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What if the thing driving your ambition and the thing making you feel like you're never enough are the same voice?

I just confirmed my spot in a 10-day Vipassana Meditation course starting July 1st. Ten days of complete silence, no phone, no family, no talking, no writing, four in the morning wake-up bell, ten hours of meditation a day. There's nothing serene about why I said yes. I said yes because thirty years of achieving hasn't quieted the voice, and I want to know what will.

This is Episode 1 in the Going Silent series. Over the next four episodes I'm bringing you along as I prepare for the most challenging thing I've signed up for. Then on July 1st I go quiet, and when I come back I'll share what I found.

In this episode you'll learn:

• What Vipassana actually is and what it teaches about how the mind works
• Why craving and aversion show up in every difficult conversation you have
• The difference between ambition and the program your inner child is still running
• Three questions to sit with this week to start shifting your self-talk
• Why silence might be the most powerful communication tool any of us has