Reece Soltani was at the top of the table at a billion-dollar organization doing serious work for refugees on a global scale.

And she still felt like she couldn't make a dent in it.

"So why am I here?"

That question changed everything.

She did everything right. Master's degree. Fortune 500 consulting. Billion-dollar nonprofit. But she felt very unhappy and purposeless in a way she couldn't fully explain.

So she left.

"I want to build something with my hands and feel it and literally be able to see what I just made."

And that became Chachi's.

This one goes into the places most career conversations never touch. The hollowness behind the highlight reel. The cost of impact you can never see. And the quiet courage it takes to start over.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why achieving everything you were supposed to want can still leave you feeling empty
• How unfinished stress cycles quietly fuel burnout from the inside
• What it really costs to stay in a life that fits on paper but not in your body
• Why walking away from security can be an act of honor, not betrayal
• How connection and community become the unexpected bottom line in business
• Why a little productive delusion might be exactly what your next chapter needs

🎙️ GUEST:

Reece Soltani is the founder of Chachi's, a Los Angeles sandwich shop building toward franchise expansion and retail. Prior to Chachi's, she spent nearly a decade as a consultant and strategic advisor to Fortune 500 companies and executive teams before burning out and making a hard pivot into entrepreneurship.

⏱️ CHAPTERS:

0:00 Introduction

2:10 Meet Reece Soltani

3:37 What Success Was Supposed to Look Like

8:40 Living Inside the Picture-Perfect Life

9:50 The Feeling of Never Making a Dent

16:29 Stress Cycles and the Dopamine Connection

18:27 Wanting Something Tangible

21:15 Making the Leap

26:55 The People Who Made Chachi's Possible

28:21 The Line Out the Door on Day One

30:53 Universal Act of Care

36:28 Building a People-First Business

38:00 Heart, Soul, and the Loneliness Epidemic

39:27 Two Sides of the Same American Dream Coin

43:04 Building With a Village

46:09 Productive Delusion

50:30 Step One and Cutting Through the Noise

54:00 A Word For the Family Who Worries

56:14 Where to Find Reece Soltani and Chachi's

🔗 Connect with Reece

Website: www.eatchachis.com

Instagram: @eatchachis

🔗 CONNECT WITH STEPHANIE:

Website: Triage Coaching and Consulting

Free fit call: tidycal.com/sohannesian

🔗 CONNECT WITH YOSHIE:

Website: Lotus Flower Journeys

Free clarity call

🔗 The Raw Onion:

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