The CEO Sage
You're vitally important and completely invisible. You're performing in what you once dreamed. The thing you built to free you has become the thing you're trapped inside. You've built something real. A business that works. A reputation that precedes you. By every measure, you're succeeding. And something is wrong that you can't quite name. You've tried the frameworks. You've bought the courses. You've followed the gurus. And on some level you know that none of it is going to give you what you're actually looking for, because what you're actually looking for is yourself. This is The CEO Sage—a podcast for the woman who is ready to stop looking outside herself for the answer. Kris Plachy doesn't offer you recipes or tactics or the "real way" to scale your business. She offers you something more rare: permission to listen to what you already know. In intimate, unflinching conversations, she names the truths you've been waiting to hear aloud. That your wisdom matters more than the strategy. That your self-trust is the asset worth protecting. That what feels like failure might actually be an invitation to something better. If you've achieved the success everyone told you to want and discovered it wasn't what you were looking for, this is for you. If you know something needs to change but can't see the path, this is for you. If you're ready to stop performing and start revealing—to yourself first, then to the world—this is for you. The CEO Sage. Where the work of becoming begins with the work of remembering who you already are.
Episodes
You're researching. You're exploring. You're gathering more information. But what if the real problem isn't that you don't know enough? What if you just don't believe yet?
What you'll learn
- The difference between times in life for learning and times for believing
- How successful women use "I need more information" when they're actually afraid to move
- Why we make things complicated when we're scared
- What's actually separating yo...
You swallow your feelings to keep the peace. But you're the one paying the price.
Kris has stopped doing it. Something shifted this year. She's unwilling to pretend she isn't feeling what she's feeling or thinking what she's thinking. When she's named it, risking the relationship, something unexpected happened. The relationships either got stronger or they recalibrated into something more honest.
But here's what she's noticing in h...
You can't wait to feel happy. You have to practice it.
Kris has been thinking about joy. Real joy, not the performative kind. The kind where you wake up and think, okay, this is good. She's noticed something in herself this year and in the women she works with: happiness isn't something that just happens to you. It's something you have to make a practice of.
Most of us are too busy absorbing everyone else's problems, worries, and f...
This episode is different. There's no lesson, no breakdown, no list of takeaways. Just a meditation.
Kris created this for the women who can't stop. The ones who feel guilty the moment they're not producing. The ones whose nervous system never really rests. The ones who measure their worth by what they accomplish and their value by who needs them.
She's not asking you to fix anything or become anything. She's just inviting you to r...
You say you want it. Then you spend all your energy explaining why you can't have it.
Kris has been working on breaking her own cycles, and she's watching this pattern everywhere. Women tell her they want more revenue, more freedom, a better team, less responsibility. Then the moment she asks what needs to change, they argue about why it's impossible. How expensive it would be. How hard. How much time it would take. Why it won't wo...
You built the dream. Now the ground underneath it is changing.
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Your confusion isn't a problem. It's a tell.
In her years of coaching women, Kris keeps seeing the same pattern. Women say they're confused about what they want, whether to keep an employee, or what their next move should be. But confusion isn't the real issue.
Confusion means you actually know what you want, or what needs to happen. You just don't like the consequences. So instead of choosing, you stay stuck in confusion, waiting ...
If you recognize there's a bottleneck between where you are and where you want to be, this is for you.
Every business has an ending. The question is whether you're going to plan for it or let it happen to you.
What if the person judging you the most isn't anyone else? It's you.
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What if the life you're living right now is based on definitions you never questioned?
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What if the anger and resentment you think you're supposed to keep is actually what's keeping you trapped?
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What if admitting you want more isn't selfish? What if it's actually the point?
Kris has been thinking about greatness. Not achievement. Not goals. Greatness. And she's noticing that most women don't think of themselves as being in pursuit of it. They think of themselves as trying to achieve goals or make something happen. But not as women pursuing greatness.
She's wondering what would shift if you actually claimed that.
The women ...
The only thing separating you from what you want is belief.
What you're not doing for yourself is actually harming everyone around you.
Kris knows what's happening. You're in survival mode. Not because your life is falling apart, but because the last decade has been relentless. Your business is affected. Your family is affected. Your nervous system is affected. And so you've locked into the question: how do I keep this afloat?
But here's the truth she's naming: when you thrive, everything a...
If the pattern keeps repeating, it's time to turn up the heat.
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You built something incredible. You made a thing that didn't exist. You're running a multi-million-dollar business, and yes, that's magic.
But somewhere along the way, the dream you chased became a box you're trapped in.
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Here's the thing people get wrong. When you see someone doing well, the instinct is to copy what they do. That job they have, that approach they take, that course they're selling. If it works for them, it should work for you, right?
Wrong.
If you followed Leadership is Feminine®️, this is going to feel different. Better, actually. Kris takes a beat to explain why she needed to hit pause on the podcast, why she's back, and why the conversation has changed altogether.
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What if the bravest act of leadership is knowing when it's time to pause?
In this deeply personal episode, Kris invites listeners into the raw, honest crossroads she's currently navigating—one marked by completion, uncertainty, and a longing for deeper, more human connection. After nearly 400 episodes, thousands of hours of recording, and decades spent teaching leaders how to lead, she shares the truth many high-ach...
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