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Built to Breathe

Name: Built to Breathe
Brand: Ideapress Publishing
Price: 56.75 AUD
Availability: PreOrder

The Art of High-Performance Leadership Without Burnout

By: Paige McPheely

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Hardcover | 27 October 2026

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Hardcover

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22.86 x 15.24

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Available: 27th October 2026

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In a world that rewards speed, output, and constant motion, most leaders know how to push. The harder question is whether success is sustainable once you’ve built it.

In Built to Breathe, founder, CEO, and leadership advisor Paige McPheely challenges the idea that efficiency, endurance, and doing it all alone are the price of ambition for modern leaders. Drawing on more than a decade building remote-first companies, raising venture capital, and advising high-performing executives, she explores a quieter truth: lasting success depends not on how much you can carry, but on what you’re willing to release.

Structured around the rhythm of a breath—inhale, hold, exhale—this book examines what modern leaders take on, what they wrestle with, and what ultimately wears them down. Through personal narrative, field-tested insight, and stories from founders, operators, and people reflecting on lives well lived, McPheely reframes leadership as something human, supported, and spacious—rather than relentless.

This is not a call to want less. It’s an invitation to build ambition that doesn’t require recovery. To create space to think clearly, lead calmly, and fully inhabit the life you’ve already worked so hard to build. If you’ve been the strong one for too long, carrying responsibility others rely on but rarely see, this book offers a different kind of momentum—one you don’t have to outrun.

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