Today we unpack why bold visions fade and share a simple 15-minute reset to realign goals with who we are becoming. We show how to turn drift into direction with a living vision, clear priorities, and a cadence that keeps progress real.

In this episode we will explore:

• Reasons leaders drift from their vision

• Difference between dreaming and directing action

• Impact of competing priorities on focus

• Why a vision must evolve as you grow

• A 15-minute reflection to refresh clarity

• Monthly review and weekly habits to prevent drift

• Linking outcomes to metrics and ownership

• How updated vision restores meaning to goals

Goal Setting Success

If you’re ready to set goals you’ll actually achieve, the Goal Setting Success course will help you do it. This self-paced experience walks you through the same framework I’ve used for years with leaders and advisors to create meaningful goals and a plan that drives real results.

Inside the course, you’ll learn how to:

1. Clarify your vision for success
2. Reflect on what worked and what didn’t
3. Brainstorm strategies with focus and intention
4. Create a clear, actionable plan for the year ahead

Start the new year with clarity, confidence, and structure.

Listeners of the Elite Achievement Podcast can save $50 with code PODCAST50 at checkout.

Enroll today at kristinburke.com/goal-setting-success-course

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Clarity doesn’t come from cramming more into your calendar; it comes from reflection, structure, and the courage to trust your leadership intuition. We open up about three lessons that reshaped how we coach, lead, and build: embracing a blended coaching-consulting style, designing structure that expands capacity, and elevating intellectual property into true authority assets. These shifts turned an overloaded schedule into a focused operating system and reframed “scale at all costs” into “build with intention.”

First, we dig into leadership identity and how it evolves when you move from formal titles to influence, impact, and results. You’ll hear how reading the moment—offering space and questions when needed, or providing frameworks and direction when it matters—creates better outcomes for high performers. This is the practical art of discernment: serving clients and teams with the right approach at the right time, and trusting your intuition to guide the switch.

Next, we tackle a common myth: time isn’t the problem, structure is. We walk through specific practices that reduce overwhelm, from externalizing tasks and estimating realistically to protecting deep-work blocks and asking for real timelines before committing. You’ll learn how structure supports energy, sharpens decisions, and prevents reactive mode, even during demanding weeks. The result is capacity you can feel and results you can measure.

Finally, we reframe assets like courses, frameworks, and templates as strategic tools that strengthen authority and client experience. Instead of chasing scale for every asset, we show how codifying what already works accelerates onboarding, reinforces workshops, and creates consistency across engagements. You’ll leave with prompts to identify your own underused IP and a path to leverage it with confidence.

If this conversation sparks momentum, subscribe, share with a peer who leads, and leave a quick review so more high performers can find the show. Ready for focused support? Explore private coaching and our Goal Setting Success Course below.

In this podcast you will learn about:

• Trusting leadership intuition and blending coaching with consulting

• Leadership defined by influence, impact, and results

• Practical structure that creates capacity and reduces overwhelm

• Deep work blocks, real timelines, and energy tracking

• Reframing courses and frameworks as authority assets

• Prompts to identify strengths, needed structures, and leverageable IP

Highlights:

0:00

Opening And Reflection Frame

1:02

Three Lessons To Shape Next Year

2:00

Trusting Leadership Intuition

6:45

Blending Coaching And Consulting

10:30

Defining Your Leadership Identity

12:27

Time Isn’t The Problem, Structure Is

18:20

Planning, Deep Work, And Expectations

Ready to elevate your leadership and accelerate your growth?

I provide strategic coaching for high-performing financial advisors, service-based business owners, and leaders who want coaching that goes beyond accountability. I partner with you to execute on your vision and focus on what truly drives results: executive presence, leadership development, scaling, and prioritization.

The outcome? You realize your full potential, influence and inspire others, and lead a high-impact business that reflects your next-level goals.

To explore if coaching is the right fit, email me at meet@kristinburke.com to schedule a discovery call.

Goal Setting Success

If you’re ready to set goals you’ll actually achieve, the Goal Setting Success course will help you do it. This self-paced experience walks you through the same framework I’ve used for years with leaders and advisors to create meaningful goals and a plan that drives real results.

Inside the course,...

Today we unpack why bold visions fade and share a simple 15-minute reset to realign goals with who we are becoming. We show how to turn drift into direction with a living vision, clear priorities, and a cadence that keeps progress real.

In this episode we will explore:

• Reasons leaders drift from their vision

• Difference between dreaming and directing action

• Impact of competing priorities on focus

• Why a vision must evolve as you grow

• A 15-minute reflection to refresh clarity

• Monthly review and weekly habits to prevent drift

• Linking outcomes to metrics and ownership

• How updated vision restores meaning to goals

Goal Setting Success

If you’re ready to set goals you’ll actually achieve, the Goal Setting Success course will help you do it. This self-paced experience walks you through the same framework I’ve used for years with leaders and advisors to create meaningful goals and a plan that drives real results.

Inside the course, you’ll learn how to:

• Clarify your vision for success
• Reflect on what worked and what didn’t
• Brainstorm strategies with focus and intention
• Create a clear, actionable plan for the year ahead

Start the new year with clarity, confidence, and structure.

