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136: Have You Stopped Dreaming? How to Start Wanting More Again

You can have a good life on paper and still feel like your future went quiet. When Polly Mertens and Samantha Pruitt look around, they keep seeing the same pattern: people aren’t “hopeless,” they’re afraid to hope, and that fear slowly starves the ability to dream. We get honest about what that looks like in work teams, family cultures, and our own inner narratives, especially when we’ve been burned enough times to treat hope like a threat.

We unpack the real blockers that shut dreams down: survival mode, burnout, financial stress, grief, health scares, and the constant pressure to just get…

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