If Your Dream Sounds Reasonable, You're Doing It Wrong

There is a number in your head right now that you would never say out loud. Leah would like you to know she has one too, and that she spent about twenty years pretending she didn’t.

In this episode, Leah Pitzenberger tells the story of an event she hosted called Stop Being Easy to Underpay — where she asked a room full of accomplished women what they wanted, watched every single one of them hand her the polite version, and slowly realized she was the last person who should be surprised, because she’d been doing the exact same thing her whole life. She gets honest about the dreams she rounded down and called being mature, the wanting she kept quiet because it felt greedy, and the strange relief of finally saying the real number instead of the reasonable one.

Realistic isn’t a personality. It’s just the size of the dream that already fits in the life you’ve got. This one is about saying the too-big thing out loud and surviving it.