Fire Horse my Bu..! & Are Millennials in the Life Crisis?

In this episode of the Daydreamer Podcast, I explore a question many of us are quietly asking: are millennials in a life and purpose crisis?

We talk about burnout, feeling stuck in jobs we don’t believe in, and the growing pressure to escape traditional careers through social media, entrepreneurship, or content creation. While more people want freedom, not everyone can realistically achieve it - and that creates a deeper sense of frustration, anxiety, and feeling trapped.

I also reflect on the start of this year, including global uncertainty, personal anxiety, and everyday disruptions (hello Mercury retrograde), and how all of this contributes to a wider emotional and psychological state many people are experiencing.

This is an honest, unfiltered conversation about:

• Millennial burnout and career dissatisfaction
• Loss of purpose and identity
• The pressure to “escape” the 9–5
• Financial reality vs following your dreams
• Anxiety and navigating uncertainty
• Starting over and building a new path

If you’ve been feeling stuck, lost, or questioning your direction in life, this episode will resonate with you.

Kasia Golda-Phillips

Transcript

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Hello, welcome to the Daydreamer podcast. This is your host Kasha. I'm back. I'm back after a little break. I explained it in the stories, but you may not follow me on Insta. Um, and if you don't, please go ahead and find the links should be available in the description of the podcast. Um I wasn't happy with how the podcast was going. I felt like not enough people listened to it for me to uh spend so much time recording it. Uh so I stopped. I stopped um and then something happened, and this is classic. So once that happened, that I stopped, I um looked at my application for the for the podcast on my phone, and then I saw multiple downloads on one day. Then I checked again in a few days with multiple downloads on one day, and I'm like, all right, this is the best numbers I I've had. So it's like okay, that's a sign. I'm back to recording. I'm I'm back and I'm a bit crazy. You I mean nobody can, I want to say if you are not watching on YouTube, then you can't see, but you actually nobody can see. I lost my mind today. I am sitting not only fully dressed, but that's that's normal, makeup dressed. That's yeah, you have to do it just even to you know, if you're working from home, um to just have some differentiation between life and home, plus you want to look good on the camera, blah blah blah. Yeah, I'm sitting in boots over the knee boots, and I'll kind of try out this outfit because there's a party on Saturday, and I want um yeah, to to I wanted to wear it, so I decided to wear it for the podcast recording and the Rios recording that I plan for today, so yeah, so I know if it works, and I think it works, I like it. You barely can see anything, even if you're watching, but I like it. You can see it's very gothy. Um, I like I said in the previous um episodes, I am feeling a bit goffy recently. It's like my dark um part, it's once again coming, um like coming up, and it's on the surface, and it's like do not neglect me. You need both, and I've always been in the energy of both. Alright, so I want to discuss some things today. At the beginning, I want to discuss what has been happening um this year. I mean, we're only in March, uh, close coming to close of March, but I felt like a lot has been going on, and then I want to talk about something that is personally very true to me, which is millennials, like I am millennial, I'm sure it's not only millennials, but um are we millennials in a life crisis right now? Is it because we hit 30 few years ago? Um, most of us hit 30. I mean, actually, some millennials are hitting 40. But it seems like there is a really like a life, like a purpose crisis. Um, excuse me, just a drink. Alright, apologies for that. Yeah, so that to the side for now. I want to discuss some other stuff. Um just wash maybe that camera slightly. Yes, I don't want you to think I didn't want you to see, but I think you already saw that I'm a bit crazy. I have a double microphone situation here. I'm trying out uh instead of having two separate setups to have it directly into the phone. My big microphone is still the most calm, convenient setup, even to hold the small. That's that's to decide. Alright, so somewhere in the middle of Feb, we went out of the snake energy and went to the horse. And honestly, if I host my butt, um, where is it? Where is it? What's going on in the world? The energy, um, this first three months of this year has been horrible. Um feels like there is still so much going on. Of course, I talked about it in the episode of the is the golden age coming, that there will be the world is coming to a crash before it starts getting better, the world will start feeling like it's really collapsing. But I did hope for some better energies in the um, you know, for the for the fire horse. Um, my experience is that the manifestation has been really slow. I keep on hearing from my guides like be patient, you know. I can see nine of cups everywhere, even that came up in some of the readings I did. Nine of Cups, the wish card. I have dreams that are telling me you're getting everything you ever wanted, but like the only way it's manifesting, I don't actually know manifesting for now. It's like manifestation is blocked, and all I can hear is like you will get it, be patient, it's coming, it's coming your way. Um, my I do I don't do much tarot readings for myself, I just feel like it's difficult to do tarot readings for yourself because you're just like too involved, and you either see things you're afraid of or see things you really want, and it's difficult to be objective. But when I do, yeah, this is actually showing what I just said. Um when I do it, um I see you know good news are coming, vic victory, um all this all this super positive stuff, uh Wheel of Fune, um, but like positive wheel of fortune, I can feel it, and it's come out this week. Oh, it doesn't happen this week, so I I know it will, but just the timing it's quite iffy at the moment. Um talking about I don't want to spend uh this podcast talking about very difficult, sad things. I