Hannah HammondFounder & CEO, HB Capital & The Firm RE · CEO of HB Capital | Helping CRE Developers & Investors Fund Deals Nationwide | Host of The Hannah Hammond Show

Ambition Doesn’t Have To Come At The Cost Of Joy. But It Does Require Honesty

Name: Ambition Doesn’t Have To Come At The Cost Of Joy. But It Does Require Honesty
Uploaded: 2026-04-06T23:48:57+00:00
Duration: 48 s
Channel: Hannah Hammond
Description: Hannah Hammond says ambition and joy can coexist, but only with genuine passion for your work and serious inner work. She points to childhood…

6 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Hannah Hammond says ambition and joy can coexist, but only with genuine passion for your work and serious inner work. She points to childhood trauma—feeling unseen, unheard, unprotected—as the root of later disconnection and self-sabotage. Healing through therapy, EMDR, and plant medicine prevents that pattern.

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Hannah, how do you balance being ambitious and hardworking but also having fun and being joyful?
Well, a lot of inner work. I think you really have to be very passionate about what you do, because if you're not passionate about what you do, you're never going to be able to sustain the kind of pain and the kind of storms that you're going to have to face throughout your career and throughout your life to be able to live an abundant and happy life. So that's the first thing, is being passionate about what you do. And then the second thing is the inner work. I had to go through so much internal work, tons of different modalities from therapy, plant medicine journeys, EMDR, a lot of workshops and reading books like Dr. Gabor Mate, primary root cause of all of our trauma that most people hold, which is not feeling seen, heard, or protected as a child. And then that ends up creating a lot of disconnection, addiction, bad habits, self-sabotaging beliefs and habits that show up later in life.