What happens when success stops working and midlife hits hard?

Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes, shares the story behind his most difficult chapter. After building a global brand and achieving massive success, Blake found himself facing a deep midlife reckoning marked by depression, loss of identity, and an urgent search for meaning beyond achievement.

Blake opens up about:

- How selling part of TOMS triggered an unexpected identity collapse

- Why midlife depression often follows success, not failure

- The treatments and inner work that helped him recover, including ketamine therapy and TMS

- The simple but life-changing realization that shifted everything: “I am enough”

- Why connection and community matter more than success or status

👉 Watch now to hear Blake Mycoskie’s most vulnerable and meaningful story yet.

Timestamps:

01:11 Blake’s early entrepreneur journey

02:49 Reality Central and first major failure

04:59 The business lesson that shaped TOMS

07:49 Creating the one for one model

08:43 Selling TOMS and losing identity

12:36 Depression behind the public image

16:23 Searching for relief outside himself

17:24 Medication fog and deep isolation

19:30 Why telling others saved his life

20:54 Moving beyond traditional medication

21:12 Ketamine and TMS

25:53 Discovering the core wound

28:49 India and lasting inner freedom

33:27 Launching the Enough initiative

35:58 I’m Enough ritual poem

37:57 How the nonprofit model works

38:47 The growing mental health crisis

43:13 Self compassion and flow state

46:28 How to support someone in depression

51:54 Living with fear of relapse

54:17 Wisdom bumper sticker

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