8. Evie Wick

Evie Wick—mother, former IBMer, priestess in training, and new empty nester and self-described "crone"—joins me for a conversation about her "pause and pivot." We talk identity, authenticity, and the messy work of becoming yourself when you've spent a lifetime wearing faces. We talk about the difference between the labels we hold and the values underneath them, and what it takes to live as "I am" instead of what you do. We traveled down a winding road of 23 moves and 11 schools, to a T.S. Eliot poem that cracked her open in high school, to a chaotic first morning studying abroad in Denmark that broke her open like a raw egg. We talk about parenting without making mini-me's, the day her daughter said "don't speak to me that way" (and why that was a victory), the autoimmune cost of being the "good girl," menopause as permission that doesn't need to come so late, neurodivergence as joy and burden, how to practice attention with intention in a noisy world, and the beauty of the human brain. And of course, AI and what it means to be human—not as a tool to do more, but as the great circle-back to an ancient question: what are humans for? If you're mid-pivot, peeling back layers, or learning how to be a human being instead of a human doing, this one's for you.Find Evie on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eviewick/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/everbecomingwithevie