Burnout, executive coaching, and high-performance leadership — this conversation with former Google Director Stacey Kulongowski is for every woman who has built something impressive and still felt completely disconnected from herself.

Stacey Kulongowski spent 13 years at Google, built a team of nearly 200 people, oversaw a $2 billion revenue imprint — and ended up under her desk, crying, after a revenue call went sideways. She also went through breast cancer twice, the first time without telling a single soul at work, doing radiation every morning before going in to lead her team. What she built out of those two intensity points became the framework she now uses to help high-performing leaders and professionals find their way back to themselves.

In this conversation with Dr. Z, Stacey breaks down what it really means to Bring Your Big Energy — and why it has nothing to do with being the loudest person in the room.

WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER

• What intensity points are — and why burnout, disruption, cancer, and career pivots all qualify as the same kind of wake-up call
• Why high-performing women are the last to hear the whispers their body and life are sending them — and what happens when those whispers become screams
• The SPARK Process: Stacey's five-step framework for rebuilding after burnout, career transition, or any major life inflection point
• What Stacey learned going through breast cancer twice — and why she treated them completely differently, with radically different outcomes

ABOUT STACEY KULONGOWSKI

Stacey Kulongowski is a PCC-certified executive coach, former Director at Google, and author of Bring Your Big Energy. After 13 years at Google — where she built a team of nearly 200 people and a $2 billion revenue imprint — Stacey took a six-month health leave after burnout and two rounds of breast cancer. Out of that journey, she built the SPARK Process: a framework for helping high-performing leaders and professionals navigate burnout, career transitions, and major life inflection points.

Find her at bringyourbigenergy.com and on Instagram @bringyourbigenergy.

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