101. What Becoming “Successful” Cost Me at Home

Being Different with Liz Durham · Feb 5, 2026 · 37m

This week's solo episode is sort of a follow-up to what I talked about last week about the show Landman. I wanted to spend more time on the character Rebecca, because she represents the version of woman I spent years trying to become. High-powered, serious, competitive, in control. The kind of woman we’re told to admire if we want to be respected. What I didn’t see at the time was how much of that mindset I was bringing home with me, and how destructive it was to my marriage and my family.

I talk about how being trained to compete like a man at work changed the way I related to my husband…