But what happens when the life you worked so hard to build starts asking something different of you?
For years, I believed working more was the path to everything I wanted: success, security, joy, peace, even access to myself.
Eventually, I had to question that equation.
Originally published in Point Taken: Brilliant Business Advice from Women at the Top, now available as a private audio chapter read by Kibi Anderson.
The Saga of a Rested Rebel is my personal story of ambition, exhaustion, reinvention, and learning that sometimes the most powerful move forward is to pause long enough to ask a better question:
What do I actually need now?
This isn’t a blueprint for doing less, and I’m definitely not going to give you five more things to add to your morning routine.
It’s an invitation to get curious about your own relationship with work, rest, ambition, and what you want from this season of your life.
Don’t make this another assignment.
Take me on a walk. Listen by the pool. Put me in the car. Sit on the porch.
You might not need another answer.
You might just need enough space to wonder.