773 How to Escape the Ambition Trap with Amina AlTai
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
If you're a high achiever who constantly feels like you're either "too much" or "not enough," this conversation will resonate deeply. Amina Alai, author of "The Ambition Trap," shares her journey from severe burnout and autoimmune disease to building a sustainable model of success that doesn't require sacrificing your health.
Discover what's behind painful ambition, why doing it alone is killing your growth, and how to embrace the seasonal nature of achievement.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole show. |
| 0:05.0 | I just had the most interesting, fascinating conversation with Amina Altai, a holistic business and career coach. |
| 0:15.7 | She is a proud Middle Eastern immigrant, and she's a chronic illness advocate. |
| 0:22.3 | But she's also like a leading coach to notable leaders and executives and founders. Amina's mastery is connecting us to our own |
| 0:29.0 | brilliance, teaching us to live and lead from it each day. She wrote this book that I think you guys |
| 0:35.5 | are going to love is called The Ambition Trap, How to Stop Chasing and Start Living. But what we talk about in this interview is really how to |
| 0:48.6 | know if your ambition is painful or purposeful. And if it's painful, as mine was in my youth, |
| 0:58.2 | what are the things that can shift? What can you do to change it to be more purposeful? |
| 1:05.0 | She's been incredibly successful in her own life. And of course, most of the time you teach what |
| 1:08.8 | you most need to learn. So she had |
| 1:12.0 | her own health crisis that sort of led her to writing this book that I think you guys are going to |
| 1:20.4 | love. So I hope that you enjoy this interview as much as I enjoyed interviewing her. |
| 1:40.3 | This is the Terry Cole show, and as you might have guessed, I'm your host, Terry Cole. |
| 1:49.3 | For over two decades, I've been a licensed psychotherapist, love and boundaries expert, and I'm also the founder of the Real Love Revolution and Boundary Boot Camp. |
| 2:02.0 | On this show, I'll bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations from my time on the front lines in the fascinating world of entertainment, |
| 2:06.3 | empowerment, and mental health. Now let's get going with today's episode. |
| 2:19.2 | Well, hello and welcome to this episode of The Terry Cole Show. |
| 2:24.0 | I'm so excited to welcome Amina Altai to the Terry Cole Show. |
| 2:24.9 | Welcome. |
| 2:26.9 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 2:37.1 | When I first, I was just telling the audience at the top, when I first saw the name of your book, The Ambition Trap, I was like, |
| 2:46.8 | wow, if this is literally the book I needed when I was in my 20s, never, never would you have been like, |
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