ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Ambition used to mean climbing that corporate ladder. Then it meant girlbossing. Then it meant quitting your job to find yourself. Now? It’s… complicated.
This week, we’re tracing the messy, contradictory legacy of female ambition. And with ambition discourse everywhere – Emma Grede interviews, Diary of a CEO soundbites, Vogue rebrands – we’re asking what "success" looks like if you’re no longer willing to sacrifice your entire life for it.
Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson share their own shifting ambitions within this context: the craving for purpose, the fear of being consumed by work, and the cultural noise that tells us to both lean in and log off forever.
And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps, we’re also talking: the Japanese headspa experience that (unfortunately) will change your life, and the journal worth flying to Paris for (disclaimer: cost of flights not included in purchase).
I'm Rooting for Female Founders' Comebacks - And The End of Branding Women, by Leslie Feinzaig, Fortune
My Job Was My Life. Then I Got Fired by Samhita Mukhopadhyay, The Cut
What Comes After Ambition? by Ann Friedman, Elle
Watch: Girlboss, Netflix
Who Is The Girlboss Now? by Michelle Santiago Cortés, The Cut
The Big, Controversial Business of The Wing, Explained, by Anna North and Chavie Lieber, Vox
The Girlboss Didn't Die...She Can't Afford To by Charlotte Mair, The Digress
Listen: Emma Grede on Style-ish podcast
Hailey Bieber Is Writing Her Own Story With Rhode by Lucy Feldman, TIME
The Foremost Expert on Happiness Thinks Ambition Is Making You Miserable by Shalene Gupta, Fast Company
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