Who are you without the thing that helped define you?

Crafted Clarity: Distilling the Tension Between Success and Significance · Oct 29, 2026 · 46m

What happens when something takes up more space in your life than you realize?

And what happens when that something has become so intertwined with your identity that removing it changes far more than you expected?

For Toni Will, that something was alcohol.

Over time, drinking had become woven into how she socialized, celebrated, coped, rewarded herself and even how she saw herself.

Then she removed it.

What followed was bigger than giving up one habit.

In this conversation, Toni and Steve explore what happens when something begins to occupy more of your identity than you realize, why Toni…