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Classic Suze School: Meaning Creates Passion · Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)

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  Robert: September 10th, 2026. Welcome to the Women and Money podcast
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  Robert: as well as everyone smart enough to listen. Hi there, Robert,
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  Robert: the producer here. And today we have a, a rather
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  Robert: short Classic Suze School for you.
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  Robert: It's a short work week, so why not a short
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  Robert: podcast episode? This one comes from a Labor Day themed
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  Robert: podcast that we did a few years ago, and the
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  Robert: main point that Suze makes, I think is very relevant today.
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  Robert: So it's going back to the top of your feed.
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  Robert: Suze and KT will be back with an all new
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  Robert: Ask KT and Suze Anything podcast this coming Sunday. Remember,
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  Robert: if you wanna write in and maybe get your question
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  Robert: answered on the pod, send an email to podcast@askSuze.com That's
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  Robert: podcast at A S K S U Z E.com. And now,
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  Robert: here's Suze.
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  Suze: I always think about holidays and what they mean, and
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  Suze: are we celebrating them for the right purposes. So I
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  Suze: always look up the definition of what Labor Day is
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  Suze: a celebration about. And here's what it says. Labor Day
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  Suze: is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements
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  Suze: of American workers.
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  Suze: And I thought about tha,t and I thought about that,
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  Suze: and I thought about that.
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  Suze: And then I got really sad.
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  Suze: Because I realized the real reason you are celebrating isn't
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  Suze: because you're celebrating your social and economic achievements of what
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  Suze: you have accomplished. It's because you get a Monday off,
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  Suze: which means you don't have to go to work. So,
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  Suze: you are not celebrating your achievements at work. You are
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  Suze: most likely not celebrating the fact that you have a job.
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  Suze: And the reason for that is most likely you are
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  Suze: not happy in your job. When I ask so many
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  Suze: of you, and everywhere I go, I always say to somebody,
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  Suze: I go, What do you do for a living? What
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  Suze: da da da, all those questions that you ask one
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  Suze: another when you don't really know what else to say
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  Suze: to each other.
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  Suze: I always end up asking them, are you happy in
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  Suze: your job?
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  Suze: They normally say to me, no, so I'm asking all
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  Suze: of you right now.
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  Suze: Are you happy in your job? Yes or no?
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  Suze: So, if your answer happened to be no, the next
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  Suze: question that I would ask these people, and you need
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  Suze: to be asking yourself, is, why aren't you happy in
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  Suze: your job?
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  Suze: All right, for those of you who answered no, I
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  Suze: want you to write down why you are not happy
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  Suze: in your job.
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  Suze: For those of you who answered yes, that you are
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  Suze: happy in your job, I want you to write down
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  Suze: why you are happy in your job.
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  Suze: Now I don't know what you're going to write or not,
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  Suze: but the most frequent answer that I would get when
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  Suze: I asked that question was this Oh, Suze, I'm just
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  Suze: not passionate about what I'm doing.
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  Suze: I want to quit my job. I want to find
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  Suze: a job that fulfills my passion.
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  Suze: Any of you write that down?
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  Suze: How many of you have written me and you've said,
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  Suze: you know, Suze, I wanna quit this job that pays
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  Suze: me a whole lot of money, because I wanna find
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  Suze: a job that fulfills my passion. I'm looking to fulfill
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  Suze: my passion.
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  Suze: Hmm
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  Suze: I have to say, I honestly have no idea where
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  Suze: that concept of finding a job that you are passionate
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  Suze: about came from.
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  Suze: And that's what you're looking for, 'cause in my opinion,
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  Suze: that is the worst advice I have ever heard. And
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  Suze: if you've heard that advice, that's the worst advice, in
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  Suze: my opinion, that you have ever heard. Now, why is that?
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  Suze: That's because passion changes all the time.
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  Suze: Not just in what you do, but even who you're
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  Suze: in a relationship with. One day I hear you saying,
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  Suze: I love this person, I love this person. Oh, Suze,
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  Suze: I'm just so passionate about them.
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  Suze: And then a while later you say to me, I
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  Suze: hate this person. There's no passion between us whatsoever.
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  Suze: And then, of course, you end up splitting up.
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  Suze: You know what I'm saying is true. How many relationships
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  Suze: have you been in that it was just so passionate.
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  Suze: And it, was it the passion that you loved?
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  Suze: Or did love create passion? Like, what was it, everybody?
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  Suze: So, I then decided that I would look not only
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  Suze: at my own life but I would look at the
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  Suze: lives inwardly of all the people I worked with over
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  Suze: all my years and what I learned was this they
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  Suze: didn't love their job because they were passionate about what
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  Suze: they did.
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  Suze: They loved what they did because their job gave them meaning.
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  Suze: And because they found meaning in their lives, that created passion.
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  Suze: Passion doesn't create meaning, meaning creates passion.
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  Suze: So the question that all of you need to be
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  Suze: asking yourself is, what would give you meaning in your life?
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  Suze: All right, everybody, that's a question for you. In your
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  Suze: little Suze notebooks, how would you answer that? What would
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  Suze: give you meaning in your life? And it's not just
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  Suze: meaning today.
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  Suze: Because as your life goes on, as your life changes,
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  Suze: as the events in the world change, meaning will also change.
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  Suze: All I ask is for you to think about what
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  Suze: I have just said.
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  Suze: For it's in finding your meaning that really leads to
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  Suze: happiness in your work and in your life, and never
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  Suze: forget meaning.
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  Suze: Today may be different for you 5 years from now
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  Suze: or 20 years from now, so don't be afraid to change.
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  Suze: Please know there's only really one thing that I want
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  Suze: you to say every single day.
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  Suze: And on some level, this also will help give you
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  Suze: meaning in your life.
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  Suze: Today wherever I go I will create a more peaceful, joyful,
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  Suze: and loving world, and if you do that.
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  Suze: I promise you, you will be unstoppable. See you soon.