Most of us never sat down and decided what a successful life would look like. We absorbed it — from the town we grew up in, the questions we were asked as kids, the shift from working in community to working in isolation. In this solo episode, Amy traces her own arc from chasing every external marker of success to slowly pulling apart the stories sitting underneath it, and asks what changes when we build a life from the inside out. It's a conversation about identity, worth, and why the version of success we were sold was never designed to make us well.

In this episode, you'll explore:

• How the move from community and family work to factories and workplaces reshaped what we think a good life is — and what we may have lost in the process.
• Why reaching every marker of success — the degree, the career, the house, the savings — can still leave you asking, what was all of this for.
• What it means to deconstruct the stories driving you, and why you can't change what you do until you understand the story sitting underneath it.
• How the next generation is already choosing differently, and what Amy's nephew taught her in a single high-school interview answer.
• What shifts when you stop building a life around other people's perception and start building one that's actually yours.

A few lines from this one:

• We're not asked what a happy life looks like — we're asked what we want to be when we grow up.
• Success isn't happiness, but we chase it anyway.
• You can't change what you do until you understand the story underneath it.
• The most freeing thing you can do is stop building a life on the perception of other people.
• It's not about the externals, it's about the internals.

About Amy:

Amy Green is a futurist, keynote speaker, author, and founder of The Wellness Strategy. Her book The Wellness Paradox (June 2026) unpacks the six paradoxes keeping us trapped in a model of success that isn't working — and charts a different way forward. Amy works with organisations, schools, and individuals who are ready to stop chasing a version of success that was never designed to make them well.

Connect with Amy:

• Website: amygreen.com.au
• Instagram: @amy_._green
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amygreen
• YouTube: @amygreenofficial
• Podcast: Rethinking Success