Performance Under Pressure is a podcast for high-performing leaders who look successful on the outside — and carry more than anyone realizes on the inside. Hosted by Katie Nickel, founder of The Nickel Collective and performance advisor to executives and high-agency decision-makers, this show examines burnout through a different lens. Not as a time-management problem. Not as a motivation problem. But as a pressure problem. Each episode explores identity, over-functioning systems, invisible cognitive load, and the psychological patterns that keep capable leaders stuck in burnout without eve