This TED Talk features social entrepreneur Noeline Kiribo, recorded live at TED Women 2019.

When you have a job that pays you enough to cover your basic needs, your bills, and even some more to spend, the assumption is that you'd be happy or even better fulfilled.

And it seems unthinkable when you wake up and say,

you're going to live a job like that to pursue a passion.

And that was my dilemma six years ago.

I had a comfortable job.

I lived a comfortable life.

And people expected me to be fulfilled, but I wasn't.

There was something in me that wanted more.

There was a misalignment between the things I did on a daily basis

and the things that I deeply cared about.

And so I decided to quit and explore the possibility

of bringing this fashion into my daily routines.

And I think about finding your passion is that it's not straightforward.

Even for people with money and degrees, they still struggle to identify their passion.

And here I was, at a 30-year-old, talking about finding my passion and turning it into a career.

Literally, people told me,

you don't talk about passion until you've made enough money,

or at least until you're ready to retire.

Because there's a notion that looking inward

and finding the things that give us pleasure

and fulfillment is a luxury that only the rich can enjoy.

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