Andy Reid: What Leaders and Top Performers Get WRONG About Success

About this episode

Andy Reid discusses redefining success and high performance beyond traditional metrics.

What if the biggest barrier between you and high performance isn't strategy, skills, or resources, but the language you've inherited about what success is supposed to look like? For most leaders and high performers, success has been defined externally: the targets, the status, the titles, the deal sizes. But Andy Reid, business owner, award-winning auctioneer, podcaster and author of 'Success Curious: How to Define and Achieve High Performance', makes a very compelling case that the entire framework is broken. Not because the concepts are wrong, but because the language used to communicate them has stopped working. Discipline, sacrifice, high performance: these words carry weight that can shut us down rather than opening us up. In this episode of the REV UP Rebellion, Abbie White sits down with Andy Reid for a conversation that is as honest as it is thought-provoking. Andy brings together years of lived experience with mental health, ADHD, grief, and personal reinvention to challenge the idea that success is an external game. His framework is simple, deeply personal, and built for the kind of leader who has ticked every box on the conventional checklist and still feels something…

People in this episode

Host: Abbie White

Guest: Andy Reid

Topics covered

• high performance
• success
• leadership
• mental health
• personal reinvention

Keywords

• success
• high performance
• leadership
• mental health
• ADHD
• grief
• personal reinvention

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Success Curious: How to Define and Achieve High Performance

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