The Human Cost of High Performance

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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 hypeLearn more about James and OverLang Venture Partners:https://OverLang.comLearn more about Lisa Lacy:https://www.lisalacy.comWhat 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.