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Please Advise
Podcast with Suzy Welch
Real listeners, real dilemmas, and honest answers delivered live on the air. Should you keep doing the work you're good at if you hate it? Who gets to make the decisions once your kids become teenagers? What do you do when your family wants the "old you" back? Drawing on the Becoming You methodology, years spent on both sides of the hiring desk, and plenty of her own hard-won lessons, Suzy gives advice that's candid, specific, and occasionally surprising. Think of it as a call to your smartest, most honest friend, who also happens to be a professor of life-design.
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Episodes
Episode 139 | Oct 15, 2026 | 20 min
I’m Pivoting Careers. How Do I Sell Myself Without the “Right” Experience?
Dominique is heading to business school this fall to pivot from PR and communications into venture capital, and she wants to know: How do I turn my non-traditional background into a differentiator instead of something I have to explain away? This week on Please Advise, the call-in show of Becoming You, Suzy knows exactly how Dominique feels. When she arrived at Harvard Business School in 1986 as a Miami crime reporter, nobody wanted her in their study group. Suzy’s non-traditional background made her an outsider, until it didn’t. Suzy shares how she turned that outsider status around, then looks at Dominique’s Values Bridge results and finds something that changes the way she answers the question. Then Suzy gets to the question Dominique actually asked, with advice for anyone making a career pivot: Stop leading with your resume, and tell your own story, values, aptitudes, and interests included. Have a question for Please Advise? Submit it here . As a Becoming You podcast listener, use code PODCAST for 50% off The Values Bridge . 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. Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book . You can follow and tag Suzy on: • Instagram: @suzywelch • Linkedin: @suzywelch • TikTok: @suzywelch • YouTube: @suzywelch_ • X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 137 | Oct 8, 2026 | 27 min
How Do I Close the Gap Between the Life I Want and the Life I'm Living?
How long can you hold your breath? That's what it feels like when you're not living one of your top values: like being underwater, searching for a surface you can't see. This week on Please Advise, Suzy talks to Michelle, an architect and firm partner in her early 40s with three kids in first, second, and third grade. Michelle took the Values Bridge last year and found the results transformational, but one thing surprised her. Her top values are a tie between Eudemonia (wellbeing, self-care, balance) and Beholderism (a love of beautiful things), yet work has always felt central to her life. Her question: can work or family be how you live your values, even if they aren't values themselves? Then Michelle shares a number that stops the conversation: a 72% Authenticity Gap on Eudemonia, which is the distance between how much she wants to live that value and how much she actually does. Suzy's rule of thumb is that anything over 50% means the house is on fire. Why is the gap so big, and what closes it? Suzy's diagnosis comes from a value Michelle barely mentioned, and the prescription is surprisingly doable. Have a question for Please Advise? Submit it here . As a Becoming You podcast listener, use code PODCAST for 50% off The Values Bridge . 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. Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book . You can follow and tag Suzy on: • Instagram: @suzywelch • Linkedin: @suzywelch • TikTok: @suzywelch • YouTube: @suzywelch_ • X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 135 | Oct 1, 2026 | 30 min
Do You Actually Have the Talent, or Just the Interest?
Jes is 27, works in the nonprofit sector, and has a not-so-secret dream: she wants to be a writer. The problem, as she sees it, is a values conflict — she wants her work to be seen, but she doesn't want to be famous, and she wants to make money, but writing doesn't pay unless you're willing to put your whole life on display. This week on Please Advise, Suzy starts down that path with Jes, but the conversation doesn't stay there. Underneath the values question is a harder one nobody had asked yet: does Jes actually have the aptitude to be a writer, or does she just love the idea of it? Suzy calls in some radical candor to find out. What emerges isn't "don't chase the dream." There’s a sharper, more useful answer, and Suzy helps Jes map out a path that actually aligns. It's a conversation about ambition, honesty, and the difference between an interest and an aptitude. As Suzy puts it, an interest without the aptitude to back it up has another name: a hobby. Have a question for Please Advise? Submit it here . As a Becoming You podcast listener, use code PODCAST for 50% off The Values Bridge . 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. Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book . You can follow and tag Suzy on: • Instagram: @suzywelch • Linkedin: @suzywelch • TikTok: @suzywelch • YouTube: @suzywelch_ • X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 133 | Sep 24, 2026 | 26 min
How Do I Chase a Big Dream Without Losing Everything?
