I came to London for a specific reason. That reason didn't happen. The people I met here were incredible, and I am so grateful for the endless opportunities to do and become so many different things here. But the original goal isn’t in my hands anymore, and I have to accept that I simply can’t accomplish one of my biggest life goals anymore, at least not in the original way I planned or in the timeframe I was expecting and sitting with everything that comes with that is interesting, to say the least.

"Work hard enough and you'll get there" turns out to not always be how it goes. It’s I've come to learn a lot more nuanced. The plan I built around this city is dead, at least for now, and it feels like regression. It feels like I'm walking backwards.

This episode is about leaving London,and the job I stayed at for far too long, the rel ...