1961: The Psychology of Never Enough. Why High-Achievers Still Feel Empty and How to Fix It

1961: The Psychology of Never Enough. Why High-Achievers Still Feel Empty and How to Fix It

Published: March 25, 2026

Duration: 36:15

Brooke Taylor is a former Google executive turned researcher and coach who has spent years studying a phenomenon called the success wound —interviewing more than 5,000 women to understand why so many accomplished, capable people still feel like it’s never enough.


Her new book, Healing the Success Wound: Align Your Ambition, Find Lasting Career Fulfillment, and End the Cycle of Never Enough, puts language—and solutions—to something I think so many of us have felt but couldn’t quite articulate.


In our conversation, we unpack


What the “success wound” reall...