will be we will be talking about difficult because the life the life crisis and I need to touch upon quite scary sad things, but I don't want to make it the whole podcast because what is going on, wars everywhere, right? It's also scary, uh wherever you like whichever way it feels like whichever way you look in the world now, there is a war ongoing, or there's threats. Um you know, are we safe for people like like me that I don't have children yet, or maybe have like young children already? You're just like what kind of world we want to let them in, like to live like it is difficult. On top of that, you know, I am from uh I'm from Poland, crack of Poland, but I live in Canterbury at the moment in England, and I'm not sure if you heard. Um, if you're in the UK, you heard for sure. I saw it on Polish news, so probably it went around the world. Um, I don't know how how outside of Europe actually, but we had an outbreak in Canterbury, um, in the University of Kent um of meningitis, which is um very serious illness. This one was it can be bacteria viral, this one was um bacterial because um they were giving antibiotics. Um you know, response I felt like response was very quick. They gave thousands of antibiotics out, they gave vaccinations out because um there is um meningitis is actually apparently much more prevalent in this um in the specific age groups because of the social intensive socializing, like people like me are not really under high risk. I work I'm quite low risk because I never leave home. I just I just stay at home. I go okay, not always, but most of the time if I leave home, it's to go for a run, um, go for a weekly shop. I don't really um I don't I don't really uh you know go to the parties. Yeah I know I said that there's a party this is on Saturday, but this is like engagement party that um we have to go because it's it's my husband's one of his best friends. So yeah, other than this week's celebrations, I don't really go anywhere. So people like me are very low risk, but people in like um ska high school, um, university are much higher risk, and from 2015 I understand they started giving vaccination, but this this group wasn't, so you know also yeah, I'm a hypochondriac, I'm not um not really hiding it, and I've done a lot a lot of work on my anxiety. I I do understand people that live with anxiety because I've been living with anxiety for so many years that even though I've done a lot a lot of work on myself, there is still it's almost like my physiology changed a bit, my brain got used to certain patterns, and you know, if you're living like that for 20 odd years and then changing it might be like you know, maybe very long. I don't want to, you know, put any for any beliefs on anyone because it might be also quick, right? I don't restrict anyone's healing, um, but I feel like I'm and this again, this is me as an example. Uh uh I feel like some people like me can get rid of everything connected with anxiety because there is certain um predisposition, like um predisposition, but also like um your personality and your brain chemistry. It's really you know it's it's just so easily um just just so easily goes into the anxiety, and yeah, I I do feel like where I'm at, I'm very much under control. I know how to control in a healthy way because I'm not thinking about denial um of anxious energy or you know muting it. No, I know how to deal with it. This is what I teach my clients how to deal with it. Some people be fully free, some people are much more complex, like me, which may need to learn how to live. There is this, you know, dream of especially for anxious people to just get rid fully of the fear, and sometimes it's not possible. But again, sometimes it's not possible, sometimes it is possible to fully. So if you struggle with anxiety, then don't feel don't feel like you will never be better because everybody has their own root. You can either get fully rid of it or learn how to manage it to the level that it stops eroding your life. So that's a that's a side note from me. So yeah, so you know it's not easy for someone who worries about health to live so close to such an uh outbreak. Two people passed away, two young people passed away, which is which is horrific, right? Um, so like I'm that's what I'm saying. That this year has been still very, very tough and still feels like last year. Um they also just finished Mercury retrograde. I'm not I'm not that much into astrology, but Mercury retrograde is something I know when it's happening. Oh my god. That's I like I don't even know. I I don't know how I missed it that it was on, but when I read that it finished, I was like, oh MG, I know why my life has been has been so annoying recently. You know, that's why I want to move slightly from uh what we were just talking about illnesses and wars. I hope you're right with that, um, to the Mercury retrograde. So, what was your experience with Mercury retrograde? This one, because mine it's um it's a little thing, but it's like a classic Mercury retrograde scenario. I went to the hotel for my psychotherapy school weekend, and um I left my toothbrush and my hairbrush, which I was very annoyed because toothbrush is expensive, and the hairbrush was a gift from my mom. It was also she found some insta influencer that does special hairbrushes. I kind of I've not kind of quite liked it. Um also never came clean to her. Thankfully, she doesn't speak English very well, so she won't know from this. Um yeah, and I messaged the hotel and they ignore me, they just ignore me so many times. Then I went to give them one-star review on Trust Pilot because it went to the level of absurdity that they picked up the phone, they started saying what was the problem, and they hung up like beyond me. You may think that that wasn't done on purpose, but then they never picked up, they never called back. So like what? Yeah, yeah, so that was the story. Um, and on top of that, I ordered a new toothbrush, and DHL lost it. And then I had to raise um investigation between uh like a British pharmacy's cosmetic store Boots and DHL. I mean, obviously, they cannot communicate between each other. I have to tell Boots that DHL lost my parcel because I reached out to the HL and they were three days late. Um, yeah, and now it can last up to 21 