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Becoming You with Suzy Welch, a top Apple podcast for self-discovery, takes on the question almost everyone asks eventually: What should I do with my life? Host Suzy Welch, an NYU Stern professor, three-time New York Times bestselling author, and creator of the research-backed Becoming You methodology, brings a social scientist's rigor and a veteran journalist's nose for a story to every episode. One week she's unpacking the data behind the values that quietly drive our choices, from the hunger for fame to the pull of beauty. The next she's pressing a labor economist on whether AI is coming for your job, or taking live calls from listeners at a crossroads. Along the way, Achilles and the Renaissance share airtime with career pivots, family friction, and guests ranging from top researchers to Suzy's own best friend. It's smart, candid, often laugh-out-loud funny, and never woo-woo, and it leaves you a little closer to becoming you.
Episodes
Episode 36 | Jan 1, 2025 | 31 min
What if you had a new language to explain what’s important to you? Now you do
It has just 15 words -- simple, clear, and powerful. And the minute you're fluent in it -- which is the exact point of this episode -- suddenly the world starts to make a lot more sense, starting with how you're feeling about life, and what you need to do to make yourself feel that much better, more fulfilled, and more authentic. Essentially -- more you. Listen in, and get ready to transform your world with a new lexicon of values. 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 . 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: Instagram: @suzywelch Linkedin: @suzywelch TikTok: @suzywelch YouTube: @suzywelch_ X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 35 | Dec 24, 2024 | 20 min
All I Want for Christmas is the Truth About Me
And that's what you'll get on Christmas, too -- if you look at your wishlist with new eyes. In this episode of Becoming You, Suzy suggests that your Christmas desires -- unwrapped -- are usually big, flashing arrows pointing directly at your values. And to demonstrate that, she takes us through the three things she is hoping to see under the tree Christmas morning, and ponders what they reveal about her heart, what it so ardently wants. What is your Christmas list telling you about your dream of a life? What is it telling you about your journey to make it reality? Tune in and find out. 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 . 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: Instagram: @suzywelch Linkedin: @suzywelch TikTok: @suzywelch YouTube: @suzywelch_ X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 34 | Dec 18, 2024 | 21 min
You Probably Don't Know What You're Good At. That Has To Stop
Career success, life success – you want them, but here’s the thing, they will remain ever elusive until you know your aptitudes. Don’t bolt! We know that word sounds like jargon. Or like pure academic BS. But aptitudes are real, and you have very specific ones, and knowing what they are can and will change your life. Take it from Suzy, who in this week’s gasp-worthy pod (yes, just wait and see) tells us how she learned that very lesson the hard 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 . 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: Instagram: @suzywelch Linkedin: @suzywelch TikTok: @suzywelch YouTube: @suzywelch_ X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 33 | Dec 10, 2024 | 18 min
What If There Was a Magical Marriage Trick? There Just Might Be
It is not uncommon for people undertaking Becoming You’s self-discovery journey to notice that the process is, well, impacting their marriage, or even making them wonder if they should get married at all. After all, isn’t there something inherently freeing about finally and fully becoming ALL YOU? It’s a big question, and here’s a shocker, Suzy has a big answer, which includes the best (and only) marriage “trick” she advises — because Becoming You is hard, but Becoming Us is even harder. 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 . 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: Instagram: @suzywelch Linkedin: @suzywelch TikTok: @suzywelch YouTube: @suzywelch_ X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 32 | Dec 3, 2024 | 23 min
What to do When a Good Life isn't Good Enough
Sometimes, we’re happy-ish and that’s fine. After all, we tell ourselves, no one is overjoyed about everything all the time! But other times, we’re not-so-ok and sense our lives could be fuller, richer, or somehow more authentic. What then? Suzy takes on that exact question this week when she responds to two pod listeners: Barbara, a successful marketing executive who has everything a person could want in life – except a sense of purpose, and Caycee, who finds herself in daily battle with her conflicting values of financial security and flexibility. Listen in as Suzy sorts out their poignant, familiar, and all-too-human struggles to not just become happier, but their very own version of happiest. 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 . 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: Instagram: @suzywelch Linkedin: @suzywelch TikTok: @suzywelch YouTube: @suzywelch_ X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 31 | Nov 26, 2024 | 36 min
Your Pivot Might Feel Like a Disaster. You Have to do it Anyway. A conversation with LinkedIn's Dan Roth
