Allison MaslanCEO & Business Scaling Expert | WSJ Bestselling Author

Strategy won’t save a business led from burnout.

12 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this short YouTube monologue, Allison Maslan critiques the relentless hustle culture that many CEOs and founders adopt, arguing that constant grinding makes achieving their vision harder and leads to burnout. She emphasizes that true progress comes from feeling empowered, healthy, and energetically aligned with one’s vision. When leaders achieve this alignment, opportunities naturally arise, and they can extend the same energetic alignment to their teams, fostering commitment and collective momentum toward the vision.

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CEOs are constantly pushing and grinding and hustling to make their vision happen, and they make it so much harder than it needs to be. What I learned is that you want to feel like an empowered, full, aligned human being, happy, healthy, on the way to making that vision happen. And so when you get in total alignment energetically with the energy of your vision, the doors just start to open. You Start to build an energetic alignment with your team, and so that they are locked into the vision and committed to making it happen.