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The Becoming You
Podcast with Suzy Welch
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 145 | Nov 3, 2026 | 34 min
6 Jobs You Should Not Take Right Now (Part 2)
Stop everything you’re doing and do not take these three jobs. This is part two of our series featuring Becoming You Labs Chief Economist Sania Khan, all about the jobs that look good on paper, but may not be worth saying yes to. This week, Suzy and Sania take on the final three. First, the job that only makes sense if you get promoted, including the two-year rotational programs that used to be the golden ticket. Then the job where you may be training your own AI replacement. And finally, the job that exists because of a single line item in someone else’s budget. For each one, they share what to ask before you say yes, and how to protect yourself if you’re already in it. Along the way, Suzy tells the story of her own two-year program at Bain, a glass factory in Toledo, and the steel dumpster assignment that taught her more than any classroom. Plus, Sania introduces her “three Ms” framework for looking beyond today’s job boards: markets, movements, and megatrends. If you know someone future-proofing their career, or you’re in that position right now, this episode is for you. Subscribe to Sania’s newsletter, The Offer Letter, 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 144 | Nov 2, 2026 | 3 min
Introducing The We Do Not Care Club Podcast with Melani Sanders
Description: Welcome to The We Do Not Care Club Podcast hosted by Melani Sanders, content creator, founding member of the WDNC, and New York Times bestselling author of The Official We Do Not Care Club Handbook. What started as Melani’s hilarious and all-too-true social media declaration that she simply did not care much anymore has become a global movement centered on sisterhood, laughter, honesty, and understanding that we are not alone, and we are enough. From menopause to marriage, motherhood, sex, relationships, changing bodies, mental health, work, money, food, and the everyday chaos of midlife, no topic is off-limits. Available now: link.pscrb.fm/f0281/wdnccfdby-bec23
Episode 142 | Oct 27, 2026 | 45 min
6 Jobs You Should Not Take Right Now (Part 1)
“Do not, under any circumstances, take that job.” Everyone’s always telling you what job to take. This week, Suzy and Becoming You Labs chief economist Sania Khan tell you about the six you should think twice about, in a two-part series on the jobs that look good today but may leave you without a life raft tomorrow. With hiring slowing and people clinging to the jobs they have, the temptation to say yes to any offer is real. But some of the most appealing roles come with risks that don’t show up on a resume: jobs where you’re indispensable but can’t prove it, jobs at companies that keep AI out of your hands, and jobs where you’ll take the blame for what AI gets wrong. This week, Suzy and Sania take on the first three jobs, with real examples, current data, and practical ways to protect yourself if you’re already in one of them. You may even have one of these jobs right now. And if you do, there’s still realistic hope. If you know someone who might be in one of these roles, forward them this episode. Subscribe to Sania’s newsletter, The Offer Letter, 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 140 | Oct 20, 2026 | 50 min
Why Dating Feels So Hopeless Right Now (and What to Do About It) with Sabrina Zohar
Love hurts. Love heals. Love is blind. Love conquers all. So which is it? And should you give your whole life over to finding that one special person, or treat romance as just one part of a full life? This week on Becoming You, Suzy takes on the value of romantic love, or Belovedness: how much you want to organize your life around one special person. This is part of our 16-episode series on the values that drive how we live, and the data on it might change how you think about love. Suzy shares how Americans actually rank romance right now, and why the answer looks very different depending on whether you’re married, divorced, or single. Then she goes back in time, with a surprising history of marriage and the idea that the version of romance we’re all raised on is a very recent invention. Then dating and relationship coach Sabrina Zohar, host of The Sabrina Zohar Show, and NYT bestselling author of "Why Am I Like This?" joins Suzy to talk about the state of dating in 2026, why so many people have lost hope, and what happened when she stopped waiting to be chosen and started choosing. And Suzy closes with a personal story about love, loss, and the value she almost left out entirely. Take the Values Bridge to find out where Belovedness falls for you. Link and discount code below. Find Sabrina Zohar’s new book, NYT bestseller “Why Am I Like This? Break Your Relationship Patterns and Create The Life You Want” here , find her on Instagram , and listen to her podcast The Sabrina Zohar Show . 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 138 | Oct 13, 2026 | 32 min
The King of New York’s Hottest Club Has Seen It All. And He’ll Never Leave. With Fabrizio Brienza
