The High-Achievers Guide
to Sustainable Success

CHASING ENOUGH:

The High-Achievers Guide
to Sustainable Success

For high-achieving leaders who have everything they thought they wanted—yet still feel like it’s not enough.

Why This
Book Matters
Now

CHASING ENOUGH IS HERE

What if success didn’t have to cost you your peace?

Chasing Enough is a wake-up call for the high-achiever who’s quietly running on empty. It’s for the leader who looks the part—successful, composed, capable—but underneath it all is tired of holding it all together. Tired of feeling like no matter how much they do, it’s never quite enough. Tired of chasing a version of success that keeps moving the finish line.

This isn’t another burnout book with grim stats and “self-care” band-aids. It’s a reclamation. A map back to your power, your peace, your self-trust. A practical, soul-deep guide to success that actually feels good in your body and your life.

Through raw storytelling and the Well-Resourced Method™, Mandy Balak helps readers break the cycle of over-giving, over-performing, and self-sacrificing. She names the invisible patterns—the inherited beliefs, the pressure to prove, the addiction to doing—that keep so many leaders stuck on the hamster wheel of hustle. And she offers something better: a grounded, repeatable way to lead from clarity, not chaos. Alignment, not adrenaline. Wholeness, not depletion.

This isn’t about doing less—it’s about choosing better. 

Chasing Enough gives you the tools to stop abandoning yourself in the name of ambition, and start building a life that holds you while you rise.

Because when you lead from alignment, everything around you rises too.

The high achiever’s guide to sustainable success.

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Who This Book Is For

Leaders, entrepreneurs, CEO’s or creatives navigating burnout


Leaders with big vision who are tired of proving and performing


Executives who want to succeed without selling their soul


Anyone ready to let go of the old rules—and write their own

"Chasing Enough is a must-read for high-achievers, burnt-out leaders, and anyone who’s been silently drowning under the pressure to keep it all together. Mandy doesn’t just offer tools in Chasing Enough, she speaks to the heart of anyone who’s ever felt like nothing is ever enough and that scarcity is always gnawing at their heels. With raw honesty and powerful guidance, she shows you how to stop proving your worth through overworking and start leading your life from a place of deep alignment and self-trust. If you’re craving more ease, clarity, and true fulfillment, this book will change everything."

Mark Groves, Founder of Create the Love and The Mark Groves Podcast

5 Things This Book Will Teach You

For high-achievers who crave more freedom, fulfillment, and sustainable success:

1

How to spot the hidden patterns that drain your energy

Name the power leaks—those sneaky “shoulds,” inherited expectations, and outdated survival strategies—that keep you stuck in cycles of overgiving, proving, and pushing. Once you see them, you can shift them. This is how you stop running on empty and start leading from wholeness.

2

How to untangle your worth from your work

Reclaim who you are beyond what you do. Through honest stories and simple but powerful exercises, you’ll release the pressure to prove yourself through performance—and start feeling grounded, worthy, and whole, no matter your title or to-do list. This is how you build a life that feels good to live, not just impressive on paper.

3

How to set boundaries without guilt (and actually keep them)

Protect your energy without apology—releasing the guilt, people-pleasing, and inner noise that’s kept you stretched too thin. This is about building a healthier relationship with work, creating more harmony in your days, and finally getting your time and power back. Boundaries aren’t walls—they’re your way home to yourself.

4

How to rewire your relationship with rest, success, and the in-between

Reframe rest as strategy—not weakness. This book teaches you how to slow down without losing momentum, lead without burning out, and hold yourself through the stretch between where you are and where you’re going. In a world that rewards exhaustion, pausing becomes your power move.

5

How to lead from grounded alignment—not chaos

With the proven Well-Resourced Method™, you’ll learn how to move with clarity, not urgency. No more leading on fumes or chasing your tail. This is about making aligned decisions, taking intentional action, and expanding your impact—without abandoning yourself. Fast can still be steady. Power can still be peaceful.

