conversation about entrepreneur mental health, exiting a business at its peak, and the founder identity reckoning that so many successful women founders experience but rarely
Ep. 84 - Why High Achievers Feel Empty (opens the original)
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Why high achievers feel empty even when the business is working: you built this so you'd finally feel free, and now you're working 51 hours a week, and it still feels hollow. If the days don't feel like your own anymore even though everything's technically fine, you're not imagining it. This video breaks down why the usual advice, stay and grind or leave and burn it down, misses the real shift most high achievers actually need. Keywords why high achievers feel empty, founder identity, high achie
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