You’re spinning in place. You’ve done this already and your success is feeling hollow.

• 👉🏻 Maybe you've built the business, or climbed the mountain. 
• 👉🏻 Maybe you've checked every box society told you to check. 
• 👉🏻 Maybe it’s just a quiet, persistent whisper telling you “there’s more, there’s something else…” 

In this episode, Stephanie and Maren explore what happens when the formula society teaches you stops working — and why so many amazing achievers find themselves spinning in place, wondering why success feels hollow. If you've ever felt like you're running on autopilot, doing all the right things but feeling strangely disconnected from your own life, this one is for you.

This isn't about blowing up your life. 

It's about getting curious enough to ask better questions — and brave enough to sit in the uncertainty long enough to hear the answers.

Included in today’s episode:

• The man who built his business three times — and why his energy completely collapsed when asked if he'd do it again
• Why we’re are trained to *do* yet never taught how to *be*
• The Spiral Dynamics framework (developed by Clare Graves, expanded by Ken Wilber) and why the "apex achiever" is only the halfway point of human development
• Byron Katie's powerful question: Is it true?
• How stuck energy in the mind and emotions eventually shows up as physical pain — and what Chinese medicine teaches us about flow
• The Hopi wisdom: "Push off from the shore and find the flow"
• Why questioning your internal narrative is the most radical (and most avoided) act of self-leadership

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REFERENCES:

• 8:08 Byron Katie The work
• 13:10 Spiral Dynamics
• 19:27 Your Body Doesn’t Lie - John Diamond
• 19:33 You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay

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