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Becoming You with Suzy Welch
Hosted by NYU Stern Professor Suzy Welch · EN
Have you ever wondered, “What should I do with my life?” Or, “Should I stay or should I go?” Or, “Is there anyone out there who actually tells the freaking truth about life and work today, but also does not leave me in despair?” Wonder no more! The “Becoming You” podcast has arrived, hosted by Suzy Welch, the business journalist-turned-professor at the helm of NYU’s wildly popular self-discovery class by the same name. A three New York Times best-seller and frequent contributor to the Today Show and the Wall Street Journal, Professor Welch is considered a leading expert on decision-making, and the discovery and pursuit of authentic purpose. But virtually no topic is off-bounds in her irreverent new podcast, from parenting fails (including her own) to perfect poems (none of her own, thank God.) Also included: Pointed opinions on dogs, Gen Z, marriage, credit default swaps, golf skirts, career killing mistakes, and under-appreciated TV shows you really have to see immediately. OK, there is actually nothing in the podcast about credit default swaps. Tune in every week to laugh, learn, get riled up, get calmed down, and basically get closer to becoming you, joyfully, in this crazy, upside-down, scary, messy, and altogether beautiful world we share.
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No One Can Get a Job Right Now. So Now What?
Yesterday00:57:43Summary readyJannah had a spreadsheet with 340 job applications — organized by posting date, job type, and application portal — because it was the only thing that made her feel like she had any control. Kevin applied to hundreds of jobs, got so beaten down by rejection that he stopped entirely, then made himself start again. Both went to elite universities. Both did everything right. Both will tell you: it was brutal out there.This week on Becoming You, your host Suzy Welch sits down with two employed Gen Z-ers on her own team, and pulls no punches about what's actually happening in this job market, why it's happening, and what you do about it.Suzy drops data that reframes everything: 60% of 2026 graduates are pessimistic about their careers. 70% ended up in fields unrelated to what they studied. And only 2% of Gen Z has the values hiring managers are actually looking for.They get into the worst career advice ever given, the red flag no one warns you about in job interviews, and the one thing you can say to a hiring manager that will stop them cold, in the best possible way. And Jannah asks the question underneath all of it: how do you plan a career when you can't see what's coming?Take the Becoming You One-Day Intensive this June on NYU’s campus, here.Ready to know yourself better? Start here, with The Values Bridge. You are always growing and evolving and so are we. Sign up for the Becoming You newsletter for fresh new content in one tidy package.PIE360 Feedback tool is available at pie360feedback.comWant more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book.You can follow and tag Suzy on:• Instagram: @suzywelch• Linkedin: @suzywelch• TikTok: @suzywelch• YouTube: @suzywelch_• X: @SuzyWelch
SummaryCan You Heal a Wound Your Father Never Knew He Left? with Vienna Pharaon, MFT
1w ago00:46:52Summary readyAs the poem goes, “They f-you up, your mom and dad. They may not mean to, but they do.” If Father's Day has ever felt more like something you just get through than something you celebrate, this episode is for you.This week on Becoming You, your host Suzy Welch sits down with Vienna Pharaon — licensed marriage and family therapist and author of The Origins of You — for a conversation they were both a little ambivalent to have. The topic: what happens when your relationship with your father is complicated. And why that has been so hard to say out loud.They dig into what it actually looks like to do the healing work, why no contact is more nuanced than the internet makes it seem, and whether we ever really "make our peace" with a parent who hurt us. They both share their own complicated relationships with their fathers, and what it means when that relationship doesn’t look like what you’d expect. If Father's Day has ever had a charge to it for you, this conversation might be exactly what you need.Find Vienna Pharaon on Instagram: @mindfulmftWhat is Your Origin Wound? Quiz here The Origin Healing Method here The Origins of You Book hereTake the Becoming You One-Day Intensive this June on NYU’s campus, here.Ready to know yourself better? Start here, with The Values Bridge. You are always growing and evolving and so are we. Sign up for the Becoming You newsletter for fresh new content in one tidy package.PIE360 Feedback tool is available at pie360feedback.comWant more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book.You can follow and tag Suzy on:• Instagram: @suzywelch• Linkedin: @suzywelch• TikTok: @suzywelch• YouTube: @suzywelch_• X: @SuzyWelch
SummaryWhat If a Yellow Dress, in the Pages of Vogue, Told the Story of Your Life? Part 2
2w ago00:40:07Summary readyFrancesca Pilato did not do what she was told. Not once. Not ever. And in 1929 Rochester, New York, that came with consequences no one in her family would talk about for generations.This week, your host Suzy Welch finishes the 123-year story of her grandmother — a Sicilian immigrant who survived the unthinkable, built something extraordinary, and left behind a yellow dress that sat untouched on a shelf for 30 years. The question is: why wouldn't Suzy wear it?The answer has everything to do with two values — not virtues — of Voice and Agency. And the difference between judging the people who shaped you and finally having the compassion to let them be exactly who they were.Part 2 of 2. The scandal lands. The survival begins. And a dress finds its way home.Take the Becoming You One-Day Intensive this June on NYU’s campus, here.Ready to know yourself better? Start here, with The Values Bridge. You are always growing and evolving and so are we. Sign up for the Becoming You newsletter for fresh new content in one tidy package.PIE360 Feedback tool is available at pie360feedback.comWant more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book.You can follow and tag Suzy on:• Instagram: @suzywelch• Linkedin: @suzywelch• TikTok: @suzywelch• YouTube: @suzywelch_• X: @SuzyWelch
