What happens when success stops working and midlife hits hard?
Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes, shares the story behind his most difficult chapter. After building a global brand and achieving massive success, Blake found himself facing a deep midlife reckoning marked by depression, loss of identity, and an urgent search for meaning beyond achievement.
Blake opens up about:
- How selling part of TOMS triggered an unexpected identity collapse
- Why midlife depression often follows success, not failure
- The treatments and inner work that helped him recover, including ketamine therapy and TMS
- The simple but life-changing realization that shifted everything: “I am enough”
- Why connection and community matter more than success or status
👉 Watch now to hear Blake Mycoskie’s most vulnerable and meaningful story yet.
Timestamps:
01:11 Blake’s early entrepreneur journey
02:49 Reality Central and first major failure
04:59 The business lesson that shaped TOMS
07:49 Creating the one for one model
08:43 Selling TOMS and losing identity
12:36 Depression behind the public image
16:23 Searching for relief outside himself
17:24 Medication fog and deep isolation
19:30 Why telling others saved his life
20:54 Moving beyond traditional medication
21:12 Ketamine and TMS
25:53 Discovering the core wound
28:49 India and lasting inner freedom
33:27 Launching the Enough initiative
35:58 I’m Enough ritual poem
37:57 How the nonprofit model works
38:47 The growing mental health crisis
43:13 Self compassion and flow state
46:28 How to support someone in depression
51:54 Living with fear of relapse
54:17 Wisdom bumper sticker
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