What Did Success Cost You? | The Cost of Success Trailer
What if the success you’ve spent your life chasing is quietly costing you the life you actually want? Discover The Cost of Success, featuring candid conversations with founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs about the hidden psychological, emotional, and relational costs of achievement.
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- Success can create hidden psychological, emotional, and relational costs that are rarely discussed.
- Founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs reveal what achievement required them to sacrifice.
- Every conversation explores ambition, identity, relationships, emotional repression, and regret.
- The goal is not to stop pursuing success, but to protect what matters most while pursuing it.
What if the success you’ve spent your life chasing is quietly costing you the life you actually want?
Behind every extraordinary success story is another story we rarely hear: the relationships tested, the years sacrificed, the pressure carried, the regrets accumulated, and the moments lost while pursuing more.
Welcome to The Cost of Success Podcast.
Hosted by high-performance mindset coach and credentialed hypnotherapist Paul Salter, this podcast features candid conversations with founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs who have achieved every traditional measure of success on the outside—but have privately wrestled with what it cost them on the inside.
Each conversation explores what these high achievers endured, sacrificed, learned, regret, and would do differently today.
You’ll hear honest discussions about ambition, identity, emotional repression, relationships, health, time, the inability to slow down, and the realization that getting everything you wanted may not feel anything like you expected.
After every conversation, Paul shares the one insight he can’t stop thinking about—along with additional coaching perspectives to help you recognize the patterns shaping your own pursuit of success.
The goal isn’t to convince you to stop pursuing more.
It’s to help you enjoy what you’ve built, protect what matters most, and make the changes now that you don’t want to regret later.
New conversations every Sunday morning.
Follow The Cost of Success Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts and join Paul for the first conversation.
Because success always has a cost.
Don’t let it be what matters most.
Paul helps founders, CEOs, and ambitious professionals overcome the hidden psychological and emotional costs of success so they can build a life that feels as successful as it looks—and make what matters most matter now.
Apply for Private 1:1 Coaching: If you’ve built a successful life but recognize that the way you’ve achieved it is beginning to cost you—your relationships, health, peace of mind, or ability to be present—it may be time to do the work beneath the work.
Click here to apply for private 1:1 coaching and learn how to pursue success without sacrificing what matters most.
Have a Story Worth Sharing? If you’ve achieved meaningful success but discovered that it came with sacrifices, struggles, or lessons rarely talked about publicly, your story may belong on The Cost of Success.
Reach out to share your story and explore the possibility of joining me for a conversation: paul@thecostofsuccesspodcast.com.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is The Cost of Success Podcast about?
The Cost of Success features candid conversations with founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs about the hidden psychological, emotional, and relational costs of achievement.
Who hosts The Cost of Success Podcast?
The podcast is hosted by Paul Salter, a high-performance mindset coach and credentialed hypnotherapist who works with founders, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and ambitious professionals.
Who is The Cost of Success Podcast for?
The show is for founders, CEOs, entrepreneurs, executives, and ambitious professionals who want to pursue meaningful success without sacrificing their relationships, health, identity, or ability to enjoy what they have built.
When are new episodes released?
New conversations are released every Sunday morning.
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What did success cost you?
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This is gonna sound dramatic, but twenty years of my life
that I could have lived differently.
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Twenty years of my life that I wasted not focusing on myself,
worrying about the wrong things, not being present,
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just not taking care of myself,
not being honest, not being vulnerable.
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Mm, success cost me...
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Man, there's so many different things it cost me.
Trying to think of if I put a word on it.
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Success cost me time. I lost time to be with my family,
to be with my kids.
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That's what success cost me.
And you can't buy more time.
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You know, real easy for me to neglect myself, number one.
That's the easiest person to neglect.
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It's definitely taken, you know, a mental toll on me,
and second-guessing everything that I've done,
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from being there enough for my family - not necessarily
providing for my family, but emotionally being there for my family.
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If I look back on it, that's probably
the biggest toll personally for me.
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Just not physically being there, but probably not mentally
being there as much as I could and should have been.
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If you've ever looked around at everything you've built,
everything you've achieved, and still wondered,
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"Why doesn't this feel the way I thought it would?"
this podcast is for you.
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Because behind every extraordinary success story
is another story that we rarely hear:
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the regrets, the sacrifices, the trade-offs,
the relationships tested, the hard decisions.
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And sometimes the realization that getting everything you wanted
didn't feel anything like you thought it would.
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Welcome to The Cost of Success podcast.
My name is Paul Salter.
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I'm a high-performance mindset coach
and credentialed hypnotherapist.
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I work with founders, CEOs, and ambitious professionals,
and help them overcome
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the hidden psychological and emotional costs of success.
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And I'm fascinated by one simple question:
What does the pursuit of more success actually cost?
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On this show, I sit down with extraordinarily successful
founders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs
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to have an honest, vulnerable conversation
about what it actually cost them
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to achieve the success they have today - specifically what they
endured, sacrificed, learned, regret, and would do differently today.
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My hope is that these conversations help give you permission
to enjoy what it is you've built, what it is you've achieved,
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while also empowering you to make the changes now
to protect what matters most every step of the way.
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You can expect a new conversation
to go live every Sunday morning.
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And I encourage you to stick around after the conversation,
because I will always share with you
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the one thing I can't stop thinking about,
alongside a handful of other coaching insights from the conversation.
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Follow The Cost of Success
wherever you listen to podcasts.
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And go ahead and join me for the first conversation.
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And I'll leave you with this.
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Remember, success always has a cost.
Don't let it be what matters most.