E111 - He Called My Podcast "Fifty Shades." We've Been Friends Ever Since.

Adam Barney walked into this conversation carrying more life than most people admit out loud. He’s a leadership coach, a father, a husband, a son, and a man who has spent the last decade navigating the kind of chaos that strips you down to your real self. Losing his mom to ALS, supporting his dad through hydrocephalus, and helping his wife through chemo — these aren’t bullet points. They’re the architecture of who he is now.

We talk about caregiving as identity, burnout as a signal, leadership as something you can’t fake, and the strange co...