My So-Called Midlife with Reshma Saujani Revisit: Finding Your Purpose with Suzy Welch
Dec 24, 2025
In this engaging discussion, Suzy Welch, a business journalist and NYU professor, shares her transformative methodology, Becoming You, designed to help individuals discover their core values and purpose, especially during midlife. She recounts her unexpected career journey, including her relationship with business titan Jack Welch. Suzy emphasizes the importance of prioritizing values, accepting trade-offs, and even introduces the concept of 'scarephoria'—the idea of growing through small, scary experiments. Her insights inspire listeners to live authentically and meaningfully.
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From Harvard To The Morgue
- Suzy Welch describes launching her journalism career at the Miami Herald straight out of college, covering crime and the morgue.
- She embraced the chaos and called it luck, not retreating despite the grim assignments.
Meeting Jack Welch
- Suzy Welch recounts interviewing Jack Welch, falling in love, and later marrying him after a rapid courtship.
- Their marriage lasted 19 years until his death during COVID, which reshaped her life profoundly.
Retreat, Reflection, And Reinvention
- After Jack's death, Suzy hid in the woods during COVID, walked dogs, and grappled with whether to return to TV.
- She conceived the Becoming You class and approached NYU to teach it, starting a new career phase.