Stop Performing.
Start Living.

Become a fully present parent, fiercely loving partner, and successful business leader — without burning out, selling out, or losing yourself in the process.

It's impossible to become a better leader at work without becoming a better leader at home too.

Nobody knows...

what it's taking to hold it all together.

At some point, you stopped showing up as yourself and started performing three different versions of you. One at work. One at home. One when nobody's watching. It got you here. And it's also what's costing you.

Lead
At Work

You walk into a room and you're the one talking. The one with all the answers. Your team steps back because you've always been faster. Revenue grows, but everything bottlenecks through you.

Love
At Home

You show up for dinner. But you're still carrying the weight of the day. Your partner gets what's left. Your kids get the version of you that has nothing left. Present in body, absent everywhere else.

Show Up
For Yourself

Health is "fine" but declining. Haven't had a real hobby in years. Sleep is mediocre, caffeine is energy. You'll "get to yourself" later. Later never comes.

What changes isn't the workload. It's the weight.

The High-Performing Pattern

You're a giver. It's how you're wired.

High performers are innately generous. You lead, you carry, you fix, you protect. It probably shows up as one of five patterns.

Five Hero Archetypes: Workhorse, Fixer, Carrier, Controller, Savior

Knowing your pattern is the first step to expanding beyond it.

The State of Self (SOS) Map

Where are you, honestly?

Two axis: how much you're investing in yourself (self-rich vs. self-poor) and how much you're giving to others (selfish vs. selfless). Most high-performers land in the same quadrant. And it's the one that looks like success from the outside.

State of Self (SOS) Map
Surviving
Self-Poor + Selfish

Taking without receiving. Depleted and withdrawn. The place nobody admits they've been.

Performing
Self-Poor + Selfless

Giving everything to everyone. Depleted but praised for it. This is where most successful leaders are stuck. It looks like winning. It feels like drowning.

Developing
Self-Rich + Selfish

The sacred selfish. Building your own capacity first. It feels wrong because your identity was built on being THE ONE. This phase is where the real work happens.

Living
Self-Rich + Selfless

Contributing from overflow. Full access to your agency. Leadership becomes effortless because you're no longer performing it. You're just showing up.

Most people who find me are in Performing. Successful on paper. Fractured in practice.

The Way Out

Capacity is the only way out.
Not balance. Not time management. Not optimization. CAPACITY.

The ability to respond instead of react. To hold more without holding on. To show up full instead of showing up depleted.

Capacity isn't time. Time is a byproduct.

What We Work On

A strategic partnership across business, family, and self.

Leader
Recalibration
Who you are, not who you've been performing

You've spent years becoming the leader everyone needs. Somewhere along the way, you sold yourself out, putting everyone else first. You're the hero, and don't even know it.

We work on personal integration, self-leadership, and the patterns keeping you stuck in loops you've outgrown.

What shifts: You stop performing strength. You start living from it.
Company
Advisory
When your team speaks different languages

Your sales team, marketing, finance, engineering, operations — everyone's brilliant at their job. But they speak different languages. Miscommunicate. Go in circles.

We work on strategy everyone understands, culture that doesn't require you as the translator, and communication that connects the dots.

What shifts: Your team starts connecting without you being the bridge every time.
Family
Connection
From logistics back to love

You love your family. They love you. But at some point it became logistics instead of connection. Another thing to manage instead of something that feeds you.

We work on marriage and partnership that's connected and alive, parenting where your kids actually open up, and presence that makes your partner want to be close to you again.

What shifts: Your family becomes the place that fills you up, not drains you.

Most leaders want the life they can see in their head: present parent, connected partner, successful business, at peace with themselves. But they're terrified of what they'll have to give up to get there.

We solve for that.

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What They Say

Brent Perkins is one of the most caring and present leaders in the marketplace today. Unlike many other thought leaders who offer little in terms of tangible value, he overdelivers in every sense of the word. Brent has helped my business but more importantly my marriage, my relationships with my kids, and even my relationship with myself.
Andrew Biggs — CEO, Better Than Rich
Brent is the fascia. He speaks CEO, he understands tech and science, and he has the consciousness to integrate it all. For the right person, the right company, it's priceless.
Josh Rimany — Founder & CEO, Dilworth Compounding
He has this incredible ability to see things that other people can't. He sees through people, in them, besides them, 10 steps ahead of them. Brent is the blindspot exposer.
Craig Perra — Founder, The Mindful Habit
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Brent Perkins

I'm Brent Perkins

Father. Lover. Leader.

25 years as an entrepreneur. Two decades in the C-suite. Teams across 19 countries. Then my marriage ended, my health crashed, and I finally saw what my "indispensability" had actually cost me.

Now I help leaders see the patterns they can't see.

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