CEO of Self: Carl Tishler on Managing the One Company You Never Run [007]

Episode Description

Ron Boire sits down with Carl Tishler, founder of HPNA, the academy whose name does not flinch: High Performing Non-Assholes. Carl spent a career inside investment banking and private equity before the 2008 financial crisis took the firm he helped build down to zero and woke him up. Out of that came a single idea he has been refining ever since: every one of us runs a company we were never trained to manage. He calls it being the CEO of self, and he means it literally, with three standing divisions to govern, total health, strategic direction, and operations, and a regular personal board meeting to keep them honest. Ron and Carl get into why competence is its own trap, why the highest performers are so often the ones running on empty, and why the fix is not another retreat or app but a five-minute pause you actually keep.

Carl is not a wellness coach, and he will tell you so; he runs a performance academy, and his line is management, not magic. What makes this conversation land is how closely his work tracks Ron's own: own your morning, write the three things, do the small thing you can control today. Two operators who have sat in the chair, lost the plot, and built a way back, comparing notes on how a leader stays whole while the world speeds up. If you have ever finished a quarter you cannot remember living, this one is for you.

Watch the full conversation on YouTube.