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Hey friends, it's Jesse, and as 2026 gets underway, we are three weeks into a new year,

one in which I have so far upheld the one resolution I have.

You're perfectly. Again, I say so far.

My one resolution, by the way, it's to turn off my cell phone every night at 9 o'clock and leave

it outside my bedroom and not to turn it on again until 7 a.m. So, 21 days into the year,

I am here, and it is leaving me fueled up, excited for a year

in which I have, I'm just going to say it, a ton of ambition.

I'm proud to say that.

And at least me really wanting to dive deep again into our conversation about ambition.

If you've been with us for a while, you probably really have your own thoughts and

opinions on this term and on this conversation. Enjoy it. It's fresh from our archives, and we'll be

back next week. I don't think that there's anything wrong with the word ambition.

But when I think about applying it to myself, that is where I am physically getting uncomfortable.

If I were to think about how I would want others to describe me, describing me as ambitious, that wouldn't be my number one goal.

When you initially asked me about ambition, Jesse, I said, I feel like it's a young person's sport.

It's somebody's thing that you strive for when you're fresh out of college.

If someone were to say to me now, you're so ambitious, I'd be like, hello, of course, I know that.

I know. I've achieved some things. Ambition has a sort of

gendered and stereotypical quality. I think about ambitious like women in movies and they're like

doggy dog, elbow other people out, succeed at the expense of others. Sort of um, ballbusters. I hate that word.

But that's sort of what we're talking about, right?

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