days. It's like it's like a standard Mercury retrograde: losing stuff, uh bad contracts, miscommunications, like small annoyances, but annoying. Yeah, so that that's my experience of first three months. I hope you have it better, I really do. But yeah, I'm I'm really curious to hear how has your uh first three months been. Alright, um now about the life purpose stuff. So, what I have noticed that we are millennials, all we talk about is like how we hate our jobs. I mean I'm not there anymore because I'm one of those people that just did a runner. I'm I just dropped everything. I mean, I used the moment when I was fired, just don't want to come back to that certain environment, even though I'm looking in some charities to work at to just feel like you know I'm doing something that I actually have impact on people's lives, but not going back into financial world, just you know, forget about it. Um yeah, so people like me, like it feels like previous generation. I cannot talk about the new generation, but the previous generation, but like they kind of um they came to acceptance that this is the life, that they have to work, and you know, especially in London, like Monday to Friday, traveling god knows how long, then um barely have any evenings with your family, then just having a weekend and do it all over again. Uh like honestly, yes, that's a horrible living. That's a really horrible living, and uh the amount of people in my generation that's just like really despises what they do on the daily basis, feel depressed because of that, feel um like want to do something, but like this is where the problem comes, it's not that easy because you see, I managed to get um like to do this runner because I have a support. My husband, even though I put a lot on him when I dropped my job, um, but you know, I have a husband, uh, my parents are helping a bit whenever they can, if there is something bigger, so I have the whole support around me that I can you know follow my dreams, but that's not true for everyone. That will not be true for many people. And what what will you do? So, man, most of people who just want to drop their jobs and do something different, like most of you want to win the lottery, and I'm raising my hand for that one universe. I will really invest it wisely as my message. I'm ready, I'm ready to receive. Um, so yeah, because nobody wants to work, like it's it's just like such a waste of your life. I know we live many lives and then we have eternity, but like I feel we should be enjoying the life. Like, this is my motto, happiness above all, right? That's what makes you happy. Spending 80% of your life at work is not gonna make you happy unless this is something you really love. But every job, even the one you love, if you do it too much of it in the week, will become a chore, will become um bill-paying, you know, activity. Because that's the thing, money. This is like this is all about money, the energy of money. This is what keeps people in horrible jobs and stops them from following their dreams. Sometimes they may not even know what their dreams are. This is all the money energy because the way you know Earth is we just need money, um, so people are just feel stuck, feel unhappy, don't know what to do. Um, like you know, the ambition of career is starting to fade. I actually find it as a positive thing. I'm one of these who's like I I used to be crazy ambitious. I still have elements of ambition. Um I have this like a big dream, so that that's part of this uh ambition illness that I I think it's a bit of an illness because makes you makes you unhappy most of the time. Yeah, so um what happened sorry I just lost a plot for a second, but I wanted to say that the big problem is also that if we all drop our jobs, then what will we do? Like trying to be everybody's trying on social media, podcast, um their own businesses. The problem with this is that there is so much already in there, so many people that it's just like It's completely saturated. And look at the YouTubers, for example. Um, how much how like what's a percentage of the people that actually make money that will allow them to you know support themselves? On top of that will be this ultra-rich YouTubers, and I was like, I don't have the statistics, but that's percentages, right? Like one percent, half percent. It's it's not a lot, so this is the problem. Like, not everybody will get there, like not everybody will get rich, not everybody will just be able to follow the dreams and achieve it, and that leaves everyone with a bit of a it really it's in a really sad state of the world, and you know, I am fighting fighting for my dreams. But has it been easy? No, it was much easier to be in a you know six-figure um corporate job, and starting at 34, almost like 34 and a half practically, when I started end of last year. Uh starting all over again, like from you know, you need to build a client, you need to uh build your whole business, right? Things I've never done before, social media, um recordings a podcast is actually something I really enjoy, so at least that I wouldn't say that's the that's the that's what I think about reels, but yeah. So you just it just feels a bit like we are a bit trapped millennials. I mean that'll be the same for the next generation. I mean it's probably already happening because next generation is in their 20s, right? Like what's what's the solution here? What can we do with this world so we don't have to live like that? I don't have the answer for now. But maybe one day I will. If I if I do, I will let you know. And I think that was it. It was like a bit of a mishmash of subjects I haven't talked to for a while. I don't know, will I record every week or see because um I don't know also burnout because um if you don't have guests, um I will have guests at some point, but if you don't have guests and you have to come up with your own, you know, subjects every week, I just I s uh I sometimes I'm not sure. Um so unless there are subjects that you know you want to listen to hear about from um psychology, spirituality, some world D FS, right? Just let me know what's what interests you and then yeah, then I'll record about it. Thank you so much for tuning in and listening. 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