View From The Top With Jaime Taets
You climbed the mountain. You hit the title, the corner office, the seven figures, the "I made it" moment you spent your whole career chasing. So why does it feel like something's still missing? View From the Top with Jaime Taets is the leadership podcast for high-achievers who got everything they wanted and are still asking, "Now what?" This isn't another success podcast selling you the highlight reel. It's the conversation nobody has once you've already won — the identity crisis after the promotion, the burnout underneath the LinkedIn post, the quiet dread of building a life you no longer recognize as your own. Hosted by leadership expert and executive coach Jaime Taets, View From the Top sits down with founders, CEOs, former pro athletes, agency owners, and high-performing leaders who reached the summit — and then had to figure out what actually comes next. Guests don't recite polished playbooks. They get real about the stumbles: careers lost to a housing crisis, identity shattered by a career-ending injury, burnout mistaken for ambition, trust broken and rebuilt from the inside out. Why leaders keep hitting play: 1. It names the thing you're not supposed to say out loud. Success isn't static, and the hardest work often starts after you've "made it." If you're a leader who feels stuck, unfulfilled, restless, or quietly resentful of a life that looks perfect from the outside, this show gives language to what you've been feeling alone. 2. It's tactical, not just inspirational. Every episode delivers frameworks you can use immediately — energy audits for sustainable leadership, how to separate your identity from your achievements, how to filter outside opinions without losing your vision, how to spot the difference between the fear you choose and the fear that chooses you. 3. The guests have actually been there. This isn't theory from consultants who've never led a team through crisis. Listeners have heard from a crisis-communications founder who rebuilt her career and her family through her son's cancer diagnosis, a Super Bowl champion who had to find purpose beyond the game that defined him, and CEOs who scaled companies while quietly unlearning scarcity, guilt, and the compulsion to have all the answers. 4. It reframes burnout as a leadership signal, not a personal failure. Instead of glorifying the grind, View From the Top treats exhaustion as data — a signal about how your leadership system, boundaries, and energy management actually work, and what needs to change. 5. It's built for the leader who's ready for their next chapter. Whether you're navigating a career pivot, recovering from a burnout season, questioning what success even means anymore, or trying to lead with more presence and less performance, this show offers a roadmap, not just a pep talk. Who should listen to View From the Top: Executives, founders, entrepreneurs, coaches, and high-performing professionals who've achieved external success but feel an internal gap. If you Google "why do I feel empty after success," "leadership burnout recovery," "how to redefine success as a leader," or "podcast for high achievers who feel stuck," this is the show built for exactly that search. What you'll actually learn: How to rebuild trust with yourself after burnout, betrayal, or loss of identity How to separate who you are from what you've achieved Practical energy management and boundary-setting for leaders under constant pressure How resilience is built before the crisis, not during it Why the leaders who seem to have it all together are often the ones asking the hardest questions in private www.jaimetaets.com
Episodes
Leadership burnout isn't always caused by working too many hours. Sometimes it comes from carrying responsibilities that were never yours to carry.
What happens when you're a high-performing leader who loves the work, but you're exhausted in a way that a vacation won't fix? Jaime Taets gets honest about her own journey with burnout and what she's learned about the weight of responsibility.
Jaime shares why burnout is one of the most ...
Leadership development doesn't happen where you're comfortable. Matt Ropchak shares why the biggest breakthroughs begin the moment you stop keeping both feet in the familiar.
Leadership development isn't about collecting promotions. It's about growing through uncertainty, embracing discomfort, and developing people instead of simply solving problems.
Matt Ropchak shares the experiences that reshaped his leadership, from overcoming im...
Leadership burnout isn't always about working too hard—it can be a signal that something is out of alignment. Erin Newkirk shares why leaders need to pause, ground themselves, manage their energy, and stop confusing performative work with productive leadership.
Erin Newkirk joins Jaime Taets for a conversation about career transitions, leadership, energy management, and the inner work that often gets ignored when success becom...
