You’d Like Her

Lexi cancelled her wedding, bought an empty van, and spent nine months building it from scratch with no construction background, no blueprint, and absolutely no guarantee it would work. Then she and her husband drove it across America for six months and came home exactly the same people they left as.We took the same path for years. Same university, same business school, same consulting job and even the same firm. Yet Lexi was the last person I would have predicted would do something like this — and I mean that as the highest compliment. Because if she could build a van from nothing and drive it across America, it quietly makes you wonder what you've been telling yourself isn't for someone like you.In this conversation: what it actually feels like to live a dream trip day to day when your body refuses to be amazed on schedule, the moment she realized the trip wasn't going to transform her, and what she did the week she got home that says everything about who she actually is.Come find me on Substack at mayyojane.substack.com — it's where I go deeper on everything this show opens up.New episodes every Wednesday. Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

I spent an entire summer convinced I was about to suddenly die of a rare heart disease. Even though the diagnosis was wrong, the fear had already moved in.Fear isn't the hard part. It's what happens after, when you know you should move forward and you can't — that's the part nobody talks about. At some point, the "just do it" mentality to push through fear stops working.This one's for you if fear has been louder than everything else.In this episode: how the hardest work is the soft work, why some people come out of hard things more expansive and others contract, and the secret for flowing through fear (hint: you already know it, you just need a friendly reminder). New episodes every Wednesday. For additional honest conversations about fear and how to manage it, feel free to follow me on Substack.My Word to the Wise interview is here.If you want to learn more about Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG), you can find more research here. Please note I am not a licensed mental health professional — I am only sharing my experience and what has worked for me.Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

Satori was thirteen when the 2011 tsunami destroyed her hometown in Sendai, Japan. She went to volunteer in the aftermath. It left her with something most people spend their whole lives trying to find: a bone-deep sense that life is short, failure doesn't mean much, and ordinary is amazing.I met Satori on a tour in Kazakhstan and we kept crossing paths after that across Central Asia, before I visited her in Japan. A year later, we reconnected in Australia. In this conversation: why she does things without being qualified for them, how she's been quietly building toward her dream one small step at a time, and getting naked in the milky hot springs of Japan.Find Satori on her travel blog: https://www.youtube.com/@shijimi_travelNew episodes every Wednesday - follow so you don't miss them! Find May at @youdlikeher. Discover more through the newsletter. Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

For most of my career I followed other people's scripts without realizing that's what I was doing. Consulting in New York because it was the prestigious path. A croissanterie in Sydney because baking was my hobby. Teaching yoga because instructors’ lives looked so free. I kept seeing what other people had and thinking: that equation works for them, so it must work for me too.It didn't. This is about what I found when I stopped looking at everyone else and got radically honest with myself.In this episode: why I kept making the same mistake in two completely different phases of my career, what working at a bakery taught me about romanticizing, and why I'm finally giving myself permission to pursue big audacious goals — even with all of the uncertainty. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Follow the show so you don’t miss out on meeting women who expand your idea of what’s possible. Discover more on Substack https://mayyojane.substack.com/ and find me on Instagram @mayyojaneMusic by Universfield via Pixabay.

Jaime has quit a lot of things. A commerce degree she hated, a corporate job, an interior design career, a yoga teaching business. Not because she's flaky — because she kept making perfectly logical guesses with her head and landing somewhere that almost worked.I met Jaime while hiking in the Alps back in 2022 when she told me the craziest story about losing her engagement ring. She loves growing sweet potatoes and writing sustainability communications. Her home is full of stunning artwork — most of it she made herself. In this conversation: the pattern she noticed across every leap, why she'd rather downsize her house than compromise her days, and why she was completely fine with her partner spending three weeks in India while she was pregnant. Find Jaime at https://www.jaimelaird.com/.New episodes every Wednesday - follow so you don't miss out! Follow the show on Instagram @youdlikeher. Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

If you've ever done the math on your life — working backwards from the age you were supposed to have it together, and then spent years making decisions from the fear of falling behind it — this one's for you.I turned 33 this week, and it definitely does not look like what I had planned out when I was 22. For most of my twenties, every birthday was a quiet report card against a timeline I’d invented in private. This birthday I recorded out loud and put on the internet. This one’s personal - it’s the moment I realized I'd been waiting for permission I could have given myself the whole time.In this episode: the timeline I built my twenties around, what Antarctica taught me about giving yourself permission, and why I celebrated turning 33 by putting this on the internet.New episodes every Wednesday. If you want to celebrate my birthday with me, please subscribe, review, and share this podcast with a friend. Follow the show on Instagram @youdlikeher and Substack: https://youdlikeher.substack.com/Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

Anna booked a last-minute cruise to Antarctica from a random WhatsApp number on a Sunday night. No plan, no backup — just a hostel in Ushuaia and the beginning of a year-long career break that would change what she believed she was worth.We ended up as bunkmates at the bottom of the world — two women who each thought the other had it completely together. I saw her as confident and self-possessed. She saw me as someone who had it figured out. We were both wrong, and that was the most reassuring thing.Anna is from Germany, and she spent a year traveling solo through South America, Asia, and Australia — and is now renovating a 157-year-old house entirely by herself. In this conversation: what it actually feels like to leave everything behind, how a year of traveling and living differently changed her sense of self, and discovering a new love for penguins.New episodes every Wednesday. Discover more on Substack at youdlikeher.substack.com.Music by Universfield via Pixabay.

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