How To Never See Anything The Same Again: Part 1

Jan 27, 2026

A travel story that turns inward in Agra at the foot of the Taj Mahal. Personal reckoning about love, power, and how public narratives can hide complicated truths. A new value called belovedness is born from confronting self-betrayal and living misaligned. The episode teases further identity-shattering travel reflections to come.

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ANECDOTE

First Glimpse At The Taj Mahal

Suzy Welch recounts visiting the Taj Mahal at night and describes its moonlit, floating, otherworldly beauty.
Her first reaction contrasted with Jack's tiredness, foreshadowing different experiences that day.

ANECDOTE

Mumtaz's Hidden Burden

Suzy explains Mumtaz Mahal's role as Shah Jahan's partner while enduring 14 consecutive pregnancies.
She visualizes the physical toll and lack of agency Mumtaz likely experienced while co-leading and traveling.

INSIGHT

Public Grief Can Hide Power Dynamics

Suzy questions whether Shah Jahan's public grief masked guilt about his wife's exhausting pregnancies.
She uses the story to observe that public love stories often hide complex power dynamics.

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What if the places you travel don’t take you far away… but bring you closer to who you actually are?

In this deeply personal and openly vulnerable episode of Becoming You, your host Suzy Welch launches a rare three-part storytelling series about travel—not as escape or travelogue, but as excavation. On this first trip, you will land in Agra, India, at the foot of the Taj Mahal. What unfolds there is not a story about architecture or history, but a reckoning: about love, power, identity, and the value Suzy would later name Belovedness (long before she had the language for it).

Through the lens of her marriage, the complicated legend of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal, and the quiet ache of self-betrayal that can come from living misaligned with your deepest values, Suzy shares the kind of insight that only comes from a trip to the other side of the world. Along the way, you’ll hear about:

How travel can surface buried truths about your values
Why love stories are always more complicated than they appear
The difference between loving someone and organizing your life around them
What it means to “miss yourself” inside a life that looks beautiful from the outside
How self-knowledge can arrive long before you have the words for it

Sometimes, you have to go very far away to finally see yourself. Be sure to tune in next week, as we journey to Italy for a story that is at once identity-shattering and deeply clarifying. And we want to know, where have you traveled and found yourself? Leave a review with your answer.

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