Molly Graham

And I think if you can let go of that sort of like fixed identity of like, here's who I am or here's what I am in the world and just say, what's the next step I need to take to learn who I'm becoming or to learn what work feeds me?

Sometimes it can just be a step inside your current job, slight shift in a role, you know, taking on a different challenge like that teaches you what the next step is.

And it actually like I've been I've been on this journey for a while, but like certainly last three and a half years, I'm still taking steps like this podcast came out of nowhere.

And for me, it was like, oh, that's the next step.

That's the one that's going to teach me all sorts of stuff that I could not have imagined before.

And I think there's incredible power in that and sort of not trying to predict what the destination is, but just finding the right next step.

And I also think like, you know, one of the things that midlife made me ask is how do I want to spend my time?

You know, I think I hit 40 and I was like, man, if I'm lucky, I'm going to live till I'm 80 and be healthy and all that.

And so like I'm halfway through my life, which, you know, again, who knows?

Lots of people don't live till they're 80.

But I was like, OK, then we only have so much time.

Like, how do I want to spend my days and my hours?

And for me, people is a huge part of that, which is like.

you know, who are the people I want to surround myself with and learn from and get to work with.

And I think that it's like at the end of the day, life is just made up of hours and who you surround yourself with has a big impact on both what it feels like, but also to your point, like what you learn, you know, and how you push yourself.

Hmm.

What a good question.

To be honest, I hate being repetitive, but like the number one most valuable thing to me has been normalizing the emotional roller coaster of work.

I think that's such a consistent theme in everything that I do and sort of talk to people about and that makes them take sort of the sigh of relief of like, oh, I'm not crazy.

I'm not doing the wrong thing.