Is this the best town in the world, or do you need to get out of here? For some people, there’s only one answer, and it’s never negotiable. This week on Becoming You, Suzy skips the scholar and brings in someone who lives the value of Place, which is the value of location, out loud: Fabrizio Brienza, the “Door God” who decides who gets into Paul’s Casablanca, one of the hottest clubs in New York. Born in Campobasso, Italy, and shaped by Miami and Los Angeles, Fabrizio is clear that after New York, everywhere else feels like going from a Rolls-Royce to a Toyota Corolla. Yes, with the rats and all. In this latest installment of a 16-part series on the values that drive how we live, Suzy tells the story of how Place became a gatekeeping value in her scientifically-validated assessment, The Values Bridge: Where you live is one of the first things to figure out before you plan anything else. Where does Place fall for you as a value? Found out with a special discount code below. Find Fabrizio Brienza on Instagram and TikTok . 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 136 | Oct 6, 2026 | 36 min
Does Family Really Have to Come First? With Vienna Pharaon
Suzy is obsessed with her grandchildren. Completely, unapologetically obsessed. But for most of her life, she didn't organize her decisions around family, and for a long time that came with a question a lot of people are afraid to ask: Does putting myself before my family make me a bad person? Becoming You is about figuring out what actually matters to you so you can make better choices about your work, your relationships, and your life. One way to get there is the Values Bridge, Suzy’s scientifically validated assessment that identifies the values that really drive you, not the ones you think you're supposed to have. In this 16-part series, Suzy is exploring those values one at a time. This week: Familycentrism, one of the most emotionally loaded values of all. Family therapist Vienna Pharaon joins Suzy to unpack why family comes with so many expectations and why the "black sheep" is often just the person with lower Familycentrism. Then Becoming You certified coach Lola Persons gets personal about loving her family fiercely without building her life around them, and why she calls it "not the Brady Bunch, but it's okay." Because maybe the question was never how much you love your family. Maybe it's how much of your life you want to organize around them, and whether we can stop judging the people who answer differently. Where does Familycentrism fall for you? Take the Values Bridge to find out, with a discount code in the show notes. As a Becoming You podcast listener, use code PODCAST for 50% off The Values Bridge . Find Vienna Pharaon on Instagram , Substack , and find her book "The Origins of You" here , along with her quiz here . Find Lola Persons on LinkedIn here . 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 134 | Sep 29, 2026 | 31 min
3 Numbers That Explain the Most Divided Value in America with Ryan Burge
There may be no value more contentious than this one — so contentious that Suzy Welch almost didn't include it in her own methodology at all. This episode is the next installment of an epic 16-part deep dive, one episode for each of the 16 values in the language Suzy created with the Values Bridge, her scientifically validated assessment tool. This week's value is Cosmos — faith, in any tradition, not one in particular — and it's the most polarized value on the entire Values Bridge at that. Suzy sits down with Ryan Burge, professor at Washington University in St. Louis, author of “The Vanishing Church,” and the researcher behind the Substack “Graphs About Religion,” to unpack the state of faith in America today. Suzy also gets personal, telling the story of her own faith journey since age 14, and confessing something she's never said on the podcast before. Tune in for more. If you liked this episode, please leave a review! Take the Values Bridge yourself and find out where Cosmos falls for you, with the link and discount code below. As a Becoming You podcast listener, use code PODCAST for 50% off The Values Bridge . Find Ryan Burge's Substack "Graphs About Religion" here , his book "The Vanishing Church" here , and X , LinkedIn , Instagram. 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 132 | Sep 22, 2026 | 38 min
What If Office Politics Are Secretly Telling You Something You Need to Hear?
Christina hates office politics. Who doesn't? But after 20-plus years in corporate marketing, she's started asking herself a much harder question: What if the problem isn't the politics — what if it's her? This week on Becoming You, Suzy talks to Christina, a brand management veteran who recently quit her job, unsure whether she's actually cut out for corporate life at all, or just tired of playing a game she never wanted to play. Suzy shares her own bruising run-in with office politics from her early career days, before turning diagnostic on Christina's story. And it points toward one particular next move: Stop trying to survive inside a culture that will always clash with who you are, and go build the one that won't. It's a conversation about self-awareness, entrepreneurship, and the difference between throwing in the towel and finally stepping into your authentic self. If you liked this episode, please leave a review! 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 130 | Sep 15, 2026 | 59 min
If Your Life Were an Asteroid, How Big a Crater Would It Leave?
