Satori was thirteen when the 2011 tsunami destroyed her hometown in Sendai, Japan. She went to volunteer in the aftermath. It left her with something most people spend their whole lives trying to find: a bone-deep sense that life is short, failure doesn't mean much, and ordinary is amazing.

I met Satori on a tour in Kazakhstan and we kept crossing paths after that across Central Asia, before I visited her in Japan. A year later, we reconnected in Australia.

In this conversation: why she does things without being qualified for them, how she's been quietly building toward her dream one small step at a time, and getting naked in the milky hot springs of Japan.

Find Satori on her travel blog: https://www.youtube.com/@shijimi_travel

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For most of my career I followed other people's scripts without realizing that's what I was doing. Consulting in New York because it was the prestigious path. A croissanterie in Sydney because baking was my hobby. Teaching yoga because instructors’ lives looked so free.

I kept seeing what other people had and thinking: that equation works for them, so it must work for me too.

It didn't.

This is about what I found when I stopped looking at everyone else and got radically honest with myself.

In this episode: why I kept making the same mistake in two completely different phases of my career, what working at a bakery taught me about romanticizing, and why I'm finally giving myself permission to pursue big audacious goals — even with all of the uncertainty.

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Jaime has quit a lot of things. A commerce degree she hated, a corporate job, an interior design career, a yoga teaching business. Not because she's flaky — because she kept making perfectly logical guesses with her head and landing somewhere that almost worked.

I met Jaime while hiking in the Alps back in 2022 when she told me the craziest story about losing her engagement ring. She loves growing sweet potatoes and writing sustainability communications. Her home is full of stunning artwork — most of it she made herself.

In this conversation: the pattern she noticed across every leap, why she'd rather downsize her house than compromise her days, and why she was completely fine with her partner spending three weeks in India while she was pregnant.

Find Jaime at https://www.jaimelaird.com/.

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