Don't Ignore the Burned Garlic, Rewrite the Playbook

LeadtheGame Locker Talk · Oct 2, 2025 · 9m

This week’s Locker Talk doesn’t start in a boardroom.

It starts in my kitchen — hungry, tired, and trying to do too much at once.

What happened next?I burned the garlic.

But that moment, simple as it was, became a powerful metaphor for what happens when we stop listening to the signals in our career.

In this 10-minute episode, I’m talking about:

* The emotional cost of “just pushing through”

* Why we ignore the signs we’re off track — and how to start catching them

* The connection between tiny frustrations and big misalignments

* What to do when your pace, pressure, and plan all collide…