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EPISODE · Jun 19, 2025 · 15 MIN

When having it all still leaves you feeling empty

from Wise Minds, Wild Hearts - The Podcast for Soulful High Achievers · host Kip Clarke

There's an invisible weight that many high-achieving women carry. It’s a kind of emotional dissonance between what your life looks like and how your life feels. You’ve ticked the boxes, played the game, and won the accolades—yet there’s a gnawing sense that something is missing.It’s not failure. It’s not burnout. It’s a deeper misalignment.Psychologist Barry Schwartz, in The Paradox of Choice, reminds us that more success or recognition doesn’t necessarily bring more joy. In fact, those things can leave us anxious and unanchored. So why do so many successful people find themselves whispering, “Is this all there is?” right at the moment they were supposed to feel triumphant?Tune in to learn more.And for a little extra support in identifying where your own life may be misaligned, download my free Success Paradox Scorecard. Connect with me on LinkedIn.Find me at my website.Email me. ______________________________________________Subscribe to my newsletter ⁠⁠⁠Dispatches from the Future You⁠⁠⁠, and receive weekly insights to help you shed everything that's no longer working for you in order to create the space for something new and magical to come along!Music by Adrián Berenguer, “Little Things” from the album ⁠⁠⁠Immaterial⁠⁠⁠, used by permission.

There's an invisible weight that many high-achieving women carry. It’s a kind of emotional dissonance between what your life looks like and how your life feels. You’ve ticked the boxes, played the game, and won the accolades—yet there’s a gnawing sense that something is missing.It’s not failure. It’s not burnout. It’s a deeper misalignment.Psychologist Barry Schwartz, in The Paradox of Choice, reminds us that more success or recognition doesn’t necessarily bring more joy. In fact, those things can leave us anxious and unanchored. So why do so many successful people find themselves whispering, “Is this all there is?” right at the moment they were supposed to feel triumphant?Tune in to learn more.And for a little extra support in identifying where your own life may be misaligned, download my free Success Paradox Scorecard. Connect with me on LinkedIn.Find me at my website.Email me. ______________________________________________Subscribe to my newsletter ⁠⁠⁠Dispatches from the Future You⁠⁠⁠, and receive weekly insights to help you shed everything that's no longer working for you in order to create the space for something new and magical to come along!Music by Adrián Berenguer, “Little Things” from the album ⁠⁠⁠Immaterial⁠⁠⁠, used by permission.

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There's an invisible weight that many high-achieving women carry. It’s a kind of emotional dissonance between what your life looks like and how your life feels. You’ve ticked the boxes, played the game, and won the accolades—yet there’s a gnawing...

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