Heartwork Podcast
What if the key to a fulfilling life isn't about doing more, but about being more?
Welcome to the Heartwork Podcast, where Dr. Sara Nelson-Gray and Dr. Marisa Baumann invite you on a journey of self-discovery and authentic living.
Through raw conversations and real-life stories, two chiropractors and business owners discuss how embracing vulnerability and leading with heart can transform every aspect of your life and business. From personal growth to professional success, each episode offers practical insights to help you live with purpose and create meaningful impact.
Join us weekly as we navigate the beautiful mess of being human and learn to thrive from the inside out!
Heartwork Podcast
Ep. 87: F the Success: When Society's Metrics Stop Working
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This episode starts with a hand on someone's back. Marisa walked into an adjusting room, felt something off in a practice member's energy, and asked her twice, are you okay today? The woman broke down. Fresh off a divorce and a morning masterclass about success, she said the thing so many people are circling right now: I've been living my life by society's metrics of success, and I just want to say F the success and take care of myself. What follows is a short, honest conversation about the difference between satisfaction and joy, why the things we do purely for love lose something the moment we turn them into a project with an outcome, and the strange, splitting feeling of looking at the life you built and not knowing if you still love it.
🔥 In This Episode:
- Why a life built on achievement can look successful on paper and still leave you living in constant striving with nothing that feels like arrival
- The research on satisfaction, joy, and meaning, and what happens to people who chase only one of the three
- How turning something you loved for free into a source of income can quietly drain the joy out of it
- The disorientation of realizing you might not love the thing you built, and why that confusion is part of the journey rather than proof you took a wrong turn
- The question Sara was gifted two months ago that reframes everything: what would it look like for you to fall back in love with what you do?
This one is short, and it doesn't tie anything up. If you're in a season where you're questioning what you actually love, whether the thing you built still fits, whether the metrics you've been chasing were ever yours, this episode won't hand you the answer. It hands you the question. What would it look like for you to fall back in love with what you do, not because the P&L says you should, but because there's still something in it worth loving? Sit with that one this week.
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