This is my first solo episode and the start of a new season.

I’ve been hosting The Sunday Suite for a few months now, and while I loved the conversations, something felt off.

Somewhere along the way, I tied it back to my work again, my Monday–Saturday, my 8–6, my output.

2026 will bring some much-needed changes.

I’m tired of everything needing to have “meaning” in the way we usually define it: money, power, success.

All wrapped up in guilt, stress, and constant pressure to perform.

I love work. I’m a workaholic.

For a long time, work was my purpose.

But what happens when the goalposts keep moving?

When the work you pour yourself into mostly makes other people successful?

When you’re busy, capable, and doing well, but not actually contributing to the world in a way that feels meaningful to you?

Well, you change it up.

The Sunday Suite was a business podcast.

And if I’m being totally honest, it would be really nice to have something that isn’t directly tied to my day-to-day job.

So as of January 2026, I’m welcoming you to Becoming Okay.

This podcast is for real conversations, the kind that ease your mind and gently help you rethink your life. It’s not about fixing yourself or optimising everything. It’s about understanding the mind and learning how to live with it.

Going forward, I’ll be speaking with doctors, psychiatrists, military leaders, elite athletes, high performers, coaches, entrepreneurs, and thinkers who help shape how we understand resilience, anxiety, purpose, and meaning.

My life is wonderful, but as many of you can probably relate, the mind can still be a dark place sometimes.

I want to understand it better.

I want to learn how others have trained resilience, built positivity, and found meaning beyond success.

So we can all navigate our lives with a little more clarity and a lot more compassion.

Alongside the podcast, I'll be sharing weekly vlogs as I navigate 2026 coming off of antidepressants after 13 years!

In this episode, I share:

- My first experience with illness and anxiety at nine years old

- Living with severe anxiety, depression, and panic as a teenager

- How over-achieving became a coping mechanism

- Why antidepressants helped and why I’m now questioning my relationship with them

- The difference between surviving and healing

- Why success stopped feeling like enough

- Why Becoming Okay felt like the only honest name for this next chapter

Here’s to Becoming Okay, in every sense of the word.

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