Listeners of the Elite Achievement Podcast can save $50 with code PODCAST50 at checkout.

Enroll today at kristinburke.com/goal-setting-success-course

Connect with Kristin

LinkedIn

Website

Goal Setting Success Course

Today we explore why so many leaders feel drained by small choices and how to spot a cognitively demanding season before it sparks unnecessary change. We share practical tools to protect focus, recover well, and tell the difference between a temporary surge and a lasting shift in your work.

In today’s episode you will learn about:

• naming a cognitively demanding season

• signs of mental overload and decision fatigue

• relief versus clarity and why urgency can mislead

• separating real deadlines from self-imposed ones

• simplifying decisions through automation and pre-deciding

• protecting recovery to sustain deep thinking

• season versus shift and how to respond

• using coaching as protected space to think

Check out the show notes to learn more about what it's like to have one-on-one coaching with me

If today's insight inspired you, I'd love for you to leave a review and let me know what stood out. Be sure to follow Elite Achievement so you never miss an episode.

What if the mental exhaustion you're feeling right now isn't a sign you're falling behind but a signal your work has evolved?

I provide strategic coaching for high-performing financial advisors, service-based business owners, and leaders who want coaching that goes beyond accountability. I partner with you to execute on your vision and focus on what truly drives results: executive presence, leadership development, scaling, and prioritization.

The outcome? You realize your full potential, influence and inspire others, and lead a high-impact business that reflects your next-level goals.

To explore if coaching is the right fit, email me at meet@kristinburke.com to schedule a discovery call.

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Goal Setting Success Course

Breakout Plan

What if the fastest path to your goals starts with protecting your energy? We sit down with functional medicine nutritionist and educator Andrea Nakayama to unpack how high achievers can set a self-care floor, work with their biology, and lead with more clarity and calm. Andrea’s story - building a global education company while navigating profound personal loss - reveals why sleep, boundaries, and joy aren’t luxuries. They’re leadership tools.

We explore how to define your non-negotiables so they actually live on your calendar, not just your wish list. Andrea breaks down the hormone science behind the late-night “second wind,” why it sabotages sleep quality, and how to catch your natural evening curve for better recovery. We talk practical micro-practices that fit real schedules: 10-minute resets, afternoon self-checks, and routines that flex without collapsing into all-or-nothing thinking. Her “road, bike lane, poison ivy” model helps you stay consistent while avoiding extremes that trigger stress and setbacks.

For big goals, we trade hustle myths for smarter pacing. Think Everest, not elevator. In business, growth happens in stages - each base camp gives you time to adapt, refine, and build the strength to reach your next summit. Andrea’s five P model - passion, permission, purpose, persistence, perseverance - replaces perfectionism with momentum you can sustain. Along the way, we connect bioindividuality, circadian rhythm, and nervous-system-care to everyday leadership decisions so your effort translates into durable results.

If you want to finish strong and start stronger, this conversation gives you the playbook: protect sleep, schedule what refuels you, and let joy be part of the plan. Subscribe, share this episode with a friend who needs permission to slow down, and leave a review to tell us your top non-negotiable for the season.

In this podcast you will learn how to:

• Define energy, relationships, and impact as daily anchors

• Non-negotiables for leaders: sleep, digestion, blood sugar

• Setting a self-care floor and saying no with confidence

• Calendar design with micro check-ins and wiggle room

• Shift out of all-or-nothing mindsets

• Cortisol, circadian rhythms, and second winds

• Evening unplugging and nervous system care

• The five P model: passion, permission, purpose, persistence, perseverance

• Add joy as a core success metric

Highlights:

0:00

Slowing Down To Succeed

0:21

Framing Elite Achievement

4:08

Making Self-Care Non-Negotiable

8:02

Defining Your Self-Care Floor

12:04

Calendar Design And Wiggle Room

15:57

Beyond Perfectionism And The Bike Lane

20:38

Base Camps, Not Summits In A Day

25:53

Circadian Rhythm And Second Winds

30:00

Night Unplugging And Nervous System

33:28

Micro-Practices For Recovery

37:42

Weekends, Boundaries, And Refueling

Interested in 1:1 Coaching?

Kristin partners with high-performing financial advisors, leaders, and business owners who are ready to lead with more clarity, focus, and intention.

Clients often come to her with a strong vision, but they aren’t sure how to close the gap between where they are now and where they want to go. Many are navigating a season of growth, stepping into expanded leadership, or realizing they’ve outgrown their current systems and ways of working.

They know they’re capable of more and want a strategic thought partner to help them get there, someone who will ask the tough questions, create space to think deeply, and offer a proven process for turning ambition into meaningful progress.

If this sounds like the kind of partnership you’ve been craving, email meet@kristinburke.com to learn more and connect.

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Today we explore how to choose a coach who truly fits your goals and how to engage in the partnership to get measurable results. We share practical questions, cadence options, red flags, and ways to adjust coaching during demanding seasons without losing momentum.

