From Wall Street to Entrepreneurship: Finding Fulfillment Personally and Professionally

22 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this interview, the guest recounts moving to New York with no connections, beginning a journalism career at Reuters, and then being recruited by Goldman Sachs. While the prestige and accolades of investment banking initially appealed to her, she soon experienced severe physical and psychological stress, realizing that the high‑pressure, status‑driven lifestyle was harming her well‑being. She describes a growing awareness that living to meet societal expectations—checking career "boxes"—was inauthentic and unfulfilling, prompting her to reconsider her path toward a more authentic, health‑conscious, and personally satisfying direction.

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I would love for you to share with our viewers and our listeners a little bit about your background and kind of what brought you to where you are now.
So I moved to New York and didn't know a single soul, had my first job at, at Reuters, and a couple years in I was recruited by Goldman. What I realized is that the prestige and the accolades that come along with working for an investment bank like that were something that I didn't realize that I'd forego my well-being. I had so so many, uh, reactions, you know, physically and physiologically to the stress and the anxiousness. I realized I'm not living a life that is fulfilling. I'm living according to a societal-driven lifestyle. If you do these things and if you check the— these boxes, you have all of this stuff, then that means you have made it. And it just was not at all authentic to me and didn't feel good.