Can You Have It All? Ambition, Identity, and the Fertility Timeline with Brooke Taylor

As a Woman

Natalie Crawford

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

High-achieving women often have everything on paper: the prestigious title, the corner office, the growing family, yet still feel a haunting emptiness inside. In this episode, Dr. Natalie Crawford sits down with Brooke Taylor, a transformational career coach and former Google marketing lead, to uncover why so many women are running on a “success wound” that confuses production with self-worth. By looking at the human element of ambition, Taylor explores how we can stop treating our lives like a high-stakes chess game and start finding a truer, more sustainable source of power that does not lead to burnout. What You’ll Learn: The silent epidemic of the success wound and why high-achieving women often use professional significance as a coping mechanism for a "soul sickness." The two distinct power sources for ambition and how one leads to a frantic, frenzied lifestyle while the other fosters genuine collaboration. Why society rewards the "Justin" archetype and the cultural trap of assigning high morals to those who appear to struggle the most in their productivity. The "mental gymnastics" of family building and how to navigate the anxiety of a ticking clock when you are used to controlling every outcome. A breakdown of the five archetypes of high achievement from the grinder to the hider and how to diagnose your specific response to professional pressure. Guest Resources: Website: Brooke Taylor Coaching Instagram: @brookevtaylor Order The Success Wound by Brooke Taylor https://brooketaylorcoaching.com/successwound/ Host Resources: Order The Fertility Formula! ⁠https://www.nataliecrawfordmd.com/book⁠ Newsletter: nataliecrawfordmd.com/newsletter Instagram: @nataliecrawfordmd Youtube Channel: Natalie Crawford MD Interested in becoming a patient?: Fora Fertility Earn FREE CE/CME: Learn at Pinnacle App This episode is brought to you by The Pinnacle Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was really, really struggling with having it all on paper, but feeling empty on the inside.
0:05.0	How do we start to separate our identity, our self-worth from what we produce?
0:11.0	I never felt ready even before I got pregnant.
0:14.0	If I fail at this, then I'm a failure.
0:16.0	Whenever we're in the future, we're in anxiety.
0:17.0	Hard work equal success, so why is it not happening here? We were raised to be
0:22.6	perfect. Nobody will care. That's what I'm scared of. More than failing. How do we change that
0:28.8	mindset? Welcome back to the As a Woman podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Natalie Crawford, and today
0:36.2	I'm joined by Brooke Taylor,
0:41.9	a transformational career coach, speaker, and former Google Marketing Lead, who has become the leading authority on a phenomenon she pioneered, called The Success Wound. Today, we are
0:47.7	talking about ambition, identity, and family building, and how these parts of life often intersect
0:53.0	for high-achieving women. We also get into
0:55.4	how people pleasing, constant productivity, and tying our self-worth to our success impact women
1:00.9	every day. If you want to know how to pursue success without losing yourself in the process,
1:05.9	this is the episode for you. Hi, Brooke. Thank you so much for joining me. So happy to be here. Thank you. Okay. Well, I usually
1:12.0	love to go into a lot of background, which we will, but I just want to say, I've got your book here.
1:16.8	I'm so excited. Thanks. Will you give us the background of how you even got to the place of writing
1:22.8	this book? Like, why the book? The book came about mostly from personal experience, but also a lot of research.
1:29.2	So I work with a lot of high achieving women between the ages of 25 and 45, kind of mid to senior
1:35.0	level women, mostly in corporate roles.
1:37.5	So very high achieving, lots of go-getters.
1:40.0	And they would come to me with the typical issues that you would think of.
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