Amina AlTai

So I thought, okay, let me replant him.

He'd gotten so big.

I thought maybe he needs a bigger container.

And I replanted him.

Well, I actually hired someone to replant him because he was too big for me to do it.

And then after the person replants him, they're like, oh, I've never worked with this plant before.

I hope it doesn't die.

And I was like, what, what now?

So fast forward, basically Herm doesn't do so well in the transplant, but now I'm propagating him.

So I took nine cuttings and I'm actually propagating it into a new plant that I will put back together.

But I do love my plant children and I just had a very, really hard experience, but I thought it was a metaphor.

I was like, Herm outgrew the pot and he got too big and he needed new roots.

And I feel like that's such an important metaphor for all of us.

There are times in our lives where we need new roots.

So it feels like a burning down, but it's actually a rebuilding.

So that's the metaphor I'm running with this.

wanting to put that book out what was that what was that concept like for you yes so the book is called the ambition trap and i'm somebody that has deeply studied ambition for basically my whole life i am the child of immigrants and really watched my dad struggle to kind of find his place in the world and you know i picked up a lot of that programming too

I was told like, keep your head down, work really hard, be the hardest working person in the room, first one in, last one out.

And that worked for me until it didn't work for me.

And I ended up getting very sick and getting two autoimmune diseases.