You’ve built companies. Moved markets. Maybe even taken a company public.
But if someone asked your partner today, “Do you feel deeply seen, safe, and prioritized by him?”
What would they say?
In this episode of Successfully in Love, high-performance relationship strategist Katarina Polonska speaks directly to American male CEOs and senior executives who optimize everything in business but underinvest in the one system powering it all: their closest relationship.
You’ll explore the hidden feedback loop between relationship disconnection and leadership performance and how tension at home shows up as impatience, reactivity, decision fatigue, riskier calls, and confidence that runs on fumes.
Katarina breaks down three common patterns that derail both love and leadership:
The Provider Mask: over-delivering financially while under-delivering emotionally
The Problem-Solver Trap: fixing instead of understanding until your partner (and team) stop telling you the truth
The Lone Wolf Leader: carrying everything alone and calling it strength — until isolation takes over
Then she gives three practical shifts you can start this week:
Move from fixing to curiosity
Replace “relationship performance reviews” with weekly 10-minute emotional check-ins
Shift from “I’ll handle it” to “We’re a team”
You’ll also get a simple 10-minute conversation script designed to reduce defensiveness, rebuild trust, and create a turning point without therapy-speak, dramatic overhauls, or needing your partner to “sign up” for anything.
Because the quality of your most intimate relationship isn’t separate from your leadership.
It’s the emotional infrastructure you lead from.
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