101: The One Upgrade Required for Tech Founders & Execs to Hit 2026 Goals

If you’re a founder or executive who keeps hitting goals but still feels stretched, scattered, and secretly unsatisfied, this episode is your pattern interrupt. In this conversation,

Marlyne Pierce — fractional CPO, growth partner, and strategist for tech founders and executives — breaks down the quiet growth lever underneath your roadmap, relationships, and results: your identity. You’ll learn how your leadership operating system (identity → rules → rhythms) is silently deciding where your time, energy, attention, and motivation go — and why your nervous system keeps pulling you back into firefighting, over-functioning, and calendar chaos.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

1. Why your identity will protect itself even at the expense of your biggest goals
2. How “I’m the fixer / scrappy operator” identities quietly block self-sufficient teams
3. The real first team you manage: your time, energy, attention, and motivation
4. How rules (constraints) and rhythms (rituals) turn burnout into flow
5. A simple leadership OS audit to realign your goals, nervous system, and calendar
6. One constraint and one rhythm you can install this week to create more space
7. If you’re ready to become the calm, decisive CEO who steers the ship (instead of rowing every boat), this episode will show you where to start — from the inside out.

👉 Ready to upgrade your Leadership OS, product, and team? Bopok a Call to explore ways to work with Marlyne: https://modernmogulhq.as.me