When Leadership Isn’t Enough Anymore—And You Know It’s Time to Evolve
Release Date: 06/30/2025
Stop Compartmentalizing Your Confidence
Leadership is Feminine
Why can you trust yourself to build a multimillion-dollar company—but not to have one hard conversation? In this episode, Kris pulls back the curtain on the anatomy of self-trust. From visionary ideas to money, health, relationships, and leadership, she reveals why so many women compartmentalize their confidence—rock solid in some domains, shaky in others. You’ll hear how past experiences, identity “totems,” and cultural conditioning quietly erode our confidence, and why fear, vulnerability, and inherited stories often dictate where we doubt ourselves most. More importantly, Kris...
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Breaking the Generational Code of Self-Doubt
Leadership is Feminine
Why do so many accomplished women still doubt themselves—even after building extraordinary lives and businesses? Kris continues her Self-Trust & Self-Worth mini-series with a powerful exploration of the programming women inherit from generations before us. She invites us to reflect on the systemic, cultural, and ancestral patterns that quietly shape how women value themselves—and why even the most accomplished female founders still lie awake at night second-guessing their own decisions. From hiding success out of guilt to resisting difficult conversations at work, Kris shows how the...
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What Happens When You Finally Believe in Yourself
Leadership is Feminine
Kris launches a brand-new mini-series with a masterclass on Self-Trust and Self-Worth for Female Founders. And she encourages us to ask: Why do we trust ourselves to build entire businesses—but not to have one hard conversation? After wrapping the seven transitions of Beyond the CEO, this next season dives deeper—into the paradox that so many successful women face: the ability to make bold, visionary moves while quietly second-guessing themselves in the day-to-day. Across the next five weeks, you’ll hear Kris unpack her full Self-Trust and Self-Worth masterclass, designed to help you see...
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The Most Overlooked Step Between Leading and Leaving
Leadership is Feminine
What’s your plan for the business you’ve worked so hard to build? After walking through all seven transitions in the Beyond the CEO series, Kris is turning her focus to what comes next: the tactical and strategic steps every founder must take to ensure the business can run—and even thrive—without her constant presence. This isn’t just about getting through today’s to-do list. It’s about preparing your business, your team, and yourself for what’s ahead—whether that’s scaling, exiting, or simply reclaiming more of your life. Because the truth is, too many women wait until...
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The Transition That Changes Everything
Leadership is Feminine
Are you willing to release control and trust others with what you’ve built In this episode, Kris closes out the Beyond the CEO series by walking through the final transitions that take you from structure and strategy into wisdom and possibility. It’s not just about building processes—it’s about letting go of false truths, reclaiming clarity, playing without an agenda, and stepping fully into Sage energy. This is where leadership becomes less about control and more about trust, curiosity, and freedom. Here’s what we explore: The surprising power of asking “What do you think?”...
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Your Next Chapter Won’t Come From Your Old Blueprint
Leadership is Feminine
Have you been intentional about what stays in your life—and what goes? If you’ve been following this special Beyond the CEO mini-series on the seven transitions every founder must face, you know last week was all about play, curiosity, and exploration. Now, in Transition Six—Intentional Design—we take everything you’ve discovered in that playful, curious phase and start shaping it into a grounded, deliberate vision for what’s next. This isn’t about hustling toward another “should.” It’s about building your next chapter with clarity, purpose, and your own rules. Kris shares...
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You Don’t Have to Stay in Your Comfort Cage
Leadership is Feminine
Play. Stillness. Curiosity. When did you stop giving yourself that permission? You’re going through the motions in a life you once dreamed of—and wondering when that dream stopped being yours. In this episode—the next in Kris's series on the seven essential transitions every successful woman must navigate—she invites you to consider the one most of us avoid: curiosity, play, and exploration. This isn’t a conversation about productivity or purpose. It’s about what happens when you finally lift your head, look around, and realize: the version of you running the show today isn’t the...
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The Striver’s Dilemma: Who Are You Without the Push?
Leadership is Feminine
In this fourth installment of the Seven Transitions Every Successful Woman Must Navigate series, Kris explores the fog that can settle in after years of striving, building, leading, and achieving. When the urgency fades, when the goals have been met, when your days are no longer dictated by survival or ambition... who are you now? This is the striver’s dilemma. In this episode, Kris shares reflections from two recent retreats—one with Arthur Brooks, one with Rebecca Campbell—that offered wildly different but equally profound insights. She weaves together data, mysticism, and lived...
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If You’re Still Holding On, What Are You Really Afraid Of?
Leadership is Feminine
You’re not trapped by your business, your team, or even your schedule. You’re trapped by the stories you’ve been telling yourself about what has to happen next. In this third installment of the special mini-series on the seven transitions every successful woman must navigate when she knows it’s time for something new, Kris unpacks the beliefs that quietly hold you back—the false truths that keep high-achieving women stuck in businesses they’ve already outgrown. She gets right to the heart of the stories we cling to when we’re afraid to move on, and dismantles them one by one....
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From Operator to Advisor: What Your Business Really Needs From You Now
Leadership is Feminine
Are you the biggest bottleneck in your business—and don’t even realize it? You didn’t build your company to babysit it. But if you’re still the one making every call, solving every fire, and holding the reins so tightly no one else can lead...this episode is your wake-up call. In this second installment of the special mini-series on the seven essential transitions every successful woman must navigate when she knows it’s time for something new, Kris explores what it really means to step into the advisory consultant role for the very business you created and the team you built. If...
info_outlineYou built the business. You built the team. You built the life. But now… what?
This is the moment no one warns you about. When the business you poured everything into is running—maybe even thriving—but you feel restless. Detached. Like maybe you’ve outgrown what once felt like everything.
In this episode, Kris Plachy opens the door to a new conversation—one that’s been quietly forming behind the scenes. This isn’t a pivot away from leadership. It’s a leap into deeper truth.
She speaks directly to the woman who’s questioning what’s next:
- The one who can’t imagine walking away, but can’t imagine staying the same.
- The one who keeps showing up for her business, but secretly wonders if it’s still hers to love.
- The one who has succeeded by every metric but still lies awake at night asking, “Who am I now?”
It’s time to meet her—the woman beyond the CEO.
Here’s what we explore
The raw emotional terrain of success that no one prepares you for
- Why so many Gen X founders are hearing a whisper they can’t ignore
- The difference between leaving a business and leaving yourself behind
- And how to start writing the next chapter—without rushing the ending of this one
If you’ve built a beautiful business but you’re starting to dream in a new direction, Kris made this episode for you.
This is your invitation to the age era.
And Kris will meet you there.
Contact Information and Recommended Resources
Join me in Sonoma in August so we can meet in person! Go to www.thevisionary.ceo/beyondceo to register your interest.