Sometimes the wake-up call isn’t a missed quarter, it’s your body telling you the pace you’ve been running at is no longer sustainable.
This week, we’re sitting down with Casey Calkins, Facilitator & Coach, and founder of C2it Partners, where she helps sales leaders build healthier, higher performing teams. Casey shares what it looked like to live in a constant high-demand stress loop, the health spiral it created, and the moment she realized she couldn’t keep letting work be the thing that mattered most.
We get into how leadership and wellbeing are tied together more than most people want to admit, why your team learns more from your behavior than your calendar talk, and how to start releasing the control that quietly fuels burnout. Casey also walks through simple practices that helped her reset, plus a decision filter that makes the day-to-day feel lighter fast: knowing which “balls” are glass and which ones are rubber.
What you’ll learn:
Jump into the conversation:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:56) Meet Casey Calkins and the big tech wake-up call 
(03:30) The LinkedIn post that sparked the chronic stress loop conversation 
(06:35) Always on culture and why recovery gets ignored 
(09:17) Boundaries are leadership and your team mirrors your tone 
(14:34) Why managers get promoted with zero enablement 
(23:42) The real work of leading people and why burnout is still taboo 
(29:37) Self regulation and how your energy sets the room 
(31:04) The self awareness traps overconfidence vs imposter syndrome 
(34:18) Simple resets that work walks sunlight and real breaks 
(35:52) True rest for Type A leaders and how to schedule it 
(39:43) Phone and sleep hygiene and breaking the doomscroll cycle 
(41:55) When it feels impossible and how to downshift with purpose
(47:59) You are not indispensable and why that is freedom
Connect with Casey Calkins: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseycalkins/
Check out C2it Partners: https://www.c2itpartners.com/
Check out Arcadia: https://www.BeArcadia.com
Connect with Sam Yarborough: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-yarborough/
Connect with Jason Yarborough: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yarby/
Produced in partnership with Share Your Genius
