Episodios

  • Career Confidential: Interviewing for Smarties
    Sep 9 2025

    Much of the time, Becoming You finds itself getting, well, a little existential, because what is existential if not the question, “What should I do with my life?” But eventually, you have to take your answer to that question – or your vague idea of one – and get an actual day job with it. And thus, today’s episode of the pod is about the blocking and tackling of interviewing well. So well, in fact, that you get an offer.

    Welcome to another installment in our “Career Confidential” series, in which Suzy debates, discusses, and dissects the world of work with her big-hearted, no-BS Becoming You colleague, Dustin Lui, who, even at age 27, is a veteran of the job market, with literally hundreds of interviews under his belt. In a feisty 24 minutes, Dustin and Suzy compare best interviewing practices – and worst – and lay down a primer for getting you from knowing your purpose to landing the job that helps you live it.

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    24 m
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Bristol. Has it Ever Happened to You?
    Sep 2 2025

    We’re all supposed to love change. To embrace the journey. To lean into transformation.

    But what happens when we do? We grow, and with growth comes all sorts of a-ha moments, some wonderful, yes, but others that bring us to our knees before they bring us to our senses.

    In this deeply personal solo episode of Becoming You, our host Suzy Welch recounts the four powerful lessons she learned on the road to her PhD, which she was awarded this May at the University of Bristol in England. Each lesson is shared with the hopes of resonance with you, as you walk your own path toward reinvention and renewal. Some may soften your heart, others may make you laugh, and the last will surely surprise you. It surprised Suzy herself.

    Becoming You is a podcast about finding out who we are and then turning that discovery into reality. Join us this week as Suzy explores what that process has meant to her, in ways that may very well mean something to you too.

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    31 m
  • “What Are You Doing When You Lose Track of Time?” Four Questions to Break You Open (And Free).
    Aug 26 2025

    Welcome to the second—and final—part of Becoming You’s special series on the secret life of your life coach. Or, precisely, on what your life coach is thinking, info that’s integral to Becoming You’s purpose to be the podcast that helps you think more deeply about yours.

    In Episode 64: Your Life Coach Has One Question for You. Do You Know the Answer?, our host Dr. Suzy Welch—professor of management practice at NYU Stern and author of the Becoming You book—presented five powerful questions, crowd-sourced from top life coaches in the Becoming You Certification Program at the NYU Stern | Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing. This week, you’ll hear four more. Each one is as sharp as a paring knife (without the ouch), designed to open your heart and mind, and maybe even bring healing to your soul and inspiration to your career.

    Tune in to hear the coaches open up about their questions, explain why they use them, and listen as Suzy breaks down how they work—and what they reveal about you.

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    26 m
  • To Be, or Not to Be… a Mother: That Is the Question
    Aug 19 2025

    This week on Becoming You—the podcast that yearns to help you answer “What should I do with my life?”—a special mailbag episode tackles four listener questions, but looms the largest: “Life is already so hard,” it goes, “and careers are so complicated and relentless—why would anyone choose to have a child these days?”

    Typically, Becoming You’s host Suzy Welch is all about helping you hear your own inner voice; she is, as she likes to say, a “values agnostic.” This time is different, and through unflinching, deeply personal stories and a perspective that may challenge your assumptions, she confronts one of the biggest decisions of a lifetime head on and heart first. You may not agree with where she lands, but you will most likely be moved by how she got there.

    Also on the pod this week: Suzy answers a listener who wonders if it’s OK to be “working for the money” and the money only, and another listener who wonders how candid she should be in her job interviews about wanting work-life balance. A final listener challenges Suzy on the hot topic of whether “manifesting” is BS…or brilliant.

    In the end, this week’s episode isn’t just about motherhood or money—it’s about navigating the defining questions we all face on the road to becoming ourselves.

    The Values Bridge digital assessment is available at thevaluesbridge.com
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    Take Becoming You IRL at the Three-Day Becoming You Intensive this September.
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    24 m
  • Whatever You Do, Don’t Just Trust Your Gut — Try This Instead
    Aug 12 2025

    Every day, we make decisions—big, small, and everything in between, each one shaping our careers and relationships, and sometimes even the course of our entire lives. And yet, most of us were never taught how to actually make a decision. Instead, we accept the conventional wisdom: "Just trust your gut." Too bad that advice is only right half the time. Yep, research shows that gut has a 50% hit rate. So why not just go toss a coin? Or wait -- there's a better way, and it's so easy too. All you have to do it...press play. Because in this episode, Suzy breaks the simple decision-making system that changed her life when everything was falling apart, and then put it into success overdrive when things turned around. It’s called 10-10-10, and it’s not about quick fixes or perfect choices—it’s about clarity, confidence, values (of course!) and making peace with the decisions that define us.

