Episode 4: Who Told You This Was Success?

What if the definition of success you've been chasing was never actually yours?

In this episode of Success, Dismantled, Maleeka Hollaway takes a closer look at the messages, expectations, and cultural definitions that taught us what a "successful" life is supposed to look like.

The degree. The career. The money. The title. The house. The business. The accomplishments.

We can spend years checking every box without ever stopping to ask whether those boxes are actually leading us toward the life we want.

If you've achieved a lot but still find yourself wondering, "Is this it?" this conversation is for you.

We're talking about how we inherit definitions of success, how achievement can become a measure of our worth, and what happens when you start questioning the definition you've been living by.

Because before you can redefine success, you have to be willing to question where your definition came from.

Ready to examine your own definition of success?

Take the Success Audit and get honest about what's working, what isn't, and what you may want to change.

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Episode 3: Maybe I Don't Want My Old Life Back

I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to get back to where I was.

Back to the business. The money. The freedom. The version of me I associated with being successful.

But then I had to ask myself a question I wasn't expecting:

What if I don't actually want that life back?

In this episode of Success, Dismantled, I'm talking about the difference between missing what you had and actually wanting it again. Because as much as we talk about starting over, we don't talk enough about how much we change between one version of success and the next.

I still have ambition. I still want more. There are pieces of my old life I absolutely want again.

But I don't want all of it.

And maybe building again isn't about recreating what worked before.

Maybe it's about building something that fits the person you are now.

Episode 2: What If I Don't Want My Old Success Back?

What if the version of yourself you keep trying to get back to…isn't actually who you're supposed to be anymore?

After realizing why having a job made me feel like I had failed, I had to ask a harder question: What exactly am I trying to get back to?

The business? The money? The freedom? The recognition? Or the woman I remember being when I had all of those things?

In this episode of Success, Dismantled, I'm getting honest about what happens when we romanticize an old season, compare ourselves to who we used to be, and mistake becoming someone new for losing ourselves.

Because maybe the goal isn't to get back to the old you.

Maybe it's time to meet the woman you've become.

What happens when your life is actually going well, but it doesn't look like the version of success you once had?

I have a good job. I enjoy what I do. I'm paid well. And somehow, having a job still made me feel like I had failed.

In this first episode of Success, Dismantled, I'm unpacking the realization that the job was never really the problem. The problem was what it represented: I wasn't where I used to be, and I was still measuring my life against an old definition of success.

We're talking entrepreneurship, identity, achievement, career transitions, starting over, and what happens when who you are now no longer fits the scorecard you've been using.

Maybe you're not failing. Maybe your definition of success just hasn't caught up with who you've become.