Lily is 68, newly retired, and bored out of her mind. What she really wants now is to do something so scary it keeps her up at night. This week as season 1 of Please Advise continues, Suzy talks to Lily, who's had more lives than most: news anchor, reporter, road manager for a band touring Quebec, medical claims specialist, full-time felting artist (yes, a piece of hers once went to Stevie Nicks), and, most recently, a coordinator at the VA. She's got the courage, the resume, and even a vision board, but one thing keeps holding her back: a very low tolerance for financial risk. Suzy digs into Lily's values, aptitudes, and interests, and lands on the breakthrough — which isn't even the idea itself. It's Suzy's reframe of how to get there. Stop imagining the five-day version and start with the five-hour one. Small experiments, low risk, real data, one step before the next. It's a conversation about courage at any age, the difference between dreaming big and starting small, and why it's never too late to place the chips on yourself. Have a question for Please Advise? Submit it here . As a Becoming You podcast listener, use code PODCAST for 50% off The Values Bridge . 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. Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book . You can follow and tag Suzy on: • Instagram: @suzywelch • Linkedin: @suzywelch • TikTok: @suzywelch • YouTube: @suzywelch_ • X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 131 | Sep 17, 2026 | 34 min
I’ve Had 30 Jobs and Still Haven’t Found the One
Two Suzy’s walk into a podcast. One of them has had 30 jobs. The other is here to help sort through what job is next. This week on Please Advise, your host Suzy Welch talks to a fellow Suzy — Atlanta's own "Suzie Sunshine" — who has found herself stuck with where to turn next. Now in her mid-50s, with her children grown, and with over 30 jobs in her lifetime, Suzie Sunshine is nowhere near ready to slow down, but isn’t sure which is the best path to take. Your host Suzy goes straight into diagnostic mode, tracing the story back to a seventh-grade dream of acting, a magazine article that scared her off it, and a quiet, decades-long override by one of the Four Horsemen of Values Destruction. Suzy walks through Suzie Sunshine's top values and lands on an answer that actually has nothing to do with another job title at all. It's a conversation about entrepreneurship, courage, and betting on yourself when you think the clock is running out — and a reminder that it is never too late to become you. Have a question for Please Advise? Submit it here . As a Becoming You podcast listener, use code PODCAST for 50% off The Values Bridge . 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. Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book . You can follow and tag Suzy on: • Instagram: @suzywelch • Linkedin: @suzywelch • TikTok: @suzywelch • YouTube: @suzywelch_ • X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 129 | Sep 10, 2026 | 33 min
What Happens When Your Family Doesn't Like the New You?
"I want the old you back." Sometimes that's how the people closest to you respond when you start actually living your values — and it's exactly what this week’s caller Brie is running into with her own family, on this episode of Please Advise. Suzy takes two listener calls this week. First, Ana, 44, back on the job hunt after a sabbatical, doing everything by the book: networking, applying, staying intentional. Yet still hitting silence. Suzy walks through Ana's values and aptitudes and lands on the real problem: it's not her, it's her tactics. Suzy shares her advice after years of being on both sides of the desk. Then Brie calls in. She's gotten clear on her values and is living more aligned with them than ever, except her family isn't sure what to make of the new her. Suzy names what's actually happening: Brie's family is confusing values with virtues, and reading her growth as a rejection of them. Suzy walks through her own version of this story, including a hard-won truce with her own kids over Workcentrism and Achievement, and makes the case that naming your values out loud, to the people who love you, is what keeps you close instead of growing apart. As a Becoming You podcast listener, use code PODCAST for 50% off The Values Bridge . 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. Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book . You can follow and tag Suzy on: • Instagram: @suzywelch • Linkedin: @suzywelch • TikTok: @suzywelch • YouTube: @suzywelch_ • X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 127 | Sep 3, 2026 | 37 min
Stop Networking. Do This Instead.
This week on Becoming You’s Please Advise series, your host Suzy Welch takes two more listener calls. Erin is a 55-year-old single mom of three, working a job in HR that's quietly hollowing her out, and she wants to know: does she stick it out until she knows exactly what to do next, or does she leave now? Suzy walks through Erin's top values and lands on a piece of advice that has nothing to do with a resume: Stop building the website, and start building the business. Then Suzy talks to Parnian, an executive and entrepreneur navigating the "messy middle" of career, marriage, and family planning all at once, who asks how women can better lean on each other to get ahead. Suzy's answer takes an unexpected turn into a new definition of resilience, and a hard line she draws for her students: Don't network, make friends. It's Suzy at her most personal, weaving in stories from her own divorce, her PhD, and a friendship that changed the entire trajectory of her career. Real questions, real answers, no scripts — Please Advise Season 1 continues. As a Becoming You podcast listener, use code PODCAST for 50% off The Values Bridge . 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. Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book . You can follow and tag Suzy on: • Instagram: @suzywelch • Linkedin: @suzywelch • TikTok: @suzywelch • YouTube: @suzywelch_ • X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 125 | Aug 27, 2026 | 37 min
Should I Just Do What I'm Good At...Even If I Hate It?
This week on Becoming You, your host Suzy Welch introduces Season 1 of an exciting new series: Please Advise. Real listeners. Real questions. Real solutions. Each episode, Suzy takes calls live, with no topic off limits: career pivots, family friction, the values conflicts that keep you up at night. Fast, direct, and grounded in the frameworks of Becoming You, Suzy helps you get closer to living by design in under 45 minutes. If you've ever wanted to ask Suzy something and get an honest answer on the spot, your new favorite podcast has arrived. In this premiere episode, Suzy talks to four listeners with four very different problems. "What do you do when you hate what you're good at?" asks Lynn, while Beth wonders, "As your kids become teenagers, who should be in charge of making the decisions — you, or them?" Rebecca calls in for advice about The Values Bridge value of Belovedness, the value of romantic love: "When you lose the person you love, what does it mean to let that value go?" And last but definitely not least, Suzy gets the most serious question of all from her best friend and returning podcast guest, Sue: "What should you do when your best friend makes you snort from laughter?" Direct, funny, and genuinely helpful — don't miss the premiere of Please Advise, Season 1. As a Becoming You podcast listener, use code PODCAST for 50% off The Values Bridge . 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. Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book . You can follow and tag Suzy on: • Instagram: @suzywelch • Linkedin: @suzywelch • TikTok: @suzywelch • YouTube: @suzywelch_ • X: @SuzyWelch