"You don't think your way into becoming the person you want to be. You become that person by practicing being them. One decision at a time." – Laura Colon

This week I'm going solo again to build on last episode's introduction to Inspired Authority. If last week was about what the framework is, this episode is about what it actually looks like to live it — day to day, decision by decision. I walk through my own story of hitting every marker of traditional success (VP by 35, two houses before 30, a marriage I'm proud of) while realizing I had stopped designing my life and started just surviving it.

One of the biggest shifts for me was realizing that ambition and exhaustion don't have to be a package deal. I used to measure results by what I could accumulate — the promotion, the paycheck, the next goal. Now I measure it ...