I really relate to Wendy's journey of following the motions of what everyone else was doing when she was looking at careers. And for 18 years she fell into a pattern of thinking that she should want what everyone else wanted: to move up the ladder within her industry. The rat race simply felt like “life”.

It took a cancer diagnosis for Wendy to look beyond what she had been conditioned to want and ask herself “how much of this was my idea?” and “what do I really want?”

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