This week’s message is a little bit of a paradox.
I want to tell you to quit.
But also… to keep going.
Let me explain.
Last week, I was off-grid. Like, truly off-grid. Hiking the Inca Trail in Peru with my family, surrounded by clouds, ruins, and precisely zero cell service. No inbox. No Instagram. Just mountains I never dreamed possible, muscles I forgot I had, and memories I’ll hold onto for the rest of my life.
One moment in particular will stay with me until I breathe my last breath: walking through the Sun Gate after seven hours of hiking—mostly uphill, at nearly 12,000 feet—and turning a corner to see Machu Picchu laid out below us. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t cry.
And not just because of the view (though, yes, it is one of the Seven Wonders of the World). But because of who I got to share it with: my husband, and our two sons. Because of how hard we fought to carve out that time in the midst of my husband’s demanding job, my older son’s college graduation, my younger son’s NYC internship, and my ever-chaotic speaking and media schedule.
We had a two-week window. We grabbed ten of those days. We made it happen.
We flew home for 30 hours, unpacked and repacked in two, and now I’m writing this from NYC after moving my son into his summer housing, prepping for NBC News, exhausted in every cell of my body—and yet completely filled up.
And here’s the part I need you to hear:
I didn’t need that vacation.
I wasn’t desperate to escape my life.
Not because the trail wasn’t hard (altitude is no joke), but because I’ve built a life that fills me up more than it empties me. I’ve built a career I don’t want to retire from. I’ve built a definition of success that’s mine—not anyone else’s.
But it wasn’t always this way.
There were years I chased someone else’s idea of success—more money, more hustle, more external applause—until I forgot to ask the one question that could have changed everything: What do I actually want?
For 20 years, I recruited the most “successful” people on paper. Fancy titles. Big checks. Corner offices.
They were super successful, which is why I was calling them. But despite all this success they weren’t very happy, which is why they were all calling me back.
They had climbed all the way to 12,000 feet on someone else’s mountain… and realized they’d rather be somewhere else entirely.
Which brings me back to you.
What do you actually want?
That’s the question at the heart of the work I do today—and it’s the soul of the Limitless Course I built. It’s a program that helps you:
- Find your calling and do the work that you were meant to do
- Connect your daily tasks to meaning, not just metrics
- Decide how work contributes to your whole life—your bank account, your time, your joy
- Finally get some damn control over how life happens with you, not just to you
Because your way?
It’s the only right way.
The thing I know to be true this week is this: Life isn’t one-size-fits-all. Careers aren’t linear. And success? It only counts if it’s yours.
