Why High Performers Don't Know Who They Are Without Work
- Aug 4
- 1 min read
Susan A. Miele hit the C-suite before she turned 40. That was the goal she'd written for herself as a teenager in a blue collar town outside Boston: get out, get the big job, wear the nice clothes, buy the beautiful house. She reached her goal early at 38. And it all worked exactly the way she'd planned.
Then her performance started slipping and she couldn't explain why. The doctors pointed at everything except what was really going on - early onset menopause.
It all came to a tipping point when her only option was to resign from the job she'd built her entire identity around.
As she traversed unchartered territory, she encountered more setbacks, she eventually realized she was going to have to take a good hard look at who she was without the identities she spent decades attaching herself to.
Susan shares this framework to better understand identity:
Who am I
How did I get here
Where am I going
In our conversation she makes the point that you're the author of your identity. We share the same view that we get to rewrite our story as many times as we need.
If you're in that in-between right now, or if you know someone who is, this is the episode on The Unlock Lab podcast you don’t want to miss.
Stay Feisty and Fabulous,
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