At some point, being the woman who can handle everything stops feeling impressive and starts feeling exhausting.

In this episode, I’m talking with Cherylanne Skolnicki, founder of Brilliant Balance, about what she calls the peak of complexity—that season when your career is demanding more, your family is demanding more, your ambition is still very much alive…and your available capacity is basically gone.

We talk about why the same operating system that helped us climb professionally eventually stops working, why so many women become the default person for everyone and everything, and why letting go can bring up guilt, judgment, FOMO and a whole lot of control issues.

Cherylanne also shares practical ways to start changing the pattern—without lowering your standards, losing your ambition or waiting for life to ma ...