    Becoming You is a methodology for finding our purpose. For answering the question, "What should I do with my life?" In this quick and powerful episode, learn how good decision-making can help turn Becoming You's findings into reality. And as a bonus, find out how 10-10-10 was born one very long, very humiliating day in Hawaii when Suzy's kids themselves decided to go for broke. [Repeat from February 2025.]

    The Values Bridge digital assessment is available at thevaluesbridge.com
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    Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book.
    Take Becoming You IRL at the Three-Day Becoming You Intensive this September.
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    You can follow and tag Suzy on:

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    21 m
  • Four Questions To Turn Your Firing Into the Best Day of Your Life
    Aug 5 2025

    The demise of a job is rarely fun, whether it's by our own volition or not. Whether you've been fired or quit or somehow just eased out by mutual agreement and angst, every company separation is a little bit of a public death, and sometimes a personal one too. That's why it's OK to mourn, it's OK to rage -- for only a bit. After that, the work has to start. The inner work. In this podcast, Suzy shares the four probing questions to unearth what really happened -- and what you should do next. Tune in to find out why and how every ending at work has the power to be transformed into the life beginning you've been waiting for. [Repeat from January 2025.]

    The Values Bridge digital assessment is available at thevaluesbridge.com
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    Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book.
    Take Becoming You IRL at the Three-Day Becoming You Intensive this September.
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    32 m
  • Career Confidential: A Job Interview Is a Conversation Between Two WHAT??
    Jul 29 2025

    Welcome to a special “Career Confidential” episode of Becoming You!

    Listen in this week as host Suzy Welch, aided and abetted by her no-holds-barred colleague and mentee, Dustin Liu, turns the pod’s spotlight on job success—particularly, winning the interview game. But that’s not all. Dustin reveals his secret list of career lessons he has learned from Suzy over the past year, and runs them by her for reaction, explanation, and of course, a story or two about where they came from and why they really matter. (Spoiler alert: job interviews are definitely not what they seem.) This fast and seriously funny episode is not to be missed if you’re interested in supercharging your growth, and don’t mind a bit of “hmm, really?” along the way.

    The Values Bridge digital assessment is available at thevaluesbridge.com
    PIE360 Feedback tool is available at pie360feedback.com
    Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book.
    Take Becoming You IRL at the Three-Day Becoming You Intensive this September.
    You are always growing and evolving and so are we. Sign up for the Becoming You newsletter for fresh new content in one tidy package.

    You can follow and tag Suzy on:

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    33 m
  • Your Life Coach Has One Question for You. Do You Know the Answer?
    Jul 22 2025

    What happens when 50 of the world's most experienced life coaches gather in one room? Well, in this case, at Becoming You’s request, each one revealed the one “killer” question they need to know about you – that is, in order to take your life to the place it needs and wants to be.

    To explain: Just recently, the Becoming You methodology launched its first certification program at NYU Stern’s Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing. Some of the best life coaches from around the world were there, traveling from across the United States, as well as from Mexico, New Zealand, and the Netherlands. Each coach came to learn – but had so much to teach, too. Which prompted our host Suzy Welch to ask each attendee to share their one “unlock” question – the one that cuts straight to the heart of what's really going on when someone says, "I don't know what I want to do with my life."

    In this episode of Becoming You, we hear five of those questions straight from the coaches. But no surprise, Suzy has her thoughts on each as well. She dives deeply into each one, from sharing her own personal stories to a poignant poem about regret, weaving together insights about the "Four Horsemen" that gallop away with our values and Maslow's lesser-known concept of transcendence.

    These questions are at the heart of your journey to self-discovery and purpose. Start here to hear them, and begin the work of answering them in your own voice.

    The Values Bridge digital assessment is available at thevaluesbridge.com
    PIE360 Feedback tool is available at pie360feedback.com
    Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book.
    Take Becoming You IRL at the Three-Day Becoming You Intensive this September.
    You are always growing and evolving and so are we. Sign up for the Becoming You newsletter for fresh new content in one tidy package.

    You can follow and tag Suzy on:

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    21 m