— The CEO Coach

Conversations about how high performers actually operate.

A podcast on burnout, ambition, and the gap between how successful people look and how they feel. Hosted by Christoph Sacher, MSc.

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Episodes

Mental Leverage: How Elite Thinkers Collapse Complexity

17 July 2026

Why the highest performers are not the ones holding the most variables, but the ones who can reduce a situation to the two that matter. And what happens to that ability when you are depleted.

Burnout Is Not the Problem: How to End Burnout Today

14 July 2026

The reframe this whole practice runs on. Burnout is not a character flaw or a weakness — it is bad business design and bad life design. Which is good news, because design is fixable.

Stop Being the Nice CEO: People-Pleasing vs. Real Performance

12 July 2026

The cost of being liked by your own team, why avoidance masquerades as kindness, and how much of a founder's exhaustion is really the weight of conversations they have not had.

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