How much energy are you spending explaining yourself — not to other people, but to yourself?

Building the case for why what you are doing makes sense. Finding the practical justification. Making sure the reason sounds acceptable enough to act on.

And underneath all of that explaining, there is something simpler. Something that does not need a case built around it. What you were made for.

This episode covers the justification trap and why attaching a practical reason to the work that chose you eventually makes it feel like a transaction, why the foundation is never the money or the audience or the strategy, why the need to keep justifying something to yourself is a signal that permission has not been fully given, and what happens in the space when you stop explaining and start following.

The work does not need your defense. ...