How To Never See Anything The Same Again: Part 3

Feb 10, 2026

A Paris stroll becomes a reckoning about values and clarity. She confronts grief, workcentrism, and the uneasy pleasure of leisure. The story traces a journey from academic rigor to personal revelation. The conversation centers on honoring your own organizing principles without judgment.

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From Grief To A New Purpose

Suzy Welch describes being lost after her husband's death and discovering purpose by creating the Becoming You class at NYU.
That journey led her to write a book and expand the curriculum into a broad program with certified coaches.

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PhD That Rewrote Her Teaching

Suzy recounts applying to and completing a PhD at the University of Bristol to deepen her knowledge of values.
The doctorate produced the Welch-Bristol Values Inventory and transformed her teaching and the Values Bridge tool.

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Champagne, Oysters, And Unease

In Paris Suzy wanted to relax with champagne and oysters but felt uncomfortable enjoying leisure alone after loss.
She ultimately tolerated the eudaimonia moment briefly then returned to activities aligned with her work-centric values.

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What if the thing you’ve been told your whole life, that you work too much, that you don’t relax enough, that you should “just enjoy yourself” isn’t something you need to “fix”…but a value?

In the third and final episode of this travel series, your host Suzy Welch takes us to Paris. Not for romance, not for nostalgia, not even for the croissants (though, obviously, yes). She goes for something much deeper: clarity.

This is the concluding chapter in a three-part exploration of how travel can wake us up – not to new landscapes – but to new eyes. To the truth of who we are underneath the stories we tell ourselves.

In Part One, Suzy stood at the Taj Mahal and reckoned with Belovedness, the value of romantic love. In Part Two, she returned to Sicily and uncovered a family history that reshaped her understanding of Scope – the hunger for a big, expansive life. And now, in Part Three, we arrive in Paris in the summer, at a moment that is both outwardly relaxing and inwardly seismic.

Suzy finds herself on the Île de la Cité, standing before the newly restored Notre Dame, and confronted by a surprising realization about two values that rarely coexist peacefully: Eudemonia…and Workcentrism. This is an episode about:

What it means to honor your values without apology
Why purpose is not one-size-fits-all
What happens when you stopping judging yourself – and others – for the ways we choose to organize a life

The goal isn’t to live someone else’s version of happiness, it’s to live in alignment with your own. Welcome to seeing yourself, at last, with new eyes.

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