This episode is more of a story than a conversation around a particular topic. But the main theme of the conversation we had with Susan Barnes, a healer, and personal growth facilitator, is how she dealt with the fear of going off the typical "success" track: She was an accountant in New York, making a lot of money, and then one day she quit and flew to Bali.

So many people in our generation lie awake at night thinking about what would happen if they stepped off the path that was created for them: step out of the rat-race, out of the office, out of the American dream. It's hard for a lot of us to even think about what we would really want to do and who we really are beyond the expectations others have of us. It is profoundly scary to even let ourselves imagine who that person is.

Many of the people on this show have gone through a similar process and had different experiences: Tony, in a previous episode, decided to leave consulting to start a gaming podcast and YouTube channel and is now going back to it because he had a baby he needs to support. Susan is now a personal growth facilitator and manages to find people who are going through major life changes and allows them to have the perspective to help them through that transition. But these are just two stories in a larger generation, where many of us are waking up and trying to ask ourselves the daunting question of what we really want to be doing with the finite amount of time we have in our careers and our lives. 

Links:

Susan's website, Like Water She Flows: https://www.likewatersheflows.com/

Susan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/likewatersheflows/

Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän.

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