Amina AITai (pronounced AH-MIN-UH) is an executive coach and leadership trainer, proud immigrant and chronic illness advocate. A leading coach to notable leaders, executives, and founders, Amina's mastery is in connecting us to our brilliance and teaching us to live and lead from it each day. She is the bestselling author of The Ambition Trap: How to Stop Chasing and Start Living, with Penguin/The Open Field.

Today on the show we discuss: why ambition becomes self-destructive, how core wounds secretly drive overachievement, the difference between painful ambition and purposeful ambition, why external validation never fills the void, how to redefine success without burning out, how to build a life that feels good not just impressive on paper and much more.

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