He walked out of that meeting and thought: this is a life sentence I never agreed to.

Young Han was a CFO in Silicon Valley, building the kind of startups that made people nod with respect. He had the title, the funding, the accolades. And he was quietly, deeply depressed. He didn't recognize it as depression. It just looked like going through the motions, gaining weight, losing his spark, and pretending everything was fine.

Then he sat across from a financial planner. Four hours. A responsible retirement strategy. And a slow realization that the plan amounted to: live a kind of shitty life for 25 years, hope to afford another shitty life for 25 more, and pray you die before the money runs out.

That was the crack. In this episode, Genea sits down with Young Han, CFO, entrepreneur, father of two, to trace the full arc from that meeting to a five-year sprint that rebuilt everything.

They talk identity loss, the loneliness of evolving, and what it actually costs to stop performing someone else's version of enough.

Four moments from this conversation that don't leave you:

🔹 The financial planner meeting that made him realize the "responsible plan" was a future he'd never actually chosen

🔹 Why his brother's move back to San Diego to be judged on his favorite taco shop started unraveling the whole Silicon Valley identity

🔹 What four years of tracking every hour of his life revealed about where his time, energy, and truth were really going

🔹 The friend who said, "If we're gonna be friends, I need to know your gross margins,” and why that was the most honest offer anyone had ever made him

If you've ever followed the plan, hit the milestones, and still felt like something essential was missing ... this episode names it. Listen now.

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