Buckle up because this week the topic is change -- big change. Specifically, we're talking about career pivots, which are not only good for your personal growth, but often necessary for your professional survival. Does that make them easy? Good freaking lordy-lord no! Are you kidding? That's why this week, Suzy talks to a person who made a brilliant and heroic pivot, only to walk through fire before (eventually) reaching his hoped-for mountaintop. Such a journey will probably happen to you too, if your Becoming You journey includes a pivot. But Suzy's interview this week will give you the resolve and courage, not to mention some actionable advice. Tune in for her poignant, funny, useful, and altogether relatable conversation with the amazing and amazingly candid Dan Roth, Editor-in-Chief of LinkedIn. 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 . 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: Instagram: @suzywelch Linkedin: @suzywelch TikTok: @suzywelch YouTube: @suzywelch_ X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 30 | Nov 19, 2024 | 33 min
The Four Leadership Traits No One Tells You About, But Should, featuring Dr. Ellen Gendler
You could fill a library with all the books written about leadership, and Suzy's read most of them (and written a few herself.) But over the past several years, she has developed a new rubric which elucidates the four key "personality clusters" -- e.g. personality traits -- that she believes are the true gateway to professional success. In this podcast, Suzy reveals and explains those traits, and to make them come alive with stories and a bit of lively debate, she is joined by Dr. Ellen Gendler, a world-famous medical leader whom Suzy believes is an exemplar of each and every one. 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 . 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: Instagram: @suzywelch Linkedin: @suzywelch TikTok: @suzywelch YouTube: @suzywelch_ X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 29 | Nov 12, 2024 | 19 min
Once Upon A Time in Utopia
It's been a week, hasn't it? No matter your political affiliation, or how you felt about the election, big and raw emotions were everywhere, and, well, let's just say, not everyone was at their nicest. But here's a question to ponder. What would it look and feel like if suddenly, one day, everyone showed up and said, "Whoever you are, and whatever you believe, I love you?" Astonishingly, Suzy had just such an experience the weekend before the presidential vote went down, at a long-planned wellness weekend in Texas. Her report reflecting on this brief and wondrous Field of Dreams experience might break your heart -- or open it. 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 . 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: Instagram: @suzywelch Linkedin: @suzywelch TikTok: @suzywelch YouTube: @suzywelch_ X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 28 | Nov 5, 2024 | 21 min
It Was Supposed to be a Business Trip
Suzy thought she was going to England for 48 rushed hours of work insanity, only to encounter four strangers — and four questions — that turned her trip the kind of self-discovery journey we all need to take sometime in our lives. In fact, you can take it right now, by traveling along with Suzy as she grapples with her unexpected queries -- and finding answers all your own. 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 . 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: Instagram: @suzywelch Linkedin: @suzywelch TikTok: @suzywelch YouTube: @suzywelch_ X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 27 | Oct 29, 2024 | 37 min
If Suzy Welch Was Your Mother, Would You Just Automatically Become You? Let’s Find Out, Shall We
It’s said the cobbler’s kids have squeaky shoes, so could it be life coaches have confused kids with crappy careers? This week’s guest, Suzy’s daughter, Sophia, is here to answer that question once and for all, and as it turns out, she and Suzy share an intertwined story about self-discovery, self-challenge, mistakes, love, loss, and parenting that might just resonate with us all. Press play, and get ready for an illuminating — and intimate — Becoming You conversation. 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 . 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: Instagram: @suzywelch Linkedin: @suzywelch TikTok: @suzywelch YouTube: @suzywelch_ X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 26 | Oct 22, 2024 | 21 min
The Always and Forever Question
Why is it, even after we grow up, we still always wonder what we should do when we grow up? It's crazy -- or maybe it's not. In this episode, Suzy tells the story of finding herself in a room full of hyper-accomplished women, and discovering, much to her surprise and then joy, that they are all asking humanity's always-and-forever question themselves. It's enough to make you feel OK about the twisty-turny journey to the answer, or maybe even better than OK. Speaking of questions, Suzy also takes a few from you, our beloved listening audience, about decision-making, passion, and boredom. Get a cuppa something, and press play. 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 . 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: Instagram: @suzywelch Linkedin: @suzywelch TikTok: @suzywelch YouTube: @suzywelch_ X: @SuzyWelch
Episode 25 | Oct 15, 2024 | 21 min
Four big hairy things get in the way of living authentically. What are they?
There are the famous Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which are not just big and hairy, but incredibly terrifying. Then, there are what Suzy calls "The Four Horsemen of Values Destruction." They are also fearsome, and, unfortunately, real enough to gallop away with your life. Listen in this week as Suzy describes and illustrates how the desire for economic security, the lure of expediency, the press of expectations, and the interruption of events might be exactly why your life is moving in the wrong direction. Also: What you can do to change that. 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 . 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: Instagram: @suzywelch Linkedin: @suzywelch TikTok: @suzywelch YouTube: @suzywelch_ X: @SuzyWelch