Breaking Up with Perfectionism to Scale Your Life

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Aug 14, 2025

Keren Eldad, an executive coach and author specializing in high achievers, shares insights on battling perfectionism and scarcity thinking. She emphasizes that many overachievers equate their worth with hustle, leading to burnout. Keren discusses how letting go of perfectionism doesn't diminish success and highlights the dark side of hustle culture. She encourages listeners to embrace vulnerability, recognize the resistance to rest, and shift towards an abundant mindset to achieve personal and professional fulfillment.

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INSIGHT

Adversarial Worldview Hurts High Achievers

Most high achievers view the world as adversarial and scarce even if they think they're optimistic.
That adversarial lens rigs decisions toward competition with time and others, hurting long-term ease and growth.

ADVICE

Be Gentle Without Losing Standards

Stop treating easing up as a loss; become gentle without losing standards.
Keep high standards but stop the self-punishment that perfectionism causes.

ANECDOTE

Seven-Figures Burnout Story

After breaking seven figures in 2023, Keren kept opening the floodgates until the team threatened to quit.
That overload forced her to stop and rethink systems rather than keep hustling harder.

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Let’s talk about the unspoken epidemic hitting high achievers: perfectionism, scarcity thinking, and the belief that our worth is tied to hustle.

In this episode of the Jasmine Star Show, I sit down with powerhouse coach and recovering perfectionist Keren Eldad—and y’all, it’s the permission slip we didn’t know we needed.

Keren has coached world leaders, Olympians, and 8-figure entrepreneurs, and guess what they all battle? The fear of not being enough.

We unpack the adversarial mindset that equates pressure with performance—and explore how ease can be your edge.

If you’ve ever felt guilty for resting, obsessed over “getting it right,” or mistaken anxiety for ambition… this one’s for you.

Keren doesn’t just drop gems—she drops frameworks. Tune in to rewire your patterns and lead with clarity, not chaos.

Click play to hear all of this and:

[00:02] Why most high achievers operate from scarcity (even if they don’t know it)

[00:55] “Do you view the world as abundant or adversarial?” – the question that changes everything

[04:11] Why letting go of perfectionism doesn’t mean losing your edge

[06:02] The dark side of hustle culture and how it nearly made Keren quit her own business

[07:35] Why most perfectionists don’t think they are (and how to spot it in yourself)

[09:57] The real reason we resist rest (and what to do about it)

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Connect With Keren Eldad:

Keren Eldad is an executive coach, speaker, and author specializing in high achievers who look great on paper but feel like something’s missing. Her work has impacted world leaders, elite athletes, entrepreneurs, and C-suite executives. Known for her clarity and compassion, Keren helps overachievers drop the hustle and reclaim joy, success, and personal alignment. Her coaching program and upcoming book, Gilded, explore what happens when performance masks pain—and how to break free.

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