The Gift of Failure + Finding Joy Within Work

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In this episode, Mary Grace shares career failures, dissolutions + turbulence and why it’s important to locate ease within our work.

We also discuss —

  • The value of being at the bottom

  • What happens when we bypass failure

  • The possibility of vocational ease

  • Prioritizing your essence over achievement

  • The unhealthy romanticization of our goals

  • The harm of over-sacrificing for your dreams

  • Ease is actually about joy.

  • The myth of work = stress.

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