The 5 Types of High Achievers: Which One Are You? with Brooke Taylor

What if your drive to succeed is the very thing keeping you stuck? In this episode, I sit down with executive career coach Brooke Taylor to talk about the "success wound” that ties your worth to productivity, achievement, and external validation. Brooke breaks down the 5 distinct achiever types, how to identify your primary wound, and the somatic tools required to move from manic ambition into aligned success. Tune in to stop proving yourself and start feeling enough. Check out our Sponsors: Granola - Granola is an AI-powered notepad built for the way real people actually meet. Get three months free at Shopify - Try the ecommerce platform I trust for Glōci, Sign up for your $1/month trial period at Indeed - Spend less time searching, and more time actually interviewing candidates who check all your boxes. Indeed is giving Earn Your Happy listeners a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT to help get your job the premium status it deserves. Just go to right now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on Earn Your Happy. Rella - Rella is a project management platform built specifically for social media managers and teams. Go to and use code EARN for 10% off your first three months or annual plan. HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 Why feeling like a failure is part of playing bigger. 05:00 What is the “success wound” and how does it form? 11:15 The 3-part checklist to know if you have a success wound. 15:45 What are the 5 achiever types? 22:00 Why success doesn’t create fulfillment and what actually does. 30:00 How to find joy without burnout or extreme highs and lows. 31:45 What’s the difference between manic ambition and aligned ambition? 34:45 Why burnout and imposter syndrome are just symptoms. 38:00 A somatic tool to calm anxiety instantly. 44:44 How to stop negative thought spirals in real time. 47:00 The mindset shift that frees you from fear. 51:15 The “opposite action” method to break unhealthy patterns. 54:30 Where to get Brooke’s book + start healing today. RESOURCES Pre-order your copy of Brooke’s book “Healing the Success Wound” HERE! Take the Success Wound Quiz HERE! Apply for the Elite Entrepreneur Mastermind HERE! Get on the waitlist for Mentor Collective Mastermind HERE! Try glōci for 40% off your first order with code HAPPY at checkout - head to getgloci.com FOLLOW Follow me: @loriharder Follow glōci: @getgloci Follow Brooke: @brookevtaylor

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The 5 Types of High Achievers: Which One Are You? with Brooke Taylor is an episode from Earn Your Happy by Lori Harder.

This episode is 59:56 long.

This episode was published on Apr 20, 2026.

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