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Balanced Black Girl

The Ambition Trap: Amina AlTai on Finding Purpose in Hustle Culture

Balanced Black Girl

She's So Lucky

Health & Fitness, #Shessolucky, Balancedblackgirl, Lesalfred, Balancedles

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

#302: What if the version of success you’re chasing isn’t actually yours?

In this episode I’m joined by Amina AlTai, executive coach and author of The Ambition Trap, to unpack what it really means to pursue ambition with purpose. We talk about the difference between chasing success to prove something vs. purposeful ambition that aligns with your values and desires.

Amina shares the personal and professional wake-up calls that led her to redefine ambition, why we can feel our lowest during moments that are supposed to be our highest, and why fulfillment isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity. If you’ve ever hit a milestone and felt underwhelmed, this conversation is for you.


We Also Talk About…

  • Why performative ambition can leave you feeling empty
  • The signs you’re stuck in the Ambition Trap
  • How to reconnect with purposeful, aligned goals
  • The difference between identity-driven success and ego-driven success
  • Permission to want more, but for the right reasons


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0:00.0

The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

0:12.0

Welcome back to the She's So Lucky podcast. If you're listening to this podcast, you probably identify as an ambitious person. Now, ambition is not a dirty word by any means,

0:24.0

but getting to the root of where our ambition comes from can make all the difference in feeling

0:29.3

inspired versus feeling burned out. Today, I'm joined by Amina Altai, executive coach and author of

0:37.1

The Ambition Trap.

0:38.7

In this conversation, we dig into why moments when we're supposed to feel on top of the world

0:43.6

and feel accomplished can often leave us feeling empty and how we can reconnect with our values

0:50.3

to reach for purposeful aligned goals.

0:57.6

Amina really practices what she preaches and has so much practical advice and insight that can help us feel motivated from a place of purpose, not from

1:03.8

ego. So let's get lucky with Amina. Welcome to the show.

1:13.3

Thank you so much for having me.

1:14.7

I'm so excited to have you because, well, as we were just talking about before we're rolling,

1:18.2

I feel like we know so many of the same people and have so much overlap just with people that we've worked with.

1:23.7

We've also been planning this episode for a long time.

1:26.0

We have.

1:27.0

I've been following your journey for a long time. I love your content. So I'm super

1:30.3

excited to be here. Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay. So the question that I've been asking

1:34.8

everybody lately to kick off interviews is about a lucky moment that they've had. And that could be a

1:40.2

moment where you felt like you created your own luck, or that could be a moment that felt

1:45.1

kismet, like something just aligned and lined up for you. I just got emotional thinking about that.

1:51.1

So a lucky moment that happened recently. So Rachel Rogers wrote the foreword to my book,

1:55.0

and she's been so wonderful and so supportive of this journey and just like my entrepreneurship

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