
Stepping Off The Path - Stories of courage and truth from women who finally chose themselves
Ep 10 | When the Performance Stops Working: From Borrowed Power to Self-Trust
<p>Melissa Scialfa spent over 25 years leading inside Fortune 100 companies. From the outside, she looked successful, ambitious, and unstoppable. But underneath the performance was a growing sense that something wasn’t right.<br /></p><p>In this conversation, Melissa shares what it really looked like to build a life around achievement, external validation and what she calls “borrowed power.”<br /></p><p>We talk about ambition, imposter syndrome, burnout, the pressure to perform and the moment everything started to crack.<br /></p><p>Melissa opens up about the coughing fit moment, during a senior leadership introduction, the breakdown that forced her to...






