What to Do When Your Dream Isn't Working Out

What happens when you finally get the dream—and discover you don’t want the life that comes with it?

Teneia Sanders spent years imagining the artist life: performing, touring, traveling, reaching bigger stages. Then she got there and found herself exhausted, disconnected, and asking a different question:

Why doesn’t this feel the way I thought it would?

In this episode of 100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project, Teneia and I talk about identity, ambition, belonging, divorce, Mississippi, moving to Spain, and the freedom of becoming more than the version of yourself you once thought you had to be.

We also explore tarot as a tool for interpretation. Teneia and I look at the same card and see completely different meanings—which raises a bigger question:

Are we responding to reality itself, or to the story we already carry about what it means?

And maybe the hardest question of all:

Is this still the story I want to live inside?

100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project explores one central question:

How malleable are the stories we live by, and what does it take to change one?

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