In this motivational monologue, Vicky Samios shares her personal journey of confronting multiple family health crises—including her grandmother’s stroke, the deaths of her grandfather and uncle, her son Billy’s near‑death experience, and her own breast lump—to illustrate a series of wake‑up calls that reshaped her purpose. She reflects on how external labels (introvert, problem‑solver) limited her self‑perception and how, in her 40s, she decided to break the generational cycle of sacrifice and fear. Samios positions herself as a mentor for high‑performing individuals, urging them to discover their true mission, reject limiting identities, and become the next “cycle breaker” for future generations. She concludes with a clear call to action: subscribe to her channel, visit applyformentorship.com, and join her mentorship program to create a different future for themselves and their families.
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Dream big. As I've told you before, money comes, but what's before the money? What's going to make you happy so that you can then be happy making money and serving your family and serving other people in the way that you want, not in a sacrificial way that you've been doing all along? Because that's what I was taught to. I absolutely love what I'm doing. What I thrive off is the live events. Who, me? The introvert? Because that's the identity I'd given myself for years. Oh, all dentists are introverted. Rubbish. Someone labeled you one day, like someone labeled me as a great problem solver, and I took it through my whole schooling life, and I thought I've got to solve the world problems because that's what someone said I was good at. And now in my 40s, I— and my late 30s when I started I have had to discover, and I'm here to help you discover, what is it you actually are good at and what is your life's mission and purpose. I don't know, that's my biggest, biggest mission here, to help you find your mission too. This is my mission. This is how I help, imparting my knowledge, imparting my experience and my insights. Because you may not have anyone else in your life who does that. Actually, they try to hold you back and rein you back in because they're deeply uncomfortable because they wouldn't even imagine what you are even thinking about. How dare you think outside the norm? How dare you break the cycle that your family's been through? Heck, there's got to be one cycle breaker. It may as well be you. Let's stop the video. Welcome to my world. I'm Vicky Samios, and I help high performers share the identity that was given to them, and so I help them find themselves. So if that's you and you're wondering why you've got everything but you feel like you've got nothing, this is the place for you. Subscribe to @vickysamios, and if you feel a calling, you think I can help you, go to applyformentorship.com. I can't wait to meet you. Heck, there's got to be one cycle breaker. It may as well be you. So take that on you, and I want you to be that cycle breaker, because if you don't, someone else will. And I want you to be remembered like I'm going to be remembered, as the woman who did something different and create a completely different future for the generations to come. That's me. That's you. My wake-up calls have come several times. I'm just even thinking. Wake-up calls. I've seen my grandma have a stroke when I was studying pharmacy, and it was just me and her. Everyone else was out of Sydney. Tough time. She died a week later. She had many more strokes. But I called her to pick her up to take her back to the beach house. We were an hour and a half drive. We'd driven an hour and a half and she started talking gibberish and I thought, okay, all the parents and aunts and uncles— she has 7 kids— were all out of Sydney, over an hour and a half away. There are a few cousins and I said, I rang one of my cousins, Panna, and I said, 'Can I get over? Are you closest?' Like, I'm still in Strathfield. I was in Strathfield from Elwood, and that was a good 20-minute drive. And like, trust me, I couldn't even touch the phone to call him. That's how in shock I was. But I knew exactly from my training what was going down. And when we went to her, he went to her, jumped through, broke a window, jumped in because the front door was locked. I had asked her to open the door, but she was coherent, but her language had gone. And then she was holding her weeds and her knife. All the woman was doing was gardening, and it was her time. And that was a little wake-up call. It should have been a big one, because then all the funerals started. Then my— it was just before that my grandpa had died. Then my uncle died before— like, after that, he fell off a ladder and hit his head. Life's too short. Okay, but even last year with Billy, we nearly lost Billy. Unconscious, then seizing. I thought I lost my son, and I spoke to God and I said, God, do not take him. You're not taking him from me. This is not his time. He's got a lot to live for. So having my kids around has been a huge thing. Sorry, I'm getting emotional. And I want to be the best mom for my kids, but it all had to begin with me. Also want to be the best wife for Peter because I was purely focusing on work, and so was he, on career. That's what we're told, focus on your career, when we really should have been focusing on each other and our children more. You can probably hear the noise behind Zoom. Sometimes Zoom blocks it out, sometimes not. They're all eating the yummy cake now, and they're so excited. They've baked it and it's out. And then that breast lump still in my right breast, still hiding behind my nipple. Got to get it checked every year. Does that scare the crap out of me? Absolutely. But I know it's not my time, and I'm not letting something like that be the thing that takes me from this world, because I have way too much to give. And so do you. This was 1 month after I turned 43, after we'd been through Billy's. This was May. Billy was May 2025, and this was 5 or 6 months later. And it was like, Vic, wake up! The life you're living is not good. The things you've been feeling, those little whispers, you need to listen to them before it's too late. And that was the moment I knew. That was the moment I knew we had to change things.
