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The Light Watkins Show

The Dark Side of Hustle Culture

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Spiritual Perspective, I’m pulling back the curtain on the dark side of hustle culture. We’re living in a time where everything—our time, our attention, even our personal lives—is being monetized. And the message we get is clear: if you just work harder, earn more, and achieve more, then you’ll finally feel fulfilled. But in my experience, it doesn’t work that way. I’ve seen plenty of people (myself included) hit the big milestones—money, relationships, recognition—and ...

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0:00.0

This episode is called the Dark Side Hustle Culture, meaning if you've been following the same

0:05.1

success formula as everyone else, there's a pretty good chance that you're ending up with

0:09.8

the same results. Maybe you got more money, but also you have more burnout, more anxiety, more

0:15.5

panic attacks, more meds, more binging, and more transactional relationships, and you're wondering, how in

0:22.0

the hell did I end up here? Granted, you may be meditating, maybe you're doing some of the inner

0:26.6

work, but something still fills off. Meanwhile, the bills are due. Your family depends on you,

0:32.8

so what do you do? How do you escape the cage that you have helped to construct? Is there a spiritual solution to escaping the rat race?

0:40.5

That's what we're going to talk about today, and we're going to break down what this concept of fulfillment actually is, and why most people are going about it completely backwards.

0:50.1

We're going to talk about how to liberate yourself from that feeling that you always need to be hustling, but without sacrificing your real-world responsibilities and obligations.

0:59.5

And if you stick around to the end, I'm going to reveal the one trait that exists in every

1:03.5

truly fulfilled person.

1:05.6

And the good news is that trait is right at your fingertips.

1:08.8

Okay, let's get into it.

1:10.1

We live in a time where everything is becoming monetized.

1:14.8

Your time, your thoughts, your attention, even your space.

1:19.5

Then we go online and we see these stories about content creators who have made millions of dollars posting on TikTok or flipping sneakers, somebody else

1:29.4

went viral posting about their lifestyle.

1:31.8

And you start thinking to yourself, should I be doing that too?

1:34.9

Should I be selling more stuff?

1:36.9

Should I figure out a way to monetize my life?

1:39.7

Should I be moving faster?

1:41.3

Because the unspoken promise in all of it is that once I make enough money,

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