What happens when the life you’re living doesn’t look like the life you expected? What do you do when you’ve worked hard, remained faithful and pursued your goals, but the dream, relationship, career or financial security you imagined still hasn’t arrived?
In this episode, we unpack the gap between the life we expected and the life we’re actually living, and explore the difficult questions that emerge when our timelines, ambitions and expectations don’t unfold in the way we hoped. From entrepreneurship, marriage and motherhood to finances, friendship and personal calling, this is an honest conversation about disappointment, resilience, identity and purpose.
We discuss delayed dreams, the difference between resilience and stubbornness, the fear of criticism, the cost of pursuing ambitious goals, and whether some of us are unknowingly standing in our own way. We also explore faith, discipline, financial responsibility, social conditioning, friendship, success, failure and how to reconcile our own plans with the possibility that life may unfold differently to what we imagined.
This conversation is for anyone who has ever wondered whether they’re behind, whether they’ve missed their moment, whether they’re being patient or simply afraid, and how to keep moving forward when the life you expected and the life you’re living look nothing alike.
A new chapter of The Magnify Conversations
This episode brings together four co-hosts - Ruth, Emma, Sinead and Veena - with different stories, perspectives and seasons of life. More dialogue. More depth. More honesty.
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Ruth Yimika Afolabi
Emma Hart
Sinead Minkah
Veena Babu
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