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I'm your host, Dr. Edie Wadsworth, and I hope you enjoy your stay here at the House of Joy.

Oh, hi, dear ones. Welcome back to House of Joy. So happy you're here today. Today is a, it's kind of a

different one. It's a solo episode. It's just me today. And I'm going to be talking about the surprising

truth about success and why I walked away from medicine. This came up recently, actually at a family gathering that we had so I wanted to tell you kind of

what happened there and what it got me thinking about and then I have a fun invitation for you

at the end but this whole thing brought me back to like stuff that happened I don, 15 years ago, but how relevant it is to my

life now. And I do think that when we think about the topic of success, when you hear that

word, I would be really curious for you what comes to mind. But for most people, it is things

like, you know, the car you drive, the amount of money you have in

the bank, a big job title, your dream house, some kind of recognition, you know, for what

you're doing. And I even looked this up. The American Psychological Association found that

74% of people

define success like this in terms of career achievement, money, or social status or whatever.

And yet, I think that we are living in a time where the rates of burnout and anxiety and depression

are higher than ever. And I think it is time for us to rethink this.

And I've been doing this over the past 15 years

because I gave up a very successful, I put in air quotes,

a very successful, recognized career with a lot of status

to do something that most people don't understand. So I went from a

physician to a life coach. And, you know, 15 years ago, I had a life that most people thought

they would want that, you know, people that on the outside looked really successful. I also read

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