You Were Never Meant to Be Just One Thing
What happens when the identity you worked so hard to build stops feeling like you? Faye McCray spent nearly a decade as a federal attorney, the first lawyer in her family, a title her whole community held onto. She left anyway. Within five years she tripled her salary and built something entirely hers.In this conversation, Faye and I talk about what it actually takes to stop living a single-story version of yourself in midlife, and why expanding your identity is both harder and more urgent than anyone tells you it will be.We talk about:How the government furlough that shook Faye's sense of…
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