Chad Herst
Guest bio:
Chad Herst is a mind/body and executive coach and the author of The Performance Trap: The Ache No Success Will Ever Fix. He has been coaching since 2008. His work helps people notice the patterns that take over under pressure, listen for what matters to them, and try different ways of responding in daily life.
His new book, The Performance Trap: The Ache No Success Will Ever Fix, names the pattern he kept finding underneath the success in his clients, and in himself: the drive that builds something real, then keeps running long after it stops feeling like enough. He lives in Northern California with his wife, Melissa.
Connect with Chad:
Website: herstwellness.com
Free first chapter (read in his voice): herstwellness.com/chapter-one
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Sept. 29, 2026
The Performance Trap: Chad Herst on Success, Grief, and Coming Home to Himself
What happens when the thing that saved your life becomes the thing you have to heal from? Chad Herst has been practicing Ashtanga yoga since his twenties — authorized to teach by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois himself in 2003 — and coaching high-performing founders and executives since 2008. From the outside, he'd figured it out. From the inside, he was running the exact pattern he now helps his clients name: the drive that builds something real, and then keeps running long after it stops feeling like ...
Guest: Chad Herst
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336
Sept. 29, 2026
The Performance Trap: Chad Herst on Success, Grief, and Coming Home to Himself [VIDEO]
What happens when the thing that saved your life becomes the thing you have to heal from? Chad Herst has been practicing Ashtanga yoga since his twenties — authorized to teach by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois himself in 2003 — and coaching high-performing founders and executives since 2008. From the outside, he'd figured it out. From the inside, he was running the exact pattern he now helps his clients name: the drive that builds something real, and then keeps running long after it stops feeling like ...
Guest: Chad Herst