Hey listeners, coming to you today with a bonus episode because I want to introduce you to a new podcast with the host I greatly admire.

Her name is Molly Graham, and you'll recognize the title of this show.

It's Ted's podcast Work Life because it used to be hosted by Adam Grant.

Well, Molly has recently taken over as host and you're going to love her

point of view as she talks to leaders in every field, both folks like Mark Rober, who my kid

loves, and so do I, and Patty Stone'sifer, who my kid doesn't know at all, but I have been

following for decades. That is the conversation I'm bringing you today.

And if you want to check out more episodes of work life, and I think you should, you can find it wherever you get your podcasts.

Enjoy.

Work consumes most of our lives.

Particularly if you're working 40, 50, or more hours per week, that is a lot of life.

Over time, what you do for work can shape not just how you spend your days, but how you think about yourself.

And yet, for something that takes up so much of our lives,

most of us are basically improvising when it comes to deciding what work we should do.

Early in my career, I was definitely in some kind of race. It was a race to prove myself, to get

recognition that I was good at things. That recognition came in the form of titles and promotions and compensation and all the visible

signals that I was winning.

Even though it was somebody else's race and somebody else's rules, for a long time, I let

it guide how I made decisions about my career.

And then at some point, life made me pause and ask a much

harder question. What do I actually want? What does success mean to me? What matters to me in my life?

What do I want my life to be about? And how does work fit in to all of that? Most of the big decisions in our careers don't come with clear answers.

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