The Well with Mandy Balak

For the high achiever who's tired of chasing "enough."You're ambitious. You're driven. But behind the success, you're stretched thin—running on fumes, saying yes to everything, and wondering how long you can keep this pace.Welcome to The Well—a podcast for leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries who are done with burnout and ready to build a life and business they don't need to escape from.Hosted by Mandy Balak, author of Chasing Enough and executive leadership coach for high-achievers, this show is your pause in the push. Each week, you'll get raw, practical conversations and simple strategies that help you:🌊 Reclaim your time and energy.🌊 Trade chaos for clarity.🌊 Align ambition with well-being.🌊 Lead yourself—and others—without burning out.Because your business, your leadership, and your relationships will only ever be as strong as your own capacity.If you're ready to stop muscling through and start leading from a place of clarity, presence, and ease—this podcast is for you

The Well with Mandy Balak is a education podcast hosted by Mandy Balak, with 163 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Mandy Balak hosts The Well with Mandy Balak, a education show with 163 episodes published.

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  Episode #169

  #169: Why Your Morning Routine Stopped Working with Marc Champagne

  Sep 18, 202649 min

  Marc Champagne had the routines, the practices and a book about mental fitness. Then the practices stopped working and he felt ashamed about it. So he asked around. Almost everyone doing this work had hit the same wall. What he calls one foot in the old self and one foot in the new. His answer was to build a table of 14 teachers across 2600 years and ask them how they did it. Lao Tzu. Rumi. Harriet Tubman. A samurai. Nikola Tesla, invited in at the last minute, four days before the manuscript was due. Marc is a mental fitness strategist and host of Behind the Human. He has spent two decades studying how the most effective thinkers keep their minds clear under pressure, which is exactly why the flat spot bothered him. We get into what those teachers said about being stuck, why most leaders are running at 60 percent mental capacity, and the practice he uses when his own nervous system goes off. Join a live book launch event: mandybalak.com/tour Order Chasing Enough: mandybalak.com/book Join The Well Newsletter: mandybalak.com/newsletter Take the Armor Pattern Quiz: mandybalak.com/quiz Work with Mandy: mandybalak.com/coach Connect with Mandy on Instagram: instagram.com/mandybalak Connect with Marc Champagne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mchampagne/ Get Marc's Mental Fitness Playbook: https://blueprint.mchampagne.com/

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  Episode #168

  #168: Ignoring Intuition, Cultivating Culture & Ending the Chase with Dr. Genieve Burley

  Sep 17, 202636 min

  She had a job. Her gut said leave. Her ego said you'll never get another one. So she stayed. Until her body made the decision for her. Dr. Genieve Burley is a Vancouver chiropractor, movement expert and mental health advocate with 20 years in practice. She went on to build her own integrative clinic with culture as the filter for every hire. Mandy and Genieve get into intuition vs ego, hiring from scarcity, why the basics beat peptides and GLP-1s, and the values exercise that cuts 100 words down to 3. Genieve also names the thing high achievers skip: stopping to feel what they already built. Genieve hosts Chasing Enough Live in Vancouver on Saturday, September 26 at BNFTs studio. Join a live book launch event: mandybalak.com/tour Order Chasing Enough: mandybalak.com/book Join The Well Newsletter: mandybalak.com/newsletter Take the Armor Pattern Quiz: mandybalak.com/quiz Work with Mandy: mandybalak.com/coach Connect with Mandy on Instagram: instagram.com/mandybalak Connect with Dr. Genieve Burley on Instagram: instagram.com/drgenieveburley

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  Episode #162

  #167: Success, redefined

  Aug 4, 202624 min

  Everyone is leaving something they built. Jobs, cities, marriages, careers they spent twenty years on. If that's you, or you're circling it, start here. Because a pivot doesn't work if you pack the old pattern in the suitcase. In this first episode of the new season, Mandy shares the pattern underneath her own burnout cycles, why the finish line keeps moving, and the four things to know before you redesign your life. You'll leave with the Success Audit: three questions to find out who actually wrote your definition of success. If you're ready to stop chasing and start choosing, this one is for you. Subscribe to The Well for one grounded conversation each week. In this episode: Everyone is pivoting right now. Leaving jobs, cities, relationships, careers. Mandy opens the new season with the question underneath every reinvention: how do you make a change without rebuilding the same life with different wallpaper? What's inside: The pattern that follows you into every pivot, and why you can't out-plan it Why the finish line keeps moving, and the done list practice for high achievers Old metrics, new life: what happens when you measure a new season with an old scoreboard Why your definition of success is running your leadership, whether you've defined it or not Choosing beats chasing: what deciding on purpose looks like in a real week The Success Audit: three questions to take on a walk this week Lines from this episode: "You don't escape the pattern. You just give it a new address." "I called it commitment. My body called it burnout." "Everyone was getting the last of me, and I was getting the last of me." "Behind by what scoreboard? Who wrote it?" "Enough was never a number. It's a practice." The Success Audit: Write your current definition of success. The real one, not the dinner party version. Ask: who wrote this? Rewrite one line. What's one measure of success you're retiring, and what replaces it? Links: Pre-order Chasing Enough: mandybalak.com/book Join The Well Newsletter: mandybalak.com/newsletter Take the Sabotage Pattern Quiz: mandybalak.com/quiz Work with Mandy: mandybalak.com/coaching

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  Episode #166

  #166 Stop Falling Off Plan: Why Grey Wins Every Time

  Sep 16, 202519 minS0

  <p>High achievers love the extremes.<br /> All or nothing. Perfect or pointless.</p> <p>That mindset might have fueled your success… but it's also what's burning you out and keeping you stuck in a perfectionist loop.</p> <p>In this episode, Mandy shares why the real transformation doesn't happen in black and white — it happens in the grey. Grey isn't failure. Grey is adaptation. And when you learn to live in the grey, you stop sabotaging and start sustaining.</p> <p>You'll learn:</p> Why perfectionism creates hidden energy leaks that cost you time, energy, and presence. Real-life examples of w...

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  Episode #165

  #165 Simple Shifts, Sustainable Success: Your 3-Step Reset

  Sep 16, 202528 minS0

  <p>Feeling like September hit you like a freight train? You're not alone.<br /> In this episode, Mandy shares her 3-part September Reset — simple, practical shifts in nutrition, boundaries, and sleep that will help you reclaim your energy, clarity, and confidence as we enter the busiest stretch of the year.</p> <p>You'll learn how to:</p> Fuel your body without overcomplicating nutrition. Protect your energy by slowing down your "yes" and setting clear boundaries. Prioritize sleep so you can perform at your highest level without burning out. <p>This is your invitation to stop beating yourself up for where yo...

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