Please Advise: Should I Just Do What I'm Good At...Even If I Hate It?

About this episode

In the premiere episode of Please Advise, Suzy Welch addresses various listener questions about career dissatisfaction, parenting decisions, and personal values.

This week on Becoming You, your host Suzy Welch introduces Season 1 of an exciting new series: Please Advise. Real listeners. Real questions. Real solutions. Each episode, Suzy takes calls live, with no topic off limits: career pivots, family friction, the values conflicts that keep you up at night. Fast, direct, and grounded in the frameworks of Becoming You, Suzy helps you get closer to living by design in under 45 minutes. If you've ever wanted to ask Suzy something and get an honest answer on the spot, your new favorite podcast has arrived. In this premiere episode, Suzy talks to four listeners with four very different problems. "What do you do when you hate what you're good at?" asks Lynn, while Beth wonders, "As your kids become teenagers, who should be in charge of making the decisions — you, or them?" Rebecca calls in for advice about The Values Bridge value of Belovedness, the value of romantic love: "When you lose the person you love, what does it mean to let that value go?" And last but definitely not least, Suzy gets the most serious question of all from her best friend and returning podcast guest, Sue: "What should you do when your best friend makes you snort from…

People in this episode

Host: Suzy Welch

Guests: Lynn, Beth, Rebecca, Sue

Topics covered

• career advice
• personal values
• parenting
• friendship
• self-improvement

Keywords

• career pivots
• values conflicts
• parenting teenagers
• romantic love
• self-help

Sponsors

The Values Bridge

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