The first guest on Why Is Nobody Talking About This? is Lane Clark, a CEO’s best friend and right-hand woman to high-performing leaders. Kim and Lane dive right into the delicate and confusing balance between ambition and contentment. As someone intimately familiar with Kim’s work and deepest professional insecurities (fun!), Lane gets honest about what happens when you have to define success as something beyond money and why it will likely always feel like swimming upstream if you’re choose your own path over climbing the traditional ladder.

THIS CONVERSATION COVERS

+ Why anyone would live in the frozen tundra of Northern Michigan

+ The dichotomy of achievement and contentment

+ Why some of us (✋🏼) keep falling back into burnout

+ The real pressure of upholding to traditional indicators of success

+ What happens when we sit in boredom, rather than pushing through

+ The reason many successful individuals feel unworthy of support

+ The bell curve relationship between money and happiness

+ Finding connection in shared experiences

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You can find Lane on LinkedIn, her website , and the Knot Work Studio.

For more about The Bench, a community for women who love their work but want it to come at less of a cost, visit kimwensel.com/thebench.