Trust with yourself is the foundation of sustainable success. Ashley Hawks shares what happened when the success she built no longer made her happy and how she rebuilt her life, leadership, and purpose from the inside out.
Ashley Hawks, serial entrepreneur and owner of SOAR Leadership Groups, joins Jaime Taets for an honest conversation about what happens behind the highlight reel. From building and selling Forever Bride to David's ...
The point is not to have all the answers. Hillary Spreizer shares why leadership success is not about being the smartest person in the room.
Hillary Spreizer, CEO and owner of Latitude Group, joins Jaime Taets for a brutally honest conversation about what leadership really looks like when the wins are happening but you are falling apart behind the scenes. She shares how buying a company, navigating post-COVID growth, and constantly ...
Leadership burnout does not always happen when everything falls apart. Sometimes it happens when everything is going right, but the pace, pressure, and responsibility are no longer sustainable.
Josh Helgesen, CEO and majority owner of Greiner Construction, joins Jaime Taets to talk about the hidden weight of leadership, energy management, self-leadership, and the cost of confusing exhaustion with success. Josh shares his 26-year jou...
Redefining success through joy means learning that resilience is not always about pushing harder. It is knowing when to pause, heal, and find joy in the storm.
Kelli Williams, healing-informed executive coach, business and marketing strategist, storyteller, and former nonprofit leader, joins Jaime Taets for a conversation about resilience, identity, guilt, people-pleasing, and redefining what success really means.
Kelli opens up abou...
Leadership through adversity is not about avoiding the valley. It is about building a foundation strong enough to keep you moving through it.
Ben Utecht, former NFL tight end, Super Bowl champion, speaker, author, and culture expert, joins Jaime Taets for a conversation about fear, failure, preparation, belief, identity, and the peaks and valleys that shape a meaningful life.
Ben shares the story of going from a potential first-round...
You control more than you think. Giselle Ugarte shares why you're more powerful than you realize and how to stop giving your power away to other people's opinions.
Giselle Ugarte, performance coach, international speaker, and executive coach, joins Jaime Taets for a candid conversation about control, confidence, authenticity, and the pressure of other people's expectations.
After leaving college without a plan, Giselle reinvented her...
Resilience isn't built only when life gets hard. Kristi Piehl explains why choosing difficult things when you can may prepare you for the fear you can't choose.
Kristi Piehl, Founder and CEO of Media Minefield, joins Jaime Taets for a vulnerable conversation about resilience, fear, leadership, identity, and the moments that force us to rethink what matters most.
After losing her television news career during the 2008 economic crisis,...
Personal growth can require letting go of the identity that made you successful. Andrea Sullivan shares why your next chapter may begin when you give yourself permission to dream again.
Andrea Sullivan, CEO and Co-founder of vYve and former Chief Marketing Officer of VaynerX and Interbrand, joins Jaime Taets for a candid conversation about personal growth, identity, success, and the courage to become someone new.
Andrea shares ...
You don't need to have everything figured out before taking the next step. Lindsay Holden shares why trusting your instincts, embracing progress over perfection, and believing in your vision can lead to extraordinary growth.
Building a successful business isn't about having all the answers. It's about staying curious, making decisions with confidence, and continuing to move forward even when the path isn't clear.
In this episode, Lin...
| Erin Newkirk is the Chief Brand and Marketing Officer at Caribou Coffee. Her career journey has been anything but typical and in this episode Erin shares her perspective on leading from the Head, Heart, Gut and Voice to truly create impact as a leader. |
| Tami Enfield, a Brand Strategist and the founder of Brand Yourself, a consultancy launched in 2011. Not only does she LOVE marketing strategy, it’s also her passion. She loves consulting about as much as she loves reading about it. After launching Brand Yourself, she’s been told (and tries to embody) that she has a mix of intellige... Listen Watch Mark as Played January 16, 2025 • 34 mins
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