Leading in the Tension
Josh OrwickFor leaders who’ve achieved something meaningful and know success alone isn’t the end of the story. Weekly essays on ambition, identity, growth, and staying whole while building big things.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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You're Not Stuck. You're Carrying It Alone.
There’s a version of you that has quietly stopped believing anything can change. And you’ve made your peace with it.
I want to start with a picture.
It’s a few minutes before I leave on a mission trip. I’m sitting in a folding chair in a...
The Year I Optimized Myself Out of My Own Life
Michelangelo's unfinished "Prisoners," Galleria dell'Accademia. He believed the figure was always in the stone. The only work was taking away the rest. Photo: Galleria dell'Accademia
When something in your life starts to feel off, you alre...
I Wasn't Burning Out From the Work. I Was Burning Out From Being Needed.
There is a kind of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t touch.
You take the weekend. You take the long-promised vacation, the kind where you actually turn the phone off. You come back, and within three days the weight is sitting on your ch...
You're Winning. And It's Quietly Costing You.
You’re winning. And something in you knows it’s costing you.
Not money. Not status. Something quieter than that. The wins are real. The numbers still move. The people around you still treat you like the person who knows what they’re doing....
You Won’t Hear the Whisper If You’re Still Listening for the Wind
I was driving home on a Thursday afternoon when I noticed something was different.
Nothing was happening. The day had been ordinary. The work in front of me hadn’t moved the way I’d hoped that week. And somewhere between the exit an...
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Executive Coach helping high-capacity leaders grow without losing themselves. Writer exploring ambition, identity, and wholeness. Husband. Girl Dad.
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