How do you make a fun, upbeat podcast about a value that makes literally everyone uncomfortable — the people who have it and the people who don't? That's the challenge Suzy Welch sets for herself this week on Becoming You. This episode is the next installment of an epic 16-part deep dive, one episode for each of the 16 values in the language Suzy created with The Values Bridge, her scientifically validated assessment tool. We all hold these values, ranked 1 to 16 in a different order for each of us, and understanding the language can change everything. That's because values aren't virtues like happiness or honesty — they're choices about how you live your life, and there's no good or bad, right or wrong, about which ones you hold. This week's value is Radius: the drive to change the world in big, systemic ways. Suzy explains why so few of us have it (just 10%, ranking 14 out of 16 values) and reveals the single most shocking data point in the Values Bridge dataset about it. Suzy also draws a hard line between Radius and its frequently confused cousin, Non-Sibi — the value of helping people one-on-one — and explains why wanting to change the world doesn't necessarily mean wanting to help people individually. Then Suzy goes to 20,000 feet with Dr. Jay Van Bavel, professor of psychology and neuroscience at NYU and author of The Power of Us, to debate whether Radius is a value or an identity — and to unpack why movements built around Radius so often turn on themselves. Finally, Suzy sits down with Kitty Block, CEO of Humane World for Animals, whose own Radius story involves twenty veterinarians, a runaway dog, and a face full of bruises. Take the Values Bridge yourself and find out where Radius falls for you. Link and discount code below. Find Jay Van Bavel on LinkedIn , X , and his book, The Power of Us . Find Kitty Block at Humane World for Animals . 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 128 | Sep 8, 2026 | 45 min
It's Okay to Care How Things Look. And No, You're Not Shallow.
Suzy continues her deep dive into the 16 values from the Welch-Bristol Values Inventory with Beholderism — our desire for beautiful things: our homes, our clothes, our stuff, ourselves. It's the #4 most prevalent value in the general population, #2 for women overall, and yet it's one of the values people are most likely to feel ashamed of. Suzy walks through the data on who has it and who doesn't, shares the story of the time her Beholderism led her to knock on a Finnish mayor's door, and sits down with legendary interior designer Elizabeth Lawrence of Williams Lawrence. Then Dr. Evelyn Welch — historian, MBE, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol, and Suzy's friend of 52 years — joins to explain why beauty and consumerism have been linked since long before the Renaissance. If you've ever felt silly for caring how things look, this episode is your permission slip. Find Elizabeth Lawrence on Instagram @ elizabeth_m_lawrence and @ williams_lawrence_interiors . Elizabeth Lawrence and Bunny Williams: Decoration available 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 126 | Sep 1, 2026 | 40 min
Is AI Coming for Your Job? An Economist Gives It to Me Straight
This week on Becoming You, your host Suzy Welch hits pause on the values deep-dive series for something urgent: the state of work today. After Suzy casually dropped the phrase "job hugging" on a recent appearance at the Today Show — which is the trend of people gripping their jobs because they're terrified of what's coming — the reaction was, in Suzy's words, an internet meltdown. So she brought in Chief Labor Economist Sania Khan, formerly of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and then an AI company, to separate the panic from the data. They get into it: whether AI is coming for every job or about to create a wave of new ones, why "low hire, low fire" is quietly locking younger workers out of the labor market, and why a second-year analyst should be more nervous right now than almost anyone else in the building. Sania lays out the proactive work exercise she'd give any 22-year-old, or any 40-year-old, staring down a job that suddenly needs a rewrite. If you've got a job, want a job, or are quietly panicking about either, this one's for you. 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 124 | Aug 25, 2026 | 66 min
The Value We All Judge the Most
This week on Becoming You, your host Suzy Welch continues the series' deep dive into the 16 human values with one of the most misunderstood: Workcentrism, the value of organizing your life around work. It ranks 15 out of 16 for the general population, and it's the only value in the entire Values Bridge inventory with a negative authenticity gap — meaning most people want even less of it, not more. Suzy unpacks why Workcentrism is unique among all the values: it's the one you may not hold, but are still forced to express. She's joined by Tina Doran, SVP of Retail and Commerce at Mastercard, who has Workcentrism as her number-one value, for a conversation about what it actually feels like to build a life around work without apology. Then Suzy sits down with Jennifer Tosti-Kharas of Babson College and Christopher Wong Michaelson of NYU and the University of St. Thomas, co-authors of “Is Your Work Worth It?”, to explore why society equates high Workcentrism with workaholism, why hiring managers reward it even when performance data doesn't back it up, and why the pandemic, quiet quitting, and the shifting economy have all reshaped how we relate to work. As always, Suzy reminds us: values aren't virtues, they're choices — and no one should be judged for the ones they hold. 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