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Best of Both Worlds Podcast

Finding Your Life's Purpose with Suzy Welch EP 431

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Kids & Family, Careers, Business

4.6761 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Laura interviews Suzy Welch, a New York Times best-selling author, business journalist, and television commentator, and also an NYU professor. She and Laura talk career advice and she provides thoughts and advice on finding your purpose -- a topic she talks about in her new book, Becoming You, as well as her popular course at NYU.

You can learn more and find Suzy Welch at suzywelch.com.

In the Q&A, a listener with young kids writes in wondering how to NOT travel to her extended family for Thanksgiving (without offending her relatives).

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:13.6

Hi, I'm Laura Vanderkamp.

0:15.8

I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.

0:19.7

And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator.

0:25.0

We are two working parents who love our careers and our families.

0:28.9

Welcome to Best of Both Worlds.

0:30.9

Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun.

0:35.3

From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals,

0:38.7

we want you to get the most out of life.

0:45.3

Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This episode is airing in early November of 2025.

0:51.8

I am going to be interviewing Susie Welch. We're delighted to have her here at

0:55.5

Best of Both Worlds. Susie teaches at the New York University Stern School of Business. She is the

1:00.4

author of the book Becoming You, which is all about finding your purpose in life. So Susie has a long

1:07.9

career of writing about business-related topics and business leadership.

1:11.9

And one of her big ideas a couple years ago was, I think this was title of one of her books,

1:17.3

is 10, 10, 10.

1:18.8

And that is when you are choosing what to do, you ask yourself how you will think about it in 10 minutes,

1:24.8

how you will think about it in 10 months, and will it matter in 10 years. Now, I had to look that up because I first thought was 10 minutes, how you'll think about it in 10 months, and will it matter in 10 years?

1:29.6

Now, I had to look that up because I first thought was about 10 hours, 10 days, and 10 years,

1:32.9

but I guess it's 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years.

1:35.9

So I'm curious, Sarah, is there anything big that you were thinking about and wondering about 10 years ago

1:42.2

that turned out not to be something that you are thinking about now.

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