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Becoming Future You | Suzy Welch

22 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Suzy Welch tells how her daughter discovered her true purpose in casting work. After leaving Hollywood to care for her father in hospice and weathering COVID disruptions, the daughter realized casting was what made her feel alive. Purpose, Welch argues, often becomes clear through crisis and the work that fills you when nothing else does.

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You know when you're getting close to it. I mean, a lot of times your purpose finally dawns on you when you're doing it and you're like, oh my God, I feel exquisitely alive. This must be it. This has gotta be it. Or sometimes you're doing your— my daughter was in Hollywood doing casting and she loved it, but it had a lot of inherent problems. She was away from the family and so forth and so on. And then she came back to New York to help me take care of my husband when he went into hospice. And then COVID hit and she stayed and she went into a different line of work. And she realized that casting was her purpose because she could not find anything else that filled her up the same way.