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The Human Cost of High Performance

2026-07-14 · 59 min · episode 40 · 15 entities

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  • → hosted by Lisa Lacy person
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    Feed author/publisher: Lisa Lacy
  • → founded OverLang Venture Partners company
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    co-founder of OverLang Venture Partners
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    co-founder of OverLang Venture Partners
  • → discusses Society & Culture concept
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  • → discusses Personal Journals concept
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    Feed category: Personal Journals
  • → hosted by Gamut Podcast Network company
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    Feed author/publisher: Gamut Podcast Network
  • → references lisalacy.com website
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    Link in episode "The Human Cost of High Performance": https://lisalacy.com/
  • → references overlang.com website
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    Link in episode "The Human Cost of High Performance": https://overlang.com/

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concepts 4

  • mentioned Society & Culture concept
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    Feed category: Society & Culture
  • mentioned Personal Journals concept
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    Feed category: Personal Journals
  • discusses Society & Culture concept
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    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: Society & Culture
  • discusses Personal Journals concept
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    Feed category: Personal Journals

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  • mentioned lisalacy.com website
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    Link in episode "The Human Cost of High Performance": https://lisalacy.com/
  • mentioned overlang.com website
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    Link in episode "The Human Cost of High Performance": https://overlang.com/
  • references lisalacy.com website
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    Link in episode "The Human Cost of High Performance": https://lisalacy.com/
  • references overlang.com website
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    Link in episode "The Human Cost of High Performance": https://overlang.com/

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  • mentioned Lisa Lacy person
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    Feed author/publisher: Lisa Lacy
  • hosted by Lisa Lacy person
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    Feed author/publisher: Lisa Lacy
Episode description as stored
What does success cost when the person carrying it is quietly breaking underneath it? In this episode of  Notes From the Edge , Lisa Lacy sits down with  James Lang , Managing Partner and co-founder of OverLang Venture Partners, for a conversation about ambition, identity, leadership, medical crisis, and the human cost of high performance. Before launching OverLang, James served as COO of a MedTech startup, where he helped grow the company to more than $20 million in revenue, built a global team of 60 people, and helped lead the organization toward a successful exit. Then a serious medical crisis changed everything. James was forced to reconsider what he believed about work, leadership, success, and the life he was building. Today, he helps American companies grow through strategy, operations, culture, and artificial intelligence, while challenging leaders to remember that growth must support the humans carrying it, not just improve the numbers on a dashboard. In this conversation, we explore: • The hidden internal cost of outward success • How a medical crisis reshaped James’s identity and ambition • What human-centered growth looks like inside an organization • Why company culture matters when scaling quickly • What businesses are getting wrong about artificial intelligence • How leaders can separate sustainable AI from expensive hype Learn more about James and OverLang Venture Partners: https://OverLang.com Learn more about Lisa Lacy: https://www.lisalacy.com What did you perform in order to survive, and is it still serving you? Subscribe for more honest conversations about trauma, identity, recovery, leadership, reinvention, and what it means to be human. See you at the edge. Notes from the Edge with Lisa Lacy Human conversations about trauma, identity, recovery, reinvention, relationships, leadership, and the lives we build after survival.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .