Success felt like failure - when winning meant everyone lost connection

20/08/2025 20 min Episodio 117
Success felt like failure - when winning meant everyone lost connection

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What happens when you achieve everything you set out to accomplish, but it feels like you've failed at what really matters? Phil Herrington built exactly what he envisioned - a thriving network, 300 members, successful connections happening daily. By every metric, he was winning.But something was devastatingly wrong."I noticed no one's connecting," Phil realized. "Why are they not connecting?" He'd created the perfect system, followed all the rules, hit all his targets. Yet the very people he'd brought together to build relationships were still sitting alone, isolated, unable to truly connect with each other.The crushing truth hit him: he'd built another version of his old "rhino" self - a network that looked successful on paper but left everyone feeling empty and disconnected. His 1.0 version was a beautiful failure disguised as achievement.Discover how a man who thought he'd evolved from relationship destroyer to relationship builder had to face the hardest truth of all: sometimes your greatest success is just a more sophisticated version of your original failure. And why the most painful part of growth isn't admitting you were wrong - it's admitting you weren't right enough.Timestamps:[01:24] The moment he realized "no one's connecting" despite his success[03:01] Why his 1.0 version was a beautiful failure[04:35] The crushing weight of building something that looked right but felt wrong[08:03] When achievement becomes another form of isolation[12:58] How to evolve when your success feels like sophisticated failureSend us a textSupport the show If You’ve Been Hooked on These Episodes… This Is for You If this podcast has been landing deep… if each story feels like it’s peeling back something raw and real in you… then don’t ignore that. Every guest you’ve heard made the same decision: to stop performing and start healing. Now it’s your turn. Take the Silent Collapse Diagnostic. It’s not a quiz. It’s a wake-up tool for women who are done pretending they’re fine. No fluff. No journaling prompts. Just a straight-up mirror into where you’re silently collapsing behind the mask of success. If you're serious about reclaiming your energy, your clarity, your life start there. Because breakthrough doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with finally seeing what’s been stealing your power. Take the self-audit now. Learn more about Baz Porter at www.bazporter.com

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