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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 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