What if everything you're climbing toward... is empty?
Ted Turner told Blake Mycoskie there was a bag at the top of the ladder. Years later, after selling TOMS for $300 million, Blake opened it. It was empty.
This is the conversation we don't have: What happens when you achieve everything and discover it doesn't make you whole? When your business becomes your identity and you forget who you were before?
You know this feeling:
Tuesday evening at the office when home feels wrong.
Saturday morning, checking email before your feet hit the floor.
Introducing yourself by your company, never just your name.
You can't remember what you loved before business consumed everything
Through stories of those who confused achievement with identity, this episode explores what researchers call "identity fusion" and the quiet work of remembering that you exist independently of what you've built.
The bag will always be empty. But you, the real you, are not.
For founders quietly unraveling inside their own success.
24 minutes. No guests. Just truth.
Episode 1