What happens when the line between you and your work becomes blurred when your job becomes your

identity, when your title becomes how you define yourself outside of work too? This isn't rhetorical.

I recently found myself grappling with this and it gave me a lot to think about because in a

society powered by capitalism, the hustle and grind culture, who am I if I'm not my work ethic?

To make matters more complicated, identifying strongly with and therefore committing deeply

to your work can be very lucrative, creating a dopamine-fueled feedback loop that's hard to break.

The downside is the complete co-mingling of work in life means you may feel

existentially lost without that driving structure of work in your life. So let's get into it.

Welcome back to the Money with Katie Show Rich Girls and Voice. Today's episode is going to be

a little bit meta. If you ever tried to watch TV while working, maybe in a weird attempt to

make the work more enjoyable or because you can't sit down and watch TV guiltlessly without

also doing something productive, it's a funny example that I think most people can relate to because

it demonstrates habitually how our work and our leisure time tends to blend together.

This topic has a tendency to get broad-fast, so I want to take pains to distinguish between the idea

of burnout, which is being chronically exhausted from a lack of work-life balance, and the idea

of not being able to separate yourself from your job, your vocation, your work, and more than

anything I want to pose a question. Is it bad to feel deeply connected with your work or is it

something to strive for? Particularly when we know that a lot of the time finding a monetizable

passion is a really good way to make a lot of money and have some fun doing it, which I have

spoken about previously at length. So that's what we'll be talking about today. The complications

of what happens when work becomes your identity. You'll also hear from my friend and colleague,

Nora Ali. Nora is an impressive person by pretty much any definition of the word. She graduated

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