Phil PowisChief Wisdom Keeper @ Sacred Business Flow

From burnout to ‘corporate with heart’ #substack #shorts

24 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this reflective monologue, the speaker describes a personal transformation that began with a moment of burnout—questioning why 8‑12 hour workdays left them unfulfilled. This prompted a period of self‑discovery, during which they asked themselves who they truly wanted to be and what they wanted to do. The journey led them into coaching, quickly expanding into leadership development. Over the past five years, they have experimented with and refined a new framework they call the “third space” and “chemistry,” which integrates their coaching and leadership experience. The speaker notes a pattern of client engagement: people tend to reach out when the speaker’s work resonates with a specific need, illustrated by an anecdote about a studio manager who highlighted this timing a few years ago. The overall narrative moves from burnout, through self‑exploration, to a purpose‑driven professional identity centered on heart‑focused corporate practice.

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to then saying, well, how can it be? Actually, like that leader 2 weeks ago said, like, how can it be that I spent 8 to 12 hours a day doing this and it not filling me up in the way maybe it's supposed to? And so that was the starting point for my self-discovery, thinking about, okay, so actually, who do you want to be? What do you really want to do here? And from there, I went into coaching, like, I found my way to coaching and then very quickly to leadership development. And then finally, last year, also together with you two, right, where we kind of brought my experience into this new frame of the third space and the chemistry. So then it was like the past 5 years being on this path, it was a path of discovery, of experimenting, of seeing, and of also realizing it's like, oh, when do people call me in? Like, when is it? What does it resonate for them that they actually want me or want to work with me in that particular moment? And it's like one creative, like one studio manager, she put it nicely at the very— it was a couple of years ago.