Jim Young
Former corporate leader turned executive coach who spent 25 years inside the systems that reward stoicism, status, and self-sacrifice. Despite professional success, Jim experienced severe burnout driven not by workload alone, but by the isolation and emotional suppression baked into traditional definitions of masculinity and leadership.
Rather than optimizing performance, he chose to dismantle the assumptions underneath it.
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“I thought burnout was about working too hard. What I discovered is that it was about being disconnected from myself and everyone else.”
—Jim Young
What Changed?
Writing the book forced Jim to confront the central tension in his work: the very behaviors that earn men respect in corporate culture often quietly erode their well-being and relationships.
Through the writing process, “expansive intimacy” emerged not as a personal philosophy, but as a named framework, one that connects burnout recovery, emotional literacy, and sustainable leadership.