The Well-Resourced Method

At the heart of the book is the Well-Resourced Method—a four-part framework for lasting transformation that’s helped hundreds of leaders break out of survival mode and return to grounded, joyful leadership:

THE PROMISE

When you stop chasing “enough,” you discover you’ve been standing on solid ground all along. Chasing Enough is your invitation to come home to yourself—and redefine success on your own terms. This is your permission slip to pause, breathe, and lead with clarity and courage.

“Burn every other business book you own and read this one. You shouldn’t be allowed to lead without hearing the reverberating truth jump from these pages. Mandy’s writing is such a beautiful balance of vulnerability and humanness that will help you step into your own truth and unique leadership. “

–Janne Robinson, Author of This is for the women who don't give a fck*

“ A deeply personal and practical guide to a life worth living. If you wish to bring forth your highest potential and ease the stresses of your journey, this book is a useful guidebook and companion for the path.“

–Gay Hendricks, author of The Big Leap

“As someone who's been at "the work" of personal and leadership development for a long time, it can be easy to delude myself, thinking I've shed the "not enough" gremlin. I haven't. This book is so helpful, like an accompanying friend saying, We've got this, we're in together, you're not alone. Also, Do this, it'll help. And it does. Mandy's writing style is so kind and it's easy to stay engaged and flip page after page because the insights she's sharing are at once deeply personal, known and shown through her lived experience and that of her clients, and universal as they touch on what it's like to be a caring and ambitious human living within an insatiable culture.”

–Chela Davison, ICC Integral Master Coach and Director, Leadership & Strategic Innovation at Integral Coaching Canada

PRAISE FOR
CHASING ENOUGH

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MEET
THE AUTHOR

Mandy Balak brims with warmth, passion, smarts, and an unwavering commitment to help high-achievers finally feel like their achievements are “enough.” An award-winning entrepreneur, community builder, sought-after leadership advisor, and president of The Gathering Festival, Balak specializes in helping high-achieving leaders move from chasing to sustaining. 

As a three-time founder who built and exited two successful businesses before age 35, Mandy experienced a profound personal crisis despite her external success. This awakening led her to develop the Well-Resourced Method, a framework now used by thousands of leaders to create sustainable success without sacrificing wellbeing. 

With accolades including Entrepreneur of the Year, Startup of the Year, and the Young Innovators Award, Mandy has built and scaled three bootstrapped businesses over the past fifteen years. Her entrepreneurial journey includes a successful exit from DateNight Canada in 2021 after a decade of growth in six cities; establishing Branded Magazine, which published for two years from 2014-2016, celebrating local entrepreneurs with a readership of 35,000+ per issue; and founding The ACE Community (now The Well) and RISE Conference, which connected more than 15,000 women leaders across Canada through a brunch series that expanded across six cities and went viral during the rise of the Me Too movement with an explosion of social media, press coverage, and community led growth. 

A dynamic speaker and thought leader, Mandy has been covered in The Globe & Mail, CTV, Breakfast Television, The Daily Hive, and she has shared stages with Gary Vaynerchuk, Danielle Laporte, Mark Groves, Terri Cole, Connor Beaton, Janne Robinson and James Lawrence. 

Her corporate clients include Fortune 500 CEO’s and their teams where she leads workshops on burnout prevention and sustainable leadership that have vastly improved team cultures, engagement, performance and retention rates.

Mandy lives in Calgary, Canada, with her husband James and Frenchie Tony. She practices what she preaches by living a well-integrated life, equally prioritizing relationships, rest and impact. 


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Today, in addition to helming the Gathering Festival and global community, she spearheads ancillary Gathering Community events, writes a weekly newsletter, and shares her hard-earned wisdom across social media. In the last five years, she has hosted dozens of retreats for high-performing leaders, practicing her method and helping leaders reclaim their time, energy, and freedom. She hosts “The Well Podcast with Mandy Balak” where she interviews prominent leaders about their own journeys with burnout and "enoughness" and she co-hosts The Gathering Podcast, where she interviews brand leaders on building a brand to last. 


The high achiever’s guide to sustainable success.

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