In March 2024, Jen Guyton's photograph was on the cover of National Geographic — the single goal she'd worked toward, single-mindedly, for fifteen years. She expected to feel like she'd arrived. Within a couple of weeks she was right back to where she started: anxious, restless, "living a few inches above my own body," already scanning for the next thing.
That gap — between what she thought the summit would give her and what it actually did — is the whole of this conversation.
Jen is a former National Geographic photographer and conservation scientist with a PhD in ecology, who now coaches heart-led high-achievers through what she calls the Rewild Method. And she brought a version of "letting go" most people never consider: sometimes the thing to put down isn't the effort or the systems — it's the goal itself.
What we get into:
The cover that felt like almost nothing — and the year of "rock bottom" that followed
"Internal mission drift": how heart-led people quietly start working for how it looks instead of what's true
The stream analogy — why a business fed by external validation runs dry, and one fed from the inside never does
The body-check for alignment: does a goal feel expansive, or does it make you want to shrink?
The question to ask before you give a goal another two years: what will I actually have then that I don't have now?
Why the client chasing "freedom" was sacrificing the very thing she was chasing
Building from "what can I give?" instead of "how do I get clients?"
Being honest that nobody has it all figured out — Jen catches herself in the pattern too
Work with Jen: her one-to-one coaching is at wildbeyondcoaching.com, and she writes on Substack at Wild Beyond.
Go deeper: my free guide Go Three Levels Deep → zenright.com.au/go-three-levels-deep
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