{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Leading Awake","title":"C-Suite Confessions: How High Performers Lead Without Breaking | S01E03","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2232,"description":"Three senior leaders get honest about what it costs to keep leading when you're stretched thin. The CEO of Lew Geffen Sotheby's International Realty, the Chief of Payments and Partnerships at JUMO, and the former CMO who led Kulula, British Airways, and Hollard share the moments work was quietly costing them everything else, and how they got themselves back.\nThe numbers don't stop. The deadlines don't stop. And somewhere in the middle of it all, the people who matter most start getting scraps. This is a conversation that doesn't usually happen in public. Three senior leaders open up about navigating mental health at the top, running toward every crisis until something breaks, and the moment a child said \"mommy, we need you back\".\nGuests:\nYael Geffen is the CEO of Lew Geffen Sotheby's International Realty, one of South Africa's most recognised property brands. She has spoken openly about navigating bipolar disorder while leading at the highest level, and what that openness gave her back.\nBrad Roper is the Chief of Payments and Partnerships at JUMO, leading live partnerships across the African continent. He defines his job by running toward whatever is on fire, until the moment his family told him he had stopped being playable.\nHeidi Brauer is the former Chief Marketing Officer at Hollard, after leading brands like Kulula and British Airways at the top of South African corporate marketing for over a decade. Today she runs her own consultancy and brings a lens on leadership from outside the corporate machine.\nThey explain:\n◼ Why Brad realised he was giving the people he loves the scraps (and what changed when his mom told him \"you're not playable\")\n◼ What Yael learned by disclosing her bipolar disorder at the top of one of South Africa's biggest property brands\n◼ The moment Heidi's son said \"mommy, we need you back\", and what she did with eight weeks notice and nowhere to go\n◼ How Yael reframes her mental health as a \"brilliant burden\", and what that does for how...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/13nLVsuQ0Vl1itKT5YpaJz3aZECFgDrhw5rexTxRzEI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80Yjdk/NTRiZWViMzhkZGZh/NGUxY2E5ZDk1ODBk/MTlhYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}