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Entrepreneurship · Kris Plachy

The CEO Sage

by Kris Plachy

You're vitally important and completely invisible. You're performing in what you once dreamed. The thing you built to free you has become the thing you're trapped inside. You've built something real. A business that works. A reputation that precedes you. By every measure, you're succeeding. And something is wrong that you can't quite name. You've tried the frameworks. You've bought the courses. You've followed the gurus. And on some level you know that none of it is going to give you what you're actually looking for, because what you're actually looking for is yourself. This is The CEO Sage—a podcast for the woman who is ready to stop looking outside herself for the answer. Kris Plachy doesn't offer you recipes or tactics or the "real way" to scale your business. She offers you something more rare: permission to listen to what you already know. In intimate, unflinching conversations, she names the truths you've been waiting to hear aloud. That your wisdom matters more than the strategy. That your self-trust is the asset worth protecting. That what feels like failure might actually be an invitation to something better. If you've achieved the success everyone told you to want and discovered it wasn't what you were looking for, this is for you. If you know something needs to change but can't see the path, this is for you. If you're ready to stop performing and start revealing—to yourself first, then to the world—this is for you. The CEO Sage. Where the work of becoming begins with the work of remembering who you already are.

Latest episodes

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Happiness is a Magnet

You can't wait to feel happy. You have to practice it. Kris has been thinking about joy. Real joy, not the performative kind. The kind where you wake up and think, okay

Sep 21
11 min

Meditation for the Over-Functioning Woman

This episode is different. There's no lesson, no breakdown, no list of takeaways. Just a meditation. Kris created this for the women who can't stop. The ones who feel g

Sep 14
17 min

Break Patterns & Cycles

You say you want it. Then you spend all your energy explaining why you can't have it. Kris has been working on breaking her own cycles, and she's watching this pattern

Sep 7
16 min

The Shift

You built the dream. Now the ground underneath it is changing. Kris is experiencing it. She's talking to women whose businesses are soaring but they don't want to run

Aug 31
18 min

Your Confusion Is Telling You Something

Your confusion isn't a problem. It's a tell. In her years of coaching women, Kris keeps seeing the same pattern. Women say they're confused about what they want, whethe

Aug 24
13 min

Why I've Closed My Business

If you recognize there's a bottleneck between where you are and where you want to be, this is for you. Kris has closed her business and opened her practice. The differe

Aug 17
17 min

The Topic We All Must Talk About

Every business has an ending. The question is whether you're going to plan for it or let it happen to you. Kris is thinking about something that doesn't get talked abou

Aug 10
15 min

Self-Acceptance & Leadership

What if the person judging you the most isn't anyone else? It's you. Kris has noticed something that shows up in almost everything her clients struggle with. They feel

Aug 3
19 min

Stop Living the Default

What if the life you're living right now is based on definitions you never questioned? Kris has been thinking about home. Not just the physical structure, but what it m

Jul 27
13 min

What Holding On Is Really Costing You

What if the anger and resentment you think you're supposed to keep is actually what's keeping you trapped? Kris is on a walk thinking about grief, anger, loss, and what

Jul 20
13 min

In Pursuit of Greatness

What if admitting you want more isn't selfish? What if it's actually the point? Kris has been thinking about greatness. Not achievement. Not goals. Greatness. And she's

Jul 13
14 min

The Difference Between Wanting and Believing

The only thing separating you from what you want is belief. Kris is in the car on her way to pick up her daughter from the airport during peak rush hour traffic on the

Jul 6
15 min

Your Thriving Matters to Everyone

What you're not doing for yourself is actually harming everyone around you. Kris knows what's happening. You're in survival mode. Not because your life is falling apart

Jun 29
13 min

Get What You Want

If the pattern keeps repeating, it's time to turn up the heat. Kris has spent her entire career helping other people get what they want. And she's watching women do the

Jun 22
17 min

What If It Could Be Better?

You built something incredible. You made a thing that didn't exist. You're running a multi-million-dollar business, and yes, that's magic. But somewhere along the way,

Jun 15
16 min

Stop Looking Outside

Here's the thing people get wrong. When you see someone doing well, the instinct is to copy what they do. That job they have, that approach they take, that course they're

Jun 8
14 min

The Relaunch & What This Actually Is

If you followed Leadership is Feminine®️, this is going to feel different. Better, actually. Kris takes a beat to explain why she needed to hit pause on the podcast, why

Jun 1
27 min

The Courage to Stop A New Chapter in Leadership and Life

What if the bravest act of leadership is knowing when it's time to pause? In this deeply personal episode, Kris invites listeners into the raw, honest crossroads she's c

Nov 24 2025
16 min

Before You Hold Anyone Accountable, Start Here

We love the idea of accountability—until it gets uncomfortable. Until it requires us to tell the truth and stop making excuses for what we've been tolerating. In this pow

Nov 17 2025
20 min

Why Play Belongs in Leadership

In this week's episode of Leadership is Feminine®, Kris speaks straight to the hearts of high-achieving women who are carrying so much—the businesses they run, the househ

Nov 10 2025
14 min

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