What if the people who become CEOs are the same people who had no clue what they were doing at 22?

Here's what nobody tells you about success: the straightest path is almost never the real one. The detours, the "wrong" turns, the plans you cancel at the last minute - those are often where your actual life begins.

In this episode of the Happy Healthy Hustle Podcast, I sit down with Lisa Cork - CEO and Chief Strategist of Fresh Produce Marketing Ltd for 35 years, and my colleague at Cal Poly. Lisa graduated, accepted a prestigious New York ad agency job... and then did something most people are terrified to do.

She undid it.

After a summer in Europe, she realized the "dream job" everyone congratulated her on no longer fit who she'd become. So she turned it down - no job, bills to pay, no pla ...