In this episode, I get to sit down with someone I felt instantly connected to the moment I heard her speak on stage — executive coach, leadership trainer, and author Amina AlTai. When she said, "I lead with the shadow," I beelined straight to her after her talk because I knew you needed to hear her story.

In our conversation, we dive into her new book The Ambition Trap and unpack how our core wounds — rejection, abandonment, humiliation, betrayal, and injustice — shape the masks we wear and the ways we overwork, overgive, and override our own bodies. Amina shares the story of the call that changed her life… the moment a doctor told her she was days away from multiple organ failure and how that crisis sparked her entire healing path. Her story hit so close to home.

I also share how my recent thyroid cancer diagnosis — and the surprising realization that it wasn't about "not speaking up," but about how I was speaking to myself.

Together, we explore ambition from an uncolonized, trauma-informed lens, weaving her frameworks with astrology: Chiron as the wound that becomes the gift, Saturn's lessons in mastery, the Moon as our emotional needs and regulation, and how our charts reveal where fear and purpose intersect.

If you've ever felt like you're "too much and not enough" at the same time… if you've pushed your body past its limits… if you're navigating fear, burnout, or untangling yourself from painful ambition… this episode will meet you exactly where you are.

This conversation is powerful, healing, and deeply human. You don't want to miss it.