In this episode you will learn:

• why coach fit matters for high performers

• differences between pure coaching, experience shares, and blended styles

• how to choose cadence and access that sustain accountability

• questions to assess listening, challenge, and energy alignment

• using referrals and spotting red flags in intro calls

• treating coaching as a partnership with preparation and feedback

• adjusting approach in busy seasons without canceling

• committing to action between sessions and staying open to growth

If today's insight resonated, leave a review and let me know what stood out. Be sure to follow Elite Achievements so you never miss an episode. Keep showing up with the effort, mindset and habits that lead to elite achievement.

Ready to elevate your leadership and accelerate your growth?

I provide strategic coaching for high-performing financial advisors, service-based business owners, and leaders who want coaching that goes beyond accountability. I partner with you to execute on your vision and focus on what truly drives results: executive presence, leadership development, scaling, and prioritization.

The outcome? You realize your full potential, influence and inspire others, and lead a high-impact business that reflects your next-level goals.

To explore if coaching is the right fit, email me at meet@kristinburke.com to schedule a discovery call.

Connect with Kristin

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Breakout Plan

Today we explore how coaching blends clarity, accountability, and strategy to turn untapped potential into real progress. Stories from our career and clients show four signals you’re ready to partner with a coach and how the relationship evolves as goals change.

In this episode you will learn:

• why coaching creates space for big-picture thinking

• how a coaching plus consulting blend accelerates growth

• lessons from CEOs using mentors and coaches

• personal stories from three coaching partnerships

• when coaching completes versus continues

• four signs you are ready for coaching

• investing time and money with intent

• goals, leadership, and measurable outcomes

• accountability that converts vision to action

If today's insight resonated, leave a review and let me know what stood out. Be sure to follow Elite Achievements so you never miss an episode. Keep showing up with the effort, mindset and habits that lead to elite achievement.

Ready to elevate your leadership and accelerate your growth?

I provide strategic coaching for high-performing financial advisors, service-based business owners, and leaders who want coaching that goes beyond accountability. I partner with you to execute on your vision and focus on what truly drives results: executive presence, leadership development, scaling, and prioritization.

The outcome? You realize your full potential, influence and inspire others, and lead a high-impact business that reflects your next-level goals.

To explore if coaching is the right fit, email me at meet@kristinburke.com to schedule a discovery call.

Connect with Kristin

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Goal Setting Success Course

Breakout Plan

What happens when a business leader steps away for two weeks? For Dawn Benko, co-founder and COO of Entirety Wealth Solutions, the answer was remarkable. Just four small tasks awaited her return. This level of organizational independence didn't happen by accident; it resulted from mastering what many entrepreneurs find most challenging: effective delegation.

Dawn's journey from unlicensed assistant to co-founder of a seven-figure firm gives her unique perspective on both sides of the delegation equation. She's witnessed firsthand how support roles in financial services (and many industries) remain underserved despite being critical to business success. "If your business can't run without you," Dawn challenges listeners, "do you have a business or do you have a job?"

The heart of Dawn's approach is a mindset shift from control to collaboration. Her four-quadrant framework helps identify which tasks truly require a leader's unique abilities versus those that drain time and energy better spent elsewhere. Most delegation failures, she explains, stem not from incompetent team members but from poorly defined processes, a distinction that transforms how we approach performance issues.

What makes Dawn's methodology particularly powerful is its simplicity. Rather than complex leadership theories, she advocates for building genuine relationships with team members, understanding their motivations, and creating space for open dialogue. The operations staff and sales-oriented leaders often process information differently, requiring distinct approaches to communication and empowerment.

For business owners struggling with difficult personnel decisions, Dawn offers a clarifying insight: if you're waffling about someone, that hesitation itself is your answer. "You can spend time staying where you're at or going backwards," she notes, "or you could spend time searching and finding the right person to launch you forward."

Ready to build a business that thrives without your constant presence? Dawn's practical framework for delegation, team empowerment, and leadership development provides the roadmap to scale your impact beyond your individual capacity.

In this podcast you will learn about:

• Dawn's journey in financial services began as an unlicensed assistant before co-founding a seven-figure firm

• Support roles in financial planning are often underserved compared to advisors

• Business owners need to shift from control to collaboration to scale effectively

• If your business can't run without you, you may have a job rather than a business

• The four-quadrant exercise helps identify what tasks require your unique abilities versus what can be delegated

• 85% of problems are process problems, not people problems

• Effective delegation requires clear expectations, deadlines, and defined autonomy

• Operations staff and salespeople are wired differently and need different leadership approaches

• Building relationships with team members requires genuine interest in them as people

• When waffling about whether someone is the right fit, that hesitation itself is your answer

• Small daily habits compound into significant achievements over time

Highlights:

0:00

Defining Elite Success

8:16

From Travel Agent to Financial Services

11:32

Control vs. Collaboration in Business

17:20

Delegation Framework: The Four Quadrants

24:36

Process Problems vs. People Problems

30:51

Building Relationships with Support Teams

35:21

Making the Hard Decisions About People

40:52

Overcoming Mental Blocks in Business

Interested in 1:1 Coaching?

Kristin partners with high-performing financial advisors, leaders, and business owners who are ready to lead with more clarity, focus, and intention.

Clients often come to her with a strong...