SummaryWhat If a Yellow Dress, in the Pages of Vogue, Told the Story of Your Life? Part 1
3w ago00:35:52Summary readyA photo in Vogue. A 98-year-old mother's scream of joy. And a 123-year story that begins in a sulfur mine in Sicily and ends — somehow — at New York City's most glamorous luncheon.This week, your host Suzy Welch starts at the end: a yellow dress, handknit from silk ribbon by her immigrant grandmother, photographed at the Hat Luncheon and published in Vogue. But to understand why that moment meant everything, you have to go back. Way back. We're talking Caltanissetta, Sicily, in 1903, and a family shrouded in secrecy and silence.Part 1 of this two-part series sets the scene: from the dazzling spectacle of the Hat Luncheon to the gritty, industrial world Suzy's family fought to escape. Next week, the scandal that changed everything.Your own origin story might look a little different after this one.Take the Becoming You One-Day Intensive this June on NYU’s campus, here.Ready to know yourself better? Start here, with The Values Bridge. You are always growing and evolving and so are we. Sign up for the Becoming You newsletter for fresh new content in one tidy package.PIE360 Feedback tool is available at pie360feedback.comWant more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book.You can follow and tag Suzy on:• Instagram: @suzywelch• Linkedin: @suzywelch• TikTok: @suzywelch• YouTube: @suzywelch_• X: @SuzyWelch
SummaryWhat If You Could Blow Up Your Life and Start Again?
4w ago00:46:11Summary readyWhat if blowing up your life isn't reckless, but actually the most rational thing you've ever done? This week, your host Suzy Welch sits down with two women who actually did just that. Cassie is a Forbes Top 200 CPA who walked away from 22 years of accolades, corner offices, and everything she was "supposed" to be. Marilyn Dollar is a certified Becoming You coach who helped her do it, and who has her own story of reinvention. What follows is a masterclass in what living at the intersection of your values, aptitudes, and interests actually looks like in real life — which is precisely where the Becoming You methodology argues your real purpose lies. This episode chronicles the process and moment that Cassie stopped asking "why?" and started asking "why not?" This episode is for anyone who has ever stood at the edge of their own life and wondered if it's too late to leap. It isn't. There is no use-by date on becoming yourself. Find Marilyn Dollar and the other Becoming You coaches here. Take the Becoming You One-Day Intensive this June on NYU’s campus, here. Ready to know yourself better? Start here, with The Values Bridge. You are always growing and evolving and so are we. Sign up for the Becoming You newsletter for fresh new content in one tidy package. PIE360 Feedback tool is available at pie360feedback.com Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book. You can follow and tag Suzy on: • Instagram: @suzywelch • Linkedin: @suzywelch • TikTok: @suzywelch • YouTube: @suzywelch_ • X: @SuzyWelch
SummaryMy Ouchy Advice to Parents of New Graduates. Please Take It.
May 1900:43:35Summary readyIt's graduation season. And you, mom and dad, are about to make some very big, very loving, very misguided mistakes. This week on Becoming You, your host Suzy Welch — professor, author, parent of four, and someone who got the post-graduation parenting thing spectacularly wrong at least twice before she got it right — delivers the advice nobody is giving at the graduation party. Here's the ouchy truth: you are focused on entirely the wrong problem. The problem is not that your kid is unemployed. The problem is that your kid is unaimed. And those two things require completely different solutions. In this episode, Suzy walks you through the brutal math of this job market, the expensive lie hiding inside the grad school "solution," and the hard conversation about values that most parents are afraid to have. The last piece of advice is the ouchy-est of all: how not to become the villain in your child's story, and how to become something far more powerful instead. Take the Becoming You One-Day Intensive this June on NYU’s campus, here. Ready to know yourself better? Start here, with The Values Bridge. You are always growing and evolving and so are we. Sign up for the Becoming You newsletter for fresh new content in one tidy package. PIE360 Feedback tool is available at pie360feedback.com Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book. You can follow and tag Suzy on: • Instagram: @suzywelch • Linkedin: @suzywelch • TikTok: @suzywelch • YouTube: @suzywelch_ • X: @SuzyWelch
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Introducing Family Lore
May 1400:03:10Summary readyFamily Lore is a weekly narrative podcast that celebrates and investigates ancestral mystique. Each episode begins with a guest sharing a fascinating family legend, followed by a historical deep-dive to uncover the truth and meaning behind the tale. Available now. https://link.pscrb.fm/f0281/FLFD
SummaryMy Only Regret: I'd Do It All Faster ft. Danielle Robay
May 1200:48:54Summary readyIt started with a question from a student that stopped Suzy cold: "When you look back on your life, is there anything you regret? Anything you would do differently?" Without hesitation, Suzy's answer was: Yes. I would have done everything faster. This week on Becoming You, your host Suzy Welch sits down with the Queen of Questions herself, Danielle Robay — journalist, host of Question Everything and Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club. They wrestle with one of life's most loaded questions: have you been moving through your life too fast, or too slow? And does it even matter, if you don't know who you are yet? They go after the decisions we've all made too slowly — staying in the wrong marriage, the wrong job, the wrong friendship — not because we didn't know the answer, but because we didn't yet know ourselves well enough to trust it. Suzy gets personal about the fifteen-year career detour she didn't need to take, the marriage she stayed in too long, and the moment when she finally understood that it was over. Danielle opens up about her own hustle, her rock bottoms, and the boyfriend who told her, while she was crying on the kitchen floor, to welcome herself to the club of people who are actually trying. The verdict? There is one truth that cuts through everything: the better you know your values, the better and faster every decision becomes. Ready to know yourself better? Start here, with The Values Bridge. You can find Danielle Robay here on Instagram, TikTok, Podcast, YouTube. You are always growing and evolving and so are we. Sign up for the Becoming You newsletter for fresh new content in one tidy package. Take the Becoming You One-Day Intensive this June on NYU’s campus, here. PIE360 Feedback tool is available at pie360feedback.com Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book. You can follow and tag Suzy on: • Instagram: @suzywelch • Linkedin: @suzywelch • TikTok: @suzywelch • YouTube: @suzywelch_ • X: @SuzyWelch
SummaryI Raised Four Perfect Children. You Will Hate How I Did It. You’re Welcome.
May 500:46:58Summary readyOK, first of all, they are not actually perfect. But they are perfectly happy and healthy. They have lives they love, partners they adore, and jobs that light them up. And perhaps most importantly for our purposes today: they think their mother is the greatest thing since Krispy Creme Donuts. So. Don’t believe it? Tune in to hear right from them. In this Mother's Day episode, your host Suzy Welch shares the three rules she mothered by, and they are not what you'd expect. They are not soft. But they come from a place of deep love, hard-won experience, and a completely genuine obsession with getting the one thing right that she believed actually mattered. Suzy will also tell you about the Sod House mothers of the Great Plains, and why she thought about them every single day she was raising her kids. Even during the really bad weeks. Especially during the really bad weeks. This episode is for every mother who is in it right now — tired, uncertain, doing her absolute best, and wondering if it's going to be enough. Suzy is here to tell you: it is. And someday, it's going to feel so easy and so joyful that you'll wish you could go back and tell yourself so. Until then, happy Mother's Day. Take the Becoming You Three-Day Intensive course this May on NYU’s campus, here. The Values Bridge digital assessment is available at thevaluesbridge.com PIE360 Feedback tool is available at pie360feedback.com Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book. You are always growing and evolving and so are we. Sign up for the Becoming You newsletter for fresh new content in one tidy package. You can follow and tag Suzy on: • Instagram: @suzywelch • Linkedin: @suzywelch • TikTok: @suzywelch • YouTube: @suzywelch_ • X: @SuzyWelch
SummarySixteen Words That Will Change How You See Yourself…and the People Around You (Part 3)
Apr 2800:44:26Summary readyWhat if the reason we so often talk past each other in relationships, at work, across dinner tables, isn't stubbornness or selfishness, but simply that we don't share a common language for what we actually want? In the third and final installment of this series, your host Suzy Welch, creator of the scientifically validated values-discovery assessment tool The Values Bridge, draws on a story as old as time to make a bold argument: that the 16-word language of values might be one of the few things that can actually help us understand each other, not just ourselves. Cue: the Tower of Babel. In Part I, Suzy revealed her 5 peripheral values. In Part II, her 6 moderate values. Today she reveals the big five: her core values, ranked. They might surprise you, and will no doubt prompt you to question how you've been organizing your own life. Are you a nomad, or do you only thrive in certain locations? Do you crave excitement and stimulation, or prefer calm and stability? Do you want to change the world on nothing short of a systemic level? All of that maps directly to your values, and Suzy is answering it all here. If you're ready to discover your own 16 values, take the Values Bridge assessment linked in the show notes, and let us know your core values in a review. Take the Becoming You Three-Day Intensive course this May on NYU’s campus, here. The Values Bridge digital assessment is available at thevaluesbridge.com PIE360 Feedback tool is available at pie360feedback.com Want more Becoming You? Check out the Becoming You book. You are always growing and evolving and so are we. Sign up for the Becoming You newsletter for fresh new content in one tidy package. You can follow and tag Suzy on: • Instagram: @suzywelch • Linkedin: @suzywelch • TikTok: @suzywelch • YouTube: @suzywelch_ • X: @SuzyWelch
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