What if a lot of what makes you successful (your ambition, working hard, your ability to do it all) was like a silent but deadly fart?

In this (slightly uncomfortably) candid episode, I share the story of how I finally woke up from hustle culture. SPOILER ALERT - It only took me a casual 2 decades. From my days as a tireless immigrant student chasing every opportunity, to the burnout that followed me across jobs, cities, and even my own business—I lay it all out.

But the real turning point? Getting fired from a job I didn’t even need. Ha! 

Here’s the episode outline:

1. Defining hustle culture - what to look for when assessing where you stand in the matrix (if you'd like a checklist of these behaviors, you can find them here)
2. Defining 'feeling good' as the opposite (or perhaps more balanced) replacement for hustling
3. The signs of dysfunctional achieving vs functional efforting
4. The long arc of overachieving and the price I paid for it: from 17 years old to now (35 years old)
5. Learning the hard way in every area of my life: relationships, jobs, mentors, courses, etc. 
6. When pushing became a pattern, even in my spiritual business
7. THE GRAND FINALE - the comically dysfunctional workplace that finally mirrored back the true cost of over-efforting

The next episode is the part 2 finale of the hustle culture series. This is where I reflect on my experiments with feeling good (instead of hustling) in 2025 and present some rituals for you around waking up from hustling. 

Here is a checklist to identify hustle culture behaviors. The goal of this list is to identify hurtful behaviors you maybe engaging in, so that you can bring them more into balance 

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