Performance Under Pressure

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Performance Under Pressure is a podcast for high-performing leaders who look successful on the outside — and carry more than anyone realizes on the inside. Hosted by Katie Nickel, founder of The Nickel Collective and performance advisor to executives and high-agency decision-makers, this show examines burnout through a different lens. Not as a time-management problem. Not as a motivation problem. But as a pressure problem. Each episode explores identity, over-functioning systems, invisible cognitive load, and the psychological patterns that keep capable leaders stuck in burnout without eve

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  1. 17H AGO

    Burned Out But Still Delivering?

    The most dangerous burnout isn’t the one that collapses. It’s the one that keeps performing. High-functioning burnout looks like competence under pressure — reliable, composed, high-capacity leadership that never visibly breaks. Which is exactly why it goes unnoticed. In this episode of Performance Under Pressure, Katie Nickel breaks down: • The 3 hidden reasons high performers burn out • The Pressure Pattern: performance → identity → reinforcement • Why being “the one who handles it” becomes an identity trap • How intermittent reinforcement keeps responsible leaders looping If you’re still delivering but quietly exhausted, this episode will give you language for what’s actually happening — and why it’s not a personal flaw. Mini episode follows with 4 strategic shifts to interrupt the pattern this week — without blowing up your calendar or turning burnout recovery into a new performance goal. Performance isn’t the problem. Pressure is. ⁠www.thenickelcollective.com⁠ The Pressure Audit Questions: Where am I still performing instead of admitting this is too much?When did responsibility become part of my identity?If pressure were redistributed, what part of me would feel exposed?

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Performance Under Pressure is a podcast for high-performing leaders who look successful on the outside — and carry more than anyone realizes on the inside. Hosted by Katie Nickel, founder of The Nickel Collective and performance advisor to executives and high-agency decision-makers, this show examines burnout through a different lens. Not as a time-management problem. Not as a motivation problem. But as a pressure problem. Each episode explores identity, over-functioning systems, invisible cognitive load, and the psychological patterns that keep capable leaders stuck in burnout without eve

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