Chad Herst

Chad Herst is a mind/body coach and licensed acupuncturist who has coached founders, executives, and high performers since 2008. The kind of people who look, from the outside, like they've figured it out. Most of his life he's been one of them, which is the part the work turned out to be about. He also spent years training in Ashtanga yoga, and was authorized to teach by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in 2003.

His new book, The Performance Trap: The Ache No Success Will Ever Fix, names a pattern he kept finding underneath the success in his clients and in himself: the drive that builds something real, and then keeps running long after it stops feeling like enough. Not laziness, not burnout exactly. The quieter problem where the reaching becomes the whole identity, and you can't tell anymore whether you're pursuing a life or outrunning something.

He lives in Northern California with his wife, Melissa.

Links:

herstwellness.com/chapter-one (the first chapter, read in my voice)