Episode 10. The Calibration Model: Balancing Work, Wealth and Wellbeing with Sarah Brennand

THIS EPISODE WILL BE LAUNCHING IN MARCH 2026

In this solo episode, Sarah Brennand introduces The Calibration Model, the core framework at the heart of the Balancing Act for Mastering Work, Wealth and Wellbeing. During this episode Sarah explains how sustainable success is shaped by alignment across three interdependent paradigms: Money & Mission, Mental & Physical Health, and Work & Life.

Drawing on years of executive coaching, leadership advisory work, and real lived experience, Sarah explores why capable, driven professionals often find themselves under sustained pressure despite doing ‘the right things.’ The issue is rarely motivation or ambition. More often, it is a lack of structure to understand how competing demands, energy, identity and decision-making interact over time.

The episode explains how the Calibration Model helps you see where alignment is strong, where friction is forming, and how pressure in one area quietly creates ripple effects across the others. Rather than chasing balance as a static ideal, calibration offers a dynamic way to adjust, recalibrate and stay effective as circumstances shift.

Sarah also introduces the three Calibration Tools that support the model: Emotional Intelligence, Skilled Communication and The Resilience Advantage, and how they operate across each paradigm to support clarity, capacity and performance.

This episode provides a clear lens through which to engage with the rest of the Balancing Act podcast series, offering listeners a practical framework they can return to when navigating growth, transition, challenge or change.

Key Topics Covered

• Why sustainable success requires structure, not more effort
• The origins and purpose of The Calibration Model
• Money & Mission: direction, meaning and decision-making
• Mental & Physical Health: capacity, resilience and emotional bandwidth
• Work & Life: rhythm, boundaries and operational structure
• How pressure in one paradigm impacts the others
• Recognising early signs of misalignment before burnout
• Calibration versus traditional goal-setting
• Emotional Intelligence as a performance capability
• Skilled Communication under pressure
• Resilience as a system that can be strengthened and maintained

Sarah Brennand works with leaders and organisations operating in high-pressure, high-performance environments, supporting them to build capability and achieve results that are sustainable over time. She is the Founder of L7 Executive Coaching and Co-Founder of Illuminare Executive Education, delivering leadership and business solutions internationally across multiple sectors.

Her work integrates strategy, human performance and wellbeing, informed by executive leadership experience, extensive coaching practice, and a strong belief that clarity, structure and alignment are essential to long-term success.