The Comparison Trap After Success | Jen Recla on Leadership

Read the full episode breakdown + show notes:https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/blog/ep186-comparison-trap-after-successJen Recla's business was working. That is exactly when the comparison trap got louder, not quieter.Jen Recla is a leadership coach and the founder of Recla Coaching & Consulting, where she helps senior leaders build resilient, high performing teams after nearly 15 years across healthcare, nonprofit, and public sector organizations. Her second year in business hit real momentum, and the comparison spiral got sharper anyway. This conversation is about what happens when the safety you used to borrow from a job title has to be generated internally instead.In This Episode, We Explore:• The Comparison Trap: why the spiral got louder as Jen's results got better, not quieter.• Structure as the Downstream of Self-Trust: the difference between borrowing stability from a corporate title and generating it on your own.• The Lobby and the Inner Room: what changes when "am I doing enough" gets asked from curiosity instead of verdict.• The Gap and the Gain: measuring progress from where you started instead of the distance still ahead.• Data Over Drama: treating a quiet season, or a failed workshop, as information instead of proof of failure.• The Hollywood Chapter: what a season of shame in her twenties still teaches her about uncertainty today.Episode Chapters:00:00 Welcome and Meet Jen Recla01:06 The Comparison Trap When Business Is Actually Working04:26 Corporate Structure vs. Building It Yourself09:36 "Am I Doing Enough?": The Lobby vs. the Inner Room18:22 The Summer Spiral of 202421:26 The Gap and the Gain: Data Over Drama24:00 Going Backwards: Hollywood, Shame, and Resilience29:36 What Self-Trust Looks Like Today and Where to Find JenConnect with Jen Recla:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferrecla/Website: https://www.jenrecla.com/Free Tool: No Time to Think? Start Here!, https://www.jenrecla.com/notimetothinkJoin the Conversation:This one is for you if your business is actually working and you still catch yourself measuring your progress against someone six months behind you. You know the numbers are fine. The doubt arrived anyway.Take the Self-Trust Identity Map. Before strategy. Before motivation. Before more effort, you need to know where your identity is operating from. Because that is what determines everything that follows.It's free. It takes three minutes. And it will give you a precise read on where your identity is actually operating from right now, and exactly where to focus next.https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/identity-assessment-pageWant to go deeper? The Floor: Your Build is available now. Self-paced, structured, and built around the same framework.https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/the-floor-your-build