What if the wisdom you keep searching for is already yours?
Mari Wuellner did what many of us were taught to do: work hard, build the business, earn the recognition, care for the family, and keep moving. From the outside, her life looked successful. From the inside, she was operating on a blueprint that no longer felt like her own.
After a panic attack forced her to slow down, Mari began redefining success around freedom, joy, rest, and choices she could genuinely claim as hers. That journey eventually took her back to Florence, where she had lived as a pregnant 20-year-old during one of the hardest seasons of her life.
Mari returned with the journal she had kept all those years ago. She planned to write back to her younger self with the wisdom of experience. Instead, she discovered that the young woman she had been still carried the hope her present-day self needed.
In this conversation, Kimberly and Mari explore:
- How conventional success can quietly become default mode
- Why so many of us wait for permission we do not actually need
- The difference between outside recognition and inner freedom
- What old journals and earlier versions of ourselves can reveal
- Mari's define, design, and demand framework
- Why an unsuccessful experiment is information, not an indictment
- How to build work around life instead of sacrificing life to work
Mari is an entrepreneur, storyteller, life coach, and founder of The Crew Coaching Collective. She has operated an insurance agency since 2008, became a life coach in 2017, and created The Crew in 2024 to make multidisciplinary coaching more accessible. She also hosts The Living on Purpose Podcast.
Connect with Mari:
Website and The Crew: https://www.mariwuellnercoaching.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariwuellner/
The Living on Purpose Podcast: https://www.mariwuellnercoaching.com/podcast
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