"In all of it, I find joy." Dr.Tarika Barrett spent her childhood growing up between Brooklyn and Kingston, Jamaica. It was during her formative years in Jamaica that she watched her mom launch the country's first mentorship program; Unbeknownst that she'd too go on to lead one, Girls Who Code: A phenomenal non-profit that has reached over 450,000 young women. Dr. Barrett's gift is her exuberant joy, unwavering in the face of both beauty and adversity. We explore gratitude as the genesis of optimism and the strength we need to pursue our purpose. Intentionally present, she derives fulfillment from a unique well: Our stories. We talk about the power of sisterhood, connecting through vulnerability, and the stories that inspire her bravery.

How often do you think about your memory? As the Executive Director of The Women's Alzheimer's Movement, Erin Mulcahy Stein doesn't take her's for granted. We explore ways we can be proactive about our brain health, prioritize mental fitness, and the importance of having conversations with our loved ones about caregiving. Erin's dedicated her career to advocating for women. We discuss her compass for seeking meaning in her life, the value of knowing what you want, and speaking your truth to realize it. Touching lives around the world, she credits her sisterhood with inspiring and spreading WAM's mission, sharing that: "The most important thing that we can do on this Earth is to continue learning and teaching each other."

Erin Gallagher wakes up each day to advocate for a world where we can all be our whole selves. Through the culture consultancy she co-founded, Have Her Back, and the honest conversations she catalyzes, the only way she can achieve her mission is to live it herself. We chat about being brave enough to be vulnerable, fight for what matters to you, and live a full life. To be whole is to honor our own needs. Erin encourages us to rethink the nature of selflessness and affirms that showing up for ourselves and those we care about are not mutually exclusive. She shares how she's learning to lower her stress threshold, rely on her A-team, and the freedom she's found in self-care.

When do you feel most creative? For Rachel Pally, it's while throwing pottery and salsa dancing. These passions aren't related to her work as a designer, which is precisely why they've been instrumental to her success. We explore the tenets of living a creative life, staying true to yourself as an artist, and why change is often less scary than staying the same. Reinvention paves our path to fulfillment. Rachel highlights the importance of doing work that inspires us, cultivating heart connections, and always finding the light.

Martha Beck has asked thousands of people: What makes you feel like the truth is coming home to you more than anything else? Harvard-trained sociologist and world-renowned life coach, she's found a sentence "that makes people feel this ring of truth. It is: I am meant to live in peace." In her latest bestseller, The Way of Integrity, she shows us how to get there. Martha's integrity journey began with her courageous year of truth telling when she vowed not to tell a single lie. What began as a cleanse, manifested into a lifelong gateway to freedom and happiness. She shares her experience living in complete truth, beginning with the first time she heard her inner teacher - which led to the birth of her son, Adam - through seeing the light, which taught her that "the meaning of your life is not to achieve anything. It is to feel like this while you are alive." Integrity has been her compass to cultivate that feeling. We explore how we can live in alignment with our true nature, break away from the hustle, and the magic that happens when we do.

How would you approach what matters most if you truly grasped that time is finite? As a two-time cancer survivor in her early 30s, Liya Shuster-Bier puts her priorities at the center. Today, she views life through a venn diagram of fulfillment: "Investing every minute you have into your heart, your happiness, other people's hearts, and other people's happiness." She credits her love army with inspiring her strength and orients her life around the "kaleidoscope of human connection."Though Liya's funneled her purpose into Alula - a first of its kind platform making cancer less lonely - she has a new perspective on achievement. She's traded her past hustle for one that is rooted in sustained nourishment. Her wisdom inspires us to examine life's big questions and follow our heart answering them.

Rebecca van Bergen celebrated her graduation by asking a big question: How do you create agency and change through human to human work? She's spent the last 14 years answering it through Nest: Her non-profit that's connected hundreds of thousands of artisans, across 115 countries, to ethical home-based work with leading brands. She believes in creating change from where you are. We delve into articulating the difference you aspire to make in the world and continuously evolving your mission and yourself to realize it. For Rebecca, that's meant accelerating her goals to support the over 300 million women working from home, whilst understanding that it's only by cultivating a sense of wholeness and embracing her strengths that she'll be able to reach them. Nest continues to be propelled by unwavering belief and drive. Still, Rebecca's always believed that they're part of a larger narrative. She shares a story from her very first trip reminding us that a small act of kindness can be remembered for a lifetime.

Ethan Kross has the most fascinating job: Studying the conscious mind. Director of the Emotion and Self-Control Lab at the University of Michigan, where he's also an award winning professor, his new book Chatter, explores a topic that impacts each and every one of us: Our inner voice. Our inner voice influences everything we do, from our relationships to our physical health and performance. We discuss the ways it can empower or disempower us, and valuable tools to harness it for good.

Chief Co-founder Lindsay Kaplan wants you to be selfish. "Investing in oneself is spending the time to align your values with your goals, to reset and make sure that you're not giving yourself away too much to your job. But, making sure that you have some feeling of wholeness," she says. What contributes to that feeling of wholeness? For Lindsay, it's values-alignment in her work, cognitive diversity in her relationships, and creativity in her passion projects, like the screenplay she's working on. We chat about the importance of surrounding ourselves with peers who get it, being honest when we need to take a break, and the direct link between focus and fulfillment.

When Expectful Co-founder Nathalie Walton was 17 she won a fellowship to study in Thailand and spent time at a Buddhist Ashram. It was there that she embraced the basic truths of love, compassion, and humility as her compass. A trip to India soon after would reveal the question that would shape her journey: How do I live by my Eastern beliefs in a Western culture? She explored this in her application to Stanford GSB which has become a governing article to live with intention and be the person she aspires to be. Vision boarding since the 90s, Nathalie has the remarkable ability of articulating and realizing her dreams. We chat about crafting a vision for your life and approaching fulfillment through the lens of time: "You never know when your clock is going to run out. Why not maximize every moment you have right now?"