163. Steve Chua: How Your Identity Is Either Healing Or Destroying Your Health

Extend Podcast with Darshan Shah, MD · May 12, 2026 · 1h

Most high performing executives will spend thousands optimizing their glucose levels, their sleep, and their body composition without ever stopping to ask why none of it makes them feel any better. The answer almost never lives in their labs and it almost never lives in their training program. It lives in the identity they built their entire career on top of, and the silent narrative driving every decision they make, that tells them their worth is only as good as their last result.

In this episode of Extend, I sat down with Steve Chua to explore the real root cause of executive burnout and…