The Courage to Want More (Even When People Don’t Get It)

There’s a funny thing that happens when you get everything you thought you wanted….
The steady paycheck.
The health insurance.
The job title your mom has heard of before.

And yet...
something still tugs at you.
A quiet voice that says, "There’s more for you."

Science even backs this up, if you can believe it or not. Psychologists call it self-actualization: the deep human need to grow into the fullest version of yourself. Not the version that checks boxes. The version that transforms.

If that tug sounds familiar, you’re not crazy. And you’re not ungrateful.
You’re just being invited to build something a little different - even if it makes your friends or family look at you sideways and say, “Are you sure?”

Maybe that looks like starting your own business.
Maybe it looks like asking for more responsibility.
Maybe it looks like taking a leap your past self wouldn’t have dared to dream about.

Some of the most extraordinary women I know once sat in an cubical thinking,
"Is this really it?"

(Starts panicking: this can’t be all there is, right? RIGHT?)

They left the security. They self-paid for their own dentist appointments (arguably the scariest part of the whole thing).
And in exchange?
They got a life where they call the shots, live on their terms, and build legacies that outlive them.

But hear this, too:
You don’t have to be the founder to build a meaningful life.
Work is powerful when you do it with ownership, pride, and belief in what you're helping create. Whether you’re launching a brand or breathing life into a dream someone else started.

It’s not about the title. It’s about listening to the tug.

And if you want to hear more about what it really looks like to follow that tug… the good, the messy, and the beautiful… I talked all about it with Julia on The More Mindful Podcast this week.

You can listen here.

Xo, The Salesgirls