How You Actually Figure Out Who You Are with Suzy Welch
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
Guy Kawasaki
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
What if the real challenge in your career isn’t working harder—but figuring out who you actually are?
Guy Kawasaki sits down with Suzy Welch—NYU Stern professor, former editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review, and bestselling author—to explore purpose, resilience, and leadership. Drawing from her new book, Becoming You, Suzy shares a practical framework for aligning values, aptitudes, and economic reality, along with candid insights on grit, forgiveness, and why so many impressive careers still feel wrong.
This episode is a thoughtful guide for anyone rethinking success or navigating a major life or career shift.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. It's Guy Kawasaki. I believe we are in troubling and dangerous times. |
| 0:08.2 | One of the things that's happening is that privacy is eroding. And when privacy erodes, so does |
| 0:15.0 | democracy. So Maddoz and Nizmer and I, we just finished the book. It's called Everybody Has Something to Hide. |
| 0:24.0 | This is a jargon-free book. It is for everybody to learn why and how they should use signal. |
| 0:32.0 | They should use signal to ensure their privacy, safety, and well-being. |
| 0:36.2 | It comes out on January 28th for five days. |
| 0:40.1 | It'll be free. And then it'll go to $4.4. I hope you see what we did there. The forward is from |
| 0:47.9 | Congressman Rokana because he believes, like we do, that democracy is extremely important. |
| 0:56.9 | And Signal is one of the tools that can help us preserve democracy. |
| 1:01.4 | So remember the name. |
| 1:03.1 | Everybody has something to hide. |
| 1:05.8 | It's by Guy Kawasaki and Madison Nyzmer. |
| 1:10.1 | When you need resilience is when you're absolutely your weakest and you're |
| 1:14.1 | terrified. And yeah, sure, grit will help you overcome that and stand up. But I've actually |
| 1:20.2 | thought that there's something else going on from everybody that I've ever observed that got up |
| 1:24.9 | and kept fighting and kept living was that they also were able to forgive. And you |
| 1:29.8 | have to really forgive to access your grit. I think it's grit, sure, but first forgiveness. And so |
| 1:34.7 | you either have to forgive yourself because you effed up. I screwed up. That's why I'm on my back. |
| 1:39.3 | That's why I have been fired. That's why I got divorced. Whatever. You have to forgive yourself. |
| 1:42.7 | Or you have to forgive the person who put you on your back or both. And I just think to say to people, just get up is so |
| 1:49.6 | simplistic. Hello everybody. I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is the Remarkable People Podcasts. We're on |
| 2:00.6 | this quest to help you become remarkable. |
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