From an internship at Stella McCartney to her current role as Luxury Client Director at The Wall Street Journal, Agnes Majewska has built a career at the intersection of culture, creativity, and commerce that many would dream of.

Fluent in three languages and having lived and worked in Milan, London, and New York, her career seems full of risk and reinvention. In reality, it’s been steady and cautious — shaped by careful choices and a desire for stability.

In this episode, we explore the tension so many high achievers face between striving for more and being present with the success they’ve already achieved — and why Agnes believes regret can be more haunting than failure.

Agnes opens up about:

• Growing up in Warsaw as the youngest of three, and how learning to persuade and perform became both a superpower and a coping mechanism

• Building a global career across Milan, London, and New York — and how constant reinvention can be both exhilarating and isolating

• The tension between ambition and comfort, and why she’s realizing that stagnation can be just as costly as failure

• Confronting her biggest fear — not failure, but the regret of wondering what could have been

• The power of empathy and cultural fluency in building trust across global teams and luxury clients

• What it means to lead and succeed steadily and cautiously in an industry that often rewards dominance and extroversion

A reflective and relatable conversation about ambition, how we lead, and what it really means to live without regret.

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