

Chasing Success But Still Unfulfilled? Why High Performers Need to Slow Down to Lead with Jon Giganti
🎙️ Build With Intention: From Burnout to Breakthrough with John Giganti | Level Up Creators Podcast
In this episode of the Level Up Creators Podcast, Amanda sits down with John Giganti—USA Today bestselling author of With Intention, former D1 soccer player, and sales exec who helped scale a company to nearly a billion dollars. Today, John is on a mission to help high-performing leaders and teams build lives and businesses rooted in clarity, purpose, and sustainable success.
John shares how unresolved personal challenges and hustle culture nearly derailed his career, and how he turned it all around—by going inward. From panic attacks to peak performance, this episode is a blueprint for founders, consultants, and executives who know there’s more to success than metrics and money.
🎯 Key Takeaways for High-Performance Founders & Teams:
✔️ Why high performers often ignore the signs of burnout—and what to do instead
✔️ How to connect the head and heart for truly aligned leadership
✔️ The With Intention Method: Awareness, Agency, Ambition, Action, Adjustment
✔️ How elite athletes and execs are rethinking success in 2025
✔️ The secret to high-performing teams: psychological safety, trust, and self-awareness
✔️ Why peak performance isn’t about doing more—it’s about doing it differently
✔️ How to lead teams (or sales orgs) without losing yourself in the process
✔️ The difference between winning for now vs. building something that lasts
Amanda Links:
Amanda’s LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/northcuttamanda/
Website → https://welevelupcreators.com/
Newsletter → https://newsletter.welevelupcreators.com/
đź”— Jon Giganti Links:
LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/jongiganti/
Website → https://www.jongiganti.com/
Book → https://a.co/d/hlS875F
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