Gemma Spike

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13,620 appearances 29 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

Gemma Spike’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 29 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 8.

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The Psychology of your 20s · 459. I'm so tired of being ambitious · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

A lot of the time our ambitions. voice-verified

actually doesn't even have a payout anyways. voice-verified

And I was actually talking to a listener about this the other day who wrote in voice-verified

And she was talking about this in the context of looking for work and she's just graduated uni and she's looking for a grad job. voice-verified

And what she basically said was that she spent her whole life being voice-verified

Straight A student, amazing student, convinced that working hard, giving up weekends, doing everything extra was a secret to a stable, happy life. voice-verified

Um, and now she's looking for a job and she can't get one. voice-verified

And she doesn't get any callbacks and she doesn't get any bites, and she's like, I've done everything right. voice-verified

I'm so ambitious. voice-verified

And the ambition that promised so much has really just left me feeling awfully disappointed. voice-verified

And what she essentially was realizing was like, I could have spent all that time actually enjoying myself. voice-verified

And I didn't because I was sold this kind of lie. voice-verified

There is this weird sense where we voice-verified

Feel like we need to work hard to secure a good future so that, you know, in twenty five, thirty years we won't have to worry about money and we can enjoy ourselves and that is a very important thing. voice-verified

But we could have been enjoying ourselves the whole time, rather than just at the end, if we'd had a gentler form of ambition. voice-verified

This relates to something I said just before. voice-verified

What does ambition really give us? voice-verified

Other than simply more ambition. voice-verified

You know, there's a strange metaphor. voice-verified

There's probably like a riddle in this really, which is voice-verified

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