A 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.

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What 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. 

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It'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.

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It 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. 

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OK, 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.

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What 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.

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Is it shallow to want fame? Greedy to want money? Wrong to rank work above family? This episode is about the values nobody wants to admit they have.

In Part II of this special three-part series, your host, NYU Stern Professor Dr. Suzy Welch, continues doing something she has never done publicly before: ranking all 16 of her personal values, in order. She uses the lexicon found within The Values Bridge, the scientifically validated assessment she developed through her doctoral research at the University of Bristol.

The Values Bridge identifies 16 distinct values — each one a specific want, desire, or motivation — and gives each a name most of us have never encountered before. Learning that language is the point. Because once you can name your values with precision, everything changes: your career decisions, your relationships, your sense of purpose.

This episode covers Suzy's moderate six values, and each one comes with a surprising data point about how Americans rank it in their own lives. Along the way, Suzy explains the Becoming You methodology, the science-backed framework used by over 500,000 people with a 94% efficacy rate, and why knowing your values with precision is the missing key to finding your purpose. 

If you haven't listened to Part I yet, you can go there after. By the end of this series, you’ll be fluent in the language of values. And if you're ready to discover your own using The Values Bridge, you can find the link in the show notes.

Take the Becoming You Three-Day Intensive course this May on NYU’s campus, here.

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What if 16 words could unlock everything — who you are, why you're happy (or not), and what you should actually be doing with your life?

In this episode, Suzy Welch introduces the language of values: the 16 words at the heart of the Welch-Bristol Values Inventory, developed through her doctoral research at the University of Bristol and taught at NYU's Stern School of Business. 

To bring each of the 16 values to life, Suzy does something she has never done publicly before — she reveals her own values, ranked from 1 to 16. This episode covers her bottom five peripheral values, a set that turns out to be statistically unusual.

This is Part I of a three-part series. By the end, you'll not only know Suzy in a whole new way, but you’ll be fluent in a language that just might help you write the entire book of your life.

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

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At some point in the journey of becoming…you, questions are inevitable. Questions about who you are, how you got here, and what it really takes to build a life that feels authentic.

You've done the work. You've taken the tests. You've started asking the hard questions about who you are and what you actually want. And now you're left with a whole new set of questions.

In this FAQ episode, your host Suzy Welch answers everything you’ve been wondering. Why do some people feel more lost after a self-discovery breakthrough than before? What's the hidden score that reveals the gap between the life you're living and the life you actually want — and what does it mean when that gap is huge? When does a passion become a calling, and when is it just a really good hobby? And what do you do when you can see exactly where you're supposed to be going — but getting there feels like too much?

Suzy answers all of it with real stories, zero sugarcoating, and the kind of clarity that makes you want to take notes.

Because figuring out who you are is only the beginning. The interesting part is what comes next.

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

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