Episode 187: Redefining success (revisited)

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It's the start of a new year - a time when a lot of us think about changing our lives. In this show we re-visit a conversation with two traditionally successful women who left their old work lives for the unknown. But jumping meant leaving their identities behind as well as their paychecks.

Radio journalist Tess Vigeland left her job at the top of her game, and initially wondered if she was nuts to have done so. Whitney Johnson was itching to move away from her comfortable existence at Merrill Lynch and challenge herself in new ways. She invites other people to do something similar, even if you may not think you need disrupting.

This conversation feels just as relevant in pandemic times as it did when we recorded it, as more and more people re-consider what success actually means.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Better Help Online Therapy bought this 30 second ad to remind you right now, wherever you are, to unclench your jaw.
0:10.8	Relax your shoulders. Take a deep breath in and out.
0:20.3	Feels better, right?
0:21.9	That's 15 seconds of self-care.
0:24.9	Imagine what you could do with more.
0:27.4	Visit betterhelp.com forward slash random pod
0:30.5	for 10% off your first month of therapy.
0:33.8	No pressure.
0:35.0	Just help.
0:35.9	But for now, just relax.
0:42.2	The broad experience is on a break for a few weeks while I get some new material together.
0:48.1	But in the meantime, I'm releasing a show that first aired almost exactly six years ago.
0:54.1	And at the time, it was by far the most
0:56.6	popular episode I had ever done. And the topic, I think, is as relevant as ever, perhaps especially
1:03.8	during the pandemic with so many of us questioning where we want our lives to go next. And it's
1:10.7	continuing a bit of a theme you may have noticed in recent episodes as well,
1:15.3	which is looking more carefully at what success means
1:18.7	and questioning some of the things we tell ourselves about it.
1:23.3	Stay tuned for the end when I'll give you an update about what these women
1:27.1	who quit their jobs have been doing since we all last spoke.
1:31.6	Here's the show.
1:41.0	Welcome to The Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success. I'm Ashley Melentight.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Broad Experience, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Broad Experience and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.