As a CEO, this conversation with Roderick Jefferson stayed with me long after we wrapped up.

Not because of tactics or frameworks, but because of the honesty required to look success in the eye and ask what it is really costing us.

I have lived a version of that reckoning myself.

When life forces a pause, you realize how many decisions were made on autopilot, applauded by others, yet disconnected from health, family, and purpose.