Introduction: Success Beyond the Overachieving

08/21/23 • 9 min

How do we get started at creating a success of our own, beyond the "shoulds" fed to us by our current overachieving culture? Join host Natalie Ruskin as she introduces the central question of this podcast and helps you begin to envision your own sustainable version of success—beyond the mainstream metrics of achievement, like status or a high salary. (Hint: We ask the provocative questions we're afraid of, listen, and wait for the answers to come.)

When we shift from striving to surrendering, we can discover our most honest, joyful, and purposeful self. We will then begin to relax into A Success Of Our Own.

Podcast Theme Music
Podcast Theme Music courtesy of singer songwriter Caroline Marie Brooks. The track is called “Night Drive” from Brooks' solo album: Everything at the Same Time. Brooks is part of the Canadian Juno Award- and CFMA-winning folk-pop harmony trio The Good Lovelies.

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CREDITS
The song in this podcast is called Night Drive, by the amazing Singer-Songwriter Caroline Marie Brooks, part of the beloved Canadian music trio Good Lovelies.
Photo for the podcast cover art by Jennifer Squires.
Editing by Katie Jensen of Vocal Fry.

When we shift from striving to surrendering, we can discover our most honest, joyful, and purposeful self. We will then begin to relax into A Success Of Our Own.

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A Success Of Our Own is an invitation for us to courageously define our own version of success, beyond the mainstream metrics we've been told we should want, so that we can create a sustainable success that we can finally relax into.
Host Natalie Ruskin is a journalist with an inquiring mind, a meditation teacher seeking the divine and a community gatherer, helping others live life more inspired. Learn and grow alongside Natalie as you hear others' inspiring personal stories of transformation, ideas and practices. Allow yourself to slow down even a bit so that you can discover your missing puzzle piece to live a success of your own.

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Embodying Our Most Authentic Self | Caroline Marie Brooks

Caroline Marie Brooks is a Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter. Her livelihood depends on her ability to navigate an industry that measures artistic success in hard numbers—album streams, social media likes, concert tickets. Those same external indicators can also become a preoccupation and disable the artist's spirit.

It’s a trap Brooks herself used to fall into, before she began to define her own criteria for success.

“I will no longer open Spotify and say, ‘wow that song got a million streams, that’s a good song.’ I don’t live like that anymore,” she says.

Do you get sucked into the external validation trap? Does your mood change based on how many compliments you receive or how many likes you get after posting on social media?

Brooks reveals key lessons she has learned to keep that desire for external validation in check and focus on more authentic benchmarks for success. She also discusses how motherhood has shaped her vision of ambition, and shares tips for those who struggle with journaling—a practice she swears by.

In this episode, Caroline Marie Brooks shares:

• How she learned to truly be herself and why authenticity is so important in her career

• When discomfort can be a good thing, and how to tell the difference between good gut feelings and bad gut feelings

• Why she needs to spend time away

• The importance of being financially responsible as a creative/entrepreneur

• The key practices that helps